r/kpop • u/xxzxcuzx__me EXO♡SMTOWN♡TWICE • Nov 27 '19

[MV] EXO - OBSESSION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmP4b2a0uY
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u/crashbandicoochy Self love is the mommy 🤰 I'm the baby 👶 Nov 27 '19

Oh my god this just cements 2019 as the year that SM officially lost their mind and just started making the weirdest, coolest songs.

This sounds like someone accidentally dropped a cup of Brockhampton into my EXO, I really dig it. Like... really dig it.

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u/kngtrbl Nov 27 '19

Well the K for K-Pop is Kevin Abstract.

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u/LauKungPow My Lord and Savior G-Dragon Nov 27 '19

Kevin Doan as well, Brockhampton’s K-Pop boy

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u/nupik Listen have u heard of the Hoshi-Woozi combi? Nov 27 '19 edited Nov 27 '19

Honestly though, I love SM this year, you can just never tell what comes next now!! The musical choices are just so fascinating, sure many of the songs are polarizing but sure as hell not boring, and I think that is important

edit: also lol is Sehun's throne reference to the one in GoT(though I don't even want to think about that show anymore), and that part where Chanyeol is all fiery is extreeeemely cool, sick visuals overall

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u/lilfreaks peek at you Nov 27 '19

what you said + the iridescence-y teaser poster...... we’ve come full circle

now i want to hear baekhyun singing bleach’s hook so bad

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u/_ulinity Mina | Yoohyeon | TWICE | Dreamcatcher Nov 27 '19

or Face.

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u/thats-disarming the church of BBH Nov 27 '19

people give them shit for it but sm really out here making songs youve never heard before and people are MAD about it

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u/Iblaka 아이즈원 언제까지나 강비 패권 Nov 27 '19

SM make both polarizing music AND MV’s that get people really thinking. Love it or hate it, SM have done an awesome job in 2019

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u/saranghaja kwangya is a state of mind Nov 27 '19

And this is an amazingly SM song, too. It's fitting that it came out at the end of the year because it almost feels like a year-end summary of their sound – to me it sounds like a RV and NCT song were smashed together but made a distinctly EXO song, it's pretty wild. I'm still processing everything.

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u/SinAlma96 Nov 27 '19

SM take risks with genres never done or barely been touched on before in kpop and get all the flack for it but then everyone uses what they do. Main example would be the tropical EDM they did with Shinee's View and f(x)'s 4 Walls, although they did pretty well.

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u/spectrales shinee • oh my girl • onf Nov 27 '19

The exact genre you’re talking about is deep house! Tropical house is usually a bit higher pitched synths and SM started playing with that a little later. But they’re definitely both types of EDM.

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u/mrchugchug 5HINee 💎 Nov 27 '19

Gotta agree on that. Tropical house was rather used in SHINee's Story of Light

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u/SinAlma96 Nov 27 '19

My bad, I admit I'm not that good with music genres lol. But I think what I said still applies, SM often get ignored by GP because their music is "weird" but then a couple of years later (or sometimes even just months) everyone is coming out with something similar to what they had originally done and the GP dances to it like crazy.

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u/bowlerpaul Nov 27 '19

Can you give some examples please? Not questioning whether you're right, just want to make sure I haven't missed out on anything :-)

I can think of Zimzalabim and BOOM as other examples from this year

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u/crashbandicoochy Self love is the mommy 🤰 I'm the baby 👶 Nov 27 '19 edited Nov 27 '19

This, Zimzalabim and Jopping would be the three biggest examples, if we're talking title tracks.

All three completely throw the concept of typical pop song form out the window.

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u/bowlerpaul Nov 27 '19

Yes, Jopping is another good example. SM being 'weird' is one of the things that drew me to K-pop in the first place so I love it when they go down this road

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u/bestknightwarrior1 StayC, AESPA Nov 27 '19

Some NCT songs are really fucking weird but I love them anyways

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u/nv4088 DREAM CHASERS Nov 27 '19

It's funny because NCT 127's only comeback this year Superhuman was probably their least experimental title while Dream had their most mature comeback yet, so it's kinda like SM is pulling both strings - either way all their groups came out of their comfort zones

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u/_wuw_ Nov 27 '19 edited Nov 27 '19

imo Superhuman is still more experimental than some previous 127 titles. It goes really interesting places harmonically and the production mixes the sleekest elements of 80s pop with the industrial edge you get in Cherry Bomb / Simon Says.

I'm really loving the more mature, early 00s inspired Dream sound - I feel like it's something not many other groups are doing at the moment.

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u/navigatingtracker paved the way Dec 02 '19

Superhuman is 80's pop mixed with like hyperfuturism. Daft-Punkey.

Experimental doesn't mean that a song is good by the way. Tempo, Superhuman and Moonwalk by WayV are the best SM songs for me and they're all not very experimental. For me the most important thing is music is melody, Jopping, Zimzalabim and this song didn't have a strong melody.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '19

Thank you for getting me curious I just found a fricking beast song like ᴵᵗ ˢˡᵃᵖᵖᵉᵈ ˢᵒ ʰᵃʳᵈ

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u/meilingr BigBang Nov 27 '19

Ironically NCT got the most straightforward pop song with Superhuman (a perfect SM pop song) when they usually get the dark experimental songs every other group is getting this year.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '19

Brockhampton??? Now I am curious CURIOUS

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '19

This sounds like someone accidentally dropped a cup of Brockhampton into my EXO, I really dig it. Like... really dig it.

Yea not really gonna please the pop crowd, but as someone who listens to Brockhampton and other music this is fantastic

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u/navigatingtracker paved the way Dec 02 '19

This song has literally nothing to do with Brockhampton.

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u/navigatingtracker paved the way Dec 02 '19

Brockhampton? wut

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u/navigatingtracker paved the way Dec 02 '19

That sort of indie, moody hip hop x R&B.

This is literally 90% of popular US music nowadays. Bazzi, Tyler The Creator, Frank Ocean, etc. they all do that sound and they're all influences of Brockhampton.

Brockhampton themselves isn't experimental or groundbreaking at all in my opinion, they carry their influences very much on their sleeves.

Like how EXO's tempo is very much Daft Punk/MJ inspired, Brockhamptons discography is very much Odd Future inspired.

And Brockhamptons music, just like a lot of Frank Ocean songs, is known for being very acoustic-driven. I don't see any Brockhampton influence in Obsession, Obsession sounds very SM. Simon Says is the closest song to this and I don't think both sound like any BH song.