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Music Bank: 4/1/11

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Written by On April 1, 2011

I’m baaaaack! April has greeted us with some uncharacteristic snowfall out here in the American northeast, but it looks like our favorite K-pop idols are really heating it up on this week’s MuBank!

(Too cheesy? Yeah, I thought so too. Ahem.)

Good, good show today. I usually only recap the ‘popular’ idol groups, but the solo artists really killed it today. Definitely recommend. Now, without further ado….

“Twinkle Twinkle” – Girls’ Day – Anything reminiscent of 80′s jazzercise isn’t gonna work for me. Sorry. *shrug* And that goes for you too, spazzy cameraman.

“Bangkok City” – Orange Caramel - I don’t love the song, but I do appreciate the fact that the members are finally showing off their vocal talent (somewhat) and are not dressed for Halloween or a cosplay convention.

“Paparazzi” – Kan Mi-yeon - I thought I was beginning to like this song, but she’s been promoting this for as long as I can remember. The MCs are running out of funny gags. Last week on Music Core, Onew dressed up like an ahjumma. It’s a sign.

“Everyday” – U-Kiss - Still butthurt over Kibum and Xander; need a few months to accept the two nugus into the group.

“0330″ – U-Kiss - Oh wait, the nugus can actually sing. And this is probably the first U-Kiss song I have actually liked. ‘Kay, we’re cool.

“Crazy” – Song Ji-eun - Love, as always.

“Uppercut” – Insooni feat. DY - Better than all your oppas and unnies combined. Seriously. The woman is older than my father and kills it every. Single. Time.

“La Vida Loca” – Clover - I was already a big Eun Ji-won fan previous to this formation of this group. I appreciate.

“Here I Am” – ZE:A - Sorry, dudes. Not impressed yet. It’s not a bad song, but the vocals are lacking.

“My Heart Beating” – K.Will - Totally jealous of you lucky folks who will be at KMF to see this gorgeous man in concert.

“Heartsore Story” – Wheesung feat. Hoya - Shoot me for saying this, but I’ve never been a huge Wheesung fan. Meh. But Hoya~~~~

“Intuition” – CNBLUE - Their new album has been on repeat for the past week and I have been recommending it to everyone I know. No joke. Good, good stuff.

“Echo” – Kim Tae-woo - Not a huge KTW fan but love this song. LOVE.

“Before U Go” – DBSK - This song gets better and better every week. But who thought it’d be a good idea to put those glasses on Changmin?

CNBLUE wins K-Chart for the week:

 

Other performances from this week:

“Heartbreak” - Ye-Ara

“So Pain, So Sad” - Maya <—- SHE ROCKS. WATCH HER. (HQ version linked!)

“Broken” - Seo In-gook

“Endless Love” - J-Cera

“I Smile Because Of You” - Na Yoon-kwon

“Should Be You” – Yang-pa

“Hurt” – Yang-pa

“My Love” - M4

“Before It’s Too Late” - Kim Tae-woo

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  • Maddy

    I was hoping to like Bangkok City more after hearing it performed live (sorta like gahi’s title track thing) but I think it’s even worse performed live. Everything about it was awful.

    KTW was wonderful. He could lose the dancers because he just owns that stage. Love the ending.

    Insooni, my jaws were open the entire performance. She seriously kills it. My only gripe maybe the really awkward outfit… just yeah…

    Clover… who’s the female? I really like her. Really nice rapping voice but also really nice singing voice as well. Gonna have to say she’s topping CL for me atm.

    Still hating CN Blue’s Intuition. Why are they not playing the other song?!? NOOOO! …/ end rant.

    • tik

      I think the female rapper in Clover is Gilme. She’s an amazing rapper but I was blown away by her singing voice when she sang the OST for Flames of Desire

  • dev

    SNSD should get checks from Girls Day because is like OH!
    TVXQ to me has lost of their charm

    Could Seoulbeats do a piece on censorship in Korea?
    Cuz can they ban songs from being played everywhere or just no TV.

  • f

    Jealous to K.will in concert from what I see he is just sings…not much else

    But if you listen to Wheesung and K.will song at the same time you will notice a lot of ballads have the same structure and their popularity is beyond me since they touch on the exact same subjects everytime.

    • f

      Also it sucks that Korean “rock” music like every other genre is very American like and not developing its own sound like Jrock or British rock.

  • Mari

    So as much as I love Kibum and Alexander (they were my two favorite U-KISS members), and as horribly as I’m going to miss them, I have to admit that U-KISS’s new songs are an improvement over some of their older songs. The new guys can actually sing, and I feel like as a whole the band is taking a step forward in a positive direction.

    For some reason their new rapper kinda reminds me of Minho, though.

  • swtijam

    love the new ukiss song
    but there’s one part in the rap that always bothers me
    “don’t deny our r squared pi” = “don’t deny our circle area” ??

  • tik

    I feel sorry for the old U-Kiss members but I like addition of AJ and Hoon. U-Kiss feels more well rounded now, more mature without trying to hard like they did with their last promotion rounds.

  • tai

    Insooni is the bomb!

  • c

    Insooni: I’m more than half this woman’s age and have less than half of her stamina. Her body is just…please Lord bless me in my later years. I like the dancers’ costumes.

    Clover – welcome to the Korean Barrio. lol The song is pretty chill. The trio’s hair is WIN all the way around. From the ponytails to the goatee.

    I love DBSK’s new single, but some of the dance moves are try-too-hard sex, which is never attractive. That along with there being way too many backup dancers for this song turns me off from the live.