Casual Conversation

So yeah, like others have said, if you can guess from the fact that I replied to both who said it before, HUNTR/X, mostly because of "What it Sounds Like," but "How it's Done" is a banger, too.

I also like K/DA which is another "fictional" K-pop band that has worked with Riot Games (League of Legends). I'm not a League player (though I did like the League-inspired anime, Arcane), but the K/DA song "Pop Stars" got popular and I heard it, and it's awesome, and I discovered the rest of their songs. I feel like K/DA was HUNTR/X before KPDH hit it big. It's K-Pop for people who don't know K-Pop, with more English lyrics, and a style that is both honestly Korean, but also designed to appeal to the west. It's made for a game, so maybe there's something of League in there that I'm too "normie" to get. (I at least know that KDA means the stats in a multiplayer game, they stand for "Kills, Deaths, [and] Assists (taking a certain threshold of life from an opponent but not getting the kill shot)". Here's the video for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOxkGD8qRB4

But yeah, if you liked KPDH, you can safely start with K/DA. Same energy. Same exact energy.

It's cliche AF, but BTS is the biggest K-Pop band for a reason. I actually don't care for most of what I've heard from them. But my absolute favourite K-Pop song of all time is their song "Not Today." The song is addictive. The dancing is on point. And if you enable the captions on YouTube, it has official English translations, and I like what he's talking about. Things like "Run if you can't fly, walk if you can't run, crawl if you can't walk." And yes, he does say "crow tits." Apparently it's a Korean thing. I never fully understood it. Maybe it means you're useless (because crows, like other birds, do not nurse their young, like the Western phrase "useful as tits on a bull"). I don't know. It's funny though. I feel like if western pop music was this good back in the day, I would have been a bigger fan, maybe less of a rebel growing up. Video for Not Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DwzBICPhdM

I like a few other K-Pop bands, and I have a fledgling playlist on Apple Music I add to when I hear new stuff. It's got all that on there. It's got TWICE (and I had TWICE up there before they did a song for KPDH), Blackpink, and some others. If I could share it without my real name being on it, I would have done so already and maybe said less, but this is what you get. That said, if you are on Apple Music (or something like it), you can find a playlist of popular K-Pop. Put it on Shuffle, make a K-Pop playlist of your own, and add to it what strikes your fancy.