Mandopop: No Party For Cao Dong (草東沒有派對)

"No Party For Cao Dong" is a rock band from Taiwan that according to themselves drawa inspiration from grunge, disco beats and moderns sounds. I really like their first video anyway, it has both darkness and hope, a bittersweet song to enjoy.

• No Party For Cao Dong - Mountain and Sea (山海)

Kpop: 9Muses - Drama

While 2013 was a golden year in my opinion for 9Muses with three great videos, 2014 meant losing some members and releasing nothing (I don't count sub-unit Nasty Nasty) the new Drama has two new girls joining the group making the "nine muses" actually counting eight lovely ladies... 9Muses is known for consistently delivering good (not fantastic) songs, and for their consistent concept (which to be honest is a kind of classic pin-up look), and the new music video is no exception even though I must say it's not up to Glue, Gun or Wild in either department. But it's not bad either, to be honest. The lyrics is about a girl being in love with her friend's boyfriend, and more drama is delivering as we get a remake of a (the) classic Marilyn Monroe scene.

• 9Muses - Drama

Kpop: 9Muses - Gun (건)

Honestly here is my idea how 9Muses company is reasoning: "Lets give them just suffficiently good songs so we then can focus on selling the girls as the best pinup kpop group out there. Do each video like a showroom (using some thin theme) of the girls posing and being generally sensual/sexual, not vulgar but also not too innocent.". This may sound like a critique, but it is actually not. 9Muses is one of the most even and "trustworthy" kpop groups I know, you really know what you get with them, for good and bad.

• 9Muses - Gun