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As promised last week we are keeping the format of our first SuperM episode, to introduce the ladies of Girls On Top: GOT The Beat, SM Entertainment's new super girl group. Meet each member of Girls on Top and hear some recommendations for solo content for you to get familiar with the members. Then we get into the first release, "Step Back" with a little round of 'Roses and Thorns' to address the...

For the 3rd time in a row, we’re ending this year in Kpop the only way we know how… with our best boi Yusong Liu! This year's battle for the top 15 songs was intense as ever, but we also agreed more than ever!! Stay tuned for our rankings of the 15 songs (in a bunch of 3 way ties) that we loved the most in 2021, all ending with a super relevant random game. Happy 2022 y’all!! Hosted on Acast. See...

Welcome back to another edition of the biggest event of the year, the AMAK Achievement in Kpop Awards!! We've got our categories ready, and our answers... sort of locked in? So tune in to hear the results of more painful decisions as we attempt to honor all of our fave Kpop this year. Were our choices predictable? You decide! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tradition continues once again as we start our look back at Kpop in 2021 with the songs you might not have heard if you didn't listen to the whole album. And this year, we're upping the ante and we've each picked 15 b-sides we loved to share with you!! Stay tuned next week for even more fun 2021 best-ofs!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our first actual in-theatre movie club movie!! We schlepped up to Universal CityWalk to see Monsta X: The Dreaming in theatres and now we're gonna tell you about it! Stay tuned for a full recap of the movie if you didn't catch it yourself. After, we get out all of our questions and complaints about why this didn't quite feel like a movie? Plus, tons of thoughts and feelings from listeners who...

IT'S OUR BEST BOY'S BIRTHDAY!!! So we're being the change we want to see in the world and making more Choi Minho content for you. So listen to us gush about Minho as an actor, a variety king, a perfect stand in dad, an athlete, a friend and so so much more. Then, a list of 30 random reasons we love him for his 30th bday. WE LOVE YOU MINHO!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

It's already December!!!! So let's clean out our voicemail box and hear from listeners at all different points of 2021! We've got predictions, squeals and complaints about comebacks, stories of friends getting into Kpop and much more! Want to send us a voicemail of your own? Call us anytime! 1-81-AMAKPOP-5 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You've had 2 months to read and now it's time to watch the movie (in our minds). That's right it's finally time for Idol Gossip book club! Head over to Patreon for the full spoiler-y discussion, but here on the free feed we're once again putting on our casting director hats. But first, the results of our head to head battles! Then it's time to pull out the headshot presentation of your submissions...

We're Never Ever going to forget the first 7 years of GOT7, so we're celebrating them today with a deep dive!! Meet the seven members of GOT7 and learn about their varied backgrounds before idol life. Then we run through the timeline of GOT7's extensive discography including their legendary dance practices, their dozens of reality shows, and near constant tours around the world. We finish up with...

We're trying out a new type of song battle this week, 5 rounds of head-to-head contrasting title competition (that we refuse to choose a winner in). That's right YOU, the listener, must choose the winner of each of these opposite title match ups. You can vote here: https://forms.gle/wLAZfZ51ku78uiGY8 and we will reveal the winners in an upcoming episode! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

This week's episode starts out with a surprise love bomb from the listeners and Shannon crying. (thank you for the love you sneakies) Then we get into a rundown of groups and solo artists that were the very first to debut at their companies. What kind of impact did these folks make on the scene at large? Who stuck around and who was quietly disappeared? It's a return to Kpop college with a bunch o...

It's game day again! With the help of our Patreon patrons, we're trying to get each other to guess random English rap lines. With dramatic readings, performances and clips from the song, will we be able to guess? It's one of those episodes where we can't guess something you think is obvious for a super long time and y'all yell at your phones and get super frustrated at us. So I hope that's fun!! T...

Our brains are melted by life and the fact that it's already October. So this week we didn't do any research about anything at all and we're just gonna talk about some new Kpop stuff okay? So tune in for thoughts on Woodz, Aespa, assorted Monsta X questions, Hyuna's haircut, the probable end of KNK, Seventeen teasers and some more random stuff! Thanks for listening, we're gonna go have a nap. bye!...

Tell me tell me t-t-t-t-tell me everything there is to know about Wonder Girls on today's deep dive episode! Learn all about the Wonder Girls (and JYP) and their ten years as a group (and JYP is here too). Meet the 7 members and try to keep track of the 4 different combinations they will appear in throughout their career (oh look JYP is back there!). Then we jump into the timeline which includes s...

It's one of those weeks where we needed to chase down a curiosity, and ended up with an extremely relevant episode! This week we're taking a look at the first season of Kpop Star which aired on SBS 10 years ago this December. Learn all about how this reality competition show worked, and then meet the Top 10 contestants from Season 1. How did they do on their season Kpop Star and how are they doing...

Yep. We're doing this one again. Y'all sent us a ton more misheard lyrics after the first episode so let's check these new submissions out together. Do you hear the same things as the other listeners? Warning: this episode is VERY silly and we get kinda nutty and loud at the end pls don't be mad at us we're all just trying to get through our wretched existence with laughs and wishes for songs that...

It's already that time of year again! Time to meet all of the girl groups that have debuted since last September! What make this group of gals special? Well, a lot of things but they also all debuted to empty auditoriums as our first only-pandemic-times girl group class. But a lack of live audience has not stopped these girl groups from creating some truly excellent Kpop! So fire up the youtube an...

We are so excited today to be joined by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of our new fave Kpop YA novel, Alexandra Leigh Young! We read Alex's new book Idol Gossip and we have so many questions for her! First get Alex's Kpop origin story as is tradition before getting into a non-spoiler-y discussion of Idol Gossip . Hear about the work that went into building Alice Choy's world as a...

Get ready for a super historically important deep dive just in time for this group to celebrate 25 years since their debut. It's time to finally meet SM's first boy group, H.O.T.! Learn all the ways that H.O.T. and their legendary fan club set the standard for the Kpop fandom we still participate in to this day. We've got so much to cover, so much hair to comment on, so many old school SM smenglis...

Shannon wanted to make a Kpop disco playlist. So we asked our Seasoned Fan Tier Patrons to submit their favorite Kpop Disco song for consideration. But first, a crash course in what Disco is and it's rise and fall in popularity, as well as it's Japanese cousin City Pop and how they both play into modern Pop and Kpop all over the world. Then, we go through our listeners submissions to see if they q...

This week we are chasing a curiosity and taking an audit of some of the biggest Kpop companies to figure out which of their groups had the shortest life span. Tune in for 12 stories of kpop groups that on average, lasted less than 2 years a piece. We've got a lot of disappointment in this one gang. Plus, Angelica challenges the random number generator and it flaunts it's great psychic power in a t...

It's time once again for a deep dive! This time we jump into the 2nd gen boy group credited with kicking in the door for Korean boy groups in Japan, SS501! Meet the 5 members and tackle a similar-name challenge before diving into the short 5 year timeline of the group. With a humble start at a small company and a whole bunch of best newcomer awards, learn about their breakthrough in Japan and how...

Grab some popcorn, it's time for another edition of Movie Club!! It's our very first Korean film assignment for the club, "The Box" starring EXO member and Angelica's fave, Park Chanyeol. A film about a record executive trying to make a star out of a silent puppy boy with debilitating stage fright. We start out by recapping the entire movie, so spoilers abound if you haven't watched yet!! Then hea...

You can run but you can't hide from our newest Song Battle Challenge!! This time our title is "Hide & Seek" and alongside the Seasoned Fan Patrons we ranked them from 10 to 1 as is tradition! Start with a small Korean lesson about the Korean version of Hide & Seek and it's nursery rhyme counterpart, and then it's time to hunt for the best Hide and Seek song! Which ones will you search out,...

Hop in the Kpop time machine pals! We've got another year in Kpop to finish exploring! Join us LIVE from the KPSN Podcast Festival 2021 for the 2nd half of our deep dive into Kpop in the year 2001! Slideshow HERE: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VzpM8Fo9lk1Kskw_IKcpep77vWBMHioaWVQ6Y4x2ODA/edit?usp=sharing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.