Talked about it at other places and forgot, I guess. I like that EP of hers, and was surprised she basically used it to give her own take on various American pop templates instead of doing a more pure hip hop album (where her roots are). As some TSJ folks pointed out her rapping in the verses are the highlights of DIRTY, still not 100% sure if I like the safe-pop production, but it's a fun song. Also like SNSD Sunny's singing on that one track.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:25 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah the rapping is key - TSJ write-up compared her to nicki but I'm not quite sure that's accurate - maybe if just focusing on swagger.
I love the end of 'dirty' where she's going all out in autotune. so much energy - except instead of coming through in feedback and distortion, it's coming through in autotune. using autotune as a filter for rage? interesting!
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Big Bang Fantastic Baby video is a takeoff on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJVNAbkTwc">Sixth Sense</a> as well as being a gigantic loveletter to the international fanbase. Basically while Brown Eyed Girls fought against censorship in their MV by being actively sexual, Big Bang lounge around on thrones or face personal demons while their supporters in gas masks fight the battle against the people who didn't want them to release music this year. As a reward, the fans get to join in the dance party at the end.
Taeyang, Daesung and Seungri all take their shirts off in this, but I'm actually more struck by how objectified TOP is, like he's literally a piece of art hanging on the wall of the gallery! Even when he "comes alive" he's still not very active-gaze. Flashing back to Knock Out and his brag verse about having the prettiest eyelashes.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
That should have been Sixth Sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJVNAbkTwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r08H6gbW6YQ
― fffv, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn8mfNvGVYQ&feature=colike
smh @ kanye "HUNRGHS"
wonder if gd got extensions to get that skrillex hair?
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh the kanye HUHs were in the studio version too, just not so pronounced
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
is K-Pop EP-oriented in general? definitely approve - wish the american record industry would return to this format also
― flagp∞st (dayo), Sunday, 11 March 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z37WOB7cf44
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
"is K-Pop EP-oriented in general? "
Generally, yeah. Allows them to put out two a year instead of one, less of an investment, etc. Usually works out for the better musically as well.
Top 5 year-end sellers are full albums, though.
2011 YEAR END PHYSICAL ALBUM SALES CHART
1. Girls' Generation - The Boys (385,348)2. Super Junior - `Mr. Simple` The 5th Album (343,348)3. TVXQ - `왜(Keep Your Head Down)` (263,412)4. JYJ - In Heaven (220,442)5. BEAST - Fiction and Fact (142,272)6. BIG BANG - BIGBANG 4th Mini-Album (136,594)7. Super Junior - `Mr. Simple` The 5th Album Repackage (A-Cha) (129,894)8. CNBLUE - FIRST STEP (115,467)9. Kim Hyun Joong - Break Down (EP) (114,642)10. Kim Hyun Joong - Lucky (2nd Mini Album) (101,705)
11. KARA - STEP (100,662)12. 2PM - Hands Up (100,379)13. BIG BANG - BIG BANG Special Edition (89,371)14. 2NE1 - 2NE1 2nd Mini Album (85,819)15. IU - Last Fantasy (71,860)16. Various Artists - Infinite Challenge West Coast Highway (71,300)17. Jay Park - Take A Deeper Look (EP) (66,316)18. JYJ - In Heaven (Special Edition) (62,790)19. f(x) - `Pinocchio` The 1st Album (61,637)20. TVXQ - `왜(Keep Your Head Down)` REPACKAGE (60,205)
― abcfsk, Saturday, 17 March 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
new BoA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUrGpU6KY6M
― dayo, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
New BoA but in a "uplifting talent show soundtrack" role and no one gets out of that with much personality left. Still, thankful for what I get and she's very much amazing as a TV personality on the show (since, for us fans, she's avoided talk/variety TV like the plague her whole career, it's a surreal weekly experience).
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DDpo7qQQDIUK-Pop for a Japanese release. Pixie Lott ft. GD&TOP - Dancing On My Own. I wonder if there're gonna be other collaborations like this in the future. I would prefer an original song with Korean rap. This isn't bad either.
re K-Pop vs the EP format: yes, loads of EP's there. It's just they prefer to call it Mini-Album and stuff like that.
― blah blah blah, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
Did you guys notice the last update on Jenny Hyun's site (about one day after her shit blew this thread up)? http://jennyhyun.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/apology-to-all/
apology to allPosted on February 19, 2012 by Jenny Hyun
Jenny Hyun has been admitted to a hospital today. She is a paranoid schizophrenic and has been battling mental illness, a debilitating disease for many years.Friends and family of Jenny want to extend their sincere apology for any harmful statements made verbally or via the web that Jenny has made while she was in the height of a psyshosis episode. We appreciate your understanding during this difficult time for he
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah we discussed how it doesn't pass the sniff test in the 'is this racist' thread
― dayo, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyG5tTZ1iE
digging this!
― dayo, Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ro1KjkJMg
ah I love the handclap sound
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk6_37xuu1Q
dope throwback
― dayo, Monday, 26 March 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago) link
think I'll stop embedding for the sake of everybody's browsers
http://youtu.be/raOsXsYgd7M nice straight-up dance pop
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know if you meant to post the two big old-skool k-pop boy bands after one another, but it's a nice example of how one comes off slightly desperate in his comeback attempts (Tony An, not talking about that performance, though) and how Shinhwa still seem pretty well-suited for the pop star life. Wouldn't say Venus is amazing, but people have been saying the EP is pretty solid.
As for Ailee there, I said somewhere else, she and her songwriter really nailed that formula. The big melodic belter. To be honest I think that stuff would have an easier time making it big on the Billboard than the ones trying really hard.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
hah I don't know shinhwa, but it pleased me to see H.O.T. doing 'candy' in 2012 (or, as it were, just tony an)
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
but yeah ailee strikes a nice balance between ballad and banger
as for ballads I like Lyn
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
I like this Ali ballad http://youtu.be/U6xIO6j2mqE
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
New SPICA - Painkiller http://youtu.be/gO-n43lUS7s
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://youtu.be/QbJCB2ArgK0
Tomorrow at the lower east side!!
― rayuela, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
(probably not the perfect thread for that band but i had to express my glee)
― rayuela, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
'follow me' really seems to have been the template for 'i am the best'
― dayo, Monday, 2 April 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
new 4minute rather disappointing
opening of 'dream racer' rather blatantly copies a part of 'i am the best'
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago) link
Volume Up is a mega hit.
― abcfsk, Monday, 9 April 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
I can find nothing redeeming about it
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
Adding the sax hook was a good idea - it will make this a big sales hit like Trouble Maker. Love the rest of the song as well, the lyrics, the techno beat, the main vocalists belting without being cloying about it.
― abcfsk, Monday, 9 April 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
"volume up" is totally awesome, sorry dayo
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 9 April 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
thought there were a lot more jams on the LP
http://youtu.be/Qk3Cxmvljpk
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
4minute also totally biting themselves w/ the buildup to the chorus in volume up
http://youtu.be/h97jt1XtnGQ
― swaghand (dayo), Monday, 9 April 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
totally into self-biting
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 9 April 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
losing my faith in k-pop anyway since 'busker busker' is occupying the charts
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
Good week - Sistar comes back with a really sexy track http://youtu.be/E0ZHXVp_wUE
― abcfsk, Thursday, 12 April 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.soompi.com/news/jyp-sheds-light-on-koreas-deeprooted-racial-divide-on-sbs-kpop-star
― swaghand (dayo), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
Having watched the show I don't think that was the best example, isolated speaking, as she did reach #5 and except for one dude I thought the others left were better - but it was a great opportunity to bring up a real problem so kudos to JYP. Yesterday's poor performance by the opposition in the Korean parliamentary election wasn't the most uplifting result, but a lot more women were elected and one of them the first naturalized Korean citizen to do so, Jasmine Lee from the Phillipines. Her inclusion was a move by the ruling party to appeal to the growing number of naturalized citizens and is an acknowledgement that that number IS steadily growing. So the topic will (have to) be dealt with, one way or another and I'm happy JYP talks about it in such a super-mainstream setting. The blackface incident earlier this year also got a lot of talk going, which isn't a matter of course as those skits have been pretty frequent on Korean TV. Some people defended it but it got a lot of coverage online and in the news, and artists like Tiger JK spoke up about it (himself being the husband of African American / Korean Yoon Mirae). Pretty obvious there's a lot of work to be done but I'm glad it's a mainstream issue at least (at last).
― abcfsk, Thursday, 12 April 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't mean to suggest a connection between Michelle and the plight of naturalized citizens, of course, though my confusingly worded post might lead you to that idea --- just talking about the new multicultural Korea.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 12 April 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
― abcfsk, Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:50 AM (3 days ago)
K-pop SOTY
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 April 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
everything in that sistar song is a hook
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Sunday, 15 April 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
it's a lot more po-faced than their previous singles
― swaghand (dayo), Sunday, 15 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
excited about the new girl's day!
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:44 (twelve years ago) link
You hate on the two great singles of the year, but Girl's Day gets you in the mood?!
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
well I haven't actually listened to girl's day yet
but sorry, those two singles are sleek but lifeless!
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
the 'mehness' of the new 4minute made me revisit their LP though, which is really quite good
http://youtu.be/tL9OB0DxkE4
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
and 'ma boy' still walks all over the new sistar!
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
Their LP was really weak, but I like their previous EPs.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
I know you don't actually believe that!
― dayo, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago) link