is there a k-pop 'goodies'?
― dayo, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
if you could follow only one blog about k-pop news, and wanted to be on top of all the latest singles, what would it be?
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fy4cqWMhyI
I do dig this (courtesy of http://maddieloveskpop.tumblr.com/post/12502584957 )
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
allkpop is the biggest - it's ridiculously big, there are 15 000 comments on the story about snsd releasing the boys video. they mostly translate gossipy tabloid korean stories, often infuriating stuff, but i do use them as the main source to know what is released and when. omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com process most of the allkpop stories and add some of their own, with a less childish crowd (although the ohnotheydidnt-ian demographic with all their "slayed" and "dead"s are capable enough of annoying on their own). so.. one of those two.
I follow some youtube users for more obscure pop releases.
that wonder girls song is so much in the vein of jyps miss a singles, but it's fun and catchy
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 8 November 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
'be my baby is great'
I like the little fakeout at the beginning with those low rubbery synths that have become associated with the 'k-pop dirty banger' but then the stadium synths drop in and it's just such a summery little song
but why did they release it in november :(
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 22:49 (twelve years ago) link
lots of people call it a christmas-y tune, though
T-ara's new MV is boinkers insane as per t-ara standards. tune is back to their first album vintage sound, sweeeet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ju79e8rM0c
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
ah, what's the song they're covering in the beginning?
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
oh wait, britney, right?
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just borrowing some of Max Martin's chords.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
hah well part of it definitely sounds like oops I did it again... or baby one more time... can't remember which
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Truly impressive performance from the Wonder Girls fans in this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPEYerkEl6c
Here's the Cry Cry audio http://youtu.be/AC9if2OBRyI
― abcfsk, Sunday, 13 November 2011 08:45 (twelve years ago) link
I reviewed the new Wonder Girls album on Burning Ambulance today.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
that brown eyed girls single upthread is so massive. more aggressive disco strings everywhere, please
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Wednesday, 16 November 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
christ this whole wonder girls album is really solid
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doXnuStEf2I
I love this egregious use of stadium synth by the wonder girls, does every song on the album use them?
― dayo, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
It's not on the Wonder Girls 2011 album. You can probably hear that sort of thing on a few tracks, but the album is a bit of this and a bit of that, although surprisingly cohesive and... good.
Some noteworthy 2012 singles so far: Nine Muses - NewsSunny Hill - The Grasshopper Song(or "hey fellow Koreans, let's not get consumed by work ethics and long hours")
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
I love how the Nine Muses cut off the final vowels in the chorus. Like hissing snakes.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
meant to say something in this thread last year about the miss a record, on which every track is bangin'
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
I was a bit disappointed myself! But then I had heard almost all the songs as singles, and they were excellent, and then I'm left with the few new ones. Without that in mind it's a pretty great album.
Now a 2011 album which really surprised me with its high quality was SISTAR's So Cool.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
You can enjoy SNSD on LIVE WITH KELLY Wednesday the 1st.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 01:47 (twelve years ago) link
really like that nine lives song
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
nine muses, I'm sorry
― dayo, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
They're also appearing on DAVID LETTERMAN. Too bad it's not their best single!
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
Then new Dal Shabet is good, has grown on me, packs a real punch. The video is a bit too violent for my taste.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhM4ossYcjg
But this.. industrial? metal? album track is also great: http://youtu.be/Ge5cM2nzkQI
― abcfsk, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get this. How can you listen to songs like "Sorry Sorry" without feeling awkward? I turned it off after 10 seconds. Anyway, I enjoy 2NE1's "I Don't Care." What songs are similar to that?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 27 January 2012 11:35 (twelve years ago) link
Did you just look at the posts from two years ago? Anyway I don't know why I'd feel awkward listening to Sorry, Sorry even if it's not one of my favorites.
There have been a few I Don't Care-like synth rnb tunes since then.. maybe this http://youtu.be/8TybPXqzQ50
― abcfsk, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago) link
why would you feel awkward?
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago) link
I like the revenge angle!
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
abcfsk: haha yeah, I just found this thread yesterday.
dayo: because it sounds, uh, (I don't know how to say this without offending someone) gay.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
anyway here's my country's version of k-pop. these groups are very big here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWtfW-94iA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48pGg0rZ0jU
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 27 January 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
You didn't really manage to not sound offensive, or make any sense.
― abcfsk, Friday, 27 January 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
this is not really k-pop but rather k-punk, but i figure this is a good as thread as any?
i've recently rediscovered crying nut after finding out that they're on spotify
http://open.spotify.com/track/0QJdScYJuZDw0SgICqJpqOhttp://open.spotify.com/track/4og6Qix8vofFvC8UdZobEb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgkSTFbWGPg
anyone know/like them?
― rayuela, Friday, 27 January 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
Can't say I know them. Will check out.
Meanwhile
http://www.smpcdn.com/static/images/infographics/kpop-groups-infographic-soompi.png
― abcfsk, Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Copy paste that image url somewhere else obviously.
Mind, this is just one site's work and their inclusion of some hip-hop groups/ vague definition of "idol groups" make it less than perfect.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 28 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
does this look familiar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6h2s8E7kDA
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 29 January 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9yFjodDtM
― dayo, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
I tried following allkpop on google reader but there were like, 70 posts in a day. O_O
are there any k-pop blogs that are just the singles?
That Letterman performance is great! Not a top tier single but they sold it and the dance breaks were ooon point. Regis very excited.
And I don't know any k-pop blogs without gossip, unfortunately. Just check allkpop's twitter and hone in on "releases..".
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
lol yeah, I was just thinking how creepy it was that they came on right after two old white men were interviewed
― dayo, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq75ivQaN1qf89zjo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ6IHWSU3BX3X7X3Q&Expires=1328207970&Signature=wUhzKTffglYEv5uiKZ761%2BNy7ls%3D
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
!
― dayo, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
lol I just posted that pic to the "photos of famous people you'd never expect to be together" thread. so great.
― Roz, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
I was really surprised by their english accents! (mean that in as unoffensive a way as possible)
― dayo, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
im gonna post this on a bill murray thread brb
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
(mean to clarify the xpost as in: normally I don't care at all about english usage in k-pop songs, but since SNSD is targeting the US market, thought it would be relevant.) xp to myself
― dayo, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
does anybody else hear a lot of H.O.T. in B.A.R.?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
Thoughts on SPICA's Russian Roulette?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRnQUHw2cs8
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
despite the similar imagery, a little too upbeat for the k-pop russian roulette?
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I like the song, the group is more believably 'an rnb group' than previous attempts at that and the production is catchy - plus it still sounds very Korean. The mini-album supports these claims.
I'm not necessarily keen on all k-pop videos these days featuring guns and death.
They can sing: http://youtu.be/mA7RebIbs_M (also check out Brandy/D Child covers)
I think we're going to see more solo stars this year. This debut single by 'Ailee' is a melodic belter we've heard on the Billboard chart many times http://youtu.be/L9ro1KjkJMg
Jang Jae In is a typical example of the new kind of solo k-pop star: http://youtu.be/LYFJ2v9aaY0 - currently topping Korean digital charts
She was a contestant on "Super Star K", has roots in indie rock, is a singer songwriter, etc - these types have made the biggest impact in the talent show surge of the past few years, finding a platform that didn't exist before, making it a commercially viable genre. (Slick ballad singers and teen idols have had more than enough screen time, which might explain why the talent show audiences favor lo-fi stars)
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link