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jisungshotfirst · 4 months

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top 10 title tracks of 2023

in which i am a nerd and rant about music<3

10. BYOB - Billlie

this is just the cutest little city pop song! it's simple and catchy and it was a real change to hear such soft voices from billlie! softer title tracks always stand out to me because they are often so so pretty and delicate and byob is so so pretty and delicate! and the lyrics... i have claimed this as an aromantic anthem, it's ours. not relating to your friends having crushes .... billlie i see u

9. Break the Brake - Xdinary Heroes

this song is just straight vibes... the loudest rock we've gotten from xdinary and I appreciate it SO much. the verses r so clean and the falsetto.. its harmonically so interesting so the noise of the chorus feels properly cathartic and doesn't feel like a loss which can sometimes happen in scream-esc choruses. It's arranged SO well to balance all these things and be stimulating while also being so emotive. AND JUNHAN WITH THOSE CRUNCHY NOTES IN HIS SOLO. the dissonance.. its so brain-sratchy

8. In Bloom - Zerobaseone

zebi brainrot is so real friends.. be careful. this song is so beautiful! i think its a perfect example of the song marrying the concept and mv and members tones so well. from literally the first minute of zb1 i was so excited about their concept of mixing natural imagery like flowers with glitchy technology imagery and i hoped the music would match... AND IT DID! its so lyrical while being crunchy and energetic. SUCH a slayful debut

7. #menow - Fromis_9

this song is sooooo pretty. epitome of a soft bop. it's a classic fromis sound but with this sense of maturity and humility that makes it so engaging and emotional. it demands to be taken seriously but still is so fun! the vocal production is next level.. the effect on their voices in the chorus so they're used like instruments... one of favourite techniques ever. i LOVE when the vocals truly feel like part of the arrangement and not just sitting on top and this song truly does that

6. Spicy - Aespa

the absolute cunt aespa serve in this song... who let them. anyone who knows me knows i'm obsessed with everything moonshine has ever made.. and so when i heard they were doing an aespa title... i went crazy. and i am so right for it. THE BASS IS INSANE?? it puts all other synth basses to shame with how in your face it is. and the crispy snare? idk how to describe this song other than cunty because she genuinely does not care about being clean or palatable... like she is In Your Face with sound. and aespa literally ate that up... they are so fun and cheeky and confident! i'm sorry this is the kind of song that only a group of baddies could handle and aespa stepped up

5. Sugar Rush Ride - TXT

txt doing disco... like you already have me at that. it's sooooo groovy and although the anti-chorus was surprising.. i'm not mad at it! I'm so happy they went into it full force with the whisper vocals and the choreo switching mood, it rly helped the genre change make sense. and the DISCOOO at the end.. bop central. the lyrics and choreo and vibes overall r just so beautiful.. what can i say i love songs about gay sex i mean forbidden love...

4. Groovy - Cravity

the funky bop of all funky bops... literally funk pop goodness! there is so much movement in this track theres so many different rhythms happening and the blend together sooo well. the dance break is perfect.. literally everything you want from a dance break with the continuation of the same sounds but a new tone to it and new rhythmic focuses. and the choreo for it literally hits ever beat you want it to and stretches out the time between them perfectlyyyy. but ultimately it is on here because is it a feel-good happy fun bop.. and she excels at it! vity makes me so happy and they are so good at making songs that make you happy

3. Galileo - Kep1er

cutest song of the year! it is so groovy and fun and danceable. it is sooo feel-good it literally makes me smile every time. thank you hiyyih for putting aegyo in a song<3 where is her nobel peace prize. this is the kind of song where you truly can't hear the music theory going on because it just does exactly what you want it to do! any tension chords are resolved perfectly where you want them to. it's the perfect example of chords from minor keys borrowed to make a song that sounds so major and happy. there is absolutely nothing i would change about this song it is sooo perfect. absolutely filled to the brim with joy

2. ROAR - The Boyz

...like literally hello? this song came out of nowhere for me i did NOT expect to be as impressed as i was like my life changed after this song. firstly the whistle.. hot and sexy and catchy. carrying it through as a motif, chopping it up, creating variations, translating it to a singable vocal line... all of that is SO impressive to be able to pull off. crunchy track underneath.. beautiful. but what is most impressive to me about this song is the topline. the vocals are literally insane.. chanhee and hyunjae have my favourite tbz voices and u are crazy if u don't agree that they r the main characters of this song. some of those chorus lines are So high and they can sing them in a way that sounds so effortless. and the backing vocals... the Incredibly high harmony in the choruses makes me want to scream (it's jacob i think.. jail). and there is just voices Everywhere.. everywhere theres little 'ahs' hidden around and it not only fits the songs sexy concept in such a natural way but it just fills up every bit of space in the song. and the lyrics... once again i love a song about ..*checks notes* forbidden love.. that is damned by heaven... definitely not about gay sex tho .. definitely not..

1. Chill Kill - Red Velvet

second moonshine on the list .. no one is suprised. i think this song has complimented red velvet's two sides of creepy and feel-good the most successfully. the tone shift from the verses to the chorus is so obvious... but seamless. and what does it is the harmony! the chords are perfect... it seems redundant to talk about rv vocals but they rly just make the song. and the outro... blending both vocal parts of the chorus together.. it sounds epic. it adds to both the happy and creepy by sounding like a group of friends together.. but also cult-y with all that creepiness still lingering. singing 'forget about your sorrow' with the happiest voices like the verses weren't filled with creepy minor sounds... literally gaslighting queens. this song is terrifying and also the most joyful (hi sooyoung 😘) experience to listen to.... only the dream team of moonshine cazziopeia and red velvet can manage that. and it's no surprise this dream team gets my no.1 spot!

thank you for reading if you got this far ! pls share your favs with me and if we share any i'd love to hear what you think! happy new year everyone I truly hope it treats you well<3 and here's to more bops in the new year!!!

#top title tracks 2023 #top 10 title tracks 2023 #kit rants #billlie #xdinary heroes #zerobaseone #fromis 9 #aespa #txt #cravity #kepler #kep1er #the boyz #red velvet

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a-moth-to-the-light · 7 months

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Most-Listened of September 2023

(via stats.fm/spotistats)

[last month]

1 . Sleep -- Eric Whitacre, Eric Whitacre Singers

One of many holdovers from my choir-kid days. But really, this arrangement is just VERY nice and full-sounding, lovely to get lost in!

2. Acid Dream -- Kim Boa

Still SO sad that Keembo dropped my instant-favorite song of 2021 and then disappeared, but Kim Boa keeps the good-music legacy going with this track!!

3. Starry Night -- Mamamoo

Do I even need to justify this one? It's a kpop classic by now, right?

4. HOME -- Yezi

This makes me feel Feelings and I love them I am Attached !!!!!

5. Hypnosis -- IVE

This song was just MADE for the chilly months—its iciness feels right at home these days (now that I've started having to use my space heater) so I can appreciate it all the more!

6. The One I Used To Love -- Bad Suns

This is just classic Bad Suns, and lucky for me, classic Bad Suns is one of my favorite things ever!!

7. An Old Fashioned Love Song -- Three Dog Night

I used this as a soundtrack for a big project in my Creative Writing class, a project that took up most of the month—it turned out really well, too!

8. New Ego -- Ailee

I really need to stop forgetting how good Ailee's music is.

9. Die Young -- Ke$ha

I came for the angst and stayed for... also the angst!

10. Thirsty -- Aespa

I think I just need to accept that I'll eventually be peer-pressured by the online fandom into liking every Aespa song ever, no matter my initial opinions on it. Hell, maybe one day you'll see "Black Mamba" on here?

11. If We Do -- Kim Sejeong

I wish all evenings sounded like this.

12. Either Way -- IVE

"Either Way" was nice, but I haven't had much time with it, and there was so much new stuff I liked wayyy more this mo— well, fuck.

13. Handle With Care -- Traveling Wilburys

I think my dad's attempts to get me to like Tom Petty have finally worked?

14. Falling For Boys -- Julia Michaels

I've known all the lyrics to this one (and probably every song from this album) since it came out. I hope I can see Julia Michaels in concert one day!

15. #menow -- fromis_9

I wayyy overplayed this at the beginning of the summer, until I was completely sick of it, but it's been long enough that I see its charm again. Fromis heals my heart with their vocals, as per usual!

Other Notable Most-Listened Songs:

22. 7Heaven -- Purple Kiss (purplekiss are back with another perfect pop song!)

25. Galileo -- Indigo Girls (i actually got super into this BEFORE i knew about kepler's comeback, so imagine my surprise!! "i think i'll write a book" has been THE line this month i love this song so much )

29. Anti-Hero -- Taylor Swift, Bleachers (this one just keeps showing up everywhere)

30. favorite crime -- Olivia Rodrigo (sorry, guts, even "all-american bitch" can't beat this one)

35. Super -- Seventeen (i didn't get it at ALL when it came out, but once i got it, i GOT it)

37. Swim Away -- Kim Sejeong (sejeong phase!!!!!!!!)

42. Warning -- Kim Sejeong, Illboi (more sejeong phase!!!!!!!!)

44. In the whale -- Onew (this album never gets old)

#purplekiss & key had my favorite albums this month!#yes the purplekiss one only had three songs but like #biscuit & 7heaven are both worth like three songs each #so it's practically a full album #as per usual i removed a few songs from the top 15 that i already wrote about this month (for the songs of the summer list!)#a lot of my listens of those ones were as bg while writing anyway #music chats

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boysplanetrecaps · 4 months

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The Great Produce 48 Rewatch: Ep 2, Signal Song [Part 1]

In my previous post in this silly yet necessary project, we finished off the auditions, including the ones that weren't aired on MNET. It's time for the girls to move into their dorms and start practicing for their upcoming large-group performance to your favorite song and mine, Nekkoya! Let's do it.

In this second phase of the Produce 48 series, the 96 trainees (well, 94 -- 2 of them dropped out already) are asked to learn the lyrics, tune, and choreography of a song then get one chance to perform it in front of a video camera for their final grade. Did I mention that they have to learn the lyrics in both Korean and Japanese? Also, per AleXa in her interview with Grazy Grace, they had about a day and a half to learn the choreography and lyrics in both Korean and Japanese, and this was the very next day after they filmed the auditions for about 24 straight hours. Seems… like a bad idea. But what do I know?

So, the signal song is called Pick Me aka Nekkoya. The only signal song from any of the Produce series that I actually like is Nayana from Broduce101 -- I remember hearing it playing at Cafe Bene in K-town and just liking it without knowing what it was. But I’m not wild about Nekkoya, even if it is marginally better than Pick Me from Season 1. (I mean, “oh won’t you pick me up?” is the worst, ugh). I do enjoy the fact that Nekkoya sounds extra funny to the Japanese girls, because “neko” is the Japanese word for cat. You’d think that someone would have noticed that already…?

The girls are told that they’ll get to perform on MNET countdown. They’re so happy, despite the obvious fact that most of them aren’t going to get any camera time. They’re probably just giddy from lack of sleep. As in previous years, those in higher ranked groups will get more screen time -- but it’s even worse this year than in previous years, because rather than having the Bs and Cs flanking the As, they’ll all be stacked behind each other, so that it will probably be impossible to see even the members of the B group, much less the Ds.

The diagram at the top of the post shows the F ranked girls at the very back, but actually they won’t even be allowed on stage. The F-ranked girls, the majority of whom are Japanese, are heartbroken, notably the fashion challenged Mogi Shinobu in her blue furry sleeves. This girl is like a living meme.

We stan a relatable queen.

The judges remind them that all the grades will be reassigned, and that only someone from group A can be in the overall center, a very desirable position. I genuinely don’t remember who gets chosen, but it also seems obvious that it’s going to be 🌸Sakura🌸….?

Dorm Move In

The girls move in to their dorm room and find color-coded t-shirts waiting for them. I feel like I can feel the texture of these t-shirts through the screen. You know, those t-shirts that feel like steel wool and hang off you like a burlap sack? But despite being a full centimeter thick they somehow are also see-through and show the outlines of your bra? No thank you.

Miru is happy, but I think she is always happy. Honestly, I’m jealous.

Many of the girls like the colors, but the A girls are especially excited by their shirts, which feature a glittery A on a light pink background. Gyrui, the member of Fromis-9 who rocked a side-pony in her audition, is a bit salty that some of her roommates have pink shirts while she has to make due with orange.

Meanwhile, the F-ranked girls get gray, just to make sure they feel as bad as possible about their situation. SUFFER, the producers seem to be saying. SUFFER FOR YOUR DEFICIENCIES.

Suffer more, Ichikawa Manami! Your performance in What’s Your Name means you don’t deserve such a thing as “color”!

The F-ranked girls are joking that at least the F is on the back so they don’t have to see it themselves (unless they turn around really really fast). Goto Moe, who mysteriously seems to have completely recovered her voice, finds a white shirt she plans to wear instead. Doesn’t seem like a good idea, Moe.

Some of the girls find rules posted in their rooms. The rules, as translated by Google translate via my phone camera:

Adhere to the class schedule

Maintain cleanliness of accommodation and practice rooms.

Do not make noise while going to bed.

No unnecessary physical contact.

Compliance with writing a practice journal.

Prohibition of use of mobile phones and communication devices

Thorough management of the training center facilities

That fourth rule causes a lot of giggling and “touching” among the girls, and the editors play Knock from Broduce 101 in the background. Uh-oh, no skinship allowed! (Gossip online seems to imply that this is because of certain trainees, but I’m not sure that this is true and I don’t want to put anything out there like that without more confirmation.) This was a new rule for this season, but to the best of my knowledge had been kept in place for later seasons. For example, I remember that it was a rule in Boys Planet as well.

The girls have trouble communicating with each other, but some translation heroes step forward. Miyazaki Miho, who was in What’s Your Name and who I noticed writing in Korean at the beginning, can speak Korean reasonably well too, and serves as interpreter in one of the D-class dorms for Kim Minju.

Multi-lingual queen Miho!

Lee Chaejeong, future member of Alice who auditioned with Roller Coaster, has a little stuffie (that she calls her “chingu”) with her. Cho Ahyeong, who auditioned alongside future Cherry Bullet’s Haeyoon, has a stuffie that is sitting in for her mom. Kim Da Hye from Banana Culture (who auditioned with I Don’t Like Your Girlfriend) has a pink stuffie that is a gift from her mom. Wang Yiren (future Everglow) has a piggie. Strong approval on all that. My Christmas wish list is at least 50% Squishmallow. On the other hand, Sato Minami (who I continue to think of as Sailor Mars) has a terrifying doll named Lemon-Chan. No thank you.

NO THANK YOU

I SAID NO THANK YOU

1:05:35 Training Begins

Ok, we’re an hour into the episode, so it makes sense that it’s time to do something or another! The girls gather in the big studio wearing their Caste T-shirts (see what I did there? I spelled it caste not cast) and get ready to learn.

Kindly Soyou says, “You will be practicing the title track starting today. Since it’s the first time that the Japanese trainees are being trained in the Korean way, this may be quite difficult. But please trust in us, your trainers, and listen to us.” The girls are excited to learn new things -- we hear from Bibian, with her distinctive baby-doll face, and Nakanishi Chiyori, who had the fluffy pink skirt in What’s Your Name.

So the dance class, led by Psychopath, begins.

You can tell that he’s trying to break down the steps and give specific advice. I don’t know how it worked with the translations -- none of the Japanese girls seem to be wearing in-ear devices, so there must have been someone on a microphone, translating the information into Japanese or this would have been chaos. But it I had to learn a dance with someone speaking a language I don’t know, with a translation following a few moments later, it would be so hard to learn. It’s going really fast even for some of the Korean girls, and the Japanese girls look completely lost. Even Miru looks sad. Oh no! Protect Miru! Then after they suffer for a while, Dance Bae tells them the part they just learned is the “easiest part of the choreo.” Oh no!

It’s time for them to study in their groups. This is their class schedule, with the benefit of my google translate on my phone:

I think “consonant practice” should say “self-practice”.

The A group and B group both have Soyou for vocals and Psychopath for dance. The C group has Dance Bae for dance and Soyou for vocals. The D group has Mary J Lee for dance and Jeremy for vocals. The F group has Dance Bae for dance and Jeremy for vocals.

So, let’s start off with group C, in their yellow shirts, who apparently did the best at the big group dance instruction. Park Seo Young, the blonde individual trainee, has been elected leader and has the L sticker on her shoulder to prove it.

They are scared when Dance Bae comes in.

They go up to do the choreo in smaller groups, 5 or 6 at a time, and Dance Bae’s eagle eye picks out even the smallest mistakes. When they make mistakes, she tells them they have to try harder, which, like, lady, they ARE trying.

Then she picks out Son Eun Chae and Honda Hitomi to dance on their own -- one Korean girl and one Japanese girl to represent their respective groups.

They both look great, and Dance Bae compliments them. The other girls think they’ll both move up a rank.

Meanwhile, in class B…

B group has elected Park Minji -- future Secret Number -- as their leader, perhaps because she has experience from being on the first season of Produce 101.

AleXa is serving with a deep red lip. She understands the assignment.

When Psychopath comes in, they introduce themselves in unison, and he greets them impatiently. He watches them perform, then tells them they have to be more “bashful” in their dancing, mocking their more “powerful” attempts at the girlish choreography.

They all love him, saying that he’s a good dancer. Cho Ka Hyeon -- the Starship girl who isn’t Wonyoung or Yujin -- voice overs, “I stared at him shamelessly because he’s so good at dancing.”

Yoon Eunbin likes him a lot.

They might also think he’s handsome or cute, for all I know -- he was only 34 at the time of taping, so not necessarily too old for them to have crushes on (though obviously way too old for them to date, to be clear!). I know he’s being relatively nice to the girls and it must seem weird that I’m calling him Psychopath, but I DO NOT FORGIVE HIM FOR WHAT HE DID TO THE BOYS ON BOYS PLANET. It was full on psychological abuse.

Anyway, the dance practice continues. Miru-chan is trying to keep smiling, but she looks more like she’s crying. Psychopath scolds her, because that’s so helpful, and Jurina comes over to try to cheer her up.

This choreography is much harder than what any of them are used to.

Her training diary consists of this drawing and the words, “Today I had my first singing and dancing lesson in B class. I couldn’t follow the choreography during class B. I made the teacher worry. Is there no hope for me?” Aww, Miru-chan!!

We check in with Team A, who are having a vocal lesson with Soyou. Lee Gaeun from Pledis has been chosen as leader, probably on the strength of her already having debuted, and being the oldest in the group.

Soyou asks for a brave volunteer, and at first, no one steps forward.

Left to right: Lee Ga Eun, Jo Yu Ri, Park Hae Yoon, Kim Do Ah, Yu Min Young, Miyawaki Sakura, Takeuchi Miyu, Kim Cho Yeon, Lee Ha Eun, Lee Chae Yeon, Kim Da Hye, Hwang So Yeon, Choi Ye Na, Na Go Eun, Kwon Eun Bi

Finally, Na Go Eun (future Purple Kiss) volunteers. We’re reminded that at her audition, Soyou had said of her, “She’s the most promising trainee among the ones we’ve seen so far.” But Goeun, singing acapella, goes slightly off pitch, which is what happens to people who don’t have perfect pitch. I mean, most people don’t have perfect pitch! Soyou tells her that she’s going sharp, and that she sounds like she’s just reading a textbook. I would also find it difficult to put emotion into lyrics like:

From now on, you’re mine, mine, mine, only mine / Mine, mine, mine (Superstar) / From now on, you’re mine, mine, mine, only mine / Will you tell me? Pick me up

… but I guess that’s why I’m not cut out to be a K-idol. That’s literally the only reason, though.

Jo Yuri goes next, and has a bit of trouble with the high notes. Soyou tells her that she, Soyou, had fought for her, Yuri, to be in A group (no pressure!) and then tells her she’s disappointed. Kwon Eunbi is next to be insulted for her pronunciation and lack of, I don’t know, spirit (?).

🌸Sakura🌸 is next, and inspirational happy music plays as she talks about how she has studied the Korean lyrics -- amazing! She sings completely incorrectly, like the tune is only slightly an approximation of correct. Instead of insulting Sakura and/or expressing intense, soul-destroying disappointment, like she did with every other girl, Soyou kindly asks the talented Miyu to come forward to sing it correctly to help 🌸Sakura🌸 understand the melody. Finally, 🌸Sakura🌸 manages to sing a few notes correctly, and everyone applauds. I get it that the other girls like her, because she’s a nice girl, but even so. What. Is. This.

Next we check in with D group, who has chosen the multi-lingual Miyazaki Miho as their leader. Good call!

They are working with Mary J Lee, who many of them know from her Youtube dance videos. They seem a little star struck by her.

Sweet faced Motomura Aoi, who we met during the Never Ending Ferris Wheel performance, is in the back row and seems to have trouble seeing what’s going on. She knows the other girls are more skilled and is determined to do better.

Kim Minju, one of the Very Pretty Girls, is having a lot of trouble with the dancing. She’s self-conscious, looking at everyone instead of focusing on herself. She’s acutely aware that the others are better than her, and she’s taking it to heart, crying in the interview chair. We see her showing up in the dance practice room when no one else is there to practice some more.

In what may or may not be the next day, we check in again with the B girls at 1:21:48. Kim Sihyeon, future Everglow, and Lee Seunghyeon, who I’m going to just call Riina from H1-Key, interview that their group has Americans (AleXa), Chinese people (Wang Yiren from Everglow, Wang Ke of the red polka dots), Japanese people (Iwatate Saho, Miru from Dancing Hero, Juri, and Jurina), and of course, Koreans. So it can make communication tricky.

We see Jang Gyuri (future ex-Fromis9) and Lee Chaewon (future Le Sserafim) trying to get Jurina to understand that they want to practice the Japanese version of the lyrics together, using mostly English, but Jurina doesn’t seem to understand.

Husky-voiced Kim Hyuna (who did that excellent audition with My House by 2pm -- did you watch it yet?) encourages everyone to come watch the dance on the tablet, and the Japanese members, who don’t understand at first, come over later, when there’s already a big crowd.

Jurina interviews that the Koreans crowd around so much that the Japanese trainees can’t see at all. She is obviously frustrated.

What we see in the video, though, is that the Japanese trainees’ method of trying to see the video is to just stand there looking sad and wishing that the video will magically come closer. We don’t, for example, see them tapping anyone on the shoulder and pointing at the tablet with a hopeful facial expression. They just STAND THERE. I know it’s a cultural thing, but toxic passivity drives me nuts.

Quick story time. A few months back, I was flying somewhere for work, worried I’d miss my connecting flight which would cause serious issues with my job. I was seated in an aisle seat, and I noticed that boarding was taking a really long time. There was a woman standing in the aisle wearing a big backpack that kept smacking me in the face as she spun around trying to let people pass her. She apologized when I pointed that out, and I was like, it’s ok, but why don’t you just sit down? And she said, well, there’s someone sitting in my seat. I asked her which one was supposed to be her seat, and she pointed to the aisle seat in front of me. I was like, just say something, and the woman was like, oh no, I can’t, I don’t want to be rude. Meanwhile, people were still trying to board. The woman with the backpack was trying to duck into chairs that are open to let people pass, but there were hardly any open seats left and so she was really slowing down boarding, making everything really difficult for everyone. And all because she doesn’t have the chutzpah to either (a) tap the person on the shoulder and say “I think you’re in my seat” or (b) at least ask a flight attendant for help. So then I had to be the one to tap that person on the shoulder. Turned out she had sat in that seat KNOWING IT WAS THE WRONG SEAT because there was someone in HER seat, which was the window seat. So then I had to tell the person in the window seat that SHE was in the wrong seat. Like here I am just trying to get the plane to take off on time so I don’t miss my connection and no one has the ability to speak up about the simplest of things. The woman in the wrong window seat realized she had just made a mistake, and she apologized and moved up one row to the correct seat, and everyone got seated. But like, my GOD. What was your endgame, backpack woman? To just stay in the aisle the whole flight? URGH. I get it, some people are shy, but sometimes if you don’t speak up, it’s actually irresponsible and rude. And it’s even worse if you then make the other people out to be the bad guys.

Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. Deep breaths.

The four Japanese members sulk about how no one is “letting” them see the video, without ever, I don’t know, pointing to it? Walking over and gently taking it out of someone’s hands? ANY FUCKING THING? If I had to deal with people that passive I would evaporate. Just boil away into space.

Finally, husky-voiced Hyunah grabs Jurina by the arm, drags her over to the side of the room, and begins teaching her the choreo. Jurina realizes that the Korean girls who know how to dance learned the choreography first, so that they could teach it to the other girls, and regrets the misunderstanding.

H1-Key Riina helps Saho learn the choreo.

Saho interviews that in Japan, the girls typically work by themselves, but in Korea, the girls work together as a group, which makes her really happy. What I’m learning from this show is that Korean culture is superior to Japanese culture. Thanks, MNET editors! Thmeditors.

We see some of the Korean girls using English to talk to AleXa. Cute!

Choi So Eun interviews, “It feels like we’re communicating telepathically.”

We end the segment on this shot of the girls all crowded around Juri and Jurina -- looks like maybe Juri had been crying and then everyone in the whole class came over to cheer her up? Maybe? Anyway, it’s cute. They’re working together. This is my favorite thing about shows like this.

At 1:24:20, we switch over to watch the A girls at their dance practice. Gaeun shows off her dancing, and she looks great, of course. She’s so cute!

Behind her, you can see, left to right, little Lee Ha Eun, the “little Chungha” girl; Kwon Eunbi, looking a little different with her hair pulled back; Lee Da Hye from Banana Culture; behind Gaeun, you can see a tiny bit of the short, talented Miyu; Jo Yuri, of the yellow Chewing Gum; and Yu Minyeong of the mint green polka dots in the Celeb Five performance. (We’ll see Minyeoung dance in a little bit….)

As Gaeun finishes her performance, we get to see Hwang Soyeon, the “little Sunmi,” show off her teleportation skills! At 1:24:45 she’s standing by the wall next to 🌸Sakura🌸, calmly applauding for Gaeun.

Psychopath praises Gaeun, saying that all the details of her dancing are very neat and precise.

At 1:24:57, Soyeon has teleported to be sort of behind Gaeun. Dahye from Banana Culture is still near the wall -- but she’s out of breath and is pumping her t-shirt back and forth to cool herself down. Jo Yuri and Miyu seem to have disappeared. Soyeon has charged the part in her hair, and also seems out of breath. Gaeun’s hair is much messier, too.

And at 1:25:00, Soyeon has teleported back to her original position next to 🌸Sakura🌸, with her hair put back to its original part.

These are some talented girls, my friends.

Look, obviously this is just some bad editing, but it wasn’t an accident. For whatever reason, they wanted it to look like Psychopath was praising Gauen alone. Maybe he was, but maybe he wasn’t. This is all just to go back to one of my key points about this show: It is edited with such a purposefully heavy hand that it might as well be fiction.

In the next group, though the editing wants us to focus on Choi Yena, my eye kept getting drawn to Kim Doah, future Fanatics/GP999 contestant. She’s just so expressive there!

Left to right: Eunbi (권은비), Doah (김도아), Dahye, Yena (최예나), and Minyoung (유민영).

Psychopath reminds Yena not to let her fingers go in her mouth in the “tap near your mouth” part of the choreo. It’s interesting to think about those little details.

Many of the girls have their turn, and then he asks Yu Minyoung to come out to the center. He calls her “Celeb Five,” not by her name, even though she’s wearing a huge name tag. He called Gauen and Yena by their names, but not Minyoung! She makes quite a few mistakes. We see a flashback to the very first dance rehearsal, something we’ve never seen before -- Dance Bae pulling Psychopath aside and asking why on earth did Minyoung get an A. Honestly, I wondered that too at the time -- I said I would have given her a C. Psychopath reminds her that Minyoung was part of that Celeb Five performance. Back at the A-team’s dance rehearsal, Psychopath, showing his true nasty colors, says, “I think it was a really good idea to do Celeb Five back then. But you have no charisma now. You’ll end up in lower classes.” She just sort of says “Yes, I understand.” She wants to stay in A class, but I think she knows her skills are just not up to the task given her short training period.

This next segment, which begins at 1:27:35, is probably my favorite part of the whole episode. Jeremy just actually teaches the D-grade girls to sing. Instead of insulting them, or scolding them, or telling them that they have to “try harder,” or rolling his eyes and asking if they even want to be here, he just teaches them how singing works, physically. It’s a delight to watch. He has them do something that my vocal teacher taught me, an exercise to open up your palette. You start by being super super nasal, making a sound fully through your nose, then sort of make a “nnnngg-gga” noise that clears the sound out. It’s hard to explain in words, but it’s something I do before I sing a note, even alone in the shower. He even explains it to them in Japanese, since there are so many Japanese members of the class and the Japanese girls are especially nasal. Is he or is he not the most lovable of people?

He has Minami (owner of the Lemon-chan doll) lie flat on her back to learn how to engage her abs while she sings, and afterward, she can hold a note without wavering unpleasantly. You guys, this is what learning to sing is all about. The segment is only about 2 minutes long, which is a shame -- I could watch this for a long time. I like watching kindness in action! If you want to watch, here’s a Youtube clip.

And that's as much as I can fit in one post, so I'll have to cut it off here! I hope you're at a temperature you like to be at, and that you have the right number of Squishmallows nearby. Take care and see you in the next one, when we finish off their preparations for the signal song evaluation!

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songs: dreams come true by WJSN, I wish by WJSN, la la love by WJSN, dolphin by oh my girl, ring ring by rocket punch, we go by fromis_9

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wickymicky’s Top Ten Kpop Songs of 2021: Honorable Mentions

These five songs did not end up making my Top Ten list, but they’re definitely worth mentioning here. They’re listed in alphabetical order by group, so this is not necessarily 11-15 on my list. I could order them, but honestly ordering my Top Ten list was hard enough haha. I love all of these songs, so don’t take this list the wrong way. Likewise, anything that you don’t see here could be on my Top Ten list... you’ll see ;)

Aespa - Next Level

This was a big year for Aespa! Next Level was a hit, and got a lot more people into them than Black Mamba did, I think. Though, just like Black Mamba, it’s sitting here in my honorable mentions, just outside of my top 10. Black Mamba was probably 11th place for me last year, but looking back, it definitely should have been top 10, and if I was making a list of my top 10 2020 singles now, it would be on the list for sure. But, at the time I made the list, that’s how I felt.

Next Level is here in that same spot, though I’m more sure that this one isn’t top 10, unfortunately. While I really enjoy it and listened to it a lot, it did take a while to get to the point where I was considering it for top 10. The “beat drop - naevis calling” section, the beat switch, really threw me off a lot at first. I often love experimental things in songs, but you know, I don’t love everything just cause it’s experimental haha. I think it threw off the momentum of the song too much, which is a shame because Next Level’s biggest strength is its momentum. I got used to that part though and it doesn’t bother me at all anymore, but I don’t think it adds much either.

While I like a lot of what I hear in Next Level quite a bit, I can’t in all honesty put it in my top 10 unless I like everything in hear in the song from start to finish. That’s just how I am lol, idk. But yeah, seriously, it is a good song. I probably don’t need to list the reasons why though, because you either already love it or you already hate it haha. It’s a polarizing song, for sure.

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Fromis_9 - We Go

This one hurts a bit. I love Fromis 9. They’ve been one of my favorite groups basically since right after I got into kpop, since they were one of the first kpop groups I found. Feel Good was around this same spot for me last year too, though I like We Go more than Feel Good. I think the thing that is keeping it out of my top 10 the most is... well... there isn’t really anything pushing it into the top 10. That might sound a bit confusing, but basically what I mean is that, while I think it’s solid and I like it, it doesn’t grab ahold of me and make me obsess over it, I guess. It’s nice! It’s a very nice song. It’s a sweet song with a really likable concept. It really represents the feel that a lot of this year had, with the pandemic still keeping people apart, but at the same time things are starting to return as more and more people get vaccinated and things like that. It’s a weird time to live in. There’s something about this song and this music video that capture that energy perfectly. While it didn’t blow my mind, I will always love it and it’ll always remind me of this point in my life when I hear it. But like, in a good way

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Itzy - Mafia (in the Morning)

I liked this song a lot more than I thought I was going to, given the weird title and lyrics, haha. I think the thing that keeps it from my top 10 is just... I don’t feel like I have a lot to say about it. It’s really solid, I love the vibe, I think it’s a cool song and listening to it makes me feel cool lol. It’s definitely one of the better kpop bangers of the year. If it didn’t have that choreo, that music video, those live stages, and those five performers though, I’m not sure I would be considering it here. And honestly, I think the fact that I love every bside on this album a lot really helped push Mafia forward for me. Seriously, if I end up doing a favorite bsides list, I’m gonna be talking about more than one from this album, for sure haha. Yeah, idk, I like this song a lot, but I don’t think I have a lot to say about it. It is what it is. If you like what it is, then you like it. And I do.

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STAYC - Stereotype

I feel like this one could be a bit of a surprise, haha. Stereotype is great, though not as good as ASAP in my opinion. I don’t think that’s a particularly controversial opinion, though not having Stereotype in my top 10 anyway might be controversial. There’s so much to like about this song, and so much to like about Stayc in general. One of the first things that stood out to me about this song is just how solid they are as a group. I knew that already haha, but it really shows here. The first lines that each member says in the song all are so distinctive, they all have really unique and recognizable voices and singing styles.

When I first heard Sumin’s first line in the song, my first thought was “yeah, that was definitely a Sumin line”. When I heard Yoon, I thought “yup, that definitely sounds like Yoon”. J, Isa, Seeun, and Sieun as well, in that order. I know this sounds kind of obvious but... think about it for a sec... this group wasn’t even a year old at the time, and yet already they’re at the point where all of them have such instantly recognizable voices. And not just that, but recognizable singing styles too. Like, it’s not just Yoon’s voice, it’s the way she sings, the way she speaks her lines. That’s a mark of a group with a really great lineup. Anyway, this song is great lol. Why is it here in my honorable mentions? idk lol. The thing about a top 10 is that only 10 songs can fit in it. So if I love 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15 songs... well... mathematically speaking, some of them won’t fit in the top 10, unfortunately :(

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Everglow - Pirate

When this song came out less than a month ago, I was floored immediately by it. Everglow has been on such a high streak, in my opinion. I loved Bon Bon Chocolat, but Adios and Dun Dun weren’t quite *it* for me. I liked them, but I didn’t love them, and I was a bit concerned that they’d never do something that I liked as much as Bon Bon Chocolat again. Then La Di Da came out though, and reignited my love of Everglow lol, and it ended up in my top 5 for 2020, at 4th place. I didn’t know how they would follow that up, because La Di Da is amazing and I wasn’t sure if it was just a fluke or not, especially since it has a retro concept and style, which I thought they were unlikely to do again. But then First came out this year, and uh... I’m not gonna say anything else about First haha, because you’ll read my thoughts about that song much later on this list lmao. So then I wondered how they would follow that up! Thankfully, Pirate is fantastic too haha. It makes me wonder why I was worried about it at all. I should have trusted them more.

So, why is it an honorable mention? And why is this song listed here, when I said at the beginning that this honorable mentions list would be alphabetical by group? Well... originally, Pirate was gonna be my 10th place song, and I had a different song here in the honorable mentions. You’ll see what that song is later, cause it’s number 10 now, and I think this arrangement is way better. I literally had this post done and queued and scheduled and all that, and I’m editing it before it posts right now, writing this bit for Pirate after deleting the bit I had for that other song lmao. I’ll talk about why that other song went up in its review, but as for why this song went down... the primary reason is that it’s just so new, still. It’s not even a month old yet. My opinion on this song is far from fully formed, and it won’t be for a while. Though, I will say that I think this song is one I’ll get tired of a little faster than one like First.

I love the instrumental and this song’s weird structure, but some parts feel a little incongruous to me upon 150th listen lmao. I love that this song is pretty much all chorus. The first verse is just a little bit of Mia and then Aisha comes in with the “I’m a pirate” part, which is basically part of the chorus. It’s the drop. Then there’s a prechorus, then the chorus, then the drop again. Then a really short rap part, then the drop but with a totally different vocal/rap part over it (the instrumental is the same though). Then prechorus, then chorus. And so on, and so on, and so on. I actually like this lol, this is a positive for me. For the most part, anyway. They knew how sick that drop is, and they give it to you as much as they possibly can without it feeling like it’s too much. To be honest, it’s the non-drop parts that are getting a bit stale for me.

That first verse, Mia... does she really have like four different parts with four different voices? She has her fast paced rap right at the very beginning, the first lines of the song, then she sings a bit before Aisha’s part, then she’s back later lol before the prechorus. idk lol. That’s cool I guess, she’s good at what she does, but I will say that I don’t really understand what that first rap bit is doing there. The first prechorus is a bit odd too. I’ve been using “Girls all over the world” as my blog title lol, but I actually think that’s not one of the best parts of the song. The switch from the drop part to the prechorus is a bit abrupt, I think. In general, the chorus isn’t really one of the high points of this song for me, it’s mostly the instrumental and general feel and energy of the song that keep me coming back. I think listening to the song too much, as I have done haha, exposes some of the things that it lacks though, definitely.

I don’t mean to be overly negative lol, cause trust me... TRUST ME... I fucking love this song. It’s rare for me to have no minor complaints whatsoever about a song. Perfect 10/10s are suuuuper rare. Almost impossible. I just had to get some of this off my chest, even though I didn’t get into too much detail for the other honorable mentions. With all that said though, yeah, I really do fucking love this song, and I love where Everglow is right now musically. I’m so impressed. I’m putting this as an honorable mention, but yeah, I had this as my 10th place song until like a bit before this post that you’re currently reading was posted.

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#2021 list #honorable mentions #i think you'll be glad i switched Pirate and the other song though #well... you'll be upset that i put that other song 10th instead of like... top 3 #i would be upset with myself if i didnt include it in the top 10 #which is not how i feel about Pirate #even if i do end up liking Pirate more overall later..... it just doesnt represent this year as well. not even close.#anyway! you'll see lol #long post

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