QRIMOLE – November 2026

It’s time for QRIMOLE, the series where readers ask Kpopalypse questions! Let’s take a look at the mailbag for the last month! Do you feel trapped with regards to balancing your coverage of kpop with discovering new music? Like, it seems like you’ve explored a lot of genres fairly deeply, but once you started doing roundups that doesn’t leave a ton of time to get super knowledgable about other genres. Do you ever feel “married to kpop” in a bad way? Or does kpop legitimately still carry more interest than every other genre? It certainly does take up a lot of time. It’s still interesting for all sorts of reasons. Yes it does take time away from discovering other stuff, but then other genres follow Sturgeon’s Law just as much as k-pop does. As long as I can continue to find good stuff wherever it may be, I’m okay with that. Also it’s been my k-pop readers who have in some cases turned me onto other non k-pop music that I’ve really liked, and I probably wouldn’t have discovered those things if it were not for my k-pop interest. So there’s that. Overall, no regrets. Looking through the archives for a lark, and I was surprised at how edgy this page used to be. Do you think you’ve soften...