It’s time for Kpopalypse roundup! Let’s check out some new releases!

Itzy – Wannabe

Itzy’s first good song isn’t perfect, and sure has a few useless sections, but the overall tilting away from shouty bullshit and into the better aspects of Twiceland is welcome.

Itzy – Nobody Like You

Their other song isn’t bad either and I have no idea why it has grunge style riffs and distorted bass chords in it but it actually works a lot better than it theoretically should.

Dreamcatcher – Sahara

First their venue burns down, now their video sets burn down so they have to just improvise a video on the fly. Good thing she’s rubbing those chopsticks together in close view of a fire extinguisher. You can’t be too careful.

Eyedi – J.us.T

Similar to “Best Mistake” in terms of feel but nowhere near as good, unfortunately.

Alice Vicious – DD

Kind of just rambles along with the same melody line over and over, quite boring despite some interesting rhythms plus a good effort to spice it up visually.

Favorite – Lie

This is what Americans call “Latin” and what the rest of the world calls “boring”.

Victon – Howling

Well, that’s a new way to wear a belt.

Victon – Nightmare

The most interesting aspect of this is trying to identify the guys in Victon by their harness type.

Ab6ix (Park Woojin) – Color Eye

It’s sad when you hear a song that has great potential ruined completely by hard Autotune.

Dongkiz – Lupin

Well it’s better than “Blockbuster” but then so is every other song that’s been in roundup so far this year.

BECZ – Into U

If I ever get to work on a k-pop set I want my job to be deciding what arrangement to put the three fluorescent lights at.

Haee – Subway

Very cool, and greatly helped by the fact that the singing is dialled back to minimal levels.

Sunwoojunga – Bad Word’s Travel

Some of the most terrifying green-screen action you’ve ever seen, even nugus have nothing on Sunwoojunga.

Damye ft. Big Naughty – Snooze!

Accurate song title of the week.

Tiger JK – Adventure Quencher

Someone of Tiger JK’s pedigree should know better than this.

Dvwn ft. Giriboy – Burn The Memory

I wish I could.

LoveSong – I Blame Pacific Ocean

Well it’s always good to have something to blame I guess.

DPR Live – Kiss Me + Neon

This group with their mega-budget videos and their bullshit music. Why.

Code Kunst ft. C Jamm, Simon Dominic – Joke!

So many accurate song titles this week actually.

Don Malik – Intro

You know, it’s okay to have a beat in rap music. Don’t be shy.

Riyou – Dream In Dream

Actually some great instrumentation here but the melody writing is just too dull for it to matter.

Aoora ft. ColorTheBen – 82 Call Me

It actually improves a bit right at the end, maybe Edward Aliva left the room or something.

Kim Jaejoong – Brava!!Brava!!Brava!!

Even the most homophobic of men love girl-on-girl porn, so let’s not go handing out any woke awards over two seconds of poorly-acted groping in a toilet cubicle. He probably just threw it in there to give Yoochun something to jack off to.

Choi A-in, Seo,ho – Jja-jja-la-jja-jja-jja

Dunno what I was expecting with that title, another Blackpink clone maybe, certainly not this boring shit.

Park Boram – I Can’t

The accurate song titles just keep coming this week.

Thirsty Gang – Delilah

I think they’re going to remain thirsty for a while. If I were gay I wouldn’t even throw them a sympathy blowjob over this.

Kang Minjung – Letter

Some ajumma with an acoustic guitar that looks about as shit as the one my father bought for me in 1988 makes a better fist of the typical Korean lounge song than most of them.

IGWI – Let’s Go, Let’s Go

I’m temporarily lifting my roundup ban on videos featuring nothing but someone looking out a window from public transport, to remind you all that there is a roundup ban on videos featuring nothing but someone looking out a window from public transport. Okay, the ten seconds are up, ban is back in force again.

Leebada – Empty Room

Look at the public transport as it goes by isn’t much better, but at least there’s a few shots of an old TV here to break things up a little.

Gong Sang – Bonjour Tristesse

I just want the person who’s suspending that mic down from up in the rafters to just yank it back up halfway through the song and say “right, that’s enough of that then”.

Kwon Soonkwan – To You

Some songs you know will be shit right from the very first note. There’s no surprises here.

Noel – Suddenly

Suddenly I didn’t give a fuck.

Woo Yerin – Girl

Better than the usual ballad trash thanks to some unusually decent writing and well-arranged orchestration.

BONUS RANDOM VIDEO OF THE WEEK

The most expensive k-pop merch in the world

Just putting this here because this video’s creator Jessica Viba had this entire video stolen by some lazy-ass author at the Buzzfeed of k-pop (you know who I mean) who just made a whole fucking article about it, copying all the content plus every single photograph, and didn’t even give her any credit. They didn’t even try to cover it up by changing the order of items or anything. Really sucks for her because collating that shit takes some research skills which is something that Buzzfeed Kpop really need to learn how to do themselves instead of just ripping other people’s shit right off, maybe their articles wouldn’t suck so much dick if more of them actually had that kind of skillset. At least when they did an “MR Removed is bullshit” article the other day (seven years too late, but better late than never I guess) they credited me for that, even if they only included a tiny portion of the actual reasons why you should disregard that rubbish. Anyway, to compensate for that shit happening, why not watch the original video plus subscribe to Jessica Viba’s YouTube channel?

That’s all for this week, Kpopalypse roundup returns next week!