Kkoki
23.05, Dim
Kkoki is a Korean singer-songwriter based in Berlin. With 2010s pop culture and TV commercials as her main spiritual influences, she playfully balances irony and raw feeling in her digital pop hymns.
Here is Kkoki’s very own receipt for a song (taken from her Nina Protocol blog):
🥣main ingredients:
- pop structure
- acoustic base (guitar or piano)
- breathy vocal
- major scale
- electronic details
instruction note: if the song leans heavily towards one genre it has to be countered by a different genre. ☯️
🧂add ons:
- harmonies
- mixolydian chord
- spoken word part
- bridge
- natural harmonics (guitar players hate this, i love this)
- ear candy element
🫙forbidden:
- fade out
- trap drums
- dramatic minor chords piano
- 1-2 semi tone modulation by the last 3rd of the song
= a playful pop adjacent Kkoki song
For Fans Of: ear, the hellp, taylor swift
Here is Kkoki’s very own receipt for a song (taken from her Nina Protocol blog):
🥣main ingredients:
- pop structure
- acoustic base (guitar or piano)
- breathy vocal
- major scale
- electronic details
instruction note: if the song leans heavily towards one genre it has to be countered by a different genre. ☯️
🧂add ons:
- harmonies
- mixolydian chord
- spoken word part
- bridge
- natural harmonics (guitar players hate this, i love this)
- ear candy element
🫙forbidden:
- fade out
- trap drums
- dramatic minor chords piano
- 1-2 semi tone modulation by the last 3rd of the song
= a playful pop adjacent Kkoki song
For Fans Of: ear, the hellp, taylor swift
