Posts by _Mysteric

KIM SUNOO I'm not even an Enhypen stannie but my sister is and her love of Sunoo transferred to me a long time ago. We are this close to straight up creating Sunooism or something. Maybe we can recruit here?

They have their fair share of really good songs (God's Menu & Miroh are my favorites of their title tracks, and 0325, Silent Cry, and Tortoise and the Hare are some of my favorites B-side wise). The members are also all hot so that's a bonus

(Someone else posted another Ha Soobin song so I'm legally obligated to post this song)

I don't watch music videos much, so my commentary will mostly be limited to the song, but here's my "entry". I encountered this song while looking at old K-pop lives a bit back, and it's stuck with me ever since. I've heard my fair share of dramatic boy group music in the same wheelhouse as this (TRI-ANGLE, anyone?), but I've never seen it done like...this. And the fact that this song is literally titled "God"...not a move I see many K-pop groups making. The music video is also pretty interesting, too.

I don't really care about the rest of the album, but one day I found Monsta X's Blue Moon while I was trying to find the song by Kyungri and I fell in love. It's still my most listened to Monsta X track to this day.

Oh, Stay was so forgettable I forgot to pick it the first time I voted. Sorry, Stay stannies - there is better and worse on this album.

1st gen - Success in Korea

2nd gen - Success outside Korea (Japan, China, etc.)

3rd gen - Success outside Asia (The West™)

4th gen - ??? (Not much else to go other than, like...world domination, I guess)

This is my input to the discussion. I think everyone's as successful as each other in their own terms. Overall, I'm not sure, and I don't wanna get too deep into this because the more I read it the more it reads to me as a repackaged "paved the way" debate.

I don't have enough knowledge to be sure success-wise, but in terms of music? Yes, I completely agree! We got albums like Kiss My Lips, Ice Cream Cake, The Red, Rise as God, and the like that were filled to the brim with amazing songs. It's pure peak 3rd gen music, it makes me wanna play Superstar SMTOWN or download Everysing or something.

My older sister is a full-fledged K-pop stan - she became one around 2020 and her ults are LOONA, Stray Kids, TXT, and ENHYPEN as far I can remember. It's fun having someone to talk to about this stuff since I've been one longer than her and I was the only K-pop stan in my house until she got into it. My twin sister used to like K-pop, too, but now she says that she isn't anymore.

As for the rest of my family, they do not mind and try to engage in my interests. My older sister often plays music in the car, so my mom's picked up a few songs. Once I was humming Fairy of Shampoo to myself and my mom came up to me and said "that's my favorite song!".

Yeah, I did not like Love Talk. I'm not a fan of its generica trap stylings, I'd take any WayV title track over it. And hey, OP, I'm also a valiant believer in Kick Back supremacy - what a shame, overshadowed by its hip-hoppier, less good sister Action Figure, just like Moonwalk with the song in question here. It's nice to see people of my kind.

This Shinhwa song is pretty cute and I like it, but Eric's rap in the middle is so phenomenally cringe it makes me shed my skin like a snake every time I hear it. And the fact that they replayed it over the final chorus like it was the coolest thing ever...

No, but my faves literally are the blueprint for this whole idol thing. Without H.O.T, I doubt idol culture as we see it would be the same (or even exist, likely).

I don't know, why should I be proud? I just like 'em, there's no need to have pride in stanning someone. Fandom ain't that serious, guys.

I feel like my opinion could change between listens, but right now, I'm thinking this. The song had potential - even though I thought the hook was kinda wonky, I could deal with it. Then they just drastically switched the beat and I was like "huh???". If you wanna make two completely different songs just make two completely different songs! You are NOT the aespa you think you are. But I was begrudgingly able to deal with the beat switch in (suju's) House Party, so maybe I can deal with this one.

But yeah. Freaky fishy fishy outsold 100%.

I'm trying to learn Korean, so I'm consuming a lot more non-music content than I usually would. It's mostly 1st gen groups (and mainly H.O.T cuz I like them) because most 1st gen content doesn't have English subs. (That's actually why I started hardcore learning Korean, haha.) Somehow today I found myself watching NCT content made by K-fans. Listening to the music is still my main way of enjoying K-pop, though.

My username comes from a word said in f(x)'s Nu ABO, so although it's not based off a song title directly, it's still based off of a song.

I actually make mashups! I have a YouTube channel where I make mashups (for anyone curious, it's called beautyzzz - I don't wanna bother to link it hehe), although it doesn't have much content. All of my favorite mashups are just sitting there in my mashup folder, only available to me, though.

As for other people, I've really been into this one. I doubt many of you will know the Deux song in the equation (I didn't either), but it's still fun and nice either way.

My goodness, it's been 3 years? Gosh, I feel old. Anyways, I like it as much as much as I did back then. (Well, I remember not liking it at first listen, but my feelings quickly changed.) It still holds up for me, and I think it'd still hold up if it was released today. There's not really a big difference between Dalla Dalla and the music of today.

- ajanae and her clique

Self-explanatory, really. ajanae (and her clique) are basically what you would get if you took all the most toxic parts of K-pop stan Twitter and made it into a person. (Or, since I'm talking about her with her clique, people?)

- "K-pop content farms"

I use the term "K-pop content farm" to describe channels like BeBoss TV, K-Pop Zone, that one channel I can't remember the name of that did that video saying Matsujun was jealous of BTS, etc. These content farms are produced by people who I doubt are even really K-pop fans, and frequently spread misinformation. They're soulless.

- KOOKIELIT

I think KOOKIELIT would fit into the K-pop content farm category, but I had to give them a special mention. I used to watch them when they first started (I had a craving for more Midnight Theories-like content), but then they turned into a soulless news channel and Lucas stannie.

I'm sure everyone's said their piece on this, but I am the messenger of coming to things late, so I will come to things late. I was expecting nothing from this so I didn't listen, but after seeing it on the front page of Bugs, I decided to give in. It's actually pretty good! The chorus and the parts similar to it really stand out to me, I can't come up with a reason why but I like it. So, I'll say BOP!