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).
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 21 November 2013 22:42 (ten years ago) link
omg subdee I just saw you posted the Wa$$up mini on Omona too. small English-speaking-kpop world
― Andrew Kornfan, Friday, 22 November 2013 18:12 (ten years ago) link
everything I post here comes directly from Omona, and if it's not already on Omona, I put it there, haha.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 22 November 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 25 November 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link
<3 Hyolyn's album
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 26 November 2013 01:19 (ten years ago) link
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.
― centurionofprix, Thursday, 28 November 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
You gotta listen to the whole album, ceturion! It's a mood album so a rock song would be out of place.
(The songs on this album do sound similar to other songs in the Sistar19/Electroboyz vein that Brave Brothers has established. But I'm okay with that, especially with Hyorin's lovely voice.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 November 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYY_rV78pLk#t=72
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 04:55 (ten years ago) link
And the rest of the mini is also really good!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 04:58 (ten years ago) link
They should stick with this ultra-theatrical dance style forever.. I hope they continue to play up their lisps, too.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvF3Mr3F_h0
Composed by AJ of U-Kiss! If their agency had more faith in them/any sense, they'd have promoted this in Korea and not the bargain-bin Brave Brothers track they ended up with (as much as I like Brave Brothers).
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
I need to check out Hyorin's album. History song is pretty decent - don't think I've listened to them before.
The teaser for Tasty's latest had been promising too but meh... I feel like new jack K-pop should be way better than this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plCqaQ4S9vA
― Roz, Friday, 29 November 2013 09:39 (ten years ago) link
You're right HW, having now given Hyolin's album a proper listen, taken as a whole it *is* quite amazing! I was really into that teaser though. :( Maybe she could have done it as a single while saving restraint and taste and emotion and whatever for the album version.
"Red Lipstick" is my favourite of the non-title tracks.
Odd Eye the string pop group returned with ballady "Never":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHOeP3upiiQ
― centurionofprix, Friday, 29 November 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
The album is great right??? Right now I like "Tonight" and "Don't Love Me" the most.
I think Tasty's single would be good if they were better singers.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
also I like the way Love & Hate seems to stay in character with the gestalt girl from the Sistar singles, only with the nuance of a full album. Maybe it's something about Hyolin's voice that occasions the ever-so-slight sense of being, I don't know, run down. I mean there's plenty of sorrow in the songwriting itself, but the dramatic persona has a special sense of desolation about her that seems to come from between the lines here as well as in the Sistar songs. I don't know how to express it. It's that Brave Brothers magic, probably.
― centurionofprix, Friday, 29 November 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
and not just desolation, but the joyous bits as well. Like there's the sense of the dramatic person's weariness and hopes mingling with whatever the song happens to be about that time. This isn't exactly what I'm trying to say, but maybe you'll get it.
― centurionofprix, Friday, 29 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
I think it comes from Hyolyn, and that's why Brave Brothers likes to write for her (and Sistar) so much.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Roz, History are a group put together by LOEN, the music distributor. They're all interesting people - really funny on shows - but their last single was kind of really bad, so I'd kind of written them off. One of them, Song Kyung-il, was in Nuthang Crew with GDragon and TOP, and ran around with them during their every-night-a-different-club days.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 29 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
oh dear, TZECHAR has returned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlTIHevF44
(you should watch it in full screen.)
― centurionofprix, Sunday, 1 December 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of TZECHAR, did you see the article about them in Vice? I thought of a lot of different identities for TZECHAR, but I never guessed they'd be two people working together.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 1 December 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
http://thump.vice.com/words/i-tracked-down-the-elusive-k-pop-remixer-tzechar
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 1 December 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
Fightin' in the female MC community.. after Tymee (evia)'s go in the 'Control' chaos Jolly V calls her out, mentions Kitti B as well https://soundcloud.com/officialslsd/jolly-v-bad-bitches
Tyme responds https://soundcloud.com/tymee/tymee-from-your-bitch-dissKitti B responds https://soundcloud.com/kittib/kittib-im-a-woman
― abcfsk, Sunday, 1 December 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
More interesting is the all-female rnb/hip hop crew called out by Jolly V that Kitti B is a part of , which I meant to mention here ages ago: AMRT/Amourette - some good debut singles this year, smooth rnb, good vibes; The interesting twist is that all the (rnb) members produce their own singles: Nieah - Belief http://youtu.be/li7kUuy_nhcHoody - My Ride: http://youtu.be/QJZFndxn9oc
https://www.facebook.com/Amourette2013?filter=1
― abcfsk, Monday, 2 December 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
Nice!
If the point to the beef was to get some publicity, mission accomplished, I guess.
Also Nieah and 2NE1's Minzy sound eerily alike.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 2 December 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
Crayon Pop's Christmas single is cute. SNSD's Chinese OST song is good! Gummy and Weesung's new duet is also really good.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 2 December 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Jolly V wins. The translation doesn't say; does she invoke or diss Eminem and Outsider there?Tymee and Kitty's English interjections are hysterical though.
It turns out my favourites The Seeya and SPEED aren't dead, and neither is the gwiyomi, apparently. Both groups have been rolled out of the CCM vault recently; here they perform "Painkiller" together at the Mongolia CCM show.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saePlPp0wd0
I really like JeA-composed "Scandal" from Ailee's last album.
― centurionofprix, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 03:10 (ten years ago) link
I mean the lyrics, not the translation.
Anyway, that is interesting about TZECHAR! I was wondering why some of it is called Lam Suet.Some of their work, like the Seungri remix above, really is amazing.
― centurionofprix, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 03:17 (ten years ago) link
Gwiyomi lives on mainly as a form of bullying.
That performance is really good!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 03:23 (ten years ago) link
Aw, I did not know that (though perhaps ought to have guessed). They make the person recite it?
― centurionofprix, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 16:08 (ten years ago) link
I was kind of joking, but yeah the whole point is to make the target do something embarrassing XD. (Or at least pretend-embarrassing.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 7 December 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
hahaha. I'm slow, you'll have to dumb these quips down a bit next time.
this is... ANOTHER JYP PRODUCTION.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-GhkCWuihA
love this song.
― centurionofprix, Sunday, 8 December 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
another larger-than-life JYP creation... this is our story.
― centurionofprix, Sunday, 8 December 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
I could have sworn that was earlier in the thread somewhere, but I can't open this thread anymore without crashing my browser, so good job digging it out centurion haha.
(BTW for other people who are having trouble loading the whole thread, I have a playlist of top picks from the last four months in Kpop, mostly taken from here. JYP is on there!)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 8 December 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Haven't really been following K-pop but
Are we nominating anything for the ILM year-end poll?
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
Looking at what I like, the only artists that might have a chance are G-Dragon, f(x) and TOP
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
xchuckx eddy put something on his Rhapsody top 50 tracks list I saw linked on Facebook but doh, I forget
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 December 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
One of the tracks that made it to Singles Jukebox maybe? I'd support Doom Dada, I Got a Boy, What's Your Name, Gone Not Around Any Longer, I Like That, even they aren't my personal favorites of the year.
Right now I want to see Crayon Pop's Lonely Christmas on a year-end list, and 2PM's A.D.T.O.Y.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Oh and someone ought to nominate "Gentleman" just for lols
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:44 (ten years ago) link
Oh My God I should have used my TSJ Amnesty Week to talk about 2PM. Or JYP's old person makeup! brb drowning in regret
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:47 (ten years ago) link
Actually what I really want to see on a year-end list right now is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEE99UmpKQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 03:56 (ten years ago) link
Love GD but nothing he put out this year belongs on the ILM EOY list imo. Will prob vote for TOP, f(x) and Sistar19.
Also I saw someone nominated "Bar Bar Bar", and there's a perverse part of me that badly wants to inflict Crayon Pop on the ILM masses.
― Roz, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:28 (ten years ago) link
Lololol we should try to get crayon pop on the EOY
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:35 (ten years ago) link
But... Bar Bar Bar :( I'd support any other Crayon Pop song besides that one!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
JUMPING! Yeah! JUMPING! Yeah!
― Roz, Thursday, 12 December 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
I nommed I Got a Boy and Doom Dada, would enthusiastically get behind either as consensus pick. I don't get Bar Bar Bar.
Any thoughts on the album list? Pink Tape is going near the top of mine for sure, might it have any chance of making it?
― Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 12 December 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
Went ahead and nominated Rum Pum Pum PUm, seems to be the highest scoring K-pop single on TSJ this year
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
I was going to vote for Airplane, cause I like it more, but am okay with voting for Rum Pum Pum Pum if that's what everyone wants (don't want a repeat of the BigBang vote-splitting from last year).
xpost voting for Pink Tape too, it's the only K-pop album I really loved this year.
― Roz, Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Rum Pum Pum Pum is far from my favourite on Pink Tape but same, I'd get behind it too.
I wonder if I Got a Boy is the most likely to have made an impression on non K-Pop followers, or if that is overestimating the impact of the YouTube award and stuff.
― Iain Mew (if), Thursday, 12 December 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Agree that Airplane is better than RPPP
Well there's a few weeks left yet to decide
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 December 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link