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Greatest Hits:: Taeyeon (Girls' Generation): INVU

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 Last of the girl group submissions for the moment, then I get to move on to some of the boy groups, but it's not just boy groups. There's a co-ed submission in there, which is such a yay from me. I'm excited for that. But! I'm also very excited for this, because she is a second gen heavy weight, reigning champion of an artist. Award-winning. Best-selling. Chart topping. And that's just her as a soloist, that's not even counting the years before that as the leader of Girls' Generation, which is one of the most well-known groups to come out of K-Pop. I admire her a lot, as you can tell, and I also think she's really cool. And funny. I don't know if she's generally known for her humor, but I think she's hilarious. She's also fairly out-spoken which is something else that I admire about her, but the group turns eighteen this year. If anyone has earned the right to pass judgement on the industry, someone who has been as active as she has the ...

Song Review:: Taeyeon (Girls' Generation): Letter to Myself- Letter to Myself

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Release date: 2024 November 18 Album tracklist:  Letter To Myself , Hot Mess, Blue Eyes, Strangers, Blue, Disaster Album runtime: 18 minutes  I love it when older artists release things. While the untried pups are still working on finding their sound and figuring out how things work, which, I love watching the growing confidence and skill, the older artists have it down pat, especially the very experienced older artists, and a member of a second generation girl group definitely qualifies for that. Does that mean my expectations are higher? Yes. But I also trust she'll excel regardless because she wouldn't have made it seventeen years in a very fickle industry if she couldn't. Also, I just learned that apparently she was the first member of the group to go solo, which is cool. The run time is just short of 18 minutes, and it would have made it if the second song was two-and-three-quarters minutes. The build of energy over the course of the song is masterful. Starting with sl...