Check out all the blog posts from our third season of the MIA2K Podcast. You can access the Spotify and YouTube links to all the available episodes from each of the posts.
MIA2K Season 3 Episodes
MIA2K Exclusive: Interviewing Indie Artist Toshi during his Florida Tour
We’ve just had an exclusive conversation with Toshi, the “emo vampire” artist who’s redefining music with his unique style and innovative approach. We hope you enjoy this bonus episode as much as we did.
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Episode 45 – Attract & FIFTY FIFTY’s Spiral Timeline, Cube Entertainment’s Management Failures, And Controversies from RBW, KQ, FNC, P Nation, and more! – The Truth About Small K-Pop Companies!
For our final episode of season 3, we’re here with our fifth and final (for now) installment of our company-specific series! Today we’re focusing on small companies, and the ones we’re covering include: KQ Entertainment, ATTRAKT Creative Group, RBW, P Nation, FNC, and Cube!
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Episode 44 – Our K-Pop Biases 1 Year Later! New biases, new wreckers, bias lines, and even bias changes 😱
We dropped a two-parter episode in February of 2022 sharing our biases in great detail at the time and why we liked them. So now that we’re halfway through 2023, we wanted to share what has changed since then (not much but rather LOTS added?!)
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Episode 43 – The Truth Behind SM’s Corruption and Biggest Scandals (2023 update!)
The longest and most scandalous episode of our company-specific series is this one on SM Entertainment. Embezzlement. Slave contracts. Lying about the South Korean government… And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
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Episode 42 – MIA2K Pre-Summer Streaming Party: EXO, Ateez, Stray Kids, Taeyong, and Le Sserafim
Today, we will be listening to some of our favorite 2023 pre-summer K-Pop comebacks! We’ve got music from Stray Kids, Taeyong, EXO, Ateez, and Le Sserafim. Let’s go!
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Episode 41 – Will HYBE’s Greed be the Reason for its Downfall?
HYBE’s journey to becoming what it is today has been vastly different than that of the Big Three. Today’s episode is a monster truck of acquisitions, technology, triumphs against all odds, and global domination.
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Episode 40 – Why are K-Pop Lightsticks a Thing?
Lightsticks are a signature element of K-Pop, but the light show experience is also slowly permeating the west. We’re here to talk about our journey to lightstick hoarding, our favorite designs, and is it ok to bring another artist’s lightstick to a concert?!
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Episode 39 – Is JYP Falling Behind in the Race Between K-Pop Entertainment Agencies?
We’re here with our company-specific deep dive episodes, and for this second iteration of the series we’re talking about JYP the man, and JYP Entertainment the company. Let’s get that groove back!
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Episode 38 – MIA2K 101: What are K-Pop Photocards? Where do you get them? How to spot fakes? How to protect them?
What are K-Pop photocards? What’s the point of collecting them? What are the most common photocard sizes? What is the best way to protect photocards? How to spot fake photocards? What is a Lomo card? What does Lomo stand for?
We answer all these questions while doing a photocard tour!
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Episode 37 – Is YG Entertainment the Worst K-Pop Label?
We have always been vocal in our disapproval of South Korean K-Pop labels for either taking advantage of idols or neglecting to promote them appropriately. We’re doing a series covering all the major companies, and the first is YG Entertainment.
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Episode 36 – Why Kai’s Peaches Album is The Standard for Musical Storytelling
When Peaches first came out we had full epiphanies while listening to it on repeat, and although Kai’s self-titled 1st mini album is also amazing, there’s just something about Peaches that hits like no other.
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Episode 35 – K-Pop Cupsleeve Events: What are they? Who puts them on? How to plan one?
We’re talking all things cupsleeve events, what they are, how they came to be, and what they’re like in South Florida. We also included our experience going to a cupsleeve in Daegu during our trip to South Korea. And we interviewed two amazing cupsleeve hots! This is THE episode to not just listen to but…
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Episode 34 – Happy Birthday, K-Pop! K-Pop Podcasts Choose the Top Songs of Each K-Pop Generation
To celebrate the 31st anniversary of K-Pop’s existence, we enlisted the help of some friends so we could all take a closer look at the evolution of the music that took over our lives by storm. Join us as we discuss each generation’s THE song!
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Episode 33 – The Ticketmaster Nightmare Trifecta: Monopoly, Fees, and Scalpers
We have to talk about the disgusting operation that is Ticketmaster and Live Nation Entertainment. From covering the concept of a monopoly to their made up official platinum predatory practice, this has all but ruined the fan experience, and it has to stop.
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Episode 32 – MIA2K Streaming Party: XG Music and Rise to Fame
Our first streaming party episode is on XG, their songs released thus far, the intel on their Executive Producer Simon JAKOPS, and the comments from the AVEX Chairman, Masato Matsuura, which dragged them down during their most recent promotions.
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Episode 31 – The Year of the K-Pop Girl Group: NewJeans, Twice, XG, Girl’s Generation, Mamamoo, and more!
The first couple of years of our journey into K-Pop did not include a ton of girl groups in our stan repertoire, but 2022 came fast and furious with debuts and comebacks galore to change our minds.
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