Dispatches by Adrian Conoza

Images sourced from: Google Images and  YouTube pages of Jobelle Mendoza, Si Whoo-Ree, Peenoise x Fanbois React To, and Mastermind This is a 3-part blog. Click here for the first part . For the second part, go here . ---   I felt it "Bboom Bboom" Then, the first quarter of 2018 brought in a new Kpop single: and this one later on became a fad in the country for either its dance, its music, or one of the group's members. I'm referring to the apparently one hit wonder "Bboom Bboom" by the female group Momoland. I'm convinced I got to hear it long before it became a bandwagon. Another clickbait on YouTube led me to this song, which eventually became an LSS. The starting acoustic riff got me, which was followed by the upbeat synth brass which ignites a bright and happy mood from your ears to your heart and—I guess—your body. Regardless of being compared to that foreign song from our childhood ( "Mi Mi Mi" by Serebro ) "Bboom...

Images sourced from Google Images This is a three-part blog. Click here for the first part .  Being acquainted into Kpop music in just a few days, I became its avid listener and fan. I just like the music. Although we can say it borrows from how Western music sounds, in one way or another Korean artists and producers made it their own (yes, I gotta credit the musicians!). My first favorites are girl groups f(x) and Blackpink. The electronic and the EDM vibe of f(x), likely known for " Electric Shock ", is something I got hooked on, having an ears for electronic sounds. I like their latest album 4 Walls , with the title track and " Rude Love " as my fave picks. Then Blackpink, of course. I started with " Playing with Fire ", then I turned out to love all of their songs. But it went that way very slowly.

I remember last year our block had a retreat together with another block for three days in Calaruega in Batangas, a retreat place very much known to Thomasians. On our second night, we had this talents night. Urged by some of my classmates, two of them, known to be officers of the Korean cultural organization in UST, performed a routine. They danced to the song, "Oh Nana" by K.A.R.D. I got into the song that I later asked another classmate for the title and artist. I searched for the song back at home the following day. The song got me for a long time, and I had the remaining months of my first semester playing it on a regular basis. I stated it in the title. Now I write it again here: I'm into Kpop, and here's my story of how I got to be one.