Category: Best of the Year
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Song Review: Wild Heart by LUN8
LUN8 is fantiago’s new boy group since ASTRO. Having loved a lot of ASTRO’s music, especially from their earlier years, I eyed the group with some mild expectations. Additionally, one of the contestants from I-Land, Noh Sungchul, was previously announced as a member, so there was another factor that made me quite interested. Even so,…
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Two Song Reviews: ‘Knock’ and ‘I don’t wanna know’ by Lee Chaeyeon
Lee Chaeyeon’s run in the K-pop industry has been nothing short of trials and tribulations. From joining K-pop star at 11 with her sister, to competing at SIXTEEN (the survival show that birthed TWICE) only to get eliminated early, later leaving JYP entertainment in order to ensure her sister can make her debut in ITZY,…
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Song Review: Kick It 4 Now by The New Six (TNX)
TNX’s last title track ‘Love Or Die’ deeply impressed me, only growing better with more listens. As it stands, it has a good shot at being my SOTY (song of the year). Hence, my expectations and excitement for ‘Kick it 4 Now’ were through the roof. Fortunately, ‘Kick It 4 Now’ met my expectations. While…
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Song Review: I AM by IVE
Thanks to their startlingly consistent run of high-quality singles, IVE faced very high expectations from K-pop fans to deliver an outstanding full album. Their full album I’VE IVE is led by the title track ‘I AM’, which gives Key’s ‘Killer‘ and Boys Planet’s ‘Jelly Pop‘ a run for their money as my personal SOTY. These…
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The Curious Case of NewJeans’ ‘Zero’ – A K-pop commercial song done right?
Released as a commercial song for Coca Cola, ‘Zero’ divided K-pop fans immensely upon its release. This was mainly because of its polarizing chorus, which is essentially a repeated chant of the phrases, ‘Coca Cola mashita’ and ‘See you look and catch it, here is my Cola’. What triggered the majority of the criticisms online…
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Reviewing Boys Planet Original Songs
This is really quite a late post, considering how Boys Planet ended more than a month ago, but I really do with to give some spotlight to the songs composed for the show as I believe that many of them are quite worth listening to. A few make up my favorite songs of the year…
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Song Review: Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard’s wife by Le Sserafim
At first listen, I knew that this song was going straight up to one of my favorites of the year. I’ve seen other people mention that this kind of music has been done in the past and better, but this is the first time I’ve heard of anything that sounds like ‘Eve’. Perhaps it can…
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Song Review: Welcome To MY World by aespa (Feat. naevis)
It would not be an exaggeration to say that I haven’t heard song that quite sounds like ‘Welcome To MY World’. In the case of this song, it is a huge compliment. I am a huge fan of the atmosphere created through the production which is strengthened by the carefully chosen chords of the vocal…
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Best of K-pop in 2023 so far (Jan-Feb)
The Best of K-pop in 2023 so far.
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Best of K-pop 2022
My 78 favorite K-pop songs of the year 2022
K-pop Evaluated 