Flashback Friday

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Had two cocktails at lunch because I am an a adult and it’s Friday! Every week I go through this Friday in a past year on the charts and post the top three songs. Then, I pick out two more from the top ten as honorable mentions. Let’s see what topped the charts for the 2nd week in January, 2012.


#3 Wonder Girls featuring School Gyrls “The DJ Is Mine”
I had forgotten that this happened. It’s not as horrible as I remember it. They all look really pretty here.

#2 Sunny Hill “The Grasshopper Song”
I keep waiting for my favorite Sunny Hill song to show up. This is not it. I have no memory of this song, but the MV looks kinda familiar to me. And the guy in it is cute. Is he an actor? Can someone ID him?

#1 T-ara “Lovey Dovey”
Even though there’s a million (I’m lying, there’s three) different MV versions, I remember none of them lol. I do remember this song though. The “drama” version of this MV is the continuation of the “Cry Cry” MV and can be found here, if you’ve got 20 minutes to kill. This version is the "zombie" version.

Honorable Mentions

#4 10cm “Sorrow”
There’s no MV for this lovely song, so here’s the best fancam I could find.

#10 MBLAQ “This Is War”
Oh so dramatic MBLAQ! This MV is always what I first think about at the mention of MBLAQ. Loved everything about this era.

Got a tag! I think all the past posts have been re-tagged now! Thanks guys!


YouTubes: Wondergirls, 1theK 1 2, DarkSniper, jtunecamp & Mnet

Comments

[pineepie.livejournal.com]

Lovey-dovey is such a jam... and honestly, almost every pre-scandal T-ara songs had been jams for me

[lovebeat-down.livejournal.com]

the guy was actually one of the members of sumny hill. his name is janghyun, they didn't add him back in the line up after he finished his military service

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

incorrect. He was the leader & iiirc their primary music influencer/producer and did one last song with them post service before the group as a member because he wanted to focus more on music production.

[lovebeat-down.livejournal.com]

thank you for the correction

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

NP!

I only know because they're a fave of mine. All my faves are either ending or not popular enough for consistent news, sigh

[by-venoms-sting.livejournal.com]

I think The DJ Is Mine was one of the first Wonder Girls music videos I ever watched.

It's weird because I think I had been into them for a year or so before this video was release but never bothered to seek out the videos for their other singles. I just stumbled upon this one via one of lj music sharing comms and watched on a whim.

After that I only saw the visually pleasing Like Money (sad about the song itself not being quality) and didn't watch another Wonder Girls vid until I Feel You which dragged me into kpop full force.

[by-venoms-sting.livejournal.com]

I only hear The Grasshopper Song for the first time a few months ago so it's not a throwback for me even though I love it.

[jileader.livejournal.com]

The dj is mine was one of my guilty pleasure jams hahahhaha

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

What a week for WG to be here. I just want them to all stay together and, hopefully, start their own label?

God, they are SO iconic and literally made a way for all these girl groups in their and the present generations.

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

OP, the guy in the sunny hill MV is their former leader and a backing vocalist on their singles -

http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Janghyun

After he finished his military service he had one last comeback with them and left (on good terms) to become a composer instead.

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! I don't remember him at all =/

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

He kept himself in the background for a LOT of their more popular songs but the male vocals on them are him and the guy in the 'pray' & 'midnight circus' while their digital single 'don't say anything' is largely a goodbye to him before his departure.

[xlovexlessxtyx.livejournal.com]

DJ is Mine is Lowkey a bop and reminds me that at one point in time Lim made the effort to try and sing in a register that was suited to her voice. Don't know why she started with that false-etto.

Also this was the point in time where I really wanted Yenny to excel the most. She had such drive back then.

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

Damn t-ara's company used to spend so much money for their MVs

[smyers92.livejournal.com]

Ive been in love with the grasshopper songsince it was released. Back when sunny hill had a dude

[leavesabound.livejournal.com]

The Grasshopper Song! I love that video so much.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Lovey Dovey aka the song where they decided to keep Kim Boa's guide vocals and stick them over everyone elses lmfao. Also the song with the most high pitched vocals I've ever heard from a girlgroup. I remember when it came out and got uploaded (unaltered) to Youtube and people were asking if the poster had changed the pitch to avoid being deleted.

It's a fun track though.

[senshicalico.livejournal.com]

wtf how have i not known that was kim boa's vocals on that song? jfc how many times have I listened to them both? lol

they did the same thing with LE's rap in SUGAR FREE, lol.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realised that either until I was reading the credits for the album and then I went "I CAN TOTALLY HEAR IT???!!!!"

Idk but T-ara's tracks are always like that, featuring the vocals of other people.

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

i love grasshopper song so much!

[coyote-revolver.livejournal.com]

I love all of these songs <3
The Grasshopper song MV is fantastic; Sunny Hill used to have amazing videos.

[squeakybanana.livejournal.com]

omg the DJ is George Wickham from the Lizzie Bennet Diaries

[sodapab.livejournal.com]

omg The Grasshopper Song! I thought it was cool how the song and concept were tied together and the whole twist on the old story of The Ant and the Grasshopper. I stanned Sunny Hill so hard back then.

Lovey Dovey <3

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

I love Grasshopper Song.

Wow, I had no idea there was a zombie version of Lovey Dovey.