K-Pop Nine: A New View on K-Entertainment

Hello all! Welcome to the first part of my 2019 list. If you've been paying attention to my twitter , you'll know that there have been some issues with posting threads with YouTube links. This is apparently a bug in an algorithm but it doesn't seem to be fixed. As soon as I can make a video thread I will do so. Until then, please enjoy the blog posts only. How the list is going to work is I'm going to post my honourable mentions (rank 60-51) with no explanation here on part one alongside ranks 50-41. Each post will also contain a bonus song which is not list eligible, or a song that didn't crack the top 60. Without further ado, let's begin. Honourable Mentions 60. Flower Shower - HyunA 59. Don't Need Your Love  - NCT Dream and HRVY 58. Hit - Seventeen 57. Red Sun (021)  - GWSN 56. I'm Not Over You - Ryeowook (Super Junior)  55. 365  - LOONA 54. Goblin   - Sulli   53. Can...

Listen, I never promised consistency in posting.  I hope everyone had a good New Year's celebration. I drank a shit ton of wine, ate lobster, and smoked just the tiniest bit of weed while getting rejected by men on online dating sites. Here's hoping that in 2019 I can actually keep up with writing this blog.  20. To Heart - fromis_9 While the way I wrote about Glass Shoes  made it seem like that track was fromis_9's debut, they really didn't debut until January 2018 with To Heart . The track, for the most part, just sounds like a stereotypical APink-knockoff that wouldn't really turn heads. And it really didn't, considering that the song itself didn't have a lot of success. Now I like this song for a few reasons. Firstly, there's a real string section! You can hear real violins! It's fantastic. It's even lampshaded in the video itself with Gyuri playing the song on her violin. It's absolutely fantastic and sets the mood for the e...

Yeah,  so I'm bad at remembering to write these out for whatever reason, so expect that these are going to worse and worse in quality as we get close to the end.  30. Crush - Weki Meki Ever since the group was announced, I've been in Week Meki's court. Doomed from the start, I was the only one who liked their debut track,   I Don't Like You Girlfriend , as it was critically panned by literally everyone. Their first comeback La La La fared no better in the eyes of the public. Crush , however, was a leap forward for them, even if it came at the cost of almost all originality. I can't believe that that's a good thing, but it is. There's really nothing super exciting about this song; it's a generic pop song that literally any other group could sing. It's saved from mediocrity due to Yoojung's great rapping; she really makes or breaks the track. In general, this song benefits from having a great hook in the chorus. It gets caught in yo...

Okay bitches  here we go part 2 I definitely remembered to start writing this one up yup yup yup 40. Hi High - LOONA It saddens me that Hi High is so down low on this list, like FavOriTe before it, but honestly it's because LOONA's title track as a group have not lived up to the extraordinary hype of the solos. That isn't to say that these tracks aren't amazing, which in comparison to every other girl group they are, it's just that they don't match up to the solos (well, most of them). As far as LOONA songs go, this one is a little bit more generic, as the group aimed to go more public friendly with their debut. It's bright and airy and definitely a summertime song. It uses electronic sounds to create an almost magic effect (I mean that thematically). There's this rift that goes thorough the song that's just frantic and wonderful and gives a sense of both whimsy and fear. The bridge does a great job of slowing things down before it gets...

Look here it is the post no one was waiting for. I've had this list assembled for about a week now, and I've just been too lazy to actually write out the blurbs for every song. Like last year, there will be 50 songs, and therefore 5 posts. I'm still debating on if I want to put my 10 honourable mentions or not, because honestly this list could have been a top 60. We'll see. This list will be updated daily over on my twitter as well. Before I begin, I just want to say a few things: I am working on a new LOONA theory, but it's taking awhile. I'm about 2000 words into it and only about an eighth of the way through the whole planned thing.  I am the mod over on the jbj subreddit , and would really appreciate some more active users, since I can only do so much and the sub is so dead. Yes, I'm kind of begging but whatever. If anyone who reads this is a Joyful I would greatly appreciate the help.  I am planning on this blog actually being active more in 2...