It's tragic from every direction ;_; I keep expecting to see some acknowledgement on the music shows (or something), but so far there's nothing. The show goes on.
Speaking of... A.KOR leaving a strong impression with their debut, like the BAP of female rookie groups:
But Go - http://youtu.be/fcrSwNKEuJAPayday - http://youtu.be/0e7cSoPPA5I
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 5 September 2014 03:07 (nine years ago) link
I take it back, actually there was a memorial message on M!Countdown.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 5 September 2014 03:17 (nine years ago) link
BAP of female rookie groups otm description
― 龜, Saturday, 6 September 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
New Neon Bunny track! Now on a drama soundtrack - making moves! http://youtu.be/_HKPqm9pivA
― abcfsk, Saturday, 6 September 2014 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Comparison also including my reservations about the group's music...
That Neon Bunny OST song is nice!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 6 September 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Fuck.... RiSe has now passed away as well.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/09/07/ladies-code-singer-rise-dies-after-car-accident-which-killed-bandmate-eunb-4859473/
― Basically / I Don't Wanna Be / An mp3 / 3-2-0 kb / ps (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 7 September 2014 11:30 (nine years ago) link
It's terrible but I had a feeling that this was going to happen esp after the reports about the extent of her brain injuries. I kept hoping I was wrong though. :(
This whole thing has just been unspeakably sad - I haven't been able to bring myself to read the comments from fans on all the news articles. It feels like it's been a very sad year for K-pop in general.
― Roz, Sunday, 7 September 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
:(
― 龜, Sunday, 7 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Sistar have been very sweet in paying tribute to Ladies Code during all their music show wins.
― Roz, Monday, 8 September 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
T-ARA!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_eo5j5sib8
Song is great. Here's the lyrics.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 11 September 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
Even Jiyeon's not-very-good spoken rap over the (awesome) instrumental bridge 3min in is growing on me.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 11 September 2014 06:37 (nine years ago) link
This version is a bit better actually.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:30 (nine years ago) link
whoops... http://www.soompi.com/2014/09/11/t-aras-latest-single-sugar-free-accused-of-plagiarism/
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:20 (nine years ago) link
My first reaction on hearing it was that it was an attempt to incorporate the "Animals"/"Tsunami" sound! It doesn't sound that specifically alike to me though.
― Iain Mew (if), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:03 (nine years ago) link
In the wake of Hoody's latest I've reassessed KittiB's "Wake Me Up" and concluded it's surely one of the year's very finest http://youtu.be/w2MvLbt4F-s
― abcfsk, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
That KittiB is pretty effective...
New Girls Generation-TTS is very classic RnB and I like it http://youtu.be/Ouf9kGfpb0YNew 2PM is a'ight but feels five minutes long and doesn't do anything interesting with the bridge: http://youtu.be/uwD51VS0Uko
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 12 September 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
More like an attempt to shoehorn that sound into the song, since it seems like they already had a dance Kpop track and just replaced certain sections with the Bigroom sound, lol. Now I wonder if someone from T-ara's camp wrote that plagiarism article to generate controversy and press for the album...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 12 September 2014 18:20 (nine years ago) link
tearjerker Ladies Code song got a video http://youtu.be/C7JYOzTl-ec
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:56 (nine years ago) link
also there's a crazier version of that 2PM song http://youtu.be/_Jgln2RmY-k
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
or bet yet, there's the live version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzGbgzQ_ZuM
Truth In Song Titling x10
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
though the backstory behind this is apparently that they've been spending mornings doing variety in Japan (where this song just hit #1 on Oricon), afternoons doing chart shows in Korea, and evenings with interviews and appearances sometimes running straight through the night until 8am the next day
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
which is the really crazy thing ofc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:42 (nine years ago) link
BTS - Danger Taekwondo ver.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:44 (nine years ago) link
Also here's T-ara in English. American takeover coming shortly?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 26 September 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
It's track 1 on their 14-track remix album and it's not half bad.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 26 September 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
(track 8 is the original, the best, in English)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 26 September 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIWMwP__Hpc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:30 (nine years ago) link
actually i don't know why i posted that, carry on
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link
Kidoh (Topp Dogg)'s solo album is out, is a surprisingly solid indie and about 100% less manic any of Topp Dogg's songs:
She Was Too Nervous Still Alive
While I'm here, here's one of those manic Topp Dogg tracks:Peekaboo!
Topp Dogg are signed to Block B's former label/Cho PD's label Brand New Stardom but have been acting more like an underground group. Yano had a mixtape out earlier this year that was also not bad.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 27 September 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
^surprisingly solid indie release
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 27 September 2014 22:55 (nine years ago) link
Awesome rapper lady puts out awesome mix tape http://rokhiphop.com/ab-7118-544 after (really) awesome first single earlier this year http://ahnlee.tumblr.com/post/72772718743/choi-sams-debut-single-answer-buy-it-on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B82LkWZheU
― abcfsk, Monday, 29 September 2014 11:42 (nine years ago) link
Well SM managed to fuck up SNSD as well. Pure incompetence from their side it seems. Can't negotiate to keep group's alive for shit.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 06:53 (nine years ago) link
i haven't been keeping up with the news lately so I'm actually surprised by this - for all their fuckery, you'd think SM would take better care of their biggest asset. what a mess.
SM doesn't negotiate, their style is totally "do as you're told or we'll ruin you".
― Roz, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 07:47 (nine years ago) link
Apparently there's a Jessica & Kystal album sitting around already done, too. They filmed an MV for it and everything, but since Jessica is out of GG and publicly unhappy about it everything's been shelved.
I mean it makes sense that they'd want to promote GG more than once a year but booting Jessica out right after she re-signed a three year contract is some kind of serious fuckery.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Anyway I came here to post IU x Seo Taiji, and comment on abcfsk's awesome rapper lady (she's awesome).
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
She is!
And IU Seo song is really nice, will be interesting to see if ST manages to deliver a full-length album that makes sense in 2013. IU's found every possible way to all-kill the Korean charts in the past 12 months. Big major single, low key acoustic release, helping out a rookie boyband, covering old songs, working with k-pop's founding father.. and she is the best-selling digital artist of the last 5 years http://www.allkpop.com/forums/discussion/197756/top-10-selling-digital-artists-gaon-history
― abcfsk, Friday, 3 October 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
2014*
Annnnnd there's an MV: http://youtu.be/GHu39FEFIks
Also, have some YOLO: http://youtu.be/hIifkvZGXng
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
And here's B to B back for one last shot at the Korean market before they ship their nuttiness off to Japan: http://youtu.be/GRl7ZfzzISU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 6 October 2014 23:58 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86Cr1kaH7I
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 00:31 (nine years ago) link
Actually, I think Seo Taiji's version is a little better than IU's:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzEebkOJA-I
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 11 October 2014 04:59 (nine years ago) link
Also, YG is now officially the biggest entertainment company in S. Korea:
http://%3A//ic.pics.livejournal.com/aki_san/3432044/17483/17483_original.png
That 15% drop is what happened after Luhan (of EXO) filed for a divorce from SM -- and it probably would have been higher if the KOSDAQ didn't have a 15% daily upper/lower limit on stock price changes.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 11 October 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
whoops, let's see if this one embeds:
http://koreanslate.com/images/sm-entertainment-stock-price-kosdaq-halts-trading-15.jpg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 11 October 2014 05:05 (nine years ago) link
VIXX and Song Jieun's albums are out... VIXX's is about what you'd expect, Jieun's has some really good album tracks on it.
And I see that I'm the only person here who cares about EXO, lol.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 13 October 2014 19:35 (nine years ago) link
Jieun's is pretty solid overall, actually, even if not that different (musically) from Hyosung's single album earlier this year. There's a pretty big disconnect between the lyrics of her single, 25, and the MV though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL5kNlgP0P0
In other news, BTOB hopping on board the Booty Train http://youtu.be/KXnEGUGmkbA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 13 October 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
More notable stuff:
Strawberry Milk (Choa and Way from Crayon Pop) doing SUPER JPOP cute-creepy twin stuff: http://youtu.be/1VQ-OJ3vCn0
+Another Strawberry Milk song: http://youtu.be/D5H4iIly2lw
Seo Taiji's Nightmare Before Xmas song "Chrismalo.win" (get it?): http://youtu.be/EwEeYx9ALbg
Probably of interest to fans only:
Jessica gets the first and last word in on SNSD's new Japanese single: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/swwHoIOfFfs/?FR=LIAN
+Girl's Day ballad featuring lots of Hyeri (they won't be performing it live): http://youtu.be/EAc3QKoRll0
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 16 October 2014 01:24 (nine years ago) link
i fkn LOVE "chrismalo.win." his single with IU was a really nice way to make the Chvrches sound not reek, too. intrigued for his album...
― soyrev, Friday, 17 October 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
I can't see Seo Taiji the same way since his ex wife gave that interview on Healing Camp about their secret 14 year marriage (though there's two sides to every story I guess). But thinking that he's creepy doesn't really take away from his music... since the music is supposed to be kind of creepy as well.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 17 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Actually VIXX's mini is growing on me, Jrock vibes and all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Wqwf4Etak
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:11 (nine years ago) link
Well okay Error is pretty boring but I quite like Blue Blossom. Listening to too much idol music obviously.
Seo In Young and Zion T. aiming for Miguel and Mariah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weL6ia2NF_w
Also GAEKO's album is out.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 18 October 2014 02:31 (nine years ago) link