revenge fantasy?
― barthes simpson, Friday, 5 October 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like Miryo's "Dirty", maybe.
― if, Friday, 5 October 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
that's it, thanks. stayed with me for some reason.
― Milton Parker, Friday, 5 October 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Miss A "don't need a man" http://youtu.be/EkSOOiMDGiY
― abcfsk, Monday, 15 October 2012 06:11 (eleven years ago) link
hi
― Bummy G. Baumgartner (buzza), Monday, 15 October 2012 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
Tablo "Don't Hate Me" is so disturbing, dude has fallen HARD for the GD/YG Family cult (compare video for Don't Hate Me with the videos for GDragon CraYon and One of a Kind to see what I mean). Good on the other guys in Epik High for standing by him and supporting him in this bizarre new artistic direction and time in his life, though.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 20 October 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Did see lots of Epik High fans crying over the change in direction.
Hyuna - ICE CREAM http://youtu.be/QlWZluzBNxM
― abcfsk, Monday, 22 October 2012 07:16 (eleven years ago) link
It's distuuuuuuuurbing. And I say this as a GDragon and Britpop fan. The brighter the music, the more tortured it seems underneath (and vid is about destruction of the capitalist system of commerce by child terrorist-popstars, and, like, skateboarding. Skateboarding!)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 22 October 2012 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
like the new hyuna but don't LOVE it
― 乒乓, Monday, 22 October 2012 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
G-Dragon has an excellent, lengthy interview with XXL: http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2012/12/korean-rapper-g-dragon-talks-k-pop-hype-new-ep-and-past-scandals/
― Roz, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link
Just wanna say thank you to the posters in this thread. I trawled through all the recs and you tubes posted here this year and found loads of great stuff. Particularly loving f(x), g dragon, sistah, and (gawdhelpme) block-b!!
― pandemic, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
anybody doing best of 2012 lists?
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
allkpop have started theirshttp://www.allkpop.com/2012/12/allkpops-top-50-k-pop-songs-of-2012-41-50
― nathey, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for that! Fallen big time for their #50 Exo-K 'Mama'
― pandemic, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link
I'll do a top 50 or 100 probably some time this week or next.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Best 2012 albums is easy, there haven't been that many notable (idol) albums this year. Singles might be fun, maybe I'll do a list too. For the first time ever.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Keen to see some end of year lists; I put some SISTAR/BlockB/f(x)/Infinite in a local EOY thing, but I'm woefully out of my depth. TBH, apart from "Gangnam Style", it was mainly 2011 hits like "Bubble Pop" & "I Am The Best" that I'd hear out this year; v.slow-rolling infiltration.
― etc, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
Kpop is a lotta fun yall
― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Friday, 14 December 2012 10:02 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing definitive about this.
ALBUM TRACKS 2012:
1. After School "Eyeline"2. Miss $ "Physical Or Emotional"3. T-ara "T-aratic Magic Music"4. E.via "Night Blooming Roses"5. HyunA "Don't Fall Apart" also called "Straight Up"6. Jewelry "Rhythm HA!!!"7. TaeTiSeo "Baby Steps"8. Ga-In "Tinkerbell"9. Miss A "Lips"10. Neon Bunny "First Love"
I'd not heard of Miss $ until a month ago; their back catalog is pedestrian rap and r&b; now suddenly they're in the deep bleeding mascara sound that came pouring out of the barrios and crossover dance clubs of New York City, 1989.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
SINGLES 2012
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"4. ChoColat "I Like It"5. Wonder Girls "Like This"6. T-ara "Day By Day"7. Sistar "Alone"8. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"9. 2NE1 "Scream"10. 4minute "Volume Up"11. Flashe "Drop It"12. After School "Rambling Girls"13. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")14. Miss A "Touch"15. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"16. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"17. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"18. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"19. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)20. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
Could have gone twice as long, but I wanted to give other people a chance. The next several included two more T-aras, some other fairly high-profile stuff, a second song called "Sexy Doll," and an insect. Three that I listed ("Scream," "Rambling Girls," and "My Sweet Devil") are in Japanese, as is "T-aratic Magic Music" on my tracks list. As for sounds that recall the ghosts of my pre-past, "Look At Me" has the bright beats of K-pop but the weathered sound of a nonchalant little throwaway B-side from scrappy mid '50s R&B independents like King Records out of Cincinnati. Appropriate, as it's a B-side itself.
― Frank Kogan, Sunday, 16 December 2012 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
Great slow jam from Satbyeol - think Ciara's Promise meeting Taeyang's I Need a Girl - the song shares producer with the latter: http://youtu.be/qgQBAb--ci8http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8360/8281021974_72bebf50c8_n.jpg
She also released an amazing single last year http://youtu.be/2VbN8JPYCcM
Most known for featuring on lots of hip hop tracks.
BONUS: Very funny and on point skit about plastic surgery f rmo the Brown Eyed Girls on SNL Korea http://youtu.be/264nb9wX0Qo
― abcfsk, Monday, 17 December 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
Are we still doing Kpop Top 50 lists? I did one based purely on personal utility this year:
TOP 10 Miss A - I Don't Need a Man Sistar - AloneT-ara - Day by DayEpik High - WrongInfinite - The Chaser Big Bang - Still Alive GDragon - One of a KindBig Bang - Fantastic BabyUKiss - BelieveT-ara - Sexy Love
NEXT 10K.Will - Please Don'tSunny Hill - The Grasshopper SongXia Junsu - TallentelegraBlock B - Nilili MamboBoyfriend - Love StyleCrazyno - MusicheE.via - Night Blooming RosesEXID - Every NightElectroboyz ft. Gaeparta - My LoveBig Bang - Bad Boy
THIRD 10 Miss A - Touch Tasty - Do You Know Me? BTOB - Wow UKiss - Stop Girl (English version) GDragon - CraYonPrimary - ?Neon Bunny - Oh My PrinceEXO-K - History BAP - No Mercy ZE:A - Aftermath
FORTH 10 Brave Girls - Nowadays You Spica - PainkillerBoA ft SYChaserSY - Only One (rap remix)SPEED - Lovey Dovey Plus B1A4 - Wonderful Tonight (unplugged remix)4Minute - Volume Up100% - Bad Boy CReal - Sorry But I Jo Kwon - AnimalE.via - I Know How to Play a Little
FIFTH 10 Kara - PandoraTVXQ - Catch MeGirls Day - Oh! My God (areia trance remix)Nam Soo-Rin - Drive Me To The MoonTeen Top - CrazyFiestar - VistaBigstar - Hot Boy EXO-K - What Is LoveTeen Top - Be My Girl LEDApple - Let the Wind Blow
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 28 December 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
Will check this so thanks for posting
I know that I dig the pirate Block B and the K Will (cool video too)
― pandemic, Friday, 28 December 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
The K Will mv is so great. Twist ending!
― Roz, Friday, 28 December 2012 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I ask this question every 6 months but what's the best intro BoA album to get
― 乒乓, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
Hard to say. Last two Korean albums have been good but she's got a surprisingly deep discography and some of her earlier stuff touches on great asian pop sounds like Utada's stuff. There's also the JP best-of. Watch this while figuring it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxbaxNb4egU
― abcfsk, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
Or rather three JP best-of albums: "K-pop Selection", "Best of Soul" and "Best&USA".
― abcfsk, Friday, 28 December 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Ur welcome.
Actually if I can make an addition - I'll take out Teen Top "Crazy" and sub in B2ST "Midnight". I'm not a fan of the nasal/showtunes B2ST singing style, is why I left it off, but the melody has been running through my head since this morning. This here is an excellent cover.
I like BoA's American album and her latest, but I haven't listened to most of them... top BoA tracks for me are "Hurricane Venus", "Girls on Top" and "I Did It For Love".
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Also about the K.Will video (which is great): I've heard that the Korean TV broadcast version leaves off the last 10 seconds. So including the twist at the end doesn't just improve the video, it also sneaks it past the censor board.
Also speaking of subversion, there's Glam - Party XXO, a song about girls kissing girls. It's my #51 pick for that reason, though Cher Lloyd's people will probably want a word with the video director.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 28 December 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
Songs that use the same three descending notes and charted well:Shinnee - Lucifer (2010)CL & Minzy - Please Don't Go (2011)Block B - NalinA (2012)Girls Generation - Twinkle (2012)A Pink - Hush (2012)
The three notes I'm taking about are the "Hush, Hush, Hush" part of Hush and the "Nalin, <S>Nalin</s>, Nalin-A" part of NalinA.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 28 December 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
Better yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz2P11-uU2s
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 31 December 2012 06:57 (eleven years ago) link
And SKorea's own year-end roundups:
The Color of Kpop, Maddie's reviewSBS Gayo Daejun collabs, hereSBS Gayo Daejun solos, hereMBC Gayo Daejun collabs, hereMBC Gayo Daejun solos, here and here.
Haven't watched the solos, of the collaborations nearly all the SBS Gayo one are good; at MBC Gayo Seohyun + three MCs, Shinnee and F(x), Park Myungsoo and guests incl. Crazyno who steals the show for the 10 seconds in which he appears are good. Ailee, Epik High and Koyote also bring it, but those performances are more like solos that happen to overlap with another group than true collaborations. Minzy and Park Bom of 2NE1 in good voice, also.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched MBC Gayo solo stages.
Afterschool's Flashback remix (http://youtu.be/YPN6DTVd5o4) is better than the original. I also kind of like what Kara did with Pandora (http://youtu.be/k9WiJkRvaig), though the original is still better. Sistar Alone rock remix (http://youtu.be/wYjxn7HnoWU) is a miss - they don't have the pipes and the original arrangement is perfect and can't be improved.
Very good performances by BAP, Miss A, 4Minute and TVXQ, as expected. For some reason I like Secret Talk That (http://youtu.be/Bzshr9dOmyk) here where I never did before. A Pink Hush (http://youtu.be/0V8I-OKN5oA) belongs at this kind of event. The fake-out non-breakdown in BTOB Wow (http://youtu.be/8Cw4HOPHdcQ) is hilarious, as are the cameraman's shots of the non-reactive audience. A lot of good performances, all around.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwm7IlPO1Uo
this rules a lot
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's good, love that propelling guitar strum
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
btw the sample is the cover girls' "because of you" (identified by maura) and i think that's really awesome
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link
I love this song, and the live "collaboration" performance at SBS Gayo, with a vocaloid. Class.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 2 January 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
the sample doesn't do much for me tbh, other than like cool dudes in korea are listening to the cover girls
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
My top 100 of 2012 as of now. No JP singles.
1. BoA - Only One 2. T-ara - Lovey Dovey3. Sunny Hill - The Grasshopper Song4. Sistar - Alone5. T-ara - Sexy Love6. Big Bang - Bad Boy7. Sunny Hill - Is The White Horse Coming?8. Primary - ?9. 4Minute - Volume Up10. EXID - Every Night¨
11. Nine Muses - News12. Wonder Girls - Like This13. f(x) - Electric Shock14. Satbyeol - Do Me15. Neon Bunny - First Love16. Chocolat - One More Day17. Younha - Run18. EXO - History19. Nine Muses - Ticket20. Lay-T - Soft Soft
21. SouLime - With U22. Soulights - Leave Me23. E.Via - I Know How To Play24. Infinite - The Chaser25. Rania - STYLE26. Miss A - I Don't Need a Man27. Tensi Love - Cake House28. Crayon Pop - Dancing Queen29. Neon Bunny - Oh My Prince30. Gangkiz - Honey Honey
31. D-Unit - Sleeping In Part 232. Primary - Manna 33. After School - Flashback34. Park JiYoon - Tree of Life35. Seo In Young - Anymore36. Chi Chi - Love is Energy37. BoA - The Shadow38. Humming Urban Stereo - Love Jam39. TVXQ - Catch Me40. Boyfriend - I'll Be There
41. IU - Peach42. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"43. 4Minute - Over and Over (R.Tee Mix)44. Areum (T-ara), Shannon, Gunji (Gavy NJ) - Day
and Night45. The Seeya - Be With You46. Teen Top - To You47. IU - Bad Day48. EXID - I Feel Good49. Suho - You Are My Only One50. R.Sha & Da.U - Mine
51. IU - Every End of Day52. D-Unit - Luv Me53. Big Bang - Fantastic Baby54. Chocolat - I Like It55. 2NE1 - I Love You56. T-ara - Day By Day57. Junsu - Tarantallegra58. C-Real - Sorry But I59. Nine - Songs60. Hyuna - Ice Cream
61. Kara - Pandora62. SIAENA - Winter Is Coming63. Gangkiz - Mama64. Nu'Est - Action65. Reddy - Let's Go (feat. Satbyeol)66. Spica - Russian Roulette67. Nam Soo-Rim feat ParkJiYoon - Drive Me To The Moon 68. Kim Wan Sun - Can Only Feel69. EvoL - Let Me Explode70. Spica - Painkiller
71. Panini - Lovely Day72. B.A.P. - No Mercy73. Dalmatian - E.R74. Fiestar - Vista75. Glen Check - Disco Elevator76. Clazzi - Love&Hate77. Hadami - Mannequin78. BoA - Lookin' (feat The Quiett)79. Big Bang - Blue80. GP Basic - Edge Ta¨
81. Primary - See Through82. Secret - Poison83. Miss A - Touch84. Lumi L - Popopo85. Beast - Beautiful Night86. Miryo - Dirty87. Seo In Young - Let's Dance88. Yoseob - Caffeine89. Lexy - Nolza90. 15& - I Dream
91. Rude Paper - Can't Believe It (feat Sean2slow)92. Crayon Pop - Bing Bing93. We - Party 94. Jessica - My Lifestyle95. WooYoung - Sexy Lady96. Ga-In - Bloom97. Baek Ah Yeon - Sad Song98. Block B - Nallina99. Girl's Day - Don't forget me100. A-Pink - Hush Hush
― abcfsk, Monday, 7 January 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone know anything about this (너는 왜 - 철이와 미애)? Someone linked it on an Omonatheydidn't GLAM thread; is an earlier Korean track to use that Cover Girls sample. Not sure what it's doing; is it a Korean Stars On 45 for freestyle?
― Frank Kogan, Monday, 7 January 2013 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
I really like your list, absfsk.
Does anyone else think f(x) - Electric Shock sounds like T-ara - One and One?
Is The White Horse Coming has my favorite video of 2012. Those couple seconds of "Prince" on the horse are priceless.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 01:25 (eleven years ago) link
Oops, the track I linked was just "I Like That" all over again. I meant to link the very freestylish "Why You," by Chuli & Miae (1993, according to the YouTube posters) -- which possibly samples "Because Of You" and definitely copies it (my hearing isn't precise enough to figure this out), though without then following along the chord pattern that accompanies the little vocal riff in the Cover Girls' version. In any event, "I Like That" is using the part from Chuli & Miae, though again I can't tell if it's a sample or a copy, though if it's a sample, and wherever it comes from (whether it's directly from the Cover Girls or from Chuli & Miae), GLAM are augmenting it with what sounds like a deeper-timbred voice than on either of the two previous tracks, though of course that voice could well have been the same one with electronic treatment.
"I Like That" sounds better than GLAM's previous single, "Party(XXO)," though the latter is massively important for its unmistakable pro-gay lyrics. And I'd say the biz and the fans aren't holding that content and the GLAM girls possible sexual orientation against them, to say the least. Allkpop has been reporting "I Like That" doing well in the daily charts. Its lyrics, by the way, seem to be about thinking it's okay that someone just broke up with you, that not being in a relationship is fine, that not having your friends around is fine. That's what they're liking when they say "I like that." Even when they're drunk and crawling and they're unhappy, and there's no one to take care of them, they like it!
As for "Electric Shock" and "One And One," the riff isn't quite the same, "Electric Shock" going to an upper note earlier, but the rhythm is close. So I do hear the similarity, though emotionally the two songs don't feel much alike. "Electric Shock" is more brutal, "One And One" bouncier.
"Electric Shock" is one of my favorite f(x) tracks, while "One And One" is just run-of-the-mill for T-ara and Shinsadong Tiger (though run-of-the-mill for them is exceedingly good compared to most anyone else's run-of-the-mill). I don't know whether it came out first, but "One And One" sounds as if S. Tiger was working out ideas that came to fruition in 4minute's superb "Hot Issue."
― Frank Kogan, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:22 (eleven years ago) link
I recently found out that 'hitman' bang, the producer of GLAM's two singles and seemingly the man in charge also composed one of the great early T-ara tracks "Like The First Time". One possible reason I hadn't picked up on this is the fact that their first album sounds so much like one solid whole that I assumed everyone involved was part of the T-ara 'clique' - but this is the only hitman track there.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know about "Electric Shock" being more brutal, "One and One" is a relentless song about how T-ara are COMING FOR YOU and won't stop until they have MERGED WITH YOU TO FORM A SINGLE UNIT. I guess I can see what you're saying about the build of the beat, though. I like T-ara's song more, if only because it's more fun to sing, and for the part that goes "Pact, Impact... I will, I will".
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
That's pretty cool about GLAM! I like this song too. Also, from the description:
"SeeU (시유, シユ) is a voicebank for Vocaloid3, the first Vocaloid capable of singing in Korean and is the first Korean/Japanese bilingual Vocaloid. The voice provider is the artist Dahee Kim (17 year old member of the K-pop girl band "GLAM"). Her release was on October 21, 2011 (South Korea) and December 16, 2011 (Japan)."
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
Femme fatales. Just a quick mix for fun, nothing special.
Considered adding Roh Ji Hoon - Punishment but the girl in the video doesn't wear a red dress, and in the live performance where Roh Ji Hoon wears a red suit, he's off-key.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 9 January 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
David Fraser keeps pumping me with good information over on lj. Here are GLAM with a dance instruction video for "I Like That," including Chuli & Miae's ttaemiri dance. GLAM seem unaware that the sample has a source that precedes Chuli & Miae. Maybe "hitman" Bang is equally unaware. Here are Chuli & Miae way back when doing their ttaemiri dance. YouTube directed me to Yubin and Sohee of the Wonder Girls performing Why You and its ttaemari dance in the before-GLAM era. Also pre-GLAM, are a couple of dancers dancing the ttaemiri to "Why You" at a hospital holiday party, December 2011.
― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
To increase my confusion, I see that, according to Generasia, Bang Si Hyuk, a.k.a. "hitman" Bang, is president of Big Hit Entertainment, a JYP subsidiary — but GLAM are listed in the category "Former Artist," and if you go to the Generasia page for GLAM, their company is identified as "Source Music," the entry for Source Music consisting entirely of this useful information: "Source Music (쏘스뮤직) is a South Korean record label," followed by a short list of artists and some links. Clicking the links, I see that GLAM's vids are among the "favorite videos" on the Source Music YouTube page, and that the Source Music Website has as its front page a massive embed of the YouTube vid for GLAM's "Party(XXO)." Source Music's Twitter gives their five artists: "Source Music 공식 트위터 / Artist_GLAM / Artist_간미연 / Artist_8eight / Artist_이현 / Artist_Eden Beatz."
Visiting our untrustworthy friend Wikipedia, who is not yet on the case for GLAM, we find "Big Hit Entertainment" as a subsection under "JYP Entertainment." Both GLAM and 8Eight are listed as artists, but 8Eight, unlike GLAM, has the note "left the company (2012)." The Wikip entry for 8Eight identifies their label as Source Music, which gets no entry on its own. Wikip's list of Korean Idol Groups puts both Big Hit Entertainment and Source Music as GLAM's label. Finally, Allkpop told the world last spring, "On May 25th, Big Hit Entertainment announced that 'GLAM' will be making their debut on July 16th in collaboration with Source Music. 8Eight and Kan Mi Yeon are housed under Source Music, while 2AM is under Big Hit Entertainment. For the past three years, the two companies have been working together to produce GLAM." And "hitman" Bang offers these happy words: "I actually feel sorry calling GLAM a girl group because they have genuine musical talent and passion. As opposed to producing them, it's more accurate to say that I helped them realize their hidden musical potential and helped them foster that as a partner by their side."
So, I can't tell if Source Music is an independent entity that collaborates with Big Hit or is a subsidiary of something, ultimately under JYP. The GLAM dance instruction video was posted by LOEN, not by JYP or any of its subs. That's where I'll leave my researching, as I now kinda like need to stop gallivanting around the Web for the rest of today.
Speaking of T-ara -- and when am I not finding a way to speak of T-ara -- back when I discovered the wonderful "Like The First Time," I listened to a bunch of other "hitman" Bang tracks without liking what I heard: ballad sap seemed his taste. But I've only heard a small fraction of his oeuvre. "I Like That" hits me as better than most of it, though I'm not yet sure how much better.
To further confuse matters, GLAM's leader, Park Jiyeon, has the same name as T-ara's biggest star, Park Jiyeon.
― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
Since this is an active thread now, songs of interest for the week:
Super Junior M - Break Down. Very appropriately, the breakdown just before Suju-M sing the hook is the best part of the song. There's a kind of doppler effect on the vocals which is picked up by the video, set in what looks like a wind tunnel. Towards the end of the video, an unfortunate birds wanders too close to the fan and the resultant feathery explosion adds visual interest to what is otherwise a standard-issue "hot guys in a box with flashing lights" SM vid.
Girls Generation - I Got a Boy. Picked apart on the singles jukebox and now I like it a lot more. My favorite thing about it is the Greek chorus of the other 8 members telling the boy-crazed narrator, "girl, you crazy".
SPEED - That's My Fault. SPEED are the male half of co-ed school and labelmates to T-ara. They seem to be the appointed torch-bearers of 20-minute epic T-ara music video tradition, though this video is more accomplished, with better acting and camerawork, and also much tighter editing (it's only 11 minutes long and not confusing at all). The video is about the Gwangju Massacre and the sad military horns in the instrumental are perfect for the topic. Unfortunately, not every member of SPEED is a decent rapper equal to the task at hand, though a couple of them manage okay.
B2ST and A Pink - 5 My Baby. Five attractive men meet five attractive women and no words are necessary because everyone is hot. The video perfectly captures this feeling by having all the members of A Pink and Beast emerge from boxes, circle each other, and then pair off. There are also lots of scenes where they check themselves out in mirrors, which is appropriate as this song is a sequel to last year's Skinny Baby and, like Skinny Baby, is a promotion for Korean fashion brand Skool Looks. By the way, although I might sound dismissive I think this is a good song. Robot imagery + minimalist lyrics seems reminiscent of early electronica and the song sounds a bit like that as well, to my untrained ear.
Boyfriend - I Yah. Another Boyfriend/Sweetune collaboration and more "Sweetune" than their previous collaboration Love Style. Boyfriend play controlling not-quite-boyfriends and sing about their sensitivity and total emotional dependence. So far, so Kpop. In the MV description box, however, they are called "homme-fatales" which does at least show awareness of both the attraction and destructiveness of this character type. It also says that "homme-fatale" will be the concept of Boyfriend's album, so perhaps there will be an attempt to build up a narrative. The MV actress, Kim So Hyun, plays a perfectly nice and normal high school student who doesn't deserve to be emotionally destroyed.
Next week I am looking forward to:-The Infinite H album produced by Primary, which is coming out on my birthday; -Gayoon and Jiyoon (of 4minute)'s country-pop(!) debut album Harvest Moon
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 10 January 2013 07:30 (eleven years ago) link
I'm so super excited about the INfinite H album. Right before christmas I said I hoped he would produce more for pop stars after the K Will success and then he delivers just a few weeks later with one of the better boy bands! And the whole EP is produced by him! And Zico and others of his friends show up in front of and behind the mic!
The 2-Yoon project is the opposite of what I was hoping for (and I was pretty excited about the unit) but I'm still curious about this 'dance pop country' single.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 10 January 2013 07:49 (eleven years ago) link