wow Complete is fantastic, a great summer jam for sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ELX7LyXDw
enjoying this too, it's been a good week for summer singles
― ufo, Friday, 8 June 2018 00:14 (five years ago) link
New Blackpink is very good!
― emil.y, Saturday, 16 June 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNzOHi8sJs
yeah I like it, the coda and Jennie's rap in the second verse elevate it. the whole mini is good
― ufo, Saturday, 16 June 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
This mini is disappointing, though the production is good as always. Really underwritten IMP.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 18 June 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
On the other hand Taeyeon is killin it (literally) on her solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im1UUY8dQIk
The only unbelievable part of this is that Taeyeon would actually carry her own suitcases :P
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 18 June 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
not a fan of the new blackpink - seems a bit idk, 2013. might grow on me though.
mostly enjoying all the new SHINee. Jonghyun's absence still stings a bit but generally, it's been nothing but good vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpWeURKkbI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKUAUyvgUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MXj3Dr7tOY
― Roz, Monday, 25 June 2018 03:30 (five years ago) link
I'm with you on Blackpink, I think the whole mini is over hyped, songs feel like they were pulled out of a drawer...
Re SHINEE, the capstone single for part 3 of their 3-part release is the Jonghyun tribute ballad we've been expecting, but it was really nice to get the summer songs first.
MV - https://youtu.be/Psl-x_nw7TIlyrics - https://youtu.be/WQF7KnYwkWw
Jonghyun is also on this one:
https://youtu.be/jmzSxX601rc
It hurts but it feels authentic and not exploitative, also.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 June 2018 04:35 (five years ago) link
I'm gonna knock you out! Mama said knock you out!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 June 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uer7k-jkk78
― abcfsk, Sunday, 1 July 2018 05:58 (five years ago) link
The new Momoland so far doesn't seem to quite connect with the public like Bboom Bboom https://youtu.be/txWmd7QKFe8
There are parts of it that sound like T-ara and remind me how awesome it would be getting that sound back on top though.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 1 July 2018 06:00 (five years ago) link
yeah Baam just feels like more of BBoom BBoom but less hooky, and not as good as the T-ara songs it sounds like either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHIq41sI-w
this is from a few months ago but coming back to it now I really love it, the groove is great and the layered vocals in the chorus are overwhelming in the best way. is that buzzing sound in the second verse autotuned vocals? i love it
― ufo, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/yM4XZKq.png
― 龜, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
sigh
― Roz, Thursday, 5 July 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
speaking of LOONA though.... Kyungri's solo kinda sounds like a LOONA solo, it is better (and higher budget) than I was expecting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3-TZ04M6F4
NCT Touch is great!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 6 July 2018 00:20 (five years ago) link
Key randomly shows up on a Years&Years remix. It's not bad! I like his vocals way more than Olly's on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaxU9k2e4c
― Roz, Friday, 6 July 2018 16:52 (five years ago) link
Key does sound good, he just sings so straight and murders the pitch every time.
I feel like I need to embed the SHINEE songs I linked before cause I keep listening to them... especially Lock You Down:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmzSxX601rc
Not sure if this deserves an embed but I'm into UNB's Black Heart rn, more of the jazz/swing trend and the performance is really fun: https://youtu.be/VcSvwHMwDvI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 9 July 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
Except for Shaun, only girl groups topping the instz chart!
https://i.imgur.com/J2J9yOa.jpg
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 18 July 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9P90QTo_uE
GFriend coming through with city pop vibes, I'm a fan
― ufo, Thursday, 19 July 2018 13:57 (five years ago) link
I like the backtrack and some of the chromatic progressions but overall it's a miss for me. I think I want more Sistar-style belting and the voices are too processed and cute.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
Hard pass on Triple H - Retro Future but I like the new Seventeen a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5PELxP8Udg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
absck, is Chung Ha one of the girls on the chart? It seems like every time you turn around, she has a new single out.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:55 (five years ago) link
Surprisingly heavy follow up to Holland's "I'm Not Afraid":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwwAmwMe3fM
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 July 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
xp Chungha was not on that chart. The hangul names are Mamamoo and Bol4. But she is now! ;)
This new Minseo release rules on many levels. Some of the best recent work of the old IU team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYPT5MMb75E
― abcfsk, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
There is something very suspect about white men in their 30s who are into Kpop girl groups.
― JB, Monday, 23 July 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
Better for them to be into Britney or Christina or Rihanna, right?
Get off it dude, this concern trolling is played out.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 23 July 2018 23:49 (five years ago) link
who the hell is JB?
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 07:44 (five years ago) link
love that minseo track
― nxd, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 08:39 (five years ago) link
Awesome video too.
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
drive-by troll?
but yeah I really like the minseo, also the new The Boyz track (KeePer) that's way more stripped back than Giddy Up but also in a weird happy minor key like Giddy Up so I guess that's their thing?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
and speaking of minor keys... this is waaaaaaaaaay too high for Day6 to sing comfortably but it is, nonetheless, a singalong :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2X2LdJAIpU
SUPER hooky earwormy!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
I'm going back to last year's Day6 releases too, some of these tracks are really good.... "What Can I Do" is so happy and jazzy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJWqIEo_Tc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
the minseo track is like a really motivational anime opening song... she is great and the orchestration is so full!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
and sunny summer is growing on me too.... I like the instrumental more the more I listen to it.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
that Minseo track is indeed great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHSVQy9xN8
really like the new Red Velvet. not quite as great as Red Flavor but still a worthy successor as summer single. especially like the chord changes in the nanana section. the mini is very solid too
― ufo, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
― hurricane weather (forapper), 25. juli 2018 00:27 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lol, this is absolutely otm. Great track! The video is pretty anime as well, reminds me of Your Name or Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
wow power up is so fun
― nxd, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFJPFfnzZ7w
LOONA full group debut is pretty good
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
Good song, terrible video. I lol'd at omona commenters who said it's pretty much a boy group song done right - it absolute is! Sounds like an EXO track.
"Power up" is fun, but can't shake how the chorus melody is lifted directly from Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend".
― Roz, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
oh it is very similar now that you mention it, but it has a completely different feeling there so it doesn't bother me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1OUMTMwVsY
this on the other hand is such a rip of Tinashe's Superlove lol
― ufo, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
Wow, that is *brazen*. Please tell me Tinashe and her ppl were duly compensated.
the Red Velvet mini-album is great so far
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthLgPs7oU4
not sure why Brave Girls are releasing a remix of Rollin a year and a half later as a new single but it's even better than the original
― ufo, Saturday, 11 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
WOW that remake is really good... and why not try it out again as a summer single, since we're still getting trop house from all the other popular acts
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
And speaking of (kinda)... I know it's a YG songwriting cliche but I really like the last drop on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upxtfys2QI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link
Good to see girl group member producers/songwriters (Soyeon) flex.. this is one of the more interesting gg singles of the year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKNXn2qCEws
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
ooh I really like that. nice to see Soyeon continuing to be great yeah, I loved her solo track Jelly from last yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ8kJdTYj1o
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDAqx45Duqw
also really enjoying this from a few weeks ago, one of the best tropical summer singles this year
― ufo, Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
I'm into all the jazz piano slowly invading the idol scene... the bridge on this is WILD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCb6XJ_2Z3E
It feels spare but not boring, a bit like Pentagon's SHINE, and that song grew on me a lot.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 24 August 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
It just makes you smile!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 24 August 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuZEGYXA6E
new BTS is fantastic, really was not expecting something like this from them
― ufo, Friday, 24 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
it s supposed to be influenced by Gqom
― ufo, Friday, 24 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link