Flashback Friday (on a Thursday!)

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! Here’s an early Flashback Friday! Well, early to me. It’s still Thursday where I am. But it’s Friday in some places, and who knows what will happen tomorrow lol. Every week I go through the charts for this day in the past and share the top three songs. Then I pick out two more from the top ten as honorable mentions. This week, we are going back to the 2nd week in March, 2011. Most of the songs have been posted before.



#3 G.Na “Black & White”
This was her first song to reach #1 on the charts. It was the lead single off of her only EP of the same name. The thing I remember the most about the era was the over the knee boots lol. She wore them on every music show with like, shorts or rompers. This song would also give her her first triple crown on the shows. Let’s check out the MV again, it’s been awhile. She stars in the music video with 2AM’s Jinwoon.

#2 Lee Hyun “You Are The Best In My Life”
This is the lead single from the EP of the same name. It is still his biggest selling and highest charting solo song. Lee Hyun would follow this song up with a collaboration with the duo at #5 in this post, and then a comeback with Homme (which OP still misses because hello vocals). Here’s a recent live performance of the song from just a few months ago.

#1 IU “Only I Didn’t Know”
This was the lead track for the single album “Real+”. It was the follow up to “Good Day”, and is much more dark, sad, and sentimental than its predecessor. The song would debut at the top spot. There are two MVs for this song. This version features actress Park Boyoung (a baby here!) and the song’s composer Yoon Sang, along with IU.

Honorable Mentions

#5 Mighty Mouth featuring Soya “Tok Tok”
My favorite Mighty Mouth song. I still do the dance to it when I hear it, I love it sfm lol. It’s one of my all-time fav Kpop songs, always makes me happy. This was the first Mighty Mouth single with Soya, who would go on to feature on a few more songs for them. Here’s a live performance from Music Core.

#7 MBLAQ “Again”
I don’t remember this song at all. It was released as part of their “BLAQ Style – 3D Edition”, which was an album repackage. I don’t think there was an MV for it (although I think a lot MBLAQ official videos are gone now unfortunately), so here’s a live performance with great fanchants. Why is there only 4 of them? Does anyone remember?

A few months shy of 6 years since I started this series here on Omona. Hopefully we can continue on here. But if we can’t, I really want to continue it on the new site too. I’m still having fun with it. Can you believe there are still songs that I’m waiting for? Like I look at the master list and think “how have I not posted that song yet?!?” Something to look forward to, I guess. But thank you all so much for checking out the posts every week. Thank you for 6 years!








source: G.NA 지나 (Official YouTube Channel), it's Live, 1theK (원더케이), MBCkpop, 스브스케이팝 / SBS KPOP & soompi

Comments

[frequency.livejournal.com]

thank you for so many years of these posts, OP! it's been fun to revisit a lot of these songs :)

only i didn't know is still such a great song.

[lolknope.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all of your hard work!!! wherever we end up i hope to see you around 💗

[babyjenkski.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all your hardwork OP! This is one of my regular favorites here in Omona =)
So many memories here and really wish we didn't have to move but I'll follow Omona if it decides to move

Edit coz I forgot to comment about the songs hahaha

2011 is one of the best years in kpop for me! There were a lot of great releases. G.Na's Black & White is a cute song! She's one of the few soloist I know back then. And when I watch MV's of her songs, its cute to find current CUBE artists in the background who were just trainees then.

On MBLAQ, so Mir was missing ang I googled MBLAQ Mir 2011 injury. So yep, he was injured (spine) in Feb 2011 so he was not able to perform with his group when they made a comeback for the repackaged album.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

stop it, this series has been going on for 6 years already? what?????????

i only remember black & white and while it's a great track it's sad that they only gave g.na these basic pop songs

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Her whole career could have been so much more omg

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

OP, you're right, there was no video for Again, which is terrible because it's a great song.

[reader17.livejournal.com]

Wow 6 years! That is amazing thank you so much for all of these posts and hoping we can stay around someplace I think I have signed up for all of the places we may land at least temporary until they find a solution for a new place if we can't stay here!

MBLAQ I still love them and miss them I really don't remember that song but then again that was about 2 years before I found MBLAQ :) At first I thought MIR was missing but he showed up to rap and then left. Reading the comments now I know why.

Yes I can still us my MBLAQ icon. When I imported it to DW I could only have 15 so I am still debating which icons to keep and what one's to add that are missing :/ (Not sure if I can pay money to get more or not) it was so confusing trying to read what you can pay and get!

[daynr.livejournal.com]

Do you pick from different years for each week or is always a week from a set number of years prior?

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

when i started it was from 2008-2014, but as the years went by i've added more years. i'm planning on adding 2017 in a few months, because 2017 wil already be 5 years past. the year order changes everytime for prolly weird reasons that only make sense to me lol. some months have 5 weeks, so i have to adjust for that. i also dont put ost songs in the posts (just because most ost songs aren't very memorable, unless it's a super popular drama), so if there's an ost in the top three i find another year. and if the years are posted too close together there's a chance that some songs are still on the charts, so i try to spread them out.

[daynr.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the detailed reply.

I will interpret it as "I'm very grateful for the window into the past and celebrate the work of OP who should do whatever you arey wants."

Also, math is hard, years are math, and I now look forward to future years when comebacks I experienced are showcased! 🤗

[onechuxpunch.livejournal.com]

oh mblaq <3 i really need to catch up on their discography one of these days, didn't even know this was from the repackaged album.

IU's " the story only i didn't know' the piano and music box instrumental still leaves an impression on this day, it's one of my favorite title tracks.

[plusnminus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me of piano and music box instrumentals

[chiives.livejournal.com]

thank you for 6 years and hoping for even more to come!

[myungung.livejournal.com]

it has been 6 years?! congrats on another milestone OP and hope for more to come.

I sadly don't remember the songs here, except for Black and White. pity g.na's career never really took off and she was stuck with these sugary ish songs instead of being a vocalist

[921227.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I must've been tuning out that week, these songs are only vaguely vaguely familiar by ear 😅

[plusnminus.livejournal.com]

I always try to guess the year looking at the songs.
My memory fails me nowadays. I had a better grip.

Tok Tok and Again were so addicting. Thanks op for the revisit.

[plusnminus.livejournal.com]

Props to stuff staying online and not disappearing when they were posted decades ago. I can only imagine how things will look like in the future in regards to avaiability.

[sballet06.livejournal.com]

Tok Tok was such a jam as was Bad Boy, their collab with Soya for vocals was A+.

[996677.livejournal.com]

6 frigging years?? thank you.
also oh my god i had forgotten all about 'only i didn't know'! i loved it and it's b-side so much when it came out. i have to add them to my rotation again.