Best of 2014: K-pop

2014 is coming to an end, so I also want to talk a bit about the Korean music industry. As you probably realized, I'm not really a big Kpop fan anymore. I'm still listening to korean music from time to time (especially older music), but I just don't really enjoy it as much as I did in the past.

This year has been a very dramatic year for Kpop. Two members of Ladie's Code died after an accident which shocked the whole Kpop fandom. Then we saw lots of members who left their group and a few who even filed lawsuits against their companies.
S.M Entertainment had a very bad year. Jessica leaving Girls' Generation and EXO losing two members were pretty hot topics and surprised a lot of fans. To me it just shows that the Industry isn't all that nice as we would think..

But enough about the bad news, I still want to talk about a few awesome songs that I didn't have the time to review before.

EXO - Overdose

It's a shame I never talked about this. This is also the last song with all the members still in it and even though it was released early in the year it is still a song I like. Overdose is a pretty strong dance track. It gets me pumped up and I just really like how serious it is. EXO's songs still didn't disappoint me until now, so it is sad to see them losing members and fans.

T-ara - Sugar Free

This is probably my favourite Kpop song of the last few months and shows again that T-ara never disappoints. Sugar Free is a freaking catchy song and follows their usual techno disco style.
The MVs are giving me headaches and the dance isn't anything special either but it's still nice to see the members looking all beautiful. ^^

Kyuhyun - At Gwanghwamun

Within SuJu I think Kyuhyun has the best voice. So it made me really happy to see him getting a solo debut. But well, I don't really like ballads thaaaat much. Like, there are deifinetely ballads that I LOVE and some just have awesome instrumentals and lyrics but I get bored by ballads really fast (especially Korean, since there are just sooo many Korean ballads that just sound the same). SM The ballad also wasn't really my cup of tea, but as I usually enjoyed enjoyed Kyu's OST songs and stuff, I hoped this to be good (Edge of Rain, The way to break up and Listen to you are like three of my favourite ballads ever!)
And I have to admit, I like ''At Gwanghwamun''. I mean, it won't be my favourite song or something, but I'm surprised how well this turned out. The song isn't a snooze fest as it's actually pretty emotional and the chorus is beautiful. I mean, of course I'm a bit biased because I love Kyuhyun's voice, and that's definetely what makes this song special for me. If it wasn't for his voice I would probably like it a lot less. The video is pretty boring but seeing Kyuhyun is nice enough I guess.^^

My TOP 2 favourite korean songs of 2014

I really didn't review a lot of korean songs this year, but there are two songs that I absolutely love.

First of is Orange Caramel's Catallena (my post). This is actually also the only korean CD I purchased this year! I really love the whole concept of this release, the song is freaking catchy and the lyrics are also very inetersting. Then video is so interesting and different!

But I guess the song I liked the most this year is Gain's F**k you (my post). I really love the song and I'm just so impressed that Gain talked about abusive relationships, which is such a serious topic. The video is brutal but I think it is executed very well and shows the struggles of such a relationship.

Coming to an end now, I do think I will continue to listen to Kpop a bit. There have been a few very good comebacks this year. I would say everything I reviewed was very well done and I lieked those few releases. But as a whole I'm just not interested in it as much as I used to be anymore...
Well, let's see what 2015 will bring in terms of K-pop music! :3

Let's get serious - Gain

Gain is finally back with her 3rd mini album ''Truth or Dare''!!!

Actually the title track of this album is also called ''Truth or Dare'' and really is a great song. 

BUT honestly, there's another song that's just so much better and it's ''Fxxk You'', so that's what this post will be about.

The song, it is actually pretty at first with only guitar-music. The guitars stay the through the whole song and even though it gets a bit more upbeat after a while, it still has a very serious feel. Yep, this song is so serious and sad with a dark feeling which can be especially heard in the chorus, where Gain sings Fxxk you. The whole lyrics are about an abusive relationship and Gain is obviously the victim.

She doesn't always want to have sex, so she says to her boyfriend: 

Where do you think you’re putting those bad hands? Fxxk U, don’t want it now. 

But at the same time she still loves him and can't leave him: 

It’s always a hard problem. I’m scared of this problem. It's okay. I’m not going anyway, I’m here, only by your side. So now, this can never really end 

These relationships do exist and I think it's so great that Gain does a song about this and points out how big of a problem it actually is. Being in an abusive relationship isn't only physically hurtful, but also psychological hurtful. As described by Gain, it's the love that makes it so hard to actually leave the abuser, even though the victim is hurt. The video also shows how hard this situation is:

So seeing the video, one realizes how dangerous the whole situation is. Gain feels abused and doesn't want to have sex all the time, but her boyfriend doesn't listen to her and uses his force. There are a few moments where everything seems good like where they are both in the shower and she plays with his face until they even hug each other. But that's it and the next scene is the bloody scene that symbols that Gain is actually getting hurt all the time. Both of them seem hopeless and in the end it seems as if the guy wants to kill them both. This part I don't really understand, but it seems as if her boyfriend also suffers under the situation and it probably shows that there won't be a happy end for the couple.

I really admire and respect Gain for using this concept for her song. It's always hard to show poblems like this, but I think Gain showed it in a very realistic way. This song and video makes you really think about how big of a problem rape and abusive relationships really are. I hope that I'm not the only one who think's about it like that, but there seem to be many positive comments about it so far.

I also personally really like dark and mature songs very so this is a great song for me.
Kudos to Gain, for creating such a serious song. She definetely is one of the best singers of Korea!!!

Happy Hundred

Heyooooooooooo...

This is my 100th post!! Waaaah.. 100 already. I'm so happy... :D It's not even a year, and I'm that far.. It feels like yesterday that I wrote my 50th post :'D
I've written many K-Pop and J-pop Reviews and even some other Posts (yep, it's not all about that).
I hope to continue like this. Even though I'm pretty lazy sometimes (like now, I have three posts to post: Kill Bill, Utsukushii Inazuma and Hero.. *sigh*) it's fun to write and to take screen shots, especially from groups I love.

To celebrate this whole Thing for myself, I thought to make it a very fun post.. So please, don't take it too serious. ;)

Let's start with this: Brown Eyed Girls had their comeback and Gain models for Vogue:

Well, pretty normal for Gain, isn't it? XP

The whole Group. Lol, whoever made this, I love you.. xD

Old BEG..

Wait, Gain reminds me of something.. well, someone..

Sae! Suddenly Japanese, but I don't care.



Muahahaha, I can write what I want..

 DiVA is back!!!! Waaaaaaah...

I don't care if you don't like it...

Jurina's NEW HAIR!!

More Jurina awesomeness

Milky doesn't care.. 

Still a big Supernatural fan here!

Mishapocalypse forever!

Let's go back to Korea for a bit:

Infinite is pretty funny, right?

But L is great :D

Soooo, that's it.

Okay, it isn't as funny as I said. But aaaaaaaaaaanyways I had fun and it's different from what I've done before..
Credits to all the owners and creaters of these awesome pictures and GIF's and of course to the Idol's and their agencies. I (sadly) don't own anything/ anyone.

Good night!