Lav's Music Corner

BLACKPINK are one of the biggest voices in the current wave of genre blending K-Pop groups. Despite having a very slim discography the band has turned heads and achieved major commercial success. After some major collaborations including Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez and Cardi B the group geared up to release The Album , their most definitive statement yet.  Review By Lavender: I haven't done many, if any reviews sharing my thoughts on any of the emerging girl and boy groups coming out of Korea recently, mainly because the sounds are usually so generic and derivative that I didn't have much to say. But Blackpink have always been the exception to that rule. Since their Blackpink  project they have brought an engaging sound through a number of EP's and live projects that had me highly anticipating this statement record. While The Album  is anything but generic, it only goes as far as the girl's personalities do.  This record gets off to an absolutely killer start across its ...

Halsey is a New Jersey born pop singer who blew up around five years ago on the back of her debut record Badlands  and its smash single New Americana . Manis  is her third record and it comes three years after her last project Hopeless Fountain Kingdom , but Halsey hasn't been quiet in those years with a consistent output of new music and singles as well as a consistently presence in pop music headlines for a number of reasons. Review By Lavender: There has never really been a time when I've considered myself a Halsey fan. For every genuinely good pop tune like Ghost  or Strangers  there are mountains of painful, generic and incredibly underwritten pop tunes under her belt. After hearing the long list of singles leading up to this record I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like Manic  any more than her last two records, but the best way I can describe it is as one step forward and about five steps back. The lead single for the record was the track Witho...