So there are two solo rookies out right now that I know about. One is not so well known and the other is well known:
Lee Hi & Baek Seung Heon.
Lee Hi’s song ‘1234’
Baek Seung’s song ‘Til The Sun Rises’
Lee Hi’s MV has 6,174,715 views so far. Baek Sung’s? 136,939!
I listened to each song.
1234
The beat is annoying. Yes, it was in trend a WHILE ago so I understand for that being chose. As I listen more , her voice gets too bothersome for me. Maybe it’s the style of the music I don’t like. I thought a whole bunch of people would agree with me on this but
obviously not according to the views on her MV. This style doesn’t suit her and I agreed on this opinion of mine when I found out her age. 15!! And I know a bunch of young artist sing about love and break up but I don’t know….I feel as if they were bitchy and rude as if she will say “I’m grown hunny”. You can read the lyrics
here. Her lyrics remind me of somebody like…Keyshia Cole. There is a song called Trust and Believe (lyrics
here). The only reason I know of this song because one day my sister blasting this song a million times and I’m just like what it is this crap leh. If Lee Hi’s song was translated into English and I could understand 100% of the song, I will dislike this song 10x more than I do right now because not only would it be her vocals and song beat, it would also be the lyrics of the song. Now I did hear another song by her, and I love it! It suits her way better than ‘1234’
Please YG, more music like this for her, okay?
Til The Sun Rises
This is my favorite song at the moment! The first time I watched the MV (and heard the song) I just squealing a little inside because he was melting my heart. Sometimes when I react to a song this way, I already know the lyrics are amazing. I was correct! when I read the lyrics, I looked as if a spasm but my eyes were still glued to the screen. You can read the lyrics
here but I preferred to read along with the video playing
Also, do you see his face?????!! SO CUTE. Look at his dimples aww ♥ . I also loved the choreography! Most of K-Pop group overdo the dancing and I feel as if they rely on it too much. The dance moves in the MV looked simple and just enough. Also when he does like moonwalk dance, it’s like the cherry on top okay. I enjoyed it. Well I came to that stage in my music listening that Pop gets really annoying after a while. I heard he sings Dance Pop and R&B and this song sounds like a mixture of both. Not too pop and not too R&B. I can listen to this song in any mood I am and I don’t want to scream and take this song off. Actually when I’m in a bad mood, I won’t listen to this song because it doesn’t suit my mood but it’s in my playlist so when it plays, I start to smile. I can relate to this song more than I can to ‘1234’. Yes we all had our breakups but I don’t understand how that song is supposed to benefit anyone. I don’t think it will make me feel better or make me sadder. Maybe Sherry who is a confident buttface and just had a breakup and could relate to 1234 but I’m not Sherry. Do you know what we all had other than breakups?? A CRUSH. And now that I think about it, I probably go wild over this song because I have a crush on someone right now ^^. Baek Seung Heon’s voice is so beautiful.
I wrote this post because every single time I go on Twitter, always news about Lee Hi! Then I’m on YouTube and her song is #1 on Korea’s chart! Obviously I’m upset because this song was not all great and people going wild over it. After realizing this, I just wanted to listen to my favorite song at the moment and then I see how low of views he has on his MV compared to Lee Hi’s and he was nowhere on the chart! I was flaming but then I remember it’s probably thoughtless little children listening to her music. Rude for me to call them little kids when I am in the same age group as them but they reminding me of little kids! As if they like this song just because just like some Justin Bieber listen to him just because.
Another new artist that I heard (and think is better than Lee Hi *cough*) is Roh Ji Hoon. His song (Punishment) also has one of those beats that was trending a while ago but doesn’t he pull it off so well? :D
Even though his song that is ‘big’ right now didn’t annoy me, I do prefer his other songs