mastodon 4.7.2Hello fellow fan! You may know me from elsewebs as Yuuana, an older Kpop fan with varied interests. This is my dedicated music blogging space - announcetoots for my Music Monday, Midweek Release Roundup, and any other incidental Asian music posts I choose to make. For my other toots, you'll find me at @yuuana@wandering.shop
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Weekly Roundup on hiatus until: IDK, September?
But seriously, if your Kpop ults compose their own music, you owe it to yourself to check out Jonghyun and thank him for his work
#Music #Kpop #SHINeeAs long as we're featuring #WorkHard for #KpopMonday, how about my co-ults
SHINee - Atlantis https://youtu.be/PSYRbJjIT6U
cw: flashing, surrealism, dripping wet SHINee (fully clothed)
CC in 7 tracks, incl ENG
Featuring Taemin and Key working in a little shop. Quality camp and if you look closely, you might spot the spaces held open for their missing brother.
I lied... one more #KpopMonday #RedVsBlue because I can't resist my ESBB
ATEEZ - Deja Vu https://youtu.be/nlnMDttgTbk
cw: aggressive flashing, unrestrained sexy, dripping wet everyone
CC in 5 tracks, incl ENG
The overall blue-ness of Deja Vu reinforces that this is Z-verse (aka Halateez) lore, though we still get flashes of red light.
But if we're just talking hair... ginger!Captain, bright red!Yunho, blue-grey!Mingi, and bicolor blue!Wooyoung
Abuela's Song of the Day (May 9)
8TURN - BRUISE https://youtu.be/WxL5cNNelLk
cw: aggressive flashing, lens flares
CC in English and Japanese
Fire and disaster and pain, oh my. A song with epic sweep. Or if you'd rather focus entirely on the choreo, they did this on Studio CHOOM, too: https://youtu.be/f35yPhEC_RU (cw: aggressively flashing lights)
And now for something a little different for this #KpopMonday #WorkHard
SF9 - Puzzle https://youtu.be/PGGdneG9g3Y
cw: aggressive flashing, gun violence, Yoo Taeyang's stupidly pretty face
CC in 9 tracks, incl ENG
A different sort of work: spy vs. spy. Some day I might be able to pay attention to the plot long enough to put the pieces together. Today is not that day.
A quick #KpopMonday #RedVsBlue before I get some sleep....
ATEEZ - Inception https://youtu.be/2NArH91kHoQ
cw: aggressive flashing
CC in 6 tracks, incl ENG
An intense MV from another group that uses color as an integrated part of their lorebuilding, featuring blueberry-Captain (and candy apple red highlights Jjongbear). Red for passionate dreams, blue for logical reality (among other things, but space constraints 😉).
Abuela's Song of the Day (May 12)
Seonghwa (ATEEZ) - Skin https://youtu.be/XP7zqLMu-mM
cw: aggressive flashing, gore, supernatural elements (snake demon), Mother Mothering
CC in 10 tracks, including English
If I hadn't been feeling like crap the last many days, I would've been completely predictable and posted this on Sunday. Beware the return of Seonghwa's Tongue Antics.
This #KpopMonday's theme is #WorkHard and I couldn't resist
ATEEZ - BOUNCY (K-HOT CHILLI PEPPERS) https://youtu.be/U0G5OA6ZH5w
cw: canon-typical violence, flashing lights, guns, blood/injury
CC in 10 tracks, incl ENG
Our undercover operatives work hard for the money. Featuring Hongjoong as a a cowboy sniper and an impossible smart bullet.
Another #KpopMonday #5thGenerationKpop offering!
ZEROBASEONE - Good Night (Play Color Live ver) https://youtu.be/PlTLdVAmwLE
cw: background flashing (mild)
I've shared this before, but it's still my overall favorite of theirs and not just because they're all soft and fluffy in pajamas.
Welcome to #KpopMonday #5thGenerationKpop time!
xikers - TRICKY HOUSE https://youtu.be/HefrSFeMyPs
cw: flashing, supernatural elements (dokkaebi), furry monsters
CC in 11 tracks, incl ENG
This was hard, they've had many good MVs.
From a lore POV, it's debatable how much (if anything) from when Jinsik puts his headphones on MC to MC waking up in the parking lot even happened - dokkaebi are magic tricksters w/ psychic abilities, so this could be exclusively in MC's head.
Abuela's Song of the Day (May 5)
KiiiKiii - Delulu https://youtu.be/BTlj6Sls7KE
cw: aggressive flashing/strobing lights, surrealism
CC in 6 tracks, incl ENG
Dreamy and atmospheric and just a bit out there.
(includes line attribution if CC if that's something you're curious about)
I had a SotD picked, but it's getting pushed because I'm too tired to give it a proper post and unhelpful cat is not helping
review status: 20/71
Already had one DNF, whee, and still some sus entries to sort out.
Also not as many rest points this week - nearly every entry is a video of one sort or another (MV, lyric video, performance/live); my cat-dom for a couple more audio-only where I can rest my eyes for 3 whole minutes 😅
review status: all videos reviewed
the way I had to dump all my built in breaks because it took all week to get any time to do this and then I still had to dump a bunch of genslop'd BS....
Going to get some sleep (with my heater on, cuz i'm COLD) and then I'll make the actual post
Abuela's Song of the Day (May 6)
Minjae, Sumin, Yechan (xikers) - DELULU https://youtu.be/nC6tSUowhIg
cw: aggressive flashing/strobing lights, full face masks, f-bombs, supernatural elements (creatures, spirit fire, paper talismans)
CC in 4 tracks, incl ENG
A completely different vibe for this name-twin song from xikers' rap line. Aggressively "we go our own way" and probably also at least lore-adjacent, given the presence of spirit orbs and floating brooms. 🤣
I suppose if I'm going to re-list Forestella (WHY did you make me think you weren't going to do an MV you assholes???), then I should probably, in fairness, also allow H//PE Princess to stay on the list, but ohhhh I may not be able to stop myself from being snarky about the whole thing
names and proper styling are important, but it's so hard when the group itself changes up styling at random(?!) HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CREDIT WOOAH?!?!
Just today, I've seen (on official uploads!):
woo!ah!
WOOAH
WOOAH!
wooah!
Do ... do you want me to just roll the dice and pick one? Ask my cat for her input?
(spoiler: she doesn't care)
(right now I have it as "WOOAH!" and it'll probably stay that way, but eesh, the little things, you know?)
review status: 7/68
which is not great until I drop the nugget that we started with 100 videos 😜
Today has been a misery of pain and not being allowed deep sleep.
#Music #Kpop #KRnB #Jonghyun #SHINeeAnother one for #KpopMonday #WorkHard
P1Harmony - Fall in Love Again https://youtu.be/gvw87mowRsc
cw: furry monsters, flashing, lens flares, Keeho's stupidly pretty face
CC in 12 tracks, incl ENG
Featuring That Diner, That Service Station, and That Motel as the boys work as the most chaotic love consultants
if you didn't want to shoot your own drone footage of Seoul, I'm positive you could find some to buy instead of asking a slop machine to fabricate it for you, jfc
#Music #Jrock #VisualKei #KagrraAbuela's Song of the Day (May 4)
The HU - Sugaan Essena (Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order) https://youtu.be/oJZfEh3EciU
Since it's Star Wars Day, something a little different for SotD today.
May the Force be with you!