Gotta Be Shirtless When You Sing Taeyang

Child of History

I’m not going to lie. Everytime I hear somebody sing Taeyang’s “Eyes, Nose, Lips,” I imagine myself shirtless with a gold chain, just like the dude in the photo. I don’t know. I feel like I could make bunch of people laugh if I did something like that. Too bad my body is too alluring. I may be ugly with no swag, but I look really good nak —

Anyway, K-Pop is fricken’ huge now. I couldn’t have imagined that a band of South Korean Artists would be number one on Billboard — three times. The last band that did that was the Beatles, and they sang in English. How times have changed since the days of my grandparents….

Apparently, my sister’s first reaction to Max Changmin (second from the right) was that he was gay.

You know, the first time I had any connections with Korea was actually through music. I have vague memories of a certain noona watching Korean VCR tapes of MBC’s Music Camp. But, the first memory that I distinctly remember is listening to DBSK‘s first album: Tri-Angle (2004).

So, as a nine year old boy, my first k-pop song that I remember was “Hug.” Gross. I used to sing that first line all the time because I just…I don’t know, man. This is when my music tastes were corrupted I guess. I actually…