Welcome to This Is Not Your Abuela's Asian Funk

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Welcome! Hi, I'm your host, resident Abuela/Ahjumma/Obaasan/Grandma and writer Yuuana (aka Selah, aka Lise) and this is my place for all things music blogging. My focus lately has been Kpop, so much of the focus at current is on Kpop, but I'm happy and eager to listen to all kinds of music. Tune in for Music Monday, Midweek Kpop Release Roundup, The Overflow, and whatever other, shorter term serials trip my trigger.

Rules of the road:

• BE NICE! This is me sharing my thoughts on something I love, you aren't required to agree. You are expected to be nice and civil, towards me and towards others in comments.
• Don't ask for membership. I made this comm to make my life easier, but no one else needs to be a member to access what I'll be posting here, promise.
• If you need a content warning, please ask! Comments to this entry are screened by default, so if you need to ask me for something privately, this is the place for it. I try to keep tabs on the major/common ones (flashing lights, seasickness, violence, medical/injury/self-harm, clowns, police), but if I've missed something or you want me to track something else, let me know.

And that should cover it! So welcome and enjoy your stay!

New Release Roundup: May 22nd-29th

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Happy Wednesday (assuming it is still Wednesday where you are when you read this)! Ideally, I'd be making these posts earlier in the day, but Life is being A Butt, so here we are. I am somewhat experimenting a bit in how to port these over from the original FB post, so bear with me while I sort out the kinks.

That said, it's been a busy week, between new product placement MVs from Jackson Wang and NewJeans, to comebacks from RM, ONEUS, and JD1. Toss in the debut of girl group B-OURS, a couple interesting/fun collaborations (such as APOKI and Somin of KARD), and a handful of new OSTs, and there's likely something for everyone. This week's list is 45 entries, so grab a drink before you settle in or pick and choose from the list, whatever makes you happiest.

As a side note, if I've missed a content warning, please do let me know. I'm mostly checking MVs for the big obvious ones (violent content, flashing/possible seizure or seasickness, clowns), but if you'd like me to be checking for something else, I'm happy to add to my notes. The stickied entry has comments screened if you want to keep things private.

This week's featured artist is ONEUS with their Fin.K.L remake, "Now," though they faced tough competition, between AleXa, Seventeen, and Villian all also being on the list. What are your favorites this week? Anyone surprise you? Let's chat about it!

( Releases for the week of May 22nd-29th )