Mulan

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Mulan's ancestors has given Disney their blessings to make a live action movie! Indeed, this is not the first adaptation of the classic heroine, which originated from an Ancient Chinese poem, titled the Ballad of Mulan. Her legendary story has been cultivated into various media platforms, ranging from stage plays, films, TV shows, to literature. Conversely, this will be America’s first variation of Mulan into a live action film for the silver screen.

My Top 10 YG Songs of 2014

1. 2NE1 - Crush

2. CL - MTBD

3. Taeyang - Love You to Death

4. GD x Taeyang - Good Boy

5. Hi Suhyun - I'm Different ft. Bobby

6. 2NE1 - Come Back Home (Unplugged Ver.)

7. Epik High - Born Hater

8. Masta Wu - Come Here ft. Dok2 & Bobby

9. Akdong Musician (AKMU) - 200%

10. WINNER - Tonight

My Top 30 Kpop Jams of 2014 (Part 2)

16. Banhana - The Woman

17. Shannon - Remember Me ft. Jongkook

18. As One - For the Night

19. Gaeko - Rose

20. B.A.P - Body & Soul

21. BTS - Tomorrow & BTS - Danger (Mo-Blue-Mix) ft. THANH

22. Taemin - Play Me

23. AOA - Miniskirt  & AOA - Like a Cat

24. MBLAQ - Be a Man & MBLAQ - Spring Summer Fall And...Winter

25. Madtown - Yolo

26. f(x) - Rainbow & f(x) - Red Light

27. TVXQ - Ten & JYJ - Letting Go

28. Lee Michelle - Without You

29. Orange Caramel - My Copycat

30. EXO - Overdose & EXO - Love Love Love

My Top 30 Kpop Jams of 2014 (Parrt 1)

My Top 30 Kpop Jams of 2014 (Part 2)

It is unbelievable how this year is coming to an abrupt end.  Like where did all that time scatter off too? 

K-pop has remotely seen its share of "ups and downs" more this year than last year. The causes of it being 

atrocious where the abounding scandals, fan wars, lawsuits, the death of Eun.B and Rise from girl band Ladies' Code. With all that happened, a quantity of satisfying music had been released. 

1. Wheesung - Need to Make Money 

2. Rain - 30Sexy           

3. Spica.S - Give Your Love

4. Ailee - Teardrop

5. 40 - Black ft. Swings

6. Crush - I Fancy You

7. Mamamoo - Piano Man

8. Spica - You Don't Love Me

9. Beast - Good Luck

10. Got7 - I Like You

11. Sunmi - Full Moon

12. Dalshabet - B.B.B (Big Baby Baby)

13. Topp Dogg - Annie

14. Zhoumi - Rewind ft. Tao (EXO)

15. 15& - Rain & Cry

Who Are They? EXILE – J Soul Brothers Edition

Trying to figure who’s who in Japanese band, EXILE can be majorly confusing.  It took me weeks to figure that, and I’m still learning their names and faces. However, that would’ve that not happen if it wasn’t for looking up EXILE band history.  

Kpop Real Talk: Music Videos

Things have already begun to heat up in the world of K-pop for 2014, with the return of two amazing legends, DBSK and Rain, along with Girl’s Day. However, there are several conversational topics that continue to surface up particular dealing with music videos.  Here is the list of topics: race, culture appropriation, misrepresentation, and sexualization. From my observation these topics will to continue to be a roller coaster ride dividing Kpop fans and non-Kpop fans. A majority of those topics, we deal with on a daily basis, and can be use to analyze various types of media, regardless of what background we come from.

My Top 10 Kpop Memorable Songs

The calendar has caught my attention that the year of 2013 is rapidly coming to an end. Which gave me the idea (more of a challenge) to come up with a master list of memorable Kpop songs for this year, then chop it down to the top ten. It was definitely not easy because it is too hard trying to remember Kpop songs that came out from January (beginning of the year) to songs that are still being resealed out. Here is my top ten memorable Kpop songs.