6 – Red Velvet - One Of These Nights

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Listen and watch the music video or the song release live stage performance. Onward to notes:

• English language reporting on Red Velvet's North Korean concert. Stan Ontology wants to note here that any event like this is going to be rife with contradiction and tensions - it's not as if there aren't emotional performances going on for the South Korean contingent, either. What we're saying is: it was awkward, ok?
• The Chilseok myth.
• f(x) - Red Light. This is the track that was supposed to be an explicit criticism of the Sewol Ferry tragedy, per SM Entertainment production team leader Lee Sung Soo.
• One of the academic pieces we read on the Sewol Ferry disaster.
• The R&B tracks we referenced: Aaliyah - Rock The Boat, SWV - Rain, Kelela - Frontline.
• K-Pop Fancams Got Political to Protect Black Lives Matter Protesters From Dallas Police, and another excellent piece also from Teen Vogue On K-Pop Fans, Political Activism, and the Necessity of Nuance. As we say, there's a lot here.

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