Title: Last Carnival
Artist: Acoustic Café
Genre: Instrumental/New Age
Language: Instrumental

COMMENTS: I hunted down this mp3 (it took ages because my Googling skills are becoming less awesome by the minute) after hearing it on SJ's Star Dance Battle 2010. It's gorgeous and sad - I love the violin even though my admitted kink/kick to the soul is ( Read more... )

Title: BEAUTIFUL
Artist: Lee Donghae
Genre: Kpop
Language: Korean

COMMENTS: Fuck. This song makes me cry - but that's more the associated memories. It's just - it's pretty much a typical Korean love song, except it's not a ballad. It's got the dancey edge and vibe, as it was Donghae's solo for SSII. His dance was hot - this song was hot, okay? He ( Read more... )

Title: Way Back Into Love
Artist: SNSD + Super Junior (Jessica, Taeyeon, Donghae, Kyuhyun)
Genre: Love ballad
Language: English

COMMENTS: I can make up my own genres if I want - this is feel-good easy listening that is sweet and wistful and so goddamned pretty. I cannot stop loving this song, particularly after having watched it performed on Music ( Read more... )

Title: 白狐 (White Fox)
Artist: 陈瑞 | Chen Rui
Genre: Ballad
Language: Mandarin

COMMENTS: Gorgeous story and very, very sad. The song is emotive of ancient China with that kind of flavor in both the music and the lyrics ( Read more... )

Title: 月亮代表我的心 (The Moon Represents My Heart)
Artist: David Tao | 陶喆
Genre: Pop
Language: Mandarin

COMMENTS: This is a classic, classic Chinese song that pretty much everyone in China knows. It's typically sung as a ballad, but I love David Tao's rendition of it. He updates the song with a little more of a contemporary pop feel while still ( Read more... )