Kpop: Exo - Lucky One & Monster

Korean super stars EXO is back! And again they deliver two videos AND two language versions as they always had, giving Chinese fans that extra chance to dig their music. I suppose "Monster" is visually and musically more complicated, but I like the more happy dance number "Lucky One", but both are great songs.

• EXO - Lucky One (Korean version)
• EXO - Lucky One (Chinese version)
• EXO - Monster (Korean version)
• EXO - Monster (Chinese version)

Kpop: EXO

Yes, I know I have been blogging about kpop for years and still this is my first real post on possibly the most popular male band (along with Big Bang) in Korea, namely EXO. But I simply haven't felt 'it' for them or their songs so far. But I think their new videos is actually quite interesting, if not for anything else because they are sung both in korean and not japanese but mandarin. This confirms the shift or widening of focus by the korean entertainment industry towards the expanding market of mainland China.

• EXO - Call Me Baby: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Lucky One: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Monster: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Love Me Right: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - History: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Growl: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Overdose: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Wolf: Korean version / Chinese version
• EXO - Mama: Korean version / Chinese version

Kpop: WIMP

The new duo WIMP consists of Mebby and Mekky and evidently Mebby does the melodies and Mekky the beats. "Somewhere far" is a soft electronic pop song that could have been written anytime during the last 20 years, in a good way. Not a instant classic but a good start as the sounds are really good.

• WIMP - Somewhere far (Mebby ver)

Kpop: Queen B'z

The group previously known as P.O.P Con in 2012, made a "re-debut" as Queen B'z this autumn with the somewhat different bloody vampire-hunter styled "Bad". Come Christmas Day they softened this with a cutesy song "2014 Wishlist" (2014 희망사항). While being a quite ordinary song, it is still better than many other sub-par - holiday offerings from kpop super-groups.

• Queen B'z - Bad (original version)/Bad (performance version)
• Queen B'z ft Byun Jin Sub - 2014 Wishlist (2014 희망사항 )