not quite there but p close
ANS - Say My Namehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NGoD8l-fp4
absolutely love this. think she's american with korean ancestry, but i may be wrong. gorgeous track.
Suzanne - Can't Hanghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZIA9kVNKu4
not quite as great as his namesake
Zico - Any Songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuV2BmJ1p_I
did someone mention trap?
Itownkid - Grab.Drop.Pophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCyzYmAVoRQ
plus
Jiyeon - Take A Hikehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJNS1W0YmdE
yeah the bts up thread is great. love the video as well.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:17 (four years ago) link
the bts video i was referring to was this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGbuUFRdYqU
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, that Suzanne track is by far my favourite out of these.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
(it doesn’t get better than the first minute tho)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
that suzanne track is really cool
― ufo, Thursday, 6 February 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWQ5zNi_9r8
BVNDIT - "Cool" is fun kitchen sink pop
― ufo, Thursday, 6 February 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link
Love IZ*ONE's "Fiesta":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDEFolvLn0A
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 22 February 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
I've hardly been paying attention to Kpop but:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=120It4zkIZU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:19 (four years ago) link
So I have a playlist called Jazz Watch 2018 where I've been tracking jazz influences in Kpop singles since, basically, Lee Jin Ah hit it big with Random in 2017:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4Z5FNfPMC2xs8enWmT_J7pFvUIhXF1
And this one is coming a couple years later, but fits right into that trend.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:26 (four years ago) link
Hmm this song came out in 2019, my apologies guys. You can tell I haven't really been paying attention :P
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
Anyway here's one from this year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAIlZM1VUU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:41 (four years ago) link
OK but here's one I actually like (and the rest of the album is good too):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOqlE0wCfs
Late aughts RnB revival can continue forever, thanks.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
really like 'cool'!
― nxd, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:44 (four years ago) link
gloriously cheesy but i kinda like it
cherry bullet 'Hands Up' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0It6vWbGOX0
KARD 'Red Moon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAEqQPAEkug
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-tDMgXX6k
AVOKID - "Timid" is sublime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2h3lGlOsk
"Wannabe" is the best Itzy single yet imo
― ufo, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
like that AVOKID. 'dalla dalla' still my favourite itzy.
leebada - 'empty room'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXZ78sjxkPs
dongkiz - 'lupin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgIW9CwhZw
park woo jin - 'color eye'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFRkwkLMGHI
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
i haven't been keeping up with k-pop this year admittedly but grown up Apink continues to be good (though I still prefer "Eung Eung" and "I'm So Sick"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrP_cpcuNEc
A couple of months old but this Dreamcatcher track is incredible. I love how they're continuing to grow within their little niche:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKlGHHhTOsQ
― Roz, Saturday, 25 April 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
"dumhdurum" is pretty good, but i agree their last two singles were better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD06B-5SsSE
i like "spit it out" from mamamoo's solar a lot, a really distinctive sound. it's a little reminiscent of that wave folk-pop-edm from ~2013 (that avicii album etc.) except far more restrained in mood and actually good.
― ufo, Saturday, 25 April 2020 12:08 (three years ago) link
bit of an outlier wrt the thread so far but love the song and the dance moves are on point ;)
Dasutt - Pigeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt4oLCnJkTc
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 30 April 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
I recently discovered Dreamcatcher via the song 'Full Moon'. Maybe now is a good time to try getting into kpop more.
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link
Oh My Girl getting their first big hit
― abcfsk, Thursday, 30 April 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMCKRto_IgU
― abcfsk, Sunday, 3 May 2020 09:45 (three years ago) link
Bibi - Kazino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObzvA8tx9aA
― oscar bravo, Friday, 8 May 2020 15:11 (three years ago) link
really into Crystal Tea, big j-pop vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAQdesb_zCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iC9vkHN-c
― Roz, Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
"there there" is cool
― ufo, Saturday, 9 May 2020 13:57 (three years ago) link
there is so much good stuff all of a sudden what the heck!!!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I02VtSDmF18&list=RDQk0fkeMAUz0&index=6
whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpn99s8I-U&list=RDQk0fkeMAUz0
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
hmmmmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8bJfx01WyQ
weird...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
i guess this song is about online trolling, but i don't really know. certainly plenty of people will tell you you're doing it wrong online, no matter which side of any issue you fall on
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
anyway this is jaunty, i love the piano!
@roz I love ROman Porno a lot!!!!! It sounds kinda Jpop. I love how the vocal line just kind of slides around and goes into weird modulations.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
Making up for a lacklustre 2019? I like “Villain” too and the lyrics of “Life Sucks”... oof.
re Roman Porno: love the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it glimpse of Björk’s Debut casually hanging out on the bed behind her. Her EP is good - her whole style and sound is very jpop.
― Roz, Sunday, 10 May 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
roman porno was the name for Japanese erotic movies in the 60's, quite the reference
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
loving Villain a lot!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
@daniel and the album is called pink movie, which... same.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 14 May 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
wikipedia says "Nikkatsu made these higher-quality pink films almost exclusively, at an average rate of three per month, for the next 17 years" so it could be a reference to quality, i suppose. i really wanna know what the lyrics are but this is too indie for translators...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 14 May 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
i've just been listening to those crystal tea songs on repeat, i'm like obsessed lol
The new TWICE single is composed by Julia Michaels, MNEK and Zara Larsson
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 May 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Huh. One step closer to my dream Western-Kpop collab, a boyband track produced by Shift K3y. (SF9 track posted at the top of this thread is real close to the sound I’m thinking of.)
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Ok I posted that without realising that Shift K3y is also going to be on the TWICE record! Nice.
Still think he should be producing for a boy group though.
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
Slightly 'off-topic', but this popped up in my youtube. It's a recording from the concert IU had to do the same day her friend Goo Hara died. The news reached her midway through the concert, I think. This is the final song. She says, "I'll pull myself together and do this last song. You guys must be worrying [about me]. It's really.. really... be well, everyone. The more difficult this world is, the more we have to care for one another... Man, it's very.. Even if this world loses its warmth, if only people show each other love... Anyway, I'll sing this wholeheartedly." And she does fight through the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFiSgzfXRcY
― abcfsk, Thursday, 21 May 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
man i don't think i can watch that. I still can't watch that video of Lee Hi freezing up while singing "Breathe" in tribute to Jonghyun. </3
― Roz, Friday, 22 May 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
swervy ft. paloalto - why same beat as 'color eye' i think
red square - color full
agust d -daechwita
secret number - who dis?
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
plus i must be a sucker for suzanne's vibe because after loving 'can't hang' earlier in the year i'm also feeling suzanne - do not fear heartbreak
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 4 June 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
ooh that suzanne track is lovely
― ufo, Friday, 5 June 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link
no mention on this thread about how kpop stans have become a considerable bloc of the revolution? clicked on a "whitelifesmatter" hashtag on twitter yesterday and it had been comprehensively hijacked by people posting kpop palmface gifs.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 June 2020 09:38 (three years ago) link
(Taemin not relevant to that post. Sorry, Taemin!)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
also digging Mamamoo’s “gogobebe”
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
:D
I can't remember if it was posted on last year's thread but while going through their videos yesterday I came across MAMAMOO's also excellent Hip, which I hadn't heard before.
― Roz, Thursday, 17 September 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
“Hip” is also lots of fun. It’s their biggest hit apparently!
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 18 September 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI992mvlEY
― abcfsk, Monday, 21 September 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
^^ that would be EVERGLOW • LA DI DA(please provide track info, it makes searching so much easier and also makes up for future broken YouTube links)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 September 2020 10:11 (three years ago) link
you’re right tho, that song is immensely hello-worthy
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 21 September 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
very sin city video there
― oscar bravo, Monday, 21 September 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
yesss I saw the teaser for that last week and I’m glad that it’s exactly as fantastic as the snippet suggested. the rest of the EP seemed very promising too.
― Roz, Monday, 21 September 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
yeah listened to the e.p this morning, all 4 songs really strong.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 13:28 (three years ago) link
back door and la di da both pretty awesome and thumping/glittering
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
audio only akaik
Chung Ha x Christopher - Bad Boy
am partial to the synths in this
BDC - Shoot The Moon
am so close to liking this a lot but am torn between thinking that there isn't enough there or if the beats should be even more minimal, do like some of the glitches in it
Precious - Bebe
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 13:26 (three years ago) link
boy groups really bringing it this year
The Boyz - The Stealer, which rather unusually for a kpop song opens with the chorus
https://youtu.be/c_e-IC0VwZM
― Roz, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
like this but smh at the all denim outfits
XUM - DDALALA
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 24 September 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
wow i love that
― ufo, Thursday, 24 September 2020 15:05 (three years ago) link
know their latter day output isn't that popular itt but what the hell i still like them and love this chorus and the jisoo/rose parts
Blackpink - Lovesick Girls
― oscar bravo, Friday, 2 October 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
it's not really exciting but it's more enjoyable than anything they've done in a fair while i guess
― ufo, Friday, 2 October 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
Four years for a debut album that runs 24 mins, god YG is such a shitshow.
but surprise! I like this more than I thought I would. Lovesick Girls once again feels about three years too late, but the other songs are good - Crazy Over You is my current fave. Also Bet You Wanna is a much better collab track than Ice Cream - can't believe they went with the latter as a single and not this.
Jisoo deserves a solo imo.
― Roz, Saturday, 3 October 2020 04:46 (three years ago) link
anyway full on stanning Stray Kids at this point, so here's "Any":
https://youtu.be/uaJ81czm3xA
we love a self-produced group with a penchant for off-kilter beats/melodies and puns that work in two languages ("Any"/"ani" which means "no" in Korean, also Gone Days which is a play on the Korean slang for 'boomer' lol. it helps to know that two of their members, incl their main songwriter, are Korean-Australian.)
and I wish I had discovered this song last year because holy shit o_O
― Roz, Saturday, 3 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
I like 'any'. My favourite 2 stray kids songs are still 'God's Menu' and 'Doubleknot' however. That might be because I do the majority of my listening via YouTube and the m/v for 'God's Menu' is a masterpiece from editing to transitions to Felix's undercut.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 3 October 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
another boy group, with their debut(i think?)
WEi - Twilight
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 6 October 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
Weki Meki - Cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHikmx0eVXM
― Roz, Monday, 12 October 2020 03:51 (three years ago) link
really like that weki meki
vacillate between this being too cutesy for me or not
WJSN CHOCOME - Hmph!
plus I like this one too
Refund Sisters - Don't Touch Me
― oscar bravo, Monday, 12 October 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
oh and hwasa is in refund sisters
― oscar bravo, Monday, 12 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
yeah "cool" is very cool, one of my favourites this year
"hmph!" is like a cutesy version of a t-ara song? i'm similarly on the fence as to whether it's too much
― ufo, Monday, 12 October 2020 23:58 (three years ago) link
"Hmph!" is very Orange Caramel and it's great! when I think of too cutesy, I'm thinking of songs like Lovelyz - Ah-Choo (which I love too btw), not this Eurodisco-adjacent stuff.
Refund Sisters is Hwa Sa, Lee Hyori, Uhm Jung Hwa and Jessi - a one-off "supergroup" created for Yoo Jaesuk's variety show, which seems to be the way to get a surefire hit in Korea these days (see also Rain and Hyori's 90s throwback act SSAK3 posted upthread).
― Roz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:15 (three years ago) link
NCT U - Make a Wish (Birthday Song) brings you whistling and harmonies and so much Chanel:
https://youtu.be/tyrVtwE8Gv0
― Roz, Tuesday, 13 October 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
re: “Cool”: not too crazy about being reminded of that “Like A G6” sound in a 2020 song tbhotoh, the throwback-to-the-golden-age vibe of “Hmph!” sits very well with me, strange how that works
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 12:11 (three years ago) link
not familiar with the group Rania that birthed this new act but i q like it all the same
Blackswan - Tonight
― oscar bravo, Friday, 16 October 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
lol where to start with Rania?
They're most famous for the classic bop Dr Feelgood which caused a bit of controversy back in the day - the choreography to the song (positively tame even for 2011 tbh) was deemed too scandalous by Korean censors and had to be changed for broadcast.
they never really had a follow-up hit but all you need to know about the group after that is that this isn't even their first reboot; there has been multiple lineup changes, accusations of racism and whitewashing, and their label is extremely messy (for more, just scroll through the rania tag on omona).
'Tonight' is decent not great, and I don't trust their label enough not to fuck up the group again, but between this and 'Hmph!', it's nice that groups are suddenly bringing back sounds from 2011-2013 kpop. I hope someone resurrects peak Sweetune soon.
― Roz, Saturday, 17 October 2020 12:31 (three years ago) link
Loona - Why Not?
― oscar bravo, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
I like that.
Lots of nice releases this week:
MAMAMOO - Dingga
SEVENTEEN - Home;Run
― Roz, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
Loona - Why Not?🕸
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
And sorry for Stray Kids spam but even their Japanese releases are bangers: All In
― Roz, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
wasn't sure whether to post this here or on the rnb thread, but seeing as i've never posted to that thread i'll stick it here
Rakiyah - Like You
― oscar bravo, Friday, 23 October 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
In the latest edition of “Kpop producers really loved Dua Lipa’s Physical”:
TWICE - I Can’t Stop Me
weird for TWICE to be so late on the Clueless yellow plaid look - that trend is at least two years old now.
― Roz, Monday, 26 October 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
Korea's original goth queen Puer Kim is back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr_mDm_ucis
― Roz, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
soyeon from (g)i-dle sparingly used on this but kills it with her opening bars anyway. really like the interplay in the hook between madison beer's and lexie liu's voices
K/DA - More
couple of new boy groups debuted today,Drippin - Nostalgia is okay but i preferred P1Harmony which has a little bit of an Ateez vibe imo
P1Harmony - Siren
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
and wow i missed what roz had posted, i really like that*Puer Kim - Unpretty Tattoo
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
GIRLKIND - Psycho4U
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
their vocals still not that pleasing to me but i really like some of the background musical touches in this
Treasure - Mmm
dude obviously likes future
Shin Seunghoon - Don't Touch Me
― oscar bravo, Monday, 9 November 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
stuff i've liked recently
Disco gloriousness (though I still slightly prefer "Apple" from earlier this year): GFRIEND - MAGO
A couple of lovely R&B singles: JAMIE feat Jay Park - Apollo 11GEMINI - Going
The trop house chorus is hilariously jarring but this is still a fun track/performance: Yezi - MiMew
Taemin continues putting out good songs (it's bugging me but what horror movie soundtrack does those strings on the drop remind me of?): IDEA
― Roz, Sunday, 15 November 2020 09:07 (three years ago) link
really really like that gemini track, and quite like the yezi.
― oscar bravo, Monday, 16 November 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
G.G.B - Bling Bling
aespa - Black Mamba
Momoland - Ready Or Not
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Lee Hye - Erase You
― oscar bravo, Monday, 7 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link