http://youtu.be/D2aHXTde57s
― abcfsk, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
This is LQ but better than any of the ones above http://youtu.be/DA7PeBC55q0
(sorry for the spam but at least this makes the thread slightly easier to load)
― abcfsk, Friday, 22 June 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
2NE1 are playing Newark, NJ on 8/17 and L.A. on 8/24; tickets went on sale today and top out at $200 ($300 for the VIP package which includes a gift bag and access to a "soundcheck party").
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 23 June 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
I have a confirmed assignment to review (and photograph!) the aforementioned 2NE1 show in Newark. Now to figure out who's handling the tickets & photo passes at Live Nation...
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 25 June 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
I think Kpop is prepared for the Olympics, yo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLunOf5QsYQ&list=PL260E01B49C1B1BA2&feature=plpp_play_all
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
(It's a playlist)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
BoA has composed her new single and it fits her to a t http://youtu.be/PQjovLrnvVo
and almost more importantly, the video allows her performance to shine
― abcfsk, Sunday, 22 July 2012 07:37 (eleven years ago) link
That's really cool! It's a very Madonna-like performance without seeming like she's copying anything (because it's so totally BoA). Dance-acting is so cool. I also like the balanced lyrics.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 22 July 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzz4mGyehw
BAP with a Damien Hirst-inspired music video.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 22 July 2012 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-EnU-s9Rg
GLAM song about a girl liking another girl:
Can I kiss you baby girl?Are you a boy? I don’t care.. Passion is key. Girl I really really like ya, now just leave the rest to me. A kiss XXO, anyone can be a Romeo.A kiss XXO, if the heart starts to race, you’re Juliet Juliet. Because we break the rules, we dodge the rules.Got the right to break the wall. Everyone move. Opposition for opposition won’t work- take off the blindfold that covers your eyes. Be confident. (We’re a minority.) Fling it off.Yeah don’t stop the beat now. Now is your time, you shine more than anyone else.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 22 July 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, irresistible
http://gawker.com/5930283/did-this-underground-hip-hop-artist-from-south-korea-just-release-the-best-music-video-of-the-year
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
gif request for loop of 1:54-2:01
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
Underground? The song is #1! (unless they're saying underground to them, in which case they've already said 'from South Korea' so it's redundant)
― if, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah it's the hit of the year pretty much.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
Also I think you'll find pretty much every second gif'd on tumblr. Props to Hyuna for her cameo here securing her summer viral #2 after last year's Bubble Pop.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
I kinda figured this thread would now be about "Gangnam Style". To answer Gawker's question, yes.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/43025/hallyu-camp-at-the-korean-cultural-center-monday-aug-6/
Not only has South Korean cinema become one of the most interesting movie scenes in the world, the glossy triteness of K-pop has somehow become a worldwide phenomenon. (If you’re not 15 and don’t know what K-pop is, its artists make Justin Bieber seem like Marvin Gaye.) “Hallyu” means “Korean Wave,” an all-encompassing term for the pop-culture revolution, but it’ll take a five-day camp to explain how the nine-member manufactured music group Girls’ Generation (shown) relates to Oldboy, the 2003 stylized excursion into cinematic hyperviolence.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know anything about k-pop, but I thought I'd post that anyway when I read it
― curmudgeon, Monday, 6 August 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Woo-hoo! Less than two weeks till I get to see (and photograph) 2NE1 live!
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 6 August 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQgjOLPDTyI
Written by YG's Kush, according to the comments
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 16 August 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
2NE1 show last night was pretty fucking great. Full review on MSN Music soon.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 18 August 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i'm reviewing it for the voice. it was amazing.
kept making jokes all night about how the backing band was the new power generation and then in between set/costume changes they just launched into this stellar funk jam
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 18 August 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
The promised review. Short version: Despite some technical problems and delays, it was awesome.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 20 August 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEV5_Uc1a6Y
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
I know everything's about PSY these days, but alongside Only One promotions BoA has been doing this hit medley that basically shows k-pop pretenders HOW It'S DONE.
http://youtu.be/UHxMPIpYSpM
Perfect.
Also this sit-down performance of Only One http://youtu.be/lw3WK1qWXxI
Love this song so much.
(This thread's pretty heavy on the system so maybe no embeds for a while)
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
And another performance of Only One w/ dance. Even scaled back because of live vocals she's so... damn cool pulling off those moves. http://youtu.be/4L0T-mh4lms
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link
really really love 'only one'
― USADA Bin Dopen (dayo), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://youtu.be/t3ULhmadHkg
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
^^ fresh off the press, in before 1,000+ viewcount
― barthes simpson, Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:38 (eleven years ago) link
YES!!
― pandemic, Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
still regretting not getting a ticket to BigBang's show next month (sold out in eight hours. :/)
― Roz, Sunday, 16 September 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
Am I the only one who finds G-Dragon weirdly Aaron Carter-ish?
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 16 September 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, Ga-In http://youtu.be/K64mb5KUhhs
Pretty sure it's the first time masturbation has featured in a k-pop video and also that we don't really see sex as something this nice and sweet in pop videos in general.
― abcfsk, Friday, 5 October 2012 06:38 (eleven years ago) link
Reminds me a bit of this old hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV0LD-QAzg0
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 October 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
This thread blows my system up when I expand it, so I have to ask the knowledgeable crew: what's the name of the track where a woman in a hospital bed is tormented by inconsiderate visitors?
― Milton Parker, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
revenge fantasy?
― barthes simpson, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like Miryo's "Dirty", maybe.
― if, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
that's it, thanks. stayed with me for some reason.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 5 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Miss A "don't need a man" http://youtu.be/EkSOOiMDGiY
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 October 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
hi
― Bummy G. Baumgartner (buzza), Monday, 15 October 2012 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
Tablo "Don't Hate Me" is so disturbing, dude has fallen HARD for the GD/YG Family cult (compare video for Don't Hate Me with the videos for GDragon CraYon and One of a Kind to see what I mean). Good on the other guys in Epik High for standing by him and supporting him in this bizarre new artistic direction and time in his life, though.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Did see lots of Epik High fans crying over the change in direction.
Hyuna - ICE CREAM http://youtu.be/QlWZluzBNxM
― abcfsk, Monday, 22 October 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
It's distuuuuuuuurbing. And I say this as a GDragon and Britpop fan. The brighter the music, the more tortured it seems underneath (and vid is about destruction of the capitalist system of commerce by child terrorist-popstars, and, like, skateboarding. Skateboarding!)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
like the new hyuna but don't LOVE it
― 乒乓, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
G-Dragon has an excellent, lengthy interview with XXL: http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2012/12/korean-rapper-g-dragon-talks-k-pop-hype-new-ep-and-past-scandals/
― Roz, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just wanna say thank you to the posters in this thread. I trawled through all the recs and you tubes posted here this year and found loads of great stuff. Particularly loving f(x), g dragon, sistah, and (gawdhelpme) block-b!!
― pandemic, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
anybody doing best of 2012 lists?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
allkpop have started theirshttp://www.allkpop.com/2012/12/allkpops-top-50-k-pop-songs-of-2012-41-50
― nathey, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for that! Fallen big time for their #50 Exo-K 'Mama'
― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'll do a top 50 or 100 probably some time this week or next.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link