Ice Cream and the Ice Creams ft. Ice Cream "Ice Cream" (Singles First Quarter 2015)

[koganbot]

Missed most of February (and most of everything else). Ash-B is the great discovery here, a strong and throaty rapper like Choi Sam but with a tone that's more supple and subtle. Will say more when I post my 2014 albums list. "The Song Of Love" is a low-rent slow dance from Core Contents Media (yeah, it's not Core Contents Media anymore, but in my dark heart it always will be). "Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina" scrunches together two acts I never really got and it's catchy. Azin's the sort of respectable-type well-controlled quality singer I always intend to be indifferent towards except every year there's another one who gets to me. I can't tell if Rihanna's goofing. I'd have called it "Bitch Betta Have My Ice Cream." Red Velvet take the cake. Christine and the Queens sing "Christine." ZZBEst kinda go soul horny in the early evening. Lizzy trots. GFriend are trying to sound like early SNSD and kinda do. They don't dance remotely as well, unfortunately. Jason Aldean does rote party roteness with good guitars. J'sais pas, I dunno.

Looking forward to Crayon Pop, Miss A, Blady, Exo. What'd I miss?

1. Ash-B "매일"
2. The Seeya "The Song Of Love"
3. Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS "Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina"
4. Azin "Delete"
5. Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money"
6. Red Velvet "Ice Cream Cake"
7. Christine and the Queens "Christine"
8. ZZBEst "랄랄라"
9. Lizzy "Not An Easy Girl"
10. GFriend "Glass Bead"
11. Jason Aldean "Just Gettin' Started"
12. Brigitte "J'sais pas"

[EDIT: Video not available; Ash-B's "매일" seems to no longer exist on the Internet.]

Comments

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

I had this long comment written and Firefox crashed. I presume my computer was trying to scold me for not doing dissertation work.

So, shorter version: curious as to what you thought of the latest 4Minute album, especially "Crazy" and "Tickle Tickle Tickle"; I'm still fond of "Wiggle Wiggle" and Amber's "Love Run" and still too squicked out by the blond-cheerleader-clone aesthetic of "Ice Cream Cake" to find the song fun; and I'm sorry I haven't been in touch, especially since I clearly need schooling in the hallway/classroom non-divide. (I think my equivalent of your addiction to alienation is a perpetual self-distrust -- not that communication is impossible; rather, it is possible and if I don't manage to communicate properly that is clearly a failing on my part that needs to be overcome.

[koganbot]

Haven't heard the 4minute; I think the arrangement rather than the group is the strongest part of "Wiggle Wiggle" (which doesn't answer the question; haven't listened enough to know what I think); the harmonies in "Ice Cream Cake" are what deliver it to me, and, while K-pop has brought home for me the importance of videos and concepts, I still don't pay them enough attention, hence didn't know Red Velvet even had a blond-cheerleader-clone aesthetic (which presumably isn't at odds with the harmonies) (but S. Korea seems to think of concepts as more mutable and open to being discarded than the U.S. does, which doesn't necessarily mean that in the U.S. performers don't mutate and discard their concepts just as much as the Koreans).

The communication issue actually fits easily into the alienation addiction in that I often go, "If only I rephrase it like this, or use this new analogy or that new invective, then they'll finally grasp the issue and comprehend my idea" (or, conversely, "if only I hadn't used the analogy or the invective, they would have understood"), and I can brood and rehearse and rephrase for days. That is, my not knowing when to cut my losses rather than push forward gets in the way of doing the latter. And even knowing to cut my losses doesn't stop my mind and feelings from pressing the hopeless case in my head. The addiction likes to reinforce itself with the constant "experience" of failure.

We do each individually have an obligation to communicate our ideas (if an idea can't be communicated, then it isn't an idea, though "can be communicated" isn't the same as "has been communicated" or "ever will be communicated"). But, fundamentally, knowledge is a collective enterprise, and the failure is collective when a community fails to help its members understand each other's ideas and fails at helping them communicate and develop their own. No individual can overcome all her misreadings and notice or surmount all the problems in her own thinking. Unfortunately, rockwrite/musicwrite has NEVER had a community that was substantially able to help its members understand, or was willing to recognize that as a community it had a problem.