May 29

hey....hey.... how yall doin' 😬

🗓️This week: bold of me to say “this week” when I’ve been radio silent for months. aaaAnyway, here’s some of the highlights from that time.

🎼Tracklist:

• IRENE - Biggest Fan:

  • This whole album, I think, was fantastic, but I can’t put a whole album on this playlist. That would be crazy…………….ᵗʰᵃᵗʷᵒᵘˡᵈᵇᵉᶜʳᵃᶻʸ. This is Irene’s sophomore album and in my opinion it falls very in line with her debut album. It’s a good mix of r&b inspired and a little bit trance-y. Outside of the title track, I highly recommend Black Halo and Wasteland.

• BILLLIE - the collective soul and unconcious: chapter two:

  • WORK: I do agree that this should have been the title track. Not because I don’t like ZAP, but I think after a year of no group release, this is a better balance of Billlie’s concept switching and what’s on trend that would get them back in the kpop public eye. ZAP is lore-heavy¹, which I like, but this is straight up a club bop.

  • SOUPASTA: I’ve spoken before about my love of made up words². This is a great one because it can slot onto my “kpop is weirdly into weird food” playlist, while also feeling like more of a spiritual successor to jopping. Soupasta’s are for sure in the club joppin’ it up.

• LEE CHAEYEON - Till I Die:

  • No Tears On The Dancefloor: Very glad to see Chaeyeon back. She went on quite the hiatus for health reasons and then also her management team sucked or something, it was like, a double whammy if I remember correctly. Chaeyeon has a deceptively cohesive sound, which is like twee-adjacent. People get distracted by her absolutely outrageous dance breaks but, this is not a departure, like, get her in the booth with feist a little bit lowkey.

• ILLLIT - MAMIHLAPINATAPAI:

  • It’s Me: And this is where I disagree with the public. “oh this doesn’t sound like illit, oh this is too different” Respectfully, do you only listen to title tracks? I mean even then, this is just do the dance up a notch and a step to the left. Illit loves a repeating chorus and this one is just a little more octane. This is one hundred percent they’re manic little vibe. Tho I will give you the choreo is wack.

• NMIXX - Heavy Serenade:

  • IDESERVEIT: I’ve been wandering around the house chanting “i d e s e r v e i t i deser-erve i-it” like it’s a religious mantra, this song is so goddamn catchy.

• aespa - LEMONADE³:

  • The whole WDA thing: Because I am an adult who can admit when they were wrong, I’m taking this comeback as an opportunity to say: I’ve learned more about GDragon and I’d like to retract my previous statement about him being more respectful to black culture than Blackpink. That’s my bad. And it’s also a reason WDA is not on here. I still liked Power but I won’t be listening to it anymore, and it makes me bummed that aespa didn’t include a members only version of WDA. Because a) the above gdragon sucks and b) he didnt add much to the song anyway 😬.

  • Switchblade (feat. Ty Dolla $ign): This on the other hand? Fantastic, showstopping, how you use a feature. Although, are we perhaps picking up on a theme? It’s always so damning to see them laid out like this and it’s like “ah, yes, you wanted to turn your brain off this week, so it’s all edm inspired dance music coolcoolcoolcoolnodoubtnodoubt.”

1. what do you mean there was no Billlie Love? What do you mean whatdoyoumean?

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3. bold choice, sm