Honey Apple, formerly of nugu GG Vivida (y'all still streaming Service?) made her solo comeback with My Wish a cute pop rock track that feels very Sejeong/Baek A-yeon coded 🩷 a late spring bop!
Girls in nugudom really have built up discographies with full length albums and such so a random digital single is fun and welcomes while Sunmi on the other hand....
Underrated bop of the day is "Service" by VIVIDIVA! Though this group didn't garner a lot of attention in its short time that it promoted, this tune is remembered as a lovingly catchy song that gives the listener lots of J-Pop vibes and features many strong dancers. Unfortunately, though, the dance didn't showcase how skilled the members truly were. Even though they have disbanded, four of the five members are still active in K-pop!
-Geummi, the leader, is now a soloist under the name CherryBerry.
-Ha.L, a vocalist and dancer, also pursued a solo career under the name Honey Apple.
-Sunyul is now a member of SHA SHA under her real name, Gowoon, where she is the lead vocalist.
-Sara is the only member not currently active in the music industry.
-Saeyan, the youngest member, redebuted in a duo called Cashcoma using the stage name Amin.
Bonus: Many might be shocked to know that Soojin of the VERY popular girl group (G)I-DLE was a pre-debut member of VIVIDIVA! Who'd have guessed that such a popular star could have started out in a small group like this?
Adventures with my friends in Kirby Star Allies! We managed to complete the whole game in one sitting together. I was player three (blue). The first picture is of our favorite/most used powers throughout the game while the second picture is of a very specific boss battle. I have screenshots, so all the stats are accurate. The plan was to guard kirby until the second phase where we'd unleash the mike power. As you can see, we BARELY succeeded.
So I've been slacking on keeping up with a nugu girlie but to be fair all her recent releases on YouTube music app have been put into a new artist library page 😔 so it's not my fault
CherryBerry, former member of VIVIDIVA (y'all still streaming Service?), released 4 songs (plus a Xmas song but I ain't listening to that) last year AND just dropped a song this year. For the 4 songs I've missed, Good Day/Soju/I Like Me Too all have a cute folksy vibe. One even has ukulele. Her other song Cherry Love is definitely APink bubblegum pop core, definitely in the same lane as songs like Only One or Remember.
Her newest release We Love Each Other is a nice melancholic wintery ballad. Her vocals have improved over the years I must say 🧐
VIVIDIVA is a 5 member girl group that debuted in 2015. The group is made up of the members: Guu Me, Ha.L, Sun Yul, Sara, and Sae Yan. They were originally a 7 member group but 2 members left prior to debut, one of which was Soojin of gidle!
They debuted with the digital single 'Service' and had a maid concept. Lyrically the song 🤔 makes no sense, 70% of the song is just them saying the word 'Service' and the other 30% is them saying oh your shy well I'm shy too, my head is spinning like gkgkgkg the budget went to the maid outfits not the one writing the song. Despite the song making no sense it's very catchy and their vocals are pretty.
So whenever I do these posts I try to include a 'where are they now ' especially for the ones I'm interested in heavily. I decided to check them out because I had no idea honestly, but apparently 3 of them are soloists now!! 🧐 very interesting to see! Guu Me now promotes as 체리베리 (CherryBerry), Ha.L promotes as Honey Apple, and Sun Yul promotes under her birth name Go Woon (not to be confused with the Berry Good member because some of her songs got put into her library on Spotify 🙄). Honey Apple and CherryBerry have both been super busy, they both even have full length albums under their names (unlike Sunmi....), I did some skimming of their music and decided to include one song from each of them that I liked! Honey Apple's music seems really interesting 🧐 CherryBerry got some nice stuff too, Gowoon has 4 songs and her vocals 👀 are okay.....yeah.
For Gowoon I chose 'Something', a nice ballad with a bossanova feel (Alcohol Free enjoyers where you at!?), her vocals are 🤔 yeah.
Honey Apple I chose 'Find the Love' a cute laid back track with a nice band 🎹 🎸 production and some snaps 🤔 coffee shop music kinda. She reminds me of Stella Jang or Jane Jang a bit 🤔 I kinda wanna get more into her music the most!!!
CherryBerry I chose 물어보나 마나 (It's Needles to Ask), summer might be over but who cares it's a cute fun track!!!
Below 👇 I included the MV (maid outfits cute, everything else no budget) + YouTube music app audio (no live stages, Inkigayo said we have enough nugus on our show)