K-pop (2014)

Kiss and Cry's homemade MV is getting hate but I quite like it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJ3qZYFC8g

Big news for Ga-in!

If the news (that she and her Fxxk U co-star were Really a Thing) had come out before the music video, I'd have figured it was promotion, but since it came out after... it's still promotion, lol, but promotion following reality.

If that's the news you mean, 龜.

New MR MR for Roz: http://youtu.be/UFBi4ToPIwk

http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/05/08/zony-yony-dancing-twins-the-ellen-degeneres-show-video/

So Lady Gaga's fans will know Bar Bar Bar was a thing.

Yeah, Ga-in's relationship status

I know it's big news when even my HK friends are posting about it on facebook xp

lol cheers, forapper.

re EXO: i dunno... i just feel like for a group as huge and as ubiquitous as they are, they're curiously colourless. There's nothing that can be described as an EXO sound, they have mediocre singers and rappers (EXO-M >>> EXO-K, though) and apart from Kai, their dancing isn't all that great either. They're not even good as a collective the way say, Infinite are. They always seem like they stumbled onto their good songs by accident.

Kiss&Cry's live stages were super impressive - I agree that that MV doesn't do them justice.

I think we're in agreement about EXO as performers... there's some individual talent in EXO (Baekhyun and D.O. have good tone and technique, Tao is a decent rapper, Lay can dance, etc) but the group as a whole don't excel at anything and aren't that much fun to watch on stage... the main thing they have going for them is that they can keep their composure when the atmosphere heats up, which is often cause there are like 3-4 hardcore maniacs in this group which might be some kind of Kpop record.

And they get a lot of exposure, and SM invests in their album tracks and not just their singles, and they get a LOT of exposure, and there are a lot of people in China.

Hyosung (from Secret)'s new single is turrible, but the B-sides are fun: http://youtu.be/cP5VT2xRTUs, http://youtu.be/cP5VT2xRTUs

Also I know it's not cool to talk about how much (esp female) celebrities weigh, but I'm glad she's curvy again.

And this one (Junggigo ft Beenzino) I wish I wasn't over my limit so I could embed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xteny-dgr4I Very spring, much sunglasses

Whoops, here's the second Hyosung track: http://youtu.be/UMV8CnAeQ70

Actually let me take back Junggigo, on second listen it's kind of boring and commercial.

Let me substitute Weesung: Best Man, 돈 벌어야 돼

ok lol EXO drama

o___O

Though if you asked me to pick the one member of EXO most likely to sue for nullification of contract I would have picked Kris, actually. He's tried to leave a couple times before.

Was rumored to have tried to leave, I mean.

Fan speculation is on this is crazy (Baekhyun hid his phone when SM staff were making the rest of EXO unfollow Kris on Instagram & was slapped for doing so; staff wrote Tao's comments on Instagram calling Kris a betrayer), but are they *too* crazy? SM has a reputation as a super-controlling company with an abusive management style, so some of it could be true.

What I'm finding hard to believe are the people saying EXO hasn't made any money yet. I know SM invested a lot in them but they sold over a million albums and won a bunch of industry awards, surely there was *some* profit???

gossip gossip gossip

Album sales don't bring in much profit though - concert tours do and EXO hasn't had the time for any yet. That could be why the other members are so pissed with Kris, because they were just about to go on their first solo tour around Asia this year.

The bulk of SM's profits come from SNSD and TVXQ's extremely lucrative Japanese tours.

I tried following the updates on this on Tumblr but 80 per cent of it was fandom meltdown, and the other 20 per cent was lols from exo non-stans.

Yeah, all the social media drama about follows and unfollows and "secret messages" sent via changing ur background header on weibo seems like a sideshow drawing attention away from the main issue, which is whether the allegations in his lawsuit have merit or not.

Forget the previous MR MR "single" I posted, that was just a throwaway for the fans. The real MR MR single is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skYHtXxer6k

Think I'm joining Roz on the stan train, all their singles are good.

It makes a big difference when all five members can sing.

Btw this is also means you have to stan their low-budget videos and lolsy choreography.

Sokay, I'm kinda into SPEED lately (or just "Zombie Party") and their videos all look homemade :P

Great Humming Urban Stereo track featuring Narsha, promising well for the album which is out NOT and will make the summer that much brighter http://youtu.be/bdJJ0T-11fs

New Infinite single is a fun Sweetune party http://youtu.be/L7kaScuQ0KM

that humming urban stereo track is fab.

Also, I've only played it once through but man, the first half of that Infinite album is -packed- with jams. They've really come into their own sound - some of these Sweetune arrangements are sooooo corny but this group almost always manages to turn their cheesiness into an asset. They're like a K-pop ELO.

The Infinite album is great, the Phantom album and Jiyeon's solo debut are mediocre, when the podcast I did with J and M for the singles jukebox about Kpop we're anticipating comes out it's already going to be outdated (or just my parts will be outdated).

Have never read more enticing words than "K-pop ELO"

well I'd be surprised if Sweetune weren't ELO fans tbh.

Jesus. 龜 otm. ELO is so awesome. And a K-pop ELO just sounds so amazing.

I'm at work, but I'll get around to listening to it some time today.

Infinite comeback stages: http://youtu.be/s67mgZXio1E

And here's T-ara Jiyeon with the "drowning" theme we were promised, CCM courting controversy as always http://youtu.be/Qy7Pdibbwas

BoA on Aussie X Factor

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G842AK_c8gs

http://maddieloveskpop.tumblr.com/post/86845501756

^ Not sure if she posts anymore but enjoying this rundown

This year's 15& songs are pretty pretty good but Yerin isolated.. best voice in k-pop? http://youtu.be/Fq795T68c_k http://youtu.be/rSnFstSxZb4

http://youtu.be/kyhTPU01Db4

15&'s single Sugar is SO good. I hope someone who can still embed videos will put it in this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjuHcP5hsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pjuHcP5hsM

Thx 龜!

Listening to 15&'s album and it's pretty ace so far!

"sugar" changing my life rn

okay, this album is officially great

^is it on spotify?

I don't think so... it's on Youtube at http://youtu.be/YwHTn5UTDyI

thanks. it's a pain listening to youtube on my phone at work, but i'll give it a listen in a sec

NP! They're on Naver too if you'd rather listen without video.

Whoops, looks like Naver doesn't work outside of Korea... sorry ∞, hope it's worth it when you finally get to listen

Nice relaxing belated Spring track, from Kim Yeon Woo and Kyung of Block B (who gets all the best features for some reason):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M52hTSrK57w