Flop, very bland.

Because people are assholes to groups from smaller companies.

I am, still my personal overall SOTY atm.

Bop. Very solid song.

2023 releases(10 needed, I'm aiming for songs that feel "summery" to me here, makes it more challenging )

Teen Top-Hweek

Aespa-Spicy

G-idle-Queencard

U-kiss-The wonderful escape

OEC-Air Force One

Itzy-Bet on Me

Enhypen-Sacrifice(Eat me up)

Fromis 9-Me Now

Ive-wave

Kai-Rover

HM as I wasn't sure if they were kpop enough: Fifty Fifty and Khali -Barbie Dreams and Txt and Jonas Brothers Do it like that

Assorted summery songs

F(x)-Hot summer

Sistar-Loving U

Sistar-I Like That

Wonder Girls-Why so Lonely

Twice-Dance the Night Away

Exo-Ko Ko Bop

Super Junior-Dancing Out

100%-U Beauty

Infinite-She's Back

AOA-Heart Attack

Bop, OEC are back and the songs are as great as they were before. Love the off-kilter production in this, it's a unique take on current kpop trends.

Blop. It's a nice song but it feels like it's fighting with itself as the sing-talk wars with the groovy beat.

Bop. Surprisingly good.

Blop, I unironically appreciate the Princeesque falsetto. I simply think it lacks the "umph" a title track should have in my mind and I do find the production strangely lacking, the instrumental is great but something feels off to me with the groove.

Infuriated by the Knetz hate train for Fifty Fifty so much. Cultural differences I guess.

IVE seriously can do no wrong, or at least their creative team is amazing. It's on brand glossy pop. It just sounds like a really good b side and that's the only criticism I can think of at the moment. I would put Zero Attitude as the more exciting Pepsi song for sure though.

Bop, I heard this at the resort I was at on vacation, it's a goofy song by western pop standards.

Blop, I prefer it over NewJeans(the song) sonically as it's catchier.

Quote from Baeggi

People are so weird, being retro is the thing that made them interesting. I was addicted to Piano Man (aged like fine wine) back then.

I know fans hate rbw (and I'm sure they have good reasons for it), but at least the company provided an unique concept and good songs.

Piano man is so amazing, I keep feeling like it's their debut when it isn't. I blame it being the first Mamamoo song I found for that perspective.

Quote from desdesdes

Anyway who the heck voted candy jelly love??

I thought lovelinus is not exist in akp??

Me. Candy jelly Love for me is a musical masterpiece. Lovelyz is also unironically the closest kpop group style wise to New Order especially in their early years, and that's a band that's seen as timeless sonically even if niche(Mom says they were niche in the 80s at least).

I like a good amount of these songs, but the one's that aged the best for me are

Exo-Mama

Dreamcatcher-Chase me

Gfriend-Glass Bead(unironically industry changing considering the Wing being bg version of gfriend rn, even if it's not as good as what came after it was the first INTW style song after the original that I know of)

Seventeen-Adore U

Momoland-jjan koong kwang(hilariously underappreciated, one could say I liked Momoland before they were big)

Lovelyz-Candy Jelly love(doesn't even feel like a debut damnit it's too good. Sounds like a poppier version of the legends known as New Order)

I apologize for the lack of rap-focused songs on here, but fir timeless I was mainly thinking "would my parents listen to it and not hate it" and they aren't exactly into rap. There were also soem choices I somehow forgot what they sounded like(Mr.Ambigious,Energetic)

I like 80s music because it has a certain bittersweet feeling that modern recreations of it usually fail to capture.

Blop.

Flop, both the album preleases aren't my type of music. I hope I'll like the title track.

My fave GOT7 song.