Additional Reading: KPOP Songwriting, Song Camps, and Producing

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

in case anyone is looking for more insight and explination about how song camps work for kpop I pulled a bunch of articles and vids.

KPOP song camps work similar to the ones in country and pop music and with the frequency kpop agencies put out music these camps happen all year long and usually within the span of a week a writer can write for multiple agencies, unless contracted specifically to one. KPOP idols who write also particiapte in these camps too by bringing their own songs and work to workshop with other writers - like in the Luna video linked below.

some of these might have been posts of their own but I figured compiling them would be easier than searching back for individual posts.


2018
YOUNG POST: Meet the K-pop songwriter who has written for EXO, Girls’ Generation and Red Velvet
BILLBOARD: How The Stereotypes, Diplo, Skrillex, LDN Noise & More Lean Into Korea
CBC - Young Montreal producer composed K-Pop hit song in his Dorval bedroom

2017
SBS POPASIA - One Way To Be  A KPOP Star Podcast ep ft Producing and Camps (2017)
Tone Glow's Interview with Ceasar & Louis (2017)
BILLBOARD - Exo's The War Song By Song Breakdown by Producers and Songwriters
SPINDITTY: How Korean Musicians Earn From Music Royalty

2016
FORBES - This Songwriting Camp Might Have Produced Your Future Favorite Country-Pop Song
BMI - How to Write and Pitch Songs for the J-Pop and K-Pop Markets

2015
BEYOND HALLYU - Dsign Music on writing some of K-pop’s biggest hits

2014
GB Times: K-pop and the Swedish connection




f(x) Luna detailed a song camp in her vlog

Songwriter Cazzi Opeia showed a smaller camp in her vlog

The Stereotypes Break Down Writing Red Velvet Bad Boy

The Making of Taemin's MOVE

CON PANEL: Songwriting with Andreas Oberg & Jim Wolf (2018 KCON NY)

The Call
Features K-producers, artists and songwriters pairing up for duets. Shows off the process of putting the collabs together.

unsubbed eps are available on KSHOW123 & cuts are up on Mnet Official

Hyena On The Keyboard
Features Korean songwriters working on new songs. It shows how different the process is for each songwriter.

All eps are up on KBSWorld and KSHOW123

Breakers
Young up and coming singer/songwriters compete to win the audience voted show by writing new songs and crafting performances for them each week.

Performances are up on MNet's  Official Channels and episodes are up on KSHOW123



sources
Audio: How To Be  A KPOP Star Podcast
Video : PopEYE Media | Genius YT | Cazzi Opeia | Lunas Alphabet | MNet Official | KBSWORLD | MNET Official Breakers | ReacttotheK

any other songwriting articles/interviews/shows you know of? I'll update the post with them!

Comments

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

That Bad Boy video was awesome. I'm going to listen to the song in a completely different way now. Interesting that they don't think it would play well in the U.S., though...

Luna was so cute with her English lesson.

lol I'm glad they asked him about Move disease.

Thanks for this post, OP! I know it took a lot of work.

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

<3

[rainstormraider.livejournal.com]

That kid from Dorval! Dorval of all places! Love it!

Thanks for this OP!

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

yes Dorval! There's so many canadian songwriters going to camps in Korea. The pop scene here is non-existent so there's lots of untapped songs ^_^

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

the concept of writing camps has always been interesting to me. i know that the rare sm artist will attend the ones that sm puts together. luna, obviously, and amber as well. jonghyun also frequented them. i remember he mentioned once that he wrote dress up there, along with a few other tracks from she is, and he wrote already at one as well before he finished it up with teddy riley and gave it to taemin.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

If he wrote Dress Up at a writing camp then everyone should go to writing camps.

[giriboy.livejournal.com]

i haven't watched this one yet but react to the k (https://youtu.be/ZivFny2mU-Y) had a panel at kcon ny with andreas oberg & jim wolf. i heard it was really good. a lot of these vids are waaay shorter tho & probably more easily digestible

a lot of the song writing camps i hear about are via charli xcx interviews, tho, so i'm really looking forward to watching a few of these :3 thanks for the roundup, op!

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

oooo perfect! I haven't done a lot of digging for kcon panels because the ones I've found have a lot of screaming lol but this one looks awesome! Added to the post :D

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

Do you have a blog, OP? Your posts here are always so well put together and informative!

[vintage-boom.livejournal.com]

kinda lol it's part of my portfolio and mostly relating to photo and video work and not updated nearly as much as I should. I just make the posts here about this stuff for fun because even though I studied entertainment business management in college and work with a lot of musicians I don't engage that much with the business/management aspects of music anymore since I work on the visuals side. it's still something I'm super interested in and i'm working on a massive editing project rn so I have a lot of free time in front of the computer to make these.

if you still want it i can PM it to you but idk how interesting it would be

[nekobot.livejournal.com]

If you're okay with that then yes please! I remember you saying you work with artists outside of K-pop too so I'm very interested.

[camified.livejournal.com]

this is such a great post, thanks op!

i hadn't heard much about song camps in kpop until snowball project last year and that was a pretty limited view of what goes on compared to what i'm seeing now

[juhli.livejournal.com]

I need to watch The Call and Breakers!!

[kyokomurasaki.livejournal.com]

I'm really liking Breakers but it helps that I already knew/was a fan of several artists on the show. It's MNET so it's almost like Show Me the Money but for songwriting