pokecapn's top 20 kpop of 2019
(the rules)
- only singles with music videos. pokecapns can have little an exception, as a treat.
- the song must Kick Ass per my exacting standards
- i put this off until 2 hours ago so i probably forgot stuff and the order's all wrong
- hours of sleep
2023 edit: I have tried to preserve as much of the original tweet thread as possible. Dead links have been fixed, images uploaded(?), formatting tweaked to work with cohost the blogosphere, but otherwise the order and descriptions are straight from December 31 2019, whatever that entails.
??) ICU - Cupid
i can't in good conscience call this number 20. it's like someone fed rejected eurodance filler into a cat until it went urp all over the carpet. it's so jank they pronounce their team name wrong. i love it.
20) Nature - Oopsie (My Bad)
i was really enjoying how dank this song was until someone in the youtube comments said loha's part 1:31 sounds like "my gun is up your bussy" and now i blame the kids for everything wrong in this world
19) Eyedi - & New
you could argue it's not possible to be "too aesthetic" but i'm going to have to draw the line at deliberately adding wow and flutter. if you can get past that, solid 80s feel
18) Dreamcatcher - Deja Vu
this song is 30 seconds long with a 3 minute long intro. but it's a really good intro. the choir chanting bits put it over the edge
17) BewhY - Gottasadae
anyone can throw the first half of Yeezus into a blender, but it takes craft to pour out an actual song from the resulting slurry
16) Yoyomi - Surely
it's so nice to see Orange Caramel are putting out songs again. wait, what do you mean i've got the script wrong?
15) Oneus - Valkyrie
the guitar riff is here to reassure you and guide you throughout the song. worth pointing out is the housey second verse and the synth and guitar blending together during the choruses
14) Everglow - Adios
Everglow's sole reason for existence seems to be to try and out-Blackpink Blackpink. they certainly did
13) Weki Meki - Picky Picky
check the credits for this song. it took at least 10 people to make a brave brothers sound-alike. but you can't argue with the results; a fucked up bouncy drum and bass track that dj snake takes a shit on during the chorus. it's even got the heys
12) AOA - Come See Me
against the odds(?) everything comes together into a catchy little pile with a bit of yee haw added for good measure. this has got even more heys.
11) Hong Jinyoung - Love Tonight
this is just italo in disguise
10) Hinapia - Drip
scientists have described the sub-bass in this song as "off the charts". a flower explodes and a skull gets drowned in goo. i guess the synths are firmly in 2008 but that's fine by me
09) Taemin - Want
pure filth. an actual mountain of crud and sludge. disgusting
08) Itzy - Dalla Dalla
The JYP massive descends into Speed Garage Trap Hell and it is glorious
07) CLC - Me
are songs still allowed to slap? is that okay? everyone here cool with a little slappening? great. this song slaps. stank nasty brass and hangry rolling bass kicks
06) Rocket Punch - Bim Bam Bum
i, no shit, fired up stepmania in august to try and make a stepfile of this, before i remembered that i hadn't done this for 13 years and it was going to be a colossal pain in the ass because i wanted to fill it with every speed and freeze gimmick under the sun
05) Saturday - Bbyong
this is actually a shameless retread of Psy's New Face, but precision engineered to drill a hole in your brain. thanks
04) Apink - %%
the large genre collider fires again and creates crazed ethereal trance disco breaks
03) CLC - No.1 (the whole EP)
"you can't put a whole album in a slot" i am much better than other household pets when it comes to the heavy ass kicking content of this EP
02) DIA - Woowa
i am elementally weak to rave synths and hoovers and the little housey sax thingy noodling away in the right channel during the chorus. this song doesn't stop. i tried to make a stepfile out of this one too
01) fromis_9 - Love Rumpumpum
step 1, find something in the SAW back catalog and update the instruments, but not too much. step 2, say the same thing over and over again in the chorus. step 3, you're already done, you've mined purestrain k-pop
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