Bree's K-Pop Blog: T-ara in 2012

Well here I am on Christmas Day and it's a relaxing part of the day. I thought I would just chill out and listen to some music. As often happens when i do that, out comes the K-pop!

It dawned on me that the year is over and I've barely covered many of the songs that were released this year. I really enjoyed this year in the industry and I'll have to stay on top of it more next year if I want this blog to liven up a bit. So I've made a promise to myself to post more.

So on that note I better try and catch up a little bit here and I'll do so by discussing T-ara and their activities in 2012. T-ara has been one of the more prolific bands of the last couple years. I featured their 2011 song "Cry Cry" in a previous post. And their year ended with a leadership change as Hyomin stepped down in favor of Soyeon.

They opened up the new year of 2012 with an album release called "Funky Town". On this album was a single track called "Lovey-Dovey"

The song became their third consecutive number 1 hit on the Gaon charts. With a music video featuring zombies taking over a nightclub and joining in for some dancing fun. Ah yes even the living dead need to get down once in a while :D

In May and June - Core Contents Nedia announced they would be adding two new members to create a nine member group. And in June off they were in Japan with their first Japanese album and tour. However only Areum had arrived by the time they released their Extended play "Day by Day" in July.

The song reached number 2 on the Gaon charts and a full length music video story was released as well. But I'll only show you the Dance version :D I'm not personally into korean drama stories though they can be quite good.

Then came the drama. The cyber bullying and contract termination of Hwayoung in July. Once again they were reduced to a seven member band. Which is fine by me, these large girl groups are a bit unwieldy and hard to follow when you're trying to know each individual as a performer.

And so after rumors of comebacks being postponed indefinitely they returned in September with the extended play "Mirage" featuring the single "Sexy Love"