xp Well it's happened before.. in any case she's releasing a digital single that's not that song in ten minutes, so the Big Bang reign of terror on the charts could end
― abcfsk, Sunday, 17 May 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link
IDK abcfsk, Loser got a *perfect* score on Inkigayo yesterday. But then it was also Taeyang's birthday.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Listening to SHINEE's album, so far it all sounds like Jonghyun.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
it gets a bit weirder, and then a bit less weird.
"trigger" is by far my favorite. up there w/ "one minute back" as their most progressive, visionary music...then "alive," which is a bit more linear but still wild how i like it. "view" could've really benefited from some added odd in the bridge and/or last chorus, and has some pretty iffy editing decisions (mistakes?) if you listen carefully, but on the whole has a nice grace/balance to its general vibe, which no k-pop act has even attempted to date (let alone as a single)
― soyrev, Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
xp Well music shows are a different story, and she won't be promoting it there (or anywhere) anyway. Will definitely top instiz though.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
will be interesting to see how "view" does in korea. i guess SM is placing a bet on the burgeoning edm/house/ultra market in korea also having an interest in that kind of sound combined w/ idol pop, which is definitely not as sure a thing as is, say, "loser" (or a new IU ballad)
― soyrev, Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
If any SM act could pull it off it'd SHINEE, they've got some credibility as musicians with the general public from what I understand
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
I keep hearing fx "Shadow" in Romance. But yeah Trigger, Alive and View are the standout tracks for me too.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 17 May 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, May 18, 2015 12:47 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
B-but there's so much Key and Onew on it.
solid record, liking' the summer house ~vibes~. "Woof Woof" is basically their musical theatre side gone gonzo - so cheesy and terrible, but also weirdly right for this post-Uptown Funk world.
Other than "Odd Eye", could do without any of the slow-tempo ballads though ("Skip the boring bits!" okay, Key).
― Roz, Sunday, 17 May 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Trigger is fun, dig it when Kenzie goes batshit. Some other cool sounds on the album for sure. Still prefer the IU song, though.
I had to laugh at my own SUPERIORITY in k-pop listening when I arrived at the last track on Shinee's album (which threw me off since it's so.. traditional) and immediately made the connection with Jessica and Onew's ballad 'One Year Later'from 2009, and true enough, same guy wrote it. I really liked that song back then. Well I still do. It made me fall in love with Jessica's nasal voice as well.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 17 May 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link
@abcfsk nice ear on that!
and yeah two k-ballads on an 11-track shinee album is excessive, to say the least. especially when one is the closer and the shinee album is called 'odd'
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 00:16 (nine years ago) link
what's a good international/western hit analogue for "view?" for me it just calls to mind stuff like disclosure and clean bandit (and uh, the verse melodies are sort of like that one good chromeo song), but there's a modesty here in arrangement/vibe (very little aggression) that feels different from those groups' hits for me. i looked up what else i could find by LDN noise but that stuff's even less close than disclosure, i think
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
I think Kiss My Lips is by far the better song, but Who Are You is showing some great longevity in the face of new releases, still instiz top 5. Happy she gets that hit even if it's not the song that deserves to be huge.
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Not the first time this year a buzz single / b-side / whatever turns out become the real hit, though.
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
where on earth is the "view" video tho? i feel like this could really hurt their impact this time out
― soyrev, Monday, 18 May 2015 16:58 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF53cptEE5k
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 07:38 (nine years ago) link
love it
― soyrev, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 08:10 (nine years ago) link
not a dance-in-a-box video, yay! also it's nice to see SM has finally discovered instagram filters.
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 May 2015 13:23 (nine years ago) link
The indie aesthetic MV teased by f(x) and partially achieved by Red Velvet finally arrives
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Make sure you eat your meals even if you're tired, guys https://youtu.be/Ibb5RhoKfzE
Prefer Zero Gravity but this is touching, and he spent about 70% of his #hashtag interview talking about Crush which was cute
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 23:53 (nine years ago) link
Wait, were SHINee kidnapped?
And did one of the kipnappers break a beer bottle over Minho's head at 2:16?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
yea they were fake kidnapped by a bunch of hot girls so that they can all go buy beer and party. and then at the bar some dude hits on one of the girls, Minho goes to rescue her, gets a beer bottle over his head and then he gets laid while presumably recovering from a beer bottle-induced headache. SHINee, living out every k-pop boyband's dream.
― Roz, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 01:10 (nine years ago) link
People spent a good amount of time from the teaser release date to now discussing whether the girls in the video were white and then realizing they were thai and then actually half thai in various ways.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 08:36 (nine years ago) link
One of the things I love about the pretty simple IU single is the consonance of sh and ch sounds and the wave of harmonies crashing in on them.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 08:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't think they were fake-kidnapped... I think they were actually kidnapped (or in a best-case scenario, thought-kidnapped) and what follows is a sasaeng fantasy that SM & SHINee are too polite too contradict. That's why the police sirens play at the end.
In other words the MV is definitely a dream, but whose dream is it? Idols present according to their fans' dreams.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
"Reality" is in black and white, "fantasy" is in color... the scene where Minho "agrees" to be kidnapped is in color while the kidnapping is in black and white. The MV ends before we go back to reality.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Leading the charge into normcore on MCountdown https://youtu.be/mvhJfM2BPSA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 22 May 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2015/05/22/diplo-cl-riff-raff-og-maco-dr-pepper
― misterjoshua, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:40 (nine years ago) link
CL's verse is the best I think. Nothing too special, and not sure if this'll be winning too many fans of ATL rap, but good for what it is.Riff Raff and OG Maco aren't doing anything too out there either which makes it somewhat more accessible for k-pop fans I guess.
― misterjoshua, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
man that zion.t hashtag interview is great and that phone call was amusing
― misterjoshua, Friday, 22 May 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Isn't it??? Zion.TxCrush 4ever.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 22 May 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
http://www.xxlmag.com/rap-music/new-music/2015/05/listen-riff-raff-og-maco-diplo-cl-doctor-pepper/
xxl on the money w/ "CL doing a pitch-perfect impression of urban radio’s biggest pop stars," been trying to place those for a couple days now. 0:54 is an obvious (almost spooky) rihanna, anyone catching other clear vibes?
― soyrev, Saturday, 23 May 2015 04:02 (nine years ago) link
Nicki, specifically Nicki on "Did It On Em" which CL has covered before.
― Roz, Saturday, 23 May 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
It's not just because I'm not cultured enough that this track sounds lazy, right?
Cause I listen to urban radio and like... Riff Raff's verse sounds like it was phoned in (literally - or sent as an LQ email attachment more likely), and the flash of sadness at "always traveling" is the most interesting thing about CL's delivery... but then it's hard to believe the rest of her tough-girl delivery.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 24 May 2015 04:36 (nine years ago) link
Thinking very seriously about going to KCON NYC, if the tickets aren't highway robbery.
Meanwhile if you are just starting to learn English (or Hangul), SISTAR are going to teach you some very basic phrases/symbols: https://youtu.be/zlwsggJUwuI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
YOUR BODY. WOW BODY.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
not sure if i'd call the track lazy but it's very -safe-also ahaha i def laughed at "your body wow body"
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlU34DloDY
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
ha the first 30 seconds made me think of daphne & celeste, though that was just because of that girl's voice (dunno names at all atm). song is pretty alright albeit well-produced
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 28 May 2015 03:57 (nine years ago) link
also man that new kara mini is a dud
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 28 May 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
Wow I love this, especially coming from CLC who were a bit generic before.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 May 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ips2mM7Zqw
― misterjoshua, Monday, 1 June 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
what a mess of a song :/
― Roz, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
and oh god, "we like 2 party" is even worse. omona otm, it sounds like Teenage Dirtbag: https://soundcloud.com/k2nblog19/big-bang-we-like-2-party/s-K6WPI
― Roz, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
ahaha oh god
― misterjoshua, Monday, 1 June 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
I hear "Beverly Hills" by Weezer
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Monday, 1 June 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
yeah I think they were going for One Direction and somehow ended up somewhere in early to mid-00s radio rock instead.
― Roz, Monday, 1 June 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Wow that's embarrassing
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 1 June 2015 22:10 (nine years ago) link
Though I'm looking at the dogs in GD's other videos differently now
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 1 June 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
"Ready <b>or not</b>, if we don't give them what they want..."
Emphasis mine
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 1 June 2015 22:15 (nine years ago) link