Bias & Beyond

I am not sure if this was actually something that is true or just what I was personally observing on my various platforms that I frequent on but there were a lot of top 10/20 lists floating about on the internet with different media and professionals talking about their top K-Pop picks of 2025. So despite me being late to the party, I thought why not join in and have some fun with the songs that I enjoyed that were actually released last year. I admit it is going to be hard because I tend to blast things that actually were released in previous years if my Spotify Wrapped was anything to go back but nevertheless I am going to share my top eight (in no particular order) K-Pop tracks of 2025 with as much personal justification as possible as to why I liked them. Why eight? Because eight is great! And I wanted to be different. Python - GOT7 As mentioned in a previous entry on this site, Python was my most listened to track of 2025. And it wasn’t until I watched Form of Therapy’s reaction t...

  Despite my lack of concert activity towards the end of 2025, I was pretty active at the beginning of this year. And that was in part to how many ATEEZ concerts I was able to embark on. It’s no secret how much I enjoy ATEEZ’s music- they have always somewhat been on my radar since their debut but they weren’t a group that I followed closely until I was lucky enough to see them perform live towards the end of 2023 for another one of those “K-pop Award Shows” businesses create to ‘recognise’ groups (but in reality are just a glorified indoor music festival) They only performed one song that night, ‘Bouncy’, but I was IMMEDIATELY sold. And I haven’t looked back since. I have been blessed to have the rare feat of seeing them on three different continents this year alone- Asia, North America, and Europe. A couple of people wanted to know what each concert and atmosphere was like; if there were any similarities between the three or if they were all vastly different. I had a thought abou...