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...

It’s that time of the year again where global corporations pump millions of dollars into algorithms and AI prompts so that we have a roundup of the media that we have consumed over the past 12 months! Yay! Regardless of my snarky tone in my initial sentence though, I do look forward to this time of the year to see what my consumption habits were like over the year, especially to see if there was some sort of trend in terms of what I was listening to. This year, Spotify went down the route of tying your listening habits to your perceived age (if you were someone who went for modernity or nostalgia) as well as what kind of “tribe” you would fit into. It was certainly better received than the Wrapped they presented last year which seemed robotic and entirely AI driven in comparison. I guess they listened to the gnashing of teeth from users last year to make the wrapped a bit more palatable for 2025. I am someone who is an avid music listener- I particularly do so on my commute to work...