My game is crashing mid-game and I'm mad. Let's just open this rate, shall we ? K-pop is such a fascinating phenomenon. For an industry that's very open that visual is their main selling point, music industry as the vehicle of K-pop idols are evolving faster and faster. Starting from Sweetune & Yoo Young-Jin to Brave Brothers & Shinsadong Tiger, now there are many musical talents working behind the K-pop scenes, trying to find the perfect recipe for pop music while also injecting their own personalities into it. So why e.one, Full8loom & 1Piece ? What's so special of them ? Well, if you have been witnessing me in this pink prison, I'm a big advocate for synth-y, upbeat bright songs (usually regarded as "magical girl pop") and these three producers can be regarded as the pioneer for it. Almost all of them starts to shine in 2014-2016. e.one, consists of Jung Ho-Hyun and Choi Hyun-Joon, is more experienced with bigger catalogue and have worked with many girlgroups such as Gfriend, WJSN and later IZ*One. They usually have strong penchant for 4/4 disco beats and dramatic strings. Full8loom, consists of Jinli, Glory Face, yuka, Harry, Bang Geonu, Ju-0 and Jake K (who has left in 2019 and now part of another brilliant production team, ARTiffect). In girl groups, they found their muse on WJSN and has been praised for the trilogy. They're probably the most idiosyncratic out of this list, and then to be more noisy and experimental on their composition. 1Piece, consists of music veteran Yoon Sang and two indietronica musicians Davink and Spacecowboy, found their muse on Lovelyz. They're considerably less diverse, but if you're big fan of sentimentality you will love them. The strong bittersweet feels in the melody which may be attributed to the co-founder Yoon Sang, a legend in 90s era with jazzy and hazy balladry. But fear not boygroup stans who read this. They also have been working with several boy groups like GOT7, Drippin, VIXX, Golden Child, The Boyz and even Stray Kids so don't be scared away to exploring their discographies ! It's time for us to rate, shine a spotlight and celebrate these talents that has shaped our favorite groups and make our little K-pop scene diverse and beautiful as ever. Welcome to K-pop Producer Spotlight Rate : e.one / Full8loom / 1Piece !
Just like Monotree : The Popjustice Rate (credits to ms @Wills), we will also do submission-based for this rate. We will curate and pick 66 songs out of these producer's catalogue. Here's the process will be : This is open for anyone ! PM me a list of up to 10 eligible songs you would like to see included. Eligibility will be explained below. This list should be numbered in order of preference – #1 will be the most prioritized and #10 is the least prioritized. You can change your nomination ballot as many times as you'd like, right up until the deadline. The ballot will be randomized after the deadline so there won't be any advantage on faster submitter hehe. The #1 and #2 on your ballot will be automatically selected, but if it's already picked I will pick #3 and so on. After that, the rest of the songs will be judged by their total points, total submitter and positions. HOWEVER, I think me as a host should have some privileges. So here are my 6 picks that is guaranteed a spot on the rate : Soya - Artist Kim Areum - Diving The Boyz - Clover Golden Child - Spell Drippin - Nostalgia April - Take My Hand As for the eligibility rules : I have created a Spotify playlist, Apple Music playlist (credits to @Wills once again hehe) and also a comprehensive lists of songs in Spoiler below, that you can explore and pick easily. THIS IS NOT FULL REPRESENTATION OF THEIR CATALOGUE, so you may also find other songs outside this list. Spoiler e.one April - April Story April - Lovesick April - The Blue Bird April - Doll April - You.zip April - Take My Hand April - Tinkerbell April - Jelly IZ*One - Merry Go Round IZ*One - Mise-en-scene IZ*One - Sequence IZ*One - Fiesta IZ*One - Violeta IZ*One - Parallel Universe Lovelyz - Close To You Lovelyz - Daydream Lovelyz - Memories Kep1er - MVSK WJSN - Miracle WJSN - Secret WJSN - Renaissance WJSN - Hurry Up WJSN - I-Yah WJSN - Memories WJSN - Bebe WJSN - Prince WJSN - WW Twice - Say Something Twice - You In My Heart Twice - Turtle Twice - Rewind Gfriend - Luv Star Gfriend - Sunshine Gfriend - Gone With The Wind Gfriend - Crush Gfriend - Paradise Gfriend - Here We Are Gfriend - Tarot Cards Kwon Eun Bi - Door Kwon Eun Bi - Rain 9Muses - Love City 9Muses - Hate Me 9Muses - Hurt Locker 9Muses - A 9Muses - September 17th 9Muses - AM 3:00 9Muses - Play Me Now KARA - Cupid Apink - Push & Pull Apink - Like ! Wonder Girls - I Feel You Rainbow - Click ! Laboum - Ding Dong ARIAZ - Ouch ARIAZ - Moonlight Aria ARIAZ - Drama Wanna One - Wanna Wanna One - Day by Day Wanna One - Flowerbomb Wanna One - One's Place Wanna One - Awake! GOT7 - Good EXO - Lucky The Boyz - Clover X1 - Like Always 2PM - Perfume Dongkiz - Blockbuster GHOST9 - Starvoy JO1 - Design JO1 - Real Sonamoo - I (Knew It) Full8loom WJSN - Dreams Come True WJSN - I Wish WJSN - Save Me, Save You WJSN - La La Love WJSN - You, You, You WJSN - Luckitty-cat WJSN - Pantomime WJSN - Our Garden WJSN - New Me WJSN - You Got WJSN - Let Me In WJSN - My Type WJSN - Last Dance Lovelyz - Secret Garden Lovelyz - Sweet Luv Apink - Kok Kok Apink - Yummy IZ*One - Open Your Eyes IZ*One - D-D-Dance Elris - Focus Elris - Midnight, Moonlight Weki Meki - Neverland Weki Meki - My World Weki Meki - Dear Weki Meki - Iron Boy Weki Meki - Color Me Lightsum - You, Jam AleXa - Summer Breeze Chungha - Masquerade GOT7 - Lullaby Golden Child - Don't Run Away Golden Child - Knocking On My Door Drippin - Nostalgia Drippin - Remember Stray Kids - Boxer Stray Kids - Pacemaker Verivery - Beautiful-x Kep1er - Up! VIXX - Scentist VIXX - After Dark Astro - You Smile Astro - Because It's You JO1 - Touch! JO1 - Stay Twice - The Best Thing I Ever Did Produce 48 - I AM Momoland - Orgel Momoland - Lovesick 1Piece Lovelyz - Goodbye Chapter 1 Lovelyz - Ah-Choo Lovelyz - Destiny Lovelyz - Heart (Handle With Care) Lovelyz - WoW! Lovelyz - Now, We Lovelyz - Knock Knock Lovelyz - Bookmark Lovelyz - Getaway Lovelyz - Circle Lovelyz - Take Me Somewhere Lovelyz - Lost N Found Lovelyz - When We Were Us (Beautiful Days) Lovelyz - Triangle Suzy - Les Preferences Uhm Jung Hwa - Dreamer EXO-CBX - Crush U Gfriend - It's You It's eligible if only one member of the team appears in the credits (For example : Lovelyz - Lost N Found is eligible despite only being produced by Spacecowboy) If the contribution was lyrics only, the song is ineligible. We stick to producing and composing only, bestie. If you found another song that isn't on the playlist, please also write the credits and the source so it's easier to verified. And that's all, if you have any questions feel free to ask here. Also because this month is pretty busy, I will give you all almost a month for submitting the ballot ! Submission Deadline : Oct 31th at 11:59PM in your Timezone. Rate all 66 songs on a scale of 0 to 10. Decimals are only allowed for .25/.5/.75. I don't go to school for math. You can give a 11 to one favorite song in this rate and a 0 to one song that disturbs your life. Don't be an a*shole , if your average score is lower than 6.5 I will make you reconsider the score. Commentary is allowed. I don't want to be too restrictive, but you must sent commentaries for your 11 and songs that you rate lower than 4. We need explanations for your behavior. PM your ballot to me @Attis. Please use the template that I've provided in spoiler below ! The deadline is December 23th 2022 on most latest timezone ! Pleek send it on time so you can celebrate holidays freely bestie. Spoiler 9Muses - Hurt Locker - score(commentary) 9Muses - Love City - score(commentary) APRIL - April Story - score(commentary) APRIL - Doll - score(commentary) APRIL - Lovesick - score(commentary) APRIL - Take My Hand - score(commentary) APRIL - The Blue Bird - score(commentary) APRIL - Tinkerbell - score(commentary) Ariaz - Moonlight Aria - score(commentary) Chung Ha - Masquerade - score(commentary) DIA (BCHS) - LO_OK - score(commentary) Dongkiz - Blockbuster - score(commentary) Drippin - Nostalgia - score(commentary) ELRIS - Focus - score(commentary) Elris - Midnight, Moonlight - score(commentary) Favorite - Heart Signal - score(commentary) Gfriend - Here We Are - score(commentary) Gfriend - It's You - score(commentary) Golden Child - Spell - score(commentary) Golden Child – Knocking On My Door - score(commentary) GOT7 - Lullaby - score(commentary) gugudan - Diary - score(commentary) Infinite - Begin Again - score(commentary) IZ*One - D-D-Dance - score(commentary) IZ*One - Fiesta - score(commentary) IZ*One - Merry Go Round - score(commentary) IZ*One - Mise en Scene - score(commentary) IZ*One - Sequence - score(commentary) IZ*One - Violeta - score(commentary) JO1 - Design - score(commentary) KARA - Cupid - score(commentary) Kep1er - MVSK - score(commentary) Kep1er - Up! - score(commentary) Kim Areum - Diving - score(commentary) Kim Areum - Drive - score(commentary) Kim Areum - Midnight - score(commentary) Kim Areum - Your Summer - score(commentary) Kwon Eunbi - Magnetic - score(commentary) LIGHTSUM - You, jam - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Ah-Choo - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Close To You - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Daydream - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Destiny - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Getaway - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Goodbye Chapter 1 - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Secret Garden - score(commentary) Lovelyz - Sweet Luv - score(commentary) Momoland - Orgel - score(commentary) SISTAR - I Swear - score(commentary) SONAMOO - I (knew it) - score(commentary) Soya - Artist - score(commentary) Sunny Girls - Taxi - score(commentary) The Boyz - Clover - score(commentary) TWICE - Turtle - score(commentary) Uhm Jung Hwa - Dreamer - score(commentary) VIXX - Scentist - score(commentary) Weki Meki - Iron Boy - score(commentary) WJSN - Dreams Come True - score(commentary) WJSN - I-yah - score(commentary) WJSN - Luckitty-cat - score(commentary) WJSN - Memories - score(commentary) WJSN - New Me - score(commentary) WJSN - Save Me, Save You - score(commentary) WJSN - Secret - score(commentary) WJSN - You, You, You - score(commentary) Wonder Girls - I Feel You - score(commentary)
Spoiler 9Muses - Hurt Locker 9Muses - Love City APRIL - April Story APRIL - Doll APRIL - Lovesick APRIL - Take My Hand APRIL - The Blue Bird APRIL - Tinkerbell Ariaz - Moonlight Aria Chung Ha - Masquerade DIA (BCHS) - LO_OK Dongkiz - Blockbuster Drippin - Nostalgia ELRIS - Focus Elris - Midnight, Moonlight Favorite - Heart Signal Gfriend - Here We Are Gfriend - It's You Golden Child - Spell Golden Child – Knocking On My Door GOT7 - Lullaby gugudan - Diary Infinite - Begin Again IZ*One - D-D-Dance IZ*One - Fiesta IZ*One - Merry Go Round IZ*One - Mise en Scene IZ*One - Sequence IZ*One - Violeta JO1 - Design KARA - Cupid Kep1er - MVSK Kep1er - Up! Kim Areum - Diving Kim Areum - Drive Kim Areum - Midnight Kim Areum - Your Summer Kwon Eunbi - Magnetic LIGHTSUM - You, jam Lovelyz - Ah-Choo Lovelyz - Close To You Lovelyz - Daydream Lovelyz - Destiny Lovelyz - Getaway Lovelyz - Goodbye Chapter 1 Lovelyz - Secret Garden Lovelyz - Sweet Luv Momoland - Orgel SISTAR - I Swear SONAMOO - I (knew it) Soya - Artist Sunny Girls - Taxi The Boyz - Clover TWICE - Turtle Uhm Jung Hwa - Dreamer VIXX - Scentist Weki Meki - Iron Boy WJSN - Dreams Come True WJSN - I-yah WJSN - Luckitty-cat WJSN - Memories WJSN - New Me WJSN - Save Me, Save You WJSN - Secret WJSN - You, You, You Wonder Girls - I Feel You Youtube playlist Spotify playlist (missing Sunny Girls - Taxi)
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62. Lovelyz - Sweet Luv 63. Infinite - Begin Again 64. DKZ - Blockbuster 65. Momoland - Orgel 66. Twice - Turtle
Hmm what's this? The best rate of all time? I'll probably have to submit a few boygroup songs... you know, for texture ミ☆
Super excited for this rate, these are truly some of my all time fav producers!!! A rate with NO BAD songs.........already shaking at the thought of that possibility...
@Wills told me that he won’t be visiting the forum for a while and that he is giving me the power to choose his 10 songs for him. Everybody say thank you @Wills!! We love you, charitable legend!!
PROVIDED they come from the list of 12 songs I’m sending you to choose from, unnie! You keep forgetting that part!
I would like to see you send another Kim Areum / Spacecowboy songs bestie Also update we have a ballot ! FYI to all of you, it can still be changed until the deadline.
Sure but make it sure it's all produced by Spacecowboy (prob mix it with some songs from idk...Lovelyz and WJSN pleek dd)
I was just thinking, do we really need almost a whole month just for submissions? I mean, fair enough if it's more convenient that way for whatever reason, but it's not like making a list of your ten favourite songs and submitting it is particularly time consuming. It was just one week in the MonoTree rate.
Now tell that to still only 2 ballots sitting in my spreadsheet dd. I'm giving more time because I think these 3 producers, despite adored, needs a bit more exploring compared to more notorious Monotree. I also want to give a chance to potential submitter, for example @enjoy reach out to me that they only want to vote. By giving a month, now they can explore the music a bit more to submit something. Also to give me a rest time ff I'm still retaliating from hosting slashers game and now joining another slasher game. Take it slow, maybe you can find a new discovery .
