From SHINee’s return to STAYC_official's mini album debut, K-pop didn’t stop dreaming of bigger and better things in 2021.
From SHINee’s return to STAYC’s mini album debut, K-pop didn’t stop dreaming of bigger, better, and brighter things in 2021.‘Tis the most wonderful time of the year. 2021 is blissfully coming to an end, the holidays are right around the corner, young people are swarming Kellogg’s job portals and showing capitalism a big middle finger, and we’re finally going through the best K-pop releases of this year.
In 2020, as the world receded behind closed doors and face masks, K-pop turned to times well past and genres well-established, often bringing the party to us with albums steeped in the sounds of the ‘80s, and lyrics of hope. No other genre adapted to the “new normal” as K-pop did, switching seamlessly to online mediums and virtual performances as if they’d been doing it day in and day out.
In 2021, K-pop took that trajectory upwards and onwards. In spite of album releases and music videos being confined to the studio, acts went to infinity and beyond, sometimes literally, considering the number of futuristic, space-themed releases we saw this year. Moving deeper into this new semblance of a normal clearly didn’t mean the genre would stop dreaming of bigger, better, and brighter things.
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