KPop - aka Only Scott Cares - aka Not as Good as Metal

The best new BTS song is this one about ANPANMAN

https://youtu.be/Ty6RHwJksZI

LOONA’s final subgroup, YYXY, is here! Their latest MV is a collaboration with Grimes and produced by the same folks who did Gee, which is awesome. It took me a couple listens to get into it - it feels like old-school kpop and is a little different from Odd Eye Circle’s Girl Front or a lot of the singles (Egoist, New, One and Only, with less of a hook), but I really dig it now.

https://youtu.be/tIWpr3tHzII

Bonus dance video, featuring Yves sporting quite a few… bandages? Pain patches? Hoping she’s okay.

https://youtu.be/feLIkQSS6bI

WALWARI is back. For the second time they actually made a music video, and it has a higher production value. The song isn’t as good as their previous releases, but I’m glad they are still going at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP1KDCKEOqQ

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After a year of waiting BLACKPINK is back in our area! All aboard that hype train. I’m gonna post the teasers. I’m gonna post the MV. I’m gonna post the dances. You’re just gonna have to deal with it.

Oh, what is this we have here???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUALE5SitT0

Welp. Looks like I died from getting hit by that ddu-du ddu-du du.

It here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNzOHi8sJs

EDIT: Spotify Album Link

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Apparently they only come back once a year so enjoy it while you can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIXimfKfe4&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6qz89SU2c&t=0s

Bonus WALWARI!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iYYBdyW0Nk&t=0s

BTOB is back. Somehow my bald bro Peniel grew some hair back?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHQkdIGue3k

Sadly, this song is not doing it for me.

In other insanity. This came out of nowhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im1UUY8dQIk

Taeyon vs. BLACKPINK, oh it’s gonna be a bloodbath.

EDIT: There are more songs:

I still don’t know whether it counts as KPop or JPop when a KPop group releases a Japanese song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRgTMs_bGuI

This song sounds like a SNSD b-side track. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a fun and energetic song I will listen to, just not earthshaking. Bonus points for cookie jar. Minus points for hashtag.

One of the best English language articles about KPop I ever did see.

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Shinee is back. Well, has been back, in their first release without Johnghyun. This particular song made me tear up - the lyrics are touching, and it includes the line “You did well” (referencing Jonghyun’s death). Bittersweet to see them performing without him, but it seems (or at least I hope) they’re dealing with some of their emotions via music.

https://youtu.be/Psl-x_nw7TI

Tiffany’s first US release after departing SM dropped today. I don’t know if it counts as KPop. It’s in English, released in the US by US people. Still, the song is really something else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIV7S6qWOp4

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I don’t dance.

I would dance at this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBBPHPDi8KU

They do this every KCON. KCON NY was recent, there should be a video for that somewhere also. It’s hard to memorize the choreography to even one KPop song. Even idols will forget their own if they haven’t performed a song recently. It takes some real dedication to memorize so many.

It’s right here (this rabbit hole seems to only be beginning)

I never said I’d dance all of them. But I’m reasonably sure I could do a Good Boy or a Abracadabra or a Gee with very little prep. Problem would be I’d be on the sidelines until and only until they played one of those three songs.

That video is from KCON 17. There should be one for 18.

There is. And I have to add BOOMBOOM to my list of ones I could… and DUDUDUU ok so I could do more of these than I thought. Also this one looks much more crowded

GOOD BOY was played at 2018 this year!

Well, just learned the deal.

If there’s still a country next year I’m going to 2019 KCON

I would not recommend actually going to KCON. It costs a metric fuckton of money, and isn’t much of a convention.

Also, the BEAR OF COLOR is my hero.

But but but, look how much fun that looks. AND HOW GAY IT SEEMS!!! BEAR OF COLOR seems like he’s right at home. How else will I get to dance with BEAR OF COLOR?

I’m sure the bear will be happy to dance with you if you call them up.

Also, I just got the GFriend section. I love how nobody can do it because it’s too hard.

Scott: killer of fun with just a bit of sense and pragmatism.

I’m skipping around looking for songs I have listened to/seen a million times and seems like I’m not alone.

When TWICE and Red Velvet come on everyone joins in.