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Born to be mild
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![]() ![]() Album title: The Awakening Artist: Gfriend Genre: K-Pop Nationality: Korean Release date: March 6 Position in Discography: Fourth Fear Factor: Low Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? A little Average RYM Score: 2.83 Why is the Fear Factor high for a boy K-pop band and low for a girl one? You work it out! ![]() But meh, maybe I've just zoned out on too much K-pop over the last two months, or maybe it really is this bad. I got nothin'. Ya let me down, girls. Oh well. Next! Check out more from this artist? Nah Check out more from this genre or subgenre? No choice. Here we go... ![]() Expectation Index: 6
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#942 (permalink) |
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![]() ![]() Album title: Rose Artist: B.A.P Genre: K-Pop Nationality: Korean Release date: March 6 Position in Discography: Seventh Ep; thirteenth overall Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? A little Average RYM Score: 2.87 Yeah, it;s hard to see how this even qualifies as an EP: with only three tracks I'd call this a single, but there you go. Keeping in the land of K-pop for now – ah, no. This is far from K-pop: more like nu-metal or something. Interesting at least. Different. **** it, at least it has a bit of personality about it, and doesn't sound like the songs have been written by the corporate board of K-pop Inc., though it probably has. Best of the bunch so far, though that wouldn't be hard, admittedly. Check out more from this artist? I might Check out more from this genre or subgenre? More on the way ![]() Expectation Index: 10
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#943 (permalink) |
Born to be mild
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![]() ![]() Album title: Rollin' Artist: Brave Girls Genre: K-pop Nationality: Korean Release date: March 7 Position in Discography: Fourth Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? A little Average RYM Score: 3.50 Another day, another K-pop album. Well, EP. Not a whole lot more to say, really: seems once you've heard one you've heard them all. Maybe there's some hidden gem lurking out there that I have yet to encounter, but so far the ones I've listened to could all be interchanged with each other and I wouldn't even be able to tell them apart. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Oh, I'm sure I'l have to. That's it for the moment though. ![]() Expectation Index: 0
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![]() ![]() Album title: Western Ware Artist: Hyperbubble Genre: Synthpop/Electropop Nationality: American Release date: March 7 Position in Discography: Sixth Fear Factor: Critical Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: N/A Well this is interesting, and by interesting I mean potentially excruciating! The first ever electro country and western album? Sounds scary! The first track is, to be fair, ****, and then they cover Dolly's “Jolene”, but they, again to be fair, don't do much new with it: she even sounds a little like the Country national treasure herself. Meh. Yeah, I just don't get it. They're country songs, but there's little (so far) in the way of “electropopping” them up, this could be a low grade country album. What's the point here? At least “Bar Wars” has some fizzing electronic thingamummies going off, but it's still basically a country song. Yawn. Okay, finally! Their version of Glenn Campbell's “Rhinstone Cowboy” goes all out, with jumping synth, wails, sirens, tripping drumbeat, the whole bit. That's more like it. And of course I know that song so I can evaluate it properly. The rest is basic country though, while the closer seems to go more in the synthpop vein and ignore country altogether. Again, I ask, why did they bother doing this? Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes ![]() (Luckily, no YouTube videos seem to exist for these songs. Be thankful!) Expectation Index: 0
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![]() ![]() Album title: W Face: Inside/Outside Artist: Koda Kumi Genre: J-pop Nationality: Japanese Release date: March 8 Position in Discography: Thirteenth Fear Factor: High Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 1.79 From K-pop to J-pop we go. It's all right, but there's nothing really standing out here. Some nice ballads sandwiched in between bog-standard dance tunes. Meh. I say again, meh. Oh **** no! It's part of a two-album deal, the first called Inside and the second called, well, Outside. And I thought I was finished! What a fool I was! ![]() Check out more from this artist? Nah Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Shrug ![]() Expectation Index: 0
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
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Look like a couple of over-the-hill never-weres with a desperate idea to scrape up something resembling sales.
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Call me Mustard
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There has to be a bad songs thread. Are these guys on Spotify? It sounds like the so bad they're good variety like the Shaggs or whatever ![]() |
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Anything I review here is either on Spotify or on YouTube. This is certainly on the former. And no, I wouldn't think you could even save them by saying they're so bad they're good. There are maybe two or three decent tracks on the album, the rest are simply covers of country songs done in country style. Hopeless.
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