It's recently surged in popularity with the boy group BTS and girl group Blackpink really taking most of the spotlight. What's your opinion on the stuff? Do you have a favorite group or song?
It's recently surged in popularity with the boy group BTS and girl group Blackpink really taking most of the spotlight. What's your opinion on the stuff? Do you have a favorite group or song?
It's not bad. I haven't listened to it a ton, but my brother had a BTS song picked for the dance with his wife at their marriage. It was cool, I might listen a bit more!
Of the boy groups I personally like BTS, Monsta X, and Vixx the best. Mic Drop and Fire by BTS are a bit more lit while songs like Blood, Sweat, Tears are more slow. BTS has the most variety in terms of how their songs go so really just listening to as many as possible is the way to go for them. Vixx and Monsta X's songs fall more similarly to Mic Drop and Fire in tone. Personally from Vixx I'd recommend Hyde, Chained Up, and Voodoo Doll. Though their song Shangri La and Scentist is more like Blood Sweat Tears. Then from Monsta X Fighter, Hero, and Shoot Out are my personal favorites.
For female groups definitely Blackpink is the most well known for good reason. Boombayah and all their other songs are very good. Personally I also really like Momoland, Twice, and Pristin. I don't really have any particular songs I'd recommend from them since I like them all but those are the girl groups I'd recommend.
I like older KPOP. EXO, SHINee, G Dragon, BIGBANG etc etc
And Girls Generation. Mostly because Kim Taeyeon is sexy af.
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Since y'all should know my stances on this topic by now LOL, I'll just go straight into music recommendations for Bulbasaur and others who are curious enough to try.
Also since K-Pop is known for mix-and-matching different genres and the genre itself is better defined as a coverage of music in the Korean language than on its music itself, I'll be writing these based on groups and their establised sounds.
DAY6 - (My favorite group as of now and) is actually a band than a dance group. Of note is that their songs are composed by themselves and that out of five members, four of them are vocalists (the other one, the drummer, has snippets of vocals in recent works). Their songs are great introductions to K-Rock, also their songs range from heavy to mellow-emotional and sometimes both.
Song Recs:
Days Gone By - Most recent release, they're going for a retro sound for this song and it shows!
Shoot Me - Their heaviest title track yet.
I Need Somebody - Starts out mellow but turns to rock by the end.
You Were Beautiful - Ballad-esque, but the instrumentals are headbang-worthy imo
All Alone - not-rock, pure vocals and the instruments this time around (xylophone, shakers) are bought from non-professional music stores to invoke a raw/amateur effect.
They also do J-Rock, and they sound just like the genre!
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Stop The Rain - has an interesting structure!
Breaking Down
B-sides for recommendation are: Headache, 121U, Somehow, Hunt, and Colors.
NCT 127 - Experimental sounds, definitely not general public-friendly. They are under a bigger group which is NCT itself, this sub-group is S Korea based (127 is Seoul's longitude coordinate), so there's more room for exploration!
Song Recs:
Simon Says
Regular - Also has an English version!
Touch - A deviation from their usual sound, softer this time.
Cherry Bomb
Limitless
Firetruck
Monsta X - Intense/heavy rap and instrumentals and melodic vocals, still with cohesion imo. Their B-sides are more diverse in terms of genres.
Song Recs:
Beautiful - Their definitive sound, perfectly balanced (as it should be.)
Shoot Out - Their recent release!
Dramarama - Instrumentals are not as heavy as usual here, but everything's the same.
Stuck - That rap verse? WOW.
Red Velvet - A girl-group! Said to be in between public-friendly and experimental. In addition, their songs are divided into Red (poppy, energetic, fun) and Velvet (sultry, subtle, velvety???).
Song Recs:
Red Flavor - Red, summery
Power Up - Red, summery
Peek-a-Boo - Velvet, though is close to Red (think of a sliding scale)
One of These Nights - Velvet, ballad
Automatic - Velvet, sultry
Russian Roulette - said to be in between Red and Velvet
Dumb Dumb - one of their most defining songs in the Red category
Bad Boy - Velvet, also has an English version!
Really Bad Boy - recent release, Red, also their MOST POLARIZING song amongst the fandom, even I don't like it tbh
f(x) - A girl-group, same company as above! Experimental AF especially in their B-sides, in which they shine. Their three albums, Pink Tape, Red Light, and 4 Walls, are considered as the Holy Trinity of K-Pop albums due to its content!
Song Recs:
4 Walls - often said to be fitting in an H&M store LMAO
Diamond - of the Trap genre.
Kick - infamous in the rhythm game community this song is featured in.
Spit It Out - EDM territory
Shadow - lowkey a FNAF soundtrack
Airplane - if you know Zedd, the song's similar to his style
Papi - will make you feel like a rich CEO LMAO
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Other groups tend to be more flexible in genres, but rather they have a distinctive sound, so I can't really expand on them. I can entertain questions and song recs if you are familiar with one or a few of their songs. ^^
(yes i typed this all in one go)
Last edited by Voltaire Magneton; 01-16-2019 at 10:22 AM.
I forgot about f(x)! They're soooo good from the few songs of theirs I've listened too. I also think one of their members is a vlogger on Youtube isn't she?
I'll definitely need to give Day6 and Red Velvet a listen though.
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