K-pop’s upbeat music and imagery contrasted with rigorous training systems for its artists makes stories about the “dark side” of the industry irresistible. Apple TV+’s new six-part docuseries “K-Pop Idols” does a good job balancing the narrative, touching the darker aspects of strict beauty standards and a fanatical pursuit of perfection as well as its joyous flipside: dreams realized against …
News of flooding in arid Dubai might sound odd, but it happened in spectacular fashion on Tuesday. Dubai received 142 millimetres of rainfall in the first two days of this week, about as much as it usually gets in a year-and-a-half. It was a black-swan event, weather wise, and so it understandably brought even such an expensively appointed city to …
Sriya Lenka aka Shreya Lenka from the Indian state of Odisha made headlines after she became the first-ever K-pop star. The 18-year-old girl was selected from a global audition held by South Korean Music Label DR Music Entertainment in an effort to add members to the globally acclaimed multi-national girl group Blackswan which already has K-pop idols from Brazil and …
It was a dream come true for 18-year-old Sriya Lenka when she was chosen as a trainee member for the K-pop group Blackswan. Currently, the global obsession with K-pop groups and their music is quite high and it is quite evident from the regular trending hashtags and posts shared on social media. Sriya became the first artist from India to …
