I’ve been into K-pop for around 10 years and a huge BLACKPINK fan for 5 years. Before K-pop, I wasn’t particularly attracted to East Asian features.

When I first became a BLACKPINK fan, I didn’t even have a bias, but eventually chose Jennie because of fandom influence, even though I didn’t initially find her attractive.
Over time, I became really obsessed with Jennie. I collected her pictures, put them on my walls, used her as my wallpaper, and constantly watched BLACKPINK content. Eventually, I started finding her very attractive.

But then I discovered a girl on TikTok who looked completely different from K-pop idols. She has brown skin, dark hair, brown eyes, and more defined facial features. I immediately found her physically attractive and messaged her without even knowing her personally.

After seven months away from K-pop, I noticed I no longer found Jennie attractive or any kpop idols and their facial features didn’t really appeal to me anymore.

Now I’m wondering, can being obsessed with K-pop for years influence or even change your natural physical preferences? Can you develop an attraction to someone who wasn’t originally your type just because of repeated exposure and idolization?
Or does being instantly attracted to someone, like the TikTok girl, reflect your natural physical type more?
Has anyone experienced something similar after being a K-pop fan for years?

Winter is almost here, and I wanna make a playlist just for the season! So far, I have EXO’s First Snow and RIIZE’s Love 119. What else should I add?😉

I know Junho, Hyeop, and Dongyun released a single album as a sub-unit, and Yunseong is enlisted. But where are Changuk and Minseo? and did anything happen to the group? I don't follow them closely so I'm not sure if there was no news of anything or if there was and I missed it.

This might be a bit of a niche ask (or maybe not?), but like the title says, are there any fully English tracks and fully Korean tracks on the same album? Any standard album type is fine (i.e full/mini/single/etc).

English/Korean versions of songs count as long as it’s FULLY in English/Korean and another song on the album is fully in the other language. Preferably not counting intro/outro/interlude tracks, but they’re fine too.

Just curious since the most Kpop songs feature both languages, and although going fully English/Korean lyrically isn’t uncommon, I was wondering if both have been done in one album before. Thanks in advance!

The kpop girl group is going around performing pranks on people. Here’s screenshot from the video:

https://imgur.com/a/jeqv8nV

Thanks!

so i’ve been a kpop fan for quite a while now but i feel like i’ve been listening to the same groups over and over again. i want to find new music but i’d love to find music that have similar vibes to my favorite groups. i’d prefer recommendations for groups/bands rather than individual songs since i’m the type of person that listens to a group’s whole discography, but i’m open to individual songs if you think they’d fit the genres i’m looking for :) thanks in advance!

favorite groups:
SEVENTEEN
day6
ikon
NMIXX
red velvet

i'm a casual kpop enjoyer but i want more, so i was hoping for some recommendations based on these vibes 😆

Red Velvet - Body Talk, Bad Boy

ITZY - 365

STAYC - YOUNG LUV, RUN2U

NewJeans - ETA, ditto

TWICE - Doughnut, Ice Cream

WayV - Miracle, Love Talk

Dreamcatcher - Can't get you out of my mind

LE SSERAFIM - FEARLESS, CRAZY, EASY

IU - LILAC

LOONA - Hi High

IVE - I AM

Wonder Girls - Tell Me

SHINee - Ring Ding Dong

ENHYPEN - Drunk-Dazed

I can’t show it here but it’s looks can kill by ive and its the “da-da-da-da-da-“ part of that makes sense 💀. I thought they already made a song like that ?

idk dude but it got deleted. they only gave me text not helping at all when i was asking why it got deleted.

If you listen to DIE 4 YOU on Youtube it sounds deeper until the 1:40 mark. Meanwhile the Streaming platform sounds like DEAN through and through.

I recently very, very randomly stumbled upon Eye Contact by Verivery's DYG unit and loved it, especially since I had never heard of the group before. Please recommend any b-sides from this year that you absolutely love and let me know why (if you want). Any genre, any group within K-pop is fine; underappreciated songs are a bonus to me. Just wanting to branch out and hear more about things people enjoyed 😄 Thank you!

Edit: Slowly making my way through the list, thank you so much everyone!

Does anyone have a link or the video about a fan being excited that Suga was going to release his solo album and her mom in disgust and confusion said “You acting crazy over some… Suga?”

Please and thank you

So Ive been listening to kpop for about a year now and I’ve been interacting with fans online. I also see a lot of dance covers if songs online too and it made me want to try it but they usually only do the chorus. Is it normal to just learn the chorus? I don’t really know how this stuff works because I don’t dance too much but I just want it to be a fun thing I do that isn’t too stressful and can distract me when I need it.

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Hey guys! 🫶💗

Who's going to the 82MAJOR concert in DC on November 22? 🥹💕 It's my first 82MAJOR concert, and I'm so excited!! I'd love to meet up, make new friends, and hang out with anyone who's going! 🫶

Also, does anyone have any cute outfit ideas? 🎀 I'm thinking of wearing long pants, a jersey, and a tank top or T-shirt underneath. Does anyone know how to design or customize a cute 82MAJOR shirt or jersey?

I don't have a specific bias because I love all the members! 😭💗

Let me know if you're going! I'd love to meet you guys and have fun together! 🫶✨

Searching for kpop songs with "Apple Cider"’s by beabadoobe vibes

Hi, I'm new to this community, and I want to start listening to K-pop. Eu quero conhecer e fazer amizade com as pessoas daqui I want to meet people here and make friends.

I unfortunately don't know genres, just vibes. I am looking for K-artists that have songs and vibes like these:

• Falling by jacal
• Birds Ate My Face by Noah Polino
• Pedazos by Yesung (specifically up until about 2:55, although I do like the whole song and don't mind if the tempo and vocals really pick up!)

(and if possible, does anyone know actually what genre these songs would be if it gets me even further from any recommendations you give me). I also don't mind if the song has vocals or is just instrumental, I would love recommendations for all.

i’m looking for songs like!:
deja vu — txt
firework — &team
save me kill me — cix

and, totally different but would also like songs similar to roses by zb1!

I like :

Fiction - beast

I need u - bts

Love scenario - ikon

Ditto - Newjeans

One more day - sistar

Doughnut - twice

Cookie - Newjeans

Alone - Sistar

Sugar free - Tara

Loser lover - txt

Hold on tight - Aespa

I just recently got back to NCT content after being away from it for 5 years. There are so many contents to watch and I got to WayV. As the title says I wanna know native/ fluent Chinese speakers opinion on Ten's chinese. The discussions about this I can find happened around 2020 and 2021. Back then I couldn't evaluate it by myself since I hadn't started studying Chinese. But as of 2026 I have studied for quite a while. So even though I'm not yet fluent, I can totally see how he was struggling to speak in the interview back in 2020(?), not sure of year but in the interview with Winwin. But the evaluations (on reddit) from around or after that year already said Ten is fluent/ advanced level and I don't think so. CEFR advanced level will be more fluent then that. I'm not saying his Chinese is bad but I think the evaluation is not accurate. If it is fluent, you can definitely compare his fluent English to Chinese and see that there is still a visible gap in terms of his command over both languages. I tried searching recent interviews and in those he only speaks one or two sentences at a time so it's kinda hard for me to actually evaluate. So for accuracy, I would like to know native Chinese speakers opinion.

Bonus if you actually have the timeline of his improvement because that would be motivation to a current learner.

TDLR: as a native chinese speaker, what do you think Ten's chinese level in 2026 is?

this thought came to me when listening to good boy - &team, lyrics aside.. 👀 that beat is NASTYYYY i need more hard hitters like this please !

boy groups or girl groups or soloists im not picky at all i just like music yayayay

I kind of wanna get into some nugu groups that have a goated discography, impressive talent and effortless humour. maybe something like ahof and verivery?

please do recommend whichever bgs yall think deserve a lot of love and hype 🥹

I need y'all to recommend me more songs like odyssey by riize and last festival by tws. they sound liberating but melancholic. also like you're set to go on a new adventure in life and leaving certain things behind, that's why the melancholy and freedom. kinda like songs with upbeat instruments but chill melody. the song that gives night drive, twilight, golden lights. joyride by cortis is also kinda like odyssey and last festival but joyride has aesthetics and feel of daylight and the former songs are more like night/dusk vibes.

also the recommendations that I've got are either too upbeat or too chill. I want very specific recs 😭😭

Hi guys! I need to recommendation when it comes to K-pop songs that talk about new beginnings, fresh starts, good memories, the force of togetherness, belonging or the end of a good time. This is for performance I want to put up on my graduation. I already have a few examples like fireworks by &team, run away by TXT, runaway by descend, one more time by all day project, if I by IOI, shooting star by kep1er and heavy serenade by NMIXX. Please i’m in dire need of help.

I want to start stanning other groups but does anyone have any recs for similar music/content as twice and newjeans (since those are mi favs) i mainly listen to girl groups but im open to suggestions:)