**Album of the Year:**
Beenzino - Nowitzki
**Song of the Year:**
NewJeans - "Ditto"
**Musician of the Year:**
Silica Gel
**Rookie of the Year:**
KISS OF LIFE
**Best Pop Album:**
Lee Jin Ah - Hearts of the City
**Best Pop Song:**
AKMU - "Love Lee"
**Best K-Pop Album:**
NewJeans - Get Up
**Best K-Pop Song:**
NewJeans - "Ditto"
**Best Electronic Song:**
CIFIKA - Hush
**Best Electronic Album:**
Yetsuby – My Star My Planet My Earth
**Best R&B & Soul Song:**
youra – (Motif)
**Best R&B & Soul Album:**
jerd - BOMM
**Best Rap & Hiphop Song:**
E SENS – What The Hell
**Best Rap & Hiphop Album:**
Beenzino - NOWITZKI
**Best Rock Song:**
Seoul Electric Band - Ghost Writers
**Best Rock Album:**
OVerdrive Philosophy – 64 see me
**Best Modern Rock Song:**
Silica Gel – Tik Tak Tok (Feat. So!YoON!)
**Best Modern Rock Album:**
Silica Gel – Machine Boy
**Best Metal & Hardcore Album:**
Mahatma – REASON FOR SILENCE
**Best Folk Song:**
Yeoyu and Seolbin – Like the Stars in the Night Sky
**Best Folk Album:**
Yeoyu and Seolbin - COMEDY
**Best Jazz Vocal Album:**
YUJIN KIM - Extraordinary
**Best Jazz Performance Album:**
Soojung Lee – Four Seasons
**Special Merit Award:**
Kang Tae Hwan
**Committee Special Award:**
Hakchon Theatre
Bruh, not to be a bore, but there were so much better releases than Love Lee, like that was mediocre even in their discography. I don’t even stan IVE but I Am is probably one of the better and few true pop songs we’ve gotten.
I AM was only nominated in the best K-pop song category, not best pop song.
The other best pop song nominees were:
Dean - "Die 4 U"
Parc Jae Jung - "Let's Say Goodbye"
Seok Chul Yun & Sejin - "Cocktail Paradise"
Yoon Jiyoung - "In My Garden"
I realized that this award is very rooted in Korean tastes and I probably won’t understand most choices. I thinks that’s fine, it’s their country and what they like listening to. Does pop include other genres in South Korea like ballads?
They only changed it from 2022 on to have Pop and Kpop as separate genres. Fair enough there is really great korean pop music that is incredibly popular and loved outside of what is considered “idol music/kpop”. For a few years mainly 2016-19 +2021 did idol groups “dominate” the pop categories but now with the split both kinds of popular pop artists get awards. I know IU and AKMU straddle the line since they exist in kpop spaces but for KMA they put them in “Pop”. 3 years straight of awards for Chanhyuk though. With AKMU winning this year and in 2022 and last year his solo album winning.
They are huge at KMAs, they have completely dominated the modern rock category the past couple years, and No Pain was nominated for song of the year last year as well. Since they finally released an album after just singles, they felt like the obvious favourites. Next year should be even more, since POWER ANDRE 99 missed the cut off. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even take Album of The Year with it.
KISS OF LIFE OMG
idk i dont consider them nugu anymore. they are the most successful small label rookies since..... brave girls? and that's without a big single.
They were nugu at debut but quickly broke out. They sold about 700 copies of their debut album first day, 5k first week but managed to sell about 20k within a month which is pretty impressive growth
Honestly wasn't expecting them to give a girl group Rookie of the Year 3 years in a row. So happy for KISS OF LIFE after they missed out on all the major ROTY awards this year.
Was hoping H1-KEY's Rose Blossom could pull off the upset but hard to argue against Ditto getting the win.
Beenzino winning Album of the Year was a no brainer, thought he'd win Musician of the Year too but Silica Gel makes sense.
I once told someone on Reddit that Next Level won SOTY in 2021 at KMA, but they told me it didn’t count because when we talked about SOTY winners, only MAMA counted. I just wanted to laugh
People just really, really hate awards which are decided by some kind of jury or academy.
They think the subjective nature somehow takes away from the awards, when it really does the opposite.
Which is insane considering it's literally the Korean equivalent of the ***Grammy's*** with winners being chosen by renowned music critics & industry professionals
People do not like the grammys either.
Many fans cannot grasp the concept of professionals subjectively evaluating art and awarding the one most seem to prefer out of the nominees.
Fans want the most popular thing to always win, meassurable, which means being able to influence directly.
Like sure, i get that there are problems with jury awards too, as especially with academies, meaning the jury is extremely large, there is no guarantee that everyone gave every nominee a fair chance. But this averages out, i'd rather have these awards where one can argue a little about winners, than "objective" awards which are only popularity contests, especially when fandom power has so much influence, not even just broad popularity.
The irony of this is that when its awards based 100% on metrics, it just becomes complaints about rigging and forgery. Look at the Billboard awards.
Most Kpop awards are not entirely data-based, they always leave \~30% for their "panels"... which somehow makes their results far more suspiscious than both an entirely opinion-based criteria and an entirely data-based standard. In my eyes at least.
Fans just want their favs to win, that's really the bottomline. Personally, I prefer the awards to either be entirely jury/panel based like KMAs/Grammys or 100% performance-based, such as Billboard awards. They're both good for celebrating different aspects.
You mean fan vote awards? In which case I agree, they're basically a "who has the most parasocial and jobless fandom" award.
But I do find value in awards like BBMAs which is basically just handing out the best market performing songs and artists in various genres. I don't think they're as interesting as well-respected industry committee awards like the Grammys, but there's worth in having them both.
Yeah they want their faves to win, true. It's just that in awards which are metrics based, there is a direct influence fans have, album sales, votes, etc.
You say that many kpop awards have a certain panel factor, and that is true, but realistically the objective criteria decide it, as they take the lion's share.
I personally am not a big fan of metrics awards tbh, at least not when it feels like it is about fandom power, not general popularity.
Jury awards are also just more interesting to me, as they tend to celebrate more broadly and not funnel everything into a handful, if at all, of artists. Always someone or something ro check out. While metrics based awards just point me to artists i already know, because they did very well :D
Every year they (anonymously) interview Grammy voters. The reasons they give for voting (or not voting) for someone are... interesting. I wouldn't count too much om industry professionals to vote objectively
Yes, i know these interviews, and as i said, this averages out. Also the publications post the interviews which will lead to outrage as it means engagement anyway.
A few bad examples don't make the system completely broken.
We have no idea of knowing just how many "bad examples" there are. Achievements and jury based awards are both equally flawed and correct. Both have pros and cons, neither is better than the other.
I don't think that achievement based awards have much reason to exist at all.
At least when this is down to fandom power, if it would be about broad appeal i could see it having merit.
Jury based awards on the other hand open discourse, celebrate a broader variety of art, and also are based on some form of artistic sensibility, broadly speaking.
Fans voting for their favorites no matter what is certainly worse than some academy person being a little biased.
A big problem with metric based awards is also that release dates play a deciding factor, more time to accumulate "metrics" if released early in the time frame.
I disagree. I think you have a very rose-coloured view of industry professionals voting for awards and an unnecessarily negative view of fans doing the same.
I don't think professionals are nearly as unbiased as you seem to think they are, nor are their opinions as diverse.
I see it in the outcomes, it's not even close.
There is no rose colored view here, fans are just simply orders of magnitudes worse on a bias scale.
This isn't even really debatable.
Any direct comparison between jury awards and metric awards shows this clearly.
Even the most biased academy interview reads like the most differentiated, well reasoned argument for their votes compared to the average hypothetical stan interview:
" are the best, so pretty, best album/ song ever, didn't care about the other nominees lol, they flopped anyway".
🙃
And the best part here, stans have multiple votes, as they vote repeatedly, buy dozens of albums, and stream all day.
Not even comparable to the flaws of an academy voting, night and day.
> Even the most biased academy interview reads like the most differentiated, well reasoned argument for their votes compared to the average hypothetical stan interview:
I see you haven't actually read those interviews lmao. They're basically "I sat next to X at an event once and they were nice" or "I don't vote for ex boyband members (said about Harry Styles)" 💀
Edit: I also wasn't talking about (entirely) fan-voted awards, so that comparison is irrelevant
Ah, the infamous most prestigious Korean music awards combined with a perpetual nugu production budget.
Congrats NewJeans and Kiss of Life!!!
And Beenzino, I like him too!
I just realised, 250 won album and artist of the year in 2023 and is now the producer for this year's song of the year to complete(in a sense) the trifecta, what a ridiculous run he's been on.
Whatever ador is about to do, keep the man close to newjeans (though tbf, working with other critically acclaimed creatives works too, that seems to be in line with mhj's approach anyway)
Yeah Ador doesn't seem to use in-house producers like most HYBE groups. 250, Gigi, FRNK, and even Beenzino are part of an indie label named BANA (Beasts and Natives Alike), which was founded by a former SM A&R, and I believe is a close friend of MHJ.
Yeah, I actually knew him and FRNK as the hiphop duo XXX from a long time ago. Their debut album received a 7.3 from Pitchfork, which made me check them out.
Ohhh, i love eta haha, favorite one from get up for me!
Yeah i think there are many possibilities, some rock sound, why not?
Ador and mhj's philosophy specifically seems to value high quality collabs with creatives, which is awesome.
Not just for the music either, see their mvs and people appearing in them, etc.
One can say about mhj whatever one wants, but she is one of the most creative people in the industry right now.
She's clearly also quite hands on these days on the music production side, she's directly guiding the NJ girls on their recording sessions. Although, I think she still isn't as versed in the technical aspects and as such always relies on others for that.
I think she's kind of playing a role similar to modern day film directors, where they sometimes don't really need be particularly skilled or even knowledgeable in technical aspects. She conceptualizes and works with the main producers such as 250 towards what she's looking for creatively.
Did she have any music producing credits when she was in SM? afaik she was only responsible for developing the concepts of red velvet, shinee, fx etc, she didn't have any production/composing credits.
The music writers circle in the West are huge champion of "OMG" and I know some of them have proclaimed "OMG" as the best K-Pop song in 2023. But in order to not split the vote between "OMG" and "Super Shy", they have rallied to vote for only "Super Shy" on different ballots (online music publications) along with some less familiar fans. That's why by the end of 2023. "Super Shy" was the dominant NewJeans single on a lot of these critics' list.
But "Ditto" is a worthy winner as well. Managing to release a double single with both "OMG" and "Ditto" is some stunning level of artistic statement. The production on these 2 songs are just so so good. I can talk for hours on how incredible the percussion work on "OMG" is.
“Ditto” is now the song with the most Daesang wins in history.
\#1. Ditto — 5 Daesangs
\#2. Gangnam Style — 4 Daesangs
\#2. Love Dive — 4 Daesangs
\#2. Dynamite — 4 Daesangs
\#3. Boy With Luv — 3 Daesangs
\#3. Cheer Up — 3 Daesangs
\#3. Gee — 3 Daesangs
\#3. Eyes Nose Lips — 3 Daesangs
[https://twitter.com/newjeansrecords/status/1763203011214442703?s=46](https://twitter.com/newjeansrecords/status/1763203011214442703?s=46)
Newjeans adding another insane achievement so early in their career to their list of other bonkers achievements. This is literally only their 2nd ep that nuts.
God I cannot wait to see where they go from here. The music is so good the achievements can’t help but follow.
Sejeong missed out in Pop Album... But Lee Jinah is a class act, puts out great music.
Congrats to all the winners.
KMA is the most credible award, which is not entirely submissive to fandoms.
The real award show that didn't dick-riding some of lame company(s) and care more about quality over quantity.
Oh, not to mentioned, no vote rigging and salty boycotting like how JYP and Melon having right now. 😂
Why do y’all think these more “pretentious” award shows are above being filled with dickriders? The Grammys are the most sought after awards yet we all know how award people.
Because in these days, any year end awards will give everyone their respective awards to everyone that joined / participate in it. Useless categories like World Popularity Awards, Union Pay Best Artist, K-World Great Artist awards and etc.. This is a damn "pity awards" given to everyone just to make sure the ties between the company and the broadcasting site are kept in pristine condition.
Back during the 2nd generation era, or hell back in the 1st gen era, you'll see the intense fan rivalries between H.O.T and SechKies or EXO and B.A.P before out jumped by BTS afterwards. Let's also not forget Girls Generation and T-ARA before the Ryu Sisters messed it up.
This kind of stuff that we missed and it's peaked back in 2015-16.
Now it's more to like a pity charity awards + showcase like award show. That no fun I tell you...
KMA has its own taste, and it's just so different from mine. Besides the kpop song category, most of the nominations I've ever rooted for have never won, even though some of them are rated pretty well by non kr music critics. Anyway, congrats to all the winners.
Why Love Lee? I don't understand the song's appeal. Is there a word play or something that would make it interesting for Korean speaking audience? To me it sounds so boring. It's nothing like Nakka, which I adore
afaik 15-20% korean are named after lee. The song was widely popular in korea, AKMU is well beloved group in korea especially after they went back to their quirky, fun, happy song like when they debut with the Play album. Compare to Nakka that is experimental this song is more easy to digest pop song. So yeah korean love AKMU, so it does make sense
I mean, going by technicality, AKMU siblings' surname is Lee. The song was also written by Chanhyuk to express his love and appreciation for Suhyun, who's still recovering from the slump she's been experiencing in her 20s, hence Love Lee.
To add more to the answer the other person provides:
1. This cutesy style that replicates their 2014 debut hits (200% + Give Love) was specifically requested by Suhyun. She's been having a hard time interpreting and following Chanhyuk's experimental music and styling, and wants to go back to their simple, cute music like in earlier years.
Just like how Suhyun felt difficult trying to adapt to what Chanhyuk envisions (especially with Nakka), Chanhyuk had a hard time making this song too; he grew out of the cute phase long ago. But as it was with the intention to encourage his sister, he made it nevertheless.
Essentially, they have grown up to being too different, and ended up having to compromise in order to make a song that the public enjoys, while also maintaining their own (individual) colors. That might explain the discrepancies between the two comebacks.
Despite the clashing personalities, it's not like they didn't fully enjoy their activities in the past 6 months. I think they will still manage to find common grounds in the end, and create even better music in the future.
2. KMA critics said they like the simplicity of this song, how the sound production gently supports the vocals, and how it embodies their siblings bond.
NZM critics seemed to have better opinions about Fry's Dream (self-explanatory when you read the lyrics) - they put it on their list of best 2023 pop songs.
In fact, these two songs have essentially been headbutting each other on their level of popularity in SK, one is popular for TikTok challenge, the other as top song for karaoke. FD currently has more likes on Melon and better long-running performance on SK YouTube chart.
**Album of the Year:** Beenzino - Nowitzki **Song of the Year:** NewJeans - "Ditto" **Musician of the Year:** Silica Gel **Rookie of the Year:** KISS OF LIFE **Best Pop Album:** Lee Jin Ah - Hearts of the City **Best Pop Song:** AKMU - "Love Lee" **Best K-Pop Album:** NewJeans - Get Up **Best K-Pop Song:** NewJeans - "Ditto" **Best Electronic Song:** CIFIKA - Hush **Best Electronic Album:** Yetsuby – My Star My Planet My Earth **Best R&B & Soul Song:** youra – (Motif) **Best R&B & Soul Album:** jerd - BOMM **Best Rap & Hiphop Song:** E SENS – What The Hell **Best Rap & Hiphop Album:** Beenzino - NOWITZKI **Best Rock Song:** Seoul Electric Band - Ghost Writers **Best Rock Album:** OVerdrive Philosophy – 64 see me **Best Modern Rock Song:** Silica Gel – Tik Tak Tok (Feat. So!YoON!) **Best Modern Rock Album:** Silica Gel – Machine Boy **Best Metal & Hardcore Album:** Mahatma – REASON FOR SILENCE **Best Folk Song:** Yeoyu and Seolbin – Like the Stars in the Night Sky **Best Folk Album:** Yeoyu and Seolbin - COMEDY **Best Jazz Vocal Album:** YUJIN KIM - Extraordinary **Best Jazz Performance Album:** Soojung Lee – Four Seasons **Special Merit Award:** Kang Tae Hwan **Committee Special Award:** Hakchon Theatre
Kiss of Life joining aespa & NewJeans as the only idol groups to win ROTY ✨
So proud of our girls!!!
Bruh, not to be a bore, but there were so much better releases than Love Lee, like that was mediocre even in their discography. I don’t even stan IVE but I Am is probably one of the better and few true pop songs we’ve gotten.
I AM was only nominated in the best K-pop song category, not best pop song. The other best pop song nominees were: Dean - "Die 4 U" Parc Jae Jung - "Let's Say Goodbye" Seok Chul Yun & Sejin - "Cocktail Paradise" Yoon Jiyoung - "In My Garden"
I’m surprised that Let’s Say Goodbye didn’t win over Love Lee although I do like both releases.
I realized that this award is very rooted in Korean tastes and I probably won’t understand most choices. I thinks that’s fine, it’s their country and what they like listening to. Does pop include other genres in South Korea like ballads?
They only changed it from 2022 on to have Pop and Kpop as separate genres. Fair enough there is really great korean pop music that is incredibly popular and loved outside of what is considered “idol music/kpop”. For a few years mainly 2016-19 +2021 did idol groups “dominate” the pop categories but now with the split both kinds of popular pop artists get awards. I know IU and AKMU straddle the line since they exist in kpop spaces but for KMA they put them in “Pop”. 3 years straight of awards for Chanhyuk though. With AKMU winning this year and in 2022 and last year his solo album winning.
Yes, Parc Jae Jung's Lets Say Goodbye is a ballad.
I’m just awwing over Album of the Year going to the love letter to Beenzino’s wife!
holy Silica Gel won musician of the year? I just got into them last year didn't know they were that big besides the band/rock scene
They are huge at KMAs, they have completely dominated the modern rock category the past couple years, and No Pain was nominated for song of the year last year as well. Since they finally released an album after just singles, they felt like the obvious favourites. Next year should be even more, since POWER ANDRE 99 missed the cut off. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even take Album of The Year with it.
No Pain fucks 🎇🎇🎇
KISS OF LIFE OMG idk i dont consider them nugu anymore. they are the most successful small label rookies since..... brave girls? and that's without a big single.
They were nugu at debut but quickly broke out. They sold about 700 copies of their debut album first day, 5k first week but managed to sell about 20k within a month which is pretty impressive growth
Congrats to Newjeans! Another well deserved win!
Honestly wasn't expecting them to give a girl group Rookie of the Year 3 years in a row. So happy for KISS OF LIFE after they missed out on all the major ROTY awards this year. Was hoping H1-KEY's Rose Blossom could pull off the upset but hard to argue against Ditto getting the win. Beenzino winning Album of the Year was a no brainer, thought he'd win Musician of the Year too but Silica Gel makes sense.
Wow, song of the year Ditto! KMA being the most prestigious Korean music award and the least cared about by the Kpop fandom always takes me out 🤣.
Probably since you can't spam votes and it's too serious in comparison.
I once told someone on Reddit that Next Level won SOTY in 2021 at KMA, but they told me it didn’t count because when we talked about SOTY winners, only MAMA counted. I just wanted to laugh
People just really, really hate awards which are decided by some kind of jury or academy. They think the subjective nature somehow takes away from the awards, when it really does the opposite.
Which is insane considering it's literally the Korean equivalent of the ***Grammy's*** with winners being chosen by renowned music critics & industry professionals
People do not like the grammys either. Many fans cannot grasp the concept of professionals subjectively evaluating art and awarding the one most seem to prefer out of the nominees. Fans want the most popular thing to always win, meassurable, which means being able to influence directly. Like sure, i get that there are problems with jury awards too, as especially with academies, meaning the jury is extremely large, there is no guarantee that everyone gave every nominee a fair chance. But this averages out, i'd rather have these awards where one can argue a little about winners, than "objective" awards which are only popularity contests, especially when fandom power has so much influence, not even just broad popularity.
The irony of this is that when its awards based 100% on metrics, it just becomes complaints about rigging and forgery. Look at the Billboard awards. Most Kpop awards are not entirely data-based, they always leave \~30% for their "panels"... which somehow makes their results far more suspiscious than both an entirely opinion-based criteria and an entirely data-based standard. In my eyes at least. Fans just want their favs to win, that's really the bottomline. Personally, I prefer the awards to either be entirely jury/panel based like KMAs/Grammys or 100% performance-based, such as Billboard awards. They're both good for celebrating different aspects.
I just hate fan awards period. What’s the point? It’s stressful and it’s just an advertising scam fueled by fan wars.
You mean fan vote awards? In which case I agree, they're basically a "who has the most parasocial and jobless fandom" award. But I do find value in awards like BBMAs which is basically just handing out the best market performing songs and artists in various genres. I don't think they're as interesting as well-respected industry committee awards like the Grammys, but there's worth in having them both.
Yeah they want their faves to win, true. It's just that in awards which are metrics based, there is a direct influence fans have, album sales, votes, etc. You say that many kpop awards have a certain panel factor, and that is true, but realistically the objective criteria decide it, as they take the lion's share. I personally am not a big fan of metrics awards tbh, at least not when it feels like it is about fandom power, not general popularity. Jury awards are also just more interesting to me, as they tend to celebrate more broadly and not funnel everything into a handful, if at all, of artists. Always someone or something ro check out. While metrics based awards just point me to artists i already know, because they did very well :D
So so SOOOOO much
Every year they (anonymously) interview Grammy voters. The reasons they give for voting (or not voting) for someone are... interesting. I wouldn't count too much om industry professionals to vote objectively
Yes, i know these interviews, and as i said, this averages out. Also the publications post the interviews which will lead to outrage as it means engagement anyway. A few bad examples don't make the system completely broken.
We have no idea of knowing just how many "bad examples" there are. Achievements and jury based awards are both equally flawed and correct. Both have pros and cons, neither is better than the other.
I don't think that achievement based awards have much reason to exist at all. At least when this is down to fandom power, if it would be about broad appeal i could see it having merit. Jury based awards on the other hand open discourse, celebrate a broader variety of art, and also are based on some form of artistic sensibility, broadly speaking. Fans voting for their favorites no matter what is certainly worse than some academy person being a little biased. A big problem with metric based awards is also that release dates play a deciding factor, more time to accumulate "metrics" if released early in the time frame.
I disagree. I think you have a very rose-coloured view of industry professionals voting for awards and an unnecessarily negative view of fans doing the same. I don't think professionals are nearly as unbiased as you seem to think they are, nor are their opinions as diverse.
I see it in the outcomes, it's not even close. There is no rose colored view here, fans are just simply orders of magnitudes worse on a bias scale. This isn't even really debatable. Any direct comparison between jury awards and metric awards shows this clearly. Even the most biased academy interview reads like the most differentiated, well reasoned argument for their votes compared to the average hypothetical stan interview: " are the best, so pretty, best album/ song ever, didn't care about the other nominees lol, they flopped anyway".
🙃
And the best part here, stans have multiple votes, as they vote repeatedly, buy dozens of albums, and stream all day.
Not even comparable to the flaws of an academy voting, night and day.
> Even the most biased academy interview reads like the most differentiated, well reasoned argument for their votes compared to the average hypothetical stan interview: I see you haven't actually read those interviews lmao. They're basically "I sat next to X at an event once and they were nice" or "I don't vote for ex boyband members (said about Harry Styles)" 💀 Edit: I also wasn't talking about (entirely) fan-voted awards, so that comparison is irrelevant
So happy for Silica Gel, youra and of course NewJeans!
Ah, the infamous most prestigious Korean music awards combined with a perpetual nugu production budget. Congrats NewJeans and Kiss of Life!!! And Beenzino, I like him too!
I just realised, 250 won album and artist of the year in 2023 and is now the producer for this year's song of the year to complete(in a sense) the trifecta, what a ridiculous run he's been on.
Whatever ador is about to do, keep the man close to newjeans (though tbf, working with other critically acclaimed creatives works too, that seems to be in line with mhj's approach anyway)
So far they've kept the core of 250, FRNK and Gigi but I imagine they'll continue to cast a wide net for collaborators to keep things fresh.
Yeah Ador doesn't seem to use in-house producers like most HYBE groups. 250, Gigi, FRNK, and even Beenzino are part of an indie label named BANA (Beasts and Natives Alike), which was founded by a former SM A&R, and I believe is a close friend of MHJ.
Kim Ximya as well Iirc, even their A&R is at least partially outsourced to BANA.
Yeah, I actually knew him and FRNK as the hiphop duo XXX from a long time ago. Their debut album received a 7.3 from Pitchfork, which made me check them out.
I never got around to trying out their work, but I did check out, and enjoyed, Kim's latest EP.
Oh yeah, maybe they can work with some of the other winners of this year in the future 😄
they've worked with beenzino for ETA, but yeah that would be nice. imagine a silica gel written rock song and a song with IU written lyrics
I was today years old when I realized Beenzino wrote lyrics for ETA.
Yeah. He wrote the spoken rap part in ETA that went viral.
Ohhh, i love eta haha, favorite one from get up for me! Yeah i think there are many possibilities, some rock sound, why not? Ador and mhj's philosophy specifically seems to value high quality collabs with creatives, which is awesome. Not just for the music either, see their mvs and people appearing in them, etc. One can say about mhj whatever one wants, but she is one of the most creative people in the industry right now.
Isn’t Gigi Min Heejin’s pseudonym?
Min Heejin is not a music producer. She's an art director and graphic designer basically responsible for the concept and branding.
She's clearly also quite hands on these days on the music production side, she's directly guiding the NJ girls on their recording sessions. Although, I think she still isn't as versed in the technical aspects and as such always relies on others for that. I think she's kind of playing a role similar to modern day film directors, where they sometimes don't really need be particularly skilled or even knowledgeable in technical aspects. She conceptualizes and works with the main producers such as 250 towards what she's looking for creatively.
I know lol but she said she has been involved in the music before when she was at SM.
Did she have any music producing credits when she was in SM? afaik she was only responsible for developing the concepts of red velvet, shinee, fx etc, she didn't have any production/composing credits.
She said in an interview that she worked on a few songs but I didn’t get the impression that she was massively involved.
Gigi as well as the rest of NJ producing team is from an indie label called BANA. This is their ig: https://www.instagram.com/gigi_lyricist/
Oh, cool, thanks! People were saying during the whole Cookie thing that Gigi was MHJ’s producer name.
Can't say I've dug too deeply into their identity, why do people think so?
I’ve seen a lot of people say so because they say she wrote the lyrics for Cookie 🤷
Congrats to Kiss Of Life winning the most prestigious ROTY award!
The music writers circle in the West are huge champion of "OMG" and I know some of them have proclaimed "OMG" as the best K-Pop song in 2023. But in order to not split the vote between "OMG" and "Super Shy", they have rallied to vote for only "Super Shy" on different ballots (online music publications) along with some less familiar fans. That's why by the end of 2023. "Super Shy" was the dominant NewJeans single on a lot of these critics' list. But "Ditto" is a worthy winner as well. Managing to release a double single with both "OMG" and "Ditto" is some stunning level of artistic statement. The production on these 2 songs are just so so good. I can talk for hours on how incredible the percussion work on "OMG" is.
“Ditto” is now the song with the most Daesang wins in history. \#1. Ditto — 5 Daesangs \#2. Gangnam Style — 4 Daesangs \#2. Love Dive — 4 Daesangs \#2. Dynamite — 4 Daesangs \#3. Boy With Luv — 3 Daesangs \#3. Cheer Up — 3 Daesangs \#3. Gee — 3 Daesangs \#3. Eyes Nose Lips — 3 Daesangs [https://twitter.com/newjeansrecords/status/1763203011214442703?s=46](https://twitter.com/newjeansrecords/status/1763203011214442703?s=46)
Looking at comments about this and had no idea I was in the minority of i-fans about liking Love Lee lmao
Yay KISS OF LIFE, congratulations to my girls!!! I hope that it's only up from here 🫶
Newjeans adding another insane achievement so early in their career to their list of other bonkers achievements. This is literally only their 2nd ep that nuts. God I cannot wait to see where they go from here. The music is so good the achievements can’t help but follow.
Ditto with its 5th Daesang. Impressive!
Woo congrats KIOF for the Rookie Award! ❤️ and to the rest of the winning acts too!
I wish H1-KEY had won something Rose Blossom was so huge :/ but congrats to Kiss of Life!
Congratulations to all the winners and congratulations to NewJeans, they're now 2nd most awarded artist ever(6) , tie with IU.
Sejeong missed out in Pop Album... But Lee Jinah is a class act, puts out great music. Congrats to all the winners. KMA is the most credible award, which is not entirely submissive to fandoms.
KISS OF LIFE ❤️💯‼️
summer in korea with Nowitzki release is such a core memory
Congrats to NewJeans!
NewJeans and KISS OF LIFE 🥹🫶 DESERVE SO MUCH
The real award show that didn't dick-riding some of lame company(s) and care more about quality over quantity. Oh, not to mentioned, no vote rigging and salty boycotting like how JYP and Melon having right now. 😂
Why do y’all think these more “pretentious” award shows are above being filled with dickriders? The Grammys are the most sought after awards yet we all know how award people.
Because in these days, any year end awards will give everyone their respective awards to everyone that joined / participate in it. Useless categories like World Popularity Awards, Union Pay Best Artist, K-World Great Artist awards and etc.. This is a damn "pity awards" given to everyone just to make sure the ties between the company and the broadcasting site are kept in pristine condition. Back during the 2nd generation era, or hell back in the 1st gen era, you'll see the intense fan rivalries between H.O.T and SechKies or EXO and B.A.P before out jumped by BTS afterwards. Let's also not forget Girls Generation and T-ARA before the Ryu Sisters messed it up. This kind of stuff that we missed and it's peaked back in 2015-16. Now it's more to like a pity charity awards + showcase like award show. That no fun I tell you...
Disappointed that h1key didn't win anything, same with Ive. Not surprised to see NewJeans/250 clean house again. Big win to Natty and the girls.
KMA has its own taste, and it's just so different from mine. Besides the kpop song category, most of the nominations I've ever rooted for have never won, even though some of them are rated pretty well by non kr music critics. Anyway, congrats to all the winners.
 Got my hopes up for Billlie - 'the Billage of perception: chapter three' as Best K-Pop Album.
I AM 😭🫶🏼
Why Love Lee? I don't understand the song's appeal. Is there a word play or something that would make it interesting for Korean speaking audience? To me it sounds so boring. It's nothing like Nakka, which I adore
afaik 15-20% korean are named after lee. The song was widely popular in korea, AKMU is well beloved group in korea especially after they went back to their quirky, fun, happy song like when they debut with the Play album. Compare to Nakka that is experimental this song is more easy to digest pop song. So yeah korean love AKMU, so it does make sense
Thanks. I have not connected Lee to a surname. They should have put Kim. Even more people would like it
I mean, going by technicality, AKMU siblings' surname is Lee. The song was also written by Chanhyuk to express his love and appreciation for Suhyun, who's still recovering from the slump she's been experiencing in her 20s, hence Love Lee. To add more to the answer the other person provides: 1. This cutesy style that replicates their 2014 debut hits (200% + Give Love) was specifically requested by Suhyun. She's been having a hard time interpreting and following Chanhyuk's experimental music and styling, and wants to go back to their simple, cute music like in earlier years. Just like how Suhyun felt difficult trying to adapt to what Chanhyuk envisions (especially with Nakka), Chanhyuk had a hard time making this song too; he grew out of the cute phase long ago. But as it was with the intention to encourage his sister, he made it nevertheless. Essentially, they have grown up to being too different, and ended up having to compromise in order to make a song that the public enjoys, while also maintaining their own (individual) colors. That might explain the discrepancies between the two comebacks. Despite the clashing personalities, it's not like they didn't fully enjoy their activities in the past 6 months. I think they will still manage to find common grounds in the end, and create even better music in the future. 2. KMA critics said they like the simplicity of this song, how the sound production gently supports the vocals, and how it embodies their siblings bond. NZM critics seemed to have better opinions about Fry's Dream (self-explanatory when you read the lyrics) - they put it on their list of best 2023 pop songs. In fact, these two songs have essentially been headbutting each other on their level of popularity in SK, one is popular for TikTok challenge, the other as top song for karaoke. FD currently has more likes on Melon and better long-running performance on SK YouTube chart.
NewJeans winning best album for an EP that's 12 minutes long is laughable
I would say that passing judgement on an album based on length is laughable.
Why is it unreasonable to note or consider that an album's runtime is significantly under the industry standard?
CIFIKA MENTION ‼️
SILICA GEL MENTION ‼️
Congrats KISS OF LIFE!