Apparently the single is "a slow RnB song" that was added "at the last minute" and is the only track Taeyang will promote on music shows, though "Body" is getting a video from our favorite guy Seo Hyun Seung.
Or in other words holding the album hostage until Taeyang agreed to record and promote an RnB song seems to have worked out for YG.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
Seungri endorses this album:
http://photos-c.ak.instagram.com/hphotos-ak-frc/10401769_228202727390418_1378828382_n.jpg
http://instagram.com/p/oia9nNPNfM/
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 29 May 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
More Tablo, less GD is good for me.
The title of that last song is so dramatic though, haha.
― Roz, Friday, 30 May 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I'm looking to the combo of Tablo-style introspective lyrics and Taeyang-style sensitive vocals, ala No Tomorrow.
And the title of the last one is reminding me of Taeyang's vow to follow his girl to the grave in I'll Be There.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 30 May 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
looking FORWARD... sheesh
Channeling D'angelo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwuAPyOImoI
He sounds amazing. <3
― Roz, Monday, 2 June 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link
Haven't even listened to the whole thing yet but the album kicks off with an "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" sample um yessss
― Roz, Monday, 2 June 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
I cannot wait for that 'Body' MV because this song is a jam and right on time for the Michael Jackson revival:
https://soundcloud.com/givemesomesugar/taeyang-body-2-rise
FANTASTIC record, by the way. Love that the long delay is going to end up paying off for him after all, because sonically, this album is smack in the middle of current pop trends. Full album:
https://soundcloud.com/givemesomesugar/sets/taeyang-2-rise
― Roz, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
It's a little too back-to-basics for me, but it's very Taeyang... the first five tracks are great, the last three are getting a little too close to hymnals for me to really embrace them as pop songs.
He really sounds like CL on "Eyes Nose Lips", huh.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 2 June 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
I really love "1am" a lot, that's the other one he was doing at showcases last year... wasn't Ringa Linga supposed to be on this too?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 2 June 2014 21:27 (ten years ago) link
I take it back, Taeyang is the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kWBgBx_x5w
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 8 June 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
My favorite song got an MV: http://youtu.be/flVkp4S8CMc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 9 June 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Which was apparently filmed around the same time as Ringa Linga's, then shelved for mysterious reasons known only to Mr YG.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 9 June 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
Also here's Big Bang #1 fanboy, Sungha Jung, doing a cover of Eyes Nose Lips http://youtu.be/1ivB0CEW_9o
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
And an official cover from AKMU; http://youtu.be/DTl4Ib4qbzg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 18 June 2014 04:01 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5nodeum-g
This might be closer to the gloomy record Taeyang originally wanted to make, actually
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
http://alwaystaeyang.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/interview-gq-korea-july-2014-taeyang-to-me/
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 14:57 (ten years ago) link
Six years later...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlG0fz4WvoQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
And the new single!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk4-bBVLYyk
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 18 October 2014 00:18 (nine years ago) link
TOP's Pitbull-esque Cass beer commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqe27eq9lwg#t=51
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 16 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
It's funny 'cause we all know dude never leaves his house
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/aki_san/3432044/39219/39219_original.jpg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
IT BEGINS
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/aki_san/3432044/38604/38604_original.jpg
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 15 April 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link
family dysfunction?
― soyrev, Thursday, 16 April 2015 00:21 (nine years ago) link
Ask Roz!
I think that's a "YG family" reference though.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:33 (nine years ago) link
the group is more business-like than it used to be
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:46 (nine years ago) link
lol errrr yeeah... it's partly a YG fam ref and partly a reference to weird dynamics within the group, particularly in the early days.
family dysfunction: now available in LINE emojis (I still like how everyone figured out the blue bears from Lee Hi's video were Big Bang without them explicitly saying so)
― Roz, Thursday, 16 April 2015 10:57 (nine years ago) link
Wait I thought Kakaotalk was the big app in SK?
― 龜, Thursday, 16 April 2015 11:12 (nine years ago) link
the dynamics in BB are def pretty odd still, now that you mention it.
― soyrev, Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
co-dependence errwhere... and they're all from messed-up families to be begin with if you read their book
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 17 April 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
First promo pic of the new album!
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/waves_of_light/19973005/35077/35077_600.jpg
― Roz, Friday, 17 April 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
they have a book? in english?
― soyrev, Friday, 17 April 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
In Korean, there's translated bits floating around here and there.
https://kumjae137.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/big_bang_-_shout_out_to_the_world.pdf
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 18 April 2015 00:03 (nine years ago) link
thanks!
new japan dome tour live album 'X' has some excellent rearrangements on it. this "blue" is like something off the final fantasy tactics OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Utks47jeXU
― soyrev, Saturday, 18 April 2015 09:23 (nine years ago) link
yeah that's great. mildly amused by this version of "Haru Haru" which uses Ginuwine's "Differences" as a backing track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbj1vdB1-5M
― Roz, Sunday, 19 April 2015 22:20 (nine years ago) link
also i thought i already posted their album/tour trailer but apparently not. Tarantino-themed... it's nice to see they're still biting Brown Eyed Girls after all these years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwV2I5tH4no
― Roz, Sunday, 19 April 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
is it literally just using a ginuwine instrumental? makes me wonder if the new "blue" backing is just grifted, too
― soyrev, Monday, 20 April 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Videos are out!
BigBang cryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTced9CMMk
BigBang get highhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKD03uPVD-Q&feature=youtu.be
― Roz, Thursday, 30 April 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Considering TOP's the 'actor' in the group his acting is shockingly bad in Loser, haha.
The song and video do briefly gel around 2:50 when GD drops the cross then himself, I think.
Bae Bae is pretty bold!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:28 (nine years ago) link
Very true to character too
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
I wish they'd stuck with that @2:50 sound and not regressed back to Taeyang singing over piano just cause the public liked it in Eyes Nose Lips :( But if it placates the generic public so they don't come howling about the drug references in Bae Bae then OK
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
Loser lyrics, translated by someone who can write: http://popgasa.com/2015/04/30/big-bang-loser/
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 30 April 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
Loser sounds like a return to the 2nd EP, I'm onboard
― 龜, Friday, 1 May 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I maybe see 'LOSER' as a continuation of 2NE1's 'UGLY'
― 龜, Saturday, 2 May 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
Bae Bae sure does make 'other' recent idol group output feel cheap and constrained by comparison, though.
(Other in quotes cause Big Bang isn't exactly an idol group anymore, ya know.)
I like the chorus on Loser a lot, just wish it had less extensive solos (from TOP and Taeyang especially). The simple structure if fine when you're going for that anthemic emo sound.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 2 May 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
BIGBANG (collectively): I'm a loser
(TOP's outfit cost as much as a midsize sedan)
― 龜, Saturday, 2 May 2015 02:56 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Friday, May 1, 2015 8:58 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
I meant the ALIVE one or w/e the one with BLUE etc. etc.
― 龜, Saturday, 2 May 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
I woke up this morning with "Bae Bae" stuck in my head.
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Saturday, 2 May 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
@龜 believe it or not, that's their most recent release!
also yeah i think "i'm a loser" is *such* a ridiculous concept for them to be shilling in 2015, esp. in a song that is the single biggest success in korea all year (and was obviously going to be). these guys have won k-pop so many times over it's silly (and surviving scandals from drunk driving to public drug endorsement to accidental murder...!). "bae bae" feels much more big bang 2k15 to me
― soyrev, Sunday, 3 May 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link