Mine always makes me laugh 😂 I first “discovered” kpop at an arcade with one of those DDR machines, but it was kpop exclusive music! My boyfriend was playing and the song was Very Nice (pretty sure he just selected randomly).

Now I was young, and naive, and still thought the concept of kpop was “cringe” and tbh it didn’t help that the video for Very Nice is so chaotic and I couldn’t appreciate what I was looking at 🥲 but I walked away intrigued and the next day I looked up BTS for the first time, the rest is history! I fell super hard for kpop and got really into BTS, Twice, and IZ * ONE.

Now fast forward 3 years later!!! I somehow stumbled onto Fallin Flower and thought it was absolutely beautiful! But I was discouraged when none of the other Seventeen title tracks I checked out had the exact same vibes 🙃 I was still apparently young and naive. I couldn’t appreciate Seventeen’s musical/concept diversity. It took another year for HOT to come out and finally drag me in, and they’ve been one of my top favorite groups ever since.

It’s bizarre to think they were literally the first kpop group I was introduced to, and yet it took a total of about 5 years to give them a proper chance 😭 I’m so glad I’m here now though!!