K-pop 2013

hahaha, oh boy, I hadn't heard "The Art Of Seduction" and thought the song was a bit new. Should've known there would be another piece to the puzzle we call Brave Brothers.

The thing for January appears to be the mature, sexy and/or sad sort of concept from formerly cute girl groups. Besides Girl's Day (really like the song btw), Dal Shabet and Rainbow are in on it too. Shinsadong Tiger is producing both. I like the idea of Rainbow BLAXX; am also looking forward to Sunmi's comeback.

Then there's a new TVXQ song, in tune with the other trend of swing band arrangements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9HBT6sRSZ8

I'm dying for Nine Muses to try this. Though not a 4real musician, I was messing around trying to compose a Nine Muses-y song with similar instrumentation before it really caught on in k-pop; still think they would be the group best suited to it. (Mine even had the same chord progression, kinda, but sadly not that bassline.)

The Seeya finally got a song; not sure what to make of it yet. Probably need to hear a version that isn't all all carved up for the MV, but it doesn't seem to be as good as "Painkiller" or a lot of the stuff on Love U.

(and did I call it when I said "hope with the winter looming it'll be time for CCM to roll out The Seeya for some heartbreak and lost-love-longing again." It's pretty funny; literally every song they've done, album tracks included, has been about a tragic love. I like how blatantly they go for it but they're bound to run out of variations eventually.)

Before we move on to 2014, here's one more from Soompi's 2013 girl group debut montage, called Pungdeng-E:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLk3AROEvUo

They're hilarious, OMG.

Oh and here are the Soompi videos:

boys
girls

And one more that sounds like it could play on a year-end countdown:

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

Rainbow teasers look good, look forward to 'em! That TVXQ song is great too.

More on Pungdeng-e

"They sing and rap in different dialects of Korean depending on where they are from. Red hails from the Gyeongsang-do province while Blue is from the Jeolla-do province and Yellow, the lead vocalist, is from Seoul. And the producers of Pung Deng-E decided to keep each member's regional dialect intact - a rather unique approach not too common among the mainstream K-pop artists who perform strictly in standard Korean."

Pungdeng is great fun.

AMRT's latest, mmmmhmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2MvLbt4F-s

I added a couple of the missing nominations; 2Yoon, Delight, Rania, the CCM "Painkiller" collaboration and Hyolyn.

Pungdeng-e are adorable! Someone said they will be releasing an album this month.

I hope so!

Speaking of end of year nominations, I can't find the voting thread? Anyone got a link?

~~~ ILM METAL POLL 2013 - ALBUMS & TRACKS VOTING & CAMPAIGN THREAD~~~ (VOTING ENDS FRIDAY JANUARY 10th 11.59pm UK time/6.59pm EST) )

Haha whoops that's the wrong poll

I don't think the voting thread has been made yet

I saw it, though! Or I thought I saw it...

Oh wait I think this is it ILM 2013 | End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll | VOTING THREAD (Voting closes MIDNIGHT EST on Friday, January 17th, 2014)

That's the one! Thanks!

I dig the new Dal Shabet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGKeA3xUzxU

It's another of the K-pop puzzle songs where you can entertain yourself by picking out all the things it rips off (from 80s disco/synthpop, in this case). Really good though.

Wow that's great!

Besides the synthpop I also hear bits of T-ara Sexy Love.

I made a Youtube playlist of all the K-pop songs nominated for the EOY poll since most of them aren't on Spotify: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP-ajiMFDEG5PV5xhpKwMTVLhGKhQ_mb1

Let me know if I missed anything.

I just realised i should have nominated Evol's "Get Up", really regretting not doing so. :/

oh no, I was going to nominate it too but I was certain someone did already.

Frank did nominate it, guess it was omitted by accident from the poll. ILM 2013 | End of Year Albums & Tracks Poll | NOMINATIONS THREAD

yeah that's what i thought too! i'll let the poll runners know.

Thanks Roz!

Dal Shabet killing it live. There's also this: http://youtu.be/mMYDxR26970

So who's gonna start the 2014 Kpop thread?

Thanks Roz!

sweet cheers for the youtube playlist

smoky girl smoky girlllll

:D

Maybe I'm just in a good mood tonight, but I'm listening to B1A4's Lonely and it's soooooooo good.

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

Summing up 2013 we got Wolf, Growl, Hush, Missing You, Now, Blurred Lines... am I missing any?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjRt4bncqQ4

Oh yeah, Sunmi's 24 hours!

Except for TroubleMarker I think the groups parodied in this video are all on the older side (for idols) - 25 and up.

As much as I don't want to give Cho PD any credit after what happened with Block B... the new Topp Dogg mini is really good. Like really for real.

It's the mini I've been wishing BTS would make.

And the single doesn't really do the mini credit, but here it is, complete with way too many names to memorize:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Ti9NRAQoo

I started a new thread, not noticing you'd been updating here. The Topp Dogg mini was ace!

Awesome! Will report ASAP to other thread.

On the subject of 2013 though, is anyone else filling out their end-of-year poll at the laat minute? How are you guys voting?

Kpop on my (unweighted) tracks draft ballot:

AlphaBAT - ABCity
EXO - Baby Don't Cry
F(x) - Rum Pum Pum
Gaeko - Rhythm is Life
Girl's Generation - I Got a Boy
Girl's Generation - Love & Girls
Jay Park - Joah
Junsu ft Quincy - Incredible
JYP - Had Enough Parties
MBLAQ - Smoky Girl
MFBTY - Sweet Dream
MIB - Nod Along*
MYNAME - Just that little thing
Sistar - Bad Boy
Sistar - Up and Down
Tara - Do I Know You? <-- What the song should have been called
TOP - Doom Dada
UKISS - Party All the Time
Ylvis - The Fox

Still debating, so if there's anyhting you guys want to me to help get into the top 70 let me know.

*Not that it matters, but I wish I'd nominated a different MIB song - Dash or Worry About Yourself First. Also, VIXX - On and On.

K-Pop anthem "The Fox" :)

Did you forget Delight again?
I think Glam, 2Yoon and the CCM "Painkiller" were very good, but if you don't have to include them if you don't wanna.

(It's not k-pop, but I'm so kicking myself for not nominating Momoiro Clover Z's 5th Dimension/"Neo Stargate".)

hey, 5th Dimension actually is on the albums list! Pls vote for that if you have the space!

um, if you've heard it.

I'm still debating... I should vote for them since you went through the trouble of nominating them, shouldn't I.

And obv The Fox is a Kpop anthem.

whoa, might have to vote just so I can vote for 5th dimension