It’s time once again for Kpopalypse roundup!  Let’s check out some new releases!

Hyuna – Babe

Hyuna takes a crack at IU’s conceptual territory because she’s just as sick as you are of closet pedophile “concerned fans” trying to make her act more “innocent” so they can fap, but unfortunately her version of the end result isn’t even as good as when IU did it.  At least it’s not another yolo comeback, gotta be thankful for that at least.

Lee Gikwang – What You Like

Evidently Lee Gikwang doesn’t know what I like, or he wouldn’t have been the 78th k-pop artist to try tropical shithouse this year.

IZ – All You Want

What’s the bet that these kids don’t even know how to drop a needle onto vinyl properly.  You can tell by the way they hold it.  Don’t get your dirty fingerprints all over the playing surface you greasy little fucks.

IM – Sad Story

At least there’s some electric guitar in this crap ballad.  What’s with the shit two-letter group names though, why is this a trend.

Good Day – Rolly

Something about this song doesn’t quite fit together, it’s probably the I-IV-I progression and 50s rock feel of the “Lolly” part combining with the typically k-pop everything else.

Golden Child – DamDaDi

That “oh yeah!” is a well-known and no doubt illegally-snatched sample but watch k-pop fans make absolutely no noise about this, because this is a new boy group.

10cm – Phonecert

Holy fucking shit this is pretty crap but it’s like goddamn Slayer by 10cm standards.  Let’s start a circle pit!  FUCKING MOSH CUNTS

Miso – Pink Lady

Hey boys and girls it’s one of the Girls Girls girls, from Girls Girls’ “Girls Girls“.

Black6ix – Like A Flower

I crossed my fingers as it started building up the chorus: “please let it not be tropical shithouse this time, please please please….” – oh well.  Better luck next time I guess.

BONUS SONGS

Junho – Fine

Fangirls couldn’t fap to this lyric video with no Junho images, and the song is boring, so what’s the point of it?

Vixx LR – Whisper

What does LR stand for?  Lazy Rubbish?  Leftover Rejects?  Lame Reviews?

Zsum ft. Nari – Ah Yah So Nice

More toot toot fucking balls but at least the video has some nice prim and proper dance moves.

Dreamcatcher – Sleepwalking

Dreamcatcher go for a late 90s drum & bass influenced sound, and incredibly make one of the worst styles of music in history actually work.  Can they do no wrong?

Henry – That One

Henry has had some good songs through the years.  This isn’t one of them.

Rose – Picture

If I was singing or playing on this I’d want my face kept in permanent shadow too.

Pentagon – When I Was In Love

It’s considerate how this trash is only two minutes long.  Most ballads are twice that length so I appreciate them wasting 50% less of my time than usual.

Trei – Up

I loaded this song up to review it and started reading something else on the Internet and then forgot that this was even on.

U-Kwon & P.O – Winner

It’s like Block B Bastarz with most of the bastarz removed.

Taeil – Lost & Found

Taeil’s song is far worse though.  I guess Taeil is the designated “boring ballad” member of Block B.

Jackson Wang – Pavillion

Okay well that settles that – Jackson can’t rap.

 

10cm – Help

Okay so this is more in keeping with 10cm’s usual garbage music.  No wonder Korean Indie is an alcoholic, you would be too after listening to three albums of this crap.

Yeseo – Silhouette

This girl’s very non-Gangnam looking face is fascinating, pity the song isn’t.

Jessica – Starry Night

Look at this grainy, crusty video.  It’s almost as if YouTube isn’t her best friend.

K-Bridge – Dream-O-Clock

Snore-o-clock, they’re not fucking kidding.

Lee Seung Hwan – God Of Money

I can’t remember which awful western song this is ripping off but it sucks.

Dean ft. Yerin Baek – Come Over

Even when Dean gets a semi-reasonable-almost-not-shit beat he can’t do anything decent over the top of it.

 

Jeong Sewoon & Sik-K – Just U

GroovyRoom are one of k-pop’s worst producers.  Even with something relatively upbeat like this they still manage to fuck it up.

Moon Yirang ft. Hoody – Aphasia

Remember last week when that Hoody song came out that was actually almost listenable?  I knew that wouldn’t last.

Crush – With Band Wonderlust

More bullshit.

SPECIAL BONUS WASTE-OF-TIME SHIT R&B SONGS FROM PRIMARY THAT NOBODY CARES ABOUT SECTION

Primary ft. Yang Yoseop – Tukk

Primary is probably the best producer in Korea, but only when he wants to be.  Most of the time he’d rather just do this bullshit R&B/funk-lite crap than anything actually good.

Primary ft. Solji – Diet

Even when he goes for the retro 80s feel he still layers it with so much R&B funk bullshit that the result is just uninteresting.  Why even bother.

Primary ft. Soyou – Right?

I think Primary just lives to annoy me.  We could be listening to another “Don’t Be Shy” but we aren’t, because Primary is too much of a faggot bitch.

Primary ft. JB – Hush

I don’t know what the point of him releasing all these songs at once is, but they all suck.

Primary ft. Kim Sungkyu – Drama

Imagine being so highly esteemed that you could work with anyone in k-pop you wanted, doing any song you like, and picking this type of trash.

Primary ft. Sandeul – Pick Up

I wonder if he makes this kind of crap by 100% creative choice or if he actually wants to do something proper but someone is paying him megabucks not to.  Either way it’s probably Korean music’s greatest musical crime.

SPECIAL BONUS RETRO SONG

Hyuna – Bubble Pop

Today my girlfriend showed me a “k-pop parody” which was some desperately unfunny skit from Family Guy (which is always desperately unfunny – basically The Simpsons mixed with South Park for people too stupid to understand either, and with the second layer of humour removed from both and replaced with boring, weak “bipartisan” political soapboxing for dunderheaded American TV audiences) and it was that dumb one copying Hyuna’s song that I’m sure you’ve all seen.   I told her “this might make more sense for you and be a little funnier if you’ve seen the original”, so I put on Hyuna’s “Bubble Pop” and played that to her.  After we got through about the first chorus I turned it off, as I realised that it was a pointless exercise as I remembered that nothing could help make something as lame as Family Guy become anything even approaching funny.  Also the song was annoying her at that point and I can’t really blame her, I wasn’t going to defend it.  I remember liking “Bubble Pop” when I first got into k-pop but in retrospect I think it was just Hyuna’s (natural, at that time) tits that I liked and the song was just something extra I could tolerate in the background while watching them bounce around.  That accordion-grinding noise that cuts in at the end of every eight bars is by far the best thing about the actual music, and the fact that the first appearance of the noise coincides with the video’s biggest boob bounce is probably what sold me on the song for an entire year or two before I realised that there was actually nothing else in there to listen to.

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That’s all for Kpopalypse roundup this week – more next week!