{"id":34532,"date":"2021-06-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/kuwaiti-k-pop-is-the-genre-we-didnt-know-we-needed\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:52:59","slug":"kuwaiti-k-pop-is-the-genre-we-didnt-know-we-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/kuwaiti-k-pop-is-the-genre-we-didnt-know-we-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwaiti K-Pop is the Genre We Didn\u2019t Know We Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s no secret: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/arabs-are-obsessed-with-k-pop-and-this-is-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arabs love K-Pop<\/a>. Now, the ultimate Arab K-pop anthem is here. Saudi-Arabia based Kuwaiti singer Bader Al-Shuaibi just teamed up with Korean-American singer AleXa on the ultimate bop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Entitled \u2018It\u2019s On\u201d, the track comes as part of a Spotify venture, featuring Arabic, Korean and English lyrics. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(It is) unfamiliar but interesting and fun,\u201d Al-Shuaibi told Arab News in an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1867926\/lifestyle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">interview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cIt blends cultures and backgrounds and even people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song was unveiled as part of Spotify\u2019s Radar programme, the streaming platform\u2019s global emerging-artist program that launched in March 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our continued efforts to blur the boundaries of the global music landscape, we cooked up this next Radar collaboration with a focus on K-pop and Khaleeji pop from the Gulf region,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/arts-culture\/music\/is-it-on-kuwait-and-korea-stars-collaborate-on-new-k-pop-tune-for-spotify-1.1224839\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wissam Khodur<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who manages artist and label partnerships at Spotify MENA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arguably, this Kuwaiti x K-pop collaboration does exactly that. And while it might seem as an unlikely pairing for those outside of the region, Arabs gave K-Pop a home in the region, with Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Morocco, Egypt and Qatar as the genre\u2019s biggest consumers in the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K-pop is performing amazingly well across the world, but especially so in the Gulf, where we see K-pop releases shoot to the peak position on charts,\u201d Khodur continued.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To mark her regional debut, AleXa said: \u201cI\u2019m so grateful for this collaboration. It\u2019s a fresh, never-heard-before mix of cultures and sound. I really can\u2019t wait for our fans to hear this track all over the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no secret: Arabs love K-Pop. Now, the ultimate Arab K-pop anthem is here. Saudi-Arabia based Kuwaiti singer Bader Al-Shuaibi just teamed up with Korean-American singer AleXa on the ultimate bop.\u00a0 Entitled \u2018It\u2019s On\u201d, the track comes as part of a Spotify venture, featuring Arabic, Korean and English lyrics. \u201c(It is) unfamiliar but interesting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26352],"tags":[16320,16321,4584,16322,16323,16324,9936,10289,4511,12271],"primary_tag":[5260],"ppma_author":[4226],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":4226,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"milleteam","display_name":"Mille Team","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3efa852a4a27023eb0b89acfd128ed1a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","description":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57658,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34532\/revisions\/57658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34532"},{"taxonomy":"primary_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/primary_tag?post=34532"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=34532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}