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End of year Gayo performances

Amy — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:44:12 +0000

AKA, things that are awesome in theory, but in theory only.

Like how awesome is an SM Town Orchestra performance…in theory?

How awesome is a hip hop stage…in theory?

And a female idol cover of Run the World…in theory?

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Post tags: G-Dragon, G-Top, Korean pop, SM Entertainment, Tasha, YG Entertainment

MAMA Awards after-party photos from 1st Look

Amy — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:37:20 +0000

These photos were taken by First Look and so fun. The MAMA Awards, while completely worthless and always a shitshow to watch, is always the biggest gathering of both the idols and the actors and actresses, and officially the best K-pop orgy event all year.

Ugh Song Joong-ki, you’re killing me.

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Post tags: Korean actors/actresses, Korean pop

Best of K-pop 2011

Amy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:27:09 +0000

Oh K-pop. Oh K-poppy K-pop. Let’s start this off, shall we?

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Post tags: end of year review, Korean actors/actresses, Korean dramas, Korean pop

Go Ryeowook! Go Ryeowook! Dance like it’s yo birfday!

Amy — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:16:08 +0000

We’re gonna party like it’s yo birfday!

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS PERFORMANCE.
That dancer planted her crotch on his face!
He did a strip tease!
HE’S MOVING LIKE JAGGER.

To be completely frank, I watched 90% of the performance like this:

But in all seriousness, this is one of the reasons why I really like Ryeowook, who probably doesn’t get enough love from fans and non-fans alike.

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These dance room practices are my favorite

Amy — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:19:43 +0000

Someone’s getting fucking fired tomorrow, but lo and behold, Changmin and Yunho practicing to a 5-membered version of Maximum.

I love it when someone leaks new practice videos of SM’s army practicing in their famed sky-blue wallpapered dance room. These videos show works-in-progress and there are too many over-polished and over-gleamed appearances in K-pop — works-in-progress are much desired.

This version of the song proves one important thing to me.

I think Junsu, Yoochun, and Jaejoong’s singing is better when they sing SM produced songs. There is no hard and fast rule on this and it’s mostly my preference, but I just never really liked JYJ’s stuff post-split. Their JYJ song style is different: the dance tracks were a little too hip-hop-y for them, the ballads were a little too tragic and reeked too much of the an-idol-composed-this syndrome. (I still haven’t listened to “In Heaven” in full.)

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Post tags: Dong Bang Shin Ki, Korean pop

Song of the day

Amy — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:24:18 +0000

Kanjani8 – Tsubasa ni koi
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So I have a love/hate relationship with this song.

I love it because the instrumental melody is amazing and I get chills listening to the first few notes.

But I hate it so much because omgwtf-my-LORD-who-let-these-people-sing.

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Post tags: Japanese pop, Korean pop, Song of the day

I love lists #1

Amy — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:00:13 +0000

Of the Kpop variety this week.

Five singers whose voices I love, but whose music is so boring that I just can’t listen to them
1. Shin Hye-sung
2. Park Hyo-shin
3. Lyn
4. Gummy
5. Kim Tae-woo

An assortment of annoying rap lines from T-ara’s songs
1. “Welcome to your wonderland, everyday I knock knock knock knock”
2. “I like it like it dis, I like it like it dat / I like this, I like that, yeah!” (what. the. fuck.)
3. “Limousine, champagne, bling bling jewelry chain”

Songs I’d like Kpop stars to stop covering:
1. Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”
2. Justin Timberlake’s “Sexyback”
3. Anything from Chris Brown
4. Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”

Any other lists you’d like to see? Lemme know!

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Current Kpop #5: CSJH is in the hizzle

Amy — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:10:35 +0000

What to say? This is a well-deserved comeback to be sure, but it’s underwhelming.

For one, it looks like Dana and Sunday have forgotten how to dance. Dana and Sunday were never the dancers of the group anyway, and on top of that, CSJH was never a particularly strong dance group, so watching the two dance has just been awful so far.

And the other more important thing is — this song is a good example of the sort of stuff that is wrong with the Kpop sound.

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Post tags: CSJH The Grace, Current Kpop, Korean pop

I approve of this comeback

Amy — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:21:27 +0000

This is probably one of the funnest Kpop performances I’ve seen in a while. I would kind of kill to watch them perform this at some sort of venue where I can jump and dance. This song is not innovative to be sure, but it’s just the right amount of 2PM fun that we’ve been missing from our lives ever since their earth shattering Jay scandal, no? Everyone looks so good and the energy of the song fits 2PM perfectly. It’s also really age appropriate, which is something I can almost never say about anything Kpop related ever. (Grown ass girls holding lollipops as props, underage boys wooing women twice their age, adolescent boys dressing up like 50 year old bikers…)

Adolescent boys one-shotting and gyrating feverishly: PERFECTION.

My one and only complaint, and this is a repetitive complaint, is: why is the Junho to Chansung line ration always like 1:50? Who the fuck is paying money to listen to Chansung sing? To even open his mouth, in fact? Don’t get me wrong, I l-o-v-e Chansung but it’s just some sort of worldly injustice to keep a good Junho down to let Chansung rap and sing teeth-gnashingly bad.

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Formspring.me #5, impressive lives

Amy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:56:07 +0000

To show you that I am a delightfully delinquent blogger, I will humor you by answering a formspring question that someone asked me a year ago (I started this post in July, 2010). He/she asked,

Most impressive live performances?

Kicking off with you-know-who:

DBSK’s “Five in the Black” concert

There’s just something so impressive and attractive about trying really hard.

All in all I think DBSK’s greatest achievement as a group was their success in Japan, and their Japanese concerts are nice markers in the different points of their careers. FITB was the tip of the scale: when they finally succeeded on some measurable standard that they and their companies had delineated for them, but not so successful that they could stop striving. They were good enough to be recognized, but they still had something to prove. There is something rawer about FITB that I don’t think can be found in any of DBSK’s other concerts. I’m also biased because I really like how they were dressed and mmmm suits :3

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Post tags: BoA, Dong Bang Shin Ki, Formspring, G-Dragon, Imogen Heap, Japanese pop, Korean pop