Mixtapemotions

  • “Beautiful Restriction” by NewJeans, Sunday, November 24, 2024 + K-pop OST Playlist

     


































    Here’s my ongoing playlist of songs featured in Korean dramas or movies. Many of the songs are originals, and some by non-Korean artists have key plot points in Korean dramas.























    Many K-pop idols provide original songs for dramas and films. Most of these songs do not become the group’s major hit. Many of these songs are ballads, slower than groups that may regularly use EDM, electronic sounds, or hip-hop. Still, a K-pop group singing at just the right time in a Korean drama or film can bring out the emotional highlight of the visual medium. Positive feelings about the group can cause a similar fondness for the movie or the drama, and positive feelings for the drama or film can create a lifelong fandom for the group. Today, we’ll start an exploration of K-pop soundtracks, known in Korean as OST. Enjoy!



  • “Antichrist” by Holly Humberstone, Saturday, November 23, 2024


    Hailing from a place she claimed had “no music scene,” Holly Humberstone has taken her music to the global stage. Raised in Lincolnshire, England, Humberstone nurtured a passion for music from a young age. She played the violin in the Lincolnshire Youth Symphony before pursuing her studies at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Humberstone’s career as a singer-songwriter took off after her performance at the BBC Introducing Stage at Glastonbury Festival in 2019. Since then, she has graced the stages with notable artists like girl in red, Olivia Rodrigo, and Taylor Swift. In October of last year, she released her debut studio album, “Paint My Bedroom Black,” which received widespread acclaim from music publications, earning a commendable score of 75 out of 100 on Metacritic.


    DID I USE YOUR BODY? The first single from Holly Humberstone’s debut album, Paint My Bedroom Black, delves into the dark themes explored throughout the record. “Antichrist” is not a reference to the biblical figure but rather a metaphor for the speaker’s imagined ex-partner. The term “Antichrist” is used to describe someone who embodies characteristics that are diametrically opposed to the moral qualities of Jesus. While the song is not explicitly religious, it incorporates cultural references from religion and horror films, adding depth and weight to Humberstone’s lead single. To enhance the visual impact of the song, Humberstone filmed a music video in an abandoned hospital in the Czech Republic, which she claimed was haunted. 


    GIVE ME HELL, because heaven knows I deserve it. Theologians have differing opinions on who or what the antichrist is. Throughout history, numerous individuals and institutions have been accused of being the antichrist. From Emperor Nero to Adolf Hitler, names have been thrown around. Conspiracy theories have circulated, with as many as 1 in 4 people believingthat Barack Obama might be the antichrist, or as a bumper sticker suggests, “the ant-Christ.” Seventh-day Adventists and some other Protestant denominations refer to it as the papacy or specific popes in history. Some Christians even call it secular humanism or even communism. Many Evangelicals, however, are not concerned with the antichrist because they believe they will be raptured before his appearance on Earth. Although the concept of the rapture, not even mentioned in the Bible, is as uncertain as the antichrist, theological beliefs regarding it are even more divided. Ironically, in 2013, 26% of polled Americans either believed that Obama was the antichrist or that he might be. Eleven years later, in the age plagued by climate change disasters and documents circulated about creating a new world order under the guise of Christian nationalism, the same Christians who criticized the so-called “radical left” stop comparing conservative world leaders to the same Biblical measuring stick they used to explain why they shouldn’t vote for the progressive candidate. However, let’s refrain from calling names. 


    Read the lyrics on Genius
     

  • “Make It Up” by Shura, Friday, November 22, 2024 (repost)

     

    Shura‘s 2016 debut, Nothing’s Real made a splash in the U.K. and Europe, but the electro-pop singer-songwriter didn’t make a huge impact on the American charts, which is a shame. Hits like “What’s It Gonna Be?” and “What Happened to Us?” were perfect hits for the mid-summer of the album’s release, and I find that I come back to it every spring to early fall. But while her contemporaries like Ellie Goulding and Carly Rae Jepsen keep songs pretty light and upbeat, there’s a sadness and introversion that hides the lyrics beneath even the most dance-floor-worthy tracks.

    SMALL CHANGE IN THE UNIVERSE. The daughter of a British documentary filmmaker, Shura uses a documentary-style motif throughout Nothing’s Real, featuring audio of Shura as a child speaking and singing. Also in the vein of a documentary, Shura sings about her breakup in the third person “Make It Up.” Other songs, like “Indecision” and “Kidz ‘n’ Stuff,” on the record talk about this (or another) breakup and preludes to that breakup, like “What’s It Gonna Be?” and “What Happened to Us?” But in “Make It Up,” you feel the breakup that just happened. You’re on the train riding home realizing you’re not going to see that person again. You don’t answer the phone when your friends call because you’re grieving. You release you have the power to change your mind, and so does that other person. But you came to that decision, or they came to it, because of someone’s unhappiness. 

    ONE LINE ACROSS TOWN. A relationship isn’t about the big days but the ordinary ones. So the quieter tracks on a record make it lasting. You come for the hits and stay for the personality. Melancholy doesn’t have to make a downer of a record. This was the case for Paramore‘s After Laughter and the same is true for Nothing’s Real. A breakup can make a damn good record, but it doesn’t have to be bitter. The lyrics of Nothing’s Real argue that Shura is a good person with a lot to offer. She deserves more than to be put on the back burner when “you’re at the beach.” Sometimes you have to break up because you deserve more than the other person can offer. And that’s pretty sad, as a statement on the other person’s ability to love. 

    Read “Make It Up” by Shura on Genius

  • "Spiders" by Lovedrug, Thursday, November 21, 2024 (repost)

     

    First appearing in 2001, Lovedrug released their eponymous EP in 2002 and their  Rocknroll EP in 2004 before releasing their debut record, Pretend You’re Alive, in June 2004. Selling over 20,000 records soon after the record was released, the band was signed to Columbia Records, and their song “Spiders” was intended to be marketed as a radio hit. But rock star grandeur was never really in Lovedrug’s reach, as the label dropped the band in the middle of restructuring. Lovedrug was a hard-working band, touring with acts such as The Killers, Robert Plant, Sam Phillips, Switchfoot, and Copeland. They would enjoy some success with their follow-up record, Everything Starts Where It Ends, but would continue making music until 2020, although they are probably best remembered for their first two records.  

    SEARCHING ON A WIRE FOR A WIRE. The Militia Group was a record label founded by former Tooth & Nail Records employee Chad Pearson. Pearson founded the label in 1998, and some artists in Tooth & Nail’s sphere signed to The Militia Group. Pearson who grew up overseas in Papua New Guinea in a missionary family had discovered Christian rock through Tooth & Nail Records. Pearson curated a group of artists who were ambiguously faith-based or ambiguously agnostic. Lakes (Watashi Wa‘s Seth Roberts‘ band post-Eager Seas’ failure on Tooth & Nail), Waking Ashland‘s Jonathan Jones‘ We Shot the Moon, and Denison Witmer all called The Militia Group their home along with groups like The Beautiful Mistake, Copeland, The Rocket Summer,   Quietdrive, Rufio, The Summer Set, Acceptance, and their most successful act, Cartel. At one point, they almost signed Fall Out Boy. In this context, Lovedrug signed with The Militia Group. They toured with fellow Militia Group acts and played at Cornerstone, which led many fans to think that they were a faith-based band. However, in a 2011 interview with IndieVision, the interviewer is awkwardly shut down when guitarist Jeremy Gifford explains that the band is not Christian, though he doesn’t claim to speak on behalf of everyone in the band’s beliefs. In fact, Christian media, back in the late ’00s were keen to include bands with any kind of faith into the fold. Jesusfreakhideout included Lovedrug’s Everything Starts Where It Ends and Paramore‘s Riot! on their best of 2007 list. 

    CONNECTED TO THE OTHER END OF THIS TWISTED FREQUENCY I’VE SPUN. Joan Osborne asked the question “What If God Was One of Us?” Plumb tells us that “There’s a God Shaped Hole in all of us.” Both of these songs were on the Bruce Almighty   soundtrack, a movie that was both praised and condemned by Christians for handling the lesson that no human could do a better job than God. Or Morgan Freeman for that matter. When an overtly religious song evokes God, there’s a theological agenda. Sometimes a Christian band tries to be cool, singing about girls and nonsense for fourteen songs and tacks on a ballad about being lost without any direction until finding God. This track is either in the center of the album or attached to the end as sort of an epilogue to the album, either to be skipped or included to fulfill a contract. Sometimes, the band feels that this inclusion–no longer having to meet the j’s per minute quota of the ’90s–is the real purpose of the album. They would usually give a 15-minute speech toward the end of their set, saying something like, “You know guys, our band believes that you are here for a reason” or something like what Roma Downey said on every episode of Touched By an Angel. Using God in a song, though, whether by an evangelical band or by one that is agnostic immediately triggers a confirmation bias in listeners’ minds. “But God doesn’t it feel so good?” Paramore declares in their breakthrough hit “Misery Business.” “I’ve found God,” The Fray declares in “You Found Me.” Hundreds of examples would make the band palatable to a Christian audience. When Michael Sheppard imagines “If God (or god) was on the radio,” listeners at Cornerstone, at the Copeland tour, and at the Nothing Is Sound Tour with Switchfoot heard what they wanted to hear. God was on the radio, speaking to them, telling them exactly what they already knew. Funny how that happens.

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    Haley Williams Instagram Live: 


    Further Reading/Viewing/Listening:

    Chad Pearson, founder of The Militia Group:

  • “One Time” by Earthsuit, Wednesday, November 20, 2024

     

    Earthsuit formed in 1995 when Adam LaClave and Paul Meany started attending the same church in New Orleans. The two led worship at the church, forming a band that would eventually play at the Cornerstone Festival and sign to Sparrow Records. The band expertly mixed funk, jazz, reggae, and blues with rock and hip-hop. Their debut album, Kaleidoscope Superior, released June 20, 2000, was a moderate success in Christian Rock, but beyond the somewhat lackluster commercial success, the band was what some of the biggest names in Christian Rock were listening to from Martin Smith of Delirious? to Kevin Max of dc Talk to Rebecca St. James, for whom the band wrote a song on her 2000 album, Transform.

    LORD, HIT ME ONE TIME, INFILTRATE THE MIND. Earthsuit’s sound was a bit eccentric to be commercially viable in the Christian market. Influenced by The Police and The Beastie Boys and adding various New Orleans flavors, half of the album sounded like a jazz version of Linkin  Park’s Hybrid Theory; the other half sounded like a jazzier 311. Interestingly, Hybrid Theory was released four months later in October 2000. The rise of Earthsuit coincided with the launch of TVU, a Christian Rock music video station for alternative, hard rock, and hip-hop. One of the shows that the television station debuted was a TMW or Ten Most Wanted, a sort of copycat of TRL on MTV, which kind of down the top songs of the day as voted by viewers. The biggest song that year was probably P.O.D.‘s “Southtown” or “Rock the Party” (Off the Hook), but Earthsuit’s “One Time” topped the chart for a long time that year as well. The video featured the band jamming in what looked like an abandoned gas station. Lead singer Adam LaClave is presented as the hipster frontman, walking on a horizontal escalator and wearing Bono-style sunglasses. Earthsuit toured with some of the biggest Christian Rock acts on Festival Con Dios in 2000, the former Newsboy Phil Joel’s Strangely Normal tour, and teen singer Katy Hudson. The band also headlined a tour in 2001 with Ill Harmonics and The Benjamin Gate. 

    ANYONE THIRST THERE’S PLENTY OF NEW WINE. Earthsuit was dropped from Sparrow Records, following their debut album due to a lack of commercial success and the band’s creative differences with the label. Earthsuit released a final album in 2003, The Rise of the Modern Simulation,  before breaking off and splitting into two bands: Adam LaClave formed Macrosick. Which broke up in 2006 after Hurricane Katrina hit. LaClave then formed the band Club of the Sons. Paul Meany formed the group MUTEMATH. LaClave, Meany, and other Earthsuit members continued to collaborate after the end of the band. In MUTEMATH, no longer needing to distinguish himself from LaClave, Meany dropped the rap vocals and only sings. MUTEMATH was by far a more successful band than LaClave’s efforts, but the impact of Earthsuit can be felt in Meany’s future efforts. MUTEMATH took the progressive instrumentation of Earthsuit to become a commercially successful touring rock band with a radio hit. LaClave took the more quirky aspects of Earthsuit. “One Time” is the best-known song of Earthsuit, a Christian Rock band that faded into obscurity, Meany told Andrew Beaujon in his examination of Christian Rock Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock: “Most people didn’t care when [they] broke up. “One Time” sounds quite different from the Paul Meany of MUTEMATH, but listen to Kaleidoscope Superior with its Christian lyrics lifted from the book of Revelation, and you’ll hear parts of the experiment that would work later. MUTEMATH distanced themselves from the Christian music industry, even suing their label for putting their album in the Christian section of record stores. I really wish we could’ve heard what a mature Earthsuit sounded like. It may have sounded more like sci-fi rock rather than the Christian “new wine” drinking song “One Time.” Sadly, we’ll never know.

     

  • “Knowing This” by Kye Kye (repost), Tuesday, November 19, 2024 + Young Love Remix EP Track by Track

     

    I got into Kye Kye in 2013 when I was also starting to listen to K-pop. The Christian electronic band made up of Estonian-born, Portland, Oregon-based siblings with their vaguely spiritual, ethereal pop music never quite caught on with any part of the Christian music scene. They may be too artistic for the Christian pop world and not heavy enough for the Christian rock world. The band is still around today, though not releasing Christian music. Today I wanted to delve into their remix EP, Young Love. 



    1. “Broke.” This is a remix of the band’s single from the record. I remember it kept losing on RadioU‘s Battle of the Buzz but when it was released in regular rotation, it caught on and even topped their countdown show, TMW.
    2. “Introduce Myself.” On the album Young Love, “Introduce Myself” is kind of a mundane track; a kind of meandering intro to public speaking class that breaks the rules of good speech writing. As a dubstep track, it’s a little more fun. 
    3. “Walking This.” In May 2022, I talked about the original version of this song and how it seemed to be closely related to today’s song. In fact, the two tracks appear back to back on both the standard and the remix version, but on the remix album, they are switched in order. It would seem like you would “Know This” before “Walking This.”
    4. “Knowing This.” Today’s song envisions God as a “perfect lover.” The Genius annotations back up every line of the song with scripture. 

    Original Version:

    Remixed version:

    5. “Trust and Trees” Kye Kye’s lead singer Olga Yagolnikov‘s vocals are often subtle beneath the music. From reading the lyrics, the song seems spiritually esoteric. 

    6. “My Sight” is a song I’ve never listened to much. It’s one of the more blatantly spiritual tracks from the band, talking about the resurrection. 

  • “To Fly” by Day of Fire, Monday, November 18, 2024 (repost)

     

    In Christian Rock in the ‘90s and ‘00s, nothing spelled success as a conversion testimony. Founding Day of Fire, Josh Brown brought with him the testimony of a near drug overdose before turning to Christianity. Starting his music career as the lead singer of the nu-metal band Full Devil Jacket, Brown toured with Nickelback, Creed, and others and even played at the infamous Woodstock ’99.


    EVERY MORNING THERE’S A BROKENNESS YOU SWALLOW. After a fairly successful debut album released in 2000 that spawned two radio singles, Full Devil Jacket was about to record their follow-up. While on tour with Creed, Brown overdosed on heroin, but survived. After his near-death experience, Brown quit music, becoming a Christian and rebuilding his life. In 2004, Brown’s new band Day of Fire signed to Essential Records, Sony Music’s Christian imprint, and released their self-titled album. Much of the album contrasts the darkness of Brown’s past with the hope he found in Christianity. The album was well-received on Christian Rock radio and won a Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2005. The story of rebirth, watching a spiritual baby grow from spiritual sensorimotor to spiritual preoperational, particularly from someone in the world, was confirmation that evangelism worked. Day of Fire recorded three records between 2004 and 2010 and went on hiatus after Brown reconnected with Full Devil Jacket for what had started as a one-off reunion to raise money for deceased lead guitarist Michael Reaves, who died of cancer.


    YOU WERE MADE TO OVERCOME. In 2015 Josh Brown told the Jackson Sun that the reason he left the music industry in 2000 was to get sober, but he felt that he left his bandmates in Full Devil Jacket not “the right way.” After playing a benefit, Full Devil Jacket released Valley of Bones with Brown on lead vocals. Full Devil Jacket didn’t become a Christian Rock band, but Brown still claimed to be a believer. He stated: “Every record I’ve done since the beginning, it’s one line of thought.” Day of Fire was one of my most played CDs in my Junior year of high school, particularly on Tuesday nights when my sister and I took a Sociology class at the local community college. We played that record until Falling Up’s Dawn Escapes was released and took over for the rest of the year. Day of Fire’s follow-up records lacked the smoothness of their debut, and so I never listened to them more than a few times each. Weaving together Old Testament imagery and rock songs about depression and addiction the album felt like the perfect soundtrack to a Christian high school drama. “To Fly” ends the record, reiterating the band’s message: you are more than your addictions. “You were made to overcome.”


    Read the lyrics on Genius.





  • “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay, Sunday, November 17, 2024 (repost)

    My musical history started with hymns and classical music playing in the house, and sometimes classic and alternative rock in the garage. After going back to church, my mom stopped listening to secular music, well contemporary secular music, and tried to convince me that rock music was evil when I started liking the sound of it. Little by little, she started listening to modern music–first CCM, especially Michael W. Smith‘s This Is Your Time album because of the bagpipes. Then she started listening to music she grew up with, the soundtrack to her teenage rebellion. These were the smooth pop songs of Hall & Oats and Elton John and some rock bands like Boston and Journey.

    MY MISSIONARIES IN A FOREIGN FIELD. All of these songs’ artists could be heard on local light rock radio stations along with contemporary hits by Kelly Clarkson, Train, and of course Coldplay. When my mom heard “Viva la Vida,” she loved it and bought the album. Soon, on long trips, the CD rotation included greatest hits compilations by The Bee Gees, Elton John, Hall & Oats, and 2008’s Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay. At first, it was a refreshing change. Sure, this was the time when Coldplay was getting too big for music snobs who were questioning their musicality and whether or not they were a rock band or just a commercial pop act. I was, and still am, quick to defend Coldplay, though not as a rock band, but as what a big budget can do with some of the best producers. My mom was slow to adapt to the band’s prior or subsequent albums, but Coldplay made her less resistant when I was driving and I slipped in a Copeland record. Today’s my mom’s birthday, so I wanted to revisit the eleven tracks on the original June 12, 2008-released standard edition of Viva la Vida. 

    Viva la Vida by Frida Kahlo

























    FOR SOME REASON I CAN’T EXPLAIN, I KNOW SAINT PETER WON’T CALL MY NAME. One thing I appreciated about Coldplay’s 2008 album was the thought that went into the concept. While I was hesitant to call it a rock album due to the lack of distorted guitar-driven songs, I also didn’t think it fit with the disposable nature of a hedonistic pop record. The single “Viva la Vida,” for example was inspired by the painting of the same name by Mexican painter Frida Kahlo when she was suffering from health problems. The bold expression in her painting inspired lead singer Chris Martin. The song “Viva la Vida” mixes historical and biblical allusions to tell the story of a king who has lost his kingdom and now roams the streets he used to rule. Nothing is particularly sad about this song. Along with the optimism in the Kahlo painting, the message seems to be to make the best out of a bad situation. Like with “Viva la Vida,” I feel that there’s a classical quality reacting to and even appreciating romanticism–the forms must be kept. Nothing is overly emotional, just factual. Maybe it’s the emotional restraint of Coldplay that keeps them from being loved by music snobs who prefer the garage band indie rockers or emo/goth kids. Coldplay is, well, boring if you don’t step back and try to appreciate the simple, straight brushstrokes.

  • “APT.” by ROSÉ ft. Bruno Mars, Saturday, November 16, 2024


    This summer Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga made a huge comeback with “Die with a Smile,” which became a global number 1 hit. Last month Mars released another collaboration, this time with ROSÈ, the latest member of the girl group BLACKPINK to go solo. “APT.” marks Mars’ first K-pop collaboration, the singer was quite big in South Korea before teaming up with a member of one of the currently biggest girl groups. Just like “Die with a Smile,” “APT” has been a global  smash hit, topping charts around the world, including South Korea and peaking at number 8 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and number two on the UK singles chart.


    RANDOM GAME. BLACKPINK has been regarded as the biggest girl group in the world. The group, however, hasn’t made new music since 2022. Last year, all four members of the group re-signed their contracts with YG Entertainment and are expected to release new music next year. This year, however, has been about solo activities. This year has seen massive hits from 3 of the 4 members including LiSA’s “Rock Star” and “Moonlit Floor,” and Jennie’s “Mantra.” All of these singles did very well this year, but the combined star power of ROSÈ and Bruno Mars made the song go viral faster than the other BLACKPINK solo acts. “APT.” is an extremely catchy song. The chorus cites Tony Basil’s “Hey, Mickey!” and the chant’s source material is the 1979 “Kitty” by Racey as source material for “APT.” Besides the directly credited sources, takes the energy of ‘00s indie rock and. It feels like a poppier version of The White Stripes at times. The song was so catchy that in Korea high school seniors taking the College Scholastic Achievement Test (CSAT) or Suneung (수능) were advised not to listen to the song for fear that the lyrics may cause the test-taker to lose concentration. Fortunately, the test is over and Koreans can collectively breathe a sigh of relief. I’m sure that many high school students will be celebrating this weekend with this very song.


    I WANT TO KISS YOUR FACE FOR REAL. The Korean drinking game Apt (short for “Apartment”) is a simple and fun game that involves rhythm and wordplay. It’s typically played in a group with drinks, and players need to stay alert to avoid making mistakes. The theme of the game is “apartment numbers.” Each player pretends they live in an apartment and is assigned a specific “apartment number” (usually their position in the circle). For example: Player 1 is Apt 101, Player 2 is Apt 102, and so on. The key to the game is staying focused and keeping up with the rhythm, which gets harder as players drink more. There is a version of Apt that’s popular among middle and high school students in Korea, but it’s typically played without alcohol. Instead of drinking as a penalty, students might do something fun or lighthearted, such as a dare, a slap, a silly action, or even just restarting the game. As the end of the year is approaching, I’m sure that there will be many gatherings with the drinking or non-drinking game, Bruno Mars and ROSÉ’s latest single playing in the background. 


    This summer Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga made a huge comeback with “Die with a Smile,” which became a global number 1 hit. Last month Mars released another collaboration, this time with ROSÈ, the latest member of the girl group BLACKPINK to go solo. “APT.” marks Mars’ first K-pop collaboration, the singer was quite big in South Korea before teaming up with a member of one of the currently biggest girl groups. Just like “Die with a Smile,” “APT” has been a global  smash hit, topping charts around the world, including South Korea and peaking at number 8 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and number two on the UK singles chart.


    RANDOM GAME. BLACKPINK has been regarded as the biggest girl group in the world. The group, however, hasn’t made new music since 2022. Last year, all four members of the group re-signed their contracts with YG Entertainment and are expected to release new music next year. This year, however, has been about solo activities. This year has seen massive hits from 3 of the 4 members including LiSA’s “Rock Star” and “Moonlit Floor,” and Jennie’s “Mantra.” All of these singles did very well this year, but the combined star power of ROSÈ and Bruno Mars made the song go viral faster than the other BLACKPINK solo acts. “APT.” is an extremely catchy song. The chorus cites Tony Basil’s “Hey, Mickey!” and the chant’s source material is the 1979 “Kitty” by Racey as source material for “APT.” Besides the directly credited sources, takes the energy of ‘00s indie rock and. It feels like a poppier version of The White Stripes at times. The song was so catchy that in Korea high school seniors taking the College Scholastic Achievement Test (CSAT) or Suneung (수능) were advised not to listen to the song for fear that the lyrics may cause the test-taker to lose concentration. Fortunately, the test is over and Koreans can collectively breathe a sigh of relief. I’m sure that many high school students will be celebrating this weekend with this very song.


    I WANT TO KISS YOUR FACE FOR REAL. The Korean drinking game Apt (short for “Apartment”) is a simple and fun game that involves rhythm and wordplay. It’s typically played in a group with drinks, and players need to stay alert to avoid making mistakes. The theme of the game is “apartment numbers.” Each player pretends they live in an apartment and is assigned a specific “apartment number” (usually their position in the circle). For example: Player 1 is Apt 101, Player 2 is Apt 102, and so on. The key to the game is staying focused and keeping up with the rhythm, which gets harder as players drink more. There is a version of Apt that’s popular among middle and high school students in Korea, but it’s typically played without alcohol. Instead of drinking as a penalty, students might do something fun or lighthearted, such as a dare, a slap, a silly action, or even just restarting the game. As the end of the year is approaching, I’m sure that there will be many gatherings with the drinking or non-drinking game, Bruno Mars and ROSÉ’s latest single playing in the background. 



     Read the lyrics on Genius.


  • “Satellite” by Harry Styles+ Songs About Space Playlist, Apple Music Edition, Friday, November 15, 2024 (repost)

     

    It’s a clear chilly night. It’s been a rainy year, and the city lights rarely allow for a peak into oblivion. Today, I give you my playlist for those occasions, when the clouds open up and we can look into another world. Most of these songs are not scientific, but rather impressions and mediations on an otherworldly experience. Enjoy!