Top 95 Singles, 2012 (repost)
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1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
Shinsadong Tiger w/ bodyguard. Co-producer and co-writer of #1, #3, #13, #37
4. ChoColat "I Like It"
5. Dev "Take Her From You"
6. Dev "In My Trunk"
7. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
8. Wonder Girls "Like This"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. T-ara "Day By Day"
11. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
12. 2NE1 "Scream." Over at the Singles Jukebox, commenter My cheap on accurately pegs this as "let’s sing about screaming but not scream." But then, 2NE1 aren't the ones to take terror and act afraid of it, are they (as opposed to using it to add frisson to their party)?
13. 4minute "Volume Up"
14. Flashe "Drop It"
15. After School "Rambling Girls"
16. Taylor Swift "Red"
17. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
18. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
19. Miss A "Touch"
20. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
21. Ana Victoria "Yo No Lloro Por Llorar." Speaking of frisson, this one's a scream and a wail that's held in the throat, maintains a cutting edge in being restrained.
22. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
23. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
24. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
25. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)
26. Mylène Farmer "À l'ombre"
27. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
28. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
29. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
30. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
31. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
32. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
33. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
34. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
35. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
36. Namcha Chiranat Yusanon "Fine Fine Fine." Thai. Sounds like squeaky Southern California (say, Bella Thorne) climbing a ladder into a higher South Asian pitch. (Of course I don't know if SoCal is an actual source.)
37. T-ara "Sexy Love"
38. T-ara "Round & Round"
39. Serebro "Gun"
40. Charles Esten & Hayden Panettiere "Undermine"
41. Los Mesoneros "Indeleble"
42. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
43. Lionel Richie ft. Jennifer Nettles "Hello"
44. Psy "Gangnam Style"
45. Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
46. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
47. Big Bang "Fantastic Baby"
48. Gaeko & Choiza & Simon D & Primary "난리good!!! (AIR)"
49. Jimmy Cliff "One More." "Ding-a-ling, freedom ring" is a bit too tinkly a lyric to rouse, say, the ragtag rebels of Philadelphia. In any event, there's a touching reggae ache here that doesn't make note of the lyrics' proclaimed defiance.
50. After School "Flashback"
51. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
52. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
53. Crystal Castles "Plague"
54. Regina Spektor "All The Rowboats"
55. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
56. Kara "Pandora"
57. Eric Church "Creepin'"
58. YDG ft. Dok2 & The Quiett "Give It To Me"
59. RaNia "Style"
60. A-Jax "Hot Game." Other than the ones with G-Dragon, Korean boybands rarely let loose. So the story is often the way the harmonies intertwine in the air, not sure where to alight. The hot game belongs to the woman they're singing about. Their own game is more watchful.
61. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
62. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
63. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
64. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
65. Kelly Clarkson ft. Vince Gill "Don't Rush"
66. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
67. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
68. Usher "Climax"
69. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend." He talks soft, and that's no big achievement; but he sings soft too, which is difficult, projecting force and personality while being as gentle as a pillow.
70. Ciara "Sophomore"
71. Knife Party "Bonfire"
72. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
73. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
74. Blush "Up Up & Away"
75. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
76. Kara "Speed Up"
77. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
78. Big Bang "Blue"
79. Chi Chi "Leon"
80. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
81. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
82. Shinhwa "Venus"
83. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel." '80s dance siren, her voice weathered, in what seems a commercial flop of a comeback, but w/ two tracks in my Top 95. On this one she's a half-scratched whine of eeriness that you imagine as a soundtrack to gropings and nervousness in those long dark dance-club hallways you see in all those videos.
84. Kang Mi Jin "Lost Child (MIA)" live (webrip)
85. Tyga "Rack City"
86. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
87. ASAP Rocky ft. Drake, Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz "Fucking Problem"
88. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
89. Obedear "Purity Ring"
90. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
91. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
92. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
93. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
94. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
95. Bae Geon-seok "Cinderella" live (webrip). The look on Kangta's and Baek Jiyoung's faces when they turn their chairs and see the gender of the singer is priceless.
To reemphasize the demographic points I've been hammering at you during all of my quarter-year writeups: There's only one male singer in my Top 10, the male half of Trouble Maker — the half that moves half-paralyzed in terror as a warm, endearingly emotionally sweet and massively sexy fun girl wraps her arms around him. This is fitting for a time in which male vocalists don't seem to know WTF they should do. The next XY chromosome doesn't show up till a negligible guest shot on ChoColat's "One More Day" down at 17. First vocalist over forty is Kim Wan Sun, the guest singer on "I Love You All Days," number 20. First male voice over forty is Jay-Z's in "Clique," track 27.
Yeah, I know this is my taste, lots of others'll have Lamars and Oceans and G-Dragons and EXO's tromping all over the tops of their lists. Nonetheless, I think my choices say something beyond just my taste: voices with character and penetration belong to young women, and the best songs and arrangements are given to them. (Yeah, and my impressions are limited to the corners of the world I notice, and of course I have no idea if Argentina or India have different stories to tell, as might all the American and Korean markets and submarkets I didn't get to in 2012.)
I also thought the cute women (T-ara, Orange Caramel) sang w/ more authority (or were autotuned with more authority) than the strong women (Dawn Richards, Ciara), though when the world went screwy and nasty aroung T-ara midyear, they were as paralyzed and negligent as anyone else. [EDIT: That is, T-ara as humans were paralyzed (as opposed to T-ara as just singers and dancers; I'm not saying the music was paralyzed). The women in T-ara needed to make written and spoken public responses to the bullying charges and what was being done to them and to Hwayoung, and to analyze and understand what the Internet mob was doing; but they were missing in action instead.]
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
3. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
Shinsadong Tiger w/ bodyguard. Co-producer and co-writer of #1, #3, #13, #37
4. ChoColat "I Like It"
5. Dev "Take Her From You"
6. Dev "In My Trunk"
7. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
8. Wonder Girls "Like This"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. T-ara "Day By Day"
11. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
12. 2NE1 "Scream." Over at the Singles Jukebox, commenter My cheap on accurately pegs this as "let’s sing about screaming but not scream." But then, 2NE1 aren't the ones to take terror and act afraid of it, are they (as opposed to using it to add frisson to their party)?
13. 4minute "Volume Up"
14. Flashe "Drop It"
15. After School "Rambling Girls"
16. Taylor Swift "Red"
17. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
18. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
19. Miss A "Touch"
20. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
21. Ana Victoria "Yo No Lloro Por Llorar." Speaking of frisson, this one's a scream and a wail that's held in the throat, maintains a cutting edge in being restrained.
22. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
23. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
24. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
25. Jewelry "Look At Me" (Inst.)
26. Mylène Farmer "À l'ombre"
27. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
28. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
29. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
30. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
31. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
32. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
33. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
34. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
35. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
36. Namcha Chiranat Yusanon "Fine Fine Fine." Thai. Sounds like squeaky Southern California (say, Bella Thorne) climbing a ladder into a higher South Asian pitch. (Of course I don't know if SoCal is an actual source.)
37. T-ara "Sexy Love"
38. T-ara "Round & Round"
39. Serebro "Gun"
40. Charles Esten & Hayden Panettiere "Undermine"
41. Los Mesoneros "Indeleble"
42. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
43. Lionel Richie ft. Jennifer Nettles "Hello"
44. Psy "Gangnam Style"
45. Taylor Swift "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together"
46. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
47. Big Bang "Fantastic Baby"
48. Gaeko & Choiza & Simon D & Primary "난리good!!! (AIR)"
49. Jimmy Cliff "One More." "Ding-a-ling, freedom ring" is a bit too tinkly a lyric to rouse, say, the ragtag rebels of Philadelphia. In any event, there's a touching reggae ache here that doesn't make note of the lyrics' proclaimed defiance.
50. After School "Flashback"
51. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
52. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
53. Crystal Castles "Plague"
54. Regina Spektor "All The Rowboats"
55. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
56. Kara "Pandora"
57. Eric Church "Creepin'"
58. YDG ft. Dok2 & The Quiett "Give It To Me"
59. RaNia "Style"
60. A-Jax "Hot Game." Other than the ones with G-Dragon, Korean boybands rarely let loose. So the story is often the way the harmonies intertwine in the air, not sure where to alight. The hot game belongs to the woman they're singing about. Their own game is more watchful.
61. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
62. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
63. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
64. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
65. Kelly Clarkson ft. Vince Gill "Don't Rush"
66. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
67. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
68. Usher "Climax"
69. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend." He talks soft, and that's no big achievement; but he sings soft too, which is difficult, projecting force and personality while being as gentle as a pillow.
70. Ciara "Sophomore"
71. Knife Party "Bonfire"
72. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
73. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
74. Blush "Up Up & Away"
75. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
76. Kara "Speed Up"
77. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
78. Big Bang "Blue"
79. Chi Chi "Leon"
80. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
81. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
82. Shinhwa "Venus"
83. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel." '80s dance siren, her voice weathered, in what seems a commercial flop of a comeback, but w/ two tracks in my Top 95. On this one she's a half-scratched whine of eeriness that you imagine as a soundtrack to gropings and nervousness in those long dark dance-club hallways you see in all those videos.
84. Kang Mi Jin "Lost Child (MIA)" live (webrip)
85. Tyga "Rack City"
86. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
87. ASAP Rocky ft. Drake, Kendrick Lamar & 2 Chainz "Fucking Problem"
88. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
89. Obedear "Purity Ring"
90. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
91. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
92. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
93. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
94. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
95. Bae Geon-seok "Cinderella" live (webrip). The look on Kangta's and Baek Jiyoung's faces when they turn their chairs and see the gender of the singer is priceless.
To reemphasize the demographic points I've been hammering at you during all of my quarter-year writeups: There's only one male singer in my Top 10, the male half of Trouble Maker — the half that moves half-paralyzed in terror as a warm, endearingly emotionally sweet and massively sexy fun girl wraps her arms around him. This is fitting for a time in which male vocalists don't seem to know WTF they should do. The next XY chromosome doesn't show up till a negligible guest shot on ChoColat's "One More Day" down at 17. First vocalist over forty is Kim Wan Sun, the guest singer on "I Love You All Days," number 20. First male voice over forty is Jay-Z's in "Clique," track 27.
Yeah, I know this is my taste, lots of others'll have Lamars and Oceans and G-Dragons and EXO's tromping all over the tops of their lists. Nonetheless, I think my choices say something beyond just my taste: voices with character and penetration belong to young women, and the best songs and arrangements are given to them. (Yeah, and my impressions are limited to the corners of the world I notice, and of course I have no idea if Argentina or India have different stories to tell, as might all the American and Korean markets and submarkets I didn't get to in 2012.)
I also thought the cute women (T-ara, Orange Caramel) sang w/ more authority (or were autotuned with more authority) than the strong women (Dawn Richards, Ciara), though when the world went screwy and nasty aroung T-ara midyear, they were as paralyzed and negligent as anyone else. [EDIT: That is, T-ara as humans were paralyzed (as opposed to T-ara as just singers and dancers; I'm not saying the music was paralyzed). The women in T-ara needed to make written and spoken public responses to the bullying charges and what was being done to them and to Hwayoung, and to analyze and understand what the Internet mob was doing; but they were missing in action instead.]
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Date: 2013-01-05 08:54 pm (UTC)thank you for posting these -- I missed a lot, same as every year. It's especially nice to see a Thai pop song; Zaza were one of my favourite groups a couple years ago, but I forgot to keep track of them; this was a good reminder
--mza.
I'm sure there's a joke about "agency" (in the cultural studies sense) to be made here
Date: 2013-01-05 09:03 pm (UTC)e.via has left her agency, alleging that they refuse to pay her revenue that they owe her. She decided to accept the amount they said they owed so that she could make a clean break, but when she sais that she would not renew her contract they told her not to use the name e.via in future and claimed that the contract had been "automatically extended". She'll now use the stage name Tymee.
Re: I'm sure there's a joke about "agency" (in the cultural studies sense) to be made here
Date: 2013-01-05 09:04 pm (UTC)Low-tiered nocturnal creature watch, continued
Date: 2013-01-06 01:16 pm (UTC)P.S. The first part of Chocolat Debut Story, a fluffy documentary made when they debuted, has belatedly been fansubbed.
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Date: 2013-01-07 04:11 pm (UTC)1. BoA - Only One
2. T-ara - Lovey Dovey
3. Sunny Hill - The Grasshopper Song
4. Sistar - Alone
5. T-ara - Sexy Love
6. Big Bang - Bad Boy
7. Sunny Hill - Is The White Horse Coming?
8. Nine Muses - News
9. 4Minute - Volume Up
10. EXID - Every Night¨
11. Primary - ?
12. Wonder Girls - Like This
13. f(x) - Electric Shock
14. Satbyeol - Do Me
15. Neon Bunny - First Love
16. Chocolat - One More Day
17. Younha - Run
18. EXO - History
19. Nine Muses - Ticket
20. Lay-T - Soft Soft
21. SouLime - With U
22. Soulights - Leave Me
23. E.Via - I Know How To Play
24. Infinite - The Chaser
25. Rania - STYLE
26. Miss A - I Don't Need a Man
27. Tensi Love - Cake House
28. Crayon Pop - Dancing Queen
29. Neon Bunny - Oh My Prince
30. Gangkiz - Honey Honey
31. D-Unit - Sleeping In Part 2
32. Primary - Manna
33. After School - Flashback
34. Park JiYoon - Tree of Life
35. Seo In Young - Anymore
36. Chi Chi - Love is Energy
37. BoA - The Shadow
38. Humming Urban Stereo - Love Jam
39. TVXQ - Catch Me
40. Boyfriend - I'll Be There
41. IU - Peach
42. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
43. 4Minute - Over and Over (R.Tee Mix)
44. Areum (T-ara), Shannon, Gunji (Gavy NJ) - Day and Night
45. The Seeya - Be With You
46. Teen Top - To You
47. IU - Bad Day
48. EXID - I Feel Good
49. Suho - You Are My Only One
50. R.Sha & Da.U - Mine
51. IU - Every End of Day
52. D-Unit - Luv Me
53. K.Will - Please Don't
54. Chocolat - I Like It
55. 2NE1 - I Love You
56. T-ara - Day By Day
57. Junsu - Tarantallegra
58. C-Real - Sorry But I
59. Nine - Songs
60. Hyuna - Ice Cream
61. Big Bang - Fantastic Baby
62. SIAENA - Winter Is Coming
63. Gangkiz - Mama
64. Nu'Est - Action
65. Kara - Pandora
66. Spica - Russian Roulette
67. Reddy - Let's Go (feat. Satbyeol)
68. Kim Wan Sun - Can Only Feel
69. EvoL - Let Me Explode
70. Spica - Painkiller
71. Panini - Lovely Day
72. B.A.P. - No Mercy
73. Dalmatian - E.R
74. Fiestar - Vista
75. Nam Soo-Rim feat ParkJiYoon - Drive Me To The Moon
76. Clazzi - Love&Hate
77. Hadami - Mannequin
78. BoA - Lookin' (feat The Quiett)
79. Big Bang - Blue
80. GP Basic - Edge Ta¨
81. G-Dragon - One of a Kind
82. Secret - Poison
83. Miss A - Touch
84. Ailee - Heaven
85. Beast - Beautiful Night
86. Miryo - Dirty
87. Seo In Young - Let's Dance
88. Yoseob - Caffeine
89. Lexy - Nolza
90. Orange Caramel - Lipstick
91. 15& - I Dream
92. Crayon Pop - Bing Bing
93. We - Party
94. Jessica - My Lifestyle
95. WooYoung - Sexy Lady
96. Ga-In - Bloom
97. Baek Ah Yeon - Sad Song
98. Shinee - SHerlock
99. Girl's Day - Don't forget me
100. A-Pink - Hush Hush
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Date: 2013-01-07 04:13 pm (UTC)