[url=http://pitchfork.com/features/starter/9475-20-essential-k-pop-songs/]http://pitchfork.com/features/starter/9475-20-essential-k-pop-songs/[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY25vVPCKr8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY25vVPCKr8[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKyanNpkms]f(x): “미행 (그림자 : Shadow)”[/url]

Simply put, f(x) is the most reliably risk-taking act in K-pop. Created in 2009 by SM Entertainment, the multinational, five-piece girl group’s two albums from the past year mark an unmatched winning streak in a mainstream market more inclined toward singles and mini-albums (K-Pop’s clever rebrand of the EP). “Shadow” is one of the stranger highlights from 2013’s neon Pink Tape. Built around a jazzy discord of flats and sevenths, the song’s synth harmony and xylophone melodies have more in common with a Thelonious Monk rag than anything on most modern pop charts (it peaked at #6 on Korea’s national chart, despite not being an official single). Exacerbating the tonal wooze is a pitch-shifted sample of what might as well be a gaggle of fairies getting fumigated. Above it all, the girls of f(x) detail a dark diary of stalking an object of desire. The fraught confessional is set to an R&B melody that’s lullaby-sweet, seeming to temper the tension in the arrangement—until the lyrics register.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xx4iU01oV8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xx4iU01oV8[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xx4iU01oV8]Ga-In: “팅커벨 (Tinkerbell)”[/url]

As the youngest member of the quartet Brown Eyed Girls, Ga-In uses her solo career to test the limits of both Korea’s mainstream music and morals. “Tinkerbell”, a coy invite to a midnight tryst, is introduced by a damaged, half-deleted Latin guitar and proceeds to synthesize wobbly LFO chords, compression-blown riffs that could deafen Sleigh Bells, violent jump cuts to millisecond silence, yawps like a young Karen O’s, surf rock guitar leads, a lone bebop trumpet interjection, severe glitch undertones, and a four-bar break that snaps off-grid altogether. The song opens Ga-In’s excellent Talk About S mini-album, which tempers this IDM pop opioid with the delightful Madonna throwback [url=http://youtu.be/K64mb5KUhhs]“Bloom”[/url].

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Med2XipHJJM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Med2XipHJJM[/url]

Orange Caramel: “까탈레나 (Catallena)”

Orange Caramel’s very existence is an interesting insight into the K-pop industry. The female trio is a subsidiary of the larger girl group After School—in the same way that Kia is a subsidiary of Hyundai. So while Orange Caramel release their own records and stage their own performances, they are deliberately perceived as an After School-brand group, a common tactic in the K-pop market (other examples include T-ara’s T-ara N4, Sistar’s Sistar19, and Girls’ Generation’s Girls’ Generation-TaeTiSeo). These derivations are typically meant to exploit the specific talents or chemistry of a subset among a larger ensemble, and Orange Caramel’s uniting concept is “Candy Culture”—basically, Korean aegyo cutesiness meets a lot of saccharine pastels.

Fortunately, this conceit has inspired some pretty fantastic pop. Orange Caramel’s best, “Catallena”, is a fluffy, filter-swept combo of ABBA-grade orchestration, ghazal folk samples, runny 1980s snare, Bollywood dyes, imitation Chic guitar, and a compression-lacquered coating of synth bass à la “Blue Monday”. The bright vocal frosting is piped preciously atop it all, flirting with an exoticized other and voicing bi-curious fancies—“She’s so great, I’ve fallen for her/ Even as a girl”—and they even sing some untranslated lyrics from the Pakistani wedding song that’s being interpolated. The holistic effect jars at first, making “Catallena” a common instance where the stickiness of a K-pop song’s video and choreography is crucial to its marketing plan. Unlike other mainstream industries, K-pop seems to romanticize the ideal of love at second listen.

what a wonderful song

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnku4o3tRB4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnku4o3tRB4[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzlTs2I8FA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuzlTs2I8FA[/url]

wonderful song, wonderful fashion!

the girl in tattoo tights is so sexy!

excellently-written article!

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY25vVPCKr8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY25vVPCKr8[/url]

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/LY25vVPCKr8

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKyanNpkms]f(x): “미행 (그림자 : Shadow)”[/url]

Simply put, f(x) is the most reliably risk-taking act in K-pop. Created in 2009 by SM Entertainment, the multinational, five-piece girl group’s two albums from the past year mark an unmatched winning streak in a mainstream market more inclined toward singles and mini-albums (K-Pop’s clever rebrand of the EP). “Shadow” is one of the stranger highlights from 2013’s neon Pink Tape. Built around a jazzy discord of flats and sevenths, the song’s synth harmony and xylophone melodies have more in common with a Thelonious Monk rag than anything on most modern pop charts (it peaked at #6 on Korea’s national chart, despite not being an official single). Exacerbating the tonal wooze is a pitch-shifted sample of what might as well be a gaggle of fairies getting fumigated. Above it all, the girls of f(x) detail a dark diary of stalking an object of desire. The fraught confessional is set to an R&B melody that’s lullaby-sweet, seeming to temper the tension in the arrangement—until the lyrics register.

MilkLover 发表于 8/8/2014 11:35:07 PM [url=http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?topicid=1670409&postid=64018590#64018590][/url]

这个太好听了。作曲的有cathy dennis!

琳琳不嫌弃pitchfork啦？

琳琳不嫌弃pitchfork啦？
linger25 发表于 8/10/2014 12:16:28 AM [url=http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?topicid=1670409&postid=64028490#64028490][/url]

pitchfork是我们chicago的骄傲！

pitchfork是我们chicago的骄傲！



MilkLover 发表于 8/10/2014 12:49:43 AM [url=http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?topicid=1670409&postid=64028830#64028830][/url]

咳咳，终于清醒了。。。

很爱芝加哥，不过小心冬天~~

去过一次芝加哥，去的几天一直在下雨，没怎么出去玩。