I must be one of the few people on the Kpop-listening part of the planet who is completely indifferent to 2NE1. Yeah their songs are OK but every time I saw them performing UGLY on TV I would burst into laughter at how messy their performances tend to be - those vocals are so NOT hot, dude.

So here we have NOLZA, their first foray into the Japanese market. It’s basically a reproduction of their recent 2nd Korean mini-album minus Bom’s solo track and as such, offers very little of interest to those who are already familiar with UGLY & Lonely and so on. Unless of course, you like to hear the girls singing in incredibly awkward Japanese - the phrasing just gets messed up badly when making the transition across languages. Still, I guess it doesn’t matter that much when I can barely recognize any of the songs being in Japanese.

While we’re still on the subject of horrible Japanese enunciation by Kpop acts, let me just say - OMFG SHINee you guys are so terribad I can’t even tell that you’re singing in a language D: