If you're a #Kdrama and/or #Kpop fan, read this short yet direct and enlightening column.
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Dodree –Just Like A Dream
Difficult to classify generically –neotrad dreamtrot pop? – but easy to choose as Kpop of the Week. I love both the vocals and the visuals.
Dodree –Just Like A Dream
https://youtu.be/PqWApYzlfrU?si=nR9ZVwHKY0fyTh7o
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Dodree #JustLikeADream
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen RESCENE – Runaway -- Just Dance -- Genie .
One of the things I love about Kpop is its sheer abundance. Not only do lots of groups release lots of music with a frequency that makes the western pop industry look miserly, but most releases will have, on account of music show performances, dance practice videos , and so on, a multiplicity of versions.
So after my last week's posting of the RESCENE -- Runaway MV as #KpopOfTheWeek and midweek postings of music show stages, I come now to this wonderful video in which the simplicity of set and styling allow the group to engage us to the full through their dancing.
The original MV was one that I enjoyed because of its dream like blend of school story and fantasy. Yet I also like this performance video for the reason that I so often enjoy videos of this type; they allow me to pull away from the specifics of narrative and concept and be enchanted instead by the sight and sound of performance.
The outfits facilitate this enchantment, and I am relieved that this video shows the girls not to be under the heel of the #BigClumpyBoot lobby!
RESCENE -- Runaway -- Just Dance --Genie
https://youtu.be/l2SeGMZYCjE?si=qLRs-gOlSF9ierPw
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #RESCENE #Runaway #JustDance #Genie #PerformanceVideo #GirlGroups #KpopStyling #BigClumpyBoot #PV
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen XG – Hypnotize.
Although I wouldn’t put XG in my top tier of groups, I’ve definitely been warming up to them since the release of “Gala” last year. The MV for “Hypnotize” is striking, but I’ve chosen this stage because dancing seems appropriate for the disco/house/club sound. Chisa looks great, especially with her pink pixie cut!
XG -- Hypnotize
https://youtu.be/nFxCY9vrQwA?si=iSWM_AT9g0oCVxX3
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #XG #Hypnotize #Jpop #Kjpop #Jkpop #GlobalPop #KpopStyling
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Well, it looks like this is the end for #NewJeans #NJZ.#Kpop #ADOR
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OMG JISOO :areihearts2: 🌺 💖 #jisoo
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen NMIXX – Crescendo.
I’ve played this a number of times and am still enjoying the quality and arrangement of the vocals and the delightful quirkiness provided by the pauses and instrumental. Oddly enough, I don’t hear a big crescendo here.
I don’t know enough about western pop to understand where NMIXX fit into the larger pop music landscape, but I do think JYP deserve credit for neither sticking rigidly to the group’s initial sound nor then having them conform to whatever happened to be the girl group style of the moment but instead allowing the group’s distinctive artistic identity to evolve.
NMIXX -- Crescendo
https://youtu.be/-SEKt_0pdHM?si=hi8iwhd1db8fbTKU
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #NMIXX #Crescendo #JYP
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OMG JISOO 🌺 💖 #jisoo
#dailyjisoo
#kpop
#bornpink
#blackpink
#DiorAddict
Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen dodree – Born.
How much of a market will there be for dodree's music outside Korea? I like it, and I'm not Korean, but I don't know if I'm an outlier.
I hope they continue in this vein.
dodree –Born
https://youtu.be/jbfRbKK0d08?si=we90pj-Y_VOkVxUu
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Dodree #Born
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[delayed post] Midweek New Music Roundup :: May 6th - 13th https://abuelaskpop.dreamwidth.org/77230.html
This week's listing features new music from Mingi (ATEEZ), RAIN, BE'O, aespa, plus many more!
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen WJSN – Bloom Hour.
What a difficult decision it was this week!I had to choose between “Rude” stages, RESCENE, IVE, but I finally settled on WJSN – Bloom Hour. I ‘m not going to complain about being spoiled for choice, especially after an opening to the year in which offerings seemed sparse.
“Bloom Hour” is WJSN’s first comeback in almost four years. I was looking forward to the release because the 2018 "Save Me, Save You" delighted me, and this delight has not faded as I have explored both their prior and subsequent releases, not withstanding the tension that developed when they competed against LOONA, another group that I followed, during “Queendom”.
Consequently, “Bloom Hour” means a lot to me, a sentiment reinforced by the valedictory sound of the song and implications of the lyrics. Nevertheless, I recognize that it is not the best track they have ever released; although I like the song, I did feel that the instrumentation felt weak as the first verse opened. My spirits were lifted by the chorus, and I absolutely loved the final, very third generation, bridge and final chorus with ad libs.
I wonder how this song comes across to somebody who isn’t familiar with WJSN, which in turn raises questions in my mind of a more general nature, regarding the part played by prior knowledge and expectation in our perception and judgment of art.
I’ve seen a good deal of criticism online of the video as looking “cheap”, especially when compared with “Blackhole”, the release this week from their agency Starship’s currently most popular girl group, IVE. I liked the “Bloom Hour” video, because I do not equate a big budget with artistic excellence; I thought that the studio and dressing room scenes suited the song, and I enjoyed that final transition to a flowery hillside which was the subject of online nitpicking. I do wonder, though, how WJSN feel about Starship’s relegating them when compared with IVE; perhaps they just accept this as the natural course of events in the life of idols, perhaps they are more concerned with their own individual careers in drama and musicals, or perhaps they feel hurt at being cast aside. I suppose we’ll never know.
I do know that the members of WJSN are some of the most beautiful idols in Kpop. Everybody looks gorgeous in their own way here, and my only complaint is that neither Luda nor Dawon were able to lend either their visuals or their voices to “Bloom Hour”.
But wait! There’s more….
WJSN – Bloom Hour
https://youtu.be/ItvDjeiqdlE?si=KOHHtPyYgsyFShGp
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BloomHour #WJSN
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If you're already using the regular Kpop Music feed, try this "For You" version then move it side-by-side with the regular feed for easy comparison.The more you, and the accounts you follow, interact the more thi "For You" version improves.#Kpop #Music
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Midweek New Music Roundup :: February 4th - 11th https://abuelaskpop.dreamwidth.org/67223.html
This week's listing features new music from ATEEZ, Blue x Ten, Monsta X, Suho (EXO), KANGDANIEL, IVE, plus many more!
This is one such drama that has been happening in the #Kpop scene for days now. It turned into South Koreans vs South-East Asians, Africans, Latinos, and a few Europeans.
They, the Korean fans, started it on Twitter X and Threads.
Image from SNS circulation.
This is one such drama that has been happening in the #Kpop scene for days now. It turned into South Koreans vs South-East Asians, Africans, Latinos, and a few Europeans.They, the Korean fans, started it on Twitter X and Threads.Image from SNS circulation.