'SMTOWN LIVE 2022': SM Artists Unite for a Free New Year's Eve Concert Online
SM Entertainment is, quite frankly, killing the pandemic-era game. From launching their already massive successful half-virtual girl group aespa to preparing to launch their own metaverse / culture universe (the SMCU), the South Korean entertainment company is evolving with These Unprecedented…
'Punk Right Now': Girls' Generation's Hyo Gets Reckless, Eats Gluten in Club Banger With 3LAU
"You know who I am. Name's on my necklace." HYO, The Artist Formerly Known as Kim Hyo-yeon of Girls' Generation, is hungry for more. Following her debut as DJ HYO with "Sober" earlier in April (which I spoke to her about for Paper), as well as providing a lil' touch in Girls' Generation sub-unit…
'Always Find You': Girls' Generation's Yuri Goes EDM With Raiden (in English!)
Girls' Generation might be on hold indefinitely, but that isn't stopping the girls from killing it on their own. 28-year-old singer and award winning-actress Yuri — one-half of "Secret," one of the fiercest, most hair flip-filled songs ever released as part of SM Entertainment's weekly SM Station…
A Death, a Resurrection: the Demise of Girls' Generation and the Return of The Pussycat Dolls
As anyone who's ever committed their time, love, attention and, most of all, money to a girl group should know by now, the relationship is a fleeting one: be it the result of inflated egos, contract disputes or diminishing chart returns, most girl groups suffer from turbulence...or just a sudden,…
MuuTunes: The Best Songs of March 2016
Listen to these songs. Or don't! What do I care? I'm not fighting you on this. It's mid-March and things are hitting up (quite literally — global warming isn't all that bad, as it turns out), which means it's time to talk about some of the good, very good and legitimately incredible songs of…
Girls' Generation Kill It Construction Zone Style With Crazy Club Comeback, "Catch Me If You Can"
Girls' Generation make you feel the heat — that much is certain. Thankfully, even with one member now out of the group (we miss you Jessica Jung — SAD FACE EMOJI), the octuplet has just delivered yet another reliably amazing dose of high energy, catchy K-Pop...and the kind of choreography that'll…
"Whisper": Girls' Generation Sub-Unit TaeTiSeo Gets Sexy
So, the K-Pop girl group scene does things just a bit differently than their Western contemporaries. For instance, they've got something called sub-units, which is when a few key members of the group split off from the main unit and do their own thing for a release. For instance, it'd be like if…
Girls' Generation and 2NE1 Make Their K-Pop Comebacks
In the almighty words of RuPaul: Bring...back...my girls. Last week, Girls' Generation and 2NE1 both returned to the K-Pop scene with their newest releases — a mini-album, Mr.Mr., and a second studio album, Crush, respectively. Title track "Mr.Mr" is the first Korean-language single from Girls'…
Preview Girls' Generation's New J-Pop Album, 'Love & Peace'
K-Pop Kweens Girls' Generation already released a fantastic Korean studio album this year called I Got A Boy — but why stop in one territory? Next week, the nonstop nonuplets will release Love & Peace in Japan, the follow-up to 2012's Girls & Peace. (J-Pop record title creativity? Not their…
Girls' Generation Makes Major Comeback with "I Got A Boy"
It's been a minute since Girls' Generation (or SNSD) brought the heat at the end of 2011 with their fantastic global release, "The Boys." But after a 14 month hiatus (that's approximately 12 years in K-pop time, by the way), the fabulous nine are now making their grand comeback to the South Korean…
Girls' Generation Unveil New Japanese Single, "Flower Power"
A little over a month since releasing their latest Japanese single ("Oh! / All My Love is For You") and exactly a year since their (still amazing) US debut single ("The Boys"), the ladies--sorry, girls of Girls' Generation are already preparing their next release. Yesterday, GG debuted the…
Girls' Generation Makes US TV Debut on Late Show with David Letterman and Live! with Kelly
Girls' Generation make you feel the heat! In what was a history-making moment, the girls of South Korea's mega-group Girls' Generation took to the stage at last night's Late Show with David Letterman to perform their debut US single, "The Boys"--and they completely smashed it! Performing to a…