It’s time for another Kpopalypse roundup – let’s check out this week’s new releases!

Lots of requests meant not many new songs got played this week and that was just fine!

Davichi – Beside Me

The best Davichi song in a while, probably because it clocks in at slightly over 2 BPM once it gets going.

I.O.I – Very Very Very

A song that is very very very much a soundalike of another k-pop song, I think you know which one.  It’s an inferior version for sure, but if k-pop is copying this it’s a positive sign for the genre.

Se7en – Give It To Me

Give them what, a song without falsetto?  We can hope.  The beat is good here though, it nearly rescues this one.

Ladies Code – The Rain

Ladies Code’s latest ode to animal cruelty is better than the turgid “Galaxy” but nowhere near as good as their better early songs.

Girls Girls – Juicy Secret

The same boring sax riff stuff everybody does these days.

100% – Better Day

100% continue to be better than most boy groups, on average.

BONUS SONGS

Crush – Fall

And the bonus material starts this week with this crappy piano ballad.  It’s a good thing there were lots of requests for this week’s show, it means I didn’t have to subject anyone to this crap over the airwaves.

Henry & Soyou – Runnin’

No Soyou in the video means this is robbed of the only use it arguably had.

Davichi – Love Is

AAARKAAAARKKAAAARK it’s the call of the shitbird

Lim Jeong Hee – I.O.U

A lighter-waving slow power-ballad thing.

YunB ft. Ugly Duck – Runaway Pt.2

This song is trying to annoy me and make me fall asleep at the same time.

Highteen – Boom Boom Clap

Another group going the Red Velvet route with the washing-machine rhythms and crappy “world music” influences.

OhBliss – Bunny Bunny

Another soundalike, this time AOA’s “Like A Cat” gets the retread treatment complete with Jimin-style squeals for no particular reason other than that song was popular so I guess they’d hope the success would transfer over.

Block B – My Zone

Surprisingly conservative for Block B, it would have made the cut for the show but I couldn’t play it because as a Japanese k-pop song I have to do secret deals with about 3 different drug lords just to get the audio for it, sorry about that.

Man’s Avenue – Missing You

Move along, no men to see here.

Aisle – Happy Magic Candy

Fucking shit.

I’m – Try

Before I clicked on this I thought to myself “what a shame it would be if the best song of the year had a really awkward and confusing title like this”.  I needn’t have worried.

Sugardonut – Piece Of A Lie

They keep refusing to be good.

Karacin Jr. – Rainbow Swamp

A “rainbow swamp” is probably what lives outside in the creek at the back of every k-pop HQ along Gangnam where they throw out all their raw materials after they use them in MVs.

The Black Underground – Coffee & Sandy

What is a group called “The Black Underground” doing not sounding like Burzum?  Fuck off.

El Camino & Yerin – some boring shit honestly I cbf even looking this up

Does Yerin even have a function except to not be Park Jimin.  Assuming it’s even that particular Yerin in this song but who cares if it isn’t, it fucking sucks regardless.

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That’s it for another roundup – more next week!