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Ride in the ‘64

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If Yena from Itzy had a solo album

i’m going to talk about the songs on here but if you don’t want to read and just want to see the playlist then it’s here:

preface

i wanted to do a y2k mixed with pop rock concept for this since i could see yuna doing it. if i translate the random words in my notebook about this, you’ll find that i mention somi and hyuna in it. i specifically put dumb dumb because come on, that’s a yuna song, and lip and hip but neither artist made it to this anyway. i did also put yena ‘in small doses’ (typing out yena and yuna’s names throughout this was really annoying lmao) which is what i did since yena is the person i think of when i think of y2k and pop rock in k-pop. she’s still the only artist in there more than once but neither song is her most bombastic and neither one was used as a title track. the title track is the first song in the playlist, and it’s a little predictable since yuna’s cover of it is pretty popular, but i don’t see any other choice so:

0001: u-go-girl - lee hyori

the cover makes this easy to imagine, but i’d like to think this would be here anyway. the chorus screams yuna. i mean i’ve listened to yuna’s cover plenty of times, but not more than the original and i can still hear her as i listen to it right now. it’s bouncy and playful, two things i would love to see if yuna ever goes solo and when paired with an insanely catchy chorus, i don’t think there’s any room to go wrong. there’d obviously be a feature too, probably by a stray kids member (or xdinary heroes since i know o.de did it in the cover), probably hyunjin. i might be yapping since i haven’t kept up with them for a while but it feels like it’d be hyunjin and i think the kpop side of the internet would go crazy over that.

0002: icon - twice

it’s not as easy to imagine this one since there’s 9 people singing on this song but it fits with the concept and works as the first ‘bside’ on this. i don’t love them, but i could definitely see yuna doing the rap verses on this song, and if the verses were changed a bit i feel like this could have been an itzy song. it would have been the equivalent of f(x) releasing mr boogie so it wouldn’t be impossible. the chorus definitely works for yuna though, with the self love concept being very itzy in general, and it works pretty well with some of the other songs here.

0003: vision getting blurred - bébe yana

tell me why i only just find out bébe yana used to be in evol, like i feel like i’m on my nugu promoter space right now. anyways this song is one of those ‘aesthetic’ earworm songs, which happens to be another style i could see yuna doing. i always see songs like this from smaller soloists, so i’m not sure she would, but i think it would suit her and it fits this concept. the chorus is of course pretty addictive and it’s one of those songs that sound like it was written with a sparkly pink gel pen (i have been influenced to say this), something that reminds me a bit of yuna’s u-go-girl cover.

0004. lay low - yooa

another ear worm song, and well i first listened to this song yesterday and i’m already a bit addicted. there’s something so catchy about the lay low part, and it’s not just the repetitiveness of it, but also the way yooa sings it. i’m not the biggest fan of her voice but the pronunciation of it scratches the right part of my brain. this song also feels pink, and reminds me of vision getting blurred but less moody, and i think that’s more yuna’s style. it also leads us on nicely to the next song, which is our first yena song.

0005. lemon-aid - yena

lemon-aid was always my favourite b-side of yena’s before damn u came along. i’d argue it’s one of her ‘happiest’ songs and this is the girl that made smiley. the name is accurate and it really does feel like drinking fresh lemonade in the summer, something which i’ve not experienced myself but i just know. the pre-chorus feels very yuna to me, especially with the little rap or, well, talk singing part right before the chorus starts. it’s more laid-back than her other songs as well, which fits the vibe of the last few songs on here.

0006. chowall - triples

forgive me for adding four songs that are less than three minutes long in a row and then going for one that’s barely over a minute, i promise the next three are over three minutes (before we get onto yuri whose biggest crime is releasing round and around). there’s not much to say about this song, and i just used it as a break in songs before we get onto the next one, something which i will continue to do when i do the other four members.

0007. well…. (rock ver) - iu

i mean this in the best way possible, but this song reminds me of horrid henry. of course there’s no better way to remind me of my childhood so it’s all welcome. this is pretty different to the vibe chowall creates, but i like the way the vocals stop for a moment and then we get a ‘one, two, three, go’ and we’re straight into the two song long pop rock section of this playlist. i really like the guitar instrumental on this (it’s still horrid henry coded though), and it could have been the title track if there were a few more songs like this on here.

0008. withorwithout - yena

this also sounds pretty nostalgic but this time for seemingly no reason. anyways i couldn’t say yena was the person i thought of when thinking of y2k x pop rock in k-pop then not include this one. this song also reminds me of yuna a lot, especially towards the end and i think it works really well as one of the final songs on the album, and as a way of transitioning out of the pop rock moment we had.

0009. left right - xg

this was originally at the front of this playlist, but then i took one of the songs out and moved this towards the end because there was less upbeat pop rock than i originally planned and i needed something like this at the end of it. this song reminds me of icon by twice, so we have a weirdly shaped circle with two lines at the end to represent the first and last song that don’t fit it at all (please say you’re visualising it). again, it’s a bit hard to really see yuna singing this since it’s a group but i could definitely see her doing the rap parts and then i’d like to think it fits here.

0010. favourite part - jo yuri

i almost added this in lia’s playlist, since i was actively searching for yuna songs but adding to the other members if i found anything i thought could fit. i mean i wrote yuri’s name down in lia’s section of my notebook and i added je t’aime by joy to her playlist so i could make this work there. i mainly added this here because i’m being predictable and ending it with a slow song, but also because yuna is a sub-vocalist and this is pretty short. i also didn’t want to end it on the previous song because it just doesn’t feel right, and i’d much rather end it on the magical piano instrumental at the end of this one so that’s what i went with.

i won’t yap much longer but i wanted to talk about the one song i didn’t add —— dang! (hocus pocus) by billlie. i won’t talk about much of it since i might do that another time but the main reason i removed it is because of the group thing. i’d rather this have been all soloists but we had three groups (two if you don’t count triples) and sometimes that can take you out of it so i didn’t want to add a third one. also, i don’t think this one fit as well, or at least it didn’t fit in any place with this order. i took it out saying i might add it back in but then i realised that i liked how i did things here and didn’t want to have to find a place for this song too, so i just left it, but i have been enjoying this song whilst making this playlist so i thought i’d mention it anyway.

dividers are from @plutism

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