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I love the AsSun track. Would suspect he runs into the same cultural opposition as Ninety One has, though perhaps he's not well enough known for this to be an issue.

He doesn't sound like what I think of as Q-pop,* though one of the YouTube commenters seems to be crediting him with being the founder of Q-pop. You likely know way more about this than I do.

"Knock Knock" is atop my private "Borderlines 2017" playlist and is pretty insistently knocking on the door of the mainlist, owing to its extreme catchiness. It'll no doubt be let in shortly. My barrier so far is the generic so-what singing, though notice that that's not a barrier for me and CLC.

Just listening to the Triple H single now (365 Fresh), and I'm real disappointed. Has a very good dance rhythm hailing from the disco-funk median strip. But I'm not getting a lot of melody or personality, beyond HyunA being immediately recognizable as HyunA. The two Pentagon guys sing well, but don't have anything memorable to sing. The song is put together by basically the same crew** who did "Roll Deep," "How's This?," "Crazy," and "Hobgoblin," all of which were end-of-year-list monsters for me. Maybe next time. In the meanwhile I'll check the album. And the rest of your list.

*Of course, what I think of Q-pop as sounding like is strictly Ninety One, i.e. like K-pop; AsSun is more like Stacey Q pop and perhaps aimed at an older demographic, more club than teenybopper. But I'm just guessing. From the vid I assumed AsSun was a "they," but Google seems to be taking me to a "he."

**Some or all of Seo Jae-woo, Big Ssancho, Son Young-jin, and HyunA. Devine-Channel, a crew I know little about, have their hand in "365 Fresh" too.