Best of 2013 - K-pop

Well, this year of music has been pretty interesting. I already talked about the 48group releases, so let's now concentrate on the Korean music!
Okay, so I really want to follow Kpop, but it's just so hard as I don't have enough time. I couldn't talk about every song I wanted to talk about, and I'm happy I thought about the K-pop Wrap-ups, as they are a good way to still talk about these songs! I hope to continue with them next year, too until there's nothing left that impresses me (which hopefully won't happen!!). But let's now talk about the K-pop songs that were the best of 2013 (in my opinion).

Girls Day - Expectation/ Female President

Girl's Day really impressed me this year and I LOVE both of these songs. They are just so full of confidence and I actually think the sexy image fits them really good! These are also two awesome songs I love to dance too.. xD

BEG - Kill Bill

Yep, this comeback was definetely awesome. Perhaps not as awesome as some of their earlier works, but it's overall one of the best releases of this year!! The video is really exciting, and it's cool, that they used the Kill Bill story in it. xD Lots of fighting scenes, oh yeah!!

Lee Hyori - Bad Girl

Lee Hyori's comeback surprised everyone.. including me. This song + video is just so awesome and individual.. Especially the whole feminism thing. Thanks Hyori for this awesome comeback!

ChoColat - Black Tinkerbell

A unerrated song! I don't know Chocolate that well, but this song just has so much emotion and is so dark,  I love it soo much.. I will defintely watch out for them!

EXO - Growl

Unddoubtly this has been EXO's year!!
I like this a lot more than Wolf, especially for ist rather slow and rhythmic beat. It's not chaotic like many K-Pop songs nowerdays. No, it's smooth and shows the talent of the boys clearly!!

SHINee - Everybody

And there I thought SHINee won't release an awesome title song any more this year.. well, until Everybody of course (their Album tracks were awesome before!). Such an amazing song, I especially love Minhos parts.. **

VIXX - Hyde

VIXX totally rocked this year!! But I really like Hyde a lot more that Voodoo Doll, even though both Songs are freaking cool! Hyde is just so dark and creepy and gaaah, it's soo cool!!

2PM - A.D.T.O.Y

Oh right, I almost forgot that 2PM had a comeback. Well, I looped this song soo much, and I still really like its sexy tone.

T-ara - Number 9

T-ara really showed why they are so popular with this amazing dance track. I really love the song!

Kara - Damaged Lady

And this is the last featured song, but nevertheless it is a very cool and confident song.

I honestly really like these songs, but somehow I really lost a bit of interest in Kpop. There are so many groups and they get more every year. Also in my opinion K-pop got a lot more Americanized last year. You know, I love a few English phrases, but after Psy's succes it seems to me as if everyone only releases their music for the international fans and to me it seems as if K-pop isn't even that succesful in Korea itself.
Well, as you can see there are still a few songs I really like but I'm not concentrating that much on the groups anymore..
Sadly Big Bang didn't have a comeback this year.. Oh right, that's another thing that annoys me: the newer groups all have thousands of comebacks, while the older and bigger groups just have one or no comeback the whole year.. So as a Big Bang and Super Junior fan, the year sucked for me. Okay, all the members of Big Bang had individual comebacks which was great and Super Junior had their two japanese releases. But honestly, I am so bored by ''Blue World'' and the only reason why I want to review it is Heechul.. But enough of that now. I listen to music, because it makes me happy, and these groups still make me happy even if I only listen to their older songs. I'm all happy with the songs I like, so I look forward to the next year!! :D

K-pop Wrap-up October 2013

Happy Halloween!!!!

It's finally the 31st October so take out your creepy costumes!!! Héhé..
Well, for me this years Halloween was a bit lame. I didn't do anything and I didn't see ANYONE who had a costume. -.- Well, on Oct 17 my sister and me went to the Movie Park, and there were many persons dressed as zombies and other creepy persons.

October is in general a really beautiful month. It's already fall but it isn't too cold, so you can ride the bike through the colourful nature. I had my holidays this month and I also was a week in Berlin. This was pretty cool!!

Now to the main topic.. This month in K-pop was pretty exciting. There have been a few interesting comebacks that I like to talk about. (I will also post extra posts for SHINee, T-ara and Troublemaker)

02.10 Block B - Very Good
This is indeed, VERY GOOD!! Remember that I said I needed a BANG when I wrote about ''Be the light''. Well, here it is!! This is the Block B I missed!!
''Very Good'' is a fun but at the same time a really intense song. It follows the same sheme of ''Nilili Mambo'' and ''Nanlina'' but adds a cool sound to their discography. The video is also pretty amazing as it shows the boys robbing a bank with awesome clown masks (aaawesome!!!). They have fun but don't bring any money with them. This is actually pretty cool because it shows that they just wanted to have fun!!
It reminds me a bit of Big Bang, but that isn't a bad thing!! I really like Big Bang so this is actually really cool!!

07.10 IU - Red Shoes
Korea's little sister IU is back with the song ''The Red shoes''. I'm really happy that she's as strong as ever even after her 'scandal' and that she's showing everyone, that she's still alive! This song has a pretty retro 20's feeling with a big band playing. The verses are very mysteric and the chorus is pretty upbeat and happy in comparison.
The MV is actually very interesting. At first there is a black-white movie where IU dances, but after taking a pair of red shoes, she gets into a colourful world where she falls in love and throws away the shoes. After a dramatic race against the shoes where she is forced to dance with them she gets back into her world (or dies?). Well it's made wonderful and the scenes look really nice. I really love the contrast between the blac&white scenes and the colourful world.

29.10 Jaejoong - Just another girl
Jaejoong is back with his first album and the title track ''Just another girl''. This song has again his typical rock-feeling he also had for ''Mine''. But this songs seems even more desperate and longing as it is a pretty sad story about his relationship.
The MV is also about that and shows a depressive atmosphere after the break-up. Jaejoong looks as good as ever, but I personally prefer him with darker hair..

31.10 Ukiss - She's mine
Ukiss is back as a 6 member group with the song ''She's mine''. Wait.. six??
Oh, Dongho left!!! :o Well, it's pretty sad when a member leaves a group, but if he doesn't want to do it anymore we have to respect his decision..
Anyways, back to the song. This song begins differently from other Ukiss songs. It's heavily concentrated on the rap parts in the beginning and has a similiar fun tone as ''Knock out'' by GD&TOP. But the chorus has the relaxing Ukiss sound that matches so good with Kevins voice. It's an interesting mix of sounds and it feels really relaxing. It's not that overwhelming, but it's a nice song to listen to.
The video is funny. It's mostly black&white with a few colourful elements and interesting extras. The dance is cool and everyone looks good! (AJ is totally rocking the Video)

Other News
Except for Dongho's departure from UKiss there has also been another person who was rumored to leave her group: Kara's Nicole.

There has a big confusion about the topic and no one knew if it was right, but she definetely doesn't want to renew her contract with DSP media. Which doesn't excactly mean that she wants to leave Kara, no she even said she loves her group and wants to continue being with them.
She didn't really clarifie it, so I hope she stays there! Nicole is actually my favourite member of Kara and now I am really sad I didn't write a big review about ''Damaged Lady''. Well, let's see how this will go on.. ;)
Jiyoung may be focusing on studies, so she's also rumored to leave the group..
So much confusion.. At least for now, they are both staying in the group!!