Category: music
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RE: April
pictured: HYUKOH, “Wanli万里” What is blogging? How do I Photoshop? Long time no see to whoever is still reading my blog. I had a really busy April for mostly school related reasons, but I am free (for now). Some tings:
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MUSIC IS MY THING
While waiting for my copy of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to come in the mail (scumbag Amazon — it was a preorder that should’ve been here on Friday, but all I got was an empty mailbox), today I took it upon myself to explore some of what Spotify has to offer. I’ve…
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Best of 2016: everything else
Happy new year! I think the only album I 100% (heh) loved in 2016 was KAYTRANADA‘s 99.9%. There were other albums that came close but none of them had the replay value I felt this album did. Anyway, I added links for only the more “obscure” songs on the list. Enjoy!
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Best of 2016: Japan
WHO KNEW that a song commissioned by Yamato Transport would be the song of the year? Amazing. I’m kidding (sort of), but NEKO FUNJATTA is genius and visually stunning in every way. Meow! I listened to a lot less Japanese music than I should have and the only real release I looked forward to this…
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Best of 2016: Korea
pictured: Red Velvet, “7월7일 (One of These Nights)” A post inspired by Melissa Johnson’s wonderful blog (The Mind Reels). But before I get into what I liked in k-pop this year: Over the past few months I’ve had a Red Velvet reversal. Being a big fan of f(x), I was convinced RV were the harbingers…
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classical dramas
I’m more of a jazz person, but there a few dramas who made good use of classical pieces that left big impressions on me and sparked vivid memories of key moments. I kid you not, Mambo was the moment that made me sit up and pay attention to the sweet cherub that is Park Bogum,…
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Flashback Friday #1
A twitter friend shared this meme and I decided to do it! 1. What was your first song? Definitely BoA’s “Number One”! Because I listened to a lot of Japanese music (including BoA’s stuff) I remember hearing the song for the first time and thinking, “I cannot make any sense of this language at allllllll”.…
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Primary x Oh Hyuk, “Island”
Oh Hyuk (and band hyukoh) is one of my favorite things about Korean music these days. I listened to them a lot in the last year and just stumbled upon the music video by chance. It’s perfect. You can watch it here.
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Top 15 SHINee Songs
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…
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Day 20: Favorite Song from a Drama
AHHH MEMORIES. There’s a nice mixture of oldies (songs from the mid-90s!) and goodies here. Some of them I love because of the memory associated with it (“Symphony No. 7”, “Touch Love”), and others were just legitimately good ass songs (see: “beautiful”, “괜찮아 사랑이야”)… not to say they weren’t all great songs, though. I actually…