Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan
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The K-pop supergroup has been on hiatus for four years.
They haven't released an album in six.
They were the biggest band in the world.
And the question is, can they regain their throne or has the world moved on?
Today on the pod is the return of BTS and the future of K-pop.
Welcome to Switched on Pop.
I'm songwriter Charlie Harding.
I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
And today to discuss the return of BTS, we have a really exciting special guest.
It's Hyejin Lee.
Hyejin, welcome to the show.
Hyejin is my colleague at USC.
Hyejin is a clinical associate professor of communication at the USC Annenberg School.
And I'm going to make everyone jealous right now.
Let me tell you the classes that Hyejin is currently teaching at USC in the spring semester 2026.
One is called Crooked Studies of K-Pop.
reimagining K-pop's dominant discourses through G-Dragon.
If you're not familiar with G-Dragon, one of the... The goat.