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SojuTalk Kpop Podcast

Fixing our 2025 Kpop Song Reviews!

·1 hr 20 min·5 clips
The SojuTalk crew discovers Anita gave 80 songs a six, sparking a debate about their scoring leniency.
The SojuTalk K-pop podcast hosts—Doug, Warren, and Anita—record an end-of-year episode to reflect on their 2025 song reviews. They begin by examining their scoring data, noting they reviewed 158 songs, with averages around six, and Anita gave 80 songs a six. The hosts discuss listener feedback about their lenient scoring and aim to use the full rating scale more effectively. The main segment, 'Upon Further Review 2025', allows each host to revise two past ratings. Doug downgrades BSS's 'Prime Time' from six to three, criticizing its country elements, and upgrades 'Gnarly' from three to seven. Anita slightly downgrades Kiss of Life's 'Lips, Hips, Kiss' from seven to six. Warren adjusts his scores for TWICE's 'Countdown' (three to five) and JENNIE's 'Zen' (nine to seven). They then share listener-submitted revisions, including boosts for CORDIS's 'Go' and HEARTS TO HEARTS's 'The Chase'. In the final segment, each host nominates a song to 'super-pass' directly into the Hall of Spice: Doug chooses Dayoung's 'Body', Anita picks CORDIS's 'Go', and Doug nominates Blackpink's 'Jump', with all three succeeding after debate. The episode wraps with the updated Hall of Spice list for 2025 and holiday greetings.

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A lively review of K-pop scores, changed opinions, and what a five really means.

SojuTalk revisits a year's worth of K-pop scores to see which first impressions held up and which ones did not. The crew compares its 2025 ratings with the Nation's and weighs listener revisions, including a Discord member raising Jennie's "like JENNIE" from a three to a five.

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You get to reopen Soju Talk's 2025 K-pop scorecard and test which first impressions actually survived.

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