I don’t normally do tags on here, but I saw a post on a friend’s blog that I thought was quite a nice idea, so here I am.
Normally, I listen to music on YouTube, or via my iPod or my mix CD* in the car when the radio gets repetitive or just plain stupid (read; most of the time, specifically late night weekends). However, I recently updated my phone contract and with it, got 6 months free of Apple Music, so I have been using that lately because not only can I do it in the car, but it also plays when you shut the app, which is amazing. Anyway, the point of this is that my Apple music library is therefore more likely to be the newer stuff than the old favourites, but I guess we shall see.
10 songs, randomly on shuffle**. I’ve had to use an English title or romanisation because I don’t have hangul on my iPad, but obviously these aren’t their native titles.
1) SHINee - Love Should Go On
I much prefer the remix to this song, so much so that this version doesn’t sound quite right. This was from SHINee’s debut album, and boy, have they improved in that time.
2) DBSK/TVXQ - Don’t Say Goodbye
Again, not one of my favourite DBSK songs, but it is kind of nice to hear the original 5 members. This is from the Mirotic album, which is one of my all time favourite songs.
3) Super Junior - Walking
I love SuJu title tracks, but normally I’m not a fan of their albums as a whole thing. I do like this song though. It makes me think of holidays and rum in coconuts. It’s from Mr Simple, which was the album cover with Siwon in his lime green boxers, which I talked about a lot when it came out. It’s also really nice to hear all the members together here too, as I’m sure this was before they started going off to the military. Maybe minus Kangin.
4) EXO - Can’t Bring Me Down
So far, this list is very SM biased, which I suppose sums me up really. This is from an EXO album I haven’t listened to all the way through yet, and therefore I don’t think I’ve heard this before. I like it though. It’s very EXO.
5) SHINee - Woof Woof
Ah I love this! I first saw this song on a SHINee World concert video, where the boys were all dressed up as dogs, and it’s just so SHINee. I love them. They are such dorks. It’s so catchy too.
EDIT - After posting, I was re reading through this post for mistakes and to check the videos worked. Watching this had tears running down my cheeks! Just seeing them all having so much fun together makes me so happy, but also breaks my heart.
6) Taemin - Sexuality
I was low key hoping this would come up! Taemin is in SHINee, and this is from his solo album. In SHINee, Taemin is the little kid, but for some reason, as a solo artist, he’s all sexy. I find it very confusing. Especially in Move, it took me a good few times watching that to believe it was actually Taemin, he looked so grown up and ... sexy and wet.
Dibidibidi bling bling is Jonghyun ....
8) BTS - War of Hormone
Oh thank god, I was starting to wonder that we weren’t going to have anything other than Shinee, SuJu and TVXQ (I may have had to cheat just a little bit) . This was the first BTS song I ever heard , thanks to Eat Your Kimchi. I enjoyed it but it didn’t hook me into the band as a whole until Dope came out. I just remember thinking about how happy they all looked, in fact I think I even blogged about it. I really like V’s voice when he does the low sexy voice. I admit to doing the dance every time it comes on, especially in the shower.
9) Troublemaker - Troublemaker
I remember the buzz surrounding this subgroup when it came out, despite never really been interested in either artist before. It certainly made waves, being very provocative for korean broadcast, but that just seems to be HyunA’s concept. It’s so catchy, and while I haven’t listened to it for ages, I was reminded of it with the whole HyunA e’Dawn scandal right now.
10) U-KISS - Tick Tack
Woo, finally, a Japanese track . I was obsessed with this song when it came out, and for some reason I much prefer the Japanese version over the Korean one. U-Kiss are an odd one, I love them but I discovered them during a rough patch so they have a weird bittersweet association. I’ve only downloaded my favourite songs so it’s quite impressive that they came up really.
11) Jonghyun - End of a Day
🌹 I have no words for this. I’m just going to listen. And cry.
* Yes I made myself a mix CD. Sometimes my iPod is dead and the radio is on shit hour. Yes is warn out and skips through half of Overdose, but what can you do?
** Watch this list be 90% SHINee now, because the first thing I did was to get their whole discography.
