Okay so I missed a little bit on my break I see.
B.A.P's album is cool, although it was exactly what I expected from them. The title track is more Mumford than I was expecting (I was expecting something much more on the Avicii side with the mention of house beats etc), and my favourite tracks are "Bang x2" and "Save Me". Overall, the album needs to grow on me, but at the moment I like what I'm hearing. Their sound has always been an interesting one, the fusion between hip-hop and rock influences is awesome but unfortunately, for me personally, their music isn't something I can have on repeat for ages.
BTS' intro is so cool! I'm pretty confident they'll end up being the big release of February for me. There's nothing else I can really say right now about them so I'm just going to board the hype train and soak in all the teasers that are coming our way.
The news/rumour that SNSD are releasing a mini instead of a full album is so relieving. As other people have said, it leaves much less room for filler. I actually didn't mind
I Got a Boy (album), it's underrated on this site, but it was one of my first korean albums. After having listened to many other k-pop albums, in addition to SNSD's japanese material, I can see that in the grand scheme of things IGAB really is nothing special. It'll be hard for them to top the title track, though. "I Got a Boy" remains
that b0p.
The news of EXO doing a japanese event/concert is pretty interesting, considering their whole marketing scheme/gimmick was based purely on S.Korea and China. If a rumoured 'EXO-J' ends up being a thing, I wonder how SM will tackle that. I doubt it will happen, but it's SM and they've done it before, so I wonder if EXO will have a couple of japanese members added to their lineup for japanese appeal. As I said, I don't think it will happen, but anything's possible I guess.
Admittedly, I don't really care for SM The Ballad despite my love of SM, but I'm excited to hear the songs with Changmin, Chen, Jonghyun, and Krystal.
...I think I covered everything that I missed over the past couple of days.
