Well, I don't know enough to know what's typical, but I'd bet that the SNSD track that beat you is reasonably typical, but also far better than average. Other than that track, I was mostly meh (well, meh-plus, 6s and 7s) on what Chris chose. But the different girl groups and the different girls within them will apply different images (see askbask's posts on this thread for a rundown on the various styles and strategies. My favorite of this year's K-pop singles are After School's "Bang!" (this rip has better sound than the one I posted on poptimists, or louder sound, anyway), and of course "Shake!," which I'm deciding to call this year [I think the single was last year but that the vid was this April when the EP was released], both of which have the same brightness of the PWC stuff but are tougher, and E.via is twisting the elements dangerously, in my uninformed reading. (And she's an outsider in comparison to the company-sponsored idols, according to askbask.) And she raps really well. I also quite like 2NE1's "Try To Follow Me." For better or worse, none of these are using autumn palettes.