#idolpop — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #idolpop, aggregated by home.social.
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What do boy bands M!lk and Monaki have to do with Japan's hottest Gen Z slang? Quite a lot, actually. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/07/27/language/genz-slang-mlk-monaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #slang #jlptn5 #idolpop #jpop
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At Cannes, Koji Fukada’s "Love on Trial" puts Japan’s idol culture under the microscope — and asks why fame still comes with a chastity clause. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/05/25/entertainment-news/fukada-j-pop-film-cannes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #entertainmentnews #jpop #idolpop #filmfestivals #cannes
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Thank you for setting this up.
#KpopMonday #SkoolLuvAffairI'm tempted to pull from the GFriend School trilogy, but I'm going instead with the lesser known but closely related fromis_9 -- To Heart:
https://youtu.be/BzZ8NmYUldE?si=05-F1Fbiqp_1GYVL
School concepts loom large in east Asian idol pop, and I'd like to read more about the reasons for that salience.