And Now...My Favorite f(x) Songs!

f(x): Amber, Luna, Krystal, Victoria and Sulli

After a good 7 months of solid listening to f(x)’s latest album and still finding it amps me up, gives me goosebumps and flat out blows me away, I think I can now safely say that RED LIGHT is not only 2014’s best release, but one of my very, very favorite K-pop albums of ALL TIME, even surpassing 2013’s PINK TAPE, a feat I’d have not thought possible giving how much I loved it!
      Listening once again to Red Light last night and marveling over how every song just sang out, it occurred to me that I never made a proper Top 40 Favorites List for f(x), even though they’re by far one of my favorite acts in K-pop,  and I thought it was HIGH TIME I rectified that!
 Funny, back in the early days when I was first dabbling in K-pop, f(x) was a group I had only a cursory interest in (since member Krystal was the little sister of Girls’ Generation’s Jessica)... I’d downloaded their songs La ChaTa, Nu ABO and Chu!, but it wasn’t until their 2012 release “Electric Shock” that they entered my field of fandom, not only with that album’s titular track, but the sonic song “Jet”, two powerhouse songs that made me run out and begin buying up all their albums! 
 Now almost 3 years since I first started listening to them, I’ve now got a whole catalog of huge, huge cherished f(x) favorite songs, so making a “Top Ten” list of any kind seems daunting, but I love these songs so much, I just feel like I’ve GOT to at least TRY to show how much these songs MEAN to me!

Z’S f(x) TOP 40 RANKING

Paper Heart

Electric Shock

Jet

No More

Dracula

Vacance

Summer Lover

So Into U

1,2,3 

Sorry (Dear Daddy)

Signal

Danger (Pinocchio)

La ChaTa

Red Light

Rum Pum Pum Pum

Chocolate Love (Electronic Pop Ver.)

Hot Summer

Beautiful Goodbye

Joahaedo Doenayo (Is It OK?) 

Thrill Love 

I Love You, I Love You

Step

Love Hate

Snapshot

Milk

Dangerous

Shadow

Stand Up!

My Style

Gangsta Boy

Ending Page

Nu ABO

Chu

Mr. Boogie

Love

Airplane

Rainbow

Sweet Witches

Step By Me

ME+U

F(x) have always been SM’s sort of “experimental” outfit, so the group has had quite a few different “sounds” attached to them at various times, from bubblegum poppy, childishly silly and cutting-edge electronic, but my Top Two favorite songs, Paper Heart and Electric Shock, to me, represent everything I love about f(x): Electric Shock is everything loud, electronic and ROCKING about the group, a powerhouse, thumping song that gets your groove on, while Paper Heart shows how gentle, soft, and vulnerable they can be, with a breezy acoustic melody that showcases the five girls’ sweet and beautiful vocals.

The world of K-pop nowadays has been in such turmoil and tragedy, and with Jessica gone, even my beloved Girls Generation has had a bit of a time. When Sulli announced her break from the entertainment biz, my heart sank as this was yet one more group to be changed. But with her recent reappearances with members in public, I now have kind of a glimmer of hope that the next time I hear from f(x), it will be with all five of them. But whichever lineup four or five, I know when their new album comes out, I’ll be cherishing it and loving it!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com