Violin in C Sharp

 The title of this blog post is slightly misleading. There was a TikTok I saw where the woman challenged viewers to create a list of their top 25 k-pop of 2023 - with a few restrictions on the choices.  1) The songs must have been released in 2023 2) Only 1 song on the list per group (solo songs from members of a group do not count against their group and may be their own entries) I LOVE making lists.   The creation of this list devoured a good 4 hours of my day when I came across the challenge.  I made the TikTok in answer to the challenge, but I feel that 4 hours of work deserves more than a simple list with no reasoning behind the choices of the songs or their placement on the list. So - blog post it is! A reminder, this list is not meant to be my opinion on which were the most successful, most popular, or most critically acclaimed.  This list is meant to be which were MY favorite new releases of the year.  Many thanks to  volt.fm  for the...

 I did a post like this last year - my top 21 songs of 2021 and had a lot of fun with it - so here we are again with the top 22 from this last year.  Expect most (if not all) songs to fall into the K-Pop genre because that has been my dominant genre of the year. As I said last year, my  Spotify wrapped gave pretty good insight into which songs got the most play from me on that service, but that doesn't take into account my non-Spotify listening or the songs that might not have gotten as much airplay even though I like them more.  Let's face it, songs released earlier in the year had more chances to get repeated plays after all. 22) The Astronaut by Jin Release date: 10/28/2022 This song didn't have a chance to make my Spotify Wrapped at all - but it is the song that best represents my musical journey for the last 3 months of 2022.  It's a farewell song from Jin as he and his other members head off to military service. In June, BTS announced that they would be t...

  My friend Jess and I got into a music swap today.  She was sending me Russian ska and I threatened to retaliate in K-Pop but I realized there were so many more songs that I wanted to share with her that I was just going to have to sit down and dedicate a block of time to fully getting into it without interrupting her work day too much.  So.... here we go. Mayfly  - Playing with Paints Lyric video:  https://youtu.be/PCKVCAIbh20 Performance video:  https://youtu.be/yTJiKjZy5Xo This one I actually already shared with her - but since it's what started the sharing trend in my head, it's where I have to start again.  This is from the recently ended South Korean idol competition show Kingdom: Legendary War.  It was part of the combo team challenge and was the "rap team" entry.  It's rappers from BTOB, Stray Kids, & ATEEZ coming together - and it is glorious. BTS - MAP OF THE SOUL:7 'Interlude: Shadow' MV:  https://youtu.be/PV1gCvzpSy0 Thi...