KPOPPY : BLOG: 2021

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Friday, April 16, 2021

[MV] A.C.E (feat. Grey) - Down (Eng.)

[MV] Dvwn (feat. lIlBOI) - Yeonnamdong

[PROMO] LUCY, LEE SUHYUN - LOVE ME LOVE YOU

Another effort to raise awareness regarding stray animals/abandoned pets. Can't find much info about it, but the song is available to download for free on Korean streaming sites.

[MV] MAJORS - Dancing in the starlit night

[MV] MAJORS - Rain on me

There are flashing light effects throughout the video, but they're pretty gentle in comparison to other recent stuff.

[MV] Kim Na Young - A Letter For You

[MV] U Sung Eun, Lee Seung Woo - We Between Spring

Sunday, April 11, 2021

[MV] STAYC - ASAP

Not really vibing with the rap/hip hop verses, but I like it from the middle chorus through the bridge to the end of the song.

[PROMO] SuperM - We DO

Campaign with Prudential Corporation Asia (insurance company) supporting physical and mental wellness.

This has caused a bit of a stir. Pretty blatant with the intentional homoeroticism, which always seems to walk a fuzzy line between exploitation and empowerment. The description on YouTube rambles on about some pseudo-philosophical stuff. Dunno what to make of that.

Track is kinda nice.

[MV] BAE173 - Loved You

[PROMO] Paloalto, pH-1 - Mungpal

All the puppers!!

These guys are promoting a campaign to encourage adopting dogs instead of buying.

Revenue will go to an organization helping stray dogs in Korea.

[MV] Simon Dominic, Loco - At Night

[MV] pH-1 - Antisocial

[MV] WENDY - When This Rain Stops

[PROMO] HENRY - TRUST YOUR PACE

Collab with Yanadoo's 'Him-na (Cheer Up) Song Label Project'. Yanadoo is an English Language Learning program.

[MV] Amber Liu (feat. PENIEL) - neon (Eng.)

The stand-up comedy bit ends at 0:57.

Amber just hiring all her friends for her MVs is super cute.

[MV] KNOA - TICKET

[MV] U-MIN - YOU&I

Andnew, Pure 100% - Counting Stars

[MV] Woo Hye Mi - Dirty Boy

More posthumous work from Woo Hye Mi. :'(
Sounds like it might have been a demo/work in progress.

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

[MV] YUKIKA - Insomnia

Love that bass.

[MV] WENDY - Like Water

[MV] Chanyeol - Tomorrow

Last release before enlistment.

[MV] ROSÉ - Gone (Eng.)

[MV] ASTRO - ONE

[MV] LUNARSOLAR - DADADA

[MV] D-CRUNCH - My Name

[MV] LEE JIN HYUK (UP10TION) - 5K (OK)

[MV] Kim Jaehwan - I Wouldn't Look For You

[MV] NiziU - Poppin' Shakin' (Jpn.)

[MV] JUNG YUP - Waltz For You

[MV] 2Z (TuZi) - STUPID

[MV] 2Z (TuZi) - O@SIS

[MV] AHN YEEUN - Sailing

[MV] MIRANI (feat. pH-1) - Daisy

[MV] It's - Bed

[MV] springs - ALLEY CAPTAIN

[MV] NIDA - You And I

Saturday, April 3, 2021

[MV] BAEKHYUN - Bambi

[MV] WJSN - UNNATURAL

[MV] DKB - ALL IN

[MV] HOSHI - Spider

[MV] Kim Sejeong (feat. lIlBOI) - Warning

Good to see God Sejeong back in action. Nice track!

[MV] 3YE - STALKER

Performance shots have flashing light

Fairly catchy.

[MV] CHECKMATE - YOU

Warning for lots of strobe light effects throughout. (ouch!)

[MV] Kim Sung Kyu - HUSH

Sungkyu's last work with Woollim Ent.

[MV] Park Bom (feat. Changmo) - Do Re Mi Fa Sol

[MV] BTS - Film Out (Jpn.)

New Japanese album coming. This is also the ending theme for 'Signal the Movie Cold Case Investigation Unit', which is a Japanese TV series.

The loss of the old hnn ploink intro animation is kinda sad. BigHit/HYBE is making giant money moves and the times they are a-changing.

[MV] Jaejoong - BREAKING DAWN (Jpn.)

[MV] NiziU - Take a picture (Jpn.)

[MV] TREASURE - BEAUTIFUL (Jpn.)

[MV] T1419 - EXIT

[MV] Colde - Light

[MV] KANG SEUNG YOON (WINNER) - IYAH

[MV] Hwang Chi Yeul - Two Letters

[MV] SHY (g.o.d) - Within Flowing Time

[MV] LEES2UN - Butterfly

[MV] HARRIANNE - The Breach of Self-Esteem

[CF] RAVI (VIXX) - Mint Chocolate Anthem

Collab with Baskin Robbins.

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[MV] IU - Coin

[MV] IU - LILAC

Citypop IU, chart destroyer.

[MV] KANGTA - Freezing

[PROMO] GSoul - For You

Collab with Project Feeliv.

[MV] OVAN - I'm Fine

[MV] sEODo - DAVID

I've become quite attached to Seo Jae Hyun's voice. So interesting and beautiful.

[MV] Roda (M.O.N.T) - ANXIOUS

[MV] LambC - Jelly (Eng.)

[MV] Motte - Walk

[MV] JEONGMIN - BANDI

[MV] BULGOGIDISCO (feat. Bassagong) - Kimchi Soup

[MV] Nath - Lovers In My Backyard

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

[MV] SORN (CLC) - RUN (Eng.)

[MV] ITZY - MIDZY

[MV] Lim Young Woong - My Starry Love

Doing so well on the charts. The Trot resurgence continues!

Also an excellent young dancer in there. Great technique already.

[MV] B.I - Midnight Blue

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[MV] YOUHA - zzz

I believe this is a tribute to her dog 'Milky' who she grew up with, but passed away recently. :(

Lovely song though.

She also released an MV with lots of puppers in it to "brighten up your day."

[MV] U Sung Eun - I'll Listen

So good!

[MV] Seori - Lovers in the night

[MV] DPR IAN - Scaredy Cat (Eng.)

[PROMO] Ailee - Believe

Collab to celebrate PUBG's 4th anniversary and will be used as the theme song for the Global Invitational.

[MV] SPACECOWBOY (feat. OOHYO) - Afterlife

[MV] Eldon - Monster

[MV] LUAMEL - Covet

[MV] Earth Kim - Say What You Want

[DEBUT] Eternity - I'm Real

No music video has ever made me this uncomfortable. EVER. It genuinely started making me feel kinda... nauseated? It gave me chills in the worst way. This is peak uncanny valley. If anyone doesn't know what the uncanny valley is, just show them this video.

We're probably going to have more and more 'AI' groups going forward and I'm dreading it for exactly this reason. I can tolerate the APOKI CG bunny and even aespa's Barbie doll avatars, but a giant HELL NO to this. NOT LIKE THIS.

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

[MV] PENTAGON - DO or NOT

Catchy!

[MV] Jessi - What Type of X

[MV] WOODZ - FEEL LIKE

[MV] Weeekly - After School

[MV] PURPLE KISS - Ponzona

Strobe lighting! God it's everywhere this year.

Official channel link

[MV] Super Junior - House Party

[MV] DRIPPIN - Young Blood

[MV] MY.st - DAZZLE

[DEBUT] MIRAE - KILLA

Lighting/animation/strobe effects could be disorienting.

The choice to put distracting animations in the letterboxing for the performance shots was a terrible decision. Can't really pay attention to the dancing as a result.

[DEBUT] Ciipher - I like you

New group out of RAIN's company.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

[MV] ROSÉ - On The Ground

[MV] Jiselle (feat. Changmo) - LANGUAGE

[MV] Dreamcatcher - Poison Love

Another self-made MV. Always a riot.

We're going to be blessed with a Dreamcatcher AMA in just a couple days over in r/kpop.

Pray for us mods. Gonna be nuts. Lol.

[MV] ATEEZ - Celebrate

[MV] DPR IAN - Nerves (Eng.)

[OST] Ailee - My Las Love (In Paradisum)

From the 'Sisyphus : the myth' OST.

[MV] Band Nah - All The Time

[MV] Raffina & Cavi - Woo-hoo Song

[MV] Skinny Brown (feat. Coogie) - Protect U

Thursday, March 11, 2021

[MV] RAIN (feat. Jackson Wang) - MAGNETIC

[MV] SOYOU - Good Night MY LOVE

The song starts at 2:16.

[MV] BUZZ - Analogue

[MV] GHOST9 - SEOUL

[MV] ATEEZ - Time of Love

[MV] IZ - Say Yes

[DEBUT] MAJORS - Spit it out

[MV] Jun. K - Hide and Seek, 1995 (Jpn.)

[MV] Punch (feat. Real.be) - I'm jealous

[MV] Punch - My everything

[MV] YONGYONG (feat. DAVII) - baby i hate me now

[CF] lIlBOI, Wonstein - Circle

Promotional collab with Galaxy Buds Pro.

I wish the CF was the full track. Kind of a jam. (Audio for the whole song)

Monday, March 8, 2021

[CF] LIM KIM - MAGO

Collab for NIKE's Mischief Project.

Interesting! The instrumental is really cool.

[MV] BDC - MOON RIDER

Pretty strong/catchy track. Kinda reminds me of Infinite's earlier stuff.

[MV] Paul Kim - Love Letter

[MV] Cacophony - Sea of Love

[MV] VINXEN - FLYING HIGH WITH U

Sunday, March 7, 2021

[PROMO] OH MY GIRL X PORORO - Boggle Boggle

'PO MY GIRL'. Lol cute.

[MV] G-reyish - Blood Night

[MV] MC MONG (feat. Shin Yong Jae) - Myosotis

[MV] MC MONG - Blind

[MV] MC MONG (feat. Jo Hyun Ah) - There Can't Be a Good Breakup

[MV] PARKMOONCHI, Young K - What a Wonderful Word

[MV] MINJE (feat. SURAN) - Slow

[MV] TRI.BE - Loca

[MV] Azer - Elegante

This group is made up of students from the Kpop Department at Howon University.

The choreography was made by them.

[MV] GSoul, BEN - Can Love Be Fair?

GSoul has reverted back to his OG stage name, minus the 'dot'.

Smart choice. 'Golden' was way less searchable.

[OST] GSoul - Stay (tempus)

From the 'SISYPHUS : The Myth' OST

[PROMO] Solji - Will You Come Slowly

Promo for Play Life Song Project in support of young people suffering with depression.

[MV] yey - Dawn

[MV] Leebada - Love Drug

[MV] GEMINI, Jay Park - Trip

[MV] MAKTUB - Full Bloom

[MV] Paloalto, Khundi Panda, SUMIN - Unsung Heroes

[MV] YONGYONG (feat. Jayci Yucc) - HE'S GONE

[MV] General SSO (feat. KURO) - Bacteria Men

[MV] E:Rn - Pretend To Know

[MV] BLOO - Drama

[MV] VINXEN - DON' NEED

[MV] Chan - Answer Me

[MV] lIlBOI, Wonstein - FRIENDS

Laughing my ass off at the Teletubbies/Oldboy mixed reference.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

[MV] iKON - Why Why Why

[MV] MCND - Not over

[MV] DEMIAN (feat. DAWN) - LOVE%

[MV] RAIN (feat. Chung Ha) - WHY DON'T WE

[MV] VERIVERY - Get Away

[MV] ATEEZ - Fireworks (I'm The One)

[MV] J.DON - Clicker

[MV] BIG Naughty (feat. JAMIE) - Joker

[MV] Narae Lee - Someone Special

[MV] Coco (feat. G2) - Lately

[DEBUT] PIXY - Wings

Strobing lights throughout

[MV] QODES - LIKE YOU

[MV] D'allant (feat. Yoon Dambecc) - Spaceship

[MV] Wilcox (feat. Motte) - RUDE

[MV] Ants, It's - window

[MV] OWLER - When You Sleep

[MV] Balming Tiger - JUST FUN (Eng.)

Saturday, February 27, 2021

[MV] SHINee - Don't Call Me

Not loving this. The more melodic chorus part is nice. Struggling with the MV styling. The rest of the album is awesome though! This is my least favorite track on the album by far. Good stuff on there.

[MV] WONHO - LOSE

Quite strobe-y throughout with light and transitions.

[MV] SUNMI - TAIL

Intense Catwoman Sunmi. Holy cow.

Choreo is pretty clever in the bridge with the leg 'tails'.

[MV] CL - Wish You Were Here (Eng.)

Oh, man. That's tearjerker. This is dedicated to CL's mother who just recently passed away.

[MV] CHEETAH (feat. JAMIE) - Villain

[MV] ONF - Beautiful Beautiful

Figured cyberpunk aesthetics would be showing up in K-Pop this year. Really fun track and I love the hyper vibrant look of the MV. Also having an AMA with ONF later today on r/kpop.

[MV] WEi - All Or Nothing

Strobing light flashes throughout.

[MV] THE BOYZ - Breaking Dawn

[MV] SURAN - Sunny

[MV] APOKI - GET IT OUT

Wasn't familiar with APOKI, but I guess they're a virtual personality/YouTuber/influencer.

The track is actually pretty tight!

[MV] IMLAY (feat. Chenle) - Too Good

[MV] Golden Child - Breathe

[MV] KEEMBO - INSIDE

Sunday, February 21, 2021

[MV] GOT7 - ENCORE

There's a message to fans in there from 2:50 to 3:22.

[MV] ONF - My Name Is

This is cute. Make sure you turn the lyrics on. They're introducing themselves as a group. Fun idea for a pre-release.

[MV] I.M (MONSTA X) - GOD DAMN

[MV] Narachan (M.O.N.T) - BEAUTIFUL SUNDAY

[MV] KISSXS - Love Is Callin

[PROMO] SWJA X Dear Jazz Orchestra - Oh Tomorrow

I think this is a promotional collab with a fashion/art project. Not sure.

Gorgeous though! The strings are so beautiful.

[MV] A.M (Limitless) - I still love you

[DEBUT] C.T.O - Oh! That Girl

Korean debut. They've recently been on a couple Chinese/Taiwanese competition shows.

[MV] BIYA - Trapped

[MV] LambC - When my Heart Breaks

[MV] Lily - Here We Are

[MV] Kwon Jin Ah - Good Bye

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

[DEBUT] KINGDOM - Excalibur

[MV] CHUNG HA - Bicycle

The MV is a lot to handle visually. Lol. Initially I really disliked this track. Just not really my thing, but great production. For some reason, listening to it as just audio on the album improved the experience. Unusual. It's still in the realm of an Ariana Grande-ish sound that I'm not a fan of, but I appreciate the bold move. Got through COVID and came back as fierce a performer as ever. Good on ya, Chung Ha!

[MV] KANG DANIEL - PARANOIA

[DEBUT] TRI.BE - DOOM DOOM TA

This general sound trend most-associated with the girl crush concept is really not my thing, but I feel like this is one of the better/more interesting representatives of it. Decent for a debut. We'll have an AMA with them on Friday this week in r/kpop.

[MV] LUCY - Hero

[CF] Soyou & IZ*ONE (feat. pH-1) - ZERO:ATTITUDE

Collaboration with Pepsi.

Includes IZ*ONE members: Eunbi, Sakura, Minju, Yuri, Wonyoung.

[MV] TXT - Way Home

[MV] NCT 127 - gimme gimme (Jpn.)

[MV] MONSTA X - WANTED (Jpn.)

[MV] Brown Eyed Soul - Pass Me By

[MV] PINN - ESCAPE

[MV] Mark Tuan x Sanjoy - One in a Million (Eng.)

Gonna be interesting to see how all of the GOT7 leaving JYP Ent. drama unfolds as the members sign with different companies and pursue their own work.

[MV] SIA - FRIDA

Don't usually post pure instrumentals. This one is pretty wild though. Transitions between electronica and traditional styles and that's also reflected in the performance/dance throughout.

Saturday, February 13, 2021

[MONTHLY] Favorites for DECEMBER 2020

So far behind on all the things! Gotta update releases for this week, December and January playlists, and once again try to finish up the big Top 30 playlists for both 2019 (oh god!) and 2020. Lol. Been trying to recharge over the last few weeks to take on this gauntlet.

Slowly, but surely.

Top choice for December was Jhnovr's entrancing 'Strangers Again', which also ended up being one of my favorite picks for the whole year. Just keeping one top selection for the month. Lots of nice stuff under the cut though. Shout-out to Rolling Quartz for that great all-women rock band debut!

In the full post: BoA, DAVII, JAMIE, sEODo, Kim Sung Kyu, Sonnet, Taeyeon, Youngkut/Jung In, Wavycake/Ovus, MRSHLL/Queen WA$ABI, SUZANNE, DAHEE, Syn Hjang, Heechul/Min Kyunghoon/BIB/ATEEZ, Rolling Quartz, and RAIN/JYP.

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