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Greatest Hits:: VIXX: VOODOO DOLL

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 This comes from my submission form, and it's the first one I'm doing from there! Whoo! I was going to put this off a little because I just did a 2012 debut for a Battle of the B-Sides post, but oh, well! I have a feeling that this one isn't like that song either, so I'm less worried about doing too much of the same. Variety, yes, but I can do what I want and the few songs I've already heard of theirs ( Chained Up is in many of my playlists) I've liked already. How much of that is because I know they're in the 2012 debut club, which automatically enters them into my category of groups I look upon favorably, I don't know. But I do know that even without that, what I've heard is very good. I've also heard some interesting and hilarious things about the group, and am curious to know if they're true or not. But! This submission came with the note that the submitter was pretty sure this song was VIXX's first win and that was why it was being ...

Greatest Hits:: miss A: Hush

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I don't actually know much about this group other than they're a JYP group and some very general details. I think one of their songs was covered on a survival show I've seen, which doesn't help. (This is also proof of the random wheel generator because if I was going to go with a second gen girl group, I'd have gone with After School or ChoColat or SNSD. I like my Pledis groups, SNSD is legendary, and I'm just a huge fan of ChoColat and they deserved more). So let's go back to 2013 and take a look at Hush , shall we? Hush was the second track for this album and only has two writers to it. Personally, I prefer fewer writers on songs because it helps keep the songs clean without being pulled in a thousand different directions and lets the song not have too many cooks in the kitchen. But, on the other hand, a lot of them allow more checks on the song and can help to compensate for any weaknesses using the hive mind. Anyway, one of them is Min Yeonjae (lyricist...