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Nugu GG of the Week #624 : Berry Good (part 5)

Solos 🧐

Final single chosen is Accio, released in 2020. Another summer anthem, the song feels like a return to form because it does kinda have the Christian horse girl summer vibes while also still have a tropical feel on the production as well.

Final b-side chosen is Give It Away. Nice upbeat dance track with a loud and fun synth beat with some tropical house beats, definitely feels like a cool blend of Momoland and Wa$$up (y'all still streaming Color TV?).

The group released a few songs afterwards but then ultimately disbanded in 2021. We thank you for your service 🫡

Berry Good title song ranking 🧐

🥇 Angel > My First Love > Bibbidi > Love Letter > Green Apple > Crazy, Gone Crazy > Accio > Time for Me

🥈 Oh Oh > Because of You > Don't Believe > Mellow

🥉this winter (Xmas song)

Post disbandment 4 members still put out solo music

Kim Nayeon has released a few tracks, Love Story Under the Umbrella was released in 2024. A nice groovy retro vibe, Yukika would be proud of her daughter!

Taeha dropped a solo album as well. She also is a daughter of Yukika and divinvg into the New Retro Wave, Dive in Love is a solid bop!

Seoyul who is AOA Yuna sister btw, is now a soloist E.SO. She's released numerous singles. Perfect Crime is a good track with an eerie feel, kinda perfect for October.

Gowoon released music under name for a time before rebranding herself as ISHA. She's very mellow pop/r&b with her songs but her song, See, is a nice Latin feel track 😔 🤟 Mi Gente Latino !

Lastly E.SO & ISHA make music together sometimes, a mini Berry Good Reunion 🙏 their song Meow was released back this year in June, the MV was them just hanging out on a beach vacation. Song was a chill summer track.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage + YouTube music app audio (well some, I hit the limit)

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Nugu GG of the Week #691 : Cignature (part 2)

Next single chosen is ASSA. The song continues with their girl crush mixed with cutesy bubblegum pop vibes. This song is a bit more noisy but girl groups have fun noise music in comparison to their male counterparts 👀 plus we love the catchy hook "eomeo what's going on" very on par with Sohee's eomeo part from Tell Me 🧐

This was also their let's wear suits era, we love girl groups in suits.

Next b-side chosen is Villain, not too much to say on it, it's just a strong girl crush b-side.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage + YouTube music app audio

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Nugu GG of the Week #688 : Irris (part 3)

Next song is Bye Bye. This kinda serves as their "ballad". However not a true ballad in sound, the song is slow but it's production starts out very slow/minimal and then gains momentum into the chorus to have this loud grounding beat drive along the melody.

Song got an MV, lots of fireworks, posing by trucks and riding around on scooters.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV + YouTube music app audio

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Nugu GG of the Week #686 : Irris (part 1)

Irris is a 4 member girl group that debuted in 2022. The members were I.L., Liv, Yunseul (all 3 of these ladies are former members of RedSquare, y'all still streaming Colorful?, and Good Day, y'all still streaming Fly Away?) plus member Nina.

Their group name is an acronym 🙄 I'm copy and pasting this from their Wikipedia, which hey rare for nugus to have official Wikipedia 👏 :

The group's name, Irris is a double entendre, with its two abbreviations being "I is the Reflection of Reality and IllusionS" and "I tRuely Realized that I can be all colorS". The group name is also inspired by the Greek mythology Iris, the goddess of the Rainbow. They said that the name contains the aspiration to emit infinite light based on the symbol of connection with the soul, freedom and liberation

Whatever all that means...

The group debuted with Wanna Know, we got a nice catchy brassy horn leading the production, very Worth It by Fifth Harmony, and overall nice mature girl crush vibe.

Also the budget for the MV was phenomenal, their label definitely gave a lot of effort to make these ladies look good

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage + YouTube music app audio for my fellow non Spotify users

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Nugu GG of the Week #685 : RedSquare

RedSquare is a 5 member girl group that debuted in 2020. The group consists of Green, ChaeA, Ari, Bomin (all four of them are Good Day members, y'all still streaming Rolly?) and then 5th member Lina. Originally Heejin of Good Day was going to be the 5th member but left the group prior to debut and was replaced by Lina.

The group debuted with ColorFull. With lyrics mentioning every color of the rainbow, strong vocals and a good hand clap/feet stomp melody (very Hollaback Girl coded) for the percussion beat we got ourselves a classic song too good for nugudom. The girls also had a decent budget and editing team for the MV as well.

Member Lina also had a solo debut prior to group under the stage name Blenn.

However by 2022 the group ended switching labels and then disbanded / rebranded into a new group called Irris.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage + YouTube music app audio for my fellow non Spotify users

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Nugu GG of the Week #533 : BVNDIT (part 4)

Next is Children, the 2nd single from their 2nd mini album. This is definitely, IMO, their best single and the best song in their discography by far. The lyrics and message of the song are so beautiful, them singing a song to their mom basically, the MV was an animated MV which I really thought was well done. Seems like you're watching a graphic novel. To me another strong reason why they should've been pushed into a different direction sonically over songs like Jungle (which spoiler we're skipping over because I don't like that one much 🤫).

The next b-side is from their 3rd mini album, we ran out of good b-sides to talk about from the first two, and it's Don't Mess With Me. Despite the strong titled song it's actually a bit more mid tempo and calmer than you'd expect. It's got a good synth beat to give overall for the hook but the highlight is definitely the brief guitar break for the chorus, kinda wish the song had more of that.

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage + YouTube music app audio

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Nugu GG of the Week #618 : Tomatomat (part 1)

Tomatomat is a 3 member group that debuted this year in 2025. The members are Nayeon, Sueun, and Quinn (stylized at quinn_).

The trio debuted over the summer of 2025 with Tomma Nova. A nice laid back track with a bossa nova feel, perfect indie summer vibes. However while they're debut was unique, different and something appreciated to help them stand out in the see of nugu/independent artists they weren't unique enough to get a nomination for best new artist at the MAMAs 😔

Guess these 3 will sit with iiso at the table of artists nobody knows. We hope they get out of nugudom soon 🙏

They also included a English and Japanese version of the song as well for those interested.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV + YouTube music app audio

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Nugu GG of the Week #666 : Aurora (part 2)

Next song is Hide and Seek from their 2nd mini album which was released in 2012. Aurora did the nugu thing where every time they released an album it would usually have previously released songs to fill out the track list so really while they released a few albums it's mainly the same songs just with occasional different vocals.

Again Hide and Seek has 2 different versions, they made an MV for the dance version. The MV in question 👀 well we start a power walk in suits then switch immediately to bts footage of them in the studio or working out in a gym and then we get some dancing in a white room with their suits. 5$ and a dream. The song is trot excellence though 💕

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included their MV, a live stage+ YouTube music app audio