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My picks: Best of 2015 in K-pop

Another year has passed and another gazillion songs were released. Many of them were great and comparing two last years, 2015 was musically better (and every K-pop fan will tell you so, I'm pretty sure). SHINee comeback in 1 year and 7 months, Big Bang comebacks in like 3 years or something which slayed every single chart, B.A.P's return, BTS first win on music show and so on. This was a great year for K-pop!
I personally listened to so many songs this year and decided to make a list of my favourite ones. And let me tell you something, this wasn't easy.
So many great songs = tough choice.
At first, I didn't want to include BTS and GOT7 into this list because I love every single of their songs, but then I couldn't just not put them on the list. So I chose one song from each, as well as for others, only one song per artist (I'm looking at you Big Bang). Also, I planned to comment each song, but aas there's too many songs and too little time, I'm just going to list them~

15. 4minute - Crazy

14. Infinite - Bad
13. EXO - Call Me Baby (well, it was this or Love ME Right, both great songs)
12. Mamamoo - Um Oh Ah Yeah (such fun MV to watch heheh)
11. IU - Twenty Three
10. Rainbow - Black Swan (not gonna lie, I was impressed with this song and surprised how good it is)
9. Big Bang - Bang Bang Bang (classic duh xD I bet this song is on most "Best of 2015" lists)
8.DAY6 - Congratulations (love, love, LOVE this song and love Jae hahah)
7. Jessi - Ssenunni (badass song for when you feel badass)
6.Hyuna - Roll Deep (not a big fan of the MV though)
5. Park Jimin - Hopeless love (amazing vocals :O)
4.Seventeen - Shining Diamonds (not a song they promoted, but my favourite)
3.B.A.P - Young, Wild and Free (one of the groups I really like, B.A.P are back!!!)
2. GOT7 - If you do

And for number one, drum roll please... although you probably know which song is it hahahah

1. BTS - Dope

Without doubt, 2015 was BTS year. they won 9 times on music programs against PSY, Big Bang, EXO and other big names from big companies, done their world tour and Korean/Asian tour. They were up against so many things, both negative (haters ugh -.-) but also many, many positive ones.
It was so hard for me to choose only one song, but in the end it was "Dope". They broke records with it and even featured on Finebros' react channel. Not only it's fun-to-dance-to song, but also conveys genuine message (not deep and touching love story, but rather boys' attitude towards themselves and society). Well done!

There were many more great songs I wanted to mention, but couldn't, so I would
recommend watching this awesome mashup of 2015 Kpop songs~

May I say, that last part was awesome!

My Christmas Playlist

Merry Christmas everyone!~
And thank you for over 6,000 views~ Love you!
Since it's Christmas today, I decided to share some of the songs from my K-pop Christmas playlist I have more than 25 songs on it xD
I'm not going to write my usual commentaries on each song, I'm just gonna say this is extremely biased list (and somewhere randomly picked) with like half of the songs by BTS lol

1. Jimin and Jungkook of BTS - Christmas Day
(Cover of Justin Bieber "Mistletoe")

2. BTS - A typical trainee's Christmas

3. BTS - A typical idol's Christmas

4. Big Hit - Perfect Christmas

5. Eric Nam - Melt my heart
(I was not going to say anything, but look at little Eric at the begining, so cute~)

6. Starship Planet- White Love

7. Yoseob and Daniel - First snow and first kiss


8. GOT7 - Confession Song

(it's so cute when you find out that those were real people confessing)

9. EXO - Miracles in December

10. Infinite - White Confession

[OCTOBER 2015] My K-pop Playlist

As I promised in my last post, here goes the list of the songs I've been listening to past month (and a bit more)^^

1. GOT7 - "If You Do" (+ whole "Mad" album)

Since GOT7 is, with BTS, my favourite K-pop group, it's only natural that I did listen to them this whole month. Compared to their last comeback, "Just right" in July which was bubbly and colorful, this time guys became "Mad " at their girlfriend with darker concept. Thematically, those songs are probably complete opposites. "Just right" talked how the girl shouldn't change anything about herself, that she's "just right", while in "If You Do" boys are rebelling against bossy girl in relationship and wishing they can go back to the time they were happy.
I don't know much about music so I cannot explain exactly which genre is or how that bridge sounded awesome (but now that I googled what bridge is, it really is awesome xD Lily M. has done great job in this spoken bridge), but I can say that I definitely love the song, especially "Every day, every night, Feel like a fool, You gotta now" and "Can we go back to the way we were"~
Out of the other songs from the album, I wouldn't call any of them powerful, but I cannot really describe them (suck at musical terms >.<). And I must say I really like rap parts in this album, I definitely can hear the improvement, both rappers' and vocalists'.
In short, great song ,amazing acting, awesome album^^ But then again I'm quite biased on this one xD

2. DAY6 - "Congratulations" (+ the rest of the album "The Day")


JYP's first ever male band has debuted after probably something like 2 years or so of telling they will debut. At the same time I'm sad and happy they didn't get the promotion as other groups, but to be honest, music shows just do not have proper equipment for playing live instruments. Also, I'm really glad most of their album is work of members themselves.
"Congratulations" is amazing in terms of melody, vocals and music video. I guess it would be considered rock, but again, I know nothing about that. Whole album is really awesome and definitely if I had to choose the title track of it, I would choose "Congratulations", as it is really catchy.

3. Ailee - "Mind Your Own Business"

One of the best female vocals in K-pop has yet once again has proved her title. It was really unfortunate that she injured her leg and couldn't dance during her performances, but she still managed to take the trophy on "Show Champion". When I heard song, I have to be honest, it didn't really stick out to me, but as I listened it for second time, I guess I got a better insight in the song and now I love it.

4. TWICE - "Like Ohh Ahh"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rtV5esQT6I
Yet another JYP group on my list what can I do, I'm JYP stan xD These girls just debuted October 19th, but are already slaying, as they have a bit over 7 milion views as I'm writing this and they have been nominated for 1st place on multiple shows. Song is good, but I feel like it could have been even better. Though, after few listenings I found myself unconsciously humming the song
I personally hadn't been watching the reality show "Sixteen" where the 9 current members were chosen among in total 16 contestants, but those who had watched it said they didn't show their full potential in this song, which is understandable as they just debuted and they definitely need time to showcase their talent. Their popularity is visible in current ongoing MAMA voting where they are currently in lead for Best New Female artist with 33,3% (second are GFriend with 27,2% of the votes).

5. Monsta X - "Rush" and "Hero"


Monsta X is a group with powerful hip hop feel. I would probably listen to them a lot more if I hadn't decided I do not want to get to know any other group in fear of having another group I really really like xD Two are too much for me
Whenever I listen to those songs I get a strong desire to dance because I really like the hip hop beats of both of them^^

Other songs I feel lazy writing full description for:
Jessi - "Ssenunni" - love how powerful is this song and love her rapping
iKON - "My Type", "Airplane", "Rhythm Ta" - YG artist are not really my cup of tea, same goes for iKON, but I still do listen their songs from time to time
Taeyeon - "I" - amazing vocals,awesome video, beautiful song
Planet Shiver - Rainbow - least popular song on my list, but it's so good~
One Dream One Korea - a bunch of amazing and famous singers gathered for this project

So, this was my list for this October! I hope I'll manage some time at the start of December for post similar to this~
Anyways, what do you say about these songs? What are your picks for this month/two months?~^^

Reviving this world~

Hi! Whole year and more passed again from my last post >.<
In a year, I got 2,600 views more and I haven't even posted anything, but I'm thankful^^

I have few plans for this world and I still have to see if I'm going to realize them, so I'm not going to announce anything as it may end up as nothing hahah
But I will announce my next post as it's already written and just waiting for me to edit it's appearance and add links - and it's list of the songs I have been listening to recently and all of them are September/October releases^^

Also, I plan to start making wallpapers and cards with certain themes, connected to K-pop, but as I said, I won't announce anything as I don't know how things in real life are going to unwind (Is that even a correct use of the word "unwind"? xD)

And I changed the name of my world! I decided I want something that connects this world to me

Anyways, hope you're all doing well~

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Favourites of Summer 2014

Seems like I'm coming here only during summer xD Nevertheless, this world has over 3,000 views and I'm really thankful for that^^ 사랑해~ I love you ♥

In my opinion, this summer was really good, as far as songs/comebacks, so I'm going to share with you my favourite~^^

GOT7 - A

GOT7 is fairly new group, they debuted in January this year, but as soon as debuted they became my favourite group. If to their awesome vocals, rapping and visuals you add the fact that they are total dorks (especially Jackson), it is a winning combination. As for this song, I really liked it, replayed it whole summer, together with their whole album, but I must say I also really like their "Good tonight" and "Forever young", so definitely check them out

BTS (Bangtan Boys) - Danger

BTS being one of my favourite groups, sure thing was that this song is going to become one of my favourites. This MV came out August 19th, while I was on my trip to Greece and luckily I had WiFi there I managed to watch it. I knew I would like this song the moment I heard the first teaser since it sounded so catchy and I wasn't wrong. I must say that I'm very impressed with their choreography, it looks amazing and they are so in sync

Big Byung (Big Bottle) - Stress Come On

I can't find words for this song/group/project. Of course, while watching this, you shouldn't take them seriously since they didn't intend being serious. Those four boys (Jackson, Sungjae, N and Hyuk) came from three different groups (GOT7, BTOB, VIXX) and gathered for project "Hitmaker", hilarious show where they are under guidance of two even more hilarious comedians (in this project, composer and lyricist). But I must admit, song is quite good and catchy

Taemin (SHINee) - Danger

When I heard Taemin is going solo, I was excited knowing there would be an amazing choreography. Most of the people would agree that Taemin is one of the best dancers in K-pop industry and this song actually shows his talents really nicely. When I first listened "Danger", I didn't really liked it, not the song nor the concept, but with more listening it actually becomes better and more enjoyable for my ears. People say it reminds them to Michael Jackson, which is expected knowing that Taemin looks up to him. I, being a huge Shawol back in 2012 and 2013, am actually glad Taemin gets to do music he wants and build the image he likes^^

SISTAR - Touch my Body / I swear

Sistar were back with another catchy summer song "Touch my body" which kind of reminded me to "Loving you". I've been enjoying in this song ever since it came out, it's good for jamming while doing housework xD They also released their follow-up, "I swear", really nice song with cheerful and fun MV~

HA:TFELT - Ain't Nobody

Love this song from the moment I heard it and it's one of my favourite songs not just from this list, but in general. Wonder Girls went to hiatus before I even started to listen to them, but one of their members, Yeeun, came back as a solo artist HA:TFELT. Actually I randomly clicked on one of lives for this song, not knowing who is hiding behind the name HA:TFELT and I'm so glad I clicked it. Amazing song, amazing dance, amazing vocals, amazing everything~^^

Other songs:
(which you should definitely check out, I just don't feel like writing comments for each of them xD)
Super Junior - Mamacita
f(x) - Red Light
Henry - Fantastic
Red Velvet - Happiness
Block B - HER