T-ara to return to K-pop with the greatest sub-unit in the history of music
Following the success of their timeless and divine J-pop smash, “Bunny Style!,” T-ara has officially announced plans to launch their first official sub-unit.
INFINITE underwhelms with stale comeback track “Man In Love”
I’m basically suicidal right now. First SHINee followed up the genre-bending smash that is “Sherlock” with the insipid background pop that is “Dream Girl,” and now INFINITE has followed “The Chaser” –possibly the best pop song of 2012– with the most disappointing single of their (and Sweetune’s) career, “Man In Love.” Seriously, if TVXQ returns [...]
Sweetune dusts off the disco ball for Heo Young Saeng’s “The Art of Seduction”
These days, Sweetune’s best known for their work with KARA, Nine Muses, INFINITE, and to a lesser extent, Boyfriend. The bulk of the production duo’s work is with girl groups and boy bands, but they’ve also got a good relationship with former SS501 star, Heo Young Saeng, who is one of the more popular members of [...]
G.NA releases a rather good new single, becomes slightly less annoying than before
G.NA is the most annoying woman in K-pop. She’s the epitome of that random nice person in your life who technically has nothing wrong with them, yet they just irritate the shit out of you for no real reason in particular. Seriously, every time you think G.NA is finally okay, she’ll go and do something totally stupid [...]
Good Girls Gone Bad: Girl’s Day make a sizzling comeback with “Expectation,” remain perfect and godlike
Girl’s Day has pretty much been the perfect girl group ever since they smashed the charts with “Twinkle Twinkle.” They have yet to release a bad single (even “Oh My God” eventually grew on me to the point of worship), they’ve actually got their own sound, they’re both supremely hot annnnnd ridiculously cute, and their comedic, over-the-top charm [...]
RaNia’s “Just Go” Comeback: Good, But Not Great
RaNia is just barely popular enough to scrape into the bottom tier of K-pop girl groups, but their international fanbase is strong. Their Western sound and style has earned them a tonne of well-deserved supporters outside of Korea. Their music may not be very original —or even of a high quality half the time– but the [...]
Lee Hi returns with “It’s Over,” no longer resembles a medicated robot
I seemed to be one of the only bloggers last year to call out Lee Hi’s “1.2.3.4.” for being an insipid Duffy knock-off sung by an inexperienced child with the personality and charisma of a brick wall. YG stans and SNSD-antis alike both dragged me to hell and back for delivering that tall cool glass [...]
Ladies’ Code a.k.a Slaydies’ Code debut with “Bad Girl”
People complain that there aren’t any good rookie groups in K-pop anymore, but that’s not true — you just have to look a lot harder to find them because there’s so many now. SPICA, B.A.P, Crayon Pop, EXID, D-Unit, VIXX, and Lunafly are just some of the kickass groups that debuted last year, but 2013 [...]
