Here are my top songs for absolutely no reason other than the fact that I’ve been on a SHINee kick for a few months and Jonghyun just dropped his second solo album. 🙏
- Odd Eye
- 누난 너무 예뻐 (Replay) 1
- Y.O.U (Year of Us)
- Dream Girl 2
- Like A Fire
- Hold You 3
- Note
- A-Yo 4
- Ready or Not
- 세뇨리따 (Señorita)
- 잠꼬대 (Please, Don’t Go)
- 소년, 소녀를 만나다 (Romeo + Juliet)
- 내 곁에만 있어 (Best Place)
- 너 아니면 안되는 걸 (Romantic)
- View
Listen to it here.
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1 NEVER FORGET: debut song about five dongsaengs trying to hit up a noona. I love this song and any remixes, especially this piano one. So pretty.
2 Fun, zippy, and Jonghyun’s best hair era. Everyone got to sing and miraculously, I didn’t hate Minho’s rap. Truly a dream. There also are certain SHInee songs that I think are all evolutions of each other. I’d say that it goes (in order of most recent): “Married to the Music”, “Dream Girl”, “Juliette” (my jam before Dream Girl ruined my life. Yes, it’s a Corbin Bleu remake BUT I LOVED IT), and “Love Like Oxygen”.
3 I’ve listened to this song to death. I also appreciate parts of Key’s rap: “WE TOUCHING, WE LOVING, 내가 TY blah blah blah” and I still don’t know what the “ty” part means. Who cares, really. LET ME HO-HO-HOLD YOU FOR A MINNIT.
4 UNDERRATED GEM! A-Yo might have been the reason I decided to share my list of faves. It’s also one of those rare songs that isn’t quite a love song (more of that, please).
Let’s also have a moment of silence for my interest in kpop, which probably started dying around 2009~2010 (TVXQ splintering apart, Jay Park leaving 2PM, Wonder Girls’ American debut). RIP in P.