K-POP Revolution by Stephan Lee

Did I accidentally think this was a standalone and read part of the way through before reading KPOP Confidential...yes
I feel like some of the conflict was resolved too easily.
368 Pages

K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee

All of this just reminds me of Miss Americana and Taylor talking about 1989 World Tour.
When a company decides to control things and acts like it'll work, when science has proven that the opposite is true, and that what they're doing is actually extremely harmful...cough cough starving teenagers, not letting them sleep,
332 Pages

TS Song: YOYOK...especially the bridge.

K-Pop Confidential by Stephan Lee

Summary: "Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom-and her obsession with SLK, K-pop's top boyband-to herself. She doesn't see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even though she can sing. Like, really sing.

So when Candace secretly enters a global audition held by SLK's music label, the last thing she expects is to actually get a coveted spot in their trainee program. And convincing her strict parents to let her to go is all but impossible ... although it's nothing compared to what comes next."

This cover? Obsessed. Literally perfect. 

Loved the glossary in the back - much needed! 

Also hoping that the lives of idol trainees aren't actually this terrible. Yikes.

*insert all kpop gifs here

332 pages

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