[delayed post] Midweek New Music Roundup :: June 24th - July 1st https://abuelaskpop.dreamwidth.org/79951.html
This week's listing features new music from ATEEZ, AtHeart, V8 (Seventeen), CLOUDIAN, 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 izna -- R.I.P.
I haven't watched much Kpop this week, but I did manage to catch this nice pop rock B side from izna. Let's not get into a footwear discussion...
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #izna #RIP #GirlGroups #BigClumpyBoot
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The most objective explanation why #SEAblings went all out when Korean keyboard warriors (a.k.a. #Knetz) showed their racism against South-East Asians.
youtu.be/yusBtUG7NrU
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The World Finally Snapped at K...
The most objective explanation why #SEAblings went all out when Korean keyboard warriors (a.k.a. #Knetz) showed their racism against South-East Asians.
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 izna – Metronome.
What a wonderful comeback! The music clicked with me immediately, with the contrast between the two parts of the chorus being particularly striking and pleasing. I also liked that unexpected dance break. I'm going to have to learn names, as the members have nicely distinct voices. So far the only member I can name is Koko.
I often prefer performance versions to MVs, but here the MV is a winner. The musical contrast has a satisfying analogue in the visuals; look not just at the settings, but also the hairstyles, the outfits, and the make up. Everybody in their diverse ways looks gorgeous throughout.
Of course, the most immediately impressive part of the choreo is that for the first part of the chorus, but I must admit to being so taken with the girls dancing face to face then moving into a V formation in the second part of the first chorus (1:05 -- 1:11). The forest set dance conveys intimacy, grace, then power.
I've played the MV umpteen times and also enjoyed the music show stages, the performance version, the Studio Choom, and the B sides. My pleasure has also had the added spice of the unexpected, because although I had liked "Racecar' and "Timebomb", "Mamma Mia", their most recent title track, grated with me. How delightful to have low expectations so decidedly surpassed!
Unfortunately, it seems from what I read online that the clicking and purchasing public are less enthusiastic about this comeback. Let's hope sales pick up!
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https://youtu.be/NQRGAh7ukh8?si=kRXs182e1fmGVFSM
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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 BBGIRLS – Body Wave -- Performance Video.
Just about everything worked for me on this old style summer song from BBGIRLS; the only part I'm not sure was a good idea is the repetitive passage in the postchorus. But if that's the price for the delightful "No hesitation...Close connection" prechorus, I'll pay up.
The MV features lots of what I think are cameos from Korean entertainers, none of whom I recognize; I'm afraid most of the humour was lost on me. As is so often the case, I prefer the performance video. Although the choreography is nothing special, the members look great not in spite of but on account of their age; they're in their early to mid thirties, which is old only in Kpop terms. I hope to see more and more "older" idols continue performing, although I can understand that the idol lifestyle might well be less appealing at age thirty than at twenty.
BBGIRLS -- Body Wave -- Performance Video
https://youtu.be/6J3M_WCX-bI?si=KQrHM_620tBIIFPW
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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 – Pretty Girl -- Idol Booth.
I've been following RESCENE from the very beginning, so I am delighted to see their popularity rocketing in South Korea. Their cover of Kara's "Pretty Girl" is such fun. The song's jaunty catchiness has always appealed to me, and RESCENE's voices sound good in this version.
I'm enjoying the MV and stages, but this Idol Booth video must be my favourite so far; the overall styling charmed me, bias LIv's hair being up and bias wrecker May's hair being bobbed delighted me, and the girls' cute marching put a ribbon on it!
RESCENE -- Pretty Girl -- IDOL Booth
https://youtu.be/QhZ70uPT8P8?si=Y7xhAV-xFuSmCLaE
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Bluesky PBC, or someone else with funds, should partner/sponsor a Korean celebrity and their fandom to produce ATmosphere exclusive content.
Watch how the ATmosphere network, and open Social Web in general, will grow.
#ATmosphere #SocialWeb #Bluesky
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 aespa -- KISS N TELL.
I've enjoyed this more than most other aespa title tracks. The girls actually singing, the colourful MV, the "dee da da dee" combined with "I wanna kiss n tell", ad libs and outro - it's all quite lovely.
It's also another example of the wonders wrought by Korean-Japanese synergy.
I do love the MV, but I am also very keen to see the choreo in a performance video.
aespa -- KISS N TELL
https://youtu.be/inxzQt78lOk?si=NIqeiQYomvxCrt57
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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 KiiiKiii -- Pop Off Pop Off.
This might not be music for the ages, but it is mostly fun for its just under two and a half minutes of duration; I love the build up to the chorus, but what comes just after the chorus not so much...
Although I often post stages or performance videos for #KpopOfTheWeek, I've chosen the MV this week for a pair of reasons. In the first place, I loved all the Apple oojamacallits in the first half of the video, and then delighted in all those Sicilian locations in the following section. Then, watching a live stage, I found myself thinking that the song really needs the visual support; it comes across to me as somewhat insubstantial otherwise.
KiiiKiii -- Pop Off Pop Off
https://youtu.be/UsbRoaH6y-Q?si=goFAXrDYGqzAHYqO
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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 KARD -- Back To Life -- Simply K-Pop.
I found myself getting teary as I listened to this farewell -- or should it be hasta siempre? - song from KARD. I haven't enjoyed their recent releases that much, so I was gratified to hear them going back to a tropical house sound reminiscent of their earlier material.
I chose this stage because I like seeing the choreo, and the outfits are the best of all the stages and videos that I have seen.
It's a shame that they never broke through in a big way in South Korea. I hope they have derived a sense of achievement as well as monetary compensation from their success with Latin American fans.
Although I didn't understand every line of the song, I was moved by the themes of support and loyalty voiced in the song. Some might dismiss this aspect of the song as World Cup anthem corniness, but in an age where cruelty and faithlessness abound, I would rather accept this lyrical offer at face value than bind myself in the armour of cynicism and so make myself insensible to hope and human connection.
KARD -- Back To Life -- Simply K-Pop
https://youtu.be/grpTwfpBSh0?si=EjV1nID-XP0FOAtY
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Today I post which is for me the best #kpop song of all time. Into the new world by #snsd #girlsgeneration #kpopmonday #intothenewworld #setmefree #다시마난세계
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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 Ji Won -- Call Me Up.
Ji Won, formerly of Cherry Bullet, with a charmingly catchy pop song. An effective opening with the chorus and a nice build in the prechorus win me over. The stylist has used red and navy blue to good effect in Ji Won's outfit.
I note that the song was composed by Anna Lindgren, the Finland Swede who also worked on TWICE -- The Feels, Kep1er -- Giddy, and many other Kpop hits. Why are these Nordic countries such fertile grounds for pop music?
I've chosen to feature this stage because I don't like the MV one bit. It's not because it's AI; -- I still haven't sorted out what I think about that technology -- but on account of it being just an animation. What was stopping the agency producing something with Ji Won herself? I also have to say that I do not love the chibi influenced style of the MV.
Ji Won -- Call Me Up-- M Countdown 260806
https://youtu.be/VyOn5-JMWHs?si=o0iNJ5XJZwc3geuM
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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 HEARTS2HEARTS -- 15--LOVE -- On The Spot Performance Video .
Feeling Juun's energy as her forceful dancing opened the performance , I was immediately hooked. Carmen's and Stella's vocals, Ye-on's prechorus with the strings, the brass and the rock guitars as we move to the final chorus -cum-outro -- it's great and thoroughly addictive.
So why wasn't I hooked when I first heard the album track? I can't give a full answer, but the power of performance and prettiness to shape my response to the music is undeniable. As well as being impressed as always by Juun's dancing, I was struck by how well the On The Spot videography served this performance. I was also pleased to see the coordination of colour and pattern in the outfits . Everybody looked pretty of course, but I was particularly taken with Carmen. Kudos to her and to Yuha for dancing in heels; I wish we saw that more often.
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HEARTS2HEARTS -- 15--LOVE -- On The Spot-- PV
https://youtu.be/n-QR5ishboM?si=gEmYk2I3dPiFzBht
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I have a lot to say with how #KoreasNextWave turned out but I might accidentally start #SEAblings vs Korea 2.0. ✌🏽
If you want an objective review, it's impossible not to touch on the weaknesses of the #Kpop industry. Why? Because the outcome of their #EurovisionAsia National choice is tied to it.