Also time for my yearly stream

And finally some representation for us who spend christmas in hot as hell weather

8 minutes ago, VelvetCrush said:

Also time for my yearly stream

Don't forget this classic

Merry Christmas, ENGENES

The New York Times on NewJeans:
"Of all the new K-pop acts of the 2020s, the internal candidate most likely to expand the reach and sound of the genre has been NewJeans. From 2022 to 2024, it proposed a realignment of K-pop along looser and more musical lines, with songs that were gentle, sophisticated and sweet, while never spilling over to saccharine."

exactly

Edited December 25, 2025Dec 25 by TheCal

So Fatou is getting the Leia special treatment by DR Music, and pushing a BLACKSWAN OT3. They even re-recorded the song without Fatou's vocal and rap part to make them promote... Uhm...

Merry Christmas KTRL

@DelRey oh they ate these up

Edited December 25, 2025Dec 25 by youresotoxic

1 hour ago, Pluto6 said:

Don't forget this classic

I only didn't put this in since it's an all-year-round stream for me

47 minutes ago, youresotoxic said:

@DelRey oh they ate these up

My kids, they and Jeno stole the show.

1 hour ago, TheCal said:

exactly

Full article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/arts/music/k-pop-newjeans-katseye-kpop-demon-hunters.html

"In 2025, K-Pop Battled Its Demons

The genre peaked in terms of global awareness with "KPop Demon Hunters," while the industry's most promising new act was mired in a legal morass."

This year, from a distance, the cultural phenomenon that revealed the most about K-pop's place in the global zeitgeist was the Netflix animated film "KPop Demon Hunters." Among the most consumed cultural products of 2025, this parable about good and evil [...] But take a slightly closer look, and the fissures beneath this top-level triumph become evident. The true gauge of K-pop's power, and the shape of its future growth, was playing out between lawyers in the struggle between NewJeans, the most innovative group of the past few years, and its label, Ador, a subsidiary of the entertainment conglomerate Hybe, over claims of workplace hostility and creative sabotage.

Newjeans, IRL Kpop Demon Hunters, fighting the evil Hybe confirmed.

Originality of that sort, however, is almost impossible to manufacture at scale.

Small dig at Hybe en passant.

In the meanwhile, K-pop's mainstream is trapped in a creative cul-de-sac — groups like Stray Kids, Twice, Enhypen and Seventeen are commercially thriving, but the musical frameworks they're deploying are redundant and increasingly dull.

(A promising outlier: "Cerulean Verge," a solo EP by Wendy of the girl group Red Velvet, full of bright and slightly cheeky '80s pop.)

Red Velvet mentioned in 2025.

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Yuppp it's official: we are leaving cortis in 2025 and bringing back kiof

Spaghetti kinda grow on my after that performance this is really SOTY

Can anyone recommend any good new releases by GGs from Nov to now

The silence for Winter

24 minutes ago, geniecantstophypeboy said:

I don't know why you felt the need to be shady and intentionally single out SKZ in the article, when the article was talking about popular active groups in general

Edited December 25, 2025Dec 25 by Pluto6

33 minutes ago, swifthino said:

Yuppp it's official: we are leaving cortis

3 minutes ago, Pluto6 said:

I don't know why you felt the need to be shady and intentionally single out SKZ in the article, when the article was talking about popular active groups in general

I knew you were going to jump on me, I helped you a little with the highlight.

Commercially successful is good.

Just now, geniecantstophypeboy said:

I knew you were going to jump on me, I helped you a little with the highlight.

Commercially successful is good.

I knew you did it on purpose to bait me

While we're on the topics of Christmas classics

39 minutes ago, lander said:

Can anyone recommend any good new releases by GGs from Nov to now

8 minutes ago, youresotoxic said:

Added the first 2 i saw fromis from previous page, thank you.