#sana likey

[wishfuldeity]

djdjdjf mi wile lapeeee, taso mi fucking SELIII MUTEE ajdjx;d ike

LA

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ilo pi kon tawa li kalama mute ike la MI KEN KEPEKEN ALA ajdjdjdndn IKEEE

mi wile lapeeee tasoooo hhhcjbcb

[jaytopia]

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[11fflower11]

Random Jeongyeon GIFs just because.

[d4myeon]

twice - likey m/v icons

[khakilike]

The anticipation has been torture, but the wait is almost over!

[oncelipsz]

[henghost]

How likey is it that ur christ

i wouldn't say it's very likey. people used to say i looked like christ but then i got a haircut. the only likey i take to be divine is

[married-2-the-music]

TWICE: From Naive Kids To Fully Realized Idols

[allfortzu]

my villain origin story will forever be my friends not telling me they saw ppl distributing banners before the twice concert ong

i gaslighted a little too close to the sun they rlly thought I was just a casual listener,, caused my own downfall actually i can't even be mad </3

[fillinforlater]

One-Shot Masterlist

The is the part of my Masterlist with every one-shot story that will (most likey) not get a squeal, sorted by group. It starts off with how my original Masterlist was sorted, so scroll down to find you favorite idol/group. For bigger, orgy-type smuts with multiple idols (2+), look at the (features), though some are in Series' ;)

IZ*ONE One-Shots are in my IZ*ONE Masterlist, all series' are in my Series Masterlist!

IZ*ONE MASTERLIST HERE

SERIES MASTERLIST HERE

Stats: 80 Links; 51 Stories linked; 40 Groups with 111 Idols written

GFRIEND/VIVIZ

Yerin - Say It Again

Eunha, Umji - Commas, Colons, Cumming 

Sinb, Eunha - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 1)

Sowon, Yuju, Yerin, Eunha - Vexatious (orgy, 17some) (futa!Eunha)

+

ITZY

Yeji - Dazed (ft. Yoojung)

Yeji, Yuna - C.Ollection (super orgy, 10some)

Yuna - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Lia - (T)highly likely

Chaeryeong - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Lia - Series Masterlist (Phone)

+

Weki Meki

Yoojung - Dazed (ft. Yeji)

Yoojung - Carry a Stranger (Quickie)

Rina - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

Doyeon - Series Masterlist (Possession of the Queen)

+

I.O.I

Yoojung - Dazed (ft. Yeji)

Yoojung - Carry a Stranger (Quickie)

Somi - Let It All Out (Quickie)

Somi, Chungha - Plan B

Somi - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Somi - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Doyeon - Series Masterlist (Possession of the Queen)

Mina - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

Chaeyeon - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

+

TWICE

Dahyun - Commitment

Dahyun - Scandal (Quickie)

Dahyun, Mina, Sana - Kim Corruption: The Video Version

Mina, Tzuyu - C.Ollection (super orgy, 10some)

Mina, Sana - Four Cherries (IZ*ONE + TWICE 5some)

Mina, Nayeon - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Momo, Chaeyoung - Hot Helping Hands

Momo - Teased Promotion (Quickie)

Mina - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 1)

Sana - Series Masterlist (Phone)

Nayeon - Series Masterlist (Phone)

Tzuyu - Series Masterlist (Phone)

Jeongyeon - Series Masterlist (Phone)

+

aespa

Karina - Do-Nothing-Day (fluff)

Karina - Mildly Unfair (ft. Wonyoung, Eunbi)

Winter - LOYAnaL (Quickie ft. Chaewon)

Winter - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

NingNing - The Pull (ft. Hyewon)

Winter, Karina - Vexatious (orgy, 17some) (futa!Karina)

Giselle - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon Series - Season 1)

Karina - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon Series - Season 2)

+

Dreamcatcher

Yoohyeon, Sua, Gahyeon - Labyrinth of the Six (Everglow vs Dreamcatcher 7some)

Yoohyeon, Sua - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Gahyeon - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Handong, Siyeon, Dami - Vexatious (orgy, 17some) (futa!Handong)

JiU - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon Series - Season 1)

+

WJSN

Exy - New Lyrics

Luda - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon Series - Season 1)

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EVERGLOW

E:U, Sihyeon, Aisha - Labyrinth of the Six (Everglow vs Dreamcatcher 7some)

Yiren - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Yiren - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Yiren - Series Masterlist (Phone)

+

fromis_9

Jiheon, Chaeyoung, Nagyung - C.Ollection (super orgy, 10some)

Hayoung - The Gamer and the Pornstar (ft. Sakura of IZONE)

Hayoung, Nagyung - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

Jiheon - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon Series - Season 2)

+

IVE

Yujin - Inspection Day (ft. Eunbi, Chaewon) TW

Yujin - C.Ollection (super orgy, 10some)

Gaeul - Beautiful, Beautiful Power (futa!Gaeul)

Gaeul - Paradise (fluff/angst)

Gaeul - Pink Sheets of the Gangbang Queen (Quickie)

Rei - Two Selfies (Quickie)

Rei - Two Selfies and a GIF

Liz - Perfection, We Find

Wonyoung, Rei, Gaeul - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Wonyoung - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Yujin - Series Masterlist (Eleven to One-Universe)

Yujin - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Gaeul - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Gaeul - Series Masterlist (Blonde)

Rei - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Rei - Series Masterlist (Double Stacked)

+

Kep1er

Xiaoting - Changer (Quickie)

Xiaoting - To Share A Drink (ft. Shuhua & Yuqi)

Xiaoting - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Xiaoting, Yujin - Highkey (Quickie)

Dayeon - Dayeons Disciplinary Diary (with Chaehyun & Xiaoting)

Hikaru, Bahiyyih, Youngeun, Yeseo - A Keplian Rocket (Quickie)

Xiaoting - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Xiaoting - Series Masterlist (On her)

Chaehyun - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Chaehyun - Series Masterlist (Double Stacked)

Dayeon - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Yujin - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Mashiro - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

Mashiro - Series Masterlist (A member for the members)

+

CLC

Seungyeon - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Yujin - Series Masterlist (T[w]o find love)

+

LOONA

Heejin - In Vino Veritas (Quickie)

Heejin - The Real Daddy (Quickie) (futa!Heejin)

Gowon - Revelation in a Shower

Yeojin - You asked for it

Yeojin, Jinsoul - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Yeojin - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Heejin - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

Hyunjin - Series Masterlist (On her)

+

LE SSERAFIM

Chaewon - Four Cherries (IZ*ONE + TWICE 5some)

Chaewon - LOYAnaL (Quickie ft. Winter of aespa)

Chaewon - Inspection Day (ft. Eunbi, Yujin) TW

Chaewon, Sakura - Fanmating (3Kim Quickie ft. Minju)

Chaewon, Sakura - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Sakura - Legendary Cookies (IZ*ONE 6some)

Yunjin, Kazuha - When Life Gives You Bandmates, Make A Mess Out Of Them

Yunjin, Kazuha - HCHQ - Double Team (futa!idols)

Chaewon - Series Masterlist (My Kinky Wife)

Sakura - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 1 & 2)

Kazuha - Series Masterlist (On her)

Yunjin - Series Masterlsit (My Kinky Wife)

+

Red Velvet

Yeri - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

Yeri - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Irene - Series Masterlist (On her)

Seulgi - C'mon (ft. Jini, Haewon) (idol x idol)

+

woo!ah!

Nana - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

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(G)I-DLE

Shuhua, Yuqi - To Share A Drink (ft. Xiaoting)

Miyeon - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Minnie, Yuqi, Miyeon - To Glide (idol x idol x idol)

Minnie - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

Shuhua - Series Masterlist (Phone)

Miyeon - Series Masterlist (On her)

+

StayC

Isa - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

+

gugudan

Mina - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

+

Rocket Punch

Yeonhee - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

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Girls’ Generation

Tiffany, Sooyoung - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Yoona - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

+

DIA

Chaeyeon - Series Masterlist (Spaceship: Horizon - Season 2)

+

Weeekly

Monday - Series Masterlist (On her)

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BLACKPINK

Rose - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Rose - The Interview

Jennie - Series Masterlist (On her)

+

Apink

Bomi - Series Masterlist (Phone)

+

NewJeans

Minji - Dr. Minji (Quickie)

Minji, Hanni - Glossy Friendship (futa!Minji)

Minji - Series Masterlist (On her)

Hanni - Series Masterlist (On her)

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KARD

Jiwoo - Helping my divine friend with something although she could help herself because I’m such a nice guy but I really misjudged things and now they go wrong 

+

cignature

Jeewon - Fresh, Right from the Source

+

Oh My Girl

Arin - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Yooa - GAMBLE (futa!Yooa x Female Reader)

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Soloist

IU - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

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MAMAMOO

Hwasa - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

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NMIXX

Sullyoon - Just Testing (super orgy, 31some, scroll down for link)

Sullyoon - SULLied MINd (ft. Minju)

Jini - C'mon (ft. Seulgi, Haewon) (idol x idol)

Haewon - C'mon (ft. Jini, Seulgi) (idol x idol)

+

LIGHTSUM

Sangah, Chowon - It takes two to shut her up (futa!Chowon)

+

Purple Kiss

Swan - Maknae Royale (orgy, 9some)

Goeun - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

+

tripleS

Sohyun - Series Masterlist (A member for the members)

+

Pixy

Sua - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

+

Lovelyz

Sujeong - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

+

TRI.BE

Hyunbin - Vexatious (orgy, 17some)

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Link for Just Testing

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[hwabyul4wheesun]

How you met Jihyo

Idol!Jihyo x Single mom!Fem!Reader

Synopsis: You go to Twice's concert with your 8 year old daughter, who is crazy about them, as a birthday present you got meet and greet tickets (I know they're not called these, Idk what they're called)

Type of post: Headcanon

Tags: fluff, just pure fluff, love at first sight? chaotic twice, Jihyo is teased by the girls, reader is older than Jihyo, reader is a little shy, reader is 31 years old, reader is a single mother,

A/n: The premise of this fic just came to my head and I had to get it out before I went crazy. Not proofread

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Going to Twice's concert hadn't really been apart of your plan, but with your daughter giving you her best puppy dog eyes, you couldn't really say no, so here you are, in the front row of the concert, squished between people and the barricade, semi enjoying yourself, singing your heart out to "cry for me" waving your light stick along with your daughter waving your phone with the flash on.

After the concert you and your daughter were walking back to your car, you making sure that you had everything in your bag, as well as getting out your car keys, when all of a sudden your daughter states that she really needs the toilet, so you two start looking around for a free bathroom that doesn't have a long line, when you end up backstage finding a spare bathroom, running with your daughter to the toilet.

Once Hadley finishes her business and washes her hands, you two get ready to leave again, when you open the bathroom door to step out, you come face to face with none other than Dahyun, the Kim Dahyun that was just a few minutes ago on the stage in front of you singing, flusteredly muttering an apology to Dahyun you quickly grab Hadley's hand about to leave when you feel a soft touch on your shoulder, you turn around to see Dahyun raising her one eyebrow in a questioning way.

She asks something in Korean, but you just look at her confused before she switches to English asking what were you doing in the staff toilet, you quickly explain how Hadley really needed the toilet and that she wouldn't have made it to the bathrooms in the front, Dahyun gives you a small smile, saying that it was okay but that you really shouldn't be back here as security might get the wrong idea and think that you might stalk the girls, shocked you say of course not, shaking your head rapidly.

Dahyun then notices the badge around your necks, asking if they were for the meet and greet, looking down you see the badges, completely forgetting about the meet and greet after the concert, you explain that yeah they are and that you completely forgot about them and were about to leave before your daughter said she needed the toilet, smiling Dahyun grabs your hand and starts leading you to the meet and greet area.

Before approaching the meet and greet area, she notices that not a lot of people were left and tells you to wait right where you were for a few minutes. After a few minutes, Dahyun came back, asking to follow her. She lead you to the girl's dressing room, after opening the door you find yourselves surrounded by the girls, Sana squeals running to greet you, smiling widely at you and your daughter, she then starts gushing about how cute Hadley looks dressed as Dahyun from the "Likey" music video, Hadley even dabs like how Dahyun did in the music video.

Flustered by the sudden attention, you try to back up, but before you could get far you bump in to someone, turning around you see that you bumped into Tzuyu, your eyes go wide you start stuttering out an apology, bowing multiple times, before Tzuyu could stop you.

Noticing the commotion between you and Tzuyu, Jihyo walks up to you two to settle everything, but before she could you turn around bowing at her too, stopping after you start feeling dizzy, you look up to see Jihyo sporting a tiny smirk, but it quickly vanishes leaving you blushing and flustered.

Jihyo lets out a soft laugh, placing her hands on your shoulders, saying it's okay and that there wasn't any harm done, still flustered you stammer out on last sorry, before standing upright avoiding Jihyo's eyes. Jihyo stretches out her phone asking for your phone number, shocked you take her phone and type in your handle before handing it back and noticing the time on the clock that was hanging on the wall you call out to your daughter stating that you really had to be going, your turn back to Jihyo and Tzuyu apologising for the sudden departure, you take your daughter's hand saying goodbye and wishing the girls a goodnight and make your way to your car.

As soon as you left Nayeon started teasing Jihyo and how she was acting around you, asking what was all that about, why was she smirking and what was with the pale pink that spread across her cheeks down her neck, Sana started joining in on the teasing as well, the only ones not teasing Jihyo were Tzuyu, Mina and Chaeyoung.

Once back in her hotel room, Jihyo opens her messaging app, where she asked you to type in your number and starts contemplating what to say, with a small smile spread on her face, she hits the message button and says a simple hi it’s Jihyo, before turning off her phone and getting ready for bed.

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A/N: please don't judge the ending, I really didn't know how I was gonna end this and it really didn't have any solid plotline, so deepiest apologies for the lackluster oneshot :( This didn't really come out the way I planned but I'm okay with it for now

Read more for Twice

[twicecreations]

welcome to twicecreations !

this is a new source blog dedicated to reblogging visual content of the members! we also take requests for gifs, headers, pfps, etc.

tags !

members ! nayeon, jeongyeon, momo, sana, jihyo, mina, dahyun, chaeyoung, tzuyu, group, by network members, reblogs, requests eras ! ooh-ahh, cheer up, tt, knock knock, signal, likey, heart shaker, what is love, dance the night away, yes or yes, fancy, feel special, more & more, i can’t stop me, cry for me, alcohol-free, scientist, talk that talk, set me free, i got you, one spark, dive, strategy solos and units ! pop, killin' me good, na, aboutzu, haute couture

requests !

open, not a guarantee to be finished. please do not request from fancams that do not allow editing (i.e. spinel cam, rock music).

joining the net !

open! look here!

tag use, misc. !

tag use is open to everyone who creates visual twice content. works that appear white or color-washed may be skipped. other rules include being polite to the members of the net and respectful of the ccs you blog from. please do not repost works - ask the op (if it is a member of the net, send an ask) for permission to use their creations, and please be patient! thank you!

[tiny-pretty-sana]

this is so random but i was having a debate with a friend about it early

what eras do you think each member *owned*?

disclaimer: i got into kpop in 2023 so so these are based on the mv and the fancams that i’ve seen from those eras. i skipped a few eras idk

like ohh-ahh: momo

cheer up: sana

tt: nayeon and dahyun

knock knock: chaeyoung

signal: momo and tzuyu

likey: sana and dubchaeng

heart shaker: jihyo and tzuyu

what is love?: nayeon and jeongyeon

dance the night away: jihyo and chaeyoung

yes or yes: mina

bdz: sana and dahyun

fancy: jeongyeon and chaeyoung

breakthrough: i truly believe they all owned this era they made the cuntometer explode

feel special: jihyo

more & more: sana and mina

i can’t stop me: nayeon and chaeyoung risky risky wiggy wigi

alcohol-free: momo and jihyo

perfect world: again there’s something in japan’s air that makes them serve cunt

the feels: nayeon

doughnut: sana

scientist: momo, mina and sana

talk that talk: jihyo

moonlight sunrise/set me free: jeongyeon, momo and chaeyoung but another ot9 slay i’m afraid

i got you/one spark: jeongyeon, mina and tzuyu

dive: sana

strategy: jihyo and chaeyoung

[woonova]

📹 . ⋆  ࣪ me likey, likey, likey  ݁ ៸៸ .ᐟ

◟links to pretty stuff i find on tumblr....

. ⋆  ࣪ Moodboards  ݁ ៸៸ .ᐟ

◟001 | yuna by @gun-wook

◟002 | im nayeon by @iluvrei

◟003 | yves by @y-unjins

◟004 | im nayeon by @k-iuyo

◟005 | nishimura riki by @lili-yy

◟006 | yunjin by @kysbot

◟007 | yunjin by @y-unjins

◟008 | yunjin by @starmiko

◟009 | winter & giselle by @anqeliets

◟010 | yeojin by @w-onki

◟011 | im nayeon by @w-onki

◟012 | yves by @starclips

◟013 | yunjin by @fuckici

◟014 | tzuyu by @chaey2k

◟015 | yves by @chaey2k

◟016 | haerin by @wiotas

◟017 | jake by @isamiracle

◟018 | minji by @minhrts

◟019 | joy by @trivijoy

◟020 | hyein by @luapallet

◟021 | sana by @fuckici

◟022 | jeongkook by @h-aewo

◟023 | isa by @i04rei

◟024 | yves by @seolvia

◟025 | heejin by @v6mpcat

◟026 | yves by @minguukie

◟027 | j by @i08wony

◟028 | sana by @tozak-i

◟029 | jay by @s-omin

◟030 | nayeon by @y0oni3

◟031 | lia by @i08wony

◟032 | mina by @k-yujin

© https://...woonova | 2023

[2009hondajazz]

A long write-up of some of my favourite albums released this year (2024), in a loose ranking of my favourites

Accompanied by a YouTube link to my favourite track from the album.

Originally a single post, I realised that this this write-up stands at over 7,000 words, and needs to be broken up to be easier to navigate. Bear with me as I try to figure out what would make this easier to navigate / a better reading experience. If anyone feels moved to send feedback my way re: the layout (or anything else, really), I'm all ears.

Index

Favourite 2024 Albums

NAYEON, NA Ariana Grande, eternal sunshine TWICE, With YOU-th LE SSERAFIM, CRAZY TWICE, Strategy Billie Eilish, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT TWICE, DIVE

Honourable mentions

Albums not released in 2024 that I listened to a lot this year

Parting thoughts for the year

/

NAYEON NA

I am almost certain that this was my most-played album of the year. I loved 'ABCD' as a title track; the dance break left me reeling after I saw it, with a fuck-you big budget of a music video that, for me, pays off as a viewer. Nayeon in that red dress looks like something out of my dreams. She's gorgeous. She absorbed a crater-sized hole of charisma at birth. She's a star. She's a Virgo born in 1995, and brother, am I a sucker for Virgos born in 1995.

I was listening to Nayeon's first mini, IM NAYEON, just a month before the announcement of her second. I had been astonished by it, giving it my first proper listen since its release in 2022, and thought, Wow. I'd love another Nayeon album. My dreams came true.

The NA mini overall is the exact type of music I love listening to—to the point that I feel so lucky it actually exists—with a stream of R&B running through it, yet staying true to Nayeon's sound, and to the K-Pop genre as a whole.

There’s a uniqueness to the way that Nayeon conducts her musicality as a K-Pop idol—a certain freshness and approachability to her vocals, dancing, and stage presence that catches my ear and eye; her ‘Alcohol-Free’ fancam comes to mind as a prime example. She is just so seamless to watch. It’s like there’s no film existing between me and my enjoyment of watching her as a performer. Where Jihyo and Momo exhilarate in their energies, and Sana shoots dopamine straight into my brain, Nayeon’s style is the closest expression of my natural self.

Nayeon is also very clearly a K-Pop fan who pays homage to idols of the past, while bringing her own personality into the fold, and this is a quality that plays a huge part in what landed her as TWICE’s centre upon the group’s formation. This sense of balance is a skill that she has fine-tuned over time.

There's a lot that can be said about determining what a group's centre is, let alone what makes a good centre. For me, a good centre is not necessarily the best performer, best vocalist, nor the most attractive member, but is the one who makes the group coherent.

In TWICE, Nayeon eases the high energies of Jihyo and Momo; ties their performance styles with Sana, Mina, and Tzuyu's clean dance angles; her even vocal style bridges Jihyo and Jeongyeon's powerful vocal tones; she's also a necessary gradient to sit between the group's vocals and Dahyun and Chaeyoung's rap lines—in 'Likey', for example, Nayeon is the last one to sing before Dahyun and Chaeyoung's rap.

‘ABCD’ is the title track that ties together all of Nayeon’s abilities as the idol she is, more so than ‘POP!’, which in hindsight is more like a caricature of Nayeon turned up to a hundred.

My personal metric for a good record or a good song is when the work demonstrates the artist's range, talent, and what makes them unique—which this EP does, over and over, with every listen.

I am a huge sucker for K-Pop idols releasing R&B, and, what do you know, my favourite active idol made a foray into the sound, her vocal integrity intact. It's like they engineered this album and its concept in a lab specifically for me.

She's mentioned in an interview/show appearance that the style of the album isn't something that she was familiar with, which makes sense, considering TWICE's large catalogue of bubblegum pop, and Nayeon's debut EP itself being a bubblegum pop masterpiece, though I think that her unfamiliarity makes the NA EP all the more exciting. She doesn't fall into many usual R&B vocalisations; she seems to simply follow the direction of the music production itself with her own voice and habits, and her expertise gathered from being a longtime recording artist shows through as she hits note after note with fidelity.

The track order flows well. None of the songs sound the same as one another, yet still work side-by-side. Her collabs are well-chosen, with 'HalliGalli' produced by AKMU's Lee Chanhyuk, being a standout; it's a B-side that I didn't enjoy as much as the others on my first few listens, but is now among my favourites.

'Count It' is my favourite song off of the EP, with Nayeon's sweetness and R&B vocal range on full display. It’s the exact type of song I am a sucker for. It sounds like a song played at the beginning of a relationship, when two friends-turned-lovers are regarding one another in a new light. It’s a song that makes me want to go take some Korean lessons so I can experience the song in the singer's native language. It's a song that makes me wish I could leave Nayeon a voicemail, telling her what a good job she's done.

My next wish for Nayeon is a full-length album. I'd be so excited to see what she'd do, and which genres she'd try next time around. I think a return to bubblegum pop would be an avenue, but it would be a misstep, if only for the been-there-done-that factor. Maybe a more overtly R&B record is on the cards. Maybe a foray into the singer-songwriter personal pop that's dominating the charts right now, though I don't know if that would still be popular by the time Nayeon starts prepping for another solo. What if she surprises us all and drops a rap/hip-hop record? Or what if she drops a straight-up club banger, similar to Yves' 'LOOP (feat. Lil Cherry)'? Wouldn't that be the move of all time.

Nayeon also didn't write any lyrics for this EP, as she did for two songs on IM NAYEON, so I'd also love to see her write some lyrics, or even compose/produce a few tracks.

Ariana Grande eternal sunshine

A couple months ago, soon after this album dropped, my friend asked me to play some music in the car, so I went straight for eternal sunshine. They said, 'Wow. You really are going through it,' because yeah, brother, I really was going through it, to the point where I started getting mad at people ranking the 'Saturn Returns Interlude' last on their lists. I wholeheartedly consider it as part of the next track, ‘eternal sunshine’, and I joked on Tumblr that a version of ‘Saturn Returns Interlude’ combined with ‘eternal sunshine’ ought to be nominated for Record of the Year.

I got mad because people just didn't get the magic of 'Saturn Returns Interlude'. People just didn't understand what it feels like to be on the cusp of their Saturn return year, fresh out of a life-rearranging breakup, and needing someone to just... hit you over the head, tell you what you need to be actually fucking doing with yourself, how to conduct your emotional life.

'Wake up! It's time for you to get real about life and sort out who you really are,' retired astrologer Diana Garland commands in the interlude as sampled by Ari. Yeah, dude. I felt that

'eternal sunshine' is one of the best tracks Ari's ever made. The quiet opening giggle that sounds like she's with a former lover, sounding something like—not like a wish but more like an acknowledgement of a happier time, which I think hits harder than yearning. The opening lyrics and the way she sings it—'I don't care what people say / We both know I couldn't change you / I guess you could say the same / Can't rearrange truth.’ I think it might have been easier to shoot me in the head.

The breathless fucking gut-wrenching bridge of: 'Won't break can't shake this fate rewrite deep breath tight chest life death rewind', and the way it plays underneath the next chorus until it becomes the outro. I think of that famous video of Ari layering her vocals during the 'positions' recording. Her talent is such that she can execute her vision with precision. Her talent is such that it unlocks her vision.

Also, is it just me or does the bridge sound like a reference to Imogen Heap's 'Just For Now' at around the 1:28 mark? Or am I just making Imogen Heap connections where I wanna find them?

sweetener has been dethroned; eternal sunshine now reigns as my favourite Ari album ever (yes, this absolutely has to do with the fact that it kept me company during a uhhhh miserable time—and well. What else are albums for?).

TWICE With YOU-th

The album opens with Mina's sweet voice in TWICE's friendship anthem, 'I Got You', singing, 'A little reckless around the edges / Call it young dumb love and it's just enough / Keep me guessing / How the story unfolds with you'.

Her opening lines during their Killing Voice performance has brought me to tears multiple times. It's the way she sings, 'How the story unfolds with you', a simple lyric, and the way she sounds so sincere, like she really means it—and this, in combo with knowing so much of TWICE's story and their enduring partnerships with one another, unlikely in a group of nine, is what moves me.

A thought exercise formed in my head while I was listening to a (G)-Idle album. I was listening to a song that sounded like it could've been given to TWICE, and I thought: if TWICE had released this song, I probably would have listened to it with more attention, and I probably would have liked it.

From there, I started listening to a couple of TWICE B-sides, thinking, if TWICE hadn't released this, would I still like it? Am I that swayed by my fangirl chemicals?

Now. I am a 'One Spark' truther. I wasn't so hot on the concept, but I enjoyed the song itself. I enjoyed the falsettos, the music production. I enjoyed the choreography, enjoyed Tzuyu looking like she was having a blast during performances.

Would I still like 'One Spark', if it had been done by another group? If I do, it means that the song stands on its own, and I don't just like it because it's TWICE. To test this theory, I looked up 'One Spark AI cover' on YouTube (I know I'm sorry) and clicked on the IVE version.

The thing with thought exercises, is that most of them are a slippery-slope. I like TWICE songs because... I like TWICE. As a fangirl and because I am drawn to their sound. I listened to, and liked, TWICE before I was a ONCE. I also don't make it a point to stan groups whose music I don't like; I couldn't imagine a more miserable way to experience fandom, and music as a whole.

I liked the IVE AI cover, sure. But I also couldn't unhear the original (that Gaeul pre-chorus was something else, though). Is the song and concept kinda corny? Yes. Could they have done something better? Yes. Did I eat up 'One Spark'? Yes. My heart is burning, burning, burning, bitch. Did I need to harp on about 'One Spark' this much? Absolutely not.

The track ordering on With YOU-th is perfect. The sequence of ‘Rush’ into ‘New New’ into ‘Bloom’ ought to be jointly nominated for Record of the Year as a sequence.

I'm imagining a worse timeline where 'New New' plays right after 'One Spark', before 'Rush', creating an ill-advised twin combo of ‘Rush’ next to ‘Bloom’, two similar sounding songs that don’t have the space to breathe if placed side-by-side, and me having to cope by dreaming of a scenario where I get a business degree, learn Korean, and rise up JYPE's corporate ladder just to personally fire whoever decided the track ordering.

Luckily, we don't live in that timeline, and 'I Got You', 'One Spark', 'Rush', 'New New', 'Bloom', and 'You Get Me' play in the correct order, allowing the listener a journey of push and pull between songs without distraction, like God intended.

Billie Eilish HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

My little brother put me onto this album. He played 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' in the car and I took to it immediately. As soon as we got home, I gave the album a listen.

The first four tracks of HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, 'SKINNY', 'LUNCH', 'CHIHIRO', and 'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' are placed in a satisfying sequence, with a bit of a drop off in energy afterwards, but nothing drastic.

'BIRDS OF A FEATHER' is the standout track for me. It sounds exactly what falling in love feels like. It almost made me wishing I was falling in love with someone again, so I could soundtrack the romance to this song. But the song will always be there if/when the time comes.

I can't believe HIT ME HARD AND SOFT is only made up of 10 tracks, with a runtime of 43:49. It feels like it's longer because I get so engrossed in the journey of the album, feeling like I've been transported into a different landscape than the one I'm in. How many late-night drives did I do to this album this year? I can't keep count.

LE SSERAFIM CRAZY

What’s there to say about Le Sserafim’s best title track to date? It’s like the powers-that-be over at Source Music have been building up Le Sserafim’s discography up to this moment; one of the earliest viral moments that Le Sserafim had was them voguing down a runaway, in a queer ballroom-esque setting, way back in 2022 (I cannot find this video atm... I’ll post later if I ever find it again). It’s almost as if they’ve been testing the waters with each release; their Unforgiven album contained swings towards the sound that ‘CRAZY’ was going to be, with ‘Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard’s wife’, ‘Fire in the belly’, and ‘Unforgiven’ flavoured with a mild eccentricity that gets fully unleashed in ‘CRAZY’. The EASY EP, preceding ‘CRAZY’, laid the foundation that allowed Le Sserafim to understand their musical identity and impact within a more Western-style music production and vocal stylings—this can be heard in the languid R&B track, ‘EASY’; they tapped into the dancehall trend started by Tyla’s ‘Water’ with ‘Smart’; and ‘Swan Song’ sounds like it could have appeared on SZA’s SOS album. The EASY era was, by and large, a turning point that made ‘CRAZY’ possible.

Okay. I’m gonna go take my queer stan moment right here and say, ‘CRAZY’ is the first time I’ve ever seen Black, queer artists—The House of Juicy Couture—in a K-Pop music video, and actually be credited for their involvement. ‘CRAZY’ treats the culture with respect, and I commend Le Sserafim’s team for making an effort to acknowledge the origins of voguing and ballroom culture.

The music video, too, follows through with its promise. It’s not Crazy-lite. It really is ‘CRAZY’, with a voguing-heavy choreography, sharp lines, Miyawaki-fucking-Sakura doing a fucking duck walk singing ‘I’m an Otaku bestie’, jarring editing, abstract set design and costuming. The 5 members of Le Sserafim aren’t there just to be pretty; they’re there to perform. They’re there to deliver. Mother, bitch! I won’t lie! I cried watching the music video! Sue me! I was a closeted 14-year-old lesbian with a shrine to Girls’ Generation taking up one wall. I had NO CLUE K-Pop was gonna come this far. I was touched.

The song itself is still quintessential K-Pop, too, and one I’d argue is the one of the most ‘K-Poppiest’ songs of 2024, featuring the defining characteristic of the genre: it is strange and listenable at the same time. In the best way. It pushes its strangeness all the way it can, without giving up its listenability.

When I think of ‘K-Poppiest’ songs, TWICE’s ‘Likey’ comes to mind as the ‘K-Poppiest’ song of all time. It’s a weird song—the chorus being, ‘Me likey / Me likey likey likey / Me likey likey likey / Dugeundugeundugeun’, then capped off with a strangely pitched and addictive earworm: ‘heart-heart’. They sing the word, ‘likey’, 42 times. Momo sings, ‘BB cream, pa pa pa / Lipstick-eul, mam mam a’. I have no idea what it means. It’s got a punk pop-type percussion that reminds me of  Fall Out Boy’s ‘Grand Theft Autumn/Where is Your Boy’. In the words of my friend, one of the biggest punk/emo/metal rockheads I’ve ever known: ‘I never thought I’d sit in my car singing, me likey likey likey ever in my entire life.’ It’s addictive. It’s ridiculous. It’s my favourite TWICE title track. It’s among my favourite K-Pop songs of all time.

‘CRAZY’, like ‘Likey’, has got the addictive earworm, ‘All the girls are girling girling, all the girls are girling girling, all the girling girls’ (it’s actually got multiple addictive earworms... ‘I’m an Otaku bestie’, girl get up); it’s got the convincing beat; it’s got an addictive adlib in the form of Sakura’s repeated ‘da, da-da, da’, it’s got subtle samples for colour, like that little ‘what!’ that plays for the first time after Chaewon finishes the opening lines, and repeats throughout the song. ‘CRAZY’ isn’t my personal favourite title track from Le Sserafim (it’s ‘Perfect Night’), but it is certainly the one I admire most, and the one I’d send off to space to represent human music to aliens.

The EP’s B-Sides are faultless, and, in an EP of five songs, with a running time of only 14 minutes and 52 seconds, you’d hope they would be. Huh Yunjin is one of the talents of her generation, someone who moves me each time I see her express her passion for music, whose intelligence and honesty is a breath of fresh air, and I was astounded to learn that she wrote the lyrics for, composed, and produced the last B-Side on the EP, ‘Crazier’. I can’t say I enjoy the transition from ‘1800-hot-n-fun’ into an introspective singer-songwriter ballad, but it fits the ‘CRAZY’ theme of holding competing ideas within itself all at once, and for staying true (crazy) in service of one’s dreams and intentions.

TWICE Strategy

There's a part in the 'Strategy' title track where there's a few bars of a cowbell beat during Chaeyoung's lines at the 2:47 minute mark. The cowbells affected me so much that I talked about it for 30 minutes straight at various friends. I was driving my little brother (not by blood) and stopped talking mid-sentence just to take in those cowbells again, then continued with whatever I was talking about. I seriously considered getting drum lessons again, and maybe to go start hustling to be a sessional drummer on the side. I might really do it next year.

One of the coolest things that ‘Strategy’ highlights for me is that TWICE’s title tracks orbit not just around the foundation of Nayeon and Jihyo’s vocals, but also on their harmonies, and in their lines’ proximity to one another—similar to Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon and Jessica, way back when. You can hear it at 3:00, Naeyon and Jihyo’s adlibs weaving side-by-side until Nayeon closes out the song. It’s a great track for this added colour, and it makes listening with headphones a pleasure, with the way their adlibs play in different ears.

I very rarely like a title track more than the B-Sides, but ‘Strategy (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)’ just has it. The song is locked-in from a music production standpoint, the concept, the vocals, the music video, Megan’s rap and presence fitting in seamlessly despite all expectation that a Western feature would disappoint.

About ‘Strategy’, my little brother (again, not by blood) said something like, ‘It’s special when something simple is made to sound complex,’ and ‘Strategy’ is a prime example of a song that works, not because of particular strokes of elaborate genius, but because musical elements are placed exactly where they need to be.

TWICE DIVE

I went back and forth about this album. It was on my main list originally, then it got relegated, then I wrote about 'Echoes of heart' so passionately that I went, fuck it, actually this is a great album, and bumped it back up.

I first listened to DIVE in full on a 10km walk, sun on my face, and I felt moved to dance, my arms outstretched when Momo started rapping in ‘Beyond the Horizon’.

For my money, this is a great album to walk to. It opens strong, gets me hyped for the walk ahead of me. It saves the best for last, blasting me with the sequence of 'Peach Soda' into 'Echoes of heart'—a track that made me stop in the middle of the pavement as soon as it started—into 'Dance Again'.

‘DIVE’ is an easy song to listen to. It's the exact kind of song I want playing as I relax on the beach—this whole album is pretty beachy overall, too. I like that TWICE deviates from their go-to habits on their Japanese releases; Sana opens 'DIVE' where Nayeon usually opens title tracks, and the track is better for it. The album feels like the line distribution is a bit more even, if only because each member gets a chance to present their strengths.

‘Echoes of heart’ was the track that captured my attention on first listen, and it still continues to astonish me. I find new details even now. It’s the song I most wish to hear live, and is also the song I’m least likely to hear live as a B-Side on a Japanese album. If I ever get to see TWICE perform it, I think I'll go so feral that I get kicked out of the venue.

There’s a piano that opens the song that reminds me of something I’d hear on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game soundtrack, specifically, ‘Field Battle’ (nobody else thinks this, lol).

I like the beat that comes in at the 0:25 second mark, and I really like when the piano and drums play together at the 0:38 second mark. 'Echoes of heart' has the type of instrumental I crave to hear more and more often as sampling becomes commonplace, and playing instruments less so. (Not that it’s necessarily bad thing—I like sampling as much as the next guy, and I think that there’s a boundless creativity to be found in sampling—but I can’t help but miss instruments when they aren’t around.)

Jeongyeon and Momo get lines that show off their vocals! There's a Mina rap! There are TWO NaHyo choruses sung in their signature style! The whole track centres around Sana's adlibs! (And for my money, Sana is the underrated adlib queen of TWICE.) There's a Nayeon high note that almost made me walk into oncoming traffic the first time I heard it! I replay the song just to hear Chaeyoung sing, 'Baby', at the 2:16 mark.

In a certain mood, the DubChaeng sequence starting at 2:12 into the NaHyo sequence at 2:20, into Nayeon's 'Don't wanna lose you / I'm ready' high note, is enough to bring me to tears. Really. Really.

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Next: Honourable mentions

Albums not released in 2024 that I listened to a lot this year

Parting thoughts for the year

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D...Did Sana really do that 😳😳😳 ??? I never saw this behind the scenes 'Likey'... and you what..., she got skills there😏😏😏

Her two hands indicate how long OC's cock is...

It does take her both hands to grab OC. Haha making baby noises. She’s been wanting babies for a while