Kpop: UV feat Lee Sang Min - Oh Yes (오예스)

This may only be one minute long, but Korean rockers and parody duo UV is always worth checking out for their humour, this time it is cookies.

• UV feat Lee Sang Min - Oh Yes (오예스)

Kpop: Yoon Jong Shin - The Detail

Yoon Jong Shin's label Mystic89 must be one of the more interesting kpop labels at the moment, and here is "The Detail" which is a collaboration with Postino, with Puer Kim and Muzie from UV singing too. It's a soft and nice track that somehow gives a feeling of the way he sees music which heartens me. The song is part of a series of song he will publish so hopefully there is more of this to come.

• Yoon Jong Shin & Portico ft Puer Kim & Muzie - The Detail

Kpop: Top 20 third quarter of 2013

Time to sum the third quarter of 2013 up. I may have been moving more and more into eastern european music, but there is still lots of kpop that catches my eye. A good song weighs heavier than a good video, so the list seldom raises a video higher than its song takes it. The clear exception this time from thiat rule is the number 3 spot, see more below...

20. Lim Kim - All Right. It is all in the refrain and how it is delivered. Can become irritating but Kim manages to avoid it well.

19. Nu'est - Sleep Talking. A nice number and song all in all.

18. UV - No Way Can't Be. Dripping with irony, it is still quite a nice track too, the guys of UV has done it again.

17. G-Dragon - Coup D'etat. I just love the video, but the song is just repetetive.

16. Defconn - Notorius Girl. Its the singing that does it.

15. Bjorn - Empty Desire. An odd bird here, but still very likable electropop.

14. Ailee - U&I. Talk about presence! Ailee can really lift a medium track with her charisma which she does here.

13. Brown Eyed Girls - Kill Bill. The sexiest unnis on the kpop scene returns and delivers again.

12. Five Dolls - Soulmate #1. Retro is the theme here and it works quite well.

11. Infinite - Destiny. The only surprise here is that it didnt place higher but it's just something extra missing from an otherwise cool track.

10. Bebop & H.U.S. - Maem Maem. A very perky and catching indie track.

9. Seungri - Gotta Talk To U. Male big-city elegance with a well-tuned song.

8. B.A.P. - Hurricane. The first song I liked from popular B.A.P., and if it wasnt for the terrible Engrish in the refrain ("The Loof") it would have been even higher on the list.

7. LC9 - Ma Beat. Shockingly explicit violence that in the end is just right for LC9. A must see for 2013.

6. Mr Mr - Waiting for you. They simply just have got such a nice sound to their songs. Well written and crafted and thats it really.

5. Kara - Damaged Lady. The girls gott class. They got style. Nuff said.

4. Lee Jung Hyun - V. I just love the video, I am a sucker for the theme "badass strange woman kidnaps helpless man"... ;(^_^)

3. Sunmi - 24 hours. Plainly: this is the sexiest video of this list, all hands down. What stops it from winning is that it can actually loose its edge when played too often...

2. After School - Heaven. You can debate whether this is Kpop as it is sung in japanese but it is a real pearl anyways withs its borderline seedy looks combining with the sweet disco track to form something really unextectedly etheric.

1. Jewelry - Hot & Cold. Just plain kpop pleasure done perfectly. Per-fec-tion.

Kpop: UV - No Way Can't Be (설마 아닐거야 )

The odd guys of duo UV is back with another funny and ironic video. This time it is R&B, and they pull it of again - combining an actually pretty nice vibe with lyrics that are obviously ironic especially if you know Korean, and visuals that toys with the expectations on this kind of love songs. Glorious fun if you share their sense of humor.

• UV - No Way Can't Be (설마 아닐거야)

Kpop: UV - Because of you (너 때문에)

The duo UV brings on another style change with their Because of you, which is nowhere the comedy of Girl You Wanna Stay, but instead is a uptempo ballad which actually works quite well. And a little help from Seong Hun from Browneyed Soul helps too.

• UV ft Seong Hun - Because of you (너 때문에)

Kpop(rock?): UV (from 유브이)

Tvo-man group UV has released the hilarous kpop-rock-parody-video Girl You Wanna Stay . Not to miss. They also did the retro-feel Itaewon Freedom with JYP if you remember.

• UV ft Yoon Do Hyun - Girl You Wanna Stay (그 여자랑 살래요)
• UV ft JYP - Itaewon Freedom (이태원 프리덤)
• UV - No Way Can't Be (설마 아닐거야)
• UV feat Lee Sang Min - Oh Yes (오예스)
• UV - Mom