First of all, my god, Petit. I sure hope you copied and pasted some previously written god-awful slashfic and just pasted in certain parts, and if you didn't, I'm partially impressed you spent that much time on something so absolutely ridiculous and pointless, but also very scared that people actually write stuff like that <img src='
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[quote name='Joel' post='85218' date='Sep 16 2010, 05:51 PM']2.)
I'm Really Hurt (MV)
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Like the First Time (MV)
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Bye Bye (No MV)
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Apple is A (MV)
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Lies (Dance Version) (MV)[/quote]
I actually listened to all of these T-ara songs, and most of them were just extremely generic or off-putting, except the ones I left in the quote there. Even most of those were "just OK' except Apple is A, that one stood out more than the others, but its still not OMFG AWESOME, just more enjoyable than the rest. Most of them are just the typical American style pop that bores me to tears or is just extremely unattractive and trying to sound overly dramatic or cool. Like I said, those songs I left in the quote are good, but not stuff I'd listen to often.
I had heard of KARA before, we had a discussion on the board here a few years ago about them. Pretty Girl is the kind of really pure, fun pop style that I like and that some of the artists I listed had back in the day. Honey and Same Heart are also pretty good, but not as good as the first. Mister isn't really too good, but it seems more like a Japanese song, not just because of the language <img src='
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SNSD's Way To Go! is actually really good, and sounds really alike to a bunch of the TNX stuff I love, with the heavy rock sounds. Into the New World sounds much more like a Japanese songs as well. HaHaHa also kinda sounds like an H!P/TNX type song. Hell, all the songs you posted sound straight out of Japan's idol industry, so I guess it makes sense they'll be debuting in Japan soon. I don't think they're quite as catchy as most TNX/H!P stuff just based on the songwriting, but the style is almost identical in the arrangements and tone and everything. I do remember seeing a few other videos by them from friends on Facebook and their newer style just basically seems like they're going the same route as T-ara, with generic dance/techno pop, which is really disappointing with how good they used to be. Maybe I'll grab their first album or two when they sounded good and unique.
Its interesting to hear more from a few of the more popular groups out there right now, but SNSD seems to be the only one that I might pay more attention to in the future, if their Japanese debut goes back to the way they used to be, but it doesn't seem like it will, since their first Japanese "single" is a remix of "Genie" which is just generic techno pop <img src='
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