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I haven't even got 100 songs on my Korean playlist

I suppose of all the stuff I've heard that came out this year, these are the ones I liked quite a bit:
1. Eyedi - Red
2. Hwasa - Be Calm
3. Heize - Jenga
4. Hwasa & Loco - Don't
5. Heize - Wind + Sorry
6/7. Mamamoo - Better Than I Thought / AOA - HEAT
8. Eyedi - Caffeine
9. Mamamoo - Morning
10. Mamamoo - Starry Night
11. Mamamoo - Rainy Season
12. Eyedi - A Midsummer Night's Dream
13/14. Mamamoo - Rude Boy / Star Wind Flower Sun
15. Solar - Nada Sou Sou
16. Fromm feat. Car, the Garden - Hold Me Like It's Forever

Mamamoo released a lot of music this year. I think Mamamoo is really talented but they release a lot of stuff that is just good enough. Not a whole lot that really blows me away. It's a shame because Melting has like 5 tracks that are fantastic and another 2 or 3 that are also pretty good. Most of the stuff on Memory was pretty good too. They're capable of doing better.

I think I like listening to Hwasa more than I like watching her. And that's saying quite a bit, because she's incredibly attractive, but sometimes her stage antics get on my nerves. Either way, she's had a standout year for sure, and the two songs she did without her other members surpassed anything the group did.

Eyedi had solid releases all the way around this year, but Pumpkin's favorite was my least favorite and the only one that didn't make my playlist. Still not a bad song, just not great IMO.

Heize snuck on there - hadn't heard of her before I heard Jenga maybe a month ago (at most) and then I just heard the rest of her stuff a week ago. She's really good.

AOA's Bingle Bangle release was mostly not good, but HEAT was pretty fantastic! It's the lone standout track from the mini-album. Their vocals are definitely missing Choa a bit, but what really hurt them was the songwriting quality. The melodies were pretty boring, the lyrics were pretty worthless, and it seems like their writers had a thing for nonsense and rhyming with their hooks. Bingle Bangle, Super Duper, Ladi Dadi, DoDoDo... all on the same album. It's like they didn't even try to hide it!

It's been a year without Subin and Girl's Day, plus Bestie is definitively done and Dal Shabet may as well be (there's the whole situation where they claim that they'll still do stuff together but realistically that's not gonna happen). I guess we're expecting Subin to do something in 2019. I'm kinda afraid she's gonna release a new song under her alter ego Nikita (which is just... I like Subin but it's pretty weird). As long as it's good I guess?
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