Category: opinion

• December 20, 2020

  Pop Music in the Streaming Age is a Force for Change to Be Reckoned With

  

  Read this article on Substack! In film and literature, you often meet a character whose entire M.O. to get what they want is to “play dumb.” In Aladdin, the parrot Iago feigns stupidity to fool the main characters of the story, an homage to Shakespeare’s character by the same name. In The Apology, Plato writes…
• July 26, 2020

  Dear K-Pop, My Culture is Not Your Aesthetic

  

  Read this article on Substack! I’ve had enough. Welcome to my rant. From celebrities trying out a “cool new hairstyle” to music fans wearing some “festival jewelry” to your neighbor’s son trick-or-treating in his “adorable Halloween costume,” cultural appropriation happens everywhere. It’s the inevitable and unfortunate consequence of cultural globalization, especially within the entertainment industry,…
• November 21, 2019

  Young people aren’t streaming albums anymore

  

  Read this article on Substack! (This article was originally written for a class.) The music market is losing its space for full-length albums as young music consumers increasingly gravitate towards singles. In the era of streaming and personal music libraries, putting out albums may no longer be a feasible model. In a survey of 30…
• October 18, 2019

  Let’s talk about SuperM…

  

  Read this article on Substack! SM Entertainment’s fierce new boy group, SuperM, is the company’s latest attempt at pushing their artists into the American music market. Teamed up with Capitol Records, the seven-member supergroup debuted in the U.S. with expectations riding high, only to perform underwhelmingly compared to a typical K-Pop comeback. Whatever success the…