Kpop Fanfiction

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Yes, it's true, I'm a kpop fan now, two years after R first showed me Haru Haru with the comment, isn't this kind of gay?

(Well yeah, but it's also kind of contrieved and boybandy, and I had other things on my plate! And then, two years passed... but we're here now, and we're 'bout to set the roof on Fire! /lame joke)

Here's my stuff so far:

Disordered (2NE1, Park Bom)
Stealing Members (Big Bang & 2NE1, everyone)
The Best Part of Waking Up (Big Bang, GD-Seungri-TOP)
Skinship (Big Bang, GD-Seungri)
Sun and Moon (Big Bang, GD-TOP)

Some videos, for (mostly my own) reference:


GD & TOP: High High / Knock Out / Heartbreaker (GD solo) / Of All Days (TOP solo). And then they backed off a bit and put out some straight romance stuff - one, two - which I personally find kinda disappointing, but lots of people seem to like this kind of thing so what do I know XD.

...I love that this collaboration is named "Volume 1", it is a promise and threat all in one! This remix of "Baby Good Night" is so wrong, it's right.


Hmm, and now it's a bit late and I should probably go to bed, but I haven't linked any 2NE1 videos yet! They are still my favorites and the reason I cared enough about Big Bang to watch videos of them on Ytube in the first place. ^^ Well, in my defense, nearly all of 2NE1's material is good, whereas lots of Big Bang's material is good if you like them but doesn't stand out much otherwise. Their good stuff is really, really good though.

Next up: Dara and her brother, TOP and alcohol. And a really terrible HyunA fic that's already written, but that I am shy about posting because I'm afraid it will give the wrong impression. ^^

Comments

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Ooooh, K-indie! Are there any groups you like? I've been trying to look around outside the idol groups but it's harder to find stuff without knowing the Hangul. The rap in Kpop is making me really nostalgic for my childhood (which is funny because when I was a kid, I wasn't into hip hop, even though it was all I heard at school and on the bus etc) so if you know any hip-hoppish acts, that's a bonus.

(And for my part I'm trying to be better about listening to rap music made by actual black people in the US. Race issues, man, they are so thorny and difficult.)

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A lot of the K-indie bands are trying to market themselves in English-language spaces now, so it's actually a lot easier to find than it was when I was in college. (It's kind of amazing, Apollo 18 was at SXSW!) But it's also really confusing because they disband and re-form under new names--apparently, it's a bit of an incestuous circle, boom or no, because they all perform live in the same concert spaces in Hongdae.

Anyway, in English, it used to be indiefulrok/indiefulrok, but I think she's not posting so much now, other than the Top N charts.

Korean Indie/koreanindie is trying to take over, but the main bloggers' tastes skew more to the alt-rock, folk, and shoegaze. (I like K-rock for singing at karaoke and for having interesting lyrics, but musically, it's not very interesting.)

orienkorean's Youtube channel (owner is Korean and affiliated with indiefulrok although different person than the blogger) is a good place to go exploring for your favorite genres. Though no guarantee that the bands there still exist since it is several years out of date now.

Apls is the first name that comes to mind--not hip hop but certainly dance. They're a bit all over the place with their sound but I like how they experiment.

Humming Urban Stereo is electronic (as well as their more hard-core dance incarnation, Instant Romantic Floor.

I really like Casker and Bluedawn but that may be straying into ambient territory.

I actually have the Eastronika albums; I'll go listen to them again and see if I can dig up some more hip hop names for you.

(If you are into old-school K-pop, I really like Koyote, also known as the only group whose rap I will actually try to emulate at karaoke. Haha.)

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Lots of stuff to go through, thank you very much! I really like Humming Urban Stereo/Instant Romantic Floor so far. Also, Koyote, who are hilarious XD.