YG Family Love

As you all can tell, I'm currently really into K-pop, most notably Big Bang. Big Bang is actually from YG Entertainment, a music label known for their hip-hop artistes who actually write or compose their own stuff. In the same label, they have 2NE1, also known as the female Big Bang. Linda's a huge fan and so am I. What's not to like, they have catchy songs, awesome stage presence, they're cute, I like their personalities plus, they embody female power and independence. Plus, just like Big Bang..they have really good fashion style. 

Recently, both Big Bang and 2NE1 have been endorsing mobile phones, one for each brand. For each advert, they have a special song, as is the style in Korea. Most of these songs are actually pretty good and catchy. The great thing is that they also put in a lot of effort into making the MVs. I actually liked 2PM's Tik Tok for their phone advert, but somehow YG Family's MVs seem so much better? Especially 2NE1's here. There's not much story in both, but just the quality of the production, detail, fashion..whoaa...

Big Bang - Lollipop 2

2NE1 - Try to Follow Me

At the same time, here's some of my other current faves with links to the MVs, do check them out :)

1. G-Dragon feat. Flo Rida - Heartbreaker (GD's original Heartbreaker  was accused of plagiarising Flo Rida's Right Round..but that was sampling an old song too..so he shut up the critics when he released this remix)

2. Brian Joo - In my head (Korean version of Jason Derulo's, he even performed the english version with Jason in Korea)

3. Girl's Generation - Run Devil Run (9 hot girls..lol)

4. Kara - Lupin

5. T-Ara - I Go Crazy Because of You (extremely catchy and addictive! u just feel like grooving to it..lol)

6. F.Cuz - No One (another clubbish track)

7. CN Blue - I'm a Loner (reminds me of the Beatles in a way)

8. Oneway - Magic (love their velvety, smooth voices)

9. Ernest - Because I'm Weary (from the KBS Drama Master of Study OST, makes u feel emo n sad when u listen, but it's nice!)
10. Rain - Love Song (This is a must listen, c'mon it's RAIN!!!..also another sad song..)

2AM - I did wrong

Ah...2AM is just winning me over these days...After the release of their first single which I previously posted, they returned with their repackaged album with this song...'I did wrong'. They filmed a music drama MV for it, it's quite your typical Korean drama...but i don't know..something about it just appeals to me..mayb coz the song is catchy? I think the lyrics are meaningful too...

Translated lyrics:

Chorus:

I was wrong wrong wrong

Your words were so, so, so sweet that

I didn't realize you were playing me, me, me

with your words, words, words everyday

Baby do you really wanna hurt me?

Why are you doing this to me? why?

The stories regarding your behavior

I tried to ignore and pretended that I didn't hear but

The way you smile at my friend

Change it Stop it
Even though I tell you many times

Bridge:

You say I'm so sorry only for that moment

You say I will change only for that moment

My heart in pa, pa, pain it hurts but
I can't help but repeating

Chorus

Refrain:

Baby you breaking my heart

Baby you hurting my heart
I want to stop this
I know this is wrong
but I keep going back to you

Baby you and I

Like a bad popular song

I'm crying inside, but I force a smile like a clown
Baby you and I
Like a bad popular song
I'm crying inside

Chorus
Refrain

Rap:

My heart and body go astray

Although I was deceived by love I wipe my tears

and just go back to you knowing that this is wrong

The fact that I am a toy that you played and threw away

Makes my feeling unbearable

But Why! Why! Why! Why!

Today I am a clown who smiles in front of you again

Chorus

Refrain

Credit: This wasn't done by me, but I've lost the link!

Part 2 is here

2AM - Can't Let You Go, Even If I Die

Though I am primarily a Big Bang fan, I still can appreciate songs from other singers. I've been watching 'We Got Married' Season 2, this Korean reality series where celebrities are paired up as a married couple and they have to carry out missions, stay together, and act like a real couple. In Season 1, my favourite couple was the Joongbo (Hwang Bo and Kim Hyun Joong of SS501) couple. Because of this show, Kim Hyun Joong was cast as Ji Hoo sunbae in the hit Korean drama 'Boys Over Flowers' last year. This season, my fave couple is the Petite/Tidy couple (Ga-In of Brown Eyed Girls and Jo Kwon from 2AM). Their personalities seem rather like the Joongbo couple but with some differences of course. Similarities is that the male of the couple is rather unique in how he does or says things and they seriously nag but they still seem kinda sweet. The girls of both couples are the shyer ones and afraid to initiate things, I think because their partner is from a male idol group and there could be serious backlash from their fanatic fan girls. Difference would be that Jo Kwon can be rather annoying with his constant repetition and feminism, while Hyun Joong was more blur, aloof and a little..weird? Ga-In isn't as domestic as Hwang Bo but she tries, and she's not as independent as Hwang Bo. Makes for good entertainment anyway.

Okay, besides all that, 2AM is the ballad equivalent of 2PM and they were both created by JYP, a very famous producer. He made Rain and Wonder Girls famous...surely this would strike a bell? This is 2AM's new single, and though the MV is well..typical boy band stuff, the lyrics and melody are rather haunting and meaningful I think. Check it out:

Even though I'm young, the pain is the same

Just because I don't know the world very well

Doesn't mean that I don't know pain

Why do you lie, saying it'll be okay?

How will my heart that hurts this much

Be healed so easily?

How will I live without you?

That's why I

CHORUS

Can't let you go, even if I die

How am I suppose to let you go?

Whether you go or leave, fix my heart

If you can't fix it so that I won't be in pain

So that I can at least live

I wouldn't be able to live anyway

I can't let you go, even if I die

No matter how much you push me away

I'll hold onto you until the end

So that you won't be able to go anywhere

If you're really going to leave, then lie

That we should meet again tomorrow

That we should meet as we smile

If breaking up wasn't a joke, then I

CHORUS

We went through so much time together

How are you telling me to live by myself now?

I can't do that, I can't

I can't let you go, even if I die

I really can't let you go

How am I suppose to let you go?

I can't let you go

Whether you go or leave, fix my heart

If you can't fix it so that I won't be in pain

So that I can at least live

I wouldn't be able to live anyway

I can't let you go, even if I die

Credit to Leaping