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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5177 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 49 of 120 05 January 2014 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, in an effort to add some (non-TV) contact with Korean..
I know nothing about Korean music. I haven't gone looking for anything (yet), and I would like to add some Korean music to mp3 player. So what are your favorite singers and bands? And can someone direct me to a site that has lyrics and translations? I don't really know what kind of Korean music I will like. The only thing I've really heard is soundtracks. (Yi San comes to mind for the music.) I like pop in Italian and Spanish, but not so much in English, so I have no idea what will grab me in Korean. So share all your favorites, maybe with a YouTube link so I can check them all out. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4650 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 50 of 120 05 January 2014 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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In case you don't end up liking the many K-Pop offerings, there's a lot of nice indie music, which is often sort of folky with some electronic and south American influences. Once you get to the K-Indie part of youtube you can happily surf from one indie song to the next. A good place to start is orienkorean's channel.
A popular alternative band I like is Jaurim 자우림. Just google/youtube them... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5317 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 51 of 120 05 January 2014 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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One thing that may help is to watch a video of one or more of the weekly music shows
they have to get an idea of what artists are currently performing (though most groups go back-and-forth between active and hiatus status throughout the year, so that will only show the currently active ones for that date). These are the four I used to watch each week (though I dropped M!Countdown a while back since I had to drop one for time reasons and it was the one I liked the least). - M!Countdown (airs on Thursday on M-NET) - Music Bank (뮤직뱅크) (airs on Friday on KBS2) - Music Core (쇼! 음악중심) (airs on Saturday on MBC) - Inkigayo (인기가요) (airs on Sunday on SBS) My personal favorite of those shows in Music Bank (partly due to trusting their countdown chart more than the others and partly due to the way they display lyrics (more text per page) compared to how the others do). My current favorite K-pop girl group is AOA, which is kind of a hybrid group since they have 8 total members but perform as either a 5-member band (complete with instruments) or as a 7-member girl group (complete with dance choreography). I don't particularly care for most of the boy groups, but despite that I do really like CNBLUE (which is from the same entertainment company as AOA and is also a band setup, not a vocal/dance group). Korean also has a huge range of music beyond pop though (Ballad, Rap, R&B, Rock, Metal, Trot (a genre that is pretty unique to Korean), etc.) so there is plenty to explore. Edited by Warp3 on 05 January 2014 at 7:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5431 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 52 of 120 05 January 2014 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of my favorite hiphop groups/artists are Epik High, Dynamic Duo, Leessang,
Eluphant, Garion, Fana, Huckleberry P, Cloudancer, Goblin Laboratory, and Simon Dominic (Simon D). My favorite soloists are BoA, Baek Ji Young, Taru, Lena Park, and Younha. Favorite idol groups are T-ara, Kara, SNSD, EXID, A Pink, BESTie, and Hello Venus (off the top of my head, I have more). I find most Korean indie music to be painfully bland as shit, but there are good bands like Glen Check, Annyeong Bada, Third Line Butterfly. I don't like any male idol groups, their concepts are too gay for a male to take seriously. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4489 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 53 of 120 05 January 2014 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
Can we not go down this route please? 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4650 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 54 of 120 05 January 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you find that you like the ballad genre, check out 성시경 (Sung Shi-Kyung), who is really the best ballad singer I've encountered so far and very popular as well.
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| Kami Groupie United States Joined 4301 days ago 55 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Korean | Message 55 of 120 05 January 2014 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Personally a few of my favorite girl k-pop groups are 2ne1, Nine Muses, Kara, SNSD and my favorite male k-pop groups are Shinee, Big Bang, Infinite, Beast, BTOB But then again it all really depends on the kind of music you like. Shinee does R&B some times while Infinte usually stays with like super high energy k-pop. Then there are the other genres of Korean music completely. Some other groups that come to mind are Dear Cloud and Urban Zakapa (k-indie) Also if you liked soundtracks for dramas and alternative music I think the 'Shut Up Flower Boy Band' soundtrack might be worth listening to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5177 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 56 of 120 05 January 2014 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good... lots of things to check out. Thanks for all the input. :)
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