Flashback Friday
2016-08-26 10:42 amIt’s time for Flashback Friday! I look through the charts for this Friday in a past year and post the top three songs. Then, I pick out two more from the top ten as honorable mentions. This week we’re going back to the 4th Friday in August, 2012. We’ll start with a song that EVERYONE has heard before…
#3 PSY “Gangnam Style”
I’m pretty sure this song needs no introduction. I think I was into this for like, three days, and haven’t listened to the whole song since then. I’d probably be into it live, though. His concerts look like so much fun.
#2 “I Need You” Huh Gak featuring Zia
This digital single from Huh Gak has no official MV nor any live performances, and I have no memory of it at all. But it’s always nice to hear Zia.
#1 Kara “Pandora”
When this came out, I think I was pretty indifferent to this song. But now, I freaking love it. And they all look so good in this MV! Like, seriously, they look AMAZING. Good hair, good makeup, cute outfits ASDGA JASFJIJ!
Honorable Mentions
#7 Beast “Beautiful Night”
This is my favorite Beast song, it’s a fun song. But I've never seen the MV before.
#8 BoA “Only One”
Posting the dance version of this song, because it’s BoA, and if given a choice between a BoA drama version or a BoA dance version, ALWAYS choose the dance version…because it’s freaking BoA.
YouTubes: officialpsy, nay nay, DSPKara, BEAST Official YouTube Channel, SMTOWN & Bugs
#3 PSY “Gangnam Style”
I’m pretty sure this song needs no introduction. I think I was into this for like, three days, and haven’t listened to the whole song since then. I’d probably be into it live, though. His concerts look like so much fun.
#2 “I Need You” Huh Gak featuring Zia
This digital single from Huh Gak has no official MV nor any live performances, and I have no memory of it at all. But it’s always nice to hear Zia.
#1 Kara “Pandora”
When this came out, I think I was pretty indifferent to this song. But now, I freaking love it. And they all look so good in this MV! Like, seriously, they look AMAZING. Good hair, good makeup, cute outfits ASDGA JASFJIJ!
Honorable Mentions
#7 Beast “Beautiful Night”
This is my favorite Beast song, it’s a fun song. But I've never seen the MV before.
#8 BoA “Only One”
Posting the dance version of this song, because it’s BoA, and if given a choice between a BoA drama version or a BoA dance version, ALWAYS choose the dance version…because it’s freaking BoA.
YouTubes: officialpsy, nay nay, DSPKara, BEAST Official YouTube Channel, SMTOWN & Bugs
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:10 pm (UTC)and i still don't get why boa never/rarely promotes in korea anymore :( it upsets me, she's so good, i want to see her more
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:18 pm (UTC)friendly reminder that u-kiss' neverland turns 5 next week (whaaaaaat)
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:22 pm (UTC)I agree that the dance version is best, but the drama version does have the extended piano intro, which I love.
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:25 pm (UTC)Totally agree.
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:27 pm (UTC)That KARA song is fire, and of course much love for PSY forever.
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:41 pm (UTC)Kara's Pandora is still a total jam!
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Date: 2016-08-26 06:49 pm (UTC)Beautiful Night and Only One are still solid.
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Date: 2016-08-26 07:34 pm (UTC)i love how a lot of people said it was the best MV of the year and then it blew the fuck up. amazing.
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Date: 2016-08-26 08:02 pm (UTC)it was also the year I started my degree and Gangnam Style was the first word I learned to read in Korean class
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Date: 2016-08-26 09:29 pm (UTC)I still love gangnam style ok
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Date: 2016-08-26 10:08 pm (UTC)still an absolutely bop idegaf
and Pandora/Beautiful Night are amazing songs THIS WAS AN EXCELLENT POINT IN TIME
EDIT: just rewatched the GS vid and it still delights me omfg
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Date: 2016-08-27 12:12 am (UTC)I feel like her Korean music hasn't been that good since the early 2000s, tbh. I like Only One ok, but it's not exciting enough to make a huge impression on the general public
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Date: 2016-08-27 12:45 am (UTC)it was also the year I started my degree and Gangnam Style was the first word I learned to read in Korean class
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Date: 2016-08-27 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-27 03:35 am (UTC)Beautiful Night is such an awesome summer song. It's the only other title besides Fiction that I've really loved from them.
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Date: 2016-08-27 04:43 am (UTC)"Gangnam Style" was fun/funny until every damn bar in Korea was playing it so we'd hear it all the time and THEN it went global and just ugh it got old. I do like Psy's stuff tho. Actually if we're talking Psy's work I've always been a fan of "Right Now". I started liking him when that first came out.
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Date: 2016-08-27 04:51 am (UTC)kara's Pandora was the first time I ever felt shook. it both destroyed me and saved my life + skin because the whole video was beautiful
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