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koganbotSaw Ash-B's first appearance on Unpretty Rapstar and went, "Oh, no, they're making her/she's making herself sound tough and real and it won't work and she'll lose," so I averted my ears and avoided the show.
To my barely informed mind HyunA is now the dominant rapper in K-pop in that whenever anyone in Exid or 4minute who is not HyunA starts to rap or sing, I go, "This sort of sounds like HyunA but now I'm waiting for HyunA herself to show up." "Red" last year established this for me. (The wait is longer in Exid than in 4minute, obviously.)
Crayon Pop continue to score by ignoring past achievements; SHINee and Wonder Girls explicitly wallow in a past that's of course been implicit all along throughout the genre; most interesting freestylish moment, though, is "Delete," which casually pairs old NY-Philly-Miami riffs with cool autonomous vocals that you'd never ever have heard on an actual vintage freestyle track.
Since spring I've barely listened to anything that isn't medium-old jazz (Lee Konitz, Miles Davis).* So this list suffers, esp. in its dearth of No Tiers discoveries.** I've basically been relying on YouTube-generated playlists for K-pop and on random looks at the Singles Jukebox for everything else. I found Lila Downs via her "Cuando Me Tocas Tú" linked on Jonathan Bogart's Tumblr. (That track and Wonder Girls' "One Black Night" are candidates for my Freaky Trigger ballot, which allows album tracks.)
So, what have you been listening to?
1. Ash-B "매일"
2. The Seeya "The Song Of Love"
3. Azin "Delete"
4. Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money"
5. HyunA ft. Jung Ilhoon "Roll Deep (Because I'm The Best)"
6. Crayon Pop "FM"
7. ZZBEst "랄랄라"
8. Titica "Você Manda Fogo"
9. Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS "Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina"
10. Red Velvet "Ice Cream Cake"
11. Daphne And Celeste "You And I Alone"
12. Lil Mama "Sausage"
13. Romeo Santos "Hilito"
14. 4minute "Crazy"
15. Jason Aldean "Just Gettin' Started"
16. Christine and the Queens "Christine"
17. Feder "Goodbye"
18. Caro Emerald "Quicksand"
19. Exid "Ah Yeah"
20. T-ara "So Crazy"
21. SHINee "View"
22. Lizzy "Not An Easy Girl"
23. Uhuru ft. Wizkid "Duze"
24. All Time Low "Something's Gotta Give"
25. The Weeknd "Can't Feel My Face"
26. A$AP Rocky ft. Miguel, Rod Stewart & Mark Ronson "Everyday"
27. Kelela "A Message"
28. Brigitte "J'sais pas"
29. Lila Downs ft. Juanes "La Patria Madrina"
30. Maitre Gims "Est-ce Que Tu m'Aimes"
31. Wonder Girls "I Feel You"
32. BTS "Dope"
33. GFriend "Glass Bead"
*In jazz, I didn't like what I heard this year from previous fave Matana Roberts. Sounded like a parody of a 1950s bohemian séance.
**But let me reiterate my liking for the missed-by-me-last-year "Babomba" from the impressively overlooked (and now personnel-shifted) Badkiz.
To my barely informed mind HyunA is now the dominant rapper in K-pop in that whenever anyone in Exid or 4minute who is not HyunA starts to rap or sing, I go, "This sort of sounds like HyunA but now I'm waiting for HyunA herself to show up." "Red" last year established this for me. (The wait is longer in Exid than in 4minute, obviously.)
Crayon Pop continue to score by ignoring past achievements; SHINee and Wonder Girls explicitly wallow in a past that's of course been implicit all along throughout the genre; most interesting freestylish moment, though, is "Delete," which casually pairs old NY-Philly-Miami riffs with cool autonomous vocals that you'd never ever have heard on an actual vintage freestyle track.
Since spring I've barely listened to anything that isn't medium-old jazz (Lee Konitz, Miles Davis).* So this list suffers, esp. in its dearth of No Tiers discoveries.** I've basically been relying on YouTube-generated playlists for K-pop and on random looks at the Singles Jukebox for everything else. I found Lila Downs via her "Cuando Me Tocas Tú" linked on Jonathan Bogart's Tumblr. (That track and Wonder Girls' "One Black Night" are candidates for my Freaky Trigger ballot, which allows album tracks.)
So, what have you been listening to?
1. Ash-B "매일"
2. The Seeya "The Song Of Love"
3. Azin "Delete"
4. Rihanna "Bitch Better Have My Money"
5. HyunA ft. Jung Ilhoon "Roll Deep (Because I'm The Best)"
6. Crayon Pop "FM"
7. ZZBEst "랄랄라"
8. Titica "Você Manda Fogo"
9. Momoiro Clover Z vs KISS "Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina"
10. Red Velvet "Ice Cream Cake"
11. Daphne And Celeste "You And I Alone"
12. Lil Mama "Sausage"
13. Romeo Santos "Hilito"
14. 4minute "Crazy"
15. Jason Aldean "Just Gettin' Started"
16. Christine and the Queens "Christine"
17. Feder "Goodbye"
18. Caro Emerald "Quicksand"
19. Exid "Ah Yeah"
20. T-ara "So Crazy"
21. SHINee "View"
22. Lizzy "Not An Easy Girl"
23. Uhuru ft. Wizkid "Duze"
24. All Time Low "Something's Gotta Give"
25. The Weeknd "Can't Feel My Face"
26. A$AP Rocky ft. Miguel, Rod Stewart & Mark Ronson "Everyday"
27. Kelela "A Message"
28. Brigitte "J'sais pas"
29. Lila Downs ft. Juanes "La Patria Madrina"
30. Maitre Gims "Est-ce Que Tu m'Aimes"
31. Wonder Girls "I Feel You"
32. BTS "Dope"
33. GFriend "Glass Bead"
*In jazz, I didn't like what I heard this year from previous fave Matana Roberts. Sounded like a parody of a 1950s bohemian séance.
**But let me reiterate my liking for the missed-by-me-last-year "Babomba" from the impressively overlooked (and now personnel-shifted) Badkiz.
from Chuck Eddy
Date: 2015-12-08 06:30 am (UTC)"Here's my working singles list, though I mostly stopped keeping up maybe 8 or 9 months into the year, and I'm pretty sure a lot of these are technically 2014, and after the first 10 or 20 the order gets fuzzier and fuzzier."
1. Haley Georgia - Ridiculous
2. Taylor Swift – Style
3. Feedtime – Flatiron/Stick Up Jack
4. Nicki Minaj feat. Drake and Lil Wayne – Truffle Butter
5. Justine Skye – A Train
6. Brothers Osborne – Stay A Little Longer (Extended Version)
7. Jidenna – Classic Man
8. Grupo Cañaveral ft. Jenny and the Mexicats – Tiene Espinas el Rosal (En Vivo)
9. Imani – Fire Me
10. Lady Ebony – Food Stamps
11. Mumdance – 1 Sec (Instrumental)
12. Leather Nun – Outside My Window
13. Dev – Honey Dip
14. Ariel Camacho Y Los Plebes Del Rancho – El Karma
15. Blackberry Smoke – Too High
16. Alvin Garrett feat. Ruben Studdard – By Myself
17. Cam – My Mistake
18. Laura Denisse – Sigo Enamorada
19. Little Mix – Black Magic
20. Eric Church – Like A Wrecking Ball
21. Victor Manuelle – Que Suenon Los Tambores (Pa’l Mundo)
22. Miranda Lambert - Little Red Wagon
23. Demi Lovato – Cool For The Summer
24. Delly Ranx – Tek It 2 Dem
25. Stevie J Blues – Another Jody Song
26. AronChupa -- I'm an Albatraoz
27. Elle Varner feat. A$ap Ferg – Don’t Wanna Dance
28. Calibre 50 feat. El Komander – Qué Tiene De Malo
29. Action Bronson – Easy Rider
30. Thomas Rhett – Crash And Burn
31. Momoiro Clover Z – Yumeno Ukiyoni Saitemina (KISS version)
32. Kendrick Lamar – King Kunte
33. Imani - Wet
34. Colmillo Norteño – La Plebona
35. El Kommander – Hoy Toca
36. Umbra Et Imago – Get Off
37. Joey Bada$$ – No. 99
Toian – Style and Fashion
38. Lee Brice – Drinking Class
39. Shaila Durcal – No Me Interesa
40. Beenie Man feat. Starface – Ride Or Die
41. Magma – Di Mahtnër Sahïltaahk
42. Brigitte – Hier Encore
43. Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams
44. Jaye Hammer feat. Donnie Ray – Is She Waiting On You?
45. Devin Di Dakta – Rri Bam Bi Deng Deng
46. Joanna Dee feat. Shantaia Poulin – Click Click Bang Bang
47. Rocket From The Tombs – Coopy (Schrödinger’s Refrigerator)
48. Mustasch – Be Like A Man
49. Charles Wilson – Good Ole Monday
50. Lianne La Havas - Unstoppable
51. Malibu N Helene – Figure 8
52. Calvin Richardson – Dark Side Of Love
53. Ce’cile – Born Wid It
54. Laura Bell Bundy – Let’s Pretend We’re Married
55. Raven – Destroy All Monsters
56. Cauldron – No Return / In Ruin
57. Pop Group – Citizen Zombie
58. Jason Derulo – Cheyenne
59. Eddie Cotton – Ego At Your Door
60. Carrie Underwood – Little Toy Guns
61. Busy Signal – Bounce It
62. Alessia Cara - Here
63. Los Horoscopos De Durango – Estoy Con Otro En La Cama
64. Elle King – Ex’s & Oh’s
65. Gentlemans Pistols – The Searcher
66. Big Cynthia – I’m Here For You Baby
67. Goapele – Powerful
68. Pitbull feat. Chris Brown – Fun
69. Toby Keith – 35 mph Town
70. Scorpion Child – (Enter The) Twilight Coven
71. Rae Sremmurd – Up Like Trump
72. Angie Stone – 2 Bad Habits
73. Tamia – Sandwich And A Soda
74. Avant - Special
75. Frankie Ballard – Young and Crazy
76. Missy Elliott feat. Pharell Williams – WTF (Where They From)
77. Hexvessel - Gaia
78. Dion and Paul Simon – New York Is My Home
79. Imani – X-Girlfriend
80. The Sword – Empty Temples
81. R. Kelly – Backyard Party
82. D. Saunders – Leave Your Loving With Me
83. Jaye Hammer – I Ain’t Leaving Mississippi
84. O.B. Buchana – You Might Have To Hurt
85. Marco Flores y La Número 1 Banda Jerez – El Pajarito
86. Regulo Caro – Soltero Disponible
87. Toian – Love It
88. Girlschool – Come The Revolution
89. El Komander – Fuga Pa’ Maza
90. Enigma Norteño – Calla Y Me Besas
91. Vivien Green – Get Right Back To My Baby
92. Zombi – Pillars Of The Dawn
93. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Eric Nally, Melle Mel & Grandmaster Caz - Downtown
94. Miranda Lambert – Two Of A Crime
95. Susanne Sundfǿr – Delirious
96. The Sword – High Country
97. Kabaka Pyramid – Phenomenon
98. Kip Moore – I’m To Blame
99. Rocío Quiroz –La De La Paloma
Brett Eldredge - Lose My Mind