Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your categorical mismanagement of music news and

criticism.

I'm your host, John Caramonica.

Welcome all blanks.

This is the K-pop girl group episode of Popcast, which I've been wanting to do for a while.

Also, a lot of y'all have been clamoring itching, perhaps, for a K-pop episode, and finally,

here we are.

You were listening to Blackpink.

That's Pink Venom from the album that they put out a few months ago, which, oh god, here

we're just going to get into it, which was likely mid.

But there is a lot happening in the world of K-pop girl groups.

There's a lot of exciting new acts, younger acts, acts, expanding the musical vocabulary

of space.

And we're going to talk about all of that today.

Tomorrow Herman is here.

Tomorrow, first of all, welcome.

First time on Popcast.

Thanks for having me.

I'm really excited.

Tomorrow has been writing about K-pop for a long time, writes for Billboard, writes for

Forbes.

We're at a book about BTS, a whole last book.

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