Posts by wsoet

Sunmi, without a doubt. I've yet to hear a bad title track from her.

Dajeong + Dia for me. This decision was based solely on the photos provided in the original post, and could thus vary depending on the girls' styling.

Also, it appears that my choices generally match up with everyone else's, so good to see some agreement here.

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can one type the yuan symbol using keyboard and ¥...

hey I got it alt + 0165 lol

interesting...well I now know how to write the ¥ without copying and pasting lol

Oh yeah, the alt+???? shortcut comes in handy quite often, and is something that most people are unaware of.

The combinations that I use the most are alt+0233 for é and alt+0241 for ñ.

Here's an interesting XR (Extended Reality) performance of the song:

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well at the end of the day the only thing that matters is $$$$ or ¥¥¥¥¥ or ₩₩₩₩₩

huh just learnt that the Yen symbol and Yuan symbol are the same...you learn something new everyday...

The ¥ symbol that you cut and pasted into the message ended up changing your font colour.

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Saw this on the Brave Girls Reddit page:

According to Brave Entertainment's statement to Korean news outlets, the company described the album as "the story of what came after 'We Ride'

And it looks like Inkigayo just posted the fancams for 'Sunny':

Sunmi's dress reminds me of Yayoi Kusama's art installation All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins:

And here are the associated fancams for 'You Can't Sit With Us':

I prefer this performance to her recent Inkigayo one, since the producers here at least made an attempt to have live vocals (with a backing track, of course).

I'm starting to like 'Sunny' more and more:

The song almost gives me Wonder Girls' Reboot vibes, but with a more summer-y feel.

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80’s like videos like Wonder Girls did. Reminds me of Robert Palmer’s videos.

If I recall correctly, Wonder Girls' music video for 'I Feel You' specifically drew inspiration from Palmer's 'Addicted to Love', according to an interview I saw.

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We now have weeks and weeks of top 10 not moving at all, while before there were new songs entering basically every week. Is that bad? Maybe not, but what i do know is that its boring as hell.

In case you haven't already seen it, I posted a thread here that touches upon this very subject.

For those of you who like Gashina, here's a brand new performance of the song:

Good to see that Cha Hyunseung is still one of Sunmi's backup dancers, since he appeared to be absent from the music video.

Here's a performance of both Narcissism and Borderline. I especially enjoyed Borderline since it had a live band backing:

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Only because we have very few sample sizes, lmao

That's a fair point. And unfortunately, we won't have much of an opportunity to expand on the sample size given that Melon is partially backing out their chart reform changes on August 9th.

Actually, the fact that Melon itself is reversing course on its own chart reform provides some evidence that last July's changes have altered chart behaviour in ways that perhaps were not intended.

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One of her male dancers I like not in the video though qq

I assume you mean Cha Hyun-seung. He's here in the Studio Choom performance video that was just posted:

To play devil's advocate: This would be like giving a "best restaurant" award based on sales figures. If you do that, then McDonald's would come out on top, since their food panders to the most basic, most mundane tastes.

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I'm assuming that the values in parenthesis represent the number of days that a particular song was at the #1 position.

If that's the case, then I will point out that average (mean) number of days that a pre-chart reform song spent at #1 is 7.42 days, while the same metric for a post-chart reform song is significantly higher at 35.60 days. If we look at median values instead, it's even more drastic of a difference: 4 days versus 31 days.

This seems to imply that although it's more difficult for an idol song to reach #1 on Melon these days, once a song's up there, it tends to stay at the top for longer.