K-pop (2015)

And Zutter is great, I'm glad GD&TOP are feeling free to make the music they like and not what's public-friendly...if the general public needs a while to warm up to the song or never gets on board all the better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=maSoUetHock

And the mini this comes from is solid too https://youtu.be/uzGNybp892E?list=PLvBVZD15ofEWPQINPN-6n7PETaR6zyPho

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

Going after the military fans like Wanna.B and Nine Muses

Interesting chart from Melon - the most explosive hits of the year, or rather most listens the first 24 hours. Hard numbers, which is a nice contrast to the more opaque 'points' on the instiz chart, for example.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLr9opAUwAAQwcN.jpg

yeah, these figures are nice to see. (만 means 10,000, if anyone here doesn't already know – so in 2015 pretty much the best an artist could hope to do in the first day is around a milli on melon, which is definitely not the only platform in korea but for most songs the most popular). idk, though, whether the numbers correspond to unique listeners or listens period. if it's the latter, the domestic market is even smaller than i thought.

이용자수 means users, so yeah probably unique listeners

WG kicking it on sketchbook tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUeyuv1hS9A

wow that sounds great

guess "let's not fall in love" is the rare BB song that just takes some time to woo the korean public. just today got an all-kill (maybe it's second?), been on top of instiz for a while now. i think top is having an mtbd but yg was smart to milk this last real album cycle from them to the last drop. ("i feel you" continues to hover in 3rd and 4th with a low 100s score, though, which isn't too bad for 9 days out. i think things like the sketchbook performance and "real wonder girls" mini-docs are starting to turn the tide in the public favor, too, so we may indeed be seeing a viable future for the wonder band.)

"zutter" is pretty good, it and "bae bae" (a near-masterpiece imo) are really the only keepers from the lot for me. and from what i understand of the latest word is that MADE is just going to be the single tracks packaged together after all. i know it's a k-pop album, but 8 songs feels like a pretty thin yield for 3+ years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_k2EB33s7A

That's a lot of white people lol, but YES.

Yeah, but while there are a lot of white girls in boyband videos, female idols necking white dudes is a rare enough sight.

yeah, very different social implications there. the last time i remember there being so many foreign horndogs in a k-pop video it was lim kim's "love game," and that was practically retributive. pretty sure this clip breaks ground as a promotional strategy in korea, in at least a couple ways...

maybe more. i just awkwardly skimmed through it >_<

the sweetest k-indie thing i've found in a while

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Vcy-AoyG0

Narsha did it, but that's now five years ago.

I wonder if they had trouble finding Korean actors who were willing to party that hard on camera.

http://hypetrak.com/2015/08/american-hustle-a-conversation-with-keith-ape/
http://www.complex.com/music/2015/07/keith-ape-trap-star-interview

I wonder if they had trouble finding Korean actors who were willing to party that hard on camera.

― hurricane weather (forapper),

Well it was filmed in California

Not that there aren't a lot of Koreans in California

there are def a lot of koreans in cali who would happily be paid to party with hyuna

"francis bacon in the kitchen" unintentional pun or is TOP's mastery of English a whole lot better than he lets on?

Oh come on that's totally intentional

although also v. juvenile, in keeping with the rest of the song

finally gave into show me the money 4. black nut's the best

did you start after tzechar worked him in? XD

i'm one episode behind on infinity challenge. so far the highlight was when haha picked zion.t up late at night - and they drove around discussing ~deep things~ using yanghwa brdg as a jumping-off point. lots of zion t songs are sad but he's been pretty active, young and cheerful on the show - you could see he got into the car thinking they'd do comedy together only to realize he'd been typecast in a very different scenario lmao. was a good sport about it though. the IU/DJ GREAT PARK bits are hilarious as well.

into what? conversation? because uh...maybe... :-S

some rare topics broached, with Primary and Suran: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/primary-and-suran-mannequin-south-korea-interview

into the video i linked in my comment... guess I got too fancy with the tags, lol.

and hahaha:

https://twitter.com/yulneck/status/631441847936684032

whoops, can't embed tweets. twas this:

https://twitter.com/yulneck/status/631441847936684032

that awkward moment when staff edit out the wrong girls generation member

Nice interview with Suran and Primary

Wow, she's credited with 8 of 12 tracks huh

Missed this a few days back.. Meta and personal fave Choi Sam going IN (and interestingly uploading it through newstapa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=291&v=RVP_UN-Zrj8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=291&v=RVP_UN-Zrj8

Final attempt at embedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVP_UN-Zrj8

Translated lyrics http://hiphopkr.com/translated_lyrics/mc-meta-show-me-the-hiphop-feat-choi-sam/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVCubhQ454c

That's proper boring. Next pls

@abcfsk went ahead and check for you, maybe don't bother with the other tracks that came out today…

the reference tracks for these songs are more transparent than usual, too

at least we know the second half of the album will have "check"…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJYGddE0vHc

prechorus is nice

Yeah that's better

yea the prechorus is nice. i think it's my fav of their singles this year but... that's not really saying much.

mte

def on board with health goth sooyoung

oooooooooooh 'talk talk' is nice