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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Billlie – ZAP.
When I first heard ZAP, I did not really care for it because it has an aespa/Everglow girlcrush sound that does not usually appeal to me that much.
However, after playing the MV a number of times, I’ve found that ZAP has grown on me. Perhaps this change on my part illustrates what psychologists call the repeated exposure effect.
But why was I replaying the MV before the onset of that repeated exposure effect?
The visuals! Although long hair offers all sorts of styling and hairography opportunities and often looks beautiful, I am almost always thrilled to see idols with shorter hair. So I was delighted that the MV features both the auburn Siyoon and the dark haired Moon Sua with short hair.
In addition, the overall look of the MV appealed to me. The black and the red, the outfits, and the overall simplicity of the MV -- perhaps the beneficial consequence of a tight budget enforcing visual discipline – all provided me with visual pleasure.
Nothing Billie has done has ever impressed me as much as RING X RING , and ZAP has no chance of displacing that striking debut in my affections. In fact, it’s not even in the running for my Song Of The Year. Nevertheless, I’m happy I can answer “Yes!” to Haruna’s closing “Can you feel it?”
Billlie – ZAP
https://youtu.be/iqCx5RfI6Tw?si=ScpiwLHtqHnu5zTC#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Billlie #ZAP #Hair
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Billlie – ZAP.
When I first heard ZAP, I did not really care for it because it has an aespa/Everglow girlcrush sound that does not usually appeal to me that much.
However, after playing the MV a number of times, I’ve found that ZAP has grown on me. Perhaps this change on my part illustrates what psychologists call the repeated exposure effect.
But why was I replaying the MV before the onset of that repeated exposure effect?
The visuals! Although long hair offers all sorts of styling and hairography opportunities and often looks beautiful, I am almost always thrilled to see idols with shorter hair. So I was delighted that the MV features both the auburn Siyoon and the dark haired Moon Sua with short hair.
In addition, the overall look of the MV appealed to me. The black and the red, the outfits, and the overall simplicity of the MV -- perhaps the beneficial consequence of a tight budget enforcing visual discipline – all provided me with visual pleasure.
Nothing Billie has done has ever impressed me as much as RING X RING , and ZAP has no chance of displacing that striking debut in my affections. In fact, it’s not even in the running for my Song Of The Year. Nevertheless, I’m happy I can answer “Yes!” to Haruna’s closing “Can you feel it?”
Billlie – ZAP
https://youtu.be/iqCx5RfI6Tw?si=ScpiwLHtqHnu5zTC#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Billlie #ZAP #Hair
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Billlie – ZAP.
When I first heard ZAP, I did not really care for it because it has an aespa/Everglow girlcrush sound that does not usually appeal to me that much.
However, after playing the MV a number of times, I’ve found that ZAP has grown on me. Perhaps this change on my part illustrates what psychologists call the repeated exposure effect.
But why was I replaying the MV before the onset of that repeated exposure effect?
The visuals! Although long hair offers all sorts of styling and hairography opportunities and often looks beautiful, I am almost always thrilled to see idols with shorter hair. So I was delighted that the MV features both the auburn Siyoon and the dark haired Moon Sua with short hair.
In addition, the overall look of the MV appealed to me. The black and the red, the outfits, and the overall simplicity of the MV -- perhaps the beneficial consequence of a tight budget enforcing visual discipline – all provided me with visual pleasure.
Nothing Billie has done has ever impressed me as much as RING X RING , and ZAP has no chance of displacing that striking debut in my affections. In fact, it’s not even in the running for my Song Of The Year. Nevertheless, I’m happy I can answer “Yes!” to Haruna’s closing “Can you feel it?”
Billlie – ZAP
https://youtu.be/iqCx5RfI6Tw?si=ScpiwLHtqHnu5zTC#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Billlie #ZAP #Hair
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Billlie – ZAP.
When I first heard ZAP, I did not really care for it because it has an aespa/Everglow girlcrush sound that does not usually appeal to me that much.
However, after playing the MV a number of times, I’ve found that ZAP has grown on me. Perhaps this change on my part illustrates what psychologists call the repeated exposure effect.
But why was I replaying the MV before the onset of that repeated exposure effect?
The visuals! Although long hair offers all sorts of styling and hairography opportunities and often looks beautiful, I am almost always thrilled to see idols with shorter hair. So I was delighted that the MV features both the auburn Siyoon and the dark haired Moon Sua with short hair.
In addition, the overall look of the MV appealed to me. The black and the red, the outfits, and the overall simplicity of the MV -- perhaps the beneficial consequence of a tight budget enforcing visual discipline – all provided me with visual pleasure.
Nothing Billie has done has ever impressed me as much as RING X RING , and ZAP has no chance of displacing that striking debut in my affections. In fact, it’s not even in the running for my Song Of The Year. Nevertheless, I’m happy I can answer “Yes!” to Haruna’s closing “Can you feel it?”
Billlie – ZAP
https://youtu.be/iqCx5RfI6Tw?si=ScpiwLHtqHnu5zTC#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Billlie #ZAP #Hair
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Every weekend I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that have particularly liked. This week I have chosen Billlie – ZAP.
When I first heard ZAP, I did not really care for it because it has an aespa/Everglow girlcrush sound that does not usually appeal to me that much.
However, after playing the MV a number of times, I’ve found that ZAP has grown on me. Perhaps this change on my part illustrates what psychologists call the repeated exposure effect.
But why was I replaying the MV before the onset of that repeated exposure effect?
The visuals! Although long hair offers all sorts of styling and hairography opportunities and often looks beautiful, I am almost always thrilled to see idols with shorter hair. So I was delighted that the MV features both the auburn Siyoon and the dark haired Moon Sua with short hair.
In addition, the overall look of the MV appealed to me. The black and the red, the outfits, and the overall simplicity of the MV -- perhaps the beneficial consequence of a tight budget enforcing visual discipline – all provided me with visual pleasure.
Nothing Billie has done has ever impressed me as much as RING X RING , and ZAP has no chance of displacing that striking debut in my affections. In fact, it’s not even in the running for my Song Of The Year. Nevertheless, I’m happy I can answer “Yes!” to Haruna’s closing “Can you feel it?”
Billlie – ZAP
https://youtu.be/iqCx5RfI6Tw?si=ScpiwLHtqHnu5zTC#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Billlie #ZAP #Hair
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ifye -- Padam Padam.
Why was this not the title track rather than the uninspiring "Hazy (Daisy)"?
Perhaps the agency worried that the conservative broadcasters of Korea might find "Wanna do it with me? / Padam, padam /Padam-pa, boom, boom" overly suggestive.
Obviously any fear of that nature was groundless, as we can see from this Idol Unplugged stage.
ifeye -- PADAM PADAM
https://youtu.be/WVk5S9Dd3FM?si=mAsDdMZ0pNRdCOBz#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #ifeye #PadamPadam
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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 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 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 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 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 RESCENE – Runaway.
Although this past week I have been enjoying Kpop from a number of groups, the song that stands out to me is the RESCENE comeback.
From the opening guitar and synthesizer, through the contrasting first and second choruses, to that emancipated dance break in the forest just before they head out to see the sun rise -- everything about this MV is magical!
RESCENE -- Runaway
https://youtu.be/rsZwrTNklos?si=TzU4DOJAjQfcPHSc#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #RESCENE #Runaway #GirlGroups
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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 CSR – Can’t Hide Anymore.
After a long absence, CSR came back recently with “Can’t Hide Anymore” and an awful AI generated MV. This stage is the best looking of the promotion. Although the music is not up to the standard of their early releases, “ Can’t Hide Anymore” remains an engaging piece of cute girl group Kpop, free of “bad ass” pretensions or attempts to pander to western tastes.
If you want to delve deeper into CSR, remember to add “Kpop” as a search term if you do not want to be inundated with material about corporate social responsibility.
CSR – Can’t Hide Anymore – Show Champion 260401
https://youtu.be/0LOI7xH2Ld8?si=Yp1yNm91y9mQbsHm#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #CSR #CantHideAnymore
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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 Baby DONT Cry -- Bittersweet.
I'm enjoying a lot of the Kpop being promoted at the moment, but this week "Bittersweet" with its agreeably memorable chorus has given me the most pleasure.
I was going to post the performance video, but I saw this Inkigayo stage this morning and preferred the outfits.
Quite often I prefer performance videos and stages to MVs, as these allow me not only to enjoy the choreo but also to decouple song and dance from specific narratives In which I have no wish to immerse myself.
https://youtu.be/1WxQcn2DJHk?si=q3NwMceEiqYTrA8d
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BabyDONTcry #Bittersweet
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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 Baby DONT Cry -- Bittersweet.
I'm enjoying a lot of the Kpop being promoted at the moment, but this week "Bittersweet" with its agreeably memorable chorus has given me the most pleasure.
I was going to post the performance video, but I saw this Inkigayo stage this morning and preferred the outfits.
Quite often I prefer performance videos and stages to MVs, as these allow me not only to enjoy the choreo but also to decouple song and dance from specific narratives In which I have no wish to immerse myself.
https://youtu.be/1WxQcn2DJHk?si=q3NwMceEiqYTrA8d
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BabyDONTcry #Bittersweet
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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 Baby DONT Cry -- Bittersweet.
I'm enjoying a lot of the Kpop being promoted at the moment, but this week "Bittersweet" with its agreeably memorable chorus has given me the most pleasure.
I was going to post the performance video, but I saw this Inkigayo stage this morning and preferred the outfits.
Quite often I prefer performance videos and stages to MVs, as these allow me not only to enjoy the choreo but also to decouple song and dance from specific narratives In which I have no wish to immerse myself.
https://youtu.be/1WxQcn2DJHk?si=q3NwMceEiqYTrA8d
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BabyDONTcry #Bittersweet
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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 Baby DONT Cry -- Bittersweet.
I'm enjoying a lot of the Kpop being promoted at the moment, but this week "Bittersweet" with its agreeably memorable chorus has given me the most pleasure.
I was going to post the performance video, but I saw this Inkigayo stage this morning and preferred the outfits.
Quite often I prefer performance videos and stages to MVs, as these allow me not only to enjoy the choreo but also to decouple song and dance from specific narratives In which I have no wish to immerse myself.
https://youtu.be/1WxQcn2DJHk?si=q3NwMceEiqYTrA8d
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BabyDONTcry #Bittersweet
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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 Baby DONT Cry -- Bittersweet.
I'm enjoying a lot of the Kpop being promoted at the moment, but this week "Bittersweet" with its agreeably memorable chorus has given me the most pleasure.
I was going to post the performance video, but I saw this Inkigayo stage this morning and preferred the outfits.
Quite often I prefer performance videos and stages to MVs, as these allow me not only to enjoy the choreo but also to decouple song and dance from specific narratives In which I have no wish to immerse myself.
https://youtu.be/1WxQcn2DJHk?si=q3NwMceEiqYTrA8d
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BabyDONTcry #Bittersweet
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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 H1-KEY – To My First Love.
I doubt that “To My First Love” will be my Song Of The Year, but it has definitely grown on me since its initial release. The combination of energetic pop rock with vocals forceful yet cheerful has won me over. In addition, these outfits on M Countdown are the best the girls have worn for this comeback.
H1-KEY – To My First Love
https://youtu.be/4ytpypWTKC8?si=-XzfGSjiE68yzuEZ#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #H1KEY #ToMyFirstLove
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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 Yena – Catch Catch.
Once upon a time I would have been sniffy about a song like this, but Orange Caramel years later I <apply vocal processing> ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!
The outfits are super duper too!
But wait! There’s more….
Yena – Catch Catch
https://youtu.be/NOiyDlWl534?si=0ylteulzXjMTis1Z#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Yena #CatchCatch #KpopStyling
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🧵 1/2
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 IVE – Blackhole.
I've chosen this because I've had the song on my brain, I like the outfits, and I'm pleased that my liking this song provides me with an opportunity for posting a video with my bias Ahn Yujin giving it her all.
If you're not sure who Yujin is...
IVE -- Blackhole -- Music Bank 260306
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🧵 1/2
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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IVE -- Blackhole
https://youtu.be/1Lmy7qwmSMc?si=ehVAnOGbB0oIxumXI'll be posting my #KpopOfTheWeek over the weekend, but I did want to note "Blackhole" today as I think it's the best IVE title track since "I AM". I'm enjoying the epic anthem sound, and this is one of those releases where it's the MV rather than a stage or performance video that does the sound justice.
I have to say, though, that some of the outfits are not my cup of tea, but I'm not going to whinge at length about that.
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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 – Rude.
Loved everything about the chorus and Carmen and Ye-on's parts. In general I enjoy the bouncy, ultimately disco derived house sound. I wish they had gone a little lighter on the rap and I am afraid that Stella's English passage was a painful reminder that I am not in the target market.
The MV has a lot going on but does not feel cluttered to me. Lots of great outfits, but my favourites were the tennis dresses.
Overall, I liked "Rude" a lot and can see why this bright sound works for them; it works for this fan too!
Yet I must say that I hope that they will return at some point to the more mysterious atmosphere of "The Chase".
No doubt when it comes to my opinion though, SM couldn't even care less...
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Hearts2Hearts
#Rude #GirlGroups @[email protected] @[email protected]Hearts2Hearts -- Rude
https://youtu.be/F7sGJVUrkjQ?si=bVlpKzcLywEF8Mss -
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 Fifty Fifty – Wish You Were Here.
Unlike many men of my age, I have never treasured the original Pink Floyd song as an especially meaningful all time favourite; I quite like it, but it's never occurred to me to think of 'Wish You Were Here" as outstanding in any way.
The Fifty Fifty cover, on the other hand, has impressed me. I much prefer the instrumentation here, but above all the girls' timbres, ad libs, and harmonies make this version strike sympathetic chords within me in a way that the original has never done.
I hope Fifty Fifty continue with songs like this, "Gravity", or "When You Say My Name" -- that is, material which allows them to show off their vocal talents to their best advantage. As well as finding them pretty and charming, I like their singing so much that I feel I must support them even if come out with songs like "Skittles" that I do not care for at all.
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd (Official FIFTY FIFTY Cover)
https://youtu.be/vJYWz7gvKzM?si=j4YHD5oCmP-9fySS#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #FiftyFifty
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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 – 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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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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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 ARTMS -- Butterfly Effect.
This fancam from Cologne of one of my favourite ARTMS songs (starts at 46:17) makes me think that I should go see Kpop live...but then this fancam has been shot from such an advantageous spot that I wonder if my actual experience would be an anticlimax.
I derive so much pleasure from the performance and visual aspects of Kpop, which makes it interesting to compare my response to this performance of "Butterfly Effect" with my feelings towards...
https://youtu.be/ugeO4xseggc?si=BTFYZShTj9xvw701&t=2777
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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 H1--KEY -- Not Like A Movie.
Although I enjoyed the rock sound that this group have had on their last couple of title tracks, I prefer to hear them on a mid-tempo track like this, as I feel this type of song shows off their vocals to the best advantage.
This song came out towards the end of December but does not seem to have received much attention subsequently. Perhaps the agency should have ensured that the song title is immediately visible in English on the YouTube MV to facilitate exposure beyond Korea.
Yel, the one with the ponytail, is my current H1-KEY bias, but this could all change by next week!
https://youtu.be/JRtR_vm7ilA?si=zWsxebFa0fdbPEls
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #H1KEY #NotLikeAMovie #Yel #GirlGroups@[email protected] @KpopGG4ever
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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 -- Genie.
I love H2H, "Genie" is one of my favourite Kpop songs, so how could I not feature this?
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Hearts2Hearts #H2H #Genie #GirlsGeneration@[email protected] @KpopGG4ever
@[email protected]Hearts2Hearts -- Genie -- KBS 251230
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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 -- Genie.
I love H2H, "Genie" is one of my favourite Kpop songs, so how could I not feature this?
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Hearts2Hearts #H2H #Genie #GirlsGeneration@[email protected] @KpopGG4ever
@[email protected]Hearts2Hearts -- Genie -- KBS 251230
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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 -- Genie.
I love H2H, "Genie" is one of my favourite Kpop songs, so how could I not feature this?
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Hearts2Hearts #H2H #Genie #GirlsGeneration@[email protected] @KpopGG4ever
@[email protected]Hearts2Hearts -- Genie -- KBS 251230
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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 -- Genie.
I love H2H, "Genie" is one of my favourite Kpop songs, so how could I not feature this?
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Hearts2Hearts #H2H #Genie #GirlsGeneration@[email protected] @KpopGG4ever
@[email protected]Hearts2Hearts -- Genie -- KBS 251230
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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 Lovelyz – Twinkle – KBS 2025 Global Festival.
This reunion was an unexpected treat. Although Jin was not there, and Lee Sujeong, formerly known as BabySoul, was looking haggard, the sound of theintroduction and Mijoo’s “Merry Christmas!” warmed the cockles of this aging fan’s heart.
Does anybody else in the Fediverse like Lovelyz?
Lovelyz – Twinkle -- 2025 KBS Gayo Daechukje (Song Festival) Global Festival -- 251219
https://youtu.be/NNCE2IZXGbY?si=CCcq6ri0KUhw892X#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Lovelyz #Twinkle #KBSGlobalFestival2025
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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 – High Horse – Live Clip.
NMIXX have a well deserved reputation for their vocal prowess, but their choreo impresses me too. I particularly like seeing Bae dance – watch this video to the end!
https://youtu.be/kbEYcW_ffjI?si=pSgTD28IGUzpo8b3
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Every Sunday 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 XLOV -- Biii:-P -- Music Bank -- 251205.
Some other Fediverse Kpop fans have been enthusiastic about this group, so I thought I would check them out.
The first song I heard from them was "Bizness", which I absolutely loathed as far as the music was concerned.
A few days ago I came across this stage of "Biii:-P". The music was more my style, although it's unduly repetitive and could benefit from variation and a fuller development. I do find myself rather taken with the way they present themselves; they remind me of British pop both from the postpunk era and the glamrock look of the early seventies.
I hope their music improves, as they make for a refreshing presence on the Kpop scene.
https://youtu.be/GEGi689Uudo?si=xPH4aIMRQY2Bb_qt
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #XLOV#BiiiP #KpopStyling
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Every Sunday 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 -- Bloom -- On the Spot.
On the day of the Bloom MV release, I noted how it was "my Kpop cup of tea".
I'm posting this performance video not because I dislike the MV, but on account of 1TheK providing the opportunity to enjoy the choreo. Watching these girls dance and hearing their singing, especially in that two part chorus, is such a joy.
Having a video like this shot outside in the sunshine makes a nice change from studio sets. I like all the outfits, even though I'm puzzled about May's; why does it not co-ordinate with those worn by the others?
Anyway, I shall have more to say about one of my favourite girl groups before the year ends!
https://youtu.be/kjvlrGs5f7c?si=MDY8uyG4sxeEgkxH
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #Bloom #RESCENE #1TheK #KpopStyling #GirlGroups
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Hello,
I've just finished listening to your podcast about your discovery of Kpop.
As an older male Kpop fan whose first degree was in philosophy and who loved the Loona project while Jaden Jeong was at the helm, I very much enjoyed hearing what you had to say.
I see you've joined Mastodon fairly recently. I know that it can be difficult at first to find people in the Fediverse with whom one shares interests, so I thought that you might like to start following Kpop fans included in this starter pack compiled by @pixelcats , who is a very active, generous, and knowledgeable fan of long standing.
Even though we are a small community here , you should find all sorts of interesting people to follow.
I post my #KpopOfTheWeek each weekend; you can get some idea of my tastes by browsing that hashtag. I post quite a lot of other non-Kpop stuff too.
I look forward to seeing your posts too, whether they be pictures of your favourite idols, #BestOfKpop2025, or musings on what Marcuse would have had to say about mixxpop -- or any of the other topics you mention in your header.
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Every Sunday 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 KIIRAS – Bang Bang! -- It's Live.
No apologies for featuring this song once again. These girls can sing! The "It's Live" format suits this kind of song particularly well.
The outfits matter here. The denims strike me as so ugly that I am reassured that my love for Kpop is not just a passion for seeing pretty people in pretty dresses.
https://youtu.be/LGQeXmUXkeo?si=P6va8J62dxWygwBd
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #BangBang #KIIRAS #ItsLive #KpopStyling #GirlGroups
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Every Sunday 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 KIIRAS – Bang Bang!
Songwriting that doesn't shy away from a rather older Kpop sound, impressive vocals, and an entertaining MV make this week's choice a pleasure.
https://youtu.be/Ocq_FIVfFGU?si=jZ9jVFjzbQR1HZ1y
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NMIXX -- Love Me Like This -- Performance Video
https://youtu.be/Vt4JMe-I0cE?si=ebvRjZv37DcgND7XIf you follow my #KpopOfTheWeek, you'll know that I have been getting into NMIXX in recent months.
This track scores on both "this" and "that"!
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Every Sunday 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 – Reality Hurts.
Another striking video from NMIXX. Starting from a low base at their debut, my esteem for this group has grown so much.
https://youtu.be/y4LlcShv9xs?si=THkmOT4AS_H33Hlk
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Every Sunday 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 – Racecar.
A difficult choice this week, but I finally settled on this “Racecar” stage.
The song does not have a fully sung chorus, but I am not one of those who make it an inflexible rule to damn the “empty chorus” The prechorus works very well, and I like the vocals. I do wish the song had been extended.
I chose this stage because a restrained use of colour achieved that “unity without uniformity” look which I find so appealing. Kpop does not have to be all eyepopping colour and more of everything.
Look at the reply I am appending to this post to compare this stage with ….
https://youtu.be/BOgAW1c9rYQ?si=qfM23608YggKcN2p
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Every Sunday 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 -- SPINNIN’ ON IT -- Performance video.
This must count as one of the best performance videos I have ever seen. Both the black and white and the editing complement the music to produce that wonderful synthesis of the visual and the aural that is Kpop at its unique best.
This video demonstrates the power of a well executed performance video to pull me away from a fixed narrative or any straightforward representations, allowing me instead to become absorbed in the performance’s tensions and resolutions and the concomitant recognition of those tensions and resolutions within myself.
https://youtu.be/NGV2vnOx2Ps?si=C7zX-nFgRZmL6LzV
#Kpop #KpopOfTheWeek #NMIXX #SpinninOnIt #PerformanceVideos #GirlGroups #Aesthetics