For a second, I debated whether or not or to not go ahead with this specific countdown this 12 months. Sure, Ok-pop music movies are usually nice, however to be sincere I simply don’t watch them as intently as I used to. I’m way more aware of the music than the visuals, which threatens to show this record right into a countdown of my favourite artists whose movies I really watched intently slightly than a considerably goal have a look at visible achievements. What you find yourself with here’s a little bit of each, which implies I’d be very curious to listen to your personal lists!
2025 YEAR-END MASTERPOST
Honorable Mentions:
NTX – Over N Over
Shut Your Eyes – All My Poetry
ILLIT – Little Monster
&TEAM – Again To Life
ILLIT – Do The Dance
ARTMS – Icarus
Tempest – In The Darkish
BABYMONSTER – We Go Up
AHOF – Pinocchio
I like sci-fi themed music movies and NouerA delivered with each of their title tracks. I give N (Quantity Of Circumstances) the slight edge as a result of its number of set items are very visually placing.
Blue Valentine makes use of surreal imagery to reinforce the track’s emotional wallop, delivering memorable visuals that really feel ripped from a dream (or nightmare?).
ILLIT have been music video MVPs this 12 months and it was arduous to decide on a favourite. When it comes right down to it, I discovered Jellyous‘s quirky cease/begin staging to be most visually compelling.
This has the sensation of “bringing the Avengers of Ok-pop collectively” and completely compliments the track’s gradual construct. I like the distinction between mild and darkish.
My favourite TWS music video of the 12 months is the least TWS-coded. There are some visuals right here (the dancing within the elevators, the sluggish movement bullet) that immediately replay in my head each time I hear the track. That’s the signal of a video that works.
The track requires a loopy, campy, colourful video and LE SSERAFIM delivered. It is aware of its kitschy theme and performs it for all it’s value.
I like the colours, tone and vogue on this video. It has a nostalgic, found-footage feeling that compliments the quirky twists of the track.
I will not be completely satisfied by the track, however the dirty, mud-soaked video is an actual spotlight. SM threw the finances at them and it reveals.
2. RIIZE – ODYSSEY (Visible Album)
I’m undecided this fairly held collectively in the best way I’d hope from a visible album (and I’m nonetheless irked that Ember To Photo voltaic didn’t get a full mv), however I really feel like they must be excessive on the record for his or her ambition alone. Having visuals for thus lots of the tracks on this implausible album is an actual deal with.
Shut Your Eyes’s music is kind of idiosyncratic and deserves visuals that echo that type. Snowy Summer time‘s foolish story of ghosts and pizza and snow in summer time presents a feast of enjoyable, world-building imagery that elevated the track from a easy ditty to a cinematic spotlight.
