My favourite KPop songs of 2022

Yo, first post of 2023. Did I even post shit last year?? Feels like I touched this blog ages ago, haha. Hope my new more stressful and time consuming job won't prevent me from posting shit that I aim to this year. (╯˘ -˘ )╯

While I didn't post shit last year I didn't stop listening to KPop and I am happy how we had a surge of KPop songs infused with rock elements. The whole y2k trend is cool too since it brings me back to my childhood and shit. Saying all that, the subjective unnumbered list of the KPop shit that I liked from 2022 is under the jump break.

My favourtie KPop songs of 2021

 

Ugh... look at this peasant's shit taste. This asshole didn't even include my fucking song!

Another year, another subjective list! I decided not to assign numbers to song positions this year, because I constantly change my mind and shit. Hope my laptop won’t break after opening this post with shit ton of videos in it.

 

Stray Cat Boys

 

Curse the producers of this episode of the "Stray Kids doing whatever the fuck they are forced to do for our amusement" show # 195 for further leading me astray to the path of degeneracy. I didn't give much of a fuck about cat femboys before, but now when I saw this embarrassingly cute scene where Lee Minho unleashed his cat lady power on Yongbok I might get the appeal, fuck. 

My favourite KPop songs of 2020

 

Me after finishing writing this shitty list

This is a list of KPop songs that I liked in 2020 gathered all in one place, so that I could easily find them in the future. The numbers are not set in stone and possibly will change with time in my head. There are shit ton of videos embedded. I hope my laptop doesn't die when I open this post, haha. 

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Wow, a Rebellious CPop song that doesn't suck DIDI

From my understanding most CPop stuff that gets popular on charts and shit are either boring ballads or insipid ancient trends. The last CPop song that I remember liking was this random song, because of the chorus only, and this song wasn't even from Jolin Tsai.

At first I thought "Rebellious" would develop into some shitty trend like jungle house or whatever it's called, but then the chorus came with its catchy ass vocal melody and interesting eerie, but not messy instrumental bouquet leading the way, and proved me wrong. This is definitely better than whatever dull KPop-esque crap the group he's a part of makes. He should ditch ONER and change his stage name to LONER, haha.

Reject tradition, embrace modernity

Some mildly annoying BL BS

See what bullshit I can pull out of my BL's ass that I find mildly annoying or funny. This shit can be present in 99,(9)% of BL manga, so it's inevitable BL that I like is also likely to have some of the points listed in this post. :-I

Lamenting about my silly Chinese gay pr0n comics after the jump break.

KPop album cover art dump | 2020

Another collection of KPop album cover images that I noted for some reason.

Yuqi DESTROYED Shuhua and Miyeon in a heated debate

 

Eve got noticed by the big guys!

Eve keep getting love calls from bigger and bigger anime studios and that's pretty dope! This time it's for anime "Jujutsu Kaisen". Looking at the first episode it's a fast-paced shounen revolving around Japanese spooky curse mythology. I'll watch some more episodes, but idk if I'll continue. 

The 1st episode is basically speed run to quickly get the ball rolling. Everything happened so fast there was no time to get attached to characters. I didn't give a fuck about the main hero's grandpa dying, tbh. I've found the unfunny jokes to be outdated and a bit lame. Some stock sound effects like from Cinema Sins' YT channel harmed the immersiveness. On the plus side though, the fight scene looked great and the hip-hoppy OST at the 1st monster encounter was cool. 

Now to the song itself - it's serviceable, but not the greatest Eve track. I thought it had pleasant guitar riffs, which is given for E ve, exotic Japanese instrument bits in the beginning and at the end perfectly matching with the water visuals, and decent pre- & chorus, but awkward low-energy one-note verses.

+ Get that MAPPA moolah + clout

-  Meh song

Fujo Keiji: BL Unlimited: Kimi Note is sexy and cute

It's a new fresh start for a blog-post series where I try to pull out thoughts out of my smooth brain on ancient/new BL manga and possibly other mediums that I happened to read/see that time and put that into words, this time with a new and I hope better name playing on the title of the anime Fugou Keiji: Balance:Unlimited [The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED], just because fugou kinda rhymes with fujo, haha.

Intro post here.

For the fresh RE:start I chose a manga that I like to occasionally go back to called Kimi Note. It combines four short stories. Out all of them I think the first one is the best, so I'll shortly "review" only that one after the jump-cut. 

Kimi Note (Your Note/Your Scent)

Eve are back on their track [Inochinotabekata] [いのちの食べ方]

Bibidi babi debu

Finally, eve, the lonely edgy weebs' dreams' sonic and visual representation, released a contender for Tokyo Ghetto's place in my book. Sure, some songs since then were aight and had incredible MVs, but none has grabbed me like Tokyo Ghoul Ghetto did until いのちの食べ方 came out.

I fucking love groovy shit in my songs as can be seen from the song rated first in this post. As soon as I heard bass guitar building up in the beginning I knew this song would be the shit. Although eve do write memorable melodies the main guitar melody in this song is especially pleasant. As in Tokyo Ghetto the verses stir up interest with rhythmic bass drum beat before slowing down for more memorable pre-chorus and then finally leading to chorus with great emotional YORUGA (or whatever he's saying), what sung besides similarly emphasized words doesn't matter (vocal melody is whatever). Unlike Tokyo Ghetto, where breakdown seemed to follow continuity of the song a bit better, here breakdown, while didn't sound awful, felt a bit shoehorned in. At the end Eve used a sneaky tactic of abrupt ending of the song playing into desire to hit that replay button again and again.

The MV is magnifique as always. It was done by one person, damn. Their name is Mariyasu. Their website is gorgeous. I like it. Although heavy, Japanese websites tend to be beautifully visually organised.

WPD did nothing wrong

It didn't violate those rules. I know, because I've visited WPD sometimes out of morbid curiosity and for encouraging myself that, wow, I can die any time in a sudden accident without me even registering it (unfortunately, probability of that actually happening is really low, because I'm mostly cautious, practically don't get out of my house and I'm a pussy). Unlike me, many people learned about how fragile life can be and that made them a bit more careful near heavy dangerous machinery, roads, Brazilian flip-flops, Chinese jaywalkers, etc. Yes, people made (sometimes) funny off-color jokes, but I don't think anyone actually praised violence. WPD subscribers were sympathetic towards deceased victims at their core and were often questioning how a particular unfortunate accident happened and what could be done to prevent it.

I think Reddit pulled (and will continue to do it) all the nails that stick out to appease stockholders & media or something. "We've thrown out all the smelly trash! We're all clean! See, guys!".

Many people agree with me that the ban was unnecessary.

D E M O N I T I Z E D

... for violating YouTube rules regarding sexual content. Advertisers don't like their ads on content that is not Christian or family-friendly. I'm sure Youtube guidelines is not the only thing that felt violated.

I think the framing is trying to tell us something

Jessi reacts to Zico's funniest joke ever

Jung Joon Young's "golden phone" is like a Poké Ball.

B-Lーshit: Nigatsu no Eden is awkward and dumb

I envision B-Lーshit¹ to be a series of blog posts where I share my thoughts on various BL manga be it good, bad or in-between. I used to be a big yaoi manga consumer in the past especially back in my school days. Now not so much, but I thought if I still waste my time on this shit from time to time I might as well write a quick post.

I'll be looking at all this BL shit from three points: 

Story. It's clear, I'll be judging the plot, if there's any, in my own smoothbrain way.

Let's go on a tangent a bit on "if there's any" part, which can be summarized by that phrase really. YAOI initially was the abbreviation for "Yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi" meaning "No peak (climax), no fall (punch line/denouement), no meaning". I don't think the term is wildly used in Japan anymore. Instead the term BL is used for both yaoi (has explicitly shown sex scenes) and shounen-ai (no explicit butt sex), probably. At least, that's how I use the term BL, haha, hence the title of the series. However, I still use the terms yaoi and shounen-ai along with English speaking manga sites, and I read mostly yaoi, 'cos it gets faster to the point. That's all being said, I think that initial term holds true to this day coming from the fact that many yaoi manga are generally one shots or not too long and basically are homoerotic hentai drawn by women for women.

Art. Because manga is a visual medium, the way it's drawn is as important as the story for me, if not more in many cases. I can look over bad plot if the art is good depending on my mood.

Sex scenes. YAOI also stands/stood for "Yamete, oshiri ga itai" ("Stop, my ass hurts!") among fujoshis. As I said, yaoi/BL/whatever is basically a homo porn by fujos for fujos. The main outcome of "the story" is often smutty love making in BL. If the sex scenes and the art is very good in my book, it's capable of trumping over non-existent story depending on my mood.

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Nigatsu no Eden

Oi, mate! You got a loicense for that software?

It is unacceptable that Cube's biggest cash cow Hyuna can't afford computer programs that are important for her music career and have to pirate them! It's all your fault, Cube!

Lee Jungyeop-nim, I don't feel so good

La fine.

Dongwoo taking it like a champ

Monsta X nip slip

B.A.P's Young, Wild & Free

B.A.P left TShit Ent, which is a presumably broke sinking ship at this point, and are now Young, Wild & Free. I don't think they'll pull a Highlight and reunite under a different name and agency and shit, but it'll be cool if they do. Youngjae is with another agency already. I think the rest want to do their own thing too. I don't know all the details even tho I consider B.A.P. as one of my bias groups. At the end of the day, I'm just a filthy non-supportive living under the rock casual fan who just likes their music. Besides looking at pretty pictures of the members from time to time, I don't go beyond that for the most part. Well, no, I bought an One Shot card with the boys pictured on it and red matoki thingy that can be attached to your phone. I got it from TaoBao or smth. So, they're most probably Chinese bootlegs. So, tiny-tiny profits didn't even go to the right place in the first place... oops... They're probably lying around somewhere now, haha. Anyway, I wish them all the success in whatever they want to do in the future!

INFINITE - Clock | #NotMyInfinite

INFINITE's main sound Sunggyu called, he wants his INFINITE back.