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 ;)
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
:D
try some other k-pop, morrisp! there's so much more interesting stuff than the tracks that crossover to the US charts
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 06:01 (three years ago) link
I'm sure!! I just don't really have a "way in"
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 06:08 (three years ago) link
for you, i'd recommend the very ariana-influenced Hwasa (of girl group MAMAMOO). :)
― Roz, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 06:44 (three years ago) link
Thanks! Ha, you know me ;)
― Can Butch Vig not do "dynamimcs"? (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
i think you'd dig Hwa Sa's "Maria" a lot
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
oh lol, of course i just realize after posting that Hwasa is Hwa Sa; I swear i came to that independently!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
<3 Taeminstray kids continue to be overly intense + supremely enjoyable. that bassline is everything:https://youtu.be/X-uJtV8ScYk🕸
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:14 (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
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). Â
'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.Â
― 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:Â JAMIE feat Jay Park - Apollo 11GEMINI - Going
The trop house chorus is hilariously jarring but this is still a fun track/performance: Yezi - MiMewÂ
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