For eye rolling moments

A lovely little piece from Exo's Chanyeol's instagram

Now let's play the game of where things went wrong.

Important information: Ali actually does release music.

Ali: What Is Love? (ft Loco)

I never knew Ali was a legit musical artist. I just assumed she was one of those people you call to sing at your event or something...

Well now that I know this information, I like it. Ali is one of those emotive singers with an interesting approach to singing (Slightly throaty to come off a little more raw than her actual voice allows). It's not noticeable here since she kept it cute. However she knows herself and gave us some moments. The beat near the end did this change up, and we got some drama. I will say Loco is eh...but I am no expert on Korean rappers, so I can't really judge him. 

Still this should definitely get a video, with her on the beach with some cute ass dude and some simple choreo she don't have to do. 

Okay but slay

I have a soft spot for 15&. They are talented, and I am charmed by them. What makes me love this performance, is how Jimin came in on this song. Her little changes in phrasing, and interpretation. I liked her more than whatever the dude's name who did it with Ariana.
Yerin of course did her thing, but I really just want to give props to Jimin right now. My biggest thing with Jimin is that her intepretations tend to go two ways. When she was younger she would go balls out vocal glory. By that, I mean she was very high notes, big, drama vocally. But it felt like a lot. In her most recent covers it felt very...passive. Like she was not even trying musically. All her covers sounded nice, but compared to Yerin  (who is a smarter/confident vocalist), I was really just not impressed.
In my mind, Jimin is still learning and growing (As is Yerin, but she seems like a step ahead as a singer), and this is a step in the right direction.

Huzzy Update: Blog Clean Up

Hello!
This is Huzzypop. I just want to tell you guys, thank you for the views over the last week or two. Really cool seeing them increase. I hope you guys enjoy my opinions, and I will definitely try and do better with overall writing and shit like that.
Just some things I want to bring up.
I am trying to make this blog look a lot cleaner and easier to maneuver around (aka I am going to have to finally learn html), so I will be in the process of doing that.
Also I know that I am behind on some of these comebacks.
I know Infinite and Vixx came back but I have completely said nothing about them, nor giving them a post really about their music videos and things.
I promised, or at least I think I did, to do reviews on Hyosung and Jiyeon's solo debuts...and the most I have given were one or two post on their videos and songs.
I am in the middle of Jiyeon's review...
I will try and get to work on a lot of these things.
Also once again, for the people that come and go...if you by chance stay a little while, by all means comment and all that. Don't be afraid. I am an argumentative person, but really don't be scared.
I can't make promises on anything right now, but I am definitely going to get a lot of the random non comeback related post out of my drafts and onto your screens.
Once again, thank you for taking time to read and not immediately clicking off the screen.

K Pop's resident Light skin finally releases his second full album.

As I said in another post, I have a special relationship with Taeyang. I firmly believe he has an appreciation for black culture, however do to looking on the outside his views may seem a little skewed, and can veer toward problematic at times. So I stay at arms lengths with his ugly ass hairdo, and his clothes that need to be returned to Asap Rocky.

I tend to affectionately call him Korean Light Skinned. He GIVES vibes that he wants his ultimate form to be a better Chris Brown (not with the whole incident, just musically and such). And you know what...I want him to get there. Just from his interviews he has done, he tends to view music with a more critical eye. However he has limitations, oddly set by the company hyped to be about the artist (Which I saw through when  I got into K pop real quick). However I firmly believed that if anyone was going to give me R&B in Korean Pop, it would be Taeyang. It had to be. 

I will say that I personally am not getting R&B at a very extensive level. There is shades of it, but overall, no to R&B. Especially the R&B he was talking about (talking about Frank Ocean, and Miguel, and shit...)

I honestly thought we were going to get some The Weekend type shit. Or at least The Future..but alas...

However I don't even want to pretend that the album did not give me all I could ask for.

Taeyang releases a new video...and giving you light-skinned emotions.

Now I have a special relationship with Taeyang. He is...special. Musically I will concede that he is one of the few artist to actually do R&B in the realm of K Pop. We throw that term around a lot...and we shouldn't. K Pop's interpretation of R&B is limited. Very outdated, very contrite. The most modern we will get is more so in line with a mature version of R&B that you see with older acts. Taeyang I could see as one of the few who geniunely has an interest in the genre, and tries to keep up with it. 

So my expectations for Taeyang were...special. I won't get into the album...that's for another post, but I will talk about this video.

Taeyang: Eyes, Nose Lips

The video is very...bland. It is essentially him walking and singing shirtless in a parking lot...

I mean there is not really much to give. The end with the billboard of his ex burning up was kind of extra giving the lack of anything in the video. 

And his dancing was very extra...once again do to the lack of anything in the video.

He should have just gave a straight up attempt at De'Angelo's iconic video Untitled (How Does It Feel). I mean I was pretty sure the video was going that way, but who wants to really go for that comparison.

The song is nice though,

KuzzReviews: Jiyeon's solo debut with 1min 1sec (video)

Everytime I hear anything about T-Ara, I immediately say bless their hearts. They are one of the legit K Pop scandals, and because of what went down, they are basically trying to get somewhere. They are doing as well as they are going to do, now...which is well...bless their hearts.
So when one of them goes solo, hm...
Jiyeon debuted as a solosit not too long ago, and has been on the efforts for her spotlight. With that she has given us a rather solid video.

T-Ara's Jiyeon: Never Ever (1min 1sec)

I have to say this is one of the more creative videos so far. 

First off there is a story line. With story lines in music videos, you have to fit a shitload of narrative in a three to four minute space. Couple that with the standard vanity scenes of the artist, as well as dance scenes, you really have maybe 2 minutes to make a case with a story. With Never Ever, I am positive that this video did well with what they wanted to accomplish. With Never Ever, they decided to give focus on the story more so than the actual performance aspect (which CCM compensated with a dance practice for anyone feening for that). I appreciate this as it allows for the story to develop and move on, and come to an end. Jiyeon is esentially dreaming her day to day life. She is not aware of the fact that this is not reality at first. She continues to do the same thing over and over again. The space in which she was inhabiting inside of her own mind gave off a very fake feel. Not fake in that it looked cheap. But it had no basis in reality. Come to find out that this may have possibly been induced, and she is involuntarily being drugged into this hallucination.

This is supported by Jiyeon's world going white suddenly, only for a figure of a man in a white jacket (like a doctor's) appearing. She then goes back to her own little world, however it does not last as she is now more aware. Things are dead in the house (the flowers, and the fish), she notices the time has flown way to quickly, and does not move in the same way everything else does. By the end it is snowing in the house, and a man in black with an umbrella is standing near the door. 

We end the story with her in an asylum, the only thing from her world is the red scarf she was knitting.

I just gave you a semi-play-by-play of this story.

I liked it, however I do think there were some vague things. Of course the man in white is supported by the final scene. However I am confused as to why she is there? I believe that she is drugged into a hallucination, and she is slowly but surely becoming immune to its affects. Which is why by the end, we see her more aware and at the window. 

Also who is the man in black?

The video started off fine, only to get a little wonky near the end. It was as if they realized they only had so much time and kind of skipped over things to make it end on time. I do think the video was good. The dance scenes were nice...I mean...the mirror one was sickening to be completely honest, but overall they were not the main focus of the video, and really didn't even take up much space. They were just peppered in...some places a little heavy on said pepper.