The craziest year ever for Korean pop, with punchy, progressive tracks from CL, T.O.P and EXO
Ropey debuts, drug busts, flops, scandals, sasaeng fans raising hell, and losing your favourite singer to the mandatory Korean military service. That's a fraught year in K-Pop. But it's also music videos that inspire, songs which transcend language barriers, heart-wrenching and deserved comebacks. The sheer volume of material makes summarising a lip-chewing nightmare. Ten places just isn't enough to truly capture the year and the following, in no order, need smashing high fives for being damn awesome. Put your hands together for SPICA's “Tonight”, TEEN TOP's “Miss Right”, BTS' “No More Dream”, HENRY's “Trap”, VIXX's “Voodoo Doll”, SHINEE's “Why So Serious”, BLOCK B's “Very Good”, EVOL's “Get Up”, and SISTAR19's “Gone Not Around Any Longer”.
10. B.A.P- "Hurricane"
Five singles, an American and Japanese tour – B.A.P have been 2013's unstoppable machines. To some they lost their way after February's superior “One Shot” and truthfully the Badman LP was, in parts, incoherent and misguided. But you had to relish its ballsy experimentation and "Hurricane" stood out as loud, squalling and dripping with gold like an Argos loving, 37 year old grandmother of two. It was vicious; uncaring that B.A.P's strongest vocalist was bent double to compete with the heavy production, or that it ruthlessly defiled every music genre in existence. Months later it's still spectacularly precocious and demented – the sound of growing pains from an idol group reluctant to be merely categorised as such.
9. CRAYON POP- "Bar, Bar, Bar"
8. CL (of 2NE1)- "Baddest Female"
7. TROUBLE MAKER – “There Is No Tomorrow (Now)”
6. f(x) – “Rum Pum Pum Pum”
5. TAEYANG – “Ringa Linga”
4. INFINITE – “Destiny”
3. G-DRAGON – “Coup d'Etat”
2. EXO – “Growl” (Korean Version)
1. T.O.P – “Doom Dada”
Source: Dazed Digital
[NOTE: Dazed & Confused is a UK based Magazine. It has also branched out to Japan and Korea.]
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