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Monday, August 7, 2023
[PLAYLIST] KPOPPY's first half of 2023
Actually completing one of the yearly playlists I'm backlogged on? Shocking!
Made that decision to make 1st half playlists 30 tracks and 50 tracks for the full year last year and then the draft of the 2022 full year playlist got accidentally deleted. Many months of diligent work wiped out in moments and unrecoverable because of the way Blogger works. So now I'm making my drafts elsewhere. Lesson learned. Anyway, that 2022 one will show up in here eventually. But in the meantime just trying to keep up with the present.
First half of 2023 was a story of girl groups with friendlier sounds and Rock showing up everywhere. A lot of the major boy groups are still doing the very aggressive, shouty, noisy, stuff so the guys are way outnumbered here. And as I hoped/expected, NewJeans has had a ton of influence this year in style and sound. More of that, please!
[Link to the full playlist on Youtube]
My 30 favorites in chronological order:
- Shin Youme - STAY
- NewJeans - OMG
- Nine (OnlyOneOf) - beyOnd
- H1-KEY - Rose Blossom
- GUNTAC - Long Night
- PRIMROSE - PRIMROSE
- Lee Seung Yoon - Shelter of Dreams
- damduck - TIME MACHINE
- KEY - Killer
- tripleS - Rising
- LIMELIGHT - Honestly
- MRCH - Aim for love
- TRI.BE - WE ARE YOUNG
- PURPLE KISS - Sweet Juice
- FIFTY FIFTY - Cupid
- BIG Naughty (feat. Lee Suhyun) - Hopeless Romantic
- Kwon Jin Ah - Raise Up The Flag
- ONEW - O (Circle)
- TAN - FIX YOU
- So!YoON! (feat. RM) - Smoke Sprite
- YEEUN - Strange Way To Love
- NMIXX - Love Me Like This
- Jimin - Like Crazy
- Izykite - Diver
- IVE - I AM
- Aespa - Welcome To MY World
- KISS OF LIFE (NATTY) - Sugarcoat
- KARDI - PARTY
- JANNABI - pony
- ID:Earth - ALIENS
A mess of other honorable mentions after the cut.
[MONTHLY] Favorites for JULY 2023
June was a little slim for me, but then July was packed with goodness! Loved lots of stuff. Really nice summery releases from Hyolyn, SURAN, LMST, Oh My Girl, among others, and also a few English language tracks I enjoyed. Plus the NewJeans blitz of solid releases.
My tops for the month were 'Super Shy' due it being happily stuck in my head the whole time (go NewJeans!) and KARDI's 'Skybound', which continues to grow my love for this band's sound.
In the full post: ITZY, NMIXX, KISS OF LIFE, TXT/Jonas Brothers, YUL2, ZEROBASEONE, BLASE/Lee Young Ji, ODD EYE CIRCLE, HYOLYN/Paul Blanco, Sandara Park, MISAMO,, (G)I-DLE, Huh Jee, NewJeans, SWJA, LMST, SURAN, OH MY GIRL, ILY:1, Susan, Jambino, SOYOU/Bora, and INFINITE.