This playlist will be updated throughout the month. It compasses a lot of the songs I’ve been stuch to lately. 蘇詩丁 Su Shiding – As I Believe I first heard this song by Su Shiding in a drama called “Crush原來我很愛你” (directly translates to ‘Actually I Really Love You’). The drama itself was decent, it had…
Youth With You 3 Canceled – A Byproduct of Greed and Short-Sighted Thinking
As most people heard by now, Youth With You 3 has been officially canceled. None of the trainees are debuting, there will be no final live broadcast. There are numerous scandals that got them to this point but I think all of this is a product of greed taking over rationale. The first thing is…
WayV 威神V: 秘境 Kick Back – What is up with the hook?
WayV to me is the top C-pop group at the moment and the best we’ve had in a long time. Most C-pop groups these days are pretty average so I am always excited when WayV releases new music.Today, they dropped their new mini-album, Kick Back, and the MV for the title track with the same…
[NEW RELEASE] 楊丞琳 Rainie Yang :漂流浴室 Indulging
I feel like it’s been a while since I heard music from Rainie. This is quite different from my impression of her music but I like the smooth, simple vocals a lot paired with some beats. She isn’t the type of singer to belt out high notes, instead going for a technique that suits her…
[HIGHLIGHT] G5SH: 舉刀自盡Back to Heaven ft.莫宰羊
I, shamefully, am only discovering this song three months after its release. I’m not familiar with G5SH or Mo Zai Yu莫宰羊, but I really love this piece they put out. I’m not really sure how to classify it. It’s predominantly electronic and has a sound that I associate with Taiwanese EDM very much but I…
WayV威神V: Take Over the Moon Album Design Critique/Translation
I’m always excited to go through K-pop album packaging despite not actually listening to much K-pop. It’s a nice learning experience to see how designers and creative directors curate and put together albums for artists. This time around, I critiqued WayV’s Take Over the Moon mini album. To be clear they are a mando-pop group…
[HIGHLIGHT] Vicky Chen陳忻玥 : Am I Who I Am
MUSIC RATING: 9/10 | MV RATING: 8.5/10 I always appreciate Vicky Chen’s sound. Her music is quite consistent and very suitable for her strong voice. I like the slight old-school Avril Lavigne vibe with the bold piano and drums in ‘Am I Who I Am’. The music is refreshing in the way that it leans…
[ALBUM CRITIQUE] LIM HYUNSIK: Rendez-Vous
Got to posting another critique video on critiquing photography and design from Lim Hyunsik’s awesome mini album, Rendez-Vous. While simple, they did a good job putting the design of thsi album together. I love space concepts but sometimes it can be overdone and come out cheap. RENDEZVOUS was art directed very elegantly. It’s less sci-fi…
[ALBUM CRITIQUE] NCT127 Neo Zone The Final Round
Check out the album critique for Player No. 1 and Player No. 2 of NCT127’s repackaged album: The Final Round. This was an album that had a very fun concept but artistically wasn’t executed to its maximum potential, let’s see what opportunities there are to make it better! The problem with this album lies both…
MISOE MUSIC HOUSE 