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Rate: B-side Battles: i am very sure i did not do this rate

EXO - The Eve: 8 had no idea what this was until the chorus when the sax came in and i remembered oh yea this song i like this song

Red Velvet - Kingdom Come: 10 idk why but i rly like the intro part with the drums but the rest also rocks it's got atmosphere ! trying to come up with a niche eschatology joke but i got nothing wait: revelation velvet. lol

ATEEZ - Cyberpunk: 9 as a big fan of the cyberpunk genre i was unsure if this would in fact be cyberpunk but after reading a translation and seeing the video i am happy to say that it rly is they did their homework

STAYC - Young Luv: 8 this is dream pop. wait maybe it's new wave. i'm into it whatever

Rate: First Half of 2023: i think i did this rate ... ?

IVE - I AM: 8 can't do many ive songs that aren't :lovedive: or (weirdly) kitsch but i'm always saying a shuffle beat is a cheat code to make a song better

Purple Kiss - Sweet Juice: 8 i like swan she has purple hair

LE SSERAFIM - Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard’s Wife: 10 i have only a vague clue of what they're talking about however when a song goes this hard whatever

BSS (ft. Lee Youngji) - Fighting: 7 [ɸaitʰiŋ]

Rate: EXO, BTS & Seventeen: i didnt do this but wanted to

EXO - Monster: 9 i like that this is kinda weird. oh good kenzie wrote it shes the goat kpop writer im not joking

Seventeen - Very Nice: 7 i like when boygroup songs are just like :guitar: with funk guitar that rocks. wtf are those licking sounds in my right ear (???) did we learn nothing from aespa - illusion wait nvm this came out first. ok but the horns bang so theyre forgiven

BTS - Blood, Sweat & Tears: 8 dont care i like tropical house dont ask me why. with moombahton characteristics. even better

Rate: 2020 in K-Pop: this was kind of a sick rate i think

GFriend - Mago: 10 one of the goated nu-disco songs up there with the best of daft punk im serious it rules

Taemin - Criminal: 9 reading the lyrics and wondering if this is about bd- anyway ! great 80s larp the synth the atmosphere

Everglow - La Di Da: 10 the peak of 80s synthwave larp other than key's "bad love"

Twice - I Can’t Stop Me: 10 -another- peak 80s larp there was a lot of that going around that year. hm h-rny and guilty at the same time did you know chaeyoung is catholic. interesting [pastebin made me censor that joke. stupid]

Rate: Underappreciated Artists: i didnt do this but wish i did

Youha - Abittipsy: 10 found this thru a popheads rate and it rules one of the best nugu songs ive ever heard great 80s larp (lot of that in this rate)

ONEUS - Luna: 9 ok i have this real thing for pop songs that have modern songwriting but traditional instruments as well integrated into it this is like zhongguo feng for korea get akini jing on the remix

WOODZ - Waiting: 7 never heard of this guy pretty good and he wrote the lyrics 100% himself thats cool

Rate: Red Velvet, Twice & Blackpink: amazing rate. you may all spend extra years in purgatory, gehenna or al-a'raf for what you did to blackpink but also the other two were kind of goated with singles so it was never a fair fight to begin with

Red Velvet - Russian Roulette: 10 cursed video great song lots of fun

Twice - Fancy: 10 this is one of those songs that's background music for my brain it's there all the time. just randomly hear that "ooooo" and think of sana holding the cupcake. curious ...

Blackpink - As If It’s Your Last: 10 ok ill acknowledge a lot of BP's output is postgood garbage i enjoy half-ironically and perhaps from brainrot but this is a banger ok let it into your heart

Rate: Second Half of 2023: good rate fun i barely remember it but

Kiss of Life - Sugarcoat (Natty solo): 10 hm yes i definitely know nothing about natty's personal life and what she and the other group members, especially belle, do on their own time. natty is so charismatic you know i like her voice shes pretty she can dance. yep thats all i know about natty and kiof good song !

Jungkook - Standing Next To You: 9 he somehow channeled let's dance era bowie and thats a high compliment im a truther for that album

VIVIZ - Maniac: 9 mania is a serious medical condition. problematic

Kim Sejeong - Top or Cliff: 8 reading she wrote the lyrics herself and good song but im a bit worried is she like, okay, should someone check on her

Rate: Pre-Debut LOONA: fun rate liked most of it got rly into eclipse and couldnt stop listening to it even though it wasnt my 11 (love cherry motion was bc its cute and also weird and also ourple)

LOONA/Chuu - Heart Attack: 9 yea its good its catchy its upbeat its fun idk its got retro characteristics. i like when she does the heart hands -> hamburger meme thing. i mean not in the song but at other times

LOONA/ODD EYE CIRCLE - Girl Front: 8 one of the most overrated songs in kpop far from my favourite on this album. see it does go hard not saying it's bad but there's just so much. ooooo ing. no song needs that much. ooooo. it's too much. again still does objectively go hard

Rate: “Bridge of Gen 2 & 3” Boy Groups: i didnt do this rate sorry to these men

Infinite - The Chaser: 9 this is one of those songs that gets a lot of hype and everyone loves it and hypes it up so much and i've listened to it several times trying to Get It but it never clicked. i think i am hearing it at last now this is kind of new wave like the human league kinda. what do 어기야 디여라차 and 어기야디야 mean

Beast - Fiction: 8 pensive bleepbloop .. wait this sampled. children. how did i not clock that. i am conflicted

Infinite - Bad: 7 why is it so dramatic with the strings is it that serious guys. i fw it tho some good electro bits

Block B - Her: 6 zico jumpscare. olivia hussey mentioned !? bizarre song

Rate: 2021 in K-Pop: memories of this are very muddled with popheads' 2021 kpop rate where i listened to the playlist for that one over and over for days. i was housesitting for my parents in the middle of the summer and all i did was listen to kpop and ordered a ton of thai food. it ruled tbh

WJSN - Unnatural: 10 rly like this even tho the chorus gets a bit grating by the end of the song but its a rly catchy wellmade tune so i dont care

Enhypen - Drunk-Dazed: 10 goes unreasonably hard a fukn banger

(G)I-DLE - HWAA: 9 being real (g)i-dle are a group i like more when theyre unserious and memey but this is a very well made song despite the very bleak lyrics. also i have a weird thing for the syllable /hwa/ (also /xwa/ which is similar) idk why it's just so pleasing. jrr tolkien pls explain this euphony

TXT (ft. Seori) - 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You): 4 dont rly like it too shouty sorry to these men i know they are impassioned and anguished and that's fine

Rate: “Late Gen 2” Girl Groups: good rate but some parts of it were a bit of a slog in between the good songs. kind of a weird rate can't explain why

f(x) - 4 Walls: 10 when the beginning of this comes on i feel the strangest ineffable vibe ... wistful (?) i think it's because of sulli ... idk what to say it's one of the best kpop songs ever made i love house music i love f(x) but i have nothing and i once wrote a long rambling essay dissecting every song on pink tape. but i am tired and have nothing rn but should delve into an esoteric analysis of this cut sometime like What is going on in the video

miss A - Hush: 8 [voice of kim lip] 🤫 *hush ...*

Stellar - Vibrato: 8 much better known for the controversy around the outrageous video than for being a good song, but listening and not thinking about the context i think it's pretty good, i like the funk guitar and electro influences. but that video really is A Lot i'm not a prude but it was unnecessary and didn't even fit the song. enough discourse the switchup part in the middle is cool

Rainbow - A: 9 always rly loved that melody i can't find what it is but sounds like a woodwind. not the guitar although that's good too. it's not easy to search for a song named "A"

Rate: Grab Bag #1: did i do this ...

Max Changmin - Maniac: 3 the retro 70s vibe is kind of cool this kind of sounds like queen or styx lol like cheesy art rock. but i really don't like his voice sorry to this man

&TEAM - Firework: 8 welcome back 80s larp. kind of into the lyrics ... fireworks on a summer night ... i wish for warmer days ...

Vincent - That Day: 5 it's fine but i wish i knew what the lyrics mean no translation i can find

Rate: Survival Show Songs: i meant to do this but did not

Boys Planet - Jelly Pop: 10 idk i love this song so much its just fun its like how i kind of love bts - butter it's because synth-funk is the best genre

Produce 48 - Rumor: 8 idk what this group is but i said i like tropical pop music somehow and kwon eunbi is on it and im into it. sounds like one of chungha's latin pop larp songs which is a good thing to me

Produce 101 S2 - It’s Me (Pick Me): 8 no way is this. is it influenced by eurotrance lmao !?

Rate: First Half of 2024: this was a rate? what ... did i do it ... chat is this real ...

aespa - Supernova: 10 elite cut cleared all other kpop that year wasnt even close. get kenzie a musical genius and dem jointz a skilled producer and mad lad together in the studio and theyre going to make a bonkers tune that goes incredibly hard in the paint. 100 megatonne nuclear banger

Lucy – The Knight Who Can't Die And The Silk Cradle: 3 oh no one of those rock songs that makes the server unreasonably stan it. not that into it. is this anime

RIIZE - Impossible: 9 you baddie riize me tonight

Rate: “Early Gen 2” Boy Groups: dudes rock

TVXQ - Mirotic: 9 another song like the chaser where i didn't get the hype but i made myself listen to it several times and then i Got It yea its pretty good

SHINee - Sherlock (Clue + Note): 10 i love old shinee they ruled so hard

SHINee - View: 11 every new kpop fan should have to undergo an induction ceremony where they are forced to watch the music video for view and it is explained to them how parasocial fandom works and that this is where it leads. great song i love house music love the lyrics about the ocean and sky

FTISLAND - Take Me Now: 4 it's fine but why are we once again rating hard rock in a pop rate. this is arguably metal even. i know i'm being a whiner but i don't get it

Rate: Halloween Rate: oh i dont like halloween or fall at all so i skipped this

Max Changmin - Devil: 5 KWANGYA MENTIONED LMAO

Ahn Yeeun - Changgwi: 8 ladys singing art pop about buddha asuras and mountains is she channeling faye wong. whatever this is weird im into it

BewhY - GOTTASADAE: 8 is this about starting a cul- sorry a *new religious movement*. anyway chaotic. the video namedrops the book of corinthians ??? What this song is not real

Rate: “Early Gen 2” Girl Groups: lot of bangers here. gen 2 girl groups were unserious at times but they also had something

Brown Eyed Girls - Abracadabra: 10 its just a megabanger peak ~2010 electro when everything sounded like the production of the fame monster. the judicious use of autotune. a fukn Tune

Girls’ Generation - Genie: 10 its one of the goated kpop songs its incredible i just (this might be heresy) don't really like the outro and listen to an edited version without it .. name and shame me. i saw hyoyeon a couple of years ago btw that was fun

Orange Caramel - Catallena: 10 bring back silly and wacky kpop the children yearn for it

KARA - Step: 10 have a lot of affection for kara they're often a little goofy and silly but it works for them. this is fun upbeat joyous music doesnt need to be anything else. a lot of their hits all sound the same like midtempo electro dance-pop. and? kara rule.

Rate: 2019 in K-Pop: i think i did this

Taemin - Want: 9 oh yea that instrumentals filthy this rules. oh yea kenzie **and** anne judith stokke wik on the track thats how you know it will be good.

Dreamcatcher - Deja Vu: 4 sorry to the fans of this group i've tried and i do not like them even though some parts are quite pretty but they're not my thing. the bombastic rock thing i like rock but i don't like that sound

DAY6 - Sweet Chaos: 6 they should use this for a sonic the hedgehog game somehow. idk i just think it fits somehow. and chaos emeralds. ive been awake for over 24 hours btw

SuperM - Jopping: 10 icons for dropping this absurd goofy track that became a huge meme and yet also unironically goes incredibly hard. the edgy all-black fits in the music video. mark's rap verse. peak music

Rate: SHINee Soloist Albums Rate: wish i did this one .. especially for jonghyun

Onew - O (Circle): 7 was not expecting bro to get existential in the shinee rate lyrics read like the book of ecclesiastes

Key - Killer: 8 does key just love synthwave im not mad bc i have said several times i love a good 80s larp

Jonghyun - Moon: 9 i did an episode of my radio show on jonghyun last fall i think. talked about him and how he also had a radio show of his own. at the end when i signed off i made sure the last thing i said ... he did well.

Rate: Soloists #1: this was a fun time even if the results utterly baffled me

K.Will - Please don’t…: 7 oh this one again. another mysterious woodwind ... what is it ... pan flute !?

BoA - Better: 10 always thought it wasn't one of her top tier songs but its grown on me its slinky. btw did you know boa met the pope once there are photos

Psy - Gangnam Style: 10 one of the most iconic songs ever made by humankind. beam it into space.

Younha - Oort Cloud: 7 still don't quite Get this one or what's so amazing about it but it grew on me a bit and i like the lyrics idk

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