I’ve started listening to Sistar a bit this year. First because they were performing at Music Bank in Paris. Now I’m watching Dream High 2, where main vocalist Hyo-rin plays the (smallish) part of Nana. I started listening to Miss A after the first Dream High, so I wouldn’t rule out the same thing happening with Sistar .

Sistar ~ Alone

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나혼자 (Alone) has a bit of a different sound from Sistar’s previous songs. I haven’t decided what to think about it yet. My favourite Sistar song so far is 가식걸 (Shady Girl). So Cool isn’t bad either.

This song was requested by Ex0rcist. Shinhwa debuted way back in 1998. Venus is from their 10th album The Return, which is their comeback album after taking a four year break while they all completed their military service.

Shinhwa ~ Venus

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Parts of the song sound a bit Eurodance-y.

Another Big Bang request . I’ve only listened a little to their latest mini-album, but I’ve found myself going “wow, fantastic baby”, “I’m still alive” or starting to hum Blue when I’m walking home from work recently. The following song hasn’t hit home with me, though.

Big Bang ~ Bad Boy

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Requested by Alex.

After finishing Secret Garden, I started watching Dream High 2. It takes place in the same art school as the first Dream High, but a lot has changed. The school has lost its status and is going down the drain when an entertainment company buys it out and sends its own artists, who have been banned from performing for violating a new law prohibiting under-age artists from performing late at night, to attend the school for the time being. It’s not entirely clear what the exact reasoning behind this is.

The actors are all different with the exception of JYP and a few cameo appearances by the original cast.

The main character is Hae-seong, played by Kang So-ra. I recognize her from the movie Sunny. She’s really cute and funny. […] there’s more! »

Touch is the title track of Miss A’s latest mini-album. It came out last month, but I’ve been a bit out of the loop lately and haven’t given it a look until now.

Miss A ~ Touch

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The first time I heard Miss A I didn’t like them that much, but now I like them a lot. This song isn’t as good as their previous songs, though.

Sherlock is SHINee’s latest song. Requested by Elvina.

SHINee ~ Sherlock

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Jessica from SNSD makes an appearance in this music video as the pretty clue-leaving ghost.

The song reminds me a little of one of their old songs. Love Like Oxygen, perhaps.

The video has an ad for Everysing’s app in it. All the source videos I found came with the ad.

By popular demand, here’s Blue by Big Bang. An easy listening song from their latest mini-album.

Big Bang ~ Blue

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Requested by barguzzz and iboy.

This video was requested by joonxfan and barguzzz. It’s from Big Bang’s latest mini-album Alive.

Big Bang ~ Fantastic Baby

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The beginning of the video made me think of Brown Eyed Girls’ Sixth Sense, but then it goes off in a completely different direction. I can just imagine the director describing the concept to the band: “OK, this might seem a bit weird, but I think you’ll like it” and G-Dragon going: “Weirder!” I’m referring mostly to the traditional Korean lion dance thrown in there.

This is kind of random, but I just had to post this video from Girls’ Generation’s Japan Tour DVD. It’s a clip that they ran between songs, which shows Key from SHINee and how the world appears to him when he’s gotten a ticket to see SNSD live. It’s so funny . The best part is when he does the heart symbol to “Tiffany” .

Key clip @ SNSD First Japan Tour

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Time Machine is SNSD’s latest Japanese track. It was included on the repackaged version of their Japanese debut album along with the Japanese version of The Boys. The song itself has been out a long time, but the music video was just released.

Girls’ Generation ~ Time Machine

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Credit: source vid. fishing@jpopsuki

The most prominent features of the video are Yoon-a in the snow, Sunny in the rain and Tae-yeon’s gorgeousness. Yu-ri also looks great. Well, they all do. You know how it goes .

The song starts out nice, but the chorus sounds so-so to me. It’ll probably grow on me as I listen to it a bit more (it kind of already has). I like the verse — and the video. They sing about regrets and wanting a time machine, but the end of the video shows them crying (울지마세요!) and then picking them selves up and moving on. I guess that’s the thing to do when your pleas for a time machine go unanswered .

I saw that a Korean release of the repackaged Japanese album came out last month. I might pick it up, since it’s more affordable than the Japanese version.