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Quick K-pop December 2013 Pt. 1
Quick opinions:
SNSD Love & Peace. Japanese, Scandinavian, consistently tuneful, not trying to overpower us with muscle and rhythm.
[EDIT: Video no longer available and I don't remember what it was that I embedded. Might have been "Love&Girls" but it could've been any of the others from Love & Peace. Sorry.]
Tymee "On The River." Strong, harsh, and plaintive at once, is the hurt, pummeled, and scarred Tymee. She's been doing this since her sad "Diary" days, but it was usually a sideshow to the artplay and to her being the fast sprite and melody-flinging cut-up. A lot of that's on hiatus since the name change: instead, she's been aggressive and angry; now she's knocked back in pain.
T.O.P "Doom Dada." Beats dig into the dark desert to match T.O.P's rasp, which sounds quite amused by all the dust.
Also: good album from Vixx, dull album from Myname, very good "Lonely Christmas" from Crayon Pop, T-ara's "Hide 'N' Seek" not as good as Miss A's "Hide & Sick," Nine Muses' "Glue" not as good as Nine Muses' "Gun," 2013 Flashe single not nearly as good as 2012 Flashe single but I'm glad they're still in business and that strong-voiced Songhee is still singing, disappointing single ("It's You") from D-Unit after a very good year, disappointing single from Super Junior ("Blue World"/"Candy"), third set of the year from SHINee (Everybody) not as good as first two.
[EDIT: Again, video's been taken down from YouTube and I can't tell from what I wrote here which one I embedded.]
SNSD Love & Peace. Japanese, Scandinavian, consistently tuneful, not trying to overpower us with muscle and rhythm.
[EDIT: Video no longer available and I don't remember what it was that I embedded. Might have been "Love&Girls" but it could've been any of the others from Love & Peace. Sorry.]
Tymee "On The River." Strong, harsh, and plaintive at once, is the hurt, pummeled, and scarred Tymee. She's been doing this since her sad "Diary" days, but it was usually a sideshow to the artplay and to her being the fast sprite and melody-flinging cut-up. A lot of that's on hiatus since the name change: instead, she's been aggressive and angry; now she's knocked back in pain.
T.O.P "Doom Dada." Beats dig into the dark desert to match T.O.P's rasp, which sounds quite amused by all the dust.
Also: good album from Vixx, dull album from Myname, very good "Lonely Christmas" from Crayon Pop, T-ara's "Hide 'N' Seek" not as good as Miss A's "Hide & Sick," Nine Muses' "Glue" not as good as Nine Muses' "Gun," 2013 Flashe single not nearly as good as 2012 Flashe single but I'm glad they're still in business and that strong-voiced Songhee is still singing, disappointing single ("It's You") from D-Unit after a very good year, disappointing single from Super Junior ("Blue World"/"Candy"), third set of the year from SHINee (Everybody) not as good as first two.
[EDIT: Again, video's been taken down from YouTube and I can't tell from what I wrote here which one I embedded.]
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But speaking of groups that are more popular in Japan, recently I like this Japanese single from UKISS:
http://vimeo.com/80620248
Composed by group member AJ, who also did "Party All the Time". I really wonder why their company doesn't use him more for their Korean singles (as much as I like Brave Brothers, he really has a tendency to phone-it-in on the projects he's not interested in <-- speculation).
There's been a lot of good stuff out recently, actually. I made a playlist (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsh4Z5FNfPMCkW2DmvX2DXdpN-X2UlTDp&feature=mh_lolz) two weeks ago and there's already a whole bunch of stuff I want to add, like Crayon Pop's Christmas song, and MIB's new song, and the Seo In Guk/Zia duet song, and Junhyun's Flower.
Also you might like Oh My God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vOTeiGUycY), since you liked Z.hera.
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I do hear NC.A's similarity to Z.Hera. And thanks for the playlist. I've been falling way behind in my listening.
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NP, though most of the songs on that playlist are from the Kpop thread on ILX.
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