A Song For You: Untitled, 2014 - Kwon Jiyong (G-Dragon)

When it comes to music, I don't have a preferred genre. I listen to pretty much every genre and yes, even the heavy metal, hardcore music where you can't really understand the lyrics because they are basically just screaming. No hate there, I used to actually enjoy it. These days though, it's just not my cup of tea anymore. If there is a favourite, I would say acoustic, maybe? I do love me a good R'n'B but nothing beats the sound of an instrument accompanied by a heavenly voice.

This is going to be a rather short post, but I wanted to write and share it with you anyways. As you know, I am a fan of anything Korean. Fashion, beauty, dramas, music. I was thinking of making this 'A Song For You' as a sort of 'series' (I guess is what you can call it?) where I update my current favourite songs from time to time.

As you can probably tell from the title, it is a song by G-Dragon. If you don't know who he is, he is a Korean rapper/singer/producer/songwriter and leader of a KPOP idol group, BigBang. They're pretty famous actually. A little back story, I never used to like KPOP, let alone enjoy it. I've always known who BigBang was but never got into it and this was circa 2007, 2008? My brother however was obsessed with them. Dare I say he even fangirled over G-Dragon.

Now though, I bloody love it even though I'm a decade too late. As much as I love BTOB, BigBang has slowly sneak their way inside my heart for the past couple of weeks.  Especially a beautiful man, who goes by G-Dragon. I'm sort of catching up with all the years I missed out on but 12 years seems a little bit too much so I decided to focus on recent years.

He released a solo album and one of the tracks, titled 'Untitled, 2014' (ironic huh?) and it just gets to me. It's all I've been listening to and I just wanted to share it with you, hoping that you'll love it as much as I do.

A Song For You: BTOB - Missing You

For the past year, as surprising as this may sound but I have been paying a bit more attention to the KPOP industry. I was just as surprised, that I found myself genuinely enjoying listening to Korean music considering I used to be one of those people who was negative over KPOP idols and artists. It all started when I decided to jump on the Weightlifting Fairy Kim Book Joo bandwagon over a year ago. I kept seeing gifs and memes on Twitter of this drama and thought to myself, you know what? Let me see for myself what it was all about.

16 episodes later, I was ashamed at how much I enjoyed it. I denied it at first of course, I couldn't let anyone know that I too, was into the whole K-drama/KPOP craze but in the end, I was unbothered at all by what anyone said. And there were a lot of critiques. Let me tell you this, it's freaking awesome.  Just because it doesn't suit to your taste, doesn't make it any less good.

Of course one drama lead to another, and the next thing you know I find myself getting into a KPOP idol fandom. As embarrassing as it may sound, it's all just for fun. I genuinely enjoy it and everyone has their guilty pleasure, this happens to be mine.

With that being said, I became a fan of BtoB which is an acronym for Born To Beat. They are honestly too good to be KPOP idols in my opinion, because the music they produce (yes, most of their songs are produced by a member), their vocals, stage presence and everything are just top-notch. I might exaggerate just a little, but I personally think they are the Korean version of Boyz II Men plus three rappers.

Since I'm trying out something new with my blog, I thought why not write about something that I genuinely like, right? I personally think most people overlook the Korean industry. They might actually surprise you; they definitely surprised me. BtoB recently came back with a new album and it's absolutely ace for me. There isn't a single track that I don't like, especially the ballads in this album. Missing You - the song that I've included in today's post - is their comeback song and I think everyone needs to listen to it. I hope you'll give it a chance and whether you like it or not, you can decide on that later.

Enjoy!