Update: The election stress is even getting to GarageBand! Sorry for the audio chaos-we've updated the audio to get the tracks back in alignment. 

Drinking game: count the number of times Kalea and Julie sigh deeply.  This week we discuss BE promo and BTS award show nominations before jumping into another bout of craptastic reporting. Feels like old times aka the whole reason we started this podcast. Don't you love it when someone does absolutely zero research?


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 According to BTS themselves, YES. The final installation of our conversation about where BTS fits in the music world is here! We also discuss the BE concept photo, the Yoonminkook vlives, the MOTS Pop-Up, our collective engagements to BTS courtesy of Samsung, and RM's recent doctor's appointment. 

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This week we discuss the upcoming BTS MOTS  Pop-Up Store,  ARMY getting the Savage Love BTS Remix to number one for Jimin's birthday, BTS at the BBMAs, and the Skool Luv Affair: Special Addition re-release (Kalea tries to manifest a Yoongi photocard). We also continue our discussion about what "k-pop" really is and what that label entails.

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Crying over MOTS ON:E FOR 48 minutes and 20 seconds. That's it, that's the podcast.

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In what may be one of our best episodes yet, Kalea and Julie debate the perennial question: Is BTS k-pop, or have they surpassed that label? How is k-pop defined, and in what ways does BTS conform or deviate from that model? As always, we discuss the news (and there's a lot of it): the Jason Derulo X BTS Savage Love Remix, BTS Week on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and BTS achieving a perfect all-kill on the Billboard charts. 

If you would like to find the link to the original article that inspired this episode and is quoted frequently, you can do so here: https://ther3journal.com/issue-1/roundtable-kpop/

*As always, take our opinions with a grain of salt, as we are just fans. 

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Despite our best efforts, you get a full hour of content. We discuss multiple recent BTS performances released in the past week (ish), new Dynamite MVs, the new UN speech,  BTS Universe Story, and of course the news of BTS' new album. Finally, though it is never a fun conversation, we address recent instances of racism toward BTS perpetrated by Western media and those who would belittle their achievements. 

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On this week's installment of GWF, we discuss MOTS O:NE tickets, BTS on I-LAND, and our speculations for when JJK1 and KTH1 might arrive. For your main course, Julie  and Kalea present the wildest questions on Quora and react to them. Prepare yourselves for the insanity of some of these questions! 

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In this episode, we celebrate one year of Girlz with Fun! Thank you to everyone who has tuned in over the past year! In this episode, we play "Guess the BTS Song in 1 Second" and BTS-themed MadLibs. If you want to play along, check out the links below. 

Song Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id7tMXC0Byw
Mad Libs: https://www.madtakes.com


For the record, Kalea absolutely decimated Julie in a first round song challenge, but the sound quality was too bad....even for us. So much for that. Have fun listening to this "spicy" and "eager" podcast and we can't wait for many more years of Bangtan content together with our listeners! 


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Kalea and Julie discuss the ~stigma~ of being a fan.  Why is rooting for a Billboard Hot 100 #1 artist any stranger than, say, being a sports fan (note: not mutually exclusive)?  There is plenty of recent news to go around, including BTS's VMA performance and the IONIQ MV (real talk: why does a car commercial have to go that hard?).

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As always, Kalea and Julie are back with some steaming hot takes. The news takes far longer than it should, mainly because BTS stay breaking records. Also, would you buy a $400 t-shirt? What about a pen with Hobi’s voice telling you that he loves you? 

After the news, Kalea and Julie discuss some recent drama on the timeline, boundaries between artists, their companies, and fans. They also discuss when and how having a bias became conflated with being a solo stan, and what all of this means as the fandom continues to grow. 

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