Verbal Jint – KPOPREVIEWED

Welcome to the end of the year! Each year, I do this “End Of The Year Chart” where I properly rank songs via a personalised ranking system, which shows which songs I liked the most (and which songs I did not like at all – but I won’t name and shame). How do I rank the songs? Simply taking the score that I gave them in the review published earlier in the year, adding it to new review scores for the music, video and performance. Then I add those to other scores from “Songs of the Month” in my Rewind posts and to ensure that I can properly order them, I turn to my iTunes play count. And when I say “add”, there is a mixture of mathematical operations (and I am going to stop here, before I can bore you). In no way is this chart influenced by my choice of best song in the BOBs. But I do highlight them here :).

1	Ah Yeah	EXID
2	Paradise Lost	Gain (Brown Eyed Girls)
3	If You Do	GOT7
4	Closer	Oh My Girl
5	You	G.Soul
6	Love Me Right	EXO
7	I Need U	BTS
8	Sing For You	EXO
9	Shake It	Sistar
10	4 Walls	F(x)
11	Dumb Dumb	Red Velvet
12	I	Taeyeon (SNSD) ft. Verbal Jint
13	Like OOH AHH	Twice
14	Oh Um Ah Yeah	Mamamoo
15	Mansae	Seventeen
16	Just Right	GOT7
17	Crazy	4Minute
18	Insensible	Lee Hong Ki (FT Island)
19	Run	BTS
20	Yey	Beast
21	Between Night n Music	B.I.G
22	Shake That Brass	Amber (f(x)) ft. Taeyeon (SNSD)
23	Hot Pink	EXID
24	Beautiful Liar	VIXX LR (VIXX)
25	Brand New World	Brown Eyed Girls
26	Ring My Bell	Girls Day
27	Hurt Locker	Nine Muses
28	Growing Pains	Donghae & Eunhyuk
29	Run Away	Royal Pirates
30	Black Swan	Rainbow
31	Congratulations	DAY6
32	Catch Me If You Can	SNSD
33	Me Gustas Tu	Gfriend
34	The Answer	Kim Sung Gyu (Infinite)
35	Dope	BTS
36	Pray	FT Island
37	Cinderella	CN Blue
38	You’re Pitiful	Fiestar
39	Hopeless Love	Jimin (15&)
40	Bad	Infinite
41	Might Just Die	History
42	We Like 2 Party	Big Bang
43	Chained Up	VIXX
44	Fire	Mad Clown ft. Jamsil (Mad Child Soul)
45	Bell Bottoms	PSY
46	Ice Cream Cake	Red Velvet
47	Break Ya	LU:KUS
48	Kontrol	Kim Sung Gyu (Infinite)
49	I Feel You	Wonder Girls
50	Wow Wow Wow	Junjin (Shinhwa) ft. Eric (Shinhwa)

And here are some interesting facts about this year and the chart itself!

A total of 180 songs were ranked on this chart, but a total of 195 songs were reviewed this year (which I believe is a personal best).
The first song reviewed and included in the chart is BTOB’s The Winter Tale (released at the end of last year). The last song reviewed and included in the chart was EXO’s Sing For You
A total of 16 girl groups, 17 boy groups and 9 soloists are featured on the chart.
There is a better mix of boys and girl groups this year, compared to last year, where the first boy group did not feature on the charts until after 16th place.
BTS had the most songs on the chart (I Need U, Dope & Run). followed by: EXID (Ah Yeah & Hot Pink), GOT7 (If You Do, Just Right), EXO (Love Me Right, Sing For You), Kim Sung Gyu (The Answer, Kontrol) & Red Velvet (Dumb Dumb & Ice Cream Cake).
Rookies were actually a strong force this year with Oh My Girl, Seventeen and Twice ranking quite high up in the charts.
The following ranked after 50th place: IU, B.I.G, Crayon Pop, VIXX, Seventeen, Changmin, Big Bang, Brown Eyed Girls and CLC.
And finally, this year chart was actually reflected on the BOBs this year. I crowned EXID’s Ah Yeah as best song for both segments.

AND THAT IS IT!! 2015 will be ending shortly. 6 Hours To Go (for me at least)!!! Hope 2015 has been a great year for you all. I thank you all once again for another year of KPOPreviewed. Your support has been amazing. Every comment and like (heck even every view) makes me happy!! Nearly 5 years and still going strong!! Thank you 2015 and I wish you all a Happy New Year wherever and whenever it is time. Let’s make 2016 our year!!! (First review: 2nd of Jan).

This song is jaw dropping amazing. The whole mini album is amazing. I literally have no complaints with this song. Her voice suits this style so much. There are no flaws. From her vocals to her singing style, to the instrumental, to the chorus. Everything went well with each other and flowed amazingly. Her voice just blows you away and it makes you wonder, why on earth did SM not give her any solo work (beside OSTs) that showcase her vocals like this in the past 8 years? I am not a fan of individual members of SNSD, but this just takes her to another level. Verbal Jint’s rap was just the right amount of soul and rnb that was needed for the song and his addition to the song made it have that more soulful and reflective vibe. I love the guitar sounds and that band contribution from the song. To me, it is a perfect KPOP song. It is unique and has its own colour. I am going to stop here because I feel like I am ruining the song. Just listen to it and her mini album.

The music video is beautiful. The camera angles and cinematography is amazing. The scenery and the outdoor shots were so beautiful. I need to visit New Zealand. Living next door, I should just do it sometime in a few years. As for her café song, you get a sense that she is singing about letting it all go and enjoying life as you should believe it. Her brother made an appearance, but it seemed to take people by surprised. While I have not said much (and cannot think of anything else to say), I think this video would have to be one of the most beautiful videos ever shot by SM (and that is saying a lot).

There was no dance, so I am going to skip over this part.

Hands down. This has to be one of the most beautifully sounding comebacks of the year. Sometimes I feel like I dislike SNSD, but this is one of the times that I am just speechless with what they have given me. 10/10 (any day!!!)