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KPOPPED <\/p>\nJust when you thought the K-pop crossover wave couldn\u2019t get any wilder, in comes KPOPPED \u2014 Apple TV+\u2019s latest musical experiment that feels part remix battle, part fever dream. Produced by Lionel Richie, the show pairs K-pop groups like Itzy, Kep1er, Ateez, Billlie, STAYC, JO1, Kiss of Life, and Blackswan with Western icons including Megan Thee Stallion, Patti LaBelle, Kylie Minogue, Kesha, TLC, Vanilla Ice, Boyz II Men, and two-fifths of the Spice Girls.<\/p>\n
KPOPPED <\/p>\n
The trailer had fans hyped, with Megan Thee Stallion delivering a K-pop remix of Savage against a backdrop of pyrotechnics. If those 109 seconds were anything to go by, the series looked like a five-star extravaganza. But now that all eight episodes are out, early reactions are a little more mixed.<\/p>\n
The format sees each Korean group split into halves, each partnered with a different Western star to reimagine one of their hits. The audience then votes on which performance was \u201ckpopped\u201d the best \u2014 essentially, the most high-energy reinterpretation. Hosted by comedian Soojeong Son with Psy and Stallion as mentors, the show is a full-scale spectacle, but not everyone is impressed.<\/p>\n
Netizen reactions range from \u201clow-budget\u201d to \u201clove it\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt very cheap and low budget lol,\u201d one viewer admitted. Another added, \u201cA lot of it sounded like a night out with karaoke.\u201d Others were disappointed that the show leaned too heavily into reality-TV tropes: \u201cI feel like KPOPPED would be a more captivating\/compelling show if it was less American-reality-TV, because those interviews in between rehearsals where they speak in present tense about events that clearly already happened ruin the flow and immersion.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, plenty of fans are still having fun with it. \u201cWhile I honestly loved these performances, what I really felt was missing from KPOPPED was some more heart-to-hearts on how they make music, their artistry, their mindset, convos on the music industry in general,\u201d one person wrote. Another praised the idols\u2019 energy: \u201cI\u2019m working my way through the episodes and Nvee from Blackswan was insane vocally. It\u2019s so fun to see so many idols having fun and trying new spins on old songs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some were quick to call out standouts: \u201cWatching that KPOPPED episode I have praise for Ateez and Kylie alone. You can see who was fully immersed and interested in doing this and who wasn\u2019t.\u201d But the biggest complaint across the board? The length. \u201cThe most criminal thing about KPOPPED is how short these episodes are, I need 2 hours of footage MINIMUM,\u201d one fan demanded. Another echoed the sentiment: \u201cDo not tell me they advertised and hyped up KPOPPED for months now only for the episodes to be 30 mins.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, is KPOPPED a hit? Depends on who you ask. It\u2019s flashy, chaotic, and packed with unlikely collabs \u2014 exactly the kind of pop-cultural chaos the internet loves. But if you were expecting something deeper, you might just be left wanting more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when you thought the K-pop crossover wave couldn\u2019t get any wilder, in comes KPOPPED \u2014 Apple TV+\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,3822,19,17,27692,27695,27691,27693,27694,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-35628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-htcity","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-kpopped-reddit","14":"tag-kpopped-release-date","15":"tag-kpopped-reviews","16":"tag-kpopped-x","17":"tag-kpopped-x-reviews","18":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}