In fact, at the moment, the Girls' Generation sub-unit TaeTiSeo has the category all to themselves with "Twinkle". I find their retro disco swagger a lot of fun. Although, whenever I see the band name abbreviated to TTS, I always think it says TITS.
There's plenty of time for all this to change. With new albums from 2NE1 and awesome wolf-headed rock band Man With A Mission coming out later this year, I'm sure that TaeTiSeo will have some competition by November. But I was a bit surprised that this category – which is usually the one with most nominations – should be so barren. Am I missing something?
In terms of albums ALBUMS?
ReplyDeleteGo!Go!7188 released their last tour album...
Salyu released a live version of s(o)un(d)beams
And I like SunnyHill's The Grasshopper song, but that's not really an album. LOL
SingerSen released her latest EP, Ghost Street. Still... Sirens is a better EP. Apparently she's releasing a full length album this year too...
And Juanes just released his MTV Unplugged... though, not much extraordinary, he does have a couple of new arrangements for some of his songs. Check out Hoy Me Voy.
Hmm, I never really got Go!Go!7188. I know they're exactly the kind of band I should like, but they never quite clicked with me. And Juanes is from the wrong continent! I am listening to music, just not from Japan.
ReplyDeleteAs I write, there are six Korean bands on my mp3 player*. Unless Japan pulls its finger out, it's going to be whitewash come November!
* for the record: Wonder Girls, Leessang, SNSD, TaeTiSeo, 2NE1 and Raspberry Field.
You didn't specify which continent xD You just said if you're missing anything...
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't have suspected you like Wonder Girls. From the Wonder World album I only liked one track, and that ended up a cover. xD
Like I said... I dunno about albums, i liked Nihon no Uta by Studio Apartment, but mainly because I got obsessed with the song Miss Universe. LOL I also liked the theme song in that Chiaki Kuriyama drama, Secret Spy Erika xD In reality, I've been listening to more Mandarin music than Japanese or Korean~~~ and I've been trying to catch up with my latin american music because I've been a very bad latin american!
Well, I liked "Be my baby" and now "Like This", so I'm listening to more of their stuff now. I admit, there's quite a lot of track-skipping.
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