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G-Dragon Heartbreaker

G-Dragon, the leader of hip-hop group Big Bang , finally released his solo album written by him. He faced a bit of criticism with some saying his title track sounded like American rapper Flo-Rida’s ‘Right Round’.

He teamed up with his fellow labelmates(Cl and Dara of 2NE1,ncluding Jin Jung, Teddy and KUSH) as well as veteran singer Kim Gun Mo. DEspite the claims his album was number one on the charts!

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Namie Amuro Past> Future

PAST<FUTURE is Namie Amuro’s 8th album and it was released on December 16, 2009. The album reached #1 on the Oricon Weekly Charts and sold 522,343 copies.

I just really started listening to Namie  after reading so many reviews about her having amazing music and I wanted to broaden my Japanese music ( also at the time, K-pop started getting boring). Continue reading Namie Amuro Past> Future

JYJ The Beginning

JYJ have released their English album and it’s quite…something. Their English is better than what I expected and the album was substantially better than what I thought.

The Beginning was produced by American rapper, Kanye West and written by JYJ. I feel like JYJ and Kanye wanted this to sound more “hip” and so they had this kind of not really singing like how most fans know them to. Continue reading JYJ The Beginning

Koda Kumi 好きで、好きで、好きで。 / あなただけが

So preparing for winter brings on the ballads and sexy diva Kumi has jumped on the band wagon with released September 22nd,2010.  It is another wonderful single to be added to the collection of singles released earlier this year like Gossip Candy in commemoration of her 10th anniversary. Continue reading Koda Kumi 好きで、好きで、好きで。 / あなただけが