yeah i like both, Soyeon and Chungha are both real stars
― ufo, Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
I wrote a bit about Seungri over on Frank's livejournal, like Roz I was surprised by the extent of Seungri's actual crimes but not that we was involved in unsavory stuff in some way (https://koganbot.dreamwidth.org/373664.html)
Also in small world news, our boy Jakob is out here getting interviewed by the Reacttothek youtube folks, but I think the interview is locked to their Patreon supporters. Maybe only of interest to a small circle of people anyway...
I haven't been around at all this year because I was so disappointed in myself for not recommending Heize's Jenga for the 2018 year-end poll, and then I didn't like most of the big singles. But maybe there will be something in this post that draws me back in.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
Will this work? Let's see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKrFJ3mq3E
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
From the end of that interview, described as following the emo-rap trend, but with like RnB instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8mF7CBVCf4
Jakob says the rapper sounds like he's almost screaming, but I think he sounds like he needs to clear his throat... maybe needs to watch his technique or he won't have any voice left soon.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Apparently Day6 is touring. My 13yo asked if she go to the gig. Duh
― nathom, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EfjXQgE1e8
Baek never disappoints; jazz watch 2019
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 11 July 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
Love this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-iJZ0gfKPo
― Roz, Friday, 26 July 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
Not sure where else to post this but I love this vietnamese track, thought folks here might enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU4s65RAAKQ
― Will (kruezer2), Tuesday, 30 July 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHS9E6JFja8
new red velvet "umpah umpah" is a big improvement over "zimzalabim", not really up with their best but considering how dull this year's generally been i'll happily take this
― ufo, Monday, 19 August 2019 23:59 (four years ago) link
God, that Toc Tien track rules.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Really the only track I like this year is Baekhyun's "UN Village" and the only Mini I like is his mini "City Lights"!
I mean, I stopped listening actively to Kpop but still.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bck8PTQGujo
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
the only track i really love from this year has been red velvet's "sappy". feels like everything's even more caught up in bland trop house than before so i've been increasingly uninterested
― ufo, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
for me it's mostly just been
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bRyQbD9U9c
― lowercase (eric), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
feeling “UN Village” and “Love Talk”, thanks for those!
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ymwOvzhwHs
twice go deep house on "feel special", it's fun enough
― ufo, Monday, 23 September 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
OKAY there are TWO tracks I like this year... one is Baekhyun's UN Village and the other is GWSN's The Interpretation of Dreams!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_j8OKeZMHg
It's a throwback to the alt-RnB sound Kpop had in 2012-2013 and I'm here for it.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 6 October 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191014008551315
RIP Sulli, f(x) were the greatest so this is very sad
it's being investigated if her death was suicide and i've seen some places claim to confirm that it was, which would be extremely tragic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnku4o3tRB4
― ufo, Monday, 14 October 2019 11:15 (four years ago) link
Just saw this news, so heartbreaking. f(x) were indeed the greatest. :(
― Roz, Monday, 14 October 2019 12:29 (four years ago) link
Yeah, rip :( The Pink Tape is the best k-pop album, and one of the very best pop albums of the decade, imo.
― Frederik B, Monday, 14 October 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
"Airplane" still rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70MBQrlsr_M
I always felt bad for Sulli, she was treated very badly by the Korean press over her dating "scandal" and basically not fitting in the image her label had crafted for her.
― Roz, Monday, 14 October 2019 12:48 (four years ago) link
yeah if it is indeed suicide it would unfortunately be not that surprising considering all the ridiculous shit she's had to deal with from the public and the press on top of her struggles with anxiety and depression
― ufo, Monday, 14 October 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Just watched this from June, have people seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uE7KDkDFE
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 15 October 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
I'm sad about Sulli.
There's a photo that circulated a while back, of f(x) on the set of variety show A Song for You on their press junket for.... I can't remember? The one before 4walls.
Anyway the episode was edited to make it look like Sulli was not there, only the other four were. And they laugh and joke like everything's fine. But in the photo Sulli is sitting right next to them on set, basically catatonic/too depressed to function.
I think about this often because it shows the gap between image and reality. And Sulli more than others really suffered from this gap, I think.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Hmm I found the clip - they were promoting Rum Pum Pum Pum just before Sulli's break from the group in 2014. Anyway out of respect I don't really want to link to the video but you can find it on omonatheydidn't by searching "f(x) a song for you".
Anyway the heartless capitalist logic... the social media logic... the entertainment industry logic of always needing to pretend that you are fine. And if you are not fine, well then, you simply won't appear at all.
RIP Sulli.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 03:32 (four years ago) link
p basic but i really like ladies code 'set me free'
http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gif0f4_1z2w
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
also i was only so so on 'bon bon chocolat' so ended up being a couple of months late on everglow's follow up but i really like 'Adios' even though i get the urge to sing a speeded up 'god rest ye merry gentlemen' over the chorus break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gX_p1VkgA4
― oscar bravo, Friday, 1 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
didn't see it mention on this thread but one of my favourites from early in the year is mamamoo 'gogobebe'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp56JdkmE9s
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 7 November 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
1 billion views (in 18 months) for BLACKPINK's "The Ddu-Du Song"
"Blackpink are the first K-pop band to join YouTube's 'billion views club'"- https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50405408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNzOHi8sJs
Looks like everyone has been hit with that ddu-du.
So, tell me... Have they hit you with that ddu-du?
― sbahnhof, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
I am far from a scholar but this strikes me as a C+ jam at best
― Simon H., Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Rene bae has taken over my ig, don’t even know why
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:19 (four years ago) link
iirc the favourite blackpink tracks here are "whistle" and "if its your last" which are both fantastic. "ddu-du ddu-du" is still as mediocre as it was on release
― ufo, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
i like 'kill this love' a lot as well as 'ddu-du' and 'whistle'.
from earlier in the year i like hwash's solo 'twit'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScSn235gQx0
also oneus 'twilight'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Njp-J2s5uw
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 14 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
*hwasa not hwash
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
ddu du ddu du is a perfect storm of easily replicable song-specific dance, killer video (fennec fox! disco ball tank!) and a good jam, all of which travels well. not surprised it hit hard.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 November 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRnW-4P8dw
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Fwdnij49ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1PvIWdJ8xo
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i like "unstable" but wish there were more to it than that
can't believe i completely forgot to post the Lim Kim single from last month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5S3sPpkd8w
i need to get around to her EP, this reinvention has been pretty wild
― ufo, Thursday, 21 November 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
sadly I can't get into her new stuff at all, though I'm happy she seems happy doing what she loves.
Nice quick interview explaining her new direction: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/xwe7kz/lim-kim-is-forging-an-independent-k-pop-revolution
― Roz, Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
more awful news:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/nov/24/goo-hara-k-pop-singer-found-dead-aged-28
― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Sunday, 24 November 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
absolutely tragic that it came to this, KARA were fantastic and Hara had really been through a lot lately
― ufo, Sunday, 24 November 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Jesus, I was out the whole day and just saw this. Don’t know what to say anymore, this is so awful. Her asshole ex needs to be in jail.
The last photo she posted on IG is heartbreaking. Also, all her photos with Sulli. :(
― Roz, Monday, 25 November 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/list/8544710/best-k-pop-songs-2010s-top-100
this is a surprisingly good list, apart from a few things like "good day" at #1 being both strange and boring
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
Agreed - I’ve actually made my own top 100 list (which I’ll post when I have more time this week) and yeah there’s a lot of overlap with that one. I have a different IU track at no. 1, lol.
― Roz, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/B5SIbaglGzPAlways looks like she’s going to jail
― calstars, Thursday, 28 November 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
As promised, my top 100 Kpop songs of the 2010s.
Embarrassment of riches tbh - I stuck with a one track per artist rule (subunits and solo tracks allowed) and only songs that were actual singles/had proper MVs (no deep cuts), and still couldn't find space for every thing I loved.
Seo Taiji x IU - "Sogyeokdong"Infinite - "The Chaser"2NE1 - "I Am The Best"Orange Caramel - "Catallena"Hyuna - "Bubble Pop!"NCT U - "Baby Don’t Stop"f(x) - "Rum Pum Pum Pum"miss A - "Bad Girl Good Girl"EXO - "Growl"4Minute - "Volume Up"
Girls Generation - "I Got A Boy"BOA - "Only One"Oh My Girl - "Closer"SHINee - "View"Big Bang - "Bad Boy"Red Velvet - "Bad Boy"Blackpink - "As If It’s Your Last"2PM - "A.D.T.O.Y"LOONA/Yves - "new"MBLAQ - "Smoky Girl"
SISTAR19 - "Gone Not Around Any Longer"KARA - "Pandora"T.O.P - "Doom Dada"B1A4 - "What's Happening?"After School - "Flashback"Luna - "Free Somebody"Brown Eyed Girls - "Sixth Sense"PSY - "Gangnam Style"T-ara - "Roly-Poly"Wonder Girls - "I Feel You"
TWICE - "T.T."Nine Muses - "Figaro"Block B - "HER"Lim Kim - "Awoo"Taeyang - "Eyes Nose Lips"EXID - "Up & Down"VIXX - "Chained Up"Wings - "Hair Short"Ga-In - "Bloom"Troublemaker - "Now"
K.Will - "Please Don’t"GD&TOP - "Knock Out"Ailee - "I Will Show You"Dal Shabet - "B.B.B. (Big Baby Baby)"SUNMI - "Siren"Evol - "Get Up"Lee Hi - "Breathe"Ladies' Code - "The Rain"BTOB - "WOW"Lip Service - "Yum Yum Yum"
(G)I-DLE - "HANN (Alone)"Kim Sungkyu - "Kontrol"Rania - "Dr. Feelgood"HyoLyn - "SEE SEA"PENTAGON - "Shine"Park Ji Yoon - "Beep"Taemin - "Drip Drop"Crayon Pop - "Bar Bar Bar"Lovelyz - "Ah-Choo"Yubin - "Lady"
GLAM - "I Like That"SNUPER - "Platonic Love"MOMOLAND - "BBoom BBoom"The Boyz - "Giddy Up"SEVENTEEN - "Don't Wanna Cry"Chung Ha - "Roller Coaster"Fiestar - "Mirror"HISTORY - "Psycho"BOYFRIEND - "Janus"April - "Oh! My Mistake"
AOA - "Miniskirt"JYJ - "Back Seat"Mr.Mr. - "Highway"Girl's Day - "Expectation"Seulgi, SinB, Chung Ha, So Yeon - "Wow Thing"Park Bom - "You and I"G-Dragon - "One of a Kind"Jonghyun - "SHE IS"CL - "Hello Bitches"BTS - "Dope"
SF9 - "Now or Never"Teen Top - "ah-ah"ITZY - "DALLA DALLA"I.O.I - "Very Very Very"WINNER - "Really Really"SISTAR - "Touch My Body"Secret - "Madonna"A Pink - "I'm So Sick"Infinite H. and Zion T. - "Without U"
GFriend - "Rough"Rainbow - "Black Swan"Beast - "Good Luck"ToppDogg - "Annie"DAY6 - "I Wait"Cross Gene - "La-di Da-di"Tiny-G - "Miss You"Lee Hyori - "Bad Girls"U-Kiss - "Stop Girl"SunnyHill - "The Grasshopper Song"fromis9 - "Love Bomb"
Honourable mentions:iKON - "Killing Me"Crush, Zico - "Cereal"SPICA - "Russian Roulette"gugudan - "Chococo"Stray Kids - "Miroh"AKMU - "200%"Stellar - "Sting" / "Vibrato"WJSN - "Secret"MINO - "Fiance"Younha - "The Real Reason We Broke Up"Bestie - "Love Options"NCT Dream - "We Young"
Youtube playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-ajiMFDEG4CC17dHl2qrmT2s3D6bV0P Spotify (missing a few): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Z9csNSzcZnHBxMwdNWICf?si=f8kEFBE_TvigzDSoKHb2dw
― Roz, Friday, 13 December 2019 07:24 (four years ago) link
that's a great list, it's really been a fantastic decade for kpop (this year excepted). looking forward to digging into the picks i'm not familiar with
― ufo, Friday, 13 December 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
thanks, had a lot of fun compiling it and rediscovering songs I hadn't listened to in years...
Yeah I struggled to find any tracks from 2019 I liked enough to include - thank god for "Dalla Dalla"! Big contrast with 2018, the strongest year since Kpop's 2011-2014 peak and well represented in my list.
― Roz, Friday, 13 December 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
great list that, thanks!
― nxd, Friday, 13 December 2019 12:44 (four years ago) link
Roz you are like reading my mind. My list would be pretty similar. There might be a couple things on there from artists we've never heard from again, like "Musiche" by Crazyno though.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
Would love to see your list if you did one! Some of the songs on mine I would never have heard if you hadn’t told me to check them out (eg HISTORY, U-Kiss).
― Roz, Monday, 16 December 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link