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Exhaling And Wrestling: Top 100 Singles from the year that ended 11-and-5/6 months ago (yes, 2017)

Dec 26, 2018 05:48

I finished this list mid February, then was beset by various blocks and distractions and by thinking I had to write something good, also that I'd waited and dithered just as long on the 2016 list. "At least I won't be as late as I was last year." And now I'm later.

And it feels like a different world: Over the past ten months American hip-hop became ( Read more... )

#becky, year-end lists, #omgbecky, #haleygeorgia, poll prelims 2018, #haleygeorgiacrew, jvcki wai

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davidfrazer December 26 2018, 14:14:31 UTC

Catching up with 2018, Big Hit said that BTS's IDOL was inspired by gqom.

Woo and Byrds koganbot December 26 2018, 18:37:51 UTC

Cool!

They also say it was inspired by John Woo's "Face/Off": it's a thriller where John Travolta and Nicholas Cage get to imitate each other. Not sure I see where IDOL is like this, but I don't know the BTS characters well enough to see who is imitating whom.

For some reason my favorite recent BTS has been B-sides and album tracks (by B-sides I mean songs they used in their promo performances, usually) rather than their official singles.

Back in 1966 the Byrds did a TV lipsynch of "Set You Free This Time" where Roger McGuinn and David Crosby imitated each other:

askbask December 29 2018, 15:29:05 UTC

Hey Frank, the nice people at livejournal sent me a mail notifying me that you posted an entry for the first time in a while. I see now it's not been that long, but I've been bad at checking in on livejournal blogs, so I'll try to catch up.

I've had a glance at your list and there's a lot I haven't heard -and I was about to say, here are songs for me to steal and put on my year-end list, but then, as I had already forgot, this is a 2017 list!

Enjoyed reading your thoughts on Magnolia.

My 2018 playlist koganbot December 29 2018, 18:18:19 UTC

Mat - Great to hear from you! Do you have any of your own lists posted anywhere?

If you want to see what I'm liking this year, I have a YouTube playlist of my favorite 2018 singles that is always under construction; at the moment it has 86 tracks on it. You can glance at it quickly here if you don't have time to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshHxICULapn8RIAxTi7mC5z7y4j2AFKu

Re: My 2018 playlist askbask January 15 2019, 16:18:35 UTC

I'm afraid no official master list. I operate with youtube playlists like you, but separated into genres and other labels and with stuff added with no prejudice.

Took a glance at your youtube list and found some overlap. And some unknowns. Lots of hip hop. My favorite discovery among the sounds of 2018 may be a Korean rapper called Jvcki Wai - she's been bubbling under the surface (I didn't know that then, but I've read it since) and started appearing above it last year, it seems, getting some online hits. This is one song I really like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r076sitx4AE

That's a beautiful use of autotune, to me.

This month she got a legitimate hit. A #1. With some guys, but she's bringing both the hook and the first verse (Melon tells us she gets extended songwriting credits the other guys rapping don't get).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBouh6xLbdo

Re: My 2018 playlist askbask January 15 2019, 16:25:33 UTC

In the first song she namedrops Kim Jong Un, but youtube k-pop video distributor 1theK have censored it.

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Belecrivain writes koganbot December 31 2018, 04:25:59 UTC

belecrivain writes:

I think you're counting Ah Yah Mah! as a 2018 single? IIRC it was released at like 11:30 pm on 31/12/17 Almaty time (which still makes me laugh). The newest single is set to be released 1/1/19 at midnight Almaty time which is (checks clocks) about noon my time, 10 am your time still in 2018.

Tbh my favorite Bhad Bhabie single so far is "Geek'd," although I keep cringing at her guest rappers: y'all she's 15 tone it down a little, that kind of thing.

For what it's worth, Black Dial appears to be dead: the two rappers left in a hailstorm of drama in late 2017; the other three were posting covers earlier this year but their channel has since vanished off YouTube. I suspect whatever plans Yesbolat Bedelkhan had for them may have been disrupted by the tenge's slide, but I don't have hard evidence -- my main source for Q-pop gossip went offline midyear. The rappers, who were going by the stage names of L and Teddy when in Black Dial, have resurfaced as EQ: here's their first single.

Re: Belecrivain writes koganbot December 31 2018, 04:40:27 UTC

Oh, I'm definitely counting Ah Yah Mah! as 2018 - if you click the link in my reply upthread to Mat, you'll see it currently at number 4.

I'll often assign December songs to the year that follows.

"Y'all she's 15 tone it down a little. What are you trying to do? Come on as 12-year-old boys?"