Lee Hyori: Lee Hyori's Monochrome is the opposite of monochrome, with Hyori applying her gently authoritative style to all sorts of the last century's dance music (incl. country pop and western swing!). Strangely, I'm not hit with a lot of feeling - until the last four songs. That's only on one listen. Maybe the album simply takes a number of ( Read more... )

Hyori trades banter with Big Bang on her variety show ( Read more... )

Engaging in ever more desperate - but just as futile - attempts to find Canadian popular recording artists who aren't boring, the Singles Jukebox reviews G.NA's "Banana."

Which brings me to the topic: when crows travel from city to city, do they fly in a straight line? Wikipedia has no opinion on this issue.


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Live version of "Just Follow," with Zico in place of DOK2; HyunA's relative stillness makes her as steamy as ever, and Zico just kills. His rap in the middle is entirely new, and he improves on the original ( Read more... )

Prodded by Maddie's preferring Seungri's "What Can I Do?" to Enrique Iglesias's "Tonight I'm Fuckin' You" (wish I could agree with Maddie, but I think "Tonight" kills "What Can I Do?"), and also recalling that I have not yet gotten close to writing and posting all my year-end lists/appraisals, I want to officially dub 2010 as The Year In Which, ( Read more... )

New GD&TOP single "High High," vocals and beats twisted as electronically tight as they can be, club music contorted into pretzels, and GD & TOP finally breaking into song* at 2:20. I think even the Brits in my readership - if any Brits are still reading - will be won over by this one.

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*EDIT: When they do this they spell out G-H-E-T-T-O E-L-E-C-T- ( Read more... )

People on my flist ought to consider this, as some of you seem to know what you're talking about.

CALL FOR PAPERS ( Read more... )

In proof that I am a sap, I got totally drawn into the hoary plot of this Lee Hyori video. My tear ducts even drippy-dropped a little. (Is literally a cell-phone commercial, for Samsung.)

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(Found the video by free association: Mat had linked the new Rainbow vid, Lee Hyori had been in the girl group that had been Rainbow's label's big stars in the ( Read more... )

Mid-Year Lists 2010

Singles First Half 2010: "Blah Blah Blah" is the big hairy dance-mess that's dancing over the world, while Aggro and Dizzee are the only other representatives here of 2010's dance-pop mess. Not enough country on this list, and at this time of year that's usually my fault, but this time I think it's country's. (Probably not ( Read more... )