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Hey. Sorry for the long period of silence. strophic and I will be up and running again after we’ve died and revived after exams (which will be over soon).

In the mean time, we’d also like to open up this post to ask you guys for:

1) suggestions

2) open thread

It’s nice to hear from the people who actually come on the site.

Honestly, it’s a bunch of work for us two to keep this up and running. I personally respect all bloggers who are dedicated to their sites, especially javabeans and her crew on dramabeans.com (which, is, by the way, a very good site for kdramas and korean film).

Until then, I’ll leave you guys with what’s playing on my current playlist: Reason — Van ness Wu.

BoA & Miura Daichi: talents with Possibilities

Recently, BoA has been spending a lot more time in Japan, promoting her own singles but also collaborating with other top Japanese artists. To kick off the new year, she has come back with a beautiful single with Miura Daichi.

2AM: Even If I Die, I Can’t Let Go (or not post this)

Even though I am currently dying from post break work and exams, I had to come back to post for 2AM’s newest mini-album. After leaving the kpop music scene for a solid half year, 2AM returns with it’s newest mini-album titled Even If I Die, I Can’t Let Go.

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Status update no. 2:

Yeah we know- Opus and I haven’t been posting for a LONG time. Thing is that school kinda kept coming with the massive workload and between scholarship essays and just plain old schoolwork, we got buried. And we’re sorry.

I know, I know- we should’ve said something earlier. But to be honest, we never expected it to be this bad. You see, school tends to ring in the new year with the neverending gift of work, work, and (oh, would you look at that) work.

We will be continuing with our posts as soon as we can- for me, after I finish my finals, I’ll be off for the week after and hope to be able to put up the post that I had left off for a while: the “Top MVs” – that I had promised for the new year.

Opus, on the other hand, will continue to be MIA [Missing In Action, for those who don't know] until she chooses otherwise. She has a bigger workload than I do at the moment and is currently using a bulldozer to help her move it along. Yes, she knows that she has her “Year in Review: Part 3″ to finish. Trust me.

As for the “Top 3 Artists of 2009″ poll from the first status update, please keep voting until we close it. And if yours isn’t listed on our poll, leave a comment on the poll page and tell us who and why.

So all in all, please be patient until further notice- we promise we’ll get back to Opus no. 13. It’s just that our school lives are taking over and destroying our social lives, kinda like how Godzilla laid waste to monochrome Tokyo.

Hope to see you soon.

Year in Review [part.2]: the bad

First off, Happy New Year! 2010 has finally arrived (now whether that is a good thing or bad thing is up to you to decide). I wish all the readers a wonderful new year and to the artists a good start for the new year.

Here we go for round 2: the Bad. In the movie The Good, The Bad, The Weird, Lee Byung Hun took the part of the “bad”, and took the spun off connotation of sleek, cool bad as his character, and I guess it kind of applies here: these are the songs that were hits that lacked that musical oomf to make it as true fleshed out pieces of art. Now please excuse me, I’m not tearing down these artists. Actually, for the most part, these artists have songs handed to them that, well, do no justice to their talent. For that reason, I’m going to be looking at the biggest songs that I thought flopped. 

Year in Review [part.1]: The Good {editor’s picks}

2009. It was the year of the Korean debuts and the boy band curses.  Every year, the Asian music industry never ceases to fail me by putting out something interesting, maybe that’s why I fell in love with it.  But here’s to 2009:

NOTE: I’m splitting my song review into 3 parts: 1) The Good, 2) The Bad,  3) The Weird aka the Ones That Made Their Mark/The Best (yes, after the Korean movie The Good, The Bad and The Weird. Blame me for having a lack of creativity after scholarship essays drained their portions.)

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My first status update. Here’s how the last 12 hours of 2009 will work:

Strophic and I will be posting our year in reviews plus a couple other editors’ picks we think you should take a look at (which pretty much amounts to huge long posts).

In the mean time:

NOTE: These are artists that promoted this year. I meant to do this earlier… but things called scholarship essays got in the way. So I’m keeping this poll open until January 2nd 11:59 PM.

Blast from the Past: Miss You

This is probably one of my favorite songs that I found this year. It earned a 2 week snippet in my status. Haha. I hope you guys enjoy this one as much as I do.

Props to m-flo for their m-flo loves…. series.

Blast From the Past: Are You Doing Well? (잘 지내나요)

This song was a suggestion from a friend who posted it on her own Xanga. I listened to the song and Sung Si Kyung’s vocals are amazingly soothing and the lyrics are beautifully written.

잘 지내나요?

Featured Artist of the Week: Kim Jong Kook

Name: Kim Jong Kook (김종국)

Genre: K-Pop, Ballad