Cool sound. Loving this whole collab album from AKMU.
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
[MV] AKMU (feat. Crush) - Stupid love song
Lovely animation. Looks like the same artist as the Nerdy Love MV from last year.
[REMAKE] SOLAR, Moonbyul - Promise U
First part of the REVIBE project where different artists will be remaking Vibe's old songs to celebrate their 20th debut anniversary.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
[MV] AKMU (feat. Lee Sun Hee) - Hey kid, Close your eyes
Beautiful collab with Sunhee. Intense lyrics. The video reminded me of Jojo Rabbit, but like... darker in a way. Good stuff.
[MV] Peakboy - GYOPO HAIRSTYLE
This instrumental jams very hard.
Waiter Taehyung in that purple suit. Lol!
[MV] SWJA - BUFFALO
It's fun when SWJA does really weird shit. Lol.
A ton of features are listed as the 'chorus': DAMI (Dreamcatcher), Song Eun I, Yu Seung Woo, Yoon Ji Young, Jeong Se Woon, 15 Oxen...
[PROMO] TEAM Coca-Cola - Colorful (Jpn.:Tokyo Olympics Official Song)
Taemin (SHINee), AI, Ayumu Imazu, Blue Vintage, Motohiro Hata, Little Glee Monster, Daichi Miura, Mizki, Nasty C, Perfume, Sabrina Carpenter, Chikuzen Sato, Sanari, and Miyavi.
Deep collab. Taemin, Perfume, and Miyavi on the same track is wild.
Saturday, July 17, 2021
[PROMO] Kim Sejeong - The Story of the Sea, Flowers, Stars
Sejeong was selected as a promotional model for ARMIS, which is a game? Mobile MMORPG or something. Not sure.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
[MV] BTS - Permission to Dance
Oh boy... the polarizer. Seems like this was the last straw for a lot of folks who are tired of Bangtan's commercial English pop tracks. I did like Butter, but I share some of that frustration. The thing is, I'm pretty unbothered if BTS continues to throw out a couple cutesy pop songs in English every summer. It's a specific kind of project. This one might stand out since it is one of the most basic/generic tracks BTS has ever released. It's pure Ed Sheeran and his team. No BigHit input really.
The BE album wasn't that long ago, but it also felt unusual since it was an unexpected product of the pandemic. Understandable some are getting restless when BTS has been so regularly prolific with a ton of solid music up until then. Maybe not enough patience for everything being thrown out of whack.
My personal frustration with the company's vocal production choices continues. However, I've noticed that the pre-recorded live performances for various shows have sounded quite different recently. Like they're experimenting with the levels/mix, the amount of pitch correction, backing stuff, etc. Some of the Butter performances sounded very free of that tinny compression that was nearly constant for both recordings and lives for the last few years. Then they just did a thing for Naver Now. Performed Permission To Dance for the first time along with Butter and Spring Day.
And the sound is totally freakin' different! You can hear their voices! Their actual voices! Obviously there's always polish and post-production to make things sound pretty, but those effects that squeeze all life out of their tone is almost gone! These will probably get taken down for copyright, but very worth checking out since PTD sounds vastly better here than it does in the studio recording just because you can actually hear the character of their voices. Even Spring Day is a revelation since lives of it haven't sounded that beautiful in a long while. Really makes it clear that whatever effect/filter they've been using squeezes out the whole bottom range of their voices. Turn that shit down/off and all that richness and life comes right back into their music. Now if only they'd employ this for studio tracks!
Tuesday, July 6, 2021
Thursday, July 1, 2021
[MV] LOONA - PTT (Paint The Town)
The melodic and Bollywood-inspired parts are quite nice. Don't love the drop/chorus though.
Really like a few tracks on the album. WOW, Be Honest, and Dance On My Own are all my kind of jam.
[MV] Second Aunt Kim DaVi (Kim Shinyoung) X ITZY - Break Ice
Promo for “How to Have a Good 2021” project with content lab VIVO.
[REMAKE] Boyz II Men, Yoon Minsoo (Vibe) - Love me once again (Eng.)
Boyz II Men is apparently interested in the K-Pop industry. Starting off with an English remake of a song by Vibe.
[MV] eSNa - Playboy
Looks like eSNa wanted to re-release this more officially so I'll give it a bump with the new MV.
Original video (2016):
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