K-pop (2014)

4minute's new song is very 4minute, even though it's a BraveBros track like the last two. They've been killing it live, too.

Speaking of live, Year 7 Class 1 made it to TV and they are sooooo cute, I take back all the bad stuff I said about them before.

BTOB spotted filming for America's Next Top Model, which is set in Korea this cycle. 4minute probably would have been better, but maybe they were busy.

Lee Michelle!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLl-Xwoos68

She's a former Kpop Star contestant. I think the video is powerful and speaks for itself.

Though the piano at the beginning reminds me of Disney's 'Colors of the Wind'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygCm0g85gSU

MBLAQ back with more early-00s R&B realness

"realness" is right, haha

Those ghost "whoos" are pretty funny, MBLAQ's combo of manly and emotional always makes me laugh a little bit

they're so over-dramatic, i love it. this still doesn't top Cry though.

It'd be hard to be more over-dramatic than they were in Cry, yeah XD.

I like to imagine that most of their income comes from royalties on This is War cause I ALWAYS hear it on variety shows during the ~intense competition~ scenes.

SM is rly RLY trying to apply the EXO-Growl success formula to Super Junior M.

Like REALLY really.

Seungyoon and Mino (of Winner) on a Mystic89 single: http://youtu.be/9rutU_b-E2w

For Roz!

:D :D

glad to see those kids keeping busy, since they're prob not debuting anytime soon. i'm looking forward to seeing them in May though (as 2ne1's support act)!

Me too! I hope they're writing some good stuff for their album. Seungyoon's voice is strong enough that the songs don't have to have amazing pop hooks, anything indie-ish will stand out with his voice on it. Although they're a pop, hip hop, boyband with two other vocalists...

(<3 you too Taehyun and Jinwoo)

Can anyone recommend something similar to that Neon Bunny track? She's not on a label, is she?

She's on an indie label, Doggy Rich, I think.

Similar in what way? There's a lot of retro-80s and electro-pop in the Korean indie scene but Neon Bunny sounds like Neon Bunny, she has a really recognizable sound. Chi Chi longer, Litter Breaker, Philtre ft Younha Fade, Mirror Boy Wherever, Humming Urban Stereo Banana Shake are kind of similar, I guess?

And even if they're not that similar I'd still recommend them, lol.

Crayon Pop return after turning into T-ara (paging Koganbot, Koganbot to thread):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocO35G7qhjQ

that's really good. kind of an early ymo sound there.

The choreography is what's impressive to me!

Actually I don't listen to that much K-indie, just enough to know that retro-80s and electro-pop were Things for a while. Maybe someone else can answer your question, ∞.

hah, yeah! also really good! (x-post)

@forapper, cheers. That Chi Chi tune did the trick. That's the general vibe I'm looking for. I'll check out her album.

Had to stop that Litter video because I kind of hate The Killers.

Philtre was cool, as is Mirror Boy, but singing would definitely be nice.

I really need to learn Korean.

Chi Chi are an idol group and they're disbanded, sadly :( Their track <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Y8B9p6uPc";>Love is Energy</a> is quite good as well.

Whoops >__> Here's the link: http://youtu.be/93Y8B9p6uPc

Sweet, forapper! Love that there is such a strong modulation on that track.

You're my k-pop hook-up, bro!

I'm going to listen to their albums.

Listen to Neon Bunny's first album! (Link)

You might also like Blady - Type B Girl http://youtu.be/BqWAJLEpw8M

Another group that might not survive for much longer...

BTW SPEED-Zombie Party is a lot of fun, in a Why-So-Serious-was-too-serious-and-not-Michael-Jackson-indebted-enough kind of way. It's also good for exercise! (http://youtu.be/_tXdPuQTBls)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyDG3BQRdDY

Crayon Pop MV!

And here's NS Yoon-G looking hottt in her latest:

http://youtu.be/xeKGc00MN48

All of the spandex-booty-shaking of Stellar, none of the blatant-over-the-top objectification.

BoA's US premiere finally last night

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkHjxdECQAIObz9.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRKkzjakLQs

BoA dancing all over this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P9In3mjpP4

this movie looks sooo terrible, but I've also seen every Step Up movie and this can't be any worse than the second one. looking forward to seeing it someday. :D

I've seen it twice already, heh. The plot hardly registers, cutout cardboard characters and all, except for its silliness. Derek and BoA have chemistry together despite the script though and the reason to watch this is scene after scene of BoA dancing around film sets, which is a glorious thing.

lol no one watches dance movies for the plot anyway.

meanwhile, you all know how much I love Infinite/Sweetune and all their maximalist gloriousness, so here's the instrumental version of their 2011 hit "Before the Dawn" - the video is a reedited version of the original MV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdylDFkamDM

I don't know why they decided to release an instrumental album at all, especially since the whole point of Infinite imo is anthemic choruses sung in perfect harmony. But I guess I'm here for all the OTT videos too. XD

@forapper, I've not been ignoring you. You've just given me a lot to work with!

I've been listening to a lot of music :S

That Blady track is really good!

So is Speed, but I don't think it'll suit my exercising regime when I'm lifting over 100 lbs of iron :)

BoA's new anime opening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOJqPmtiW4

Lotsa intervening life events, but, with the help of David Frazer (as usual), I was on the Crayon Pop's Crayon Trot move as it was happening, here, here, here (where I mistakenly thought they were also the ones in elegant attire rather than just the ones in old aunty attire), and here.

My favorite Neon Bunny track is "First Love" (I haven't heard all of her records, but this was the ending track on her 2012 EP, Happy Ending).

Neon Bunny is a big hole in the singles jukebox review-o-graphy

Speaking as the person who suggests most of the K-Pop covered there, I had't heard of them! I will check them out.

Yeah she's on her own label I think, not a big player in k-pop per se but has received quite a bit of attention on non-kpop sites. Released a single last month, everything else she's done is great as well.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1nck3p_exo-k-overdose-dance-practice_people

Link may disappear soon - it's a leak (or "leak") of EXO's comeback song 'Overdose'

And it's pretty awesome... like "put this song on repeat" awesome.