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.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Cool, hadn't checked out ASh-B before. Interesting times for female rappers in Korea, I guess you could say. Unpretty Rapstar seemed like a messy, awkwardly framed competition at first but turned out smash hit single after smash hit single with rappers who've never topped charts before. From a marketing standpoint a big win for everyone involved. Even our friend Tymee found some of her old flow and swagger. Not the place for everyone, though. I've followed Choi Sam's SNS Q&A's and she's answered fan requests for her to appear with decided negatives and "what would I gain from it?". But she is apparently working on more official releases, after recently putting out another mixtape.

People, including me, have said Red Velvet sound like fx, and there are some similarities, but I've adjusted my stance, I think we're just hearing a branch of the SM sound. The Super Junior formula has been tweaked and applied to Shinee singles, EXO singles. SNSD has had less of a definitive sound and so their influence on other female SM artists has been less tangible. With f(x) they really found new inspiration and some of that has rubbed off on RV's style, although I think their collage pop differs in other, important ways from f(x), who are apparently still coming back soon, presumably still with Sulli.

[joshlanghoff.livejournal.com]

I still need to listen to most of yours, but I'm most concerned about not having heard Rihanna and Red Velvet, even though the actual FLAVOR red velvet is totally played out. Will definitely listen for Aldean's guitars next time it comes on.

Here's some singles; regional Mexican writeups are here:

15 Regional Mexican and derived therefrom (Youtube playlist):

1. Marco Flores y La Número 1 Banda Jerez – “El Pajarito” (Remex)
2. Colmillo Norteño – “La Plebona” (Remex)
3. Natalia Jiménez – “Quédate Con Ella” (Sony)
4. Rocio Quiroz – “La De La Paloma” (Ser)
5. Alfredo Ríos El Komander – “Fuga Pa’ Maza” (Twiins)
6. Grupo Cañaveral ft. Jenny and the Mexicats – “Tiene Espinas el Rosal (En Vivo)” (Fonovisa)
7. Shalia Dúrcal – “No Me Interesa” (EMI)
8. La Trakalosa de Monterrey ft. Pancho Uresti – “Adicto a la Tristeza” (Remex)
9. Los Tigres Del Norte – “Qué Tal Si Eres Tu” (Fonovisa)
10. Rosendo Robles – “Alterado De Corazon” (Rosendo Robles)

11. La Maquinaria Norteña – “Si Te Vuelvo a Ver” (Azteca)
12. Mario “El Cachorro” Delgado – “El Rancho” (Garmex)
13. Alfredo Rios El Komander – “Malditas Ganas” (Twiins)
14. Diego Herrera ft. Los Gfez – “Es Todo Un Placer” (Remex)
15. Remmy Valenzuela – “Mi Princesa” (Fonovisa)

10 more good ones (no Youtube playlist):

Miranda Lambert – “Little Red Wagon” (RCA Nashville)
Los Teke Teke – “Me Dite Duro” (Leo)
Nicki Minaj ft. Drake and Lil Wayne – “Truffle Butter” (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic)
Joey Bada$$ – “No. 99” (Cinematic/Relentless)
Sia – “Elastic Heart” (Monkey Puzzle/RCA)
Susanne Sundfør – “Delirious” (EMI Norway)
One Direction – “Night Changes” (Columbia)
Fetty Wap – “Trap Queen” (300)
Carrie Underwood – “Little Toy Guns” (Sony Nashville)
Victor Manuelle – “Que Suenen Los Tambores” (Sony)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I have a really crappy list of contenders so far, and I can't tell if it's me or the contenders. (Imagine it's a little of both.)

Albums-wise, I really want to write something about Kendrick Lamar and PBS -- PBSification in the DNA of the album, which is quite good, but it's unmistakably "good for you," too. Problem is, I don't actually want to write about the Kendrick Lamar album (yet? Maybe ever).

Everything else is just kind of a tasteful/pleasantish wash. The only things that are coming close to making me go "huh" are Kate Tempest (from 2014), whom for some reason I'm thinking of as Kate Nash as an overachiever brainiac, and Rae Sremmurd, which is delightfully obnoxious. And maybe the album from Heems, which is much more consciously in convo with PBS but is somewhat transparent about it and doesn't bug me like KL does.

Singles are all over the map, include in no particular order:

Ty Dolla $ign f. Charli XCX and Tinashe: Drop That Kitty
Maliibu N Helene: Figure 8
Aronchupa: I'm an Albatraoz
Rihanna: Bitch Better Have My Money
Daphne & Celeste & Max: You and I Alone
Kendrick Lamar: King Kunta

Hard to consider Jukebox faves from D'Angelo, Taylor Swift, and Miranda Lambert as 2015.