Wild Beauty

Probably my least favourite KHJ album, though has been developing in unexpected ways.

#1 Time

Could also be called "Civilization" :]

#2 Ttônan Nô 10

Appropriately fine and powerful ballad to start this CD featuring clearly KHJ's best ballads. Whereas most Asian ballads are weak recyclements of some decades old Western stuff, this really has a style of its own, almost anthemic.

#3 The Night 8

Just how Kylie can you get? Though I must say Hyunjung is spinning around quite convincingly, yet repetitively.

#4 Nwa 10

On this album KHJ clearly tried to go Lee Jung Hyun. Add some ethnic sounds, rapping men and you've got LJH's Nô.

#5 Ky. Nô. Na. 8

Rather featureless but okay.

#6 Crazy 6

At this point I was at first horrorised that the rest of the album would all be like this.

#7 Kwênzhanha 7

This is like a Zullê or Miwojo from which all the strange elements have been removed, leaving only a skeleton.

#8 Professional 5½

Apply here the same comments as above, maybe even more so, and with the musically interesting things removed as well.

#9 Nê Mam 6

Continuing on the same track, though trying to include some strange things. Not very successfully.

#10 Shining Star 8½

Now for something totally out of place. On this album trying to be everything KHJ traditionally isn't, she's trying to be a generic girl band as well. Quite similar to the fast songs by FinKL and Cleo, for example.

#11 White Color 9½

A real lifesaver after all the tedious stuff. If Korea ever participated in ESC, this could've been a solid choice as their entry.

#12 I Love Music 8

Who Do You Think You Are? At least not Spice Girls.

#13 Naekeroyi Zhotê 10

Oh, "my love". It's funny how in Asian music it's perfectly normal to throw in some English words in the middle of a song. Should this even be my favourite? Maybe so. The piano ending is just adorable. Perfect closing track to a controversial album.