rolling kpop 2020

Kenzie*

finally catching up with thread - thanks for those Park Moonchi tracks abcfsk, they were great!

blackpink tracks still sound like 2NE1 leftovers from 2014, get one new idea, Teddy Park.

there have been two excellent blackpink singles ("whistle" and "as if it's your last") but everything else they've put out has been so boring but i guess it still sells

Chung Ha with a very Chung Ha track: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvoDgmfUwc 

(g)i-dle doing a victory lap of sorts - breezy track that namechecks all their previous hits with a typically killer rap verse from soyeon: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKoeJ3xlx4& 

love the beat on this (they're kinda my favourite boy group these days -God's Menu was enjoyable too, if a little generic):  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZSv3aMGg5Q  

k-pop's really been so good in 2020. 

forgot about this, my favourite thing either zico or rain has put out in years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6B2ME4Mm8 

gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQSse3b2ge4

thought the new zico was weak, much prefer 'any song' from earlier in the year.

(g)i-dle okay but 'oh my god' about 100x better

🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏

xp

GFRIEND • Apple

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VmLuWDkHYQ

a song i like from this year! soyeon mvp as always

RAIN and LEE HYORI are the biggest stars of the summer with two tracks in the top 5... what year is it? Well Yoo Jae Suk's project of bringing back the big star summer single is successful

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=942NkXvAtAM

enjoying yukika's city pop revival

i like that yukika

for some reason it puts me in mind of sophie ellis-bexter

from a few months ago but i like

GWSN - Basooka!

oh and from a couple of days ago

Oneus - Come Back Home

love everything about this except the chorus

Pink Fantasy - Shadow Play

quite like this too

Eric Nam - Paradise

couple of jessi tracks, one from july and one from today

Jessi - Nuna Nana

Jessi - Numb

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

i'm about a half step away from becoming obsessed with these guys, a month removed from road to kingdom they're coming for hamlet

Oneus - To Be Or Not To Be

song of the summer for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIeahm_gz4M

pretty joyous

We’ve got a dedicated thread for that:

where the hell is the summer jams 2020 thread?

Jenyer - Bad

ex monsta x member channel(zero)s frank ocean

Wonho - Losing You

Yes Sir! Yes Sir! Yes Sir!

Ateez - Thanxx

new KARD which seems like it's about fan/idol culture

Kard - Gunshot

love bea miller's voice and soyeon's verse

K/DA - The Baddest ft. (g)i-dle, bea miller, wolftyla

plus

Blackpink - Ice Cream (with Selena Gomez)

blackpink's "ice cream" has nothing on hyuna's

or f(x)'s "ice cream" or even red velvet's "ice cream cake". I don't have any faith in blackpink (or any YG act) producing any good/interesting music so long as they keep working with Teddy who peaked more than half a decade ago.

it's not their best but I really like Dreamcatcher's BOCA, which again finds a new way to play with their signature metal/rock guitar sound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfp2bGytsak

found last years 'jopping' ridiculous but fun and like the latest one quite a bit

SuperM - Tiger Inside

for the first time i'm thinking that doing 1000+ sit ups a day might
actually be worthwhile

Wonho - Open Mind

killed it in shinee, killing it in SuperM, killing it solo

Taemin - Criminal

la-la-la la-la-la-la-la

he can’t get it out of his head

<3 Taemin

stray kids continue to be overly intense + supremely enjoyable. that bassline is everything:

https://youtu.be/X-uJtV8ScYk

bass line plus door mime excellence

clicked in here to see if "Ice Cream" (a current pop fave of mine) is actually considered mediocre by the K-pop crew... not leaving disappointed ;)

:D

try some other k-pop, morrisp! there's so much more interesting stuff than the tracks that crossover to the US charts

I'm sure!! I just don't really have a "way in"

for you, i'd recommend the very ariana-influenced Hwasa (of girl group MAMAMOO). :)

Thanks! Ha, you know me ;)

i think you'd dig Hwa Sa's "Maria" a lot

oh lol, of course i just realize after posting that Hwasa is Hwa Sa; I swear i came to that independently!

<3 Taemin

stray kids continue to be overly intense + supremely enjoyable. that bassline is everything:

https://youtu.be/X-uJtV8ScYk🕸

(Taemin not relevant to that post. Sorry, Taemin!)

also digging Mamamoo’s “gogobebe”

: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.

“Hip” is also lots of fun. It’s their biggest hit apparently!

hello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeI992mvlEY

^^ 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)