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Hi everybody, and welcome to a new Something Different Sunday! Last week, I talked about the songs that dominated my 2017 playlist and included a whole buch of songs. But if there’s one thing I’ll remember about 2017 musically, it’s my growing love and adoration for k-pop. So I figured I could do another music themed post, focusing solely on k-pop and more specifically, my favorite 2017 releases.
Now, I’m still a relatively new fan and there are sooo many bands and artists out there that I can’t even begin to get to know. So I’m always open to new k-pop recommendations! But in the meantime, here are mine:
BTS – Spring Day
Let’s get the toughest one out of the way first! I love pretty much every single song this band releases and 2017 has had a lot of awesomeness from them. So this was a tough decision as I wanted to include them all, but while Not Today got me through the year, DNA was the first comeback I got to experience and Mic Drop remix is such a jam, there is no denying that the sweet and beautiful Spring Day is one of their best songs and videos ever. The MV alone is like a little gorgeous short film.
Monsta X – Dramarama
This band has been on my radar for a while and I have loved many songs by them, but Dramarama took it to a whole other level again.
EXO – Power
Though others may add Ko Ko Bop to their list, I’ve been especially addicted to the catchy tunes and cheesy kitschy music video of Power.
BlackPink – As If It’s Your Last
BlackPink in your area! I love this band and can’t wait for their 2018 comeback, but in the meantime I’ll just keep jamming to this song and singing along to Lisa’s rap.
NCT127 – Cherry Bomb
Though I honestly wasn’t a huge fan of this at first, the catchy tunes and awesome choreo quickly won me over and now this song gets me going like crazy.
Twice – Likey
I don’t know Twice that well, but this bubblegum song had me addicted pretty soon. I can’t get ready now without singing “BBCream papapa, lipstick mamama”….
Chanyeol & Punch – Stay With Me
Goblin is my favorite k-drama that I watched in 2017, and the gorgeous soundtrack may have had something to do with that!
Cross Gene – Black or White
This band is so underrated and deserves much more. Black or White is so sexy and catchy. Warning: the video is very dark and bloody and pretty much a little horror movie. Also, kdrama lovers may recognize the group’s leader Shin Won Ho from his role as Tae-o, the cute hacker boy in The Legend of the Blue Sea.
Taemin – Move
This song is just so sexy, and Taemin is a dancer you can’t tear your eyes away from.
G-Dragon – Untitled
I love G-Dragon and his solo album this year was so good!
BONUS: BIG BANG – FXXK IT
Well, the music video was released in 2017 so this counts, right? Anyway, a k-pop list without Big Bang feels incomplete and FXXK IT is just such a feel good song.
Okay: YES! I adore Move, Stay With Me (Chanyeol’s voice…), Spring Day, Power and Dramarama too. Although I have to say that my favorite Monsta X song might be Beautiful and that I’m addicted to The Eve by EXO over Power. Also really like Love by Taemin and anything and everything Blackpink.
I’m rambling now, sorry! I hadn’t heard of Cross Gene before, so I listened to it while writing this comment and the song is amazing! Thanks 😀
Ah yay, glad to hear you love so many of these songs too! Beautiful and The Eve are such great songs too! Getting this list down to ten was so hard. But it’s so great that we have so many great songs to listen to so that’s a plus 😉 I didn’t know Love by Taemin yet, but I’ll have to go check it out!
Haha, glad you like Cross Gene! I also really love their song Na Hago Nolja.
Thanks for including links to all of the vids. I’m not really familiar with K-Pop but I enjoyed watching these. Power was especially fun.
Great, I’m happy to hear you enjoyed watching these 🙂 Power is fun indeed 😉
OMG I LOVE YOUR CHOICES!!! SPRING DAY AND MOVE AND DRAMARAMA I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH
AH YAY So happy you love these too 🙂
BTS, yes! Love them. I love K-pop music videos, these are so awesome and just well made. I also love the dancemovies, these guys and girls CAN DANCE.
BTS is my fave for sure 🙂 Yes you’re so right! K-pop music videos and choreograhies are what drew my attention at first, they are just so good!
I loooove Monsta X. They are one of my top faves (I only have 2) and FXXT IT is a a great one! I’ve been a fan of K-Pop since the 90s so if you ever want/need recs, don’t hesitate to ask!
Great post, thanks for sharing!
~Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
Ah Monsta X is definitely amazing! And FXXK IT is such a jam indeed 🙂 Oh that’s a long time listening to k-pop! I’d definitely be interested in hearing about some of your faves throughout the years 🙂
Mine definitely includes Spring Day, Mic Drop. I prefer Blackpink’s Playing with Fire the most and Ko Ko Bop as well, I was not much a fan of Power though!! Oh and definitely Big Bang’s FXXK IT is pretty awesome too! <3
Spring Day and Mic Drop <3 Yeah there definitely are so many great BlackPink and EXO songs, it was a tough choice :) And Big Bang just HAD to be included in this list!