Kpop 2017

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.

Gfriend familiar and safe but still catchy imo. Dreamcatcher single rocks. Good for live performances too.

I can like CLC's Especia lite

Choi Sam going harder, tighter, closer, more brutalist, to great effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-I1c7DPMQ

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGRv8ZBLuW0

Pros - visuals, voiceover, the way the vocals overlap on the verses
Cons - WE GOT THAT POWER... POWER... POWER... POWER.... POWER.... POWER...

And the highlight of Primary's ft every famous idol vocalist of the last few years album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y0Bd3T3RY4

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

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.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyInv6RWL0Q

loona continue to be great

yessss, the whole album is good!

i'm also enjoying April's laid-back take on the stirring orchestral Jpop schoolgirl genre:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=215

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

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

Plus there's the Very Silly flamenco choreography move in the chorus: https://youtu.be/c-s8-Yz0qYs @3:38

My apologies, @1:04 ^^ above

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

that's a groove

also a song that gets straight into it and doesn't waste time

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

Hani sounds good on the prechorus, you can feel Solji's absence on the chorus though

First itunes #1 for k-pop ever apparently!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTlv5_Bs8aw

Push for ilxor end of the year poll?

US main itunes track chart that is

First k-pop _group_ I guess

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIDe-yTxda0

i'm gonna rep for both "palette" and "red flavor" for the ilx eoy

oh and that yves^^^^ hell yes

yves track is great!

Yeah I'm reppin for Palette although feel it's underrated. Maybe it isn't

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

"as if it's your last" deffo on mine
chorus of the year :)

hope to have room for red flavor too!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPzB1q9VoAAyFQV.jpg

What is it? No idea so far

Red Flavor and Subin's Circle's Dream are the two biggest contenders for my eoy list.

I actually like Peek a Boo a lot more than Red Flavor, even though the chorus and verse sound a bit similar (same chord progression?).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJf2IT2Zh8

EXID's DDD and Blackpink's As If It's Your Last are getting my vote too!

I guess no one's voting for TWICE?

Oh and there's a new Hyuna song out that's a lotta fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcqImqOVE2U

It's been interesting to watch BTS do the rounds on the US late night circuit, if only because the last time I watched a late night show live on TV was several years ago... (I get up really early OK). There's so much bonus content online now, BTS slots in perfectly.

I especially liked "Flinch" with James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel interviewing fans before the show, and the Mic Drop camerawork on Ellen.

DNA too, the nonspastic but dynamic, close but not too close, low angle camerawork is so satisfying.

Came back to say... Gashina (Sunmi), Dinosaur (AKMU) also get my end of year nods

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xMLTwCPlE&feature=youtu.be&t=7m3s

As BAP would say... yeah, that's my jam! Vocal performances on point.

Horrible news. I'm devastated, Jonghyun was a legit talent, not to mention the rare K-pop idol who spoke up in support of LGBT rights. He was one of the good ones.

Some conflicting reports coming out of Seoul, that he was still alive and being operated on but it sounds like wishful thinking? I don't know. :( :(

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/shinee-kim-jong-hyun-lead-singer-of-south-korean-boy-band-dies

oh no, that's really devastating. shinee have always been one of my favourite groups and his solo album last year was nice.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF53cptEE5k

I can't deal with K-pop twitter right now - too many heartbroken teenagers. He was so young. :'(

:(

If you read through the post on omona, there is a translation Jong Hyun's final letter to family and friends. It's on the 22nd page of comments, I don't want to link it here. Really deeply sad, it reminds me so much of a close family member who went the same way.

This leaves Tell Me What To Do as SHINEE's last song together as a group... reminder that the people in your life who've been suffering for a long are probably still suffering, even if they aren't saying anything about right at this moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5oJWAuQuSA

I wonder if they'll release the solo album... reportedly it was pretty much finished, even the music video had been recorded two days prior.
I know wwe used to say that with the stress of being a Kpop star, the lack of support, and the mental health issues of so many artists, it was only a matter of time before we saw a really high-profile death... but still SO sad to read the news about Jong Hyun today, he was truly one of the very best.I wonder if they'll release the solo album... reportedly it was pretty much finished, even the music video had been recorded two days prior. I know wwe used to say that with the stress of being a Kpop star, the lack of support, and the mental health issues of so many artists, it was only a matter of time before we saw a really high-profile death... but still SO sad to read the news about Jong Hyun today, he was truly one of the very best.

that ACE track is quite good & so is the dancing yeah

lol at that blackpink cover

Blackpink and TWICE both made it to the year-end list (#67 Likey, #66 As If It's Your Last), good job guys.

Whenever someone decides to make a 2018 thread... this year is off to a good start https://youtu.be/JQGRg8XBnB4

Seems IU might not ;/ xp

eh it’s early yet. i don’t have any expectations though

Kpop 2018

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.