Thanks for some delightful selections.
What a shame that they have to be posted under #WantUBack !
Thanks for some delightful selections.
What a shame that they have to be posted under #WantUBack !
A contribution from my wife for this #KpopMonday #WantUBack cuz in this house we both adore and miss him
Jonghyun - Y Si Fuera Ella https://youtu.be/0lSSIQ4lE78
cw: flashing concert lights, hanky warning, gunshot/blood (fake)
This is also a good song to point to about how translation is a series of choices - what was arguably more general in Spanish became specific in Korean due to Jonghyun's choices.
Ok, ok, I did indeed promise some happier songs for this #KpopMonday #WantUBack, so let's get to that, shall we?
Jonghyun - Shinin' https://youtu.be/J41qe-TM1DY
cw: lens flares, background flashing, surrealism
I'm resisting just posting all of Jjong's MVs, just for the record. ;)
Played myself on this one...
Jinjin (ASTRO) - Fly (duet with Moonbin (ASTRO)) - https://youtu.be/9d9q-uTNKa4
cw: lens flares, hanky warning
This is maybe stretching the #WantUBack theme a wee bit, but Jinjin's Jin Lab has been a huge part of my healing process and trying to get to where I can forgive Binnie for his choices. But the video still makes me cry.
Next on this fine #KpopMonday #WantUBack ... oh, I'm not done being mean yet, am I?
SULLI - Goblin https://youtu.be/P5uE7KDkDFE
cw: mental illness, flashing lights
Sulli deserved so much better then what knets did to her. Anyone would, did, does.
Are you crying yet? No? I can fix that!
Jonghyun - Lonely (feat. Taeyeon) https://youtu.be/NpTpEsE9G8c
cw: hanky warning, implied SI, lens flares, drinking
We can't have a #KpopMonday #WantUBack without Jonghyun, even if it still hurts.
But wait, there's more!
Realslow (Wheesung) - Breaking Down https://youtu.be/Y_6VfzBl7yk
cw: flashing (lightning, darkness), hanky warning
From 2019, before he reverted back to his given name. Even more brokenhearted than the last one.
Continuing #KpopMonday #WantUBack, now with actual #Kpop!
Wheesung - Night And Day https://youtu.be/napCk8ZVlpw
cw: shaky cam
A broken hearts song because I'm on a mission to break all the hearts?
Oh y'all didn't think I was going to just SKIP this #PopMonday #WantUBack, did you? Time to break all our hearts!
Kagrra, - Shiroi Uso https://youtu.be/WrzAL7rO1p0
cw: hospitalization, sparkling/twinkling effects, death imagery/implied MCD
Annoyingly, the official PSC uploads have gone MIA, so we're left w. this smushed bootleg.
Picking just one Kagrra song is always a nightmare, but btwn the "death" of the band & the actual death of Isshi, this felt most appropriate.
Take That's Back For Good popped into my head because of the #PopMonday #WantUBack theme. I in fact don't want them back but it's stuck in my head now, so you have to listen to it too.
I think it'd be neat if a kpop group covered this.
#KPopMonday (#WantUBack) #KPop
Cherry Bullet — Q&A:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LCGn9UFNAY
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=5LCGn9UFNAY
cignature — Nun Nu Nan Na:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9DCnxXstI
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WM9DCnxXstI
BVNDIT — Hocus Pocus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnJqGMW4yts
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TnJqGMW4yts
ALICE (ex-ELRIS) — We, First:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28naAblMZmA
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=28naAblMZmA
IMFACT's NANANA is one of my favorite kpop songs ever, so I had to include it. You might also see/hear someone familiar: HELLO GLOOM of WAY BETTER (fka The Faker Club), Na Ungjae!!
임팩트[IMFACT] 나나나(懦那䛔) M/V
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQj3jh90Q5s
Let me take you back to January 2014... or actually, just 2014 in general, because this song was everywhere that year, and you know what? DESERVED. This song still eats. I miss you everyday, Girl's Day.
Girl's Day(걸스데이) 'Something' Official MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPDKYwIoVk
And while we're here I thought it would be fun to share this collab with IU too. They're both so cute!
[MV] IU(아이유) _ Friday(금요일에 만나요) (Feat. Jang Yi-jeong(장이정) of HISTORY(히스토리))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiVmQZwJhsA
Can't miss an opportunity to share Jang Yi-jeong's group History. So much sexy drama and heavy breathing. (Who knew!?)
It's sad we don't see him performing anymore. He wrote this track too.
HISTORY(히스토리) _ Might Just Die(죽어버릴지도 몰라) (Performance ver.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa7QfiKGvfk
While they haven't officially disbanded, most of the members have left their original label, and their last release was in 2022, so here's UP10TION with "Crazy About You".
UP10TION(업텐션) '너에게 미쳤었다 (Crazy About You)' MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mg1MRiky3o
Wiki says she's still active, but she hasn't released anything since 2021. I think she's concentrating on being a Mum (she had a son in early 2022).
Tuesday Is Better Than Monday - GIANT PINK (2016-??) feat RED VELVET Yeri
I dream of a world where Pledis never fumbled PRISTIN...
[MV] PRISTIN(프리스틴) _ WE LIKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6LAzgZi8N8
There's an alternate timeline where NU'EST blew up with this song and I'll forever be pissed that it wasn't this one. Overcome, I'm so sorry they didn't understand the vision.
[MV] NU'EST(뉴이스트) _ OVERCOME(여왕의 기사)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9XXGztRM4Y