01. Boa – One Shot, Two Shot
02. CLC – Black Dress
03. Seventeen – Thanks
04. Boa – Nega Dola
05. Miryo – Can I See You Again
06. djfriz – Dive (feat. MRSHLL, Megan Lee)
07. Vromance – Star
08. Seo Ja Yeong – 계절이 바뀌는 것처럼
09. Henry – Monster
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I freaking love One Shot, Two Shot. The concept of the MV is also quite good I might say, even though I would be alright without the performance part with her hair all frizzy.
Can I See You Again is both annoying and catchy. But lately, I’m leaning more on the catchy part of the thing so that’s that.
The dance featured in the MV of Star is amazing and you should definitely watch it just for that.
01. PSY – I Luv It
02. iKON – B-Day
03. PSY – New Face
04. Twice – Signal
05. Yoon Do Hyun – Trip
06. Seventeen – Don’t Wanna Cry
07. VIXX – Shangri-La
08. LambC – Enee Menee Minee Mo
09. Henry – Real Love (acoustic ver.)
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Psy is back with 2 new songs that are really fun.
Signal is nice, though I really hate the start and the few times this “rap” repeats itself. The bridge is lovely.
I was really astonished with Don’t Wanna Cry. I really like it a lot, yet I usually am not a big fan of Seventeen.
01. Jay Park – Me Like Yuh (feat. Hoody)
02. BTS – Blood Sweat & Tears
03. TWICE – TT
04. I.O.I – Very Very Very
05. Block B Bastarz – Selfish & Beautiful Girl
06. Amber, Luna – Heartbeat (feat. Ferry Corsten, Kago Pengchi)
07. Matilda – You Bad! Don’t Make Me Cry
08. Jay Park – All I Wanna Do (feat. Hoody, Loco)
09. Hyolyn – Love Like This (feat. Dok2)
10. Henry, Soyu – Runnin’
11. Hyolyn – One Step (feat. Jay Park)
12. Lugoh – With You (feat. Olltii, Xit Suh)
13. Crush – fall
14. Taeyeon – 11:11
15. Sweden Laundry – foggy
16. G’night Stand – Leavin’ Tomorrow
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I bet I’m going to be listening to Me Like Yuh for a very long time. I don’t know but the chorus just grabs me by the hips and make me wanna dance my ass off.
I wasn’t sur about TT at first, but I’ve been waking up with it stuck in my head too many times now so I had to give in. Also the MV is really fun. TWICE is probably my fav from the new area of girls group lately.
I really enjoy the chorus of Runnin’ too. It’s just so sweet and it feels like a warm sun ray on a fall’s chilly afternoon.
And whatever you do, please please listen to Leavin’ Tomorrow. The vocals are chilling and it’s just wholesome and perfect. Even though the MV is super simple, I like the visual of the two singing, sitting in the water. Beautiful through and through.
Listing
1. Jay Park – Nana (feat. Loco, AOMG)
2. Clazziquai Project – Love Satellite
3. Anglee – From Time to Time (feat. Baechigi)
4. Dynamic Duo, DJ Premier – AEAO
5. Wings – Blossom
6. HIGH4 with Lim Kim – A Little Close
7. Homme (Changmin (2AM), Lee Hyun(8Eight)) – It Girl
8. Sistar – Touch My Body
9. Girl’s Day – Darling
10. Fiestar – One More
11. NU’EST – Good Bye Bye
12. INFINITE – Back
13. JYJ – Back Seat
14. Z.Hera – D Island
15. Royal Pirates – Betting Everything (Acoustic English Ver.)
16. NiiHWA – All Night Long
17. Taewan – Good Morning (feat. Verbal Jint)
18. Lucite Tokki – Let Me Dance
19. Airplane – Back To The Future
20. Daybreak – Hot Fresh
21. god – Saturday Night
22. GoGoStar – Broken Night
23. Delight – Hate You!
24. f(x) – Red Light
25. Hyuna – Red
26. Henry – Fantastic
27. Park Ji Yoon – Yoo Hoo
28. Lim Yirang – Secret
29. Oohyo – Teddy Bear Rises
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A few summer song here and there. A bunch of great indie song too. Even though Teddy Bear Rises is way down there on the list, you should try it. Most people have been talking about Vineyard, from Oohyo, but in my opinion, the one on my list is way better.
I know not everyone will like Hate You! by Delight. It’s maybe a bit too intense and weird at time. But I’ve been really digging it, mostly when I go for a run. It keeps me motivated.
Lucite Tokki still amaze me more and more.
I wasn’t sure I wanted to keep JYJ new song. I’ve started to grow tired of it a bit.
The first 6 songs are kinda my favorite, but I would also add Betting Everything. That said, the English acoustic version is the best one. You can go and listen to the original version, but it’s almost like it’s a totally different song. And as of now, Wings has done a great job with both of the two song they’ve released. I love Blossom a LOT. Anglee is looking really promising too.
Also, I’m surprised that I didn’t hear about Z.Hera song more because I think it’s a great song. I wasn’t sure at first but it get stuck in your head quite easily and there’s a few good part. She definitely has talent and I hope we see more of her in the future.
Total Chart Newbies from 1st place to 25th place
26. Block B – Jackpot
28. B1A4 – Solo Day
39. Hyungdon & Daejun – Park You
48. Jeon Minju, Yuna Kim – Good Bye Rain (feat. Hyunkyu of Bromance)
52. Henry – Fantastic
67. Shin Hye Sung, Lyn – Buen Camino
72. Swings – Gravity (feat. Mad Clown, Giriboy)
85. Eddy Kim – Darling
87. Beenzino – Crazy (feat. Don Mills)
90. Jeff Bernat – Be The One OST
92. Beenzinon – Up All Night (feat. Mayson The Soul)
95. Skull – I’m Getting Married (feat. Eugene of THE SEEYA)
99. Lena Park – You and I OST
100. Parc Jae Jung – Ice Ice Baby (feat. Beenzino)
Song Chart
93. Ali – Let Me Say First
95. Beenzino – Jackson Pollock D*ck
97. Cho PD, ToppDogg – This Isn’t Right
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I’m not a really big fan of Block B. This song seems to me like it was made to please everyone. It failed for me. I think I would have prefer if they stuck with something a bit more hip-hop, a bit less pop. I don’t know.
I like Fantastic, but I still feel like something isn’t as awesome as for his first single.
I’m kinda disappointed by Darling. I expected way more from Eddy Kim since what we got from him earlier this year was really great.
Nominees:
Heo Young Saeng – The Art Of Seduction
VIXX – Hyde
NU’EST – Hello
Bangtan Boys – NO
Henry – Trap
CNBLUE – I’m Sorry
Brown Eyed Girls – Kill Bill
INFINITE H – Special Girl
SunnyHill & Daybreak – Love Actually
4Minute – What’s Your Name?
My pick: I would have to go with VIXX Hyde Why: Because it’s a great MV in the first place. I feel like there’s lot to talk about. And I think EYK never reviewed a VIXX MV. I’m not really that much into Love Actually as a song, the MV is funny and it would sure give some juice to jokes and stuff, but, I don’t know… Left out: So many… Prediction: I really don’t know. Maybe NU’EST
Nominees:
G-Dragon
Kim Jae Joong
Henry
Psy
CL
Xia Junsu
Jay Park
Lee Hyori
Kim Hyun Joong
BoA
My pick: Jay Park or Lee Hyori Why: Jay Park had a great year, most of his song did well. There’s at least three of time in my favorite this year. I feel like 2013 was his year, even outside Korea. Lee Hyori did incredibly well with her comeback since she was in a plagiarism scandal with her last album. And, on the other hand, I love her. Left out: I think they covered it well. Prediction: G-Dragon
Listing
01. Seungri – Gotta Talk To U
02. EXO – Growl
03. G-Dragon – Crooked
04. Primary – Happy Ending (feat. Jinsil of Mad Soul Child & Gary of Leessang)
05. Lee Na Rae – Raining In Amsterdam
06. Navi – I Ain’t Going Home Tonight (feat. Geeks)
07. Piggy Dolls – Ordinary Girl
08. Bebop & Humming Urban Stereo – Maem Maem
09. Mayson The Soul – Holiday (feat. Beenzino)
10. Midnight Monsters – Voyage To The End Of The Universe
11. WHOwho – Her
12. Dickpunks – Sunglasses
13. Ulala Session – Fonky (feat. Suhl Woon Do)
14. SPICA – Tonight
15. BoA – Action
16. Tasty – MAMAMA
17. 2NE1 – Do You Love Me?
18. Sunmi – 24 Hours
19. Jin Doggae – Tic Toc (feat. J.Fla)
20. Lim Jeong Hee – Luv Is (feat. Baechigi)
21. J. Fla – Story
22. Bumkey – Attraction (feat. Dynamic Duo)
23. Joo Young – Popstar
24. Ladies’ Code – Hate You
25. B.A.P – Badman
26. Secret Agent Sound – Like It
27. Bizniz – Get It Wet (feat. Shorry J of Mighty Mouth)
28. Bigstar – Run & Run
29. M.pire – Can’t Be Friend With You
30. KARA – Damaged Lady
31. Henry – 1-4-3 (I Love You) (feat. Amber of f(x))
32. ZE:A – The Ghost Of The Wind
33. History – Tell Me Love
34. Garina Project – Ice Cream
35. Lunafly – Foxy Ladies
36. Air Plane – Give Me A Chance
37. CNBLUE – Feel Good
38. Royal Pirates – Shout Out (Synth Rock Ver.)
39. Shin Cho I & Go! Dandy Boys – By Your Side
40. KARA – Runaway
41. Song Ji Eun – False Hope
42. Electroboyz – Let It Rain
43. Drunken Tiger, tYoon Mi Rae, Bizzy – The Cure
44. Lim Kim – Rain
45. Daredaa – Summer Night Walk
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Yet again a long one. I might change things up a bit for a few next playlist, maybe do just one month by playlist, I don’t know, not quite sure yet.
Again, maybe I’m becoming more generous over time. There is a few song I already do not listen to anymore.
But there is also a lot of underrated songs that are here, in this playlist, and that deserve way more views and love.
I’ve tried to put somewhat of an order in the countdown, but it’s really not based on anything, except a bit on overall popularity and my own impression (about overall popularity and about the fact that either I’ve been listening to the song a lot during this summer or that I’m still listening to it now).
So here it is (and sorry about not posting as much this week, it was kind of a big week for me)
The runner up that almost made it : KARA – Damaged Lady
This song is like other KARA’s songs. It’s really catchy in a “you’ll have it as a earworm out of nowhere and won’t be able to find from whom this song is”. The catchiness of KARA is different since it’s subtle, but in a way, that makes it much more brilliant. The song is great. Everytime I here the chorus, I have a sudden urge to do the dancemove with the arm and stuff. But since it was release not so long ago and that it has a little less view than other video from this summer, I went for other song for the top 10.
10. INFINITE – Destiny
OK, hear me out : I really really like this song. As of now, I think it might even be the song of INFINITE I like the most. The thing is though, it didn’t do that well on any chart this summer and I feel like people forget about it faster than BATOOST’s Shadow (that was, in every point, inferior to Destiny). I think it has everything to do with the MV clusterfuck that happened because of the place scene. They release just one version of the video with all those part edited out and couldn’t release the drama version. So yeah. Even though the MV is not everything, it really help sometimes. Some really really mediocre song got much more popularity than they really deserve base only on the quality of the song because the MV was either entertaining or beautiful. That said, I still listen to this song and you could say it was there for a segment of this summer so that’s why it made #10.
9. G-Dragon – Crooked
I really like this song. BUT it’s not the best of G-Dragon, it’s no Crayon or That XX or even One Of A Kind (I kinda don’t like this one, but I’m trying to be a bit objective here). And it came out at the beginning of September. Personnally, even though I like it, I really feel it won’t have as long a life as the few other song I’ve just mentionned. It’s a lot better than the boring Coup d’État and the Michi-GO WTF though. But it’s still a good G-Dragon song, and G-Dragon’s song always are a bit better than all the crap we get throughtout the year.
8. Jay Park – I Like 2 Party
This one is a personnal choice since the song has roughly a million views though it was release in July. Ok, a million is big, but not that much compare to other songs and how they usually do and stuff. But it FUCKIN KICKS ASSES. And, as the last 2 Jay Park’s song that were release earlier this year, I’m totally in love with it. So yeah, it followed me all summer and I still listen to it and enjoy it as much. The MV is funky, though I prefer the one for JOAH and Welcome (this one for obvious reason).
7. Girl’s Day – Female President
I don’t know if this one is a more personnal choice, but I feel like this song was kinda really popular in Korea for a while and it has a lot of views too. This one was an instant like for me, just like Expectation. Girl’s Day is really coming out of is cuteness shell lately and I like it. It seems Korea like it too. I don’t know about international fans though. The MV is alright, I prefer the one for Expectation with THE dancemove and the (kinda boring) storyline. I really listen to this song a lot this summer, but at some point, I dropped it for newer songs. I didn’t really had time to get tired of it though and I still enjoy listening to it from time to time.
6. EXO – Growl
Why not higher? Because I’m not a fuckin EXO sasaeng! This song is good and the MV is really nicely done. I still listen to it and, obviously, it’s popular as hell. But, for me, there was so many other great song this summer. And some of them deserve more higher rank than this one. I wonder, if this song was not an EXO song, would it have 14 millions views? Maybe not. Don’t get me wrong, I really really really like it, really. But maybe it’s the sasaeng phenomenon aftershock, I’m always not as enthousiastic as I could be towards EXO because of the gigantic hype around them. Or maybe I’m just a child and it has something to do with reverse psychology…
5. Seungri – Gotta Talk To U
“Hey! You’ve just said about Crooked that it was release in September and stuff!” Yeah, so what? Gotta Talk To U is an awesome song. I just totally love it, a whole lot more than Crooked. A whole lot more than some of the song I put on higher ranks for some other reasons. So deal with it. The MV is not great, but who cares? The song is that good. For me, this song might even be it the Top 10 of 2013. Yeah, the whole freakin year.
4. Henry – Trap
I took me a while to like this song. I wasn’t sure because of the Bieber feel to it and I thought I might be tricked into liking something my principle would not allow me to like (a bit like the EXO feeling I got). But after I say Henry on variety shows, I was like “this guy is talented and funny (and kinda cute), so he’s legit”. Then I listen to the song, A LOT! He’s not an EXO member and his song has 10 millions views. Just that says a lot. Ok, you’ll say that there’s Taemin and the other dude and stuff, but seriously, I don’t mind, it’s still his song. I would have change the clothing and some of the dancemove in the MV though, maybe that’s a bit why I was suspicious at first. I mean, we’ve never seen that dude and he’s acting like he’s a freakin gansta and like he owns the place, and he’s not that good of an actor… it was too Bieber-ish for me… That said, for me, this is one of the songs that really marked this summer. It’s just such a fun song and I don’t know, it’s extremely catchy. I really like the bridge part with the high notes and Kyuhyun.
3. Sistar – Give It To Me
Some might not agree with me on this one, but seriously, it was immensely popular this summer. The official MV has more than 9 millions views, and the choregraphy alone has over 3 millions views (and it’s not an MV). For a girls group, it’s really really good (yeah, since girls group always have less views). At first, I thought it was great, but not as good as Alone. Wow, was I wrong! This song is just on a different level of awesomeness, that’s all. The MV is really beautiful and I feel like it showcase each girls (not equally, but at least, it made the effort to do so). I’m not really listening to it anymore, but that’s mainly because I listened to it ALL SUMMER LONG. At one point, in September, I was like : “okay that’s enough now”. That said, I still enjoy and like it a lot, it’s just I felt it was unfair to other song… somehow. (I know I’m weird)
2. Crayon Pop – Bar Bar Bar
If you still have to ask, where were you this summer? This song hasn’t as many views as other, but it was, by far one of THE songs of this summer. At first, I wasn’t sure because, well, it was like an UFO dropped in my computer. But the dance, man the dance… It’s so catchy I almost exploded. And it’s simple enough so that you can follow without being a natural born dancer. The song is good, it’s not the greatest song ever though. If they would have come up with the drama version of the MV first, I feel like it wouldn’t have been as popular. What makes this song is the dance MV. It’s just so quirky and fun. Anyway, you get my point. I know there’s 2 kind of people out there : the one that like it a lot and those who hate it. You cannot go in between with this. And well, I like it. And even if you hate it, you cannot deny that it was this summer song… That said, I don’t get the “r” in the title when the hangul title doesn’t have the ㄹ at the end of the words. Anyway.
and finally…
1. MBLAQ – Smoky Girl
Who can deny the awesomeness of this song? If you try, go check the MV again a few time please. This song is probably one of the greatest of this year. It took me about 3 or 4 times before I started liking it. The MV tricked me at first because I felt the intro was too slow and that the song took its time to really get upbeat and stuff. I still listen to it as of now, and I’m still super pumped when it starts to play on my Ipod. I still want to dance to the chorus. It’s just… okay, maybe not the best song ever, but one of the greatest song Kpop industry made. I like the MV (not love) because of the way they play with the black and white theme, it really suits the song well.
Here’s the playlist :
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So, what do you think about this Top 10? Did I forgot a song that undoubtfully needed to be in it? Let me know in the comment section.
01. MBLAQ – Smoky Girl
02. Andamiro – Waiting (feat. Double K)
03. Henry – Trap (feat. Kyuhyun & Taemin)
04. Sistar – Give It To Me
05. Chocolat – Black Tinkerbell
06. INFINITE – Destiny
07. 4minute – Is It Poppin’?
08. Heyne – Dalla
09. One Way – Beautiful Day
10. Kim Beggar – Tightwad
11. Han Hee Jeong – Ground
12. J Sun – The Day Gently Melt (feat. Jung Hwan)
13. Sogyumo Acacia Band – Danyeoon Story
14. Ku Hye Sun – It’s You
15. B.A.P – Coffee Shop
16. Miss $ – You Were Not The… (Narr. Verbal Jint)
17. After School – First Love
18. Lee Hyori – Going Crazy (feat. Ahn Young Mi)
19. Brown Eyed Girls – Kill Bill
20. Ailee – U & I
21. Nell – Ocean Of Light
22. Crayon Pop – Bar Bar Bar
23. Heart Rabbit Girls – Round And Round
24. Girl’s Day – Female President
25. BATOOST – Shadow
26. Verbal Jint – Walkgin In The Rain (feat. Bumkey)
27. Dynamic Duo – BAAAM (feat. Muzie from UV)
28. Odd Eye – Follow Me
29. Smells – Listen To Your Heart (feat. Neon Bunny)
30. Somdef – Circus (feat. Jinbo & Taehun from Second Session)
31. YB – Mystery
32. Litter – Breakers
33. Skull & HaHa – Ragga Muffin
34. 2NE1 – Falling In Love
35. Jay Park – I Like 2 Party
36. Xia – Incredible (feat. Quincy)
37. Lee Jung Hyun – V
38. A-Jax – Insane
39. B.A.P – Hurricane
40. Kim Hyun Joong – Unbreakable (feat. Jay Park)
41. f(x) – Rum Pum Pum Pum
42. Tahiti – Love Sick
43. AOA – Moya
44. Lee Yu Rim – Call My Name
45. VIXX – G.R.8.U
46. Say Yes – Feel Good
47. Kye BumJoo – The Ceiling (feat. Moowoong of Baechigi)
48. Sogyumo Acacia Band – Moment
49. J Rabbit – Light Sleep (I Will Be Your Love) [also known as “Snooze”]
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Much more song in this one. That said, maybe I’ve been a bit generous with some song, though if I really look at the listing, there’s maybe 5 or 6 songs max I know kinda hate or really don’t want to listen to anymore. I also feel that, when I’ll do a top 10 at the end of the year, most of the song will be from this summer.
There’s a lot of indie track also, and I think there’s none I dislike as of now. I still listen and enjoy most of them. The new Sogyumo Acacia Band album, “Slow Diving Table”, is just totally awesome.