2022 K Pop

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(G)I-DLE - Nxde: 6 (G)I-DLE could do Nude but tbh Radiohead could also probably do Nxde

(G)I-DLE - TOMBOY: 6 I appreciate the attempt to go hard but it's just not clicking like it should

aespa - Girls: 7 There's no way this is all stuff in the official lore and not just things they're making up as they go along

aespa - Illusion: 7 Vore lovers gonna stream the hell outta this one

Apink - Dilemma: 3 I didn't love those last four songs but those ladies would dunk on this group Shaq on Chris Dudley style every day for this weak sauce

ATEEZ - Guerrilla: 7

B.I - BTBT (feat. Soulja Boy & DeVita): 5

BIGBANG - Still Life: 6 All the artsy looking dudes suddenly transitioning into a rapper in a rabbit mask who also ended up being an artsy looking dude kinda broke me a little

Billlie - GingaMingaYo (the strange world): 7 Deeply annoying and weird (complimentary)

BLACKPINK - Pink Venom: 7 I will not be defeating the "attracted to Lisa from Blackpink" allegations today

BLACKPINK - Shut Down: 3 The Walmart ad doesn't include them rapping so I'd probably score that higher

BTS - Yet To Come: 6 Almost dropped a point for giving me the urge to listen to Kanye

CHUNG HA - Sparkling: 8 Move over La Croix, there's a new bad bitch in town

CSR - Pop? Pop!: 8 I would listen to this again but my doctor said I need to cut down on sweets

Crush - Rush Hour (feat. j-hope): 6 They played off each other well enough, but if you're gonna evoke the name of one of the all-time buddy cop movies then I need a lot more dude-to-dude interaction.

Dreamcatcher - MAISON: 9 Honestly there was a lot of places this could've stumbled and turned me off, and I left the first chorus run not feeling it, but it turned me round by the end. Great prechorus too

ENHYPEN - Polaroid Love: 6 Inoffensive little bedroom poppish ditty

fromis_9 - DM: 10 Hope they keep showing up in rates so I can keep dropping fromis_10s on them

Girls' Generation - FOREVER 1: 8 When this goes for for bombast it's golden. Very much reminds me of like those huge sounding pop hits from over a decade ago

GOT the beat - Step Back: 6 Somebody send Experimental K-Pop to the next indieheads rate cycle

HYO - DEEP: 6 As we like to say, this has ideas

ITZY - CHESHIRE: 5 Do they know they can't be retroactively added to the 2016 Suicide Squad soundtrack

ITZY - Sneakers: 7 There's a kind of youthfulness that isn't clicking with me personally, but like an early high school me might've went crazy for it

IVE - After LIKE: 7 Tbh my biggest takeaway is that I Will Survive sounds a lot like what plays after the bell rings at the end of Rocky

IVE - LOVE DIVE: 7 Those pre-chorus ooohs are to die for

j-hope - MORE: 8 guitar emoji

Jessi - ZOOM: 2 Layers of bad stacked on top of each other

KARA - WHEN I MOVE: 7 For a second I thought they actually cracked their necks and I physically flinched

Kep1er - Up!: 7 That bridge doing its best Waluigi's Pinball impression

Kep1er - WA DA DA: 8 The one big catchy part feels a bit too much like a piece from a completely different puzzle than the rest, but its a good enough looking piece that I don't mind that's just jammed in with no regard

KWON EUN BI - Glitch: 10 This could make it to at least day two on indieheads

LE SSERAFIM - ANTIFRAGILE: 10 Anti ti ti ti fragile, fragile. Anti ti ti ti fragile 👆🤪👆

LE SSERAFIM - FEARLESS: 8 This is the best car commercial I've ever seen

LOONA - Flip That: 7

NAYEON - POP!: 10 Getting vague future rate villain vibes, but if so, sorry gang it's an insane ear worm

NCT 127 - 2 BADDIES: 8 2 Baddies 1 Porsche? In this economy!?

NCT DREAM - Beatbox: 6 Honestly a bit stunned at just how edgeless this is, but can't be mad at it either.

NCT DREAM - Candy: 6 Intro had me kind of interested! The rest not so much, but still nice

NewJeans - Attention: 7 Even if I'm not quite as high on this particularly, still feels clear the all-around package is simply leaps and bounds ahead of a lot of their competition

NewJeans - Ditto: 10 Mosh pit at the NewJeans concert, starts at "I don't want to stay in the middle"

NewJeans - Hype Boy: 10 Bring on the fucken endorphins babyyy!!!

NMIXX - DICE: 9 Can I get a "how fun the NMIXX members would be to play D&D with" ranking pls

NMIXX - O.O: 7 Somebody send Experimental K-Pop to the next indieheads rate cycle

PSY - That That (feat. SUGA): 8 I subtracted a point for the MV explicitly referencing Gangnam Style but then added it back for the imagery of PSY dying in SUGA's arms

Red Velvet - Birthday: 3 They said gimme that United Airlines beat

Red Velvet - Feel My Rhythm: 8 There hasn't been a spawn of imitators trying to use classical music samples, has there? It works just enough here and I appreciate the swing, but lesser attempts at trying it could reach new levels of bad

Rocket Punch - CHIQUITA: 8

RM - Still Life (with Anderson .Paak): 7

SEULGI - 28 Reasons: 5 Now that's an opening line, shame most of the song can't live up to it

SEVENTEEN - HOT: 7

SEVENTEEN - _WORLD: 7

STAYC - BEAUTIFUL MONSTER: 7 Belle once the Stockholm Syndrome sets in

STAYC - RUN2U: 11 The change from "STAYC girls it's going down" to simply "...Run." is one of the most bone chilling moments in all of music

Stray Kids - Case 143: 8 I got so mad once I realized what 143 meant.

Stray Kids - MANIAC: 7 If I could 11 a voice it'd be that super deep one singing the chorus jesus christ

SUNMI - Heart Burn: 10 In true country spirit her MV has her killing multiple men and dancing on their graves

TAEYEON - INVU: 6

TOMORROW X TOGETHER - Good Boy Gone Bad: 6 Wish that guitar had a bit more bite to it

TREASURE - DARARI: 6 Alright the part where they formed a group choir was cute

TREASURE - JIKJIN: 10 Once this become Fast & the Furious music I got onboard

tripleS - Generation: 8 Good groove, got the horns, nails its climax

TWICE - Talk That Talk: 9 I'm so gonna regret this if it wins

VIVIZ - BOP BOP!: 10

WJSN - Last Sequence: 6

WJSN Chocome - Super Yuppers!: 7 If obvious product placement helps make videos like this then I'll subsist on Pepsi products for the next three weeks

YENA - SMILEY (feat. BIBI): 7 She's coming for 2020s Pop Punk

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