TLA, or Three Letter Acronym, is a roundtable podcast about all the weird and awesome things happening in Korean music. We discuss, with a critical eye & ear (and a touch of humor), the idiosyncrasies, problems, and awesomeness going on in the industry from Kpop Idols all the way to the indie, underground and depths of SoundCloud.
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TLA Ep 20: Kpop in American mainstream media and Red Velvet album review
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2017 had been a wild ride for Kpop, culminating with BTS's performance at the AMAs and appearances on mainstream talk shows. Something about BTS's success feels different from that of Psy a few years back, though, which we dig into in the first half of the show. Instead of a B topic, we discuss why we loved Red Velvet's most recent album "Perfect V…
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TLA Ep 19: A "Korean" style of music and Elaborate Album Packaging
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Can there be a distinctively Korean style of music? While Kpop has risen to prominence, does it qualify as uniquely Korean? In this episode we tackle these questions and discuss for our B topic something that IS uniquely Korean: elaborate album packaging. We finish with Shaina's social media recap and our picks of the week.TLA is a roundtable podca…
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