Very common and I've already accepted that that's how it is. I still still listen and buy despite that. I know how the sausage is made.

Sad to see it didn't work out.

But now I have reason to book my ticket and shoot my shot

SNSD

Kara

T-ara

4Minute

After School

Dreamcatcher

Red Velvet

Miss a

Apink

Secret

What recent combat operation have South Korean troops been doing?

A rally for a cause? Yes. I've attended gun control march here in NYC a few years ago with my church. For a political candidate? Never.

I don't really rate any of their songs. "Magnetic" is on my playlist, but I don't really listen to it the whole way when it comes on. They're new group, so there's room to see where they go.

I don't have any opinions on the members.

They're songs are okay. I think "Ditto" is their stand out song, but many of their songs kind of blend together, and I don't really go back to listen to any of them. I also liked "Zero," but silly ad commercial songs always have a place in my heart.

I don't really have any opinions on the group members.

They have some very catchy songs under their belt, but I wouldn't rate any of their songs in my top 100 greatest hits. They're simply catchy. Nothing much to say about them as a whole.

And I guess they can dance well. I don't really have any opinions on any of the members besides Sakura. It's impressive how she transitioned from J-pop group member to K-pop group member. It'll be interesting to see if she decides to go solo (maybe not so with thing singing stuff, but that hasn't stopped others). She's already accomplished a lot, which is really respectable in two competitive fields.

I rate "Decalcomanie" and other Mamamoo songs over this for sure. What do you like about it?

New Ketchups

I'd like to know WhyKnock 's position on eating IU

This is a flop for me too. Not sure what happened with this one. It sounds like if someone made a generic girl crush track and ran with it.

I like the beat though.

What's the point of the mega thread if you allow topics to be posted outside of it? Just get rid of the megathread at that point and let conversations exist within specific threads.

Maybe sticky** a thread that links to other threads about breaking news, and then a post within it with the timeline.

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Elegante is so damn good! 2021 was really hard because I had to choose between two

2021 and 2022 were great years imo

"Dancing in the Starlit Night" is underrated for sure. "Girls" too. I also have "Love Attack" on my playlist.

2021: Azer "Elegante"

2022: Beauty Box "Plz Plz Plz"

2023: 1chu "Siren"

2024: Mimiirose "The Flowers Swayed"

I actually got too impatient looking for a 2020 song, so I'm adding an extra 2021 song from a boygroup:

Cnblue "Love Cut"

My K-ults are number nine on my artists list for 2024, and I'm deep into the 100s on stats.fm for 2024, so I'm not streaming them too much this year.

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Twice are the example of a perfect idol group. Their music was never good and that’s not why they became popular.

They are good performers who really showcase what it means to be an idol and that’s their strength. A side effect of being great idols is having hits during their early career as they were also trendy. They built a loyal fandom which is far more important and that’s what GG’s found difficult to do and that’s why they’re special.

SNSD is meaningless as group the songs they release is just for charity. They are neither active as a group nor will they ever make as much money as twice as a group

This is true for most 2nd gen GG’s. They never had anything going for them nor were they interesting enough to ever truly build a long lasting fandom.

And no SNSD or 2nd gen group don’t really having any lasting fandoms. And if they did have some small fandoms their own idols don’t believe enough in their fandoms to make being an idol a career.

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I'm going to save this post so that I can successfully bait someone who doesn't remember this in the future.

Pre-ordering

★ Girls Generation - Forever 1 - Into the New World★

In a country like South Korea, I don't see why more acts don't do this (or not have it as publicized).

It's a flop. This is a standard Taeyeon flop: a very droll track that almost feels like she's relying on her vocals to drag it to the finish line rather than something that is elevated by her vocals.

Most of the mini is boring. I would say the only thing that interested me would be "Blue Eyes" (which I playlisted). "Blur" and "Disaster" would be the next two, but I opted to not playlist them because I rate them as low blops rather than high blops.