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Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait. Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
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K-pop truly beat out UKpop last year

I really want to have an in house legal council of some outlet or another explain to me the necessity for using “controversial gesture” in place of “what appears to be a Nazi salute.” What exactly is on the line here?

i gotta say as a jew im not a big fan of the sieg heil coming back into vogue!!!

Wait until you hear about Red Velvet

quite the sales pitch to subscribe: "If the government shuts Jezebel down, or the internet gets banned, or it becomes illegal for women to write or laugh online, we’ll buy some fucking horses and ride from state to state to scream the news Paul Revere style and throw abortion pills at your house"

Love this

I have a trip next month to San Antonio and just like…. Maybe not worth it? Probably not worth it. This is so terrifying.

Listening to her new album and I would love to hear Chung Ha team up with Carly Rae Jepsen

This picture tells a 1000 words and not one of them is that we should dismantle airline safety departments or cut staff in those that remain.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

it’s insane that the quality of life has shifted so much since jan 20th that i’m sitting here like “oh at least there wasn’t an executive order stating it’s okay to hunt and kill me today” even though other horrifying stuff continues to happen. We deserve better than this

I just watched Jury Duty last night and I’m dying bc it’s giving the same feel youtu.be/b0MUMGmEgrI

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

I wrote about Elon Musk and Gavin Kliger and acknowledging the reality of what they are: Nazis.

I haven’t written a newsletter in weeks and am thinking of attempting to publish 3-5 this week… wish me luck

Been thinking about this too. I think I’m going to tone back my non K-pop posting and reposting a bit, just to not spread the stress further. Maybe I’ll start a chat to share things? Idk… it’s just so much all the time here and we gotta be aware of it.

the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

Dear fuck

Wrote about the imperial theatre of Trump 2.0 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/a...

When did Taemin last perform at a 3k~ venue? He keeps saying he’s so shocked at how close he is to the fans

Have a Godaddy+wordpress site that my friends and I used to run but closed a few years ago and we’ve kept up. This year the cost is a bit exorbitant for something we haven’t updated in years. Does anyone have a good suggestion for archiving the data?

RFK is about to be confirmed. If you haven’t, step out this afternoon and get a flu and covid shot.

Spending Galentine’s Day with Taemin… Art.

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

Been to three concerts lately that really make me wonder if concertgoers just don’t know how to enjoy anymore. Was it Covid? Phone filming culture? Idk… crowds are so quiet and low energy.

All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies. The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.

i'm accepting submissions for my latest collab zine about fandom after age 35. if it's not clear from the post i would LOVE essays on the topics I've listed below. DM me if you have questions!

Reading new illegal decrees from Trump and Elon sucks but reading that institutions are complying with them in advance is devastating

I really don’t know why anyone is still on Substack. Join me on ghost, I moved over a year ago. notesonkpop.com/due-to-nazii...

I know a lots going on but my wayfair bed frame I bought over two years ago is falling apart and I’m really frustrated. Does anyone have any good, sturdy bed recs they love?

Fox allowed Kanye West to buy a Super Bowl at pointing to his Yeezy website where he’s selling swastika branded t-shirts, because of course we’re in the new Nazi normal

Kanye West has gone full Nazi. Full full Nazi. But I don't see any of the top House Democrats who obsessed over alleged antisemitic student protesters on campus - Torres, Gottheimer, Moskowitz, Goldman, Fetterman, etc - calling out Trump and the GOP for their one-time alliance with Kanye. WHY?