New year, new thread!
Previously on ILM:
K-popK-pop 2013K-pop 2014 K-pop 2015
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 8 January 2016 00:23 (eight years ago) link
So far we've got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96es5i6FzDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H1QOFBNRWs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sy5iBXYx3E
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 8 January 2016 01:22 (eight years ago) link
Props to Dal Shabet for releasing a summer single in January!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 8 January 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
ILM's Rolling K-Pop Thread Spotify Playlist^ will update in early February
― Copy rights, pleasing all star wars fans, hiring professionals. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 8 January 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
Someone Like U is a great start to the year
― ufo, Friday, 8 January 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
I've started watching the charming new drama Cheese In The Trap (up to ep 3) from TVN, based on a web comic, like several other dramas in the past year.
Let's hear it for the webtoons, democratizing mainstream pop culture content creation in South Korea in a whole new way these past couple of years. Not only in their original form - auteurs with complete creative control allowing for new perspectives on society, new voices, social criticism, representation - but in their adapted form - changing the face of korean dramas too.
I admit that I specifically seek out Korean pop culture content created by women, because -especially as low ranked as Korea is in the OECD on gender equality rankings when it comes to ecomonic participation/power etc - it's a particularly valuable adjustment to other narratives. And while the country's ranking is low, and the entertainment industry suffers from inequality like in all other contries, I'm not sure I've EVER watched a drama that's not at least co-written by a woman, and in this particular case the drama is directed by a woman, written by two women and based on webtoon by one lady. More importantly still it's fresh and youthful storytelling. So far. I've only watched two episodes and read parts of the webcomic, which has a large fanbase already. Hyped, still pretty young-actress Kim Go Eun is the lead and she's never acted in a drama before.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 12 January 2016 08:59 (eight years ago) link
#BraveSounsUSTakeOver
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:48 (eight years ago) link
It's from last year but I somehow totally missed Brave Sounds producing for (American rapper) YG, lol.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 12 January 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
In sad but unsurprising news, KARA disbands after nine years and several lineup changes. End of an era... they had a pretty good run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYoYoBtLqOY
― Roz, Friday, 15 January 2016 10:56 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it's sad that DSP has been so bad at keeping their artists happy but these senior kpop groups have been going for awhile. Impressive career all around. They really took off in japan.
Also
Last notice for k-pop fans to please vote in the ilxor thread. Today's the last day.
― abcfsk, Friday, 15 January 2016 12:04 (eight years ago) link
thanks for the reminder. any guesses at what will place?
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 15 January 2016 21:15 (eight years ago) link
I think 4 Walls, I Feel You and Awoo all have a chance. Maybe one of the Red Velvet tracks too.
― ufo, Saturday, 16 January 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
Thx for the reminder!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 16 January 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
Voted!!!
btw here are the 31 best kpop songs of 2015 according to producer group. I only voted for a few of these...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 16 January 2016 14:25 (eight years ago) link
haha cool
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 16 January 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
i didn't realise Oh My Girl - Closer was nominated... would have voted for it. :(
― Roz, Saturday, 16 January 2016 15:17 (eight years ago) link
D: I didn't either!!!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 16 January 2016 17:30 (eight years ago) link
Stellar killing it as always:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or0CGIbVtcw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FyG8s8FvZg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 18 January 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
nice
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Monday, 18 January 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Choi Sam / Enemy https://youtu.be/TMnB0ooybb4
― abcfsk, Monday, 18 January 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
nice!!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
this came up in the ILM top songs thread but seemed worth pointing out here:Lim Kim's "Awoo" is lifting Minnie Riperton's "Les Fleurs"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1kDd6yBQZ4
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 January 2016 22:17 (eight years ago) link
damn Primary's at it again, huh
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 21 January 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
i'm actually blown away by that - I love Les Fleurs but somehow never connected it to Awoo!
Cool... but lol yeah, I'm guessing Primary never bothered to get a sample clearance.
― Roz, Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
credit to Rev for the eagle ear
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
Another easy to like catnip track from GFRIEND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VKcLPdY9lI
― abcfsk, Monday, 25 January 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
i might need to hear that a few more times to really like it. watching them dance around in the snow gave me flashbacks to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag2R7Mt8yI8
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Monday, 25 January 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sold on Rough, but I like gfriend's new mini as a whole
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
It's similar to -- but stronger than -- song than Me Gustas Tu tho, yah
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 02:56 (eight years ago) link
Star Empire going for that manic flowerboy sound for their new boygroup Imfact:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ydTrmax9o
Kinda like a Sweetune single, but with less Japanesesy 80s synth and more saxobeat
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 06:32 (eight years ago) link
that's a bit of a mess but I like it. the mix is really blurry though which is weird
― ufo, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 06:55 (eight years ago) link
lol @ manic flowerboy sound
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 29 January 2016 23:33 (eight years ago) link
it's totally a thing!!
their name is spelled "I'M FACT" apparently, and they're a lot of fun live: https://youtu.be/eKknzMGUTKc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 30 January 2016 00:48 (eight years ago) link
Dunno if this is part of the ongoing plan to promote k-indie abroad or what but I LIKE IT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3GZkxoZeU
Bonus, last year's DΞΔN x Eric Bellinger https://youtu.be/-A96vsgB1EM
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 30 January 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link
Ooops posted something in the 2015 thread
― abcfsk, Saturday, 30 January 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's not bad, but why indie?
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 30 January 2016 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Just that there's a push recently to get k-indie on the same internat'l distribution channels as the idol pop, that's all
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 31 January 2016 22:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_F9HUTYnl0
― abcfsk, Monday, 1 February 2016 05:47 (eight years ago) link
I saw these fan mash-ups and thought perhaps someone here would enjoy it...
Bang Bang Bang/Zero For ConductDoom Dada/Zero For Conduct
In my little opinion, the heavier instrumental and contrast between verse and chorus really redeem Bang Bang Bang.
― lilac, Monday, 1 February 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link
Not totally sold on 4minute but it sounds like it could be pretty awesome live
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
also the costumes are a bold choice, 4minute embracing their female fans...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
^Maybe since... 2nd half of 2015? Korean media have completely embraced the term "girl crush" for all female entertainers with a strong look appealing to female fans. Tons of articles in January using it https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=%EA%B1%B8%ED%81%AC%EB%9F%AC%EC%89%AC&safe=off&tbm=nws
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 05:24 (eight years ago) link
slim pickings this early on as to what has distribution but the playlist is updated
ILM's Rolling K-Pop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― from the perspective of a gay man, i will post them now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
<333
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link
i like 4minute's new song. i played it alongside choi sam's 'enemy' and thought it sounded p good
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 6 February 2016 14:14 (eight years ago) link
I don't like Hate much, it's quite bland. I think Skrillex produced it though?
I still can't get enough of Someone Like U, I think I like it more than any k-pop from last year.
― ufo, Saturday, 6 February 2016 15:19 (eight years ago) link
Dig Hate, especially the farty chorus.
GFriend's Rough (posted above) is somewhat surprisingly the first candidate for biggest selling song of 2016. Surprisingly because it's very similar to their previous songs (and other rookies like Lovelyz have a similar thing going on). Only somewhat, because I've felt this girl group sound is a lot catchier and more appealing to the mainstream than last time cute/non-sexy concepts were the 'thing'. What's been holding them back is very few people watch music shows and it takes some time for rookies to move beyond core k-pop fans.
I feel with these new girl groups k-pop are getting closer to a j-pop idol-ish sound foundation for cute, inoffensive catchy pop. It doesn't sound like j-pop, not the same chords, but unlike the post-Gee cutesy period there's something reliable to the output here.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 11 February 2016 06:15 (eight years ago) link
yeh i totally agree, though i don't know anything about chords the production is pretty jpopish, and it's easy/nostalgic listening while still being a bit more sophisticated, so it's got a lot of public appeal. though rough is a bit boring to me.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
catchyyyyyyy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhKFSXN2Fr4
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:45 (eight years ago) link
new AOA! kind of
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Friday, 12 February 2016 23:29 (eight years ago) link
was always a Jia guy (rip Miss A) but Fei didn't get a mention?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEF1Ah8QaXw ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 27 August 2016 04:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSm1eRvS_k0this is great
― ufo, Sunday, 28 August 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Yes please, after IU went full songwriter I've been missing this patented grand mid tempo pop from Lee Min-soo and Kim Eana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-67pGMcgW3k
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
Jay Park never trading on subtlety but this sounds pretty lush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?a=&v=-qSNMfm1rlg
― abcfsk, Saturday, 3 September 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link
The new Red Velvet single - and this is the group that set the golden standard for that brand of upbeat pop with "Happiness", `"Ice Cream Cake" and "Dumb Dumb" - is majory disappointing and just.. bad. I'm not even going to post it unles it grows magically on me.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
not getting on too well without me, i see!
"all mine" might be a Station throwaway but lol @ best pop act of the decade being "overrated," and "russian roulette" may not quite make ICC or DD muster but putting "happiness" above it would be mental (it's great (whole EP's easily the best k-pop release since The Red))
― soyrev, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like a middling SNSD song, making it an extra disappointing Red Velvet single. Verses just aren't there. Ok production makes it listenable - barely. Will have to give the EP a bit more time - some of it sounds good, some completely forgettable.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
I guess no one posted GFriend's Navillera here - it's not _quite_ as good as their previous singles, but they're still gunning for one of the more consistently good single runs.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
I agree with you the Hyuna Ep is great though.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXHJQ7CYqQM
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 September 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
She has so much charisma
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 17 September 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNc6kDLUiV4
Really takes off after the 3 min mark
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 17 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
Everyone's favorite underrated boyband (High4) are back with a rapper subunit named... wait for it... High4:20. The song is pretty good!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwp7Kfenbyo
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
I mean it's taking a lot of pages from GDYB's "Good Boy" but that's a good song too so...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 3 October 2016 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Wait why didn't anyone mention to me that SHINee had gone ahead and recorded a goddamn 2-step song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BSDV9uKEIo
― Roz, Friday, 14 October 2016 04:00 (seven years ago) link
<333 I really like '1 of 1' too!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 15 October 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
I.O.I going out on a high note:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hxg1rY17I
Also another nicely jazzy downtempo song from Ladies Code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsx9f8tdifw
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 17 October 2016 02:26 (seven years ago) link
It took me a while to warm up to Cheer Up (TWICE) but I eventually got there... Very Very Very has a similar tempo and vocal style but it sounds good right away. Though I wish they'd thought of way to end the track and not resorted to the fade out...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 17 October 2016 02:32 (seven years ago) link
I really like the direction Ladies Code have gone in since their reboot, they really suit the chic jazzy songs... especially Sojung with her kinda smoky vocal tone...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 17 October 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
Ladies Code fill a niche in the k girl group landscape, just hope they do well enough to keep doing their thing with expensive looking classy videos.
― abcfsk, Monday, 17 October 2016 06:12 (seven years ago) link
Very Very Very is def in the Gee school of earworms. And directly lifts 2 seconds of melody from Gee. I like it.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 20 October 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is updated; we got 90 songs and about 5 1/2 hours of music.
Like the new Hyuna!
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Monday, 24 October 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
New group with a solid debut song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOnK_GOR3W8
TWICE TT grew on me a lot (still don't like the MV tho):
Happy to see IMFACT again considering the financial woes of their company:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOXVTjlF2pk
And of course there's EXO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOzVyVv1HtQ
The IMFACT song is a different from what they were doing before but they kept the bratty rapping I enjoyed in Topp Dogg also. As far as EXO goes, the video is enjoyable, but the live performances are terrible as always... you'd think that with 2/3 of the vocalists in the group they'd be allowed to sing live for once...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Whoops, messed up the TWICE link... you know what, have a selfie version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wyXaRK8Q0
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 10 November 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
GUYS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchkAmc49p4
Pretty song, pretty video, pretty vocals, and pretty perfectly on-trend single from SHINEE.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 November 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
Plus more easy-listening rnb:
Nu'est - Look https://youtu.be/rKNL7eME7JYJunggigo - Nocture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVNfYP-3eA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Sistar on that tatu - all about us game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4TygUpWUTQ
― abcfsk, Monday, 21 November 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
Lmao it really does sound like tatu!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
It's the processing on the vocals and the 90s anime italodisco backtrack making it sound like that, right?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 23 November 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
So far, the only K-pop-related performer that I can find speaking out or demonstrating against Park Geun-hye is Lee Joon, ex of MBLAQ. Are there any more? I'm not shocked there aren't a lot - likely many have contracts that limit such things - but I'd still expect more than there are. She's down to a 5% favorability rating, so I wouldn't think there'd be a lot of risk here. I know that in South Korea the government can boost or limit artists, more so than in the U.S. or Western Europe. This would seem to provide plenty of motivation to work against her, to try to change the system or at least to keep friends of Park's from being the ones who wield the hammer. That's what the scandal is basically about, extortion and influence-peddling, right? Anyway, I'd think that you'd find anti-Park feeling among the Brown Eyed Girls and Hwang Soo Ah and thereabouts.
Other prominent music performers in the demonstrations are Jeon In-kwon and Lee Seung-hwan, neither of whom I previously knew anything about (but both got started prior to K-pop, right?) and rock group Crying Nut.
(I'm wondering if anyone's talked to Shin Jung-hyeun, who was imprisoned and tortured by Park Geun-hye's dad. He's 78 now. I gather that in his heyday he was something like a cross between Jimi Hendrix and Berry Gordy.)
Also, has anybody here been following the scandal well enough to know what's going on with Cha Eun-taek and whether he was genuinely part of Choi Soon-sil's circle? He's been arrested, and an AP story says prosecutors are seeking to indict him. But I feel that even on a board as obscure as ilX I shouldn't be glib about whom I'm connecting to scandals and such: I'm thinking of how the constant repetition of phrases like "T-ara bullying scandal" and "Clinton email scandal" had such a destructive effect, convincing members of the public who actually knew nothing about it that T-ara and Clinton must have done something deeply wrong, even though there was no actual evidence. In any event, I know almost nothing about the current scandal. Fyi, Cha directed the video for my favorite K-pop song (T-ara's "I Go Crazy Because Of You"); he directed perhaps my favorite K-pop video ever, at least one of my top five, T-ara's "Roly-Poly"; also "Cry Cry"; also the Japanese version of "Bo Peep Bo Peep"; also Lee Hyori's "U Go Girl"; also 2NE1's "Go Away." I wouldn't say, from my distance, the attitudes in these vids are socially challenging. But they do seem vaguely feminist, and there is nothing remotely reactionary or traditionalist about them. And they are good. (And Cha took the risk of speaking up for T-ara when they were under attack.) He's accused (by whom? on the basis of what evidence? not that there probably isn't a lot, just expressing my ignorance here) of wielding power in the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
By the way, I miss abcfsk and hurricane weather over on my lj, if you or anyone else would like to drop by.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 26 November 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
I haven't been quality-commenting on anyone's LJ recently but I'm listening to your top 2016 singles now, Frank.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 November 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
Frank, I don't have a stream for livejournal so have to rely on suddenly getting the idea to visit the place. I missed out on you posting some solid kpop content this month so I'll get to that now.
I think there are a few who have spoken out against the scandal. I remember thinking "wow, this is a special case" when I saw a girl group member posting an instagram photo of the downtown demonstrations - but a quick look now didn't jog my memory on who it was. In any case, when active idols feel safe with a political statement like that it's something. I also feel like I've read a few stories about angry tweets but can't remember who now.
Lee Hyori and a few friends put out a protest song (ballad) https://youtu.be/hXEjZTdCr4w
About BEG and Hwang Soo AH, both Kim Eana and her husband Loen's Cho Young-cheol have been at the demonstrations.
None of this would've come to light now, btw, if it wasn't for the awesome students at Ewha Women's University who tirelessly protested for weeks earlier this fall after suspecting rotten play at the top - leading to the discovery of secret players.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 27 November 2016 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Lee Hyori's a big deal. The protest ballad - "Abandoned By The Side Of A Street," by Lee Seung-hwan ft. Lee Hyori and Jeon In-kwon, produced by Lee Kyo-ho - now has a part two featuring a cast of over a hundred. Soompi reports the performers include Lyn, Sweet Sorrow, Ha Dong Kyun, Rooftop Moonlight, and Shin Dae Chul of Sinawe. Of these, I'd only heard of Lyn and Sinawe, though that doesn't tell you anything about how prominent they might be. Still, not much idol participation. And except for metal guy Shin Dae Chul, the new listed performers seem to be from the ballad/legit singer or respectable indie wing of showbiz.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 27 November 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
2016's most unlikely feud: Wiz Khalifa vs Taeyeon
― abcfsk, Saturday, 3 December 2016 16:40 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/hyk0505/status/805063085950169089
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 December 2016 15:52 (seven years ago) link
You'd have thought someone one the awards show staff would've checked these issues beforehand... or bothered to communicate them to the foreign star who flew all the way out to perform...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 December 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
But then a story about technical incompetence at a KPOP awards show, and a story about an SM star being suddenly hospitalized are equally believable, so.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 December 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
And the most believable explanation of all is that SM nixed this over concerns about the optics - he's too "tall" standing next to Taeyeon, they don't look "good" on stage together, etc.
Control-freak image management and a dash of racism.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 December 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
And there's Taeyeon's previous racist remarks and rumored diva attitude in the mix, too.
I dunno, the more I think about it the more clear it is which side fucked up here.
SM probably busy burying the news stories and hoping this will just go away, the MAMAs only had like a 1.5% viewership rating in Korea.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 4 December 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
playlist updated.
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Sunday, 4 December 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
'tis the season of christmas rnb singles (yay)
older group, down to 3 members:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQwAri7qFRg
new group, mixed gender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPTcKSVAEvA
and if you like the standard christmas ballad sound (like me) you can try Heize's "Star" too:
https://youtu.be/XUR8QByF2As
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
Going through some year-end stuff and found this Nine Muses song from August... didn't realize they were still promoting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb6v2Uma82w
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 26 December 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
Final playlist roundup for the year. I went through the thread top to bottom and updated the Spotify list (also added a handful of other recommended tracks that I got into this year) and scratch-built a YouTube playlist to include everything that _wasn't_ on Spotify. Enjoy!
ILM's Rolling K-Pop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist - Final
ILM's Rolling K-Pop Thread 2016 YouTube Playlist - Final
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 06:44 (seven years ago) link
One more try:
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 06:45 (seven years ago) link
Thx ulysses!
I guess we didn't coordinate anything for the year-end poll, huh? All I see on there are Hyuna and BTS.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 9 January 2017 02:30 (seven years ago) link
Does anyone want to start a 2017 thread? I think Jan 2017 will be stronger than Jan 2016, a bunch of pretty decent tracks are already out.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 9 January 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, January 8, 2017 7:30 PM (forty-nine seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i nominated ladies' code!
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, 9 January 2017 02:31 (seven years ago) link
no albums really stood out to me this year but certainly voting for dalshabet, ladies' code, luna, and taeyon in the tracks poll, maybe more. there were a lot of singles i really liked this year
― ufo, Monday, 9 January 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
For what it's worth, I nominated Brave Girls ("Deepened") and BTS ("Blood, Sweat & Tears"), and the EXO and BTS albums. Other non-thread contributors may have nominated other tracks/albums.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 9 January 2017 07:19 (seven years ago) link