SB End-of-Year Review, 2019: Boundary-Breaking MVs Take the Lead
Stunning K-pop MVs require mastery in the art of marrying music, performance, and cinematography. 2019 has not been the most spectacular year for…
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SB End-of-Year Review, 2019: An Abundance of Choices in Dance
Dances are so ingrained in K-pop that we’d be remiss if we didn’t discuss it in our End-of-Year Reviews. Continuing from the Dance Mid-Year Review, ch…
The SB Mixtape 01/02/2020: Favorite Songs of 2019
The start of a new year always comes with a need to ruminate on the one that had just ended. We at Seoulbeats are no strangers to this, with annual di…
SB End-of-Year Review, 2019: Surprising Debuts from Smaller Companies
2019 may go down in K-pop history as a exceptionally bad year for events and news within the industry, but it's been exceptionally strong for debu…
TXT’s “The Dream Chapter: MAGIC” Balances Innocent Themes with Mature Production
Just 8 months after the release of The Dream Chapter: STAR, Big Hit Entertainment's rookies have returned with The Dream Chapter: MAGIC. With the …
TXT Carve Out a Distinct Identity for Themselves in “Run Away”
When TXT debuted earlier this year, the conceptual differences to their labelmates, K-pop titans BTS, were immediately obvious. BTS was brought t…
Music & Lyrics: Must Love Dogs
There are many animal metaphors in K-pop, from the metamorphosis of butterflies to the flight of birds to the dangerous ferocity of predators like…
SB Mid-Year Review, 2019: A Strong Year for Dance So Far
Dance is one of the hallmarks of K-pop, with almost every song (but ballads!) having some sort of choreography. Due to this, there are often so ma…
SB Mid-Year Review, 2019: Debuts with Impact
2019 has certainly been an eventful year so far in K-pop, in both good and bad ways. Luckily, balancing the torrent of front page headlines is an …
TXT’s “The Dream Chapter: STAR” is Sweet but Synthetic
It’s no understatement that the debut of Big Hit Entertainment’s newest boy group, TXT (short for Tomorrow X Together), is one of the most anticip…