K-Pop Nine: A New View on K-Entertainment

Ah, episode 5. The episode all P101 fans dread and anticipate: the first elimination. All fans of not popular trainees are sweating. Fans of popular trainees are ready to fight if their fave drops. It’s a stressful episode. Luckily, to help relieve the stress, last year’s contestants Kim Sohye (my fixed pick from last year), Choi Yoojung, and Kim Sohee are here to narrate the going-ons. The eliminations are dispersed through bonus behind the scenes videos and activities, so the way this post is going to be set up is that you’ll see all the bonus content in order, and then you’ll see a list of the 60 trainees who moved on with my commentary on them as a human person. I’m not going to bother covering the introductions because I have better things to do with my time. Okay, let’s get going. BoA’s Class So BoA gives a lecture on training and becoming an idol to all the trainees. This is actually kind of a boring segment, but it’s kind of interesting to listen to. ...

After a million years of putting off writing this, I’m finally getting around to episode 4. I now have the added challenge of seeing how fast I can push out reviews before I disappear for ten days in July but I’m literally averaging like 20 views a post so I don’t think anyone cares. Episode 4 starts off with a recap of episode 3. No one cares. Next. This entire episode is just performances, so I’ll do pretty much the same thing that I did for episode 3. I’ll go team by team and write about the pre-up to the performance, put a link to the actual performance, and then write about the performance itself. After that I’ll put who my winner was and who the actual winner was. Okay let’s begin. Replay So one of the biggest things about this battle is how different the two teams are and I think it’ll be very apparent which is more my style very quickly. Team 1 ·       If you guessed that the team that was my style was this team, you’d be...