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Feb. 13th, 2018 03:26 pm
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 How did I actually go an entire month without posting here?  Lmao.  Countdown's even out, long out and everything.  There's not much new in fandom tbh.  There was this joke going around different Kpop fandoms about not liking Kpop only x-group pop, because of the dumb BTS fandom saying that and adding that other groups were getting a free ride from BTS's popularity lmao yeah uh huh.  I don't even like old Kpop, but your group wouldn't be around period if it weren't for those groups putting it on people's radar in the first place.

On the other hand, I've seriously become far less interested in every other Kpop fandom save EXO so other than the general stupidity of the whole comment, I'm not entirely lying.  I lie a little bit, because I'm still very interested in Pentagon at least, but most other groups?  I can't say I would get all that excited for comeback news at this point.

Oh I know the thing really annoying me lately. The freaking fact that both Pentagon and Junho have released Japanese albums and they're impossible to get. Especially Pentagon's.  Like, it's literally NOWHERE and yet it apparently did fairly well on the charts????  Wtf Japan.  Meanwhile, Countdown was out everywhere at like midnight lol.

I also love very much that EXO is one of only TWO artists performing at the closing ceremony of the Olympics and that second artist is NOT BTS. HAH.  And Baekhyun sang the national anthem and sounded effing amazing.  Imagine another group's weak-ass singers doing that lmao.  Embaaaarassing.

Sorry I hate their fandom so much that it really has transferred to the group now.  Not them personally ofc, but in a dismissive way.  I lowkey revel in anything that upsets their fandom basically.  I still love Suga though. :x

Outside of Kpop, I found out two of my favorite rappers released albums last year after having disappeared forEVER. Fana and Ignito.  Both were good, but Fana's was the best.
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Got into Soft Lipa via a recommendation. Odd because it's one of those situations where I'd heard of him before, but never bothered because I assumed something, which I'm not entirely sure what that was lol. Anyway, his stuff is very like the prevailing sound in Japanese rap. Sort of mellow, flow-y rapping over jazz beats or full on jazz in his case. I compare him most closely to Shing02, whom I really love, so it's a good comparison lol. I don't understand why there isn't more Chinese rap tbqh. I essentially know of MC Hotdog, Soft Lipa and newly, MISS KO. Will Pan only kinda counts because, while he does rap, he's a bit of an idol.

I didn't just get into TOTALFAT, but I was checking some of their back catalog after listening to their new one, which apparently I was too lazy to do before. And well, they can keep it. I understand they started out as a NOFX cover band and I believe it. I didn't like the late 90s/early 00s emo pop punk back then and I don't like it now in Japanese lol. Basically everything after Damn Hero is good, most everything before, not so much. They expanded their sound after that and the structure of their compositions is not the generic pop-punk ones, at least not straight through. A few songs I don't mind, but like, twelve of those all in a row? No thank you.

I also had a bit of a Thai music binge thing a few days back. Ran across THAITANIUM again, apparently, according to my old Last FM profile. I didn't like them then, but I hadn't rediscovered my liking for rap yet most likely. They remind me of Cypress Hill, which is a good thing, because that is my all-time favorite Western rap group. I wish they'd rap in Thai more, but based on the one album I heard, I think I'll like their other stuff, we'll see.

Also, all these various rock groups like Sixty Miles, Ten To Twelve, Dr.Fuu and I guess Mild ไมล์ด, though they are a bit more of an R&B flavored group.  Tried a girl-fronted band called Am Fine, but they were intensely boring.  Just, mellow altish rock with no variation.  Didn't find her voice very interesting either.

Finally, there's Kenichi Asai, former frontman of Blankey Jet City.  Not sure what took me so long to check out his stuff, but it's pretty awesome.  His voice is really toned down compared to how he sang with BJC and the music, while maybe not as inventive, is still solid rock.  Great stuff, in other words.

I wonder how many tags are allowed on this thing, how carried away should I get here?  Lol.