Kristina Tingler
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Kristina works, writes, and sleeps, but never in the same order.
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Last Week in K-Music
This is a little late this week, but it's here nonetheless! Here are some gems from last week in Korean music! Remember a few weeks ago when Teen Top had a comeback and I was over the moon excited? That's how I was when I received a YouTube notification of this gem. C.A.P is a slower rapper than a lot of rappers in the industry, but it really works for him. I always found it charming. This track allows his voice and talent to shine. The track is almost cosmic, soothing like looking at the night sky without light pollution. As a long-time fan, I'm definitely proud of how wonderful this song is.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Beat
SHINee's Back Again
Insert Minho's "SHINee's back again." In May 2008, SM Entertainment debuted a five-member group called SHINee. In 2010, after one of the most difficult years of my life, I reconnected with my best friend and she introduced me to these five men with "Ring Ding Dong" and their reality show Hello Baby. I fell in love. SHINee is the group that got me back into Korean entertainment. I've since moved to other groups, broadening my music (and fanbases), not enjoyed some of their releases, but I will always come back to SHINee.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Beat
This Week in K-Music
A lot of great music came out his week. One of my favorite lady rappers dropped a solo for the first time. This is the perfect time of year for artists to release music—summer is coming, everyone is building the perfect going-on-vacation playlist, looking for fresh sounds. I love this time of year for music!
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Beat
This Week in K-Music
May 13 Jay Moon—Fire Solo k-artists have a special place in my heart. Knowing how the industry works, I can only imagine how lonely that kind of career path could be. Jay Moon's voice is so beautiful. The track is acoustic and soothing, matching his voice perfectly. The video is a soft aesthetic, colored and edited to make you feel nostalgic. It's really a great listen.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Beat
Motherhood on My Time
I received a text message from my mom this past Sunday, Mother’s Day, that my cousin was pregnant and to call her. I thought it was an innocent thing to inform me that we’re welcoming a new baby into the family and to talk to her only daughter on Mother’s Day since I wasn’t able to come into to town for a visit.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Viva
Please (Don't) Stop
I've learned to see beautyin the grander things,in nature, in people,leaving room for no emotion.I've found a way to turnoff my heart from things thatseem trivial, important, vital,harmful. I purged my minduntil only goals and plans remained,achieve alone,no one else allowed inbecause there is no one left to care.I've exhausted all possibilities.I am on my own. But you camealong and messed up my world.It wasn't sudden. I fought,I guess, or I was just ignorantto my heart still yearningto be touched, to be kissed, to bedesired in even the most sinful ways.It was gradual, fun and jokes,long talks and stories,until somehow you becamethe beauty in the grander things,in nature, in people,filling everything with emotion.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Poets
Home
I found God on 107,on the tight steep turns terrifyingand satisfying to complete.Towering trees, cloaked in sharp greens,supported with eternal brown.The wind and roarof driving too fastencouraged the danger,daring me to mess up,to go over, to end it all.Would it be an accidentor a dream come true?I found God in the silenceof my thoughts, everything emptyand begging to be filled,too afraid to ask.Desperation is a way of lifebut loneliness is the choice.I found God when I foundmyself. The wooded surroundingstook me in and spit me out.The heavens called outin a voice of a stormto guide me home.I am home.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Poets
Makeup vs. Trust Issues
If you told my 15-year-old self that I'd fall in love with makeup, she'd probably laugh at you. I was a thick-liner-and-cheap-mascara kind of teenager, trying to be as punk as my mother would allow me to be. Here I am, just turned 27, sitting at work with a new lipstick and lip liner I bought on my lunch break teasing me on my desk. I have more makeup to my name now than I did my entire childhood.
By Kristina Tingler8 years ago in Blush
