Todd Inoue
Contributing writer: SF Chronicle. Music. Culture. K-pop compliant. “Bizarre Love Triangle” advocacy. Family. Fútbol.
- At the Kendrick/SZA Grand National tour, ushers passed out commemorative ticket stubs for concertgoers. This gesture warmed my nostalgic heart as physical stubs are so rare in this era. A stub is a true collectible to prove you were there but maybe too broke to cop a shirt. Kendrick didn’t forget. ♥️
- Ayyy the old man still got it 🏆
- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FEATURE, DIV 3 Feature treatment of an arts and entertainment topic. 🥇 1st Place: @nattotodd.bsky.social 🥈 2nd Place: Alex Morris, @rollingstone.com 🥉 3rd Place: @megjames.bsky.social 🏅 Honorable Mention: @danrys.bsky.social
- What a read.
- Got my 85-year-old mom the most Yay Area Mother’s Day gift ever: a La Vic breakfast burrito and Jung Hoo Lee shirt. She’s thrilled lol. 🇰🇷🌯
- "The roof, the roof, the roof is on 🔥..." #Sinners
- Every morning, I wake up and take a free cognitive test. It’s called “Emptying the dishwasher.”
- What's (kogi) beef? With a diss track winning Song and Record of the Year, @tamarherman.com just wrote an interesting piece about K-pop artists taking verbal shots at execs, labels, and each other. SMB = "Sh*tman Bang"? Daaaamn son!
- Had some thoughts about how it seems K-pop rappers are taking shots at execs and labels after the messy years of 2033 and 2024, where business drama took center stage notesonkpop.com/the-k-pop-di...
- Update: Extended indefinitely
- Gonna hang this in our doorway for the next couple days
- If you’re hyped about the Yacht Rock documentary, it might be time to schedule your next colonoscopy
- “Jaws was never my thing and I don’t like Star Wars” Wait, maybe I do like Star Wars. I spoke with the cast and directors of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew for the SF Chronicle. Fun fact: my power went out hours before so I had to zoom everyone on a laptop tethered to my phone. 😬 shorturl.at/bc69t
- GNX. That’s all
- I hope Debbie Deb gets royalties from Squabble Up. She deserves it #GNX
- That ripping sound is music writers tearing up and rewriting their “2024 album of the year” stories #GNX
- Hello! I’m a Bay Area music and culture writer getting bylines in the SF Chronicle. Going cold turkey after deactivating my profile on the sxte thxt shxll nxt bx nxmed. How’s the water over here? 🙃
