This might sound generic to some, but sometimes a song is so earwormy it takes over my entire day from the get go and this is one of those:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrGKn3epXM
NOT EVERY MOMENT BUT EVERY DAY
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 20:28 (three months ago) link
I really like that actually, the way they switch up the melodies in the verses feels very old school kpop. And yeah really catchy.
IU’s latest is very emotions era CRJ - “Shopper”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHW-UVXOcLU
― Roz, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 14:04 (three months ago) link
Utterly horrible news, he was responsible for so many classics:
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/prominent-pop-composer-shinsadong-tiger-found-dead-south-107475507
― Roz, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:05 (three months ago) link
Top 5 Shinsadong Tiger productions off the top of my head:
4Minute - “Volume Up” (bring back cheesy sax riffs to kpop imo)Hyuna - “Bubble Pop” T-ara - “Roly-Poly” BEAST - “Fiction” Dal Shabet - “BBB”
― Roz, Friday, 23 February 2024 16:33 (three months ago) link
Oh no! Just heard. He was a big part of the soundtrack to my most intense and exhilarating years listening to K-pop.
Another 5:
T-ara - "Lovey-Dovey"4Minute - "Hot Issue"Trouble Maker - "Trouble Maker"T-ara "Bo Peep Bo Peep"Jewelry "One More Time"
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 24 February 2024 03:23 (three months ago) link
Good picks that illustrate how much his sound defined that era. Of course he also produced the last youtube I posted in this thread. He's been writing the Tri.be songs with LE of EXID, hopefully she and others close to him are cared for.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 25 February 2024 16:52 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbclRNm_ANY
beastie boys mode
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
^^i like that, even though i still really hate their group name lol
ILLIT - "Magnetic" - HYBE's new girl group that's very much in the same sonic zone as NewJeans (EP is quite good as well though too short at points - whole thing is under 10 mins):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5-c_v4gMU
Liking this new Chungha track too - "I'm Ready":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0_fwHYAbE
― Roz, Friday, 29 March 2024 02:52 (two months ago) link
Magnetic is good but their pitch feels a little less solid than NJ - or they haven't carved out their own space.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 17:39 (two months ago) link
speaking of not being able to carve out their own space... spare a thought for Babymonster, doomed to be a Blackpink clone because YG has run out of ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wA_b6YHjqQ
― Roz, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 00:44 (two months ago) link
That's a little embarassing yeah. At least Blackpink didn't totally sound like 2NE1, even though their sound never developed. This is just throwaway BP.
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 09:52 (two months ago) link
The reliably good and underrated ONF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOR8CUeTJpc
― abcfsk, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
This is solid if not going to set the world on fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey53EQhkLY8
― abcfsk, Friday, 19 April 2024 13:50 (one month ago) link
yeah that's fun
― ufo, Friday, 19 April 2024 14:41 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9nP3qXQA4o
pretty catchy & endearingly weird vocal effects!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phsDrsw-tzc
a more hyperactive version of that one soaring girl group sound
― ufo, Tuesday, 23 April 2024 10:29 (one month ago) link
Loving the last few posts, and that QWER track is fantastic. christian horse girl hyperpop!
― Roz, Friday, 26 April 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft70sAYrFyY
this isn't exciting in the way that newjeans have been at their best but it's still lovely, i love the little flute touches
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 03:02 (one month ago) link
It's a very sweet song. There's a ton of mess and power struggle between HYBE and ADOR now so NJ's promotions this year are now quite uncertain.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 27 April 2024 11:59 (one month ago) link
i think there's another single next month and two japanese singles planned for june still, but yeah i hope all the corporate drama doesn't get in the way of the album that's planned for later in the year.
― ufo, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:21 (one month ago) link
this isn't all that great but I like it, a throwback to a time when idols could sell a mediocre song on sheer charisma and personality alone. zico still knows his way around a good hook.
also nice to see/hear Jennie clearly having fun outside of YG/Blackpink - probably the most enthusiastic performance I've seen from her in ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfqBQ2XhBCg
― Roz, Sunday, 28 April 2024 04:07 (one month ago) link
For those who miss the big girl groups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufoKYZXpKg
― abcfsk, Thursday, 9 May 2024 10:48 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuiiNCxRMg
― abcfsk, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link
"supernova" is pretty good but lol at the "trans europe express" interpolation that gets dropped in there for just a moment?
― ufo, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
that's probably the best aespa single
― ufo, Monday, 13 May 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
They've had a good streak
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:44 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3K0TOvTOno
another good newjeans single
― ufo, Friday, 24 May 2024 21:14 (three weeks ago) link
Finally got around to watching the BBC documentary on the Burning Sun scandal that came out a couple of weeks back - I won’t post the link here because it’s harrowing and a very difficult watch, but you can easily search for it on youtube.
It gives a good and clear account of how the story unfolded, who was involved, what they were each responsible for. Disgusting that none of the key offenders got anywhere close to a deserving sentence, and most are already out of jail and attempting comebacks.
I hadn’t known that the late Goo Hara, from KARA, had played a pivotal role in uncovering a key figure in the scandal. Bittersweet but glad that it’s now part of her legacy (along with the Goo Hara Act )
― Roz, Sunday, 26 May 2024 13:21 (three weeks ago) link
Supernova is the big early summer hit in Korea, plenty of 'PAK's, and with a very SM sound (the short line '누구도 말이야' at 0:38 in the MV is the kind of vocal production and song snippet that basically only exists in SM, like a brief definitive signature) composed by in-house SM producer Kenzie (she's been in SM since 2002, alongside the other main SM producer responsible for their sound, Yoo Young-jin, who left the company last year). Anyway the song is definitely less about following trends and more about insisting on something that's 50% aespa and 50% general SM DNA.
― abcfsk, Friday, 7 June 2024 19:23 (one week ago) link
Nayeon’s “ABCD” is an excellent homage to 00s Rich Harrison hits - “Crazy in Love” on the chorus, a brief “1 Thing” interpolation on the dance break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUZttxRcPZw
And for a completely different mood, this new Sunmi single is lovely- “Balloon in Love”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXhbBbe0i-I
― Roz, Monday, 17 June 2024 15:51 (yesterday) link