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
EPIK HIGH!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8GUlNNXBVg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Though actually I think 'Burj Khalifa and Born Hater are stronger... Spoiler is like a slightly better Empty.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
And I would say those tracks are also better because the features (Yankie & Gaeko on Burj Khalifa, BI & Bobby & Verbal Jint & Beenzino on Born Hater) are better than the home team... if we're just going by how the tracks sound.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 20 October 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Also I regret jumping the gun on Seo Taiji cause there's a nine-minute THE PEOPLE'S HALLOWEEN vs THOSE NORTH POLE FASCISTS version of Christmalo.win out now
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/guovNnTnchQ
And here's the album: http://youtu.be/LUoFgOVUe_Q?list=UU4nCVzTmEsvVYLiODA92VAQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
Whole thing is great but 90s Icon (http://youtu.be/4aLFmLmHyTQ) is my favorite track rn
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Seo Taiji has confirmed that not only is he the undisputed progenitor of K-pop, but also still its boldest innovator. Quiet Night is probably the best single K-pop album I've heard to date (even if Pink Tape still has my heart), and "Christmalo.win" is in strong contention for Korea's song of the year. Really only "Fxxk U" has a chance against it, I think.
― soyrev, Tuesday, 21 October 2014 21:37 (nine years ago) link
Topp Dogg finally learning to dial to back from 11 (or Cho PD stepped back and let them write their own stuff):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuQlblzVRg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 23 October 2014 22:22 (nine years ago) link
Surprisingly good rookie debut from HOTSHOT :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9s2N7d2aLY
I LOVE the production on this - it's minimalist and clean, but also all over the place.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 October 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Currently at the top of the charts in a major way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMsz1vEvP0A
This is the guy who was on trial for draft-dodging in 2010 (basically the worst crime against the S. Korean public you can commit) and has been "reflecting" on his mistakes for the last four years. Competing rumors have him being, on the one hand, sociophobic during that time, and on the other, the secretly ghostwriting for close friends/popular composer duo Duble Sidekick.
(Of course, those could both be true.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 3 November 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link
I gotta say if all Duble Sidekick's tracks were this decent, I'd have fewer complaints about them...
(On the feature list: Girl's Day Minah, SISTAR Hyorin, The Seeya Sung Yoo Jin, Gary, Bumkey, Lyn, Ailee, Mad Soul Child Jin Sil, Baek Ji Young.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 3 November 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Here's the title: http://youtu.be/-6OxVfem0WM
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 3 November 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
the MC Mong album sucks. looking forward to the new AOA
― soyrev, Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:18 (nine years ago) link
I don't think it's good, but I do think it's better than most of Double Sidekick
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of popular songwriters, the massively eclipsed Brave Brothers finally makes a reappearance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP2PILSAwLs
The choreography is a mess of thins stolen from other, more popular girl groups, but as a Brave Brothers fan I do like the song.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 9 November 2014 00:14 (nine years ago) link