K-Pop (The Comeback Thread) Genre • Page 28

yeah the stayc single is very good, probably shouldnt be called "so bad".

weki meki's latest single is one that keep getting better for me, a pretty big change from what ive been hearing from their other releases.

i really didnt like aespa's debut. looks like they wanted to do something to compete with itzy and blackpink but have taken all the wrong lessons from their music. sm girl groups usually take a bit to find their footing though so hopefully their future releases are more interesting.

 

i REALLY loved both of these, the music alone is so so good

 

Yeah aespa'd debut was very nothingy. The best thing about it was BoA's cameo at the very end.

Dreamcatcher went full metal again for their new Japanese single.

I need a full album of this.

Speaking of BoA, I'm appreciating the little celebrations that are being made about the 20th anniversary of her career. This documentary, which shows her recreating many old MVs inbetween interview bits, was cute.

And I'm really enjoying her ongoing reality show, Nobody Talks To BoA. Seeing her still being hungry about her craft, having the dilemma of keeping up with trends while wondering whether she's "too old" or still got it, albeit sometimes in a joking manner, is really enlightening. It humanizes her and makes me feel for her too.

 

These Japanese Dreamcatcher singles are fire. I love their music but the full on metal sound on the Japanese stuff is so good.

 

a little late but i finally finished my b-sides list for 2020, and plan on finishing up my singles list in the next couple of days. like last year, 50 songs, in alphabetical order.

baekhyun - r u ridin?
boa - temptations
boa - all that jazz
boa - honey & diamonds
the boyz - make or break
dia - nobody knows
enhypen - 10 months
fromis_9 - weather
fromis_9 - mulgogi
gfriend - dreamcatcher
gfriend - tarot cards
gfriend - creme brule
(g)-idle - maybe
got7 - aura
got7 - crazy
got7 - love you better
irene & seulgi - diamond
itzy - ting ting ting
itzy - i dont wanna dance
izone - ayayaya
izone - daydream
izone - merry go round
loona - number 1
loona - oh (yes i am)
loona - ding ding dong
nct 127 - music, dance
nct dream - 7 days
nct dream - love again
nct dream - deja vu
niziu - beyond the rainbow
nuest - moon dance
nuest - back to me
oh my girl - dolphin
oh my girl - neon
rocket punch - fireworks
rocket punch - girl friend
super junior - shadow
superm - step up
superm - together at home
twice - oxygen
twice - up no more
twice - say something
txt - ghosting
txt - blue hour
txt - way home
wayv - after midnight
wjsn - pantomime
wjsn - where you are
wjsn - our garden

 

Nice idea! There's a lot of overlap with mine, if I ever get to make a bside one. I did make a top 20(+1) playlist the other day:

+1 refers to the Kpop song I listened to the most this year, but remains unavailable on Spotify:

Not sure I can manage to make separate singles and bsides ones, the dilemmas that'll ensue...

 

better late than never i guess, here's my top 50 korean singles of 2020

1. iz*one - secret story of the swan
2. twice - more & more
3. yukika - soul lady
4. lil boi, wonstein, chillin homie & skyminhyuk - freak
5. twice - cry for me
6. gfriend - mago
7. loona - so what
8. superm - one (monster & infinity)
9. twice - i cant stop me
10. zico - any song
11. bewhy - saeroi
12. nct u - make a wish (birthday song)
13. gfriend - apple
14. iz*one - fiesta
15. apink - duhmdurum
16. brave girls - we ride
17. superm - 100
18. wjsn - butterfly
19. rose de penny, dsel, kaogaii & untell - win win
20. devita - evita!
21. weki meki - cool
22. irene & seulgi - naughty
23. dreamcatcher - boca
24. exo-sc - 1 billion views
25. sf9 - good guy
26. the boyz - the stealer
27. nct u - 90s love
28. wonstein - infrared camera
29. exo-sc - telephone
30. iz*one - panorama
31. loona - voice
32. crush - mayday
33.verivery - lay back
34. mamamoo - wanna be myself
35. oh my girl - nonstop
36. loona - why not?
37. blackpink - lovesick girls
38. everglow - dun dun
39. drippin - nostalgia
40. boa - better
41. kai - mmmh
42. gwsn - bazooka!
43. nct u - work it
44. txt - we lost the summer
45. weeekly - tag me (@me)
46. chungha - stay tonight
47. cignature - assa
48. weki meki - dazzle dazzle
49. ab6ix - the answer
50. bvndit - children

 

Love that Weeekly is about to release their third ep soon!!! i'm super into their power-pop sound on We Are and We Can. anyone who's more familiar with these rollouts, what's the average amount of time some of these acts goes between releases? they just debuted last year and put out two five-song records already, does it depend on the company?

on another note, i am so desperate for more music from Stayc. it's been like 4 months with just those two songs and i am dying for more

 

I feel like it's usually a few months between releases for most groups, with the odd rare exceptions where it takes forever (Blackpink) or groups just randomly disappear (gugudan, Pristin) and we never get anything more again. (Although I acknowledge that most of the time where groups disappear it's because they weren't doing too well, but did they really have to wait like 2 years to announce gugudan was done? come on man...)

I'm super excited for the new Weeekly stuff too, and I also really want more STAYC. They were probably my two favourite groups last year, their debuts were so good.

Apart from that, I've really been enjoying the newest Dreamcatcher, both Odd Eye and 바람아 are super good singles, and the self-made video for Poison Love was a lot of fun too. They're also doing an AMA on the r/kpop subreddit tomorrow, which is really cool for a group that feels really big (even though I think it's mostly international fans).

Also, new IU in like, two weeks. Always an exciting time!

 

The pandemic has also made it hard to predict the gap between releases... it's kinda frustrating, especially for groups who are about to reach the end of their contract, and newer ones who didn't even have a chance to build a fanbase in person. That and the influx of scandals happening right now as well.

I know many who gave us comebacks at the end of 2020 are rumored to be coming back for the second quarter, so I'm looking forward to see what's going to happen. To think it's been close to one year and a half since the last Red Velvet full group comeback hurts.

Anyway, my next anticipated comebacks are (finally) the return of WJSN, and the to-be-announced LOONA one.

It's been 84 years.gif

 

i'm also really glad that a bunch of kpop songs have returned to Spotify. a whole bunch got removed for like a week, it was awful

 

speak of the devil i can't wait

 

WJSN delivered as usual

New Me is a b-side of the year contender... I'm gonna need more of these vaporwave vibes.

 

I watched the Blackpink doc on Netflix a couple days ago. I really liked it!

 

STAYC GIRLS, IT'S GOIN DOWN

 

hated this the first time I listened to it because I was hoping for something more like So Bad and this just feels kind of low energy compared to that, but it's grown on me a lot over the course of the day. still not as good as So Bad imo but 2 good title tracks in a row is pretty good for a rookie group so can't really complain I suppose!

 

ASAP is already one of my favorite K-Pop songs of the year. Anything that has hints of miami bass, even though put through a poppier filter, is going to stay on rotation for me.

 

also, new ITZY at the end of the month?? i'm looking forward to seeing what they do next

 

I was/am obsessed with BBIBBI, so I have been really looking forward to this new UI album. Sadly it doesn't have the sound I was (maybe out of ignorance) hoping for. I only like Celebrity and even there I could do with less EDM-ish influences.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

EDIT: Also see this as my annual "please recommend recent R&B-ish releases from Korea to me" request.

 

I could make an entire post focusing on Nieah, she's so underrated and it's a shame her bandcamp doesn't have all of her material.

 

Just gonna post this gem here as well. She released like three or four songs back in 2013/2014 then pretty much disappeared. The 90s vibes of this one are everything to me.

 

Thank you!!