and speaking of minor keys... this is waaaaaaaaaay too high for Day6 to sing comfortably but it is, nonetheless, a singalong :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2X2LdJAIpU
SUPER hooky earwormy!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
I'm going back to last year's Day6 releases too, some of these tracks are really good.... "What Can I Do" is so happy and jazzy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RJWqIEo_Tc
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
the minseo track is like a really motivational anime opening song... she is great and the orchestration is so full!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 24 July 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
and sunny summer is growing on me too.... I like the instrumental more the more I listen to it.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 25 July 2018 20:36 (five years ago) link
that Minseo track is indeed great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHSVQy9xN8
really like the new Red Velvet. not quite as great as Red Flavor but still a worthy successor as summer single. especially like the chord changes in the nanana section. the mini is very solid too
― ufo, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:20 (five years ago) link
― hurricane weather (forapper), 25. juli 2018 00:27 (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lol, this is absolutely otm. Great track! The video is pretty anime as well, reminds me of Your Name or Girl Who Leapt Through Time.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
wow power up is so fun
― nxd, Monday, 6 August 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFJPFfnzZ7w
LOONA full group debut is pretty good
― ufo, Tuesday, 7 August 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
Good song, terrible video. I lol'd at omona commenters who said it's pretty much a boy group song done right - it absolute is! Sounds like an EXO track.
"Power up" is fun, but can't shake how the chorus melody is lifted directly from Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend".
― Roz, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:16 (five years ago) link
oh it is very similar now that you mention it, but it has a completely different feeling there so it doesn't bother me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1OUMTMwVsY
this on the other hand is such a rip of Tinashe's Superlove lol
― ufo, Thursday, 9 August 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
Wow, that is *brazen*. Please tell me Tinashe and her ppl were duly compensated.
the Red Velvet mini-album is great so far
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 10 August 2018 15:15 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MthLgPs7oU4
not sure why Brave Girls are releasing a remix of Rollin a year and a half later as a new single but it's even better than the original
― ufo, Saturday, 11 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
WOW that remake is really good... and why not try it out again as a summer single, since we're still getting trop house from all the other popular acts
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:10 (five years ago) link
And speaking of (kinda)... I know it's a YG songwriting cliche but I really like the last drop on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upxtfys2QI
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 12 August 2018 05:12 (five years ago) link
Good to see girl group member producers/songwriters (Soyeon) flex.. this is one of the more interesting gg singles of the year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKNXn2qCEws
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
ooh I really like that. nice to see Soyeon continuing to be great yeah, I loved her solo track Jelly from last yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ8kJdTYj1o
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 02:18 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDAqx45Duqw
also really enjoying this from a few weeks ago, one of the best tropical summer singles this year
― ufo, Thursday, 16 August 2018 12:48 (five years ago) link
I'm into all the jazz piano slowly invading the idol scene... the bridge on this is WILD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCb6XJ_2Z3E
It feels spare but not boring, a bit like Pentagon's SHINE, and that song grew on me a lot.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 24 August 2018 04:07 (five years ago) link
It just makes you smile!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Friday, 24 August 2018 04:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBuZEGYXA6E
new BTS is fantastic, really was not expecting something like this from them
― ufo, Friday, 24 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
it s supposed to be influenced by Gqom
― ufo, Friday, 24 August 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
For real. It’s got the gqom sound palet, especially in the intro and the verses (the drum rolls, the whistles, the synths), but the chorus is firmly in the Kpop zone. Fantastic baby!
― breastcrawl, Friday, 24 August 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
Heard it's meant to be a mix of traditional Korean sounds and the South African music hitman bang has on his ipod right now...
I like the production touches and "BTS as global commodity" visual messaging but the song feels thin on melodic ideas to me... more "Bang Bang Bang" than "Fantastic Baby" (if Bang Bang Bang was less dated-on-arrival).
What I do like about BTS is how quick the feedback loop is. Less than a year in from Love Yourself: Her setting sales records and rather than continue to tour that album, they already released the 2nd and 3rd acts wherein they tentatively/enthusiastically embrace their fame. It's the Kpop production schedule combined with a savvy sense of narrative and self-reference.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 25 August 2018 20:25 (five years ago) link
DNA was their Fantastic Baby, obviously.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 25 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
Apart from my enthusiasm my exclamation was mainly inspired by the “ooh-hoo!” in the chorus. The guys were clearly thinking of BigBang and “Fantastic Baby” themselves. The song itself is somewhere halfway between FB and BBB, I guess.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
yeah the "ooh-hoo!" is straight from Fantastic Baby. the South African/traditional Korean blend is extremely effective here and i'm really glad they're doing something so fresh while at their peak, unlike their last few singles which have felt overly safe. i don't have any complaints about melodic ideas since it's driven so strongly by the rhythms and has plenty of hooks even if they aren't very melodic ones if that makes any sense
― ufo, Monday, 27 August 2018 06:54 (five years ago) link
Girls' Generation coming back (as 5) in September
― abcfsk, Monday, 27 August 2018 07:26 (five years ago) link
So then Seohyun and Sooyoung are out?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 27 August 2018 17:03 (five years ago) link
Going back to BTS, I think IDOL needs "something" more to be really good... but it is head and shoulders above most of the other songs on the BTS album which are, like, total snoozefests. So there's that.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 27 August 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
yes...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ8MFfg3DHA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 28 August 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
Seohyun and Sooyoung left SM with Tiffany, yeah.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
hello k-pop thread, haven't had much time to post lately but just wanted to say how much i've been enjoying everything Hyolyn's put out this year. I think "Bae" might be my fave at the moment, so much summery goodness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2V4lymB6VU
― Roz, Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
yeah her singles this year have been great, See Sea is definitely my favourite though
― ufo, Friday, 31 August 2018 03:03 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNWMZIf7eSg
this is my favourite Sunmi solo single so far
also coming soon is a Blackpink & Dua Lipa collaboration! it'll be interesting to see if Blackpink attempt any sort of Western breakthrough then
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 12:25 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfkEbtHcooI
With credit to Our Girl Jamie for working so hard all these years to consolidate Jimin's fanbase... some of the best fanmade Kpop content on the English-language web!
All joking aside, the (long overdue) Jimin Park mini is solid. I like tracks 1, 2 and 4 especially. See if you can spot the Shine reference!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 02:56 (five years ago) link
lol
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 03:05 (five years ago) link
BTS was playing in downtown L.A. tonight and apparently they've sold out four shows here at Staples Center. People camping out in tents in the line waiting to see them.
― omar little, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 06:37 (five years ago) link
My friend wanted to see them at Citifield (where the Mets play), tickets were by lottery and we didn't get them. But I'm pretty agnostic on the new album so maybe we dodged a bullet.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
Oh!GG Lil Touch isn't terrible but it's suffering pretty hard from every line being written twice so they can be divided 'fairly' between all 5 girls.
Either have a 3-girl subunit, work harder on the song structure, or forget about the distribution...
I like the new NCT Dream song though!
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:23 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV1Es22E0RI
Supposedly Mark will be "graduated" from NCTDream after this song which is a bit weird to think about considering he's featured so heavily on it and even the other rappers sound like him. But just like Cube think they can have Pentagon without E'Dawn...
Here's an opinion piece on the NCT franchise model and other artist-as-commodity long term planning by SM:
https://omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com/22890849.html
Popular culture critic Kim Hyun Sik said, “In a franchise, the flagship store must be successful in order for its brand power to expand to its chain stores. It would be sequentially correct to develop a team that can be the center of NCT and then expand its influence to its derived teams.”
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
Would you buy a home AI system with Wendy's voice and image?
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
Sunmi's "Siren" rules <3 She does high drama so well.
― Roz, Thursday, 6 September 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
Performance predictably great too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcBFktktV80
― abcfsk, Sunday, 9 September 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrvdjyIL0fA
iiking this track in the k-patchwork-pop tradition
― ufo, Monday, 10 September 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
the OMG track is great, I hear a lot of other songs I like in there
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
the one that most comes to mind is GLAM's Party (XXO)
― ufo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link
also I Got A Boy
― ufo, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
Wow this is awful: https://www.soompi.com/article/1229651wpp/breaking-hyuna-edawn-removed-cube-entertainment
I could see them letting go of E'Dawn but Hyuna?! She practically carried the label.
― Roz, Thursday, 13 September 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
wow that's awful and shocking, absurd that dating scandals are still such a thing and that companies can react like this over them
― ufo, Thursday, 13 September 2018 03:04 (five years ago) link
It just seems incredibly short-sighted. Hyuna was probably popular enough to ride out any dating scandals, while E'Dawn was a rising star. Good luck Cube imo.
― Roz, Thursday, 13 September 2018 03:14 (five years ago) link