Songs I’m Hearing In Seoul

Quote from citron-icy

and how do you do if you don't know the song you hear

I am a chronic Shazam addict

Posting at 4am KST cause I’m sleepless In Seoul

music things

- IVE: one more After LIKE

- BTS: Run, Spring Day, Euphoria, IDOL

- NewJeans: Hype Boy, Attention

- Beast: Fiction

- Brave Girls: Rollin

- BP: DDDD, Playing with Fire

- Twice: What is Love, Talk That Talk

- Kara: Step

- NCT 127: 2 Baddies

- LSRFM: Antifragile (4-5 times)

Antifragile is the winner today because it’s played at so many different types of venue (not just as k beauty lures)

ThePhantomThief has a good point about idol music being used to lure customer in especially in Myeongdong, so I’ll be aware of that when noticing music - but I still think it’s a fair way to ‘use’ music too

Bonus: that one photo of Y/N waking up next to JYP in bed - seen at a pub

A note about Hype Boy: the excitement for it is very real with many people just doing the choreo while walking around hearing it

No street dance buskers yet

Obviously lots of non idol music, and it’s much more diverse than what I’m used to, especially hip hop blasting out of some really nice sound systems

Pure happiness hearing all of these new sounds

@purepalette BP are everywhere, especially in the Olens and CK ads

nevermindmejin pure leisure, but I work in music so a bit of work mindset always sneaks in

I forgot to add in some

- RHYTHM TA by Ikon

- Rock with you by SEVENTEEN

- SMARTPHONE by Yena

non music things:

It’s freezing atm but with thermals and a Korea-grade puffer (I picked one up from OIOI today) it’s quite cozy. The mask also helps hugely

Misc notes:

- toxic idol fanwar stuff? Not seeing much lol. The streets are safe, the people are thriving, there are no Pann girlies wailing in the street, no public humiliation rituals, no one is being ended. It’s a big tent and everyone’s in it

- ad wise it’s who you’d expect (SNSD, BP, twice), and rn I see a lot of NCT in beauty shops as well. NJ and IVE only on occasion. The queen of advertising is no surprise IU.

- BTS are inescapable as branding. Socks, figures, selling JIN ramen (ad video is everywhere). RM’s tv show is everywhere. Taeyang and Jimin posters are everywhere. They’re everywhere.

HONGDAE IS MY FAVOURITE. It’s so me. It’s so bustling, and excited, and in love, and daring, and kind of camp. I LOVE IT.

Food highlight: had to try some budae jjigae given the temps. Holy shit. I’m a stew convert now. The spice is there but the flavour is like 10000000x what can be tried at home. It’s unreal

Gyeongbokgung palace in the snow feels like a core memory for me

Tomorrow should be a lot of cafe hopping and a slower pace, will update when I can!

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johnny is there any way this can be moved back to the kpop section? This is about music in Korea first and foremost and the travel stuff is simply context. I can keep my posts to be only about music if that needs to happen, less food/culture. Up to you,thanks

Today's big highlight for AKP was visiting the Nudake store to try out the NewJeans cake

It was beautifully made and very delicious, and felt very wrong to actually eat because of how precious it looked

We got vanilla! And some little tidbits of merch here and there too

They had unreleased remixes they played too

Today's winner has to be NJ just for the sheer immersion of the experience itself

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Other artists heard:

IVE (Love Dive finally)

BTS (like 8+ songs, most interestingly was No More Dream)

Ateez (there was an IRL fancafe, playing Halazia)

Beast (Fiction, again)

G-IDLE (Nude)

EXO (Dont fight the feeling)

aespa (Next Level, Girls)

Stray Kids (Maniac)

Twice (TTT, Cheer Up)

Blackpink (Pink Venom, Shut Down)

TVXQ (Catch Me)

No antifragile today which is kinda interesting

I'm not sure if people are still following my thread so this may be the last post here unless something happens

alright let's rev this old machine up

Aside from the usual suspects (many of the songs I've already mentioned)

- Lots of 4th gen GGs (no NMIXX at all yet though), BTS (inc. My Universe), BP, Twice (TTT and Alcohol Free), Big Bang (Haru Haru, Bad Boy)

There have been a few personal highlights:

- Wildflower by RM

- Tell Me by Wonder Girls

- Step Back by GOT the Beat (sounded wild in a 7/11)

- Queendom by RV

- Ring Ding Dong by Shinee

- Loona Chuu in an ad for recruitment services (no Loona music yet)

- NewJeans Shinhan Bank ads everywhere. I also think I've heard every TT + Ditto as of tonight

- Lots of fan-bought billboards and signs celebrating their faves' birthdays, it's super sweet

- An older man (70+) with a bootleg Jimin t-shirt, it may have been a gift, or he may be a solo stan idk

But I think the big highlight has been hearing what I call an NCT All-Kill:

- I heard STICKER (NCT 127), Candy and Beatbox (Dream) and Phantom (WayV) all within this afternoon alone

They really are more popular than international fans give them credit for. In general there has been way more SME than I would have expected. Is there an SM stan taglist? haha

Quote from turtleneckjoon

you went to nudake!! did you try the ridiculously mini croissants? or peak cake? i haven't been there but their museum in seongdong looks so beautiful on insta

Shared the micro croissants, some coffees and the vanilla bunny cake! All extremely delicious, and the unreleased remixes are worth hanging around for (incl. 90's Slow Jam Hype Boy)

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Now tomorrow I move out of Myeongdong and into a different part of Seoul. I wonder if having less touristy Hallyu-targeted shops and stalls means I'll hear different kinds of idol music, as well as more KHH

I'm also summarising a lot of what I hear as general trends but if people have specific requests like if I had heard so-and-so, I can go back through my notes history to see if their name pops up