Round-up 2023: Year in Music

It’s that time of the year again, where I do a round-up of my year in music.

Admittedly, this is probably the quietest year music has been in my life, a year where music took a back seat.

Round-up 2022: Year in Music

Round-up posts like this used to be my favourite post to write every year.

However, looking at the number of posts I’ve written this year, I’ve not been as productive as I’d have liked to be.

Round-up 2021: Year in Music

This is my favourite post to write every year, because I get to look back on music in my life for the past year and what I did (or did not do) to improve this Music Rambling blog. The annual round-up posts has become a tradition for me, if you don’t already know.

To sum up, this has been a really quiet year in terms of music activity for me.

What? They can sing so well?!

There are not many shows that I’m following nowadays. There’s one though, that has kept me looking forward to watching every week for the last few weeks – 놀면 뭐하니? or Hangout With Yoo.

Produced by Kim Tae-ho and hosted by Yoo Jae-suk, the show started in July 2019 and has undergone several concepts. The most recent iteration has Yoo Jae-suk taking on various projects. The current project that has both pleasantly surprised and touched me, sees Yoo Jae-suk putting together a male vocal group, MSG Wannabe (a parody of SG Wannabe), through his alter ego, producer Yoo Ya-ho.

Round-up 2020: Year in Music

Last post of the year, and longtime readers of this blog (anyone?) would know that this is when I reflect on the music aspect of my life for the whole year. I started this in 2016 and if you are interested, check out the other round-up posts that I’ve done.

So, this year has been extraordinary. Everything was wait-and-see at the start of the year, when we were all hoping for the COVID-19 situation to get better. When it was clear that COVID-19 was not going away soon, things got postponed or cancelled, or turned up in another form.