2nd Lead Syndrome

In this episode, we dive deeper into the proverbial crate of kpop songs to discuss one of our favorite B-sides, VIXX's Alive. Join us as we geek out over an amazing track, with diversions on drama OSTs, who goes solo when, and more. You can listen to Alive here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpTG4iFGz4 0:25 Introducing B-Sidepieces 1:59 Single-driven pop music vs. records 4:09 A kpop vinyl revival? 8:00 Introducing Alive 10:52 Context: Moorim School soundtrack 12:07 A sidebar on OSTs 14:49 Member solos 20:40 On musical aspects of Alive 23:42 And the lyrics! 25:03 The "will they ever top it?" question 28:25 Composition and production 31:52 It's not cheesy 33:00 Showcasing members' ranges 36:55 End credits

We return with further analysis of American Hustle Life, Episode 2. This time, we look at mentorship styles, racial impersonation, theories of performativity, and more! 0:50 Mentorship styles - Dante, Jin, Suga 4:00 A stuffed ostrich… 5:10 Introducing footing (Goffman) 7:08 Changing footing with food 8:32 Two other seminal moments with this crew 10:27 Dante walks away 11:07 The terms of reaching across difference - power relationships 12:35 Contrast with Tony’s team: “good company” 13:38 A willingness to try things 16:00 Culture isn’t pure anyway 18:11 Nate’s a classic “best friend” 20:09 Nate’s role in the sandwich presentation 21:46 Blackface isn’t just painting your face… racial impersonation 22:20 An example from the Netherlands: Zwarte Piet 25:39 There’s a limit to calling it “cultural appropriation” - complexity to conversation 26:40 Caricature…but not for critical commentary (cf. Eric Lott, Love and Theft) 28:14 Where’s the reflexivity? 28:59 Breaking down Coolio’s response 30:44 Multiple layers to this difficult moment 32:55 If you don’t question… we don’t learn and grow 34:40 Wanting to see your faves do better 36:22 The kind of community we’re setting up for ourselves 39:48 Coolio’s philosophy about performance 41:00 Introducing Austin’s speech act theory 44:00 Butler has adopted Austin’s performativity and applied it to gender identity 46:50 There’s no essential gender identity - performance is all there is 48:00 We’re performing at every moment 48:52 A hip hop ethos that can pervade any aspect of life 49:40 For Coolio, the boundary between performance and living is blurred 51:00 A thick (thicc?) episode!

In this installment of On the Hustle, our critical episode-by-episode take on BTS's American Hustle Life, we linger on the importance of Coolio's quiz questions to the BTS members: why these questions, and what can we learn about hiphop by looking more closely at them? 0:42 Previously, on On the Hustle… 2:59 Kay’s rundown of Coolio’s three questions 4:00 2LiveCrew, hip hop censorship and white moral panic 5:58 Parental advisory apparel and aesthetics without context 8:32 What is a natural speaking voice and rap’s earlier functions, from Rapper’s Delight to Jay-Z, hip hop vocalization 11:04 Public Enemy and black nationalism, the political dimensions of hip hop 14:53 Asking about Public Enemy was a good question, but they never went beyond a textbook answer 18:32 The fly of potential in your ointment 19:42 If you don’t know now you know 20:35 We are pushing you straight into the rabbit hole 20:54 This is your history too 21:48 What are the stakes of BTS and the viewers (not) knowing the history at hand? 22:46 Hip hop is always in conversation with itself 25:45 Shaka Zulu revisited, black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, the twilight of Apartheid and global connectivity 27:29 Talking about race in ways that are not destructive 28:14 Resurgence of conscious hip hop

American Hustle Life. The notorious hip hop bootcamp show before BTS hit the big time. For ARMY, it's practically required viewing. As an essential part of the BTS canon and as a rich source of intercultural triumph and tragedy, we felt it deserved some serious scrutiny. This is the first in an ongoing series of episode by episode commentaries of the show. Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage with us! 0:50 A crash course in hiphop 2:29 On intercultural contact 5:47 Why we wanted to talk about American Hustle Life 7:45 BTS in the public sphere 9:12 A study in how kpop and hiphop interface 12:46 From the anthropological toolkit...introducing indexicality 19:15 Where there's smoke there's fire? 21:25 Recapping AHL Ep 1 23:12 The van, the kidnapping, and all of the tropes 30:48 "No one did a takedown!" 33:10 Holding BTS accountable - with love 34:59 "Let's gloss toxic masculinity" + a plug for Everyday Feminism 39:10 BTS, class struggle, youth/lost innocence, intersectional analysis 44:10 A rude awakening 49:01 Coolio calls out Rapmon 49:44 Coolio's Shaka Zulu stuff and indexical chains 57:44 Next episode preview

In this episode, we dissect theories that help us work through the whys and wherefores of stanning talent. We lay out how your taste isn't just personal preference but socially structured. 1:00 What do we mean by "stan talent"? 3:25 Why we like what we like; introducing Pierre Bourdieu 6:27 What's the connection between Bourdieu and kpop? 10:40 SM the Performance, marketing "talent" 15:56 How company loyalty emerges 19:25 Isn't this too deterministic? 23:04 Hennion: taste is a performance 28:22 Who finds their way to kpop? The fluorescent heterogeneity of fandom 30:18 When structure pushes back - NU'EST vs. Seventeen 35:36 "You can't just go to an Italian restaurant and say I want bibimbap" 40:22 New launch structures also structure taste 41:09 Pepperoni pizza and hiphop 45:15 How do kpop artists understand hiphop? BTS's brand

We set the stage with the very first episode the podcast, a mix of heavy-hitting k-pop culture analysis with an anthropological twist. 0:26 Podcast Mission Statement 2:07 Origin story 4:26 Radio Palava and the Vulcan mind meld 6:55 Kay was looking for someone who also wanted to take K-pop seriously 8:21 The K-pop journalistic analogue to Harper’s; erudition with accessibility 12:50 How Kay discovered K-pop 14:05 The intent to blog and West African music 17:04 What the hell is anthropology? Let us explain what we do at the same time we completely dodge the question 24:01 De-linking our content production from the K-pop news cycle; in-depth select coverage 26:16 A joyous engagement with theory 27:10 Stanning talent and the principles of our analysis 29:22 “Jackson Wang, he’s so hot” 32:14 Do it for the love and Emily’s secret hip hop past 34:01 Personal disclaimers and limitations 35:45 Language 40:35 Self-reflexivity and our biases 42:42 We love Kendeul