K-pop 2013

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.

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.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYY_rV78pLk#t=72

And the rest of the mini is also really good!

They should stick with this ultra-theatrical dance style forever.. I hope they continue to play up their lisps, too.

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).

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I think it comes from Hyolyn, and that's why Brave Brothers likes to write for her (and Sistar) so much.

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.

oh dear, TZECHAR has returned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlTIHevF44

(you should watch it in full screen.)

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.

http://thump.vice.com/words/i-tracked-down-the-elusive-k-pop-remixer-tzechar

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-diss
Kitti B responds https://soundcloud.com/kittib/kittib-im-a-woman

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_nhc
Hoody - My Ride: http://youtu.be/QJZFndxn9oc

https://www.facebook.com/Amourette2013?filter=1

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.

Crayon Pop's Christmas single is cute. SNSD's Chinese OST song is good! Gummy and Weesung's new duet is also really good.

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.

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.

Gwiyomi lives on mainly as a form of bullying.

That performance is really good!

Aw, I did not know that (though perhaps ought to have guessed). They make the person recite it?

I was kind of joking, but yeah the whole point is to make the target do something embarrassing XD. (Or at least pretend-embarrassing.)

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.

another larger-than-life JYP creation... this is our story.

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!)

Haven't really been following K-pop but

Are we nominating anything for the ILM year-end poll?

Looking at what I like, the only artists that might have a chance are G-Dragon, f(x) and TOP

xchuckx eddy put something on his Rhapsody top 50 tracks list I saw linked on Facebook but doh, I forget

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.

Oh and someone ought to nominate "Gentleman" just for lols

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

Actually what I really want to see on a year-end list right now is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uEE99UmpKQ

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.

Lololol we should try to get crayon pop on the EOY

But... Bar Bar Bar :( I'd support any other Crayon Pop song besides that one!

JUMPING! Yeah! JUMPING! Yeah!

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?

Went ahead and nominated Rum Pum Pum PUm, seems to be the highest scoring K-pop single on TSJ this year

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.

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.

Agree that Airplane is better than RPPP

Well there's a few weeks left yet to decide

I'll probably vote for Airplane and Gone Not Around Any Longer.