Kpop: K.A.R.D.

 The second image is from "Oh NaNa", the rest of the choregraphy images are from "Don't Recall".

K.A.R.D. is something so unusual in kpop as a mixed group, ie consisting of both men and women. Add to that they are *very* competent dancers and you have a really unique concept. One cannot appreciate a new video from them fully without having seen the dance version first. But that would be for nothing if they couldn't sing but their music videos really rocks too!

• K.A.R.D. - Rumor
• K.A.R.D. - Don't Recall (Choreography version)
• K.A.R.D. - Don't Recall (Drama version)
• K.A.R.D. - Oh NaNa
• K.A.R.D. - Oh NaNa

Kpop: Jay Park - Aquaman

All the images are from Aquaman

Every Jay Park new song, I'm so unfair because, well, I don't know. Maybe because he sounds so well produced and kind of American main stream R&B (in a good way, mind you), making me not feel he is part of this blog. But when looking back this year, I have at least three songs I must push, and they are "All I Wanna Do", "Drive" and "Aquaman". First out, All I Wanna Do, is a great choregraphy video made together with the fantastic 1 Million Dance Studio. Then we have Drive, were he, Gray and stylish Bora from Sistar sing in a laid back video just oozing summer. But the main number of this all, which surely will go down as one of Jay Park's musical mile stones, is Aquaman. Already the title implies what it is all about, but let me quote some lyrics just to give you the picture:
and before I go put it in 
I’ll go underwater girl just like a fish 
and the way I stay down there 
you gon’ think I’m Aquaman 
baby oh when I’m all up in it 
I’m gonna get lost up in yo sea
Ah, yes, Jay Park goes "all in" showing he is all about pleasing his woman, without explicitly stating that this song is indeed a song about cunnilingus. Read the comments to see how it is received... ;-) And I think he rocks to, he's a master of doing korean R&B.

• Jay Park - Aquaman
• Jay Park & 1MILLION ft Hoody & Loco  - All I Wanna Do 
• Jay Park ft Gray - Drive

Kpop: Bebemon (베베몬)

This project group of solo singer Bael Sul Ki and boy trio Monsterz debuts with the song Bokkotonic that is a musically relatively meaningless song but the video and dance is a fun parody (celebration of?) video games like Just Dance and it has the potential for giving the group a nice niche in kpop. The name of the song is a play on the famous Bokgo dance that Bael Sul Ki did and which in part was behind her success.

• Bebemon - Bokkotonic (복고토닉)