MY MUSIC JOURNEY PT. 2
After building a pretty strong foundation in rock music, I was slowly drawn to Korean music and hip-hop through various influences over the rest of my time in high school. As in the last post, I bolded song titles and artists throughout this post and put them in a Spotify playlist if you would like to listen along. My first exposure to K-pop (besides, like, Gangnam Style in elementary school) was in Mary Walker's K-Pop Agora class during my Subbie year, but I didn't take a particular liking to it. A couple years later was my first encounter with KR&B, and although this is sort of a subcategory of "K-Pop," I felt much differently about it. Elijah introduced me to " Instagram" by Dean for me to learn on guitar. I loved the mellow sound a lot more than the bright, pop sound of a lot of other "group" K-Pop I was recommended. I took an instant liking to artists like Dean and pH-1 especially. I also discovered the K-Indie genre while looking for ...