I can like CLC's Especia lite
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 August 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
Choi Sam going harder, tighter, closer, more brutalist, to great effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-I1c7DPMQ
― abcfsk, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
Interesting to see Heize releasing a Seo Taiji cover. She operates in that same area of K-artists who are rappers and singers at the same time and pop stars and underground (at least in origin) at the same time, sometimes tough, edgy, sometimes silky smooth and sugary sweet.
Also interesting concept: Heize as the top hit chart force in 2017. Not sure many people thought the messy first Unpretty Rapstar season would produce something like that.
― abcfsk, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRv8ZBLuW0
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
Pros - visuals, voiceover, the way the vocals overlap on the versesCons - WE GOT THAT POWER... POWER... POWER... POWER.... POWER.... POWER...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:44 (six years ago) link
And the highlight of Primary's ft every famous idol vocalist of the last few years album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0Bd3T3RY4
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:57 (six years ago) link
BTS now stands for "Beyond the Scene" according to a CNN article with them (that same article carefully does not refer to Kim Namjoon as "Rap Monster"). Their single DNA is too poppy for me but I kinda like the hypnotic repetition Go Go.
Also, Go Go has probably the most intensively GIF-able choreography ever devised for a Kpop group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKQZkkM5dA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 23 September 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/theater/kpop-musical-review.html?mcubz=0
K-Pop the NY Off-Broadway musical
Theatergoers are divided into different teams (according to the color of wrist bands issued before the show begins) and ushered through a series of meticulously imagined rehearsal spaces, recording studios, cosmetic analysis rooms and a theater-cum-bar, where we are allowed to observe the finished product.
-----------------------------https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/theater/broadway-training-gangnam-style.html?action=click&contentCollection=Theater&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
Though Mr. Kim was a writer on HBO’s “Girls” and his play “The Model American” ran this summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival, “KPOP” is his first major New York theater production. The cast is massive — 18 people, 17 of them Asian, a rarity in the American theater world. “The fact that we’re trying to make a show with not only one Asian person, but with 17 — I can’t believe it,” he said.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 September 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyInv6RWL0Q
loona continue to be great
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link
yessss, the whole album is good!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
i'm also enjoying April's laid-back take on the stirring orchestral Jpop schoolgirl genre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=215
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta84YROEIto
Also pretty mad I missed this song from 3 months ago, it has DEEP GROOVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqwJNSi0E84
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Riding that Latin pop wave...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=GDkjmQv4PXg
Typical Kpop move: putting Actual Latin into a latin pop song
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
Plus there's the Very Silly flamenco choreography move in the chorus: https://youtu.be/c-s8-Yz0qYs @3:38
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
My apologies, @1:04 ^^ above
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHglTopVlKQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
that's a groove
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
also a song that gets straight into it and doesn't waste time
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Also there's this disjointed EXID single, like all their singles it probably just needs time to gel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axVvZrDz60k
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
Hani sounds good on the prechorus, you can feel Solji's absence on the chorus though
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
First itunes #1 for k-pop ever apparently!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTlv5_Bs8aw
Push for ilxor end of the year poll?
― abcfsk, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
US main itunes track chart that is
First k-pop _group_ I guess
― abcfsk, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
i'm glad BTS are on their way to maybe breaking through in the US but i don't really love any of their singles, this one included
Red Flavor has a good chance for eoy i think
― ufo, Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling K-Pop Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 26 November 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIDe-yTxda0
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
i'm gonna rep for both "palette" and "red flavor" for the ilx eoy
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh and that yves^^^^ hell yes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
yves track is great!
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm reppin for Palette although feel it's underrated. Maybe it isn't
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
Red Flavor, Girl Front and As If It's Your Last are definitely on my eoy list. Everyday I Love You and The Star of Stars probably have a chance too
new is good, LOONA are definitely 2017 MVP
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
"as if it's your last" deffo on minechorus of the year :)
hope to have room for red flavor too!
― nxd, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 09:25 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPzB1q9VoAAyFQV.jpg
What is it? No idea so far
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 11:45 (six years ago) link
Red Flavor and Subin's Circle's Dream are the two biggest contenders for my eoy list.
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 December 2017 20:55 (six years ago) link
I actually like Peek a Boo a lot more than Red Flavor, even though the chorus and verse sound a bit similar (same chord progression?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJf2IT2Zh8
EXID's DDD and Blackpink's As If It's Your Last are getting my vote too!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
I guess no one's voting for TWICE?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
Oh and there's a new Hyuna song out that's a lotta fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqImqOVE2U
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:36 (six years ago) link
It's been interesting to watch BTS do the rounds on the US late night circuit, if only because the last time I watched a late night show live on TV was several years ago... (I get up really early OK). There's so much bonus content online now, BTS slots in perfectly.
I especially liked "Flinch" with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel interviewing fans before the show, and the Mic Drop camerawork on Ellen.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:47 (six years ago) link
DNA too, the nonspastic but dynamic, close but not too close, low angle camerawork is so satisfying.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:54 (six years ago) link
Came back to say... Gashina (Sunmi), Dinosaur (AKMU) also get my end of year nods
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 December 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnniajBkORg
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 13 December 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xMLTwCPlE&feature=youtu.be&t=7m3s
As BAP would say... yeah, that's my jam! Vocal performances on point.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 14 December 2017 01:55 (six years ago) link
Horrible news. I'm devastated, Jonghyun was a legit talent, not to mention the rare K-pop idol who spoke up in support of LGBT rights. He was one of the good ones.
Some conflicting reports coming out of Seoul, that he was still alive and being operated on but it sounds like wishful thinking? I don't know. :( :(
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/shinee-kim-jong-hyun-lead-singer-of-south-korean-boy-band-dies
― Roz, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
oh no, that's really devastating. shinee have always been one of my favourite groups and his solo album last year was nice.
RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF53cptEE5k
― ufo, Monday, 18 December 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
I can't deal with K-pop twitter right now - too many heartbroken teenagers. He was so young. :'(
― Roz, Monday, 18 December 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
:(
If you read through the post on omona, there is a translation Jong Hyun's final letter to family and friends. It's on the 22nd page of comments, I don't want to link it here. Really deeply sad, it reminds me so much of a close family member who went the same way.
This leaves Tell Me What To Do as SHINEE's last song together as a group... reminder that the people in your life who've been suffering for a long are probably still suffering, even if they aren't saying anything about right at this moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oJWAuQuSA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
I wonder if they'll release the solo album... reportedly it was pretty much finished, even the music video had been recorded two days prior. I know wwe used to say that with the stress of being a Kpop star, the lack of support, and the mental health issues of so many artists, it was only a matter of time before we saw a really high-profile death... but still SO sad to read the news about Jong Hyun today, he was truly one of the very best.I wonder if they'll release the solo album... reportedly it was pretty much finished, even the music video had been recorded two days prior. I know wwe used to say that with the stress of being a Kpop star, the lack of support, and the mental health issues of so many artists, it was only a matter of time before we saw a really high-profile death... but still SO sad to read the news about Jong Hyun today, he was truly one of the very best.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
Damn I didn't hit post on that... computer issues, sorry guys.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
On a lighter note...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVfMFS3mgc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 December 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
Whenever someone decides to make a 2018 thread... this year is off to a good start https://youtu.be/JQGRg8XBnB4
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 22 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Seems IU might not ;/ xp
― abcfsk, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
eh it’s early yet. i don’t have any expectations though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Kpop 2018
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
Girl Front at #44, I think I voted for it but can't remember. I'm pretty happy to see it place, I like it more than 'new' although 'new' has been growing on me.
Hitchhikker was my #1 but p sure that's not showing up on any list any time soon lol.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link