Yesterday I got some insider goss on Asia’s biggest girl group that was just too good not to share with my fellow K-Poppers. After successfully introducing Girls’ Generation to American audiences earlier this year, Interscope Records is now determined to turn the girls into global superstars, and it’s all thanks to Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine. [...]
K-Poppers and Blackjacks will remember late last month when some grainy cellphone footage of will.i.am and 2NE1 playing one of their new songs in a Seoul nightclub leaked online. Now we get to properly preview the song, tentatively titled by me as “Take The World On”, in high quality, after the track was used in [...]
2NE1 are set to release their first full-length Japanese album Collection at the end of the month. Other than a bunch of translated versions of their old songs, there’s only two new tracks on the disc. The first is their new single “Scream” (review here), and the second is an English-language cover of Madonna‘s iconic [...]
Some people haven’t been feelin’ 2NE1‘s new Japanese single “Scream”, but I’m completely obsessed. It’s one of my fave pop songs right now — I just love sangin’ along to the pre-chorus and that beautiful bridge! The single drops on March 28th, but the girls have already started promoting it with a performance on the [...]
As one of Korea’s top girl groups, 2NE1‘s success in Japan has left a lot to be desired. They haven’t been able to reach the levels of their contemporaries like Girls’ Generation, KARA, or even T-ara, and have instead found themselves delegated to mid-tier status in Japan with After School, Secret, and Rainbow. The fierce [...]
Well, this is interesting. Swizz Beatz‘s production company has entered into a partnership with South Korean entertainment company O&Media in a new deal to break K-Pop artists in America, and American artists in Asia.
