#KS✿TY2024: The K-Pop Song of the Year 2024 Rate | #15: "Idk how viable her solo career is but I'm rooting for ha"

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[Slicey: If I included choreography and video in my score, then Armageddon would get a higher score... but I don't really do that for #KSOTY hehe~]
To be fair the song is a solid 10/10 without the MV but altogether…whew. The hooks/production/overall vibe are incred, absolutely wild this isn’t top 20 at least girlies! Biggest shock elimination so far.
 

eccentricsimply

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Well, I for one am pleasantly surprised that didn't go way higher than it deserved just because it's an aespa song.
aespa was never benefitted scores wise in this subforum just because a song is theirs, I shall not take this revisionist history!

There's no way in hell Armageddon is worse than 90% of what's left, but let me save the anger for when aespa loses the title to an okay, mostly uncontroversial song... Again!
 
aespa was never benefitted scores wise in this subforum just because a song is theirs, I shall not take this revisionist history!

I didn't mean it like that, what I'm saying is they've had a really good year and their selection of songs here is seen as very strong, so the weakest of the bunch could have easily gotten a bit of a score boost just based on that.
 
Not Super Lady outliving Armageddon
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Slice of Life

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And the last song to NOT make the top half of our rate is...................












































































Karma comes back to bite me again.........


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SUPERBLOOM:
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HIGH: (10) @askew, @aux, @codecat, @He, @love choerry motion, @mika, @Remorque, @Slice of Life, @vague, @ysev (9.75) @thommyh (9.5) @enjoy, @TéléDex (9) @Oleander, @ultraviolet, @YRSHKD
LOW: (2) @FunkyButChic (4.5) @Macsun (5) @leedlelee..., @Phonetics Girl
MY SCORE: 10

LEADERBOARD JOURNEY:
10 voters: 28
20 voters: 68
30 voters: 50
40 voters: 49
49 voters: 51
Two songs down, three songs to go for ARTMS. Just missing the top 50 by 0.5 points is Flower Rhythm. Tragique!

Flower Rhythm is the second pre-release single from ARTMS' debut album, <Dall>. It was composed by Artronic Waves and yeon (AW:crew), with lyrics written by Alice Vicious (AW:crew), 9june9, Artronic Waves and yeon (AW:crew). Flower Rhythm is apparently a mix of two songs of HeeJin: The intro track, Kehwa (Flowering) and title track, Algorithm. Wait, that's so cool! An intro song getting developed into a full song? Slay! Anyway, Flower Rhythm didn't enter the Circle Digital Chart but it did peak at number 158 on the component Download Chart.

Flower Rhythm is actually my favourite song from the whole <Dall> album and I don't know what this says about my taste FFFFFFF! Judge me all you want but this is my truth and I'm gonna live it! No but after the first pre-release single, Birth, didn't exactly wow me outside of the amazing music video - and also made me panic that I won't enjoy ARTMS' music, kii! - Flower Rhythm was the assurance that I needed to #trust and #believe Jaden Jeong's plans for ARTMS. He might be crazy (understatement of the year) but he knows how to deliver... most of the time. But yeah, Flower Rhythm was love on first listen basically and it erased whatever fears I had about ARTMS' music.

I think it's high time we officially recognize the genius of Artronic Waves productions. They just get it, they get me! The drama, the mystery, the grandness, the attention to details - Flower Rhythm has got it all. And despite the production being so busy, I like that the vocals are still clear and not buried. The ARTMS girlies are singers who sing and it would be downright criminal for those vocals to not be heard properly. And speaking of vocals, whew, Miss HaSeul!!!!! The way she sings that middle 8!!!! So smooth, so tight!!!! One of the best things that came out of ARTMS' debut is the rediscovery of HaSeul as a main vocalist. We've always known she can sing but for some reason, she was not given the spotlight to show what she's truly capable of in LOONA. I'm glad those days are gone!

I guess this is the part where I #promo ARTMS' latest single, Burn, released just a few days ago. It's... nowhere near as good as Flower Rhythm (to put it mildly) but again, I am choosing to #trust and #believe Jaden Jeong and the ARTMS girlies that their next album will include better songs. They won't fail us; I just know it!

THE JURY'S THOUGHTS:
@FunkyButChic (2): "Too experimental for its own good." [Slicey: But we love experimental here, unnie! Don't we?]

@Macsun (4.5): "Very ODD production choice"

@Vixen (6.75): "Now ya'll know I'm an Orbit and I would normally swallow anything the moon girls provide me, and to be fair, within the first few seconds of the song, I really was in fact eating all they were serving me, but that chorus mama… What's up with that terribly pitched up and autotuned harmony? Mama this is soooo grating to the ears... (Also, I love my girl Heejin, but the good sis can't belt that high ddd, let's stop holding Kim Lip and Jinsoul back from belting on ARTMS songs, can we spread this agenda please)" [Slicey: Stanning HyunJin's vocals while slandering HeeJin's... hmmmm #noticing! I do agree Kim Lip and JinSoul should've sang that line though, kii!]

@boom bazooka joe (7.5): "A perfectly servicable song that I don't return to."

@savilizabeths (8.75): "I mean, they're iconic, aren't they? I just feel like I should be a little more obsessed with this than I am. But god, when I actually do press play I am absolutely transported."

@codecat (10): "When those prechorus synths kick in omgggg my coochie swells UP.......Jaden Jeong you always win" [Slicey: Calm down, unnie.....]

@mika (10): "That album, still my favorite"

@aux (10): "I love that this is essentially making a full song out of an intro. There's so many intros in K-Pop that I wish had been fleshed out, I think this is the first time that it actually does." [Slicey: Right??? Hopefully we hear more intros get developed into full songs!]


 

Slice of Life

Staff member
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JANUARY
No More (Ma Boy) - Sistar19
Super Lady - (G)I-DLE

FEBRUARY
I Got You - Twice
YoYo - RESCENE

MARCH
Magnetic - ILLIT
I'm Ready - Chungha
UhUh - RESCENE

APRIL
Midas Touch - Kiss of Life
Impossible - RIIZE
Heya - IVE
Accendio - IVE

MAY
Supernova - aespa
Virtual Angel - ARTMS
How Sweet - NewJeans
Loop (feat. Lil Cherry) - Yves

JUNE
Cosmic - Red Velvet
ABCD - Nayeon
Shooting Star - Kep1er
Supernatural - NewJeans

JULY
Sticky - Kiss of Life
Don't - Lee Chae Yeon
Something Ain't Right - XG

AUGUST
New Woman (feat. Rosalía) - Lisa
Crazy - LE SSERAFIM
Supersonic - fromis_9
Algorithm - Chungha
Love Attack - RESCENE

SEPTEMBER
TTYL - Loossemble

OCTOBER
Whiplash - aespa
APT. - Rosé & Bruno Mars
Mantra - Jennie
GPT - STAYC
Imaginary Friend - ITZY

NOVEMBER
Like A Flower - Irene
Viola - Yves
TIPI-TAP - Kep1er

DECEMBER
Strategy (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) - Twice
Girls Never Die - tripleS
Rockstar - Lisa

SUPERBLOOM SONGS
Bubble Gum - NewJeans
Butterfly Effect - ARTMS
Heaven - Taeyeon
IYKYK - XG
Last Drop - Red Velvet
Like It Like It - Twice
Official - ICHILLIN'
Pinball - RESCENE
Sabotage - Kwon Eunbi
Sparkle - ARTMS
Unstoppable - Sooyoung


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Thoughts? Violent reactions?

What can y'all say about our top 50 K-Pop songs of 2024, besties?

I will NOT be asking y'all for your Kill Lists. Let's change things up a little, shall we?

Please post the songs you want in the top 10.
And post the songs you think will be in the top 10.
 

Slice of Life

Staff member
Feeling a lil statsy tonight so here......


UPDATE ON ACTS WITH MULTIPLE SONGS

ARTMS

(3/5)

Birth
Butterfly Effect
Flower Rhythm
Sparkle
Virtual Angel

-

RESCENE
(4/4)

Love Attack
Pinball
UhUh
YoYo

-

tripleS
(1/4)

Girls Never Die
Inner Dance
Midnight Flower
Untitled


-

Twice
(3/4)

I Got You
Like It Like It
One Spark
Strategy (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)

-

aespa
(2/3)

Armageddon
Supernova
Whiplash

-

ITZY
(1/3)

Imaginary Friend
Mr. Vampire
Untouchable


-

IVE
(2/3)

Accendio
Heya
Supernova Love

-

Kiss of Life
(2/3)

Igloo
Midas Touch
Sticky

-

LE SSERAFIM
(1/3)

Crazy
Easy
Smart


-

NewJeans
(3/3)

Bubble Gum
How Sweet
Supernatural

-

NMIXX
(0/3)

Boom
Dash
Run For Roses


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(G)I-DLE
(1/2)

Super Lady
Wife

-

Chungha
(2/2)

Algorithm
I'm Ready

-

Chuu
(0/2)

Chocolate
Strawberry Rush


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fromis_9
(1/2)

from
Supersonic

-

Kep1er
(2/2)

Shooting Star
TIPI-TAP

-

Lisa
(2/2)

New Woman (feat. Rosalía)
Rockstar

-

Loossemble
(1/2)

Girls' Night
TTYL

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Red Velvet
(2/2)

Cosmic
Last Drop

-

Rosé
(1/2)

APT.
toxic till the end

-

STAYC
(1/2)

Cheeky Icy Thang
GPT

-

XG
(2/2)

IYKYK
Something Ain't Right

-

Yves
(2/2)

Loop (feat. Lil Cherry)
Viola
 

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