10/10 - Music Critics Association Nominations
A few months ago, I got an email from StillBangtan (Now going as Deforested) from Deforested Music asking me to join in a collaboration of reviewers writing about their nominees and winners in various categories. So, I decided to join in along with Mr. Simple of 555 Reviews and Tony of KPOPREVIEWED.
For this awards, only K-Pop singles are counted, and only those with MVs are included for the song picks. For the albums, only K-Pop albums are counted. For artist, only K-Pop artists are counted. You get it. After all, I can't spoil my end-of-year countdown!
Also, we only have a record of the year award, which is about production, rather than both production and songwriting, Song of the Year is exclusively for songwriting, and does not count production. Thus, neither of these are giveaways for my top songs of the year list!
For each topic, there will be eight nominees, listed randomly.
Quick note: I award a song for how good they did in their own category. For example, a rock song could be the best song of the year, but it could lose the rock song category, but win the song category, if it was not as good a rock song as a pure rock song.
With that out of the way, here are the nominations!
Be sure to check out everyone else's lists.
Album of the Year
Epik High - Epik High is Here Pt. 1
Seventeen - Your Choice
Key - Bad Love
SHINee - Atlantis
N.Flying - Turbulence
Lucy - Gatcha!
Verivery - Series O Round II: Hole
ONF - City of ONF
Artist of the Year
Brave Girls
Golden Child
IU
ONF
aespa
Oneus
Tomorrow X Together
SHINee
Song of the Year (Best Melody)
Brave Girls - After We Ride
Key - Bad Love
ONEWE - Rain To Be
ONF - Popping
IU - Lilac
ONF - Beautiful Beautiful
ONEWE - Veronica
Shaun - Closed Ending
Record of the Year (Best Production)
Yoo Young-Jin - Savage (aespa)
Brave Brothers - After We Ride (Brave Girls)
MC Mong - Dream (Song Ga-In)
Rolling Quartz - Blaze (Rolling Quartz)
AKMU - Nakka (AKMU, IU)
Hwang Hyun - Beautiful Beautiful (ONF)
Kenzie - Bad Love (Key)
IU - Lilac (IU)
Best New Artist (For Debutants)
Just B
Ciipher
Lim Seo Won
Wendy
Yuqi
Kingdom
Purple Kiss
Rolling Quartz
Best Pop Song
SHINee - Atlantis
Brave Girls - After We Ride
BDC - Moon Rider
IU - Lilac
AKMU - Hey Kid, Close Your Eyes Ft. IU
Yuqi - Bonnie and Clyde
Lee Hi - Red Lipstick Ft. Yoo Mi Rae
ONF - Beautiful Beautiful
Best Electronic Song
BZ Boys - Close Your Eyes
Just B - Damage
Key - Bad Love
aespa - Savage
Golden Child - Breathe
A.C.E - Higher
Do Hanse - Take Over
Verivery - Trigger
Best Rock Song
N.Flying - Moonshot
ONEWE - Rain To be
Pink Fantasy - Poison
Tomorrow X Together - 0X1=Lovesong (I Know I Love You)
ONEWE - Veronica
Tomorrow X Together - LO$ER=LOVER
Lucy - I Got U
Rolling Quartz - Blaze
Best R&B Song
Epik High - Based on a True Story Ft. Heize
Key - Hate That Ft. Taeyeon
Jeong Sewoon - In The Dark
Heize - Happen
Raiden - Love Right Back Ft. Taeil and Liliboi
Se So Neon - Jayu
WayV (Ten & Yangyang) - Low Low
Shaun - Closed Ending
Best Rap/Hip-Hop Song
SHINee - Don't Call Me
Tiger JK - Love Peace
Monsta X - Gambler
ONF - Ugly Dance
Pentagon (Yuto, Kino, Wooseok) - Cerberus
FreezyBone - Freezy Vogue Ft. UU Milan
Epik High - Rosario Ft. CL and Zico
P1Harmony - Scared
Best Music Video
U-Know - Thank U
P1Harmony - Scared
TXT - LO$ER=LOVER
ONEWE - Rain To Be
Everglow - First
Oneus - Black Mirror
AKMU - Hey Kid, Close Your Eyes
Golden Child - Burn It
This is an amazing list. There are so many categories! I am already excited to see the winners!
ReplyDelete(Quietly rooting for ONF's Ugly Dance and Lucy's I Got U since I didn't nominate both of the songs I think I can openly root for them hehehe)
Thanks so much Mr. Simple!
DeleteHaha, I feel you on that comment! But by the time the winners come out, you can publicly tell all the songs you favor here lol. Hope you enjoy my picks as much as I did yours!
Interesting list! Excited to see where 'Atlantis' and 'Bad Love' will place.
ReplyDeleteYou will soon see on November 2!
DeleteBefore I get into details and analysis, I would just like to thank you 108! You have been amazing in the blogsphere and you contributing your picks is a sight to see. I am impressed by the number of nominees and the amount of variety the list offers. Your awards are amazing and I hope we get to be shocked by the winners soon! Thank you so so much!
ReplyDeleteNow, uhm... I saw a lot of category fraud like Close Your Eyes being in Electronic, because I classified it as R&B (lmao all of this is my fault not yours), Jayu in R&B, and Gambler in Rap/Hip-Hop. Also Record of the Year is excellent! Song of the Year is well poised as well.
For the analysis, so at this moment your nominations all confirm that Beautiful Beautiful, Bad Love and LILAC are basically locks for ROTY. SOTY is still so loose, you provided us with some clarity and so I can see the After We Ride, Beautiful Beautiful, Bad Love and LILAC as the frontrunners. This is really interesting because those songs that I mentioned earlier have the biggest potential to do a sweep this year. But we should be wary, this is just the critics speaking, we don't know what the guilds, or indie music is gonna point fingers at.
Now, please everyone! Look forward for KPOPREVIEWED's post tomorrow!
Thank you StillBangtan!
DeleteOn Jayu, I get it. It flirts the line between R&B and Soft Rock. I eventually put in R&B because rock was overcrowded, and R&B pretty empty. But I can get it being pushed elsewhere. Same with Gambler, it is very Rap Pop.
On Close Your Eyes, though, I do not really see any R&B elements lol. Maybe just me, but I think it makes perfect sense as an electronic pop song, and thus its location.
Those three are great songs, and while I cannot say if they are locked, I can say I like them a lot!
Btw, updated SOTY to say (Best Melody), as I thought Songwriting was a little vague.
Looking forward to Kpopreviewed's post a lot!
Woo! I am excited for this. There are a few releases on here that I haven't even checked out yet (shameful of me, I know - but in my defence, there is so much out there to consider), but I am excited to 'discover' them now, especially if they are worthy of a nomination in your awards!
ReplyDeleteGlad you are excited!
DeleteI picked some really obscure titles here, not surprised that you don't know all. As you said, so much to consider! I hope you give all of them a listen, you may find a new favorite!
Looking towards your post tomorrow a lot!