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
I'll probably vote for Airplane and Gone Not Around Any Longer.
― freemen (on the) space (seandalai), Thursday, 12 December 2013 16:33 (ten years ago) link
We could do the jun areia remix of I Got a Boy: http://youtu.be/JFx7AHvubNk
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to nominate JYP's Had Enough Parties, I think.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
I'll vote for that for sure
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 December 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
"had enough parties" is totally incredible and i'd vote for it too
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 December 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
i love the new 9muses song but then it hits me right in the disco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I191r0eLdc4
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 December 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― centurionofprix, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
and hey, EXID apparently are set to come back in January!
― centurionofprix, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
You don't need a plugin, just go to preferences and uncheck "Display Images"
― 乒乓, Thursday, 12 December 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3HiQDgOKY
I need an incredible late pass on this
― 乒乓, Friday, 13 December 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
A+, would like a spare late pass if you get one
― Roz, Friday, 13 December 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
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?
― abcfsk, Friday, 13 December 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
And by AOTY I mean artist, not album.
― abcfsk, Friday, 13 December 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
That T-ara performane really is great
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 14 December 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
Did we have AOA Confused on here yet? Seems like the (visual) inspiration for Nine Muses Gun.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 December 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link
Also it's a really good song
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/the-best-k-pop-songs-of-2013
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 07:22 (ten years ago) link
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.
― centurionofprix, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
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.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 18 December 2013 03:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 December 2013 07:30 (ten years ago) link
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
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 19 December 2013 07:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― centurionofprix, Sunday, 22 December 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
I nominated EvoL's "Get Up" 'cause not only is it liked on this thread but it's gotten support from people I don't generally associate with K-pop (e.g., Scott Woods just put it in his eoy top ten). Which is interesting since it did fuck all on the Gaon Chart. I won't nominate anything else so as not to split votes.
Chuck Eddy listed 2YOON, Crayon Pop, and Psy over at Rhapsody. I'm growing to love the 2YOON, but it's got zilch chance of racking up the numbers. (I think Chuck also finally convinced himself it was eligible for his Country Music Critics ballot. It'll be on mine as well.)
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 22 December 2013 07:31 (ten years ago) link
My P&J ballot has two songs (including my #1 (although P&J songs aren't weighted)) that I only knew about from this thread. So thanks!
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 23 December 2013 01:38 (ten years ago) link
"Flower" touches me in a way that no Beast song has. Isn't trying to force the drama as much, but is effectively tense around that beat-beat-beat-beat.
Excited to find out that Tzechar's gender is... both!
Glenn, you've whetted my appetite.
― Frank Kogan, Monday, 23 December 2013 08:16 (ten years ago) link
Although scanning back through the thread, I see that neither song was actually mentioned here by name, so it's more accurate to say that I discovered them as a result of this thread. And, in fact, doing a little more research, I discover that one of those two is actually a two-year-old b-side, so make that one song.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 23 December 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
The older one was "Love Is..." by Brown Eyed Girls.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 23 December 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
I really like 'Flower' posted up above, love male falsettos
― 乒乓, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
And it's got a nice thumping drive to it
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, December 17, 2013 10:11 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark
Agree generally though I do really like 'Lonely', is that Minzy? I don't keep track of who sings what unfortunately ;\
― 乒乓, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link
The bestest Christmas song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4GerUWQT5I
I love the way their reaction to the out-of-place Santa Craus twerk freakout mirrors everyone else's to certain twerking k-pop girls.
― centurionofprix, Wednesday, 25 December 2013 06:12 (ten years ago) link
This is wonderful:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZOCLMk_PM
― centurionofprix, Saturday, 28 December 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
The end-of-year Gayos are *laughably* bad this year, but these two performances are everything I ever wanted from Hyorin and Co.:
One Way LoveGive It To me
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
Girl groups killing it at SBS Gayo in general actually:
Bar Bar Bar (greatly visible), The Red Shoes (great camera gaze), Pretty Pretty (rocked from the dinky side stage), All Right + Mr. Lee (PERFECT <3).
Out of the boygroups, only Infinite were having a good night, though Block B tried really hard, aha. B2ST and Teen Top had good mixes but just okay performances and the same was true for lots of other acts. I think the last Inkigayo was actually better. Holding out hope for MBC Gayo!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Really enjoyed Hyori and CL's stage, even though Hyori kind of got overshadowed a bit by the end. Massive performance. (SBS keeps blocking/pulling videos off youtube so this low-quality versh will have to do for now).
― Roz, Monday, 30 December 2013 17:15 (ten years ago) link
2NE1 made 10asia's list of worst camerawork in 2013, as well as my list of best camerawork in 2011:
http://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/12408177.html
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:04 (ten years ago) link
These are old, but I was just thinking about who I regretted not nominating for the ILX year-end poll, and Delight popped into my head... Frank or someone, you'll get them on the ballot right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfySIP2KuqQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUcMOsq72g
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:05 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I saw the list and was going to ask you about Delight and "Love & Hate" not being there.How does it work, can anyone nominate stuff? I wanna include "Pink Tape" too.
The groups I looked forward to seeing mostly kind of phoned it in on SBS, but there were nice surprises. I liked Lim Kim and Lee Hi (somehow never gave them a chance before) and the "Coming Of Age Ceremony" transition to Park Jiyoon was great, just kind of wish they'd done the whole song together. And "I Got A Boy" came across really well live.
Beast's stage on KBS was livelier:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwFEv72onqQ
man I have a total male fangirl reaction to them these days.
― centurionofprix, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 10:04 (ten years ago) link
Junhyung's smirk.
― centurionofprix, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
I think anyone can nominate. I just sort of threw mine together, if I could do it over again I'd nominate Delight, Lim Kim, and maybe Sistar19 or 4minute for the album (EP) category. I was also thinking about nominating Hyorin-Love&Hate, Vixx-Voodoo Doll and Nine Muses-Gun, but decided not to because truthfully I've only listened to them once or twice.
Then there's critical/popular faves Lee Hyori (Monochrome), f(x) (Pink Tape - already nominated I think), EXO (XOXO), Zion.T (Red Light) and Dynamic Duo (Luckynumbers), but those are being covered a lot on other sites, anyway. Plus again I've only listened to them once or twice, hahs.
I personally enjoyed Lee Hi's album (2nd half), Seungri's EP (first half), and AA's EP, but I doubted anyone else would agree with me on those.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 15:17 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of Beast, someone commented in the bad camerawork post above with this amazing performance. Yobseob is <3
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
I have 29 nomination slots left just let me know what you guys want to nominate
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link
Delight!!!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Also, some singles I considered but ended up not nominating:
Busy Signal - Same Way (NOTE: NOT KPOP) f(x) - Shadowf(x) - Step LC9 - Mama BeatKim Sori - Dual Life Myname - Just that Little ThingN.SONIC - LieOKCAT - 옥캣송 (X-Mas Ver.)Phanton ft. Navi - New EraShinhwa - This Love Super Junior M - BreakdownTaeyang - Ringa LingaTiny-G - Minimainimo VIXX - On and On
U SHD GO WITH UR <3
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
Maybe Lee Hi ft. Jennie Kim - Special, too. Also I think the Jun Areia remix of IGAB is greater than the original.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 1 January 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link