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― 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
Best 2012 albums is easy, there haven't been that many notable (idol) albums this year. Singles might be fun, maybe I'll do a list too. For the first time ever.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Keen to see some end of year lists; I put some SISTAR/BlockB/f(x)/Infinite in a local EOY thing, but I'm woefully out of my depth. TBH, apart from "Gangnam Style", it was mainly 2011 hits like "Bubble Pop" & "I Am The Best" that I'd hear out this year; v.slow-rolling infiltration.
― etc, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Kpop is a lotta fun yall
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing definitive about this.
ALBUM TRACKS 2012:
1. After School "Eyeline"2. Miss $ "Physical Or Emotional"3. T-ara "T-aratic Magic Music"4. E.via "Night Blooming Roses"5. HyunA "Don't Fall Apart" also called "Straight Up"6. Jewelry "Rhythm HA!!!"7. TaeTiSeo "Baby Steps"8. Ga-In "Tinkerbell"9. Miss A "Lips"10. Neon Bunny "First Love"
I'd not heard of Miss $ until a month ago; their back catalog is pedestrian rap and r&b; now suddenly they're in the deep bleeding mascara sound that came pouring out of the barrios and crossover dance clubs of New York City, 1989.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
SINGLES 2012
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"4. ChoColat "I Like It"5. Wonder Girls "Like This"6. T-ara "Day By Day"7. Sistar "Alone"8. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"9. 2NE1 "Scream"10. 4minute "Volume Up"11. Flashe "Drop It"12. After School "Rambling Girls"13. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")14. Miss A "Touch"15. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"16. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"17. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"18. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"19. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)20. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
Could have gone twice as long, but I wanted to give other people a chance. The next several included two more T-aras, some other fairly high-profile stuff, a second song called "Sexy Doll," and an insect. Three that I listed ("Scream," "Rambling Girls," and "My Sweet Devil") are in Japanese, as is "T-aratic Magic Music" on my tracks list. As for sounds that recall the ghosts of my pre-past, "Look At Me" has the bright beats of K-pop but the weathered sound of a nonchalant little throwaway B-side from scrappy mid '50s R&B independents like King Records out of Cincinnati. Appropriate, as it's a B-side itself.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
Great slow jam from Satbyeol - think Ciara's Promise meeting Taeyang's I Need a Girl - the song shares producer with the latter: http://youtu.be/qgQBAb--ci8http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8360/8281021974_72bebf50c8_n.jpg
She also released an amazing single last year http://youtu.be/2VbN8JPYCcM
Most known for featuring on lots of hip hop tracks.
BONUS: Very funny and on point skit about plastic surgery f rmo the Brown Eyed Girls on SNL Korea http://youtu.be/264nb9wX0Qo
― abcfsk, Monday, 17 December 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
Are we still doing Kpop Top 50 lists? I did one based purely on personal utility this year:
TOP 10 Miss A - I Don't Need a Man Sistar - AloneT-ara - Day by DayEpik High - WrongInfinite - The Chaser Big Bang - Still Alive GDragon - One of a KindBig Bang - Fantastic BabyUKiss - BelieveT-ara - Sexy Love
NEXT 10K.Will - Please Don'tSunny Hill - The Grasshopper SongXia Junsu - TallentelegraBlock B - Nilili MamboBoyfriend - Love StyleCrazyno - MusicheE.via - Night Blooming RosesEXID - Every NightElectroboyz ft. Gaeparta - My LoveBig Bang - Bad Boy
THIRD 10 Miss A - Touch Tasty - Do You Know Me? BTOB - Wow UKiss - Stop Girl (English version) GDragon - CraYonPrimary - ?Neon Bunny - Oh My PrinceEXO-K - History BAP - No Mercy ZE:A - Aftermath
FORTH 10 Brave Girls - Nowadays You Spica - PainkillerBoA ft SYChaserSY - Only One (rap remix)SPEED - Lovey Dovey Plus B1A4 - Wonderful Tonight (unplugged remix)4Minute - Volume Up100% - Bad Boy CReal - Sorry But I Jo Kwon - AnimalE.via - I Know How to Play a Little
FIFTH 10 Kara - PandoraTVXQ - Catch MeGirls Day - Oh! My God (areia trance remix)Nam Soo-Rin - Drive Me To The MoonTeen Top - CrazyFiestar - VistaBigstar - Hot Boy EXO-K - What Is LoveTeen Top - Be My Girl LEDApple - Let the Wind Blow
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 28 December 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
Will check this so thanks for posting
I know that I dig the pirate Block B and the K Will (cool video too)
― pandemic, Friday, 28 December 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
The K Will mv is so great. Twist ending!
― Roz, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I ask this question every 6 months but what's the best intro BoA album to get
― 乒乓, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hard to say. Last two Korean albums have been good but she's got a surprisingly deep discography and some of her earlier stuff touches on great asian pop sounds like Utada's stuff. There's also the JP best-of. Watch this while figuring it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbaxNb4egU
― abcfsk, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link