BIGBANG: K-pop princes of gender-fuckery and family dysfunction

Of course, there's still time between now and September for them to tweak the instrumental a little bit

This is cute tho:

https://instagram.com/p/3qeu-Nh5TY/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=video

the lead up to the chorus best part of both bbb and party

The reverse of that KARA mashup video is just as entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcfmp7h8Vo

There are some girlgroup-looking moves in there LMAO

And 2PM sounding like a mix of themselves and TVXQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2pFB1dCSo4

Whoops, wrong thread.

ahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95JFW2eHtM

this makes me sad I'm not going to their KL gig, but the tickets cost 1/8th of my paycheck. u_u

lol

Was going to the NJ leg with a friend, but we got Sunday (a school night) by mistake so I might have to sit it out :/

both of the new songs are bad

i like 'sober' as much as any of the others excepting 'bae bae'

it seems weird that they're simultaneously trying to go for this wild heterogeneity of style and sticking with one producer, and i don't know how i feel about it

This is in the other thread, but here's Sober with subtitles so we can think about how any other idol group would be pilloried for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0eT9omRQS0

Damn youtube's autoplay, the ballad is criminally underwritten... Here's Sober (also underwritten but hey, I still like those MGMT synths):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJ40aW0-zM

And I think I'm over my embed allowance but Daesung's drumming is really quite good, on par with Sunmi's guitar skills:

https://youtu.be/qoies3-r1HM

if that WG teaser is a straight take (and it very well might not be) then sunmi's better at bass than daesung is at drumming, but this is a pleasant surprise. he sounds very likely better than Yubin, though i guess he's doing a much slower/simpler solo here than the one she tries in her teaser

It sounded more complicated to me, or at least flashier, but I only know Rockband drumming.

At least it explains the hair - dude clearly taking a page from the Muppets

Well not only is Zutter a certified jam, the live version of "Let's Not Fall In Love" sounds like it could have been on one of their earlier albums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nNoS2TstqVk

I liked "Lonely" and "Bae Bae" but this release is a very close second... throw the middle ones away, or better yet recruit the live band to re-record them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNoS2TstqVk

still regretting not going to see them in KL last month :/

really not sure why YG blocks their own stuff in Korea. what's wrong with Koreans seeing "let's not fall in love" live in Shenzhen?

I agree it's better live, but still, I'd say two keepers from this lot (so far?) and really only "bae bae" is more or less otm for where I think they should be at this point

Supposedly the album will just be the 8 singles they've already released repackaged together... but that doesn't make much sense so hopefully at least one more track.

https://twitter.com/theseoulstory/status/633527715140730880

yesssss.

though three weeks really isn't much time for producing new stuff - and they're still performing during those three weeks IIRC, just boycotting the music shows - but probably they have some songs kicking around to work on or can buy them, and and I believe Seungri's *entire* last EP was produced in three weeks LMAO.

what this really shows is that Inkigayo needs Big Bang more than Big Bang needs Inkigayo

GD tried harder to write an OTT dance hit for Infinity Challenge than he did for Big Bang, y/y:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=k5ey4mRP4G0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ey4mRP4G0

I should say "produce" actually, since no actual writing was in evidence LMAO

You can even hear where TOP's part would go (Kwanghee is taking Seungri's part, of course).

Another one for the lives folder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=zuW08zyYcAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=zuW08zyYcAM

Grr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=zuW08zyYcAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuW08zyYcAM

success!

Bauer x GD x MIA

https://soundcloud.com/julie-zerbo/temple-full-mia-g-dragon-baauer

MIA is much more in her element here, but it's pretty cool that GD raps a lot of this in Korean

MORE rappers freestyling over Big Bang karaoke beats, please:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0MWCxgFW9w

He's a legit fan too, takes it all the way back to La La La.

nooooooo :(:(

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/lifestyle/bigbang-s-t-o-p-hospitalised-for-suspected-drug-overdose-report-8922202

If any of them were going to end up (publicly) in the ICU, it was going to be TOP :(

Only three months into his service though, that's rough. I wonder if he'll wind up with a medical exemption like Swings.

Anyway I'm just glad TOP is still with us, for now.

RIP Big Bang / OT5.

Seungri sacrificing himself for the sake of the group as a result of his own bad behaviour seems extremely... in character.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1309402wpp/breaking-seungri-announces-retirement-from-the-entertainment-industry

And I thought it was just about being caught smoking a joint again or something:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/entertainment/jung-filming-sex-kpop-scandal-intl/index.html

Yeah. Seungri has always been a douche-y frat boy so the chatroom stuff, while gross, was not particularly surprising. It's likely not even the only one among Korean celebrity circles.

The pimping/sex trafficking allegations though... ugh.