K-pop 2013

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.

We could do the jun areia remix of I Got a Boy: http://youtu.be/JFx7AHvubNk

I'm going to nominate JYP's Had Enough Parties, I think.

I'll vote for that for sure

"had enough parties" is totally incredible and i'd vote for it too

i love the new 9muses song but then it hits me right in the disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I191r0eLdc4

You can kind of view the whole thread by using a plugin to disable flash, then using ctrl+f or whatever to search for keywords. This of course only works insofar as people say something relevant about the songs they embed...

In addition to JYP, GLAM and Sistar19, I think T-ara's "Number Nine" or "Wild" by Nine Muses were my strongest songs of the year. Wild in particular gets better every time I hear/watch it, like my shoddy faculties are able to take in just a little more of the genius.

T-ara's new "Do You Know Me" is great, especially live. Here the fanchant kind of serves as the final chorus the song needs, whereas the record fizzles out with what sounds like the bridge into a brief instrumental ending:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIJFhQnw83Y

Strangely "Do You Know Me" seemed to flop really hard on the charts.

and hey, EXID apparently are set to come back in January!

You don't need a plugin, just go to preferences and uncheck "Display Images"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3HiQDgOKY

I need an incredible late pass on this

A+, would like a spare late pass if you get one

Her new EP is also great. Younha kpop AOTY for me, maybe.

For the year-end race I will vote for I Got A Boy and Bar Bar Bar. I Got A Boy should be the most famous of them among peple outsidethis thread, even with some viralness in Crayon Pop's success. f(x) should get votes from all here in the album's race right?

And by AOTY I mean artist, not album.

That T-ara performane really is great

Did we have AOA Confused on here yet? Seems like the (visual) inspiration for Nine Muses Gun.

Also it's a really good song

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-best-k-pop-songs-of-2013

One I hadn't heard from that list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVEbTg1rErk

Speaking of Younha, my brother's really into this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ns9rA0OSFM

It is good.

Excellent cover of 2NE1's Missing You: http://youtu.be/s22U-v6wOOM?t=8s

I might've almost cried! :p

(For real though, as much as I like 2NE1, they aren't good at emoting sadness, except maybe Minzy (and Dara?). This cover, though, is, like, actually sad. The "geuriwo haeyo" part is still terrible though, even when it's being sung by someone who can actually hit the notes.)

And speaking of sad songs, I'm liking EXO First Snow a lot right now... and here's an amazing "sad version" of EXO Growl: Scans awkwardly in a few places, but the cover singer is so good. All her covers are sad but I think the schtick works particularly well for Growl.

This is a good year for winter songs in Kpop, I think. Junhyung "Flower" is another really nice one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP3n47ZQEhE

Junhyung's trademark Engrish is just out of control there! The MV is also great.

He also composed Beast's new Japanese single, "Sad Movie". It's another of their ceaseless numbers about a lost love, but I like it them all, so hey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzK3B_Dk5h4