[MV Review] Red Velvet - "Russian Roulette" (Update)

SM has really been bringing it with their music (sans STATION)  this year.

SM Fucks Over Seulgi

Don't you hate it when your bias gets fucked over in the styling department?

You make Irene look amazing as fuck and then leave Seulgi with this?!?! It looks like they scooped out pumpkin guts and then smeared it all over her head. They could have at least made the hairstyle salvageable.

The Three Best B-Sides From "The Velvet"

Many people either love or hate Red Velvet's "Velvet" concept and only stan the "Red" part, which is understanding. But seeing as I've enjoyed "Be Natural", "Automatic" and "One of These Nights" (but love their more upbeat stuff) I can come to it with an open mind in the hopes of some nicely constructed more "velvety" songs and not just a bunch of melancholy boring ballads. So here are the three b-sides I enjoyed the most from the album.

Best of the Worst: March 17, 2016

Hello kpop lovers and random passersby. In today's edition of Best of the Worst, we've got grannies dancing to kpop, the creepiest idol group idea ever, and Hyunseung continuing his streak of being problematic.

Best of the Worst: March 10, 2016

Hello friends, and welcome to the drunk idols edition of Best of the Worst! I didn't intend this week to have a theme; it just happened that way. So anyway, please enjoy the following pickings, which include obnoxious cross-dressing, Eunji's hot workout, and TWO stories involving idols with soju.

Drunk Sulli is all of us who just don't give anymore fucks.

Thighrene

'Nuff said.

Original performance.

Best of the Worst: Oct. 29, 2015

Welcome ghouls and gals to this Halloween edition of Best of the Worst. OK, so it's just the same stuff as usual, but with your favorite idols dressed up

 ... that is ... if your favorite idols are from SM.

#SMTOWN_WONDERLAND#SMTOWN#바이럴#Vyrl#SMT_SEOUL#소녀시대#Girlsgeneration#윤아#YOONA#유리#YURI

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#SMTOWN_WONDERLAND#SMTOWN#바이럴#Vyrl#SMT_SEOUL#레드벨벳#RedVelvet#슬기#SEULGI#웬디#WENDY

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And if they aren't, well that's really a "you" problem, isn't it?

The Only 'Slow Songs' I Actually Like

I'm not exactly the type of person who enjoys listening to ballads or R&B or that kinda bullshit (except for when I feel like falling asleep, anyway), but of course, there can be a few exceptions to that fact. Now, I'm not really sure what qualifies as a "slow song," but the definition I'm going by here is that it's simply ... not too fast ... or something.

It's worth noting that I don't listen to ballads that much (I usually just listen to them as a last resort when there isn't any new good music), so if I don't mention any of your favorites, I really don't give a crap, but you can go ahead and mention them in the comments below.

Anyway, here's the list.

Yay! Time to be all depressed and shit.

Turns Out YG is Just As Arrogant As He's Rumored to Be

Thug Velvet. I like.

Unlike most authors on this blog, I don't have some pent-up hatred toward YG. I treat them as I would any other company in the sense that when YG releases a gem, I'm just fine with them, and when they don't, I'm not. However, I do find YG in general to have the most delusional fans of any company, along with having some artists in way over their pretty little heads.

But as always, the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.

Best of the Worst: Sept. 10, 2015

Hola, friends! We are back with another round of Best of the Worst. This week, we have an idol with naughty hands, a drunk star making a scene during someone else's performance, and an epic battle of "Who Wore It Better" — Seolhyun or Cardboard Cutout Seolhyun?

Weekly Showdown: Red Velvet Special!

So Red Velvet recently came back with "Dumb Dumb," which was a pretty good song, and the best thing is that it gets better every time you hear it. My only complaint: Irene's bullshit rap break. She should just stick to being pretty.

Before I get to the actual showdown, it's time to reveal last showdown's results! I was pleasantly surprised to see that "Rainstorm" won over "Dark Panda" by a good 20 votes. My best guess is that some people just aren't into hipster trap music (so sorry if both are considered trap music. I hardly know anything about musical genres, and I basically skipped through half of Kpopalypse's music genre-educational-article-thingy-thing because I could hardly understand shit. So sorry to Kpopalypse, too. You're awesome and all, but I should probably just stick to learning about photosynthesis).

This week's showdown features RV's top two releases of the year, "Ice Cream Cake" and "Dumb Dumb."

The Red Velvet Identification Test

Many k-pop fans are excited about the potential shown by Red Velvet, SM's newest girl group.  Many of them are also very confused, and have been asking Kpopalypse the following question:



Never one to let down the k-pop fan community, Kpopalypse is here to help you in your important quest for k-pop knowledge!

Best of the Worst: March 19, 2015

The struggle continued for the f(x) fandom this week as SM announced that Red Velvet's fanclub will get a name less than a year after the group's debut.

Look at them walk all over your faves. 

Fans of f(x) naturally got indignant at the news as their own group's fanclub has yet to get a name after six years.


This is why you don't piss off your boss, kids.

An hour with the Music Core livestream chat

As a kind of experiment in masochism, I decided to focus my attention on the chat section during this week's Music Core livestream.

The livestream chat on Youtube is filled with the dregs of kpop — fanwar spam, petty bickering, and all the emojis and exclamation points you could want!!!!

Between Super Junior competing against Sistar and Winner and comebacks from 2PM, Teen Top and T-ara, it was bound to be a long program. Join me as I recap an hour in kpop hell.

Red Velvet - Penis

A short interlude while I work on my next post.

Link to the video here

Sulli goes to the beach, sees Red Velvet surfing in on a wave of salty tears

So recently some netizens with no lives decided to go into bitter detective mode and deduce that Sulli enjoyed a nice time at the beach with her boyfriend. And there are some details after the jump.