idol
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And in a culture so hellbent on idol worship and exhausting discourse, where every blemish is smoothed out or screamed at, “SNL” still offers us something scrappy and unvarnished.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
Those songs will undoubtedly be scrutinised by fans, especially after Jungkook recently posted, and then deleted, a livestream video in which he shared his frustrations with life as a K-Pop idol.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
He has become “more reflective about the stupidity of some of the idol factories I used to create in my head around work projects.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Like the idol supergroups it celebrates, this Netflix hit has been engineered to entertain.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
The city was not only home to her dad’s literary idol, but Emily’s, too: Garrison Griswold, CEO of Bayside Press and mastermind of Book Scavenger, the coolest book-hunting game in existence.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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