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Ladies ruled 2018, and it sounds like they're gonna keep slaying in 2019 too. I'd kill for at least one more f(x) comeback, but Luna and Amber are getting me through.

I am very interested to see what you and others would have to say on this topic.

Oooooooh, they have my attention (but who are we kidding they always do).

I'm just gonna also point out for many of my friends that fit the narrative of jumping from J-rock to K-pop, and not just J-pop itself... I can tell you the number 1 reason was accessibility. Japan labels started closing many inroads to the west, region blocking their channels, having all the fan videos deleted, and making it very hard to buy stateside unless you went to a type of convention. Where when the "boom" of interest happened that wasn't the case. And also.. the price. K-pop is DRASTICALLY cheaper to collect. So in a way, yes it fills their need for ~exotic Asian musics~ because it's still fun and brightly colored without being so time consuming and wallet draining. I won't even go into the difference in fandom cultures here. But I don't think a lot of J-music fans see it from the other side and how much Japan intentionally shut out a lot of the more casual western fans.

I wonder how many younger fans this would win over. I love a good throwback, but idk if this feels a little dated in an uninteresting way. I like the line up so I hope something more exciting comes down the line... but this was kinda underwhelming.

I wasn't sure about the change in music direction, but I just missed Jay's voice too much to care at this point I'll take whatever I can get.

This list is basically made up of 3 or 4 playlists I throw on a lot while I'm working so it's really skewed and doesn't represent what I really enjoyed the most this year.

OOR are one of those bands that could sing me the phonebook and I'll still enjoy it. Is it their deepest most exciting work? Nah. Still something that will fit my work playlist nicely tho.

This is the first album in the last ten years that I've enjoyed mostly the entire album. I agree with pretty much everything you said, except I also enjoy Devote My Life. I feel like the guitar tone adds to the mayhem of the track, somehow reminds me of their very early albums. But maybe that's just the rawness in general.

3 episodes into the new season of Daredevil and I already feel like the writing this season took a turn for the worse. I'm hoping it picks up in the next couple of episodes or I'll probably drop it.

This is the best news, I'm so happy for them!!

That could have been it? I didn't hear any backlash (not saying that to be representational, my circle is just pretty small lol), I just saw a lot of people moved on. Easy come, easy go, I guess. I'm kinda picky about ballads, this ones not for me. But it's pretty. A few of the youtubers I follow are doing their mid-year top 10 lists. What are everyone's top 10 songs/releases in K-pop this year so far? Here's mine: 10. DREAMCATCHER - YOU AND I 9. CLC - Black Dress 8. Super Junior x Leslie Grace - Lo Siento 7. Momoland - BBOOM BBOOM 6. Hyolyn - Dally 5. (G)I-DLE - LATATA 4. SHINee - Good Evening 3. BLACKPINK - DDU-DU DDU-DU 2. NCT U - BOSS 1. MONSTA X - JEALOUSY

The clip is cute, I'm not mad at it.

Same. I've been much more into the secondary, fan requested groups that came out of s2 like JBJ and RAINZ. W1 is missing some kind of chemistry between the members to me (most of whom weren't my favs on the show either besides maybe Ong for his humor), and I feel I.O.I had better songwriters with JYP and Jinyoung, etc. And it's funny because I didn't even watch s1, I just heard I.O.I after and ended up liking them, where as I watched all of s2 and didn't feel as connected to the boys. And I tend to bias boy groups. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wow! Yeah, it is such a shame they were being slept on by that point. Even I was finding out about releases late because there was no buzz. Which I don't understand. They had a huge debut and --I feel-- their music only got better as they went on but idk, people just abandoned them. 😕 Ren with long hair was a LEWK.

Jinyoung is a great songwriter. I'm curious how their sound will change too. And if Jinyoung will continue songwriting since it seems like the consensus is they left to pursue more acting opportunities. LMAO Beautiful Target is the gift that never stops giving. How much longer does Wanna One have anyway? I want Nu'est back together... I like their music so much better. I'm glad they found a larger audience though, they deserve it. The video for Deja Vu is gorgeous too. Everything they put out is quality.

Looks like the 7 year curse strikes again. B1A4's Jinyoung and Baro will be leaving WM Entertainment. From the Soompi report: Seeing the word "restructure" makes me worrisome there will be no intent for joint venture between WM and Jinyoung and Baro's new companies to continue with B1A4's original line up. This is really sad. B1A4 had some great songs and I always thought they had a solid fanbase. I enjoyed quite a lot of their music. In case people aren't familiar, this is one of my favorites.