I've been posting a lot about Kpop recently.

This frequency was not my original plan when I started on Mastodon. In fact, I started #KpopOfTheWeek with a resolution to confine my kpop posting to this once a week schedule. By limiting myself, I hoped to achieve three objectives.

In the first place, I hoped not to swamp the timelines of people who follow me but who have no interest in kpop. I also wanted to put a ceiling on the amount of time I was devoting to idols, comebacks, choreo videos and all the rest of it. Finally, I hoped that forcing myself to pick out just one MV or stage each week would oblige me to discriminate in the best sense of that word: to make thoughtful and careful choices.

My plan for self restraint hasn't quite worked out; as the charmingly unidiomatic title of that excellent Twice song puts it, "I Can't Stop Me". I dread to think how many non kpop fans have muted or blocked me, and I do worry at times about the hours I am devoting to kpop. On the other hand, I have found that selecting just one YouTube for #KpopOfTheWeek and writing a line or two to explain my choice has helped me think more clearly about my Kpop preferences and has saved me from mindless thumbs uppery.

Aaah! I had to get all that off my chest. Now please enjoy the Twice Studio Choom!

#Kpop #SocialMedia #Twice #ICantStopMe #StudioChoom

https://youtu.be/vWAC8Wkt9ok?si=5EEllgTfr_xfrW8I

#KPopMonday #TwoOfAKind (2 songs or MVs with something in common).

A little less obvious one:
Apink's Dumhdurum and Twice's I Can't Stop Me

Both were title tracks from 2020 and both MVs feature a train. Dumhdurum opens with train sounds and a pan of the members sitting in a rail car while ICSM closes with shots of the members in a train and train sounds after the fade out.

Dumhdurum - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqzTRK5GPWQ

I Can't Stop Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM4CkVFmTds

#Apink #Twice #Dumhdurum #ICantStopMe

#Twice #MoreAndMore #ICantStopMe

https://youtu.be/Ia_wdXZQ86g