Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen ONEUS – Rupert’s drop.

ONEUS often release songs that appeal to me, but I’ve been surprised at just how often I’ve been going back to this ballad over the past few days. As well as being engaged by the music from the acoustic guitar opening, I was taken with the pink and blue outfits.

The title caught my attention immediately; I already knew what a Rupert ‘s drop or Prince Rupert’s drop was, so I wondered if it might provide a metaphor for a compound of stoicism and vulnerability. I’ll append a video on Rupert’s drops as a reply to this post.

I’m also appending the Wikipedia entry on Prince Rupert, partly because he interests me and partly because I want to challenge those misguided British individuals who mistakenly project today’s left/right politics backwards into the 17th century Wars of the Three Kingdoms by thinking of Parliament as “progressive” and their opponents as “reactionary”.

https://youtu.be/hsJBBkpiz0Y?si=PXChqQ0ERsvrE0k9

#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #ONEUS #BoyGroups #RupertsDrop #PrinceRupert #WarsOfTheThreeKingdoms

I posted a little while ago about removing the statue of Robert Clive from the vicinity of the Foreign Office in London.

Here's another statue that ought to be moved from its current location: the Oliver Cromwell statue outside the UK House of Commons. In replies to this post, I'll put forward four reasons for this proposal and suggest a replacement.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Oliver_Cromwell,_Westminster

#UKHistory #History #London #Statues #PublicArt #Westminster #London #HouseOfCommons #OliverCromwell #WarsOfTheThreeKingdoms #IrishHistory #EarlyModernHistory