ALSO ALSO... U-Know's "NOIR" album rocks, y'all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylUX9pfdBbs
If you guys remember TVXQ's, it's in that mold... jazzy soundtrack music with really modern drum track production and the SM layered harmonies. Hell yeah!
On the other hand, this should 100% have been a SHINEE song... Key woulda done that "Eeny Meeny Miney Mo" part justice :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gvbKJYWaRA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 March 2021 19:46 (three years ago) link
I meant to say it's like TVXQ's Something... though Something's stronger I think, more of a big band sound.
But give the other title track to SHINEE!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
And a random collection of other songs I enjoyed this month.. just pop music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCsLikmxhV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJH1psuB1Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1scbHXpB6OM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-4Z21Lar2Y
(Disappears for another 84 years)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 March 2021 20:05 (three years ago) link
good picks, i really like "eeny meeny", "beautiful beautiful", "good girl" and "only you"
― ufo, Monday, 15 March 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
I'm really into Thank U... without the lyrics on screen it sounds like one of those gratitude songs idols put out with behind the scenes footage thanking their fans for supporting them...
Thank U for This / Thank U for Life / Thank U for This Life
But with the lyrics on screen, you realize it is actually...
Thank U for Dis / Thank U for Like / Thank U for Dislike
In other words, a fuck the haters song, which is exactly where I'm mentally at right now wrt the socials.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 04:44 (three years ago) link
getting strong block b energy from this lot
MIRAE - KILLA
chung ha with the latin vibes
CHUNG HA x GUAYNAA - DEMENTE
jessi being jessi with a p generic song but she has a certain energy that i always fall for
JESSI - WHAT TYPE OF X
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 15:53 (three years ago) link
forapper, you've been missed! lots of good songs this year imo though I haven't had much time to post lately
WOODZ - "Feel like" - that BASS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2KMxSb4GIo
From last month, RAVI's "Tiger" featuring an incredible chorus from a traditional Korean folk choir:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvGaLdtcJk
I don't like this as much as "Can We Talk Again?" but "Ponzona" is another good track from Purple Kiss, who are def coming for MAMAMOO and (G)I-DLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8M_n7olIqM
speaking of rock-influenced tracks, this is fun: Pentagon - "DO or NOT" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6cnHHX4LM
― Roz, Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:31 (three years ago) link
MIRAE's Killa giving me late 00s Ed Banger flashbacks
really like "beautiful beautiful" and "crush" too
― Roz, Thursday, 18 March 2021 13:39 (three years ago) link
catchy chorus club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVuRQX0ydQ
― abcfsk, Thursday, 18 March 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
oooh that's nice!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 19 March 2021 01:29 (three years ago) link
Also that woodz song is sooooooo nice, spring is my favorite season for music
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 19 March 2021 03:05 (three years ago) link
okay, and the pentagon song is WONDERFUL. sorry to split this up into so many messages, but this is exactly the kind of song we come to the ILX kpop thread for.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 19 March 2021 03:14 (three years ago) link
I also wanna point out that Super Junior's House Party is actually a PSA to wear masks, social distance, and avoid parties:
House Party
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 19 March 2021 03:21 (three years ago) link
lol i wanted to post abt "house party" but after all these years, i still have trouble mustering up any kind of enthusiasm for SuJu
SURAN's "Sunny" is exquisite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eHt9deQJqg
― Roz, Saturday, 20 March 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
C-pop but likely only popped up in my recommendations because of K-pop. Don't know much about Didi other than he's a member of Chinese boy group ONER but "Rebellious" kinda sounds like if Taemin was produced by Disclosure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rTV1HkCAI4
― Roz, Saturday, 20 March 2021 03:10 (three years ago) link
city pop/disco is a good look for IU
IU - "Lilac" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bnOxV4jAc
IU - "COIN" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86BST8NIpNM
and a dnb remix of SHINEE, cause why not?
SHINEE - Don't Call Me (Fox Stevenson remix)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYfyjT0Bso
― Roz, Sunday, 28 March 2021 06:54 (three years ago) link
Oh man, I just recently started actively listening to BTS, and it made me miss all of my favorites when I was in high school. TVXQ has gone through SOME STUFF, but I'm glad that at least a few of their members are still making music! Glad to see Hyuna still in the game also! Wish I could say the same for 1TYM, OneTwo, and Co-Ed School...but I saw a few people saying that there's rumors of a Girl's Generation comeback!
It's such a trip to see who is still around from SM Town 15 years later.
― hourspass, Monday, 29 March 2021 20:47 (three years ago) link
finally looked up what the deal is with brave girls promoting "rollin'" again on all the music shows 4 years after its original release and apparently a video compiling performances of it they did for the military went viral early this year and it somehow became a huge hit right when they were already about to disband so they started promoting it again??? bizarre
was a classic 4 years ago and is still a classic now, peak tropical house
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cZrxpK2EAQ
still baffling that the original video for it had the concept "sexy dancing in a gloomy house" when it's such a summer jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthLgPs7oU4
the 2018 remix is also fantastic
― ufo, Monday, 5 April 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
The most impressive thing about Rollin is that Minyong can really hit those notes on the chorus live XD.
Some Korean TV show I was watched about this said that when Rollin was released the first time, soldiers in the army weren't allowed to have phones and couldn't vote in the music shows. But now they are, and can, so this is a 100% domestic resurgence.
BTW Brave Girls have been around for about 10 years but it's not really the same group anymore... Brave Sound did a complete revamp in 2017, there's not a single original member in the group anymore.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:27 (three years ago) link
Hmm the link doesn't work.. here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB2W4vFmogk
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 02:28 (three years ago) link
slick and shiny
G.E.M - Superpower
really only love this for the bit that appears in the first 7 secs and recurs throughout, the 'bumbabadumdum' bit
3YE - Stalker
also really like WEEKLY-'YUMMY' but no m/v i don't think.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 14 April 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
GEM is C-pop rather than K-pop again no? I like it though.
Haven't been bowled over by any recent K-pop sadly but there's been lots of K-pop adjacent stuff that's pretty good! Like this Jackson Wang track "LMLY", with really nice MV tribute to 80s/90s Hong Kong cinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIMihDOXMpY
― Roz, Thursday, 22 April 2021 05:47 (three years ago) link
I do kinda like BAE173's "Loved You" though but only because it's such a shameless rip of mid-period Big Bang lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LP6tSdAVyI
― Roz, Thursday, 22 April 2021 05:51 (three years ago) link
people seem to go crazy for their song 'given taken' at the start of the year but i much prefer this new one especially the vocal manipulations in the chorus
ENHYPEN - DRUNK-DAZED
― oscar bravo, Monday, 26 April 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-jP2l2v4A
hot issue - "gratata" is probably my favourite kpop single so far this year
― ufo, Monday, 10 May 2021 10:08 (three years ago) link
wouldn't go quite that far but i really really like it
― oscar bravo, Monday, 10 May 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
still love them
ONEUS - BLACK MIRROR
feeling this right now, feels v 80's soundtrack to me tho
HIGHLIGHT - NOT THE END
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TWR90KJl84
new aespa track "next level" is so deeply confused i'm kinda impressed. apparently it's a cover of a track from a fast & furious soundtrack by a$ton wyld who's an artist who currently exclusively makes music for film/tv/commercials at the moment? i didn't even know that was a career angle you could have. and sm's producers shoved an entirely unrelated bridge in there and it's bizarrely disjointed even by kpop standards
― ufo, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
lol yes. was going thru today's releases earlier and watched that video and was like "what in the world?"
― oscar bravo, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I like it - I'm a sucker for anything OG SM sound with YYJ at the helm, of course, and I think the backing track is a bit besides the point - the fun is in the various vocal diversions.
― abcfsk, Monday, 17 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
was gonna say that taemin is in his imperial phase but then when isn't he?
TAEMIN - ADVICE
kinda fun
TRI.BE - RUB-A-DUM
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 14:20 (two years ago) link
20% of the time i think bibi is too minimalistic for my tastes and 80% of the time i think she's a genius
BIBI - BAD,SAD AND MAD
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 15:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMweEpGlu_U
oh the new BTS single is decent instead of insufferably bland like most of their post-western breakthrough stuff has been. still totally unambitious but like i'll take this over "dynamite" easily
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
"rub-a-dum" is quite fun indeed
― ufo, Friday, 21 May 2021 11:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RA7bi5FUM
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 11:34 (two years ago) link
that's pretty good, production in the second verse especially fun
― ufo, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 11:49 (two years ago) link
oh wow dreamcatcher are playing primavera??? wild
― ufo, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
love that everglow
and rub-a-dum is such a jam!
some recent stuff i liked:
Easy by WJSN THE BLACKhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0o2RWTKh0
Bonnie & Clyde by YUQI (from g-idle) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8yKldv_oo
Ring Ring by Rocket Punch - has some old school Sweetune vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_SmwQ06TQE
― Roz, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 02:41 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d74cH816kFQlightsum - "vanilla" is fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWEkeqJ2djMtwice go for comically tropical vibes on "alcohol-free" but somehow pull it off? by all rights this should have been unlistenable saccharine nonsense but it's actually quite enjoyable
― ufo, Friday, 11 June 2021 11:37 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQMg8-Ku3JI
eternity - "i'm real
this is totally baffling, i think the concept for the group is their faces are all generated with AI tech or something? but the end result there is really bad lol. and the music is bizarre, an uncanny valley of a pop song to go with the video? everything about it is just slightly off in a fascinating way
― ufo, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 10:24 (two years ago) link
been a couple of months since anything caught my ears. liked this tho
DPR LIVE - HULA HOOPS(ft Beenzino, Hwasa)
also
E.SO - ORGEL
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 31 July 2021 16:53 (two years ago) link
THE BOYZ - THRILL RIDE
WEEEKLY - HOLIDAY PARTY
ROCKET PUNCH - BUBBLE UP
― oscar bravo, Monday, 9 August 2021 13:20 (two years ago) link
yeah there were a few months where it seemed like there were no good songs at all, but now everything's sounding great again! Really like that Weeekly track, and "Bubble Up" reminds me of early Twice.
Love this AKMU song with IU, bit of a departure in sound for both the group and YG: NAKKA
Members of SISTAR continue making awesome summer jams post-disbandment: HYOLYN & DASOM - Summer or Summer
SF9 keeping my k-pop garage house dreams alive: SF9 - Tear Drop
Just a fun track: HYO - Second (feat. BIBI)
― Roz, Friday, 13 August 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
xposts to ufo
i finally watched that eternity video and oh my, that is terrifying but yeah weirdly compelling at the same time. I feel like there's a semblance of a decent song in there but the vocals/visuals are all wrong lol
― Roz, Friday, 13 August 2021 10:13 (two years ago) link
that's a terrific group of tracks. love the beat drop in the sf9, and the hyo is glorious as well. i am a bit of an iu agnostic but am feeling that akmu collab.
― oscar bravo, Friday, 13 August 2021 13:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RzZpV460k
new red velvet is fun, not their most exciting but it's solid
― ufo, Monday, 16 August 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
the whole mini is really good
― ufo, Monday, 16 August 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
"Queendom" was a bit disappointing I thought, but will check out the mini.
I ended up listening to the AKMU collabs EP, and it's pretty decent if a little bit all over the place, stylistically. They always have such lovely melodies. And amazed that YG allowed them to shoot videos for every song lol.
Like this one: Hey Kid, Close Your Eyes (feat. Lee Sun Hee)
― Roz, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 06:03 (two years ago) link
found 'queendom' the track to be meh, but enjoyed the mini.
― oscar bravo, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
stray kids' new one is a tad disappointing in that it's basically a retread of "God's Menu", but it's still pretty good. they definitely have settled into a signature sound: maximalist horns (helpfully telegraphed here by the lyric "horns get louder and grander, honk honk"), nonsense punctuating sounds, shifting tempos, intensity dialed up to 11.
also, their new album is titled "NOEASY" in case anyone suggests they aren't self-aware.
STRAY KIDS - Thunderous
― Roz, Tuesday, 24 August 2021 06:49 (two years ago) link
i still don't really know what to make of "savage", there's some nice sound design i guess but the song just isn't there. it's fragmented in a bad way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-kl89T3Tnw
this (ichillin' - "fresh") would be great rather than just good if they made it a little hookier but there's still a lot to like here
― ufo, Thursday, 11 November 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
love this
― nxd, Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9jhxOwcaw0
billlie - "ring x ring" is pretty decent
― ufo, Sunday, 14 November 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
^ A Kim Eana / Lee Minsoo joint
― abcfsk, Sunday, 14 November 2021 08:20 (two years ago) link
CHUNG HA - KILLING ME
also some christmas music
STRAY KIDS - CHRISTMAS EVE
found the new everglow song 'pirate' quite dizzying,to my ears there are at least 5 or 6 different bits of songs incorporated and unfortunately i only liked a couple of them. styling immaculate tho.
EVERGLOW - PIRATE
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 2 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
think i screwed up that everglow link think this one should work EVERGLOW - PIRATE
― oscar bravo, Thursday, 2 December 2021 17:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnpUv1Vj5MA
loona - "hula hoop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y40Ma6HXbw
onf - "goosebumps"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--FmExEAsM8
ive - "eleven"
"killing me" and "pirate" are fun and lmao "christmas evel" is ridiculous in a good way
― ufo, Saturday, 4 December 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUdnTGnm6Yk
It's really funny what lessons kpop producers take from current trends... "that Justin Bieber song is doing pretty well, why don't we do a song about Peaches?" XD
"Feels good to be the bad guy" and the outfits are my favorite part of this.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 4 December 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Eleven has a bit of a bland chorus but the verses really cool! The way they recorded the voices is so good.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 4 December 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
Coming in late but I'm also really into that Shin Ji Hoon ballad.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 4 December 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
just this on loop all day
FELIZ NAVIDAD FELIZ NAVIDAD I CAN FEEL THE EVIL COMING BUT FELIX NEVER BAD pic.twitter.com/jcvXu6TOyK— bangchan loops🎄 (@bchanloop) December 5, 2021
hello thread… I’ve been burned out since July or so and have found it really hard to absorb most new music, kpop or otherwise.
will catch up at some point (I hope), else see you all in 2022 <3
― Roz, Sunday, 5 December 2021 12:43 (two years ago) link
you're missed. stay well roz.
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 5 December 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link
My feelings on ILM's year end kpop-wise so far is voting for aespa savage and weeekly - after school (this one is just pure delight)
although xxp maybe I should nominated shin ji hoon if others like it now.
and I'll probably thrown in iu's upcoming album/EP. first taste:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nDzKulmSpg
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
The IU album/EP is now out on Spotify. It's very good, at least if you care about lyrics and k-singer-songwritin' stuff. Her 'Speak Now' era, no co-writers.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 11:43 (two years ago) link
Is there a 2022 thread?
Can't believe BigBang is on the Coachella 2022 lineup... honestly came here just to express my disbelief. XD
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 2 January 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
lol they were on the 2020 line-up before it was canceled by COVID. Are any of them even interested in being "Big Bang" anymore?
GD seems to be doing fashion/branding stuff full-time, Taeyang settling into dadhood, TOP is still buying expensive art and trolling kids on IG, and last I checked, Dae was apparently running an anonymous drumming youtube account lmao (the less said abt Seungri the better...)
― Roz, Monday, 3 January 2022 08:47 (two years ago) link
i don't think the 2022 lineup has been announced yet beyond ratm, who knows if it will even go ahead
very possible bigbang are still on it but who knows. there were reports they were planning a comeback single (without seungri) in early 2020 that was delayed/cancelled due to the pandemic
― ufo, Monday, 3 January 2022 09:14 (two years ago) link
rolling kpop 2022
anyway here's a 2022 thread because the got the beat track is really bizarre!
― ufo, Monday, 3 January 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link