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Last week IU released a new single in Korea called Spring of a twenty year old (스무 살의 봄), which consists of three songs. The title track Every end of the day (하루 끝), IU’s own composition Peach (복숭아), which had a digital release before the full single release and finally I really don’t like her (그 애 참 싫다).

IU isn’t promoting these songs on the music shows as she’s focusing on her upcoming solo concert, but Every end of the day still topped the online charts when it came out.

As the title of the single suggests, IU turns 20 this spring. In Korean age, that is. She turned 19 in “western age” on the 16th. Spring of a twenty year old is also the title of a short film which was released instead of a normal music video. It starts out in a documentary style where you get to follow IU during various activities, mixed with a personal interview. The second part is more of a short film of her trip to Venice, Italy. It also doubles as a music video for Every end of the day.

You can watch the film in its entirety here (no subtitles):

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I made some clips for the music parts (three of them, keep scrolling :) ).

IU ~ Peach (composition clip)

IU ~ Peach (composition clip)

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In case you’re missing the rest of SNSD while TaeTiSeo are promoting, here’s the music video for Echo (requested by Alex).

Girls' Generation ~ Echo

Girls’ Generation ~ Echo

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I like this song. It was included in the Run Devil Run repackage of the “Oh” album, but it was never promoted.

The music video was recorded in Thailand at the same time as their All About Girls’ Generation: Paradise in Phuket DVD. It feels so unusual to see Sunny with dark long hair now :lol: . I like Seo-hyun’s look with that hair band (Yoon-a and Soo-young also have the same one, but it looks best on Seo-hyun). I should watch this DVD set again.

 

SNSD’s first sub-unit TaeTiSeo (소녀시대-태티서/Girls’ Generation-TTS) released their mini-album Twinkle digitally last Sunday. The CD is also out now. I’m pleasantly surprised by this album. I was expecting it to have one good song and then just fillers, but it’s pretty solid all the way through. Baby Steps is really nice (contains good vocabulary if you’re beginning to learn Korean :) ). It’s nice to have all these “vocalist heavy” songs where Tae-yeon, Tiffany and Seo-hyun can show off their skill. Especially Tae-yeon.

SM’s new thing is putting ads in the videos they release online, but this one is ad free (not counting the perfume product placement ;) ).

Girls' Generation-TTS ~ Twinkle

Girls’ Generation-TTS ~ Twinkle

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The girls look so great in the video! The dance moves are really cute too. Tae-yeon is so gorgeous and I love Seo-hyun’s cute faces on the roof wearing the red dress.

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TaeTiSeo (apparently Girls’ Generation-TTS is the official English name, but TaeTiSeo sounds better to me) are also going to be promoting on the weekly music shows this week, so expect some lives later on. If you’re interested in the official fan-chant, you can find it here (Korean).

This is my favourite picture from the digital booklet that comes with the album when you buy it on iTunes. I’m using (a cropped version of) it as my phone lock screen wallpaper :) .

Tae-yeon Tiffany Seo-hyun Twinkle digital booklet

It looks like the physical album comes with a bunch of photo cards. Going to get that too.

Watch the video on SMTown’s YouTube too, to help raise the view count :) .

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It feels like 4Minute, or rather their producers, are slipping. The title track from their latest mini-album is not what I had hoped for. Perhaps I’m biased, since I don’t like the sound of saxophones in general :P .

4Minute ~ Volume Up

4Minute ~ Volume Up

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Credit: source vid. k2nblog

As for the video, it actually makes the song sound better. Ji-yoon looks great, especially in the leather jacket with red shoulders. I wish they’d tone down the “sexy dancing” and whatnot. I’d much prefer a proper choreography.

I’ve listened to the mini-album a bit the last couple of days and I think the ballad I’m OK is pretty good (apart from the whistles in the background). Better than Volume Up, even though it has grown on me a little. The verse in Dream Racer is kind of interesting, but the rest is… not.

 

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

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

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

Big Bang ~ Bad Boy

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Requested by Alex.

 

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

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

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

Big Bang ~ Blue

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Requested by barguzzz and iboy.

 

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