KPopped, Apple TV+

ITZY performing in KPopped, premiering Friday on Apple TV+.

We know what makes CanCon CanCon (or, rather, the oracles at that CRTC tell us what does), but what makes K-Pop K-Pop? How Korean, if at all, does it have to be? KPop Demon Hunters , the hit Netflix movie of the summer, is an American animated musical (with a Korean Canadian director); is it inside or outside of the K-Pop phenomenon?

To help you ponder these deep questions about culture, commerce and nation, Apple TV+ offers up (as of Aug. 29) KPopped – an enjoyably ersatz music competition shot in Seoul in which Western pop artists collaborate with K-Pop groups on reinterpretations of their songs. In the first episode, executive producer Megan Thee Stallion works with four members of girl group Billlie t

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