AOA Reveal Teaser for Third Mini Album "Heart Attack"

Be still, my beating heart.

MV Review- KARA Shoot Straight Through My Heart With "Cupid"

It's clear that, even after being somewhat saved by Youngji, KARA cannot return to the lofty heights of their 2010-2012 days. Whilst "Mamma Mia" showed a much more energetic side to the group, this time they've done a slight shift towards a more sophisticated route whilst keeping that signature KARA sound with the excellent "Cupid".

KARA Perform Cupid at Dream Concert, KBS Upload MV Clip Early

Yesterday at Dream Concert 2015, KARA performed their comeback single "Cupid", and thankfully the song's just as brilliant as you'd expect from the group. Hara said the group would be "transformed" with this comeback, but fortunately the song doesn't stray too far from KARA's usual sound. Youngji did look a lot less relaxed here than the other members but I'm sure she'll find her comfort zone soon (and in the future I'm guessing she'll become the resident rapper in the group).

Meanwhile, KBS uploaded the first half of the MV as its latest K-Pop Hot Clip, a good day or two earlier than they probably should have but I'm certainly not complaining:

Of note is the complete lack of choreography or story shots, perhaps hinting that this isn't the final, "official" version of the MV (a similar thing happened with AOA's Like A Cat, where KBS played a clip of the MV that didn't feature the narrative of the 7 girls trying to break into a bank). Fortunately we'll only have to wait two just over a day for the full thing now, and even less if it's getting released at midnight!

Dal Shabet are Coming Back to Save K-pop

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Today Dal Shabet have uploaded both the second teaser for "Joker", which gives us a much better idea as to what the song sounds like than the first, as well as the highlight medley for their eighth mini album "Joker Is Alive". The mini consists of five tracks (possibly six, if an instrumental of "Joker" is included at the end): "To Darling", "홀여", "Joker", "I'm Not", and "OK Boy". It's already revealed that Subin got involved in production for all songs on the mini, and by the sound of the teasers we've been, "Joker" is set to be a fantastic follow-up to the fantastic "B.B.B". 

MV Review- SNSD's "Catch Me If You Can" Is Different, But Is That Good?

Let's be honest, 2014 was a horrendous year for Girls' Generation; five dating "scandals" (including the absolute mess of Baekyeon), disappointing performance from both "Mr.Mr." and "Holler", and the departure of Jessica meant the invincible wall they had erected finally started to crumble (the fact that Girl's Day, Apink and SISTAR had been continuously pounding away since 2013 didn't help either). Now it's no secret that whilst they've more or less achieved a status of immortality similar to TVXQ!, their invincibility is at serious risk, and Girls' Generation needed something particularly outstanding to fend off the numerous rising girl groups that are desperate to snatch their throne (including junior label-mates Red Velvet). Many complained that the brilliant "Mr.Mr." was just too generic, and SM have seemingly retaliated by giving us something completely different... but it might just be the worst thing they could do.

MV Review- Red Velvet Continue To Confuse Everyone With "Automatic"

SM seem to be determined to confuse us as much as possible with Red Velvet, first they announced Yeri would be joining the group and now out of NOWHERE SM have decided to release an MV for "Automatic", which is an album track on their upcoming first album, "Ice Cream Cake". So far it's been rather ambiguous as to what Red Velvet's overall image would become as their previous singles "Happiness" and "Be Natural" were worlds apart in both sound and style. It's a good thing this is just a pre-release though, because "Automatic" does nothing to show what Red Velvet are really about.

MV Review- Rainbow's "Black Swan" Is Easily the Strangest Single This Year

Nineteen months. It has been nineteen months since Rainbow released "Rainbow Syndrome Part 2" and since then all we've had was the debut of sub-unit Rainbow Blaxx, who despite a solid mini album failed to compete with Girl's Day, AOA, or even Dal Shabet. After being overtaken even by rookie groups such as Red Velvet and MAMAMOO, it seemed all hope for Rainbow was long gone, and they'd be left to hang around the "borderline" tier forever. After a painfully long wait they've finally returned, but a lot of people have been sorely disappointed, and I'm not surprised, because "Black Swan" truly is a peculiar song, and I've had to rewrite this review twice because of it.