What does not chill me makes me stronger (Z.Hera, Baek Ji Young, BoA)

[koganbot]

Z.Hera "Peacock": Dance-pop from a writer who seems to have studied études and preludes, featuring a rookie singer who puts strain in her upper register in a way that's heart-tuggingly passionate, like the best of the '80s. She's got something, as does whoever wrote and produced the song, even if it's getting nowhere on the charts.

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Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[davidfrazer]

The June 6th date I mentioned for Chocolat's comeback seems to be just a pre-recording for Show Champion. However...

Today Tia co-hosted After School Club on Arirang World (an international, English language Korean channel) and Chocolat got an opportunity to perform their new song Black Tinkerbell...for just over a minute. Their very brief appearance starts at about 5:33.

(I was going to embed the video, but it didn't appear in the preview.)

Melanie was feeling sick yesterday and got put on an IV, which probably explains why she's wearing a cardigan.

I can't say much about the song except that it's a mid-tempo R&B-ish thingy. I'll leave it up to others to detect any freestyle influences. :)

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[koganbot]

Melody definitely has a mournful seemingly mid-Easternish freestyle feel! I like it, similar to my liking for "I Like It."

http://youtu.be/1iUasvid3lQ?t=5m34s

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[davidfrazer]

They've released an MV teaser. To quote a comment on reddit, "Seriously, are 16 year olds allowed to be dancing sexy and wet?"

The release date is now the 11th rather than the 14th.

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[davidfrazer]

And with a whole day to go, Chocolat's management are at last learning how to run a proper K-Pop teaser campaign, although this new teaser sounds as if it's probably a spoiler for the entire song...

Incidentally, today is Soa's birthday.

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[davidfrazer]

Here at last is the full MV:

I liked this comment from tbe Popjustice forum:
Melanie delivered on that middle-8 and I can't wait to hear her break another sound system live.

The B-side is called All Night Long. It's a hip-hoppish R&B-ish song with a rap break by a male rapper, and I'm going to stick my neck out and suggest that the brass riffs sound freestyle-ish. :)

Jaeyoon's voice can reputedly be heard on All Night Long, which would mean that it's sat on the shelf for a few years. It would also mean that the "where's Jaeyoon?" and "omg I heard she had cancer!" comments on YouTube videos will never, ever end.

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[koganbot]

Ha. I was seconds away from telling you the same thing. I linked it over on the ILM K-pop 2013 thread, but so far no one's said anything (though some people there were obviously looking forward to it).

Contains little the teasers hadn't prepared us for.

Think I'll go give it its own post, even though as I've yet I've not much to say.

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[davidfrazer]

This is just wild speculation, but (if Jaeyoon is in it) I wonder if Chocolat recorded All Night Long, and perhaps more songs like it, pre-debut, but the company decided to switch to a more conventional K-Pop sound and gave them Syndrome instead. Certainly it would mean that the R&B and freestyle influences in One More Day didn't appear completely out of nowhere.

Re: Tia-ful creatures of the night emerge fleetingly into daylight

[koganbot]

I actually think "Syndrome" has freestyle touches too - the "fill me up, heal me again" refrain in particular. The only drawback to that song is that the non-Melanies and non-Jaeyoons don't yet have the presence that they'll get by the time of "I Like It" (a song that also makes me think a little of freestyle, at least Melanie's big wail does). A striking thing about "One More Day," where the melody does feel more freestylish, is that the arrangement - most notably the harpsichord-like keyboards - sounds a lot like turn of the millennium tracks by She'kspere, e.g. TLC's "No Scrubs," Destiny's Child's "Bills Bills Bills," Pink's "There You Go."