Thread much slower than in past years... not much happening or nobody posting about it?
anyways, half-year update:ILM'S Rolling K-Pop Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 16 July 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
it's definitely felt a bit unexciting this year due to the big trend still just being tropical house but that's the same situation as elsewhere i guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiIGEHQP8o
best red velvet single since ice cream cake i think
― ufo, Sunday, 16 July 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
Just find this year's songs kinda lackluster honestly. And the girlgroups just keep getting thinner which bothers me on a personal level aha.
I do like the Blackpink and Red Velvet.
My favorite Kpop song of the moment is this b-side track from LOONA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sLXAf4ZcI
There's also Myteen, who are like a new MRMR for me (lesser known group specializing in RnB whose vocals elevate their material - they're from the same label as VIXX which bodes well for them musically):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_TlyZ5Y3h8&t=76s
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
Trying that again...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_TlyZ5Y3h8
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 03:04 (seven years ago) link
can't help but think that having a western band called "MYTEEN" release a single called "Take It Out" would be how you say problematic
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 03:28 (seven years ago) link
man that blackpink track is so goodwhat a chorus
― nxd, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 10:11 (seven years ago) link
CLC trying to get themselves remixed into a vaporwave single, I dig it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEW_JABKjw
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
So lush, so 90s
I feel like I'm witnessing the evolution of Kpop disorientation/sensory overload techniques with this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_fQOSvccU
So much shaky cam, so many quick cuts, so well executed.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 4 August 2017 03:16 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eifrBiNTU88
this has been one of my favourites lately
still unable to stop listening to 'everyday i love you' though
― ufo, Friday, 4 August 2017 03:57 (seven years ago) link
lol but also ;_; http://www.theonion.com/article/report-south-korea-developing-new-pop-group-capabl-56555
― Roz, Friday, 4 August 2017 04:40 (seven years ago) link
anyone got a link to either of the two new snsd double a-sides?apols if not out yet
― nxd, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:06 (seven years ago) link
ah found emhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwN-CN9EjTg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzEJPRqLUZE
― nxd, Friday, 4 August 2017 10:10 (seven years ago) link
Solid songs, but neither one really sounds like a single? Holiday has some cute dance moves though, and I like the synths on All Night.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 7 August 2017 18:42 (seven years ago) link
they're not even in the top 15 tho... fans are blaming SM for not releasing the physical and digital albums on the same day
WINNER says hi from their #1 spot (this is for you Roz)
http://sd.magatsu.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LOVE.png
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 7 August 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
Tropical house now fully digested into the Kpop songwriting toolbag, can be used to punch up the chorus of a midtempo RnB ballad https://youtu.be/iAVAhkvXXoQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
xpost lol thanks. Mino's resemblance to GD in those dance videos is very distracting.
I'm not really liking the new Winner songs - they're nice enough I guess but other than trop house fatigue, I actually kind of miss their cheesy ballads.
― Roz, Thursday, 10 August 2017 11:44 (seven years ago) link
Gfriend familiar and safe but still catchy imo. Dreamcatcher single rocks. Good for live performances too.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 10 August 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
I can like CLC's Especia lite
― abcfsk, Friday, 11 August 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
Choi Sam going harder, tighter, closer, more brutalist, to great effect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-I1c7DPMQ
― abcfsk, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:14 (seven years ago) link
Interesting to see Heize releasing a Seo Taiji cover. She operates in that same area of K-artists who are rappers and singers at the same time and pop stars and underground (at least in origin) at the same time, sometimes tough, edgy, sometimes silky smooth and sugary sweet.
Also interesting concept: Heize as the top hit chart force in 2017. Not sure many people thought the messy first Unpretty Rapstar season would produce something like that.
― abcfsk, Friday, 25 August 2017 12:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRv8ZBLuW0
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:37 (seven years ago) link
Pros - visuals, voiceover, the way the vocals overlap on the versesCons - WE GOT THAT POWER... POWER... POWER... POWER.... POWER.... POWER...
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:44 (seven years ago) link
And the highlight of Primary's ft every famous idol vocalist of the last few years album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0Bd3T3RY4
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:57 (seven years ago) link
BTS now stands for "Beyond the Scene" according to a CNN article with them (that same article carefully does not refer to Kim Namjoon as "Rap Monster"). Their single DNA is too poppy for me but I kinda like the hypnotic repetition Go Go.
Also, Go Go has probably the most intensively GIF-able choreography ever devised for a Kpop group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKQZkkM5dA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 23 September 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/theater/kpop-musical-review.html?mcubz=0
K-Pop the NY Off-Broadway musical
Theatergoers are divided into different teams (according to the color of wrist bands issued before the show begins) and ushered through a series of meticulously imagined rehearsal spaces, recording studios, cosmetic analysis rooms and a theater-cum-bar, where we are allowed to observe the finished product.
-----------------------------https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/theater/broadway-training-gangnam-style.html?action=click&contentCollection=Theater&module=RelatedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
Though Mr. Kim was a writer on HBO’s “Girls” and his play “The Model American” ran this summer at the Williamstown Theater Festival, “KPOP” is his first major New York theater production. The cast is massive — 18 people, 17 of them Asian, a rarity in the American theater world. “The fact that we’re trying to make a show with not only one Asian person, but with 17 — I can’t believe it,” he said.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 25 September 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyInv6RWL0Q
loona continue to be great
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 08:26 (six years ago) link
yessss, the whole album is good!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
i'm also enjoying April's laid-back take on the stirring orchestral Jpop schoolgirl genre:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=215
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta84YROEIto
Also pretty mad I missed this song from 3 months ago, it has DEEP GROOVE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqwJNSi0E84
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 28 September 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
Riding that Latin pop wave...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=212&v=GDkjmQv4PXg
Typical Kpop move: putting Actual Latin into a latin pop song
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
Plus there's the Very Silly flamenco choreography move in the chorus: https://youtu.be/c-s8-Yz0qYs @3:38
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
My apologies, @1:04 ^^ above
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHglTopVlKQ
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
that's a groove
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
also a song that gets straight into it and doesn't waste time
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
Also there's this disjointed EXID single, like all their singles it probably just needs time to gel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axVvZrDz60k
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
Hani sounds good on the prechorus, you can feel Solji's absence on the chorus though
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 9 November 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
First itunes #1 for k-pop ever apparently!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTlv5_Bs8aw
Push for ilxor end of the year poll?
― abcfsk, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
US main itunes track chart that is
First k-pop _group_ I guess
― abcfsk, Sunday, 26 November 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
i'm glad BTS are on their way to maybe breaking through in the US but i don't really love any of their singles, this one included
Red Flavor has a good chance for eoy i think
― ufo, Sunday, 26 November 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
For those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:
ILM's 2017 Rolling K-Pop Thread Spotify Playlist
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 26 November 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIDe-yTxda0
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 05:46 (six years ago) link
i'm gonna rep for both "palette" and "red flavor" for the ilx eoy
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh and that yves^^^^ hell yes
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link
yves track is great!
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah I'm reppin for Palette although feel it's underrated. Maybe it isn't
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
Red Flavor, Girl Front and As If It's Your Last are definitely on my eoy list. Everyday I Love You and The Star of Stars probably have a chance too
new is good, LOONA are definitely 2017 MVP
― ufo, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
Since nominations close tomorrow... how many of these should I actually nominate for the EOTY lists????
I think I'll probably nominate like 4-5 tracks and a couple albums, at most, so as not to split the vote.
Tracks:BTS - Pied Piper BTS ft. Desiigner - Mic Drop (Steve Aoki remix)Taemin - MoveTaemin - ThirstyHitchhiker x Taeyong - Around<s>Blackpink - As If It's Your Last</s> already nominatedTwice - SignalLOONA/Odd Eye Circle - Girl FrontEXID - DDDMelody Day - Kiss on the LipsOGUOGU - ICE CHU Jonhyun ft. Taeyeon - Lonely
Albums:BTS - Love Yourself:HerIU - PaletteTaemin - MoveEXID - EclipseLOONA - Compilation Album #1
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 4 January 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
"Girl Front" already nominated.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 4 January 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
"new" is probably going to be my loona pick. i fall deeper in love with it every time i hear it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 4 January 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
oh awesome, thanks! I was actually thinking about cutting that one since I don't love it as much as the others, haha. I like the LOONA project as a whole and many of them are fantastic singers but there's no standout track for me, yet.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 4 January 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
my LOONA picks are Girl Front and Everyday I Love You but I like new a lot too and could vote for it if it's what others are getting behind? definitely my favourite thing in kpop this year, a lot of good singles with a few great ones, they've been surprisingly consistent.
there haven't really been any standout albums/EPs from the few I've heard this year, are there any must-listens? it's been a fantastic year for singles though
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
and if I vote for a TWICE single it's definitely Likey which has slowly been growing on me
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 01:13 (six years ago) link
I also like Likely, but I didn't nominate it because it's kinda similar to Kylie Minogue's Can't Shake the Feeling:
https://youtu.be/kcW5IRMGPpg
I mean, maybe that doesn't matter, it's not like it's the same song or anything.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 5 January 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
i don't really hear that much of a resemblance there? it's already nominated though
for a long time Likey's hook felt really unsatisfying despite loving the rest of it, but its catchiness has caught up with me. the same thing happened with TT for me too
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
i may honestly be the only person who really feels a way for "new" but its construction is pretty oblique for a synth pop jam, everything occurs slightly later than i expect it to, which helps the track exude a kind of centerless longing (i haven't read the lyrics). makes me think of what would happen if green gartside wrote a kpop song
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
yeah it's subtly weird. the bass rhythm is atypical and feels quite odd at first but then ties everything together in the chorus. i'm not sure but are the hi-hats live at least in the verse(?) they stand out compared to the other percussion and the brief moment they drop out at the start of the second verse is always unexpected but cool
the lyrics are mostly about realising a new self, they don't seem like anything special but listening to it while reading the subtitles has also made me weirdly emotional multiple times lol
i would really love it if some kpop producers mined cupid & psyche for things to rip and it's a real shame they haven't yet
― ufo, Friday, 5 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
otm on all counts ufo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 5 January 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
We're all voting for As If It's Your Last, right? https://youtu.be/Hnz-HKfhIUU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
thumb up
― nxd, Monday, 15 January 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
:D
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
And while we're still in the 2017 thread, this one is pretty good...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq6s1mCT9BI
Impressed by their commitment to the choreography, usually boygroups are a bit more reserved.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 15 January 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
voted for more j-pop than k-pop this year. K-pop on my ballot: "Palette" and "Move".
― Roz, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 01:45 (six years ago) link
that ACE track is quite good & so is the dancing yeah
lol at that blackpink cover
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Blackpink and TWICE both made it to the year-end list (#67 Likey, #66 As If It's Your Last), good job guys.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 22 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
Whenever someone decides to make a 2018 thread... this year is off to a good start https://youtu.be/JQGRg8XBnB4
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 22 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Seems IU might not ;/ xp
― abcfsk, Monday, 22 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
eh it’s early yet. i don’t have any expectations though
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 22 January 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link
Kpop 2018
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 04:54 (six years ago) link
Girl Front at #44, I think I voted for it but can't remember. I'm pretty happy to see it place, I like it more than 'new' although 'new' has been growing on me.
Hitchhikker was my #1 but p sure that's not showing up on any list any time soon lol.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link