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

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

It's finally that time of the year again. Bring out the presents and don't forget to watch over the candles on the christmas tree! This years Christmas actually comes very early for me. Even though it's winter it isn't cold at all.. Well all the lights and Christmas trees do create a Christmas atmosphere and it's not like we ever had snow on Christmas Eve.. (still sad though) 

So to help creating that atmosphere there are of course many new Christmas songs that were released this year. Korean groups dominate of course with their songs and I wonder why AKB48 didn't have a Christmas song this year. Well, anyways enjoy the songs!!

 

Now to round up the post I will post a few pictures that are to the Kpop contrast mostly Jpop. Yeay!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

 

Random Videos:

 

 

Everybody wake up because SHINee's back!!

SHINee is back once again. Back with a new mini-album and even more amazing songs!! This is really the EXO and SHINee year because we got to see soo many releases by them.

But back to this album. The title is actually the same title as the album title: ''Everybody''. This song isn't as upbeat as it seems (yeah, I thought it would be a really fun song). No, this is actually a really cool dance track with many edgy moments. We have a lot of dubstep (SM seems to love dubstep) and a catchy chorus. In my opinion the bestparts of this song are the verses. They are very interesting and edgy. The chorus is a bit boring.. But onky a bit! The song as a whole is really addicting. The vocals are really amazing. But surprise: There is no rap part! No, Minho is actually singing. And honestly, his singing voice is REALLY awesome. I would even say his parts are the best of the whole song.. Jonghyun is amazing, but Minho just kills it!!

So the song alone is already pretty good. So can the music video catch up with that??

At first there is a person witth a creepy mask that walks around very strange places.. (and what's the craw doing there??)

SHINee appears lying on the ground.

Oh no, the creepy guy comes in..

Wake up!

A box.. what a surprise ;)
Key is the first one to wake up..

Next one is Minho..

Wow, Minho!!

Everyone wakes up after another..

Taemin!!!

Onew!!!

Minho!!!

Key!!!

Jonghyun!!!

They wake up Taemin as the last person.

Amazing dance!!

Lol, nice dance scene xD

Key looks pretty badass despite his odd hair..

Taemin: *facepalm* What's with that hairstyle Key??

Jjong: I can't believe you did that..

Minho the saviour steps up!!

Minho: I'm the best guys!!

This picture is awesome in so many ways. Look at Minho's super happy expression first!
Jjong is posing and Onew looks simply hilarious!!

This is one of the best Key pics ever. I really love his short black hair.. he looks so much cooler with black hair!!

Key has super powers and can make the others rotate..

Onew: Stop that Key!!

Waaah... Is that what I think it is??? Taemin topless in a SHINee video??
Our maknae is all grown up.. ;'D

Minho swag!!

Wow, a big chess field!! And Onew lays in the middle of it!

Jonghyun is also there!

And Key is in front of a big megaphone!

Even more Taemin pics for all the fangirls... (I'm not one of them.. xD)

Waaaah, mini soldiers!!

These clothes are really cool! Much better than the white ones..

More solo shots.. Key looks really cool.

Minho is rocking his part again!!

Jonghyun stop!!

Lol..

This picture is so funny xD

Jonghyun..

Spooooooky..

lol at the jumping soldiers ;)

Run man!!

Eve moaaaar!!! xP

Wow, this looks cool!!

Everyone wants to touch Taemin..

Taemin: Help me!

Onew is partying on the sofa.. xD

A last few dance scenes..

.. and the SHINee soldiers go to sleep again!

Good night!

Wow, this video was really cool. Sm is doing so much with SHINee's videos and it was really interesting! I especially loved the chess field scenes and the soldier clothes!! SHINee did a good job with the dancing (as expected). Everyone looked really good and the quality of the video is awesome.
I can't praise SHINee enough, because they always seem to have really great videos! This time it's even more amazing, because Jonghyun is finally back with them. ''Why so serious'' seemed so  different without him (despite being a great song and video).

So yeah, this is a really good comeback! The rest of the mini-album is also pretty good (not as awesome as their album work last time, but it's nice) so this is really cool.
But now they definetely deserve a good rest and let other groups release new songs (I'm still waiting for the SuJu korean comeback.. but at least they are releasing a Japanese single soon! With Heenim!!)

Bye, bye and until next time ;)