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Cobra Kai – the review

Posted by alldayalldayadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Pop, Review |

For anyone loving the aspirational underdog classics like Rocky and Karate Kid, Cobra Kai provides all you want from the genre, but also outpaces and outscopes the expected range of the category. With a great cast and just enough production value needed to evoke the right feeling, Cobra Kai is both the spiritual successor and heir apparent to the first Karate Kid film but also has the time to explore things that were only hinted at in the films. The story seems simple: Cobra Kai top dog Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Larusso, the star of the Karate kids films, square off once again making you ask that all-important question:
In the world of McMansions, McDojos and leg sweeps – Will heaven finally arrive?

Do you believe in Being Brave? The story of underdog girl group Brave Girls

Posted by alldayalldayadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | K-pop, Pop |

Second incarnation reboot of a failed girl group forgotten by the general public, passed over by their own company and producers now staging an unlikely guerilla comeback fuelled by a brilliant song, the support of the South Korean Military and True grit: 
This is the unfolding and unlikely story of the Brave Girls and the song Rollin’.

Strange Kpop PT3: Korean Competence Hierarchies and other complications

Posted by alldayalldayadmin | Apr 13, 2021 | K-pop, Pop, Strange K-pop |

Leader, Maknae, Center, Visual… these are just a few of the bewildering terms of the hierarchical orderliness and structure of Kpop. Learn all about positions in Kpop groups.

Strange Kpop PT2: Illuminate!

Posted by alldayalldayadmin | Apr 11, 2021 | K-pop, Pop, Strange K-pop |

While a strictly personal opinion, being assaulted by a dildo-wielding overexcited south korean kpop fan will remain on the more non-threatening spectra of my “random likely assailant”-list, the whole scenario is still confusing. What the heck is going on?

Strange Kpop PT1: Scream

Posted by alldayalldayadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | K-pop, Pop, Strange K-pop |

Are the fans going crazy? Constipated from eating a double serving of spicy rice cakes? Are they going to invade the stage and rip the performers to neat but bloody pieces because of some complicated Korean societal infraction? Has “netizens” infiltrated the audience and are preparing to collectively shun the artists?