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Clash Magazine • 26th October 2021

NCT 127 - STICKER

There’s a term in music known as ‘third album syndrome’, where artists, looking to change up their sound or cause a stir, can end up creating something so divisive people aren’t sure whether to call it groundbreaking or disappointing. In the case of NCT 127, and the release of their new album Sticker, that seems to be less of a concern and more of a deliberate intention.

Opening with the titular lead single, Sticker contains 11 songs showcasing a myriad of sounds, talents and genres that the ni

NME • 21st October 2021

WOODZ talks the creative challenge of ‘Only Lovers Left’: “There is no moment to stop thinking”

“Each time I get my inspiration from a different situation. Sometimes I get it from people, sometimes I get it from things, and sometimes I get it from scents”. This is the process of making music for 25-year-old multihyphenate Cho Seung-youn, better known by the stage name WOODZ. The singer, writer, rapper, producer and pretty much all-rounder released his third mini-album ‘Only Lovers Left’ earlier this month, offering a masterful addition to his already compelling discography.
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1883 Magazine • 20th September 2021

TXT

K-pop group TXT is coming of age in front of the world & capturing it all on their new album “The Chaos Chapter: FIGHT OR ESCAPE.”

Last October, Tomorrow X Together (TXT) released the song “We Lost the Summer.” Singing of closed cafes, expressionless faces behind masks and a calendar perpetually paused in March 2020, it’s a poignant pop song referencing the small, intimate ways the pandemic has taken its toll on us. We’re now almost a year on from that song, and that lost season of possibility

NME • 3rd September 2021

NCT's Ten and YangYang on future collabs: "'Low Low' won’t be the last time"

NCT’s Ten and YangYang have shared that their recently released duet ‘Low Low’ might be the first of more collaborations between the two.
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In a recent interview with South China Morning Post, the two idols discussed their single ‘Low Low’ as well as their desire to release more music as a duo. Part of SM Entertainment’s Chinese boyband WayV, a sub-unit of NCT, Ten and YangYang unveiled the summery English so

1883 Magazine • 19th August 2021

CIX

When we read stories, we immerse ourselves in new worlds.

While sometimes they’re entirely different, shocking our senses as they invite us to experience things for the first time, often they can reflect our own, letting us escape our lives while simultaneously allowing us to view them from a different perspective. We seek comfort in the fantastical elements of the familiar, which is an ethos core to CIX.

Each offering by the five-member K-pop group so far has been marked by chapters in the fo

1883 Magazine • 18th August 2021

Dreamcatcher

Hot Girl Summer is (somehow) upon us once again, but for anyone who doesn’t feel like the term applies to them right now, or is seeking an alternative in a similar vein, look no further than K-pop girl group Dreamcatcher who’ve introduced their own take on the season: Creepy Girl Summer.

The seven-member band released their latest EP Summer Holiday last month, and with it a horror inspired video for lead single BEcause. Set amongst an abandoned amusement park and hotel, and taking inspiration f

Teen Vogue • 10th August 2021

Ten’s “Paint Me Naked” Music Video Is an Ode to Fun Fashion

NCT, WayV, and SuperM star Ten Lee has added some much-needed color to our day with his brand-new single. Released on August 10, Ten's “Paint Me Naked” is his first solo song in three years, following 2018’s "New Heroes" and "Dream in a Dream" the year before that. And, along with the pop-punk-tinged summer bop, came a video full of as much style, energy, and paint splatter as we’ve come to expect from SM Entertainment’s resident artist.

Fans will be aware of Ten’s artistic flare outside of mus

Stylist • 29th July 2021

Legally Blonde is 20 – so how does it hold up all these years later?

If I was ever to have a ‘peak’ in life, it probably happened three years ago when I walked into an interview with Reese Witherspoon and handed her my university dissertation. The actor was sat next to Oprah and Mindy Kaling for the promotional run of their film A Wrinkle In Time as I lent over and gifted her a (scented) wad of papers containing 15,000 words about Legally Blonde and its unlikely enduring impact as a feminist masterpiece. And, within a day, the short clip had gone viral on Twitter

Teen Vogue • 13th April 2020

BTS’s “Boy With Luv” One Year Later: A Pop Hit With a Vital Impact

In Korean, the title for “Boy With Luv” is “작은 것들을 위한 시.” In English, the literal translation is “A Poem for Small Things,” and that title especially resonates with ARMY. Lyrically, that title and the song’s lyrics can be interpreted as BTS learning to appreciate the little things that make them happy away from their larger-than-life existence as some of the world’s most influential artists. And this full-circle theme wasn’t just a pleasing easter egg for fans, but a sigh of relief after an unse