K-pop 2013

Popjustice users' 2012 k-pop chart http://youtu.be/4p_uccueTlE

What I'm getting from this is that 2012 was Sweetune's Year (and Popjustice thinks girl groups >>> boy groups).

But I don't disagree with it, though, XD.

My list would have also included Brave Girls (Nowadays You), Chocolat (One More Day), Shinhwa (Venus), Xia Junsu (Talentalegra), Block B (Nalili Mambo), JJ Project (Bounce), Secret (Talk That), Crazyno (Musiche), Crispi Crunch (Menboong Time), Dalshabet (Have Not Have), Teen Top (Be My Girl), BEAST (Midnight), more T-ara (Sexy Love, Lovey Dovey), more ZE:A (Love is Gone, Aftermath), and Boyfriend (Love Style).

new miss A is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp0F18FFCTE

(also girl groups >>> boy groups)

In general, yeah, but not in every case.

Like this Miss A song, for instance, is not very good.

yeah I don't love it; those two points weren't related.

disappointed with miss a. They are usually so fresh.

grimez hipped me to AOA, i love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn_g7aWGoU

Ya, though I sometimes wish they were purely a band, instead of this odd band/dance group hybrid. Like this is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3mYbFtC0w

I really like this new Mr.Mr track - such a sucker for that mid-00s The-Dream/Ne-Yo sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pM9l0jndYI

I think they might be my favourite boy rookies? They recently added a new member who is - surprise! - still not a rapper. Instead, they got one of the original members to rap. They really didn't need a rapper tbh but I guess it's kind of expected of them.

I want to be Brave Brothers stan buddies, hurricane weather.
miss A's album has some good songs on it from other producers, imo.
"Come On Over"
"Love Is U"

Here is Taeyang's GD-produced "Ringa Linga":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1y-4mXIL0

I like it, though the prechorus hook seems to promise a soaring, ultra-cheesy club anthem chorus and instead gets smothered by the locked-in ringa-linga-lang. The production kicks. MV will be out in a couple of hours, too.

hahah, now it didn't embed. oh well.

that's really geat (mr.mr)

the mr.mr track is exactly the kind of song I wanted Taeyang to do lol. Then again, since he is the ur-guy for this sort of thing in K-pop, I can see why he might want to try something different instead.

Too bad Ringa Linga is just okay. He seems a little tired here though, which is weird because he's usually the most energetic one in BB.

MR MR are great on stage too!!!

centurionofprix, I would love to be Brave Brothers stan buddies with you! Have you ever listened to the mini album he did with One Two - Walala Lalale? Everything on it is good, I still listen to "Starry Night" all the time.

VIXX prerelease track from upcoming album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LCqaYKluQ

This video shot in Sweeden >>> BAP's "Coffee Shop"

Ringa Linga is so trendy, lol challenging Zebra Katz and Ylvis at the same time! Great song though. I love how Taeyang changes his vocal tone.

Lol YG, late as usual, but here's the Ringa Linga video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfZ69MSlvY

I think I might like the one-take dance version better. Also legit confused for a sec during some of the car scenes where Taeyang looked exactly like GD and vice versa.

girls' generation galaxy has been on for 50h mv loop quicktime mp4, i sing along (state of k-pop 2013 locla time)

I see Taeyang finally decided to take that car ride with GDragon (compare with the video for "Blue"), hah.

Okay, can this go viral immediately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sLA8jmcFps

And here's a throwback to pre-2008 Kpop: Way To Your Heart.

TOP's solo track is a banger.

https://soundcloud.com/bubblefeetgravitych3/doom-dada

Best part is where he rhymes Korean with Basquiat, obvs.

― Roz, Friday, November 15, 2013 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

crossposting myself from the BigBang thread

there's a Bigbang thread?!

lol yes! uh, started it in the midst of an overwhelming obsession with them last year:

BIGBANG: K-pop princes of gender-fuckery and family dysfunction

ahh awesome! ty

I've been meaning to put something in that thread about the GD ♥ Hyundeong Infinity Challenge collab, haha. There's a part in TOP's song that sounds like Don's "hong" rap (but maybe this came first).

(If you wanna know what I'm talking about, it starts here about 22 minutes in.)

(Because the "it" in this case is obviously not the song, but the entire reality show/sketch comedy/soap opera surrounding the song.)

TOP's song, on the other hand, is a self-contained unit of ART and greatness.

It's not Kpop, but here's a Korean indie song: http://youtu.be/2SBEWT_WEZI

Speaking of, is the Norazo song really that bad? It's just a wacky novelty song, isn't it? Unless 'wacky novelty song' is a bad thing in itself...

Also not Kpop(?), but here's your whistling-hook RnB song for the day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ssi34lxko

I hadn't heard Walala Lalale, HW. Thank you. Speaking of great Brave Brothers productions, I guess it's pretty famous but do you know Son Dam-bi's "Tears"?

Hyolin's coming out with a solo album on the 26th. (including tracks by the man himself as well as nugus like Duble Sidekick and Kim "Time To Love" Do-Hoon)

2EN1 released "Missing You", which I reckon on first impression is one of their best. Not sure yet how much of that is due to being hyped about the video, though. Dara-noona so pretty!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0jlKdB1s0

I didn't love the song on first listen—I'm not much for ballads—but it's definitely growing on me. You're right, though, the video is amazing. (I didn't realize CL had that much ink.)

the song is super weird! it starts off like some sort of smoky r&b thing then becomes a jazz piano ballad? it ends on its bridge?

Yeah they all look and sound amazing and the production is gorgeous, but the more I listen to it the more I think the song itself is a bit of a mess. It seems like they applied the whole three-songs-in-one arrangement on a ballad.

I knew Tears but I forgot how great it is, thank you c :) I'm excited for Hyorin's single too!

2NE1 song is seasonally appropriate but I agree with Brad and Roz, it's not cohesive at all, and the impact is lost when it switches modes. Right now I'm not impressed.

Speaking of ballad season, from 100%: http://youtu.be/dLqQtJQQlhI

^ Prefer this Missing You to 2NE1's

Wa$$up's mini is great, guys. (Here.)

Every song on here is a <s>summer</s> jam! Eagerly awaiting NaDa's full-length solo.

Bang Bang and Galaxy, especially, are the two I'm enjoying right now.

Thinking about it some more, they seem to have a lot of South American fans... maybe their label (SONY Music Korea) is timing this release for the start of summer in the Southern Hemisphere?

I'm surprised that's not more of a thing given the size of fandoms in South and Central America; it seems like it'd be useful to have at least one member of your group speak Spanish or Portuguese alongside the usual Japanese-English-Chinese-Korean (I am going to call this JECK if indeed I ever mention it again)

You'd think. There's a member of U-Kiss who speaks Spanish (badly) and it seems to earn them a lot of points.

I'm not sure about Brazilians, but most Portuguese speak at least a little English. I was told this is because Portugal isn't a big enough country for movie and TV dubbing so they watch everything in English (with subtitles).

omg subdee I just saw you posted the Wa$$up mini on Omona too. small English-speaking-kpop world

everything I post here comes directly from Omona, and if it's not already on Omona, I put it there, haha.

Dance track from the newest quote-unquote "hip hop collective":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3gf--ipCc

Like I said on omona, I think the weakness of the vocals is actually a strength, cause they can just be processed into the (nicely minimal) beat.

<3 Hyolyn's album

It's like the two best tracks from Give It To Me, but a whole album of them

Hyolin's "Lonely" is great, but I'm disappointed "One Way Love" didn't keep the sensational rock arrangement from the teaser (which is looking to end up more popular than the song itself, at least as far as views on youtube go). The hard-rocking instrumentation had so much potential given her voice and style, and also because a perfect fit for her proclaimed aim of emerging as a "true diva". It's good as it is, only a bit like her usual rather than the declaration of hyperior grooviness suggested by the teaser.

T-ara have been teasing their comeback; here is the original 1977 "What Should I Do" by the Sand Pebbles, of which T-ara's song is going to be some kind of a reimagining:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK8EnxOSfx0

And live in 2006. The song's kind of brilliant.