MY ALBUM OF THE YEAR? Guilty pleasures, k-pop, buttrock & more | Viewer comments 21

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2. 2022,

   1) The Cult – Under The Midnight Sun
   2) Sami Yaffa – The Innermost Journey To Your Outermost Mind.
   3) OFF! – Free LSD
   4) Tribute to John Anderson – Something Borrowed Something New
   5) Wet Leg
   6) both Jack Whites

   The Sami Yaffa is killer. Hanoi lives but better. Cults best record. See em live. The Off is otherworldly rockin good. Wet Leg have fun with rockin tunes. 81 again. John Anderson is such a great songwriter. Up there with anyone.

3. rom coms?

4. As someone who listens to both metalcore, visual kei and kpop since I was a kid, as an adult, I can see some similarities between kpop and alternative music. I think while kpop is heavily manufactured, they are less afraid of purchasing songs that don't sound like what a typical American pop group would ever buy. Take Red Velvets or F(x) discography, it is heavily experimental both visually and musically. Oh and the visuals and the dramatic flair is what I think makes kpop remind me of a lot of bands I listen to, among them My Chemical Romance, The Gazette, Ice Nine Kills etc. the use of and commitment to full-fledged concepts which I personally can't find in many pop acts except for Taylor Swift these days. Just my personal thoughts around it :))

5. glaive and ericoda are doing bits for hyper pop name!

6. yo oceans ate alaska disparity and static dresses new albums this year were awesome! good year in my book!

7. About the guilty pleasure: I think it's possible to have a guilty pleasure. Let's say you really love a song/band and KNOW that the band is awful (sexist, racist etc.) and still listen to the song. I know a lot of people who love "last train home" from lostprophets because it was one of THE songs when we were young. Even knowing what the vocalist did, I still listen to the song sometimes and feel kinda bad about it. I guess it's the problem of separating art and artist, but you get the idea…

8. K-pop used to be all dreamy and fabricated by labels around 10 years ago, nowadays there is much more indie kpop groups and companies that try to change the views on k-pop, that’s why I think the term “k-pop” makes no sense in a way that most of the music in it is from very different genres, BTS started as a hip hop group with underground rap members and in a way shaped the industry to search for more hip hop boy/girl groups, they also introduced more songwriting/producing importance in the industry, even though they have a lot of pop songs, most of their albums are very diverse and with deeper social and personal meanings.

9. I would also say that I'm an extremist…I like things that are either really heavy and dark or really poppy and melodic, although I don't take it quite as far as you do. For me, the trend of melodic death metal was basically the metal genre coming full circle. Metal has always been a melodic genre, going back to the days of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest etc. All the well-known melo death (and I also suppose symphonic/melodic black metal) bands were doing just this…instead of trying to expand the genre into the most fast, brutal, extreme version possible (i.e. stuff like early Cryptopsy) they went the opposite direction. They kept the heavy and brutal aspects of death/black metal and combined this with the more melodic sounds and anthemic choruses of earlier metal bands, effectively coming, as I said, full circle. Perhaps that's why people enjoy it so much.

10. Just because you're talking about discovering new music, I recomend u Blankfile's truth be sold, which is what u call "hardcore core" Keep it up dude!

11. Judd Apatow didn’t direct FSM, he was a producer I believe. Has his stamp on it.

12. hey! you got me into juice wrld and lil lotus #influencer

13. AOTY for me is either Dreamkiller by Sumerlands or the upcoming Queensryche outing Digital Noise Alliance.

14. Review Slipknots new album???

15. 100% feel you about melodic stuff. I can't stand clean signing and melodic metalcore especially from tough guy bands. If I wanted tough, heavy stuff, I'll listen to DEATHCORE. If I want something with cleans and melodic, fun, etc I'd try pop too.

16. 3OH!3

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18. Underoath's album was sick!

19. Kpop has them anti drops and to be honest, that's what draws me in so much as a melody chaser but, I do love American pop as well so

20. thx finn

21. AOTY 100% Netherheaven by Revocation 100%

22. I think when 100 gecs drops again, if it's good it will breath new life into hyperpop. They feel the most authentic and unique of the hyperpop wave.

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