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Pop Excellence will return in the summer!

In the meantime, I’ll be posting a couple cool projects to this blog throughout the winter and spring!

Twitter: @kaylabeardslee

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Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: Introduction and Honorable Mentions

Just as there is no such thing as a good K-pop company, there is no such thing as a good intro to a year-end list. Yes, we all experienced another calendar year of K-pop releases together; some exciting things happened, while some comebacks and business decisions disappointed; the industry is still operating at reduced power…

Favorite Lyric and Songwriting Moments of 2022: Part 1

Throughout last year, any time I had a moment where I listened to a new song and thought, “Hey, that’s a cool songwriting choice,” I would throw that track into a playlist. And I know it’s mid-February and we’ve all moved on to 2023 by now, but I really do enjoy digging into the details…

Alternate Tracklist: Midnights (Kayla and Leora’s Version)

My friend Leora and I are both huge Taylor Swift fans.* In some cases, our opinions on her albums can diverge (chaotic reputation noises in the background), but for the most part we have a lot of overlap in our feelings about her music, and that includes our mutual disappointment in the meh-fest that was…


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Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: Stats and Wrap-up

For the people who love details! You can also click here to skip the stats and go to my final thoughts at the bottom of the post. Intro and Honorable Mentions | 20-11 | 10-1 | Individual Ballots | Stats and Wrap-up Miscellaneous stats 235 votes, 101 different songs voted for, and 48 songs that received more than one vote (53 unique).…

Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: Individual Ballots and Bonus Questions

There’s no way I could have put together this list without also sharing the individual ballots that it was assembled from! To make things more fun, I also included a couple optional bonus questions on the ballot asking about our favorite 4th gen rookies and how many boy groups we thought would make the average…

Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: 1-10

Welcome back to Day 3 of this massive project that was worth it in the end, because the results have been pretty great and are about to get even better! If you’ve made it to this point, you’re probably already caught up on the previous two days’ posts, but if not, you can read the…

Our Favorite K-pop Singles of 2022: 11-20

Welcome back to Day 2 of the K-pop music nerds takeover! If you missed yesterday’s post, where I introduced the project and explained how this list was put together, you can check it out at the link below. Intro and Honorable Mentions | 20-11 | 10-1 | Individual Ballots | Stats and Wrap-up Even if…

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