There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of their careers so far. Then, similar to my “Underrated K-pop” features, I can average their ratings into one mega-score and place them in a pantheon alongside other acts.
As always, this feature has some rules of its own. I’m including any “Song Review” ratings as part of this graph, including Japanese releases and collaborations with one other artist. I’m not including Buried Treasures or solo/sub-unit releases. For the ratings themselves, I’m using the most current number on this blog, so if a song was part of a “Risers and Fallers” or “Legendary Songs Inauguration” post, that’s the rating you’ll see displayed here. That means there will still be a few ratings here and there I find slightly inaccurate, but it’ll mostly reflect my up-to-date feelings.
Finally, these scores are completely subjective. Feel free to agree, disagree and argue (that’s part of the fun!), but know that this chart reflects the opinion of only one person (me).
Check out MISS A’s placement on the ULTIMATE ARTIST RANKING page!
MISS A: A Career In Song Ratings
The Breakdown
Highest Rated Songs
Lowest Rated Songs
Imperial Phases
Bad Girl, Good Girl -> Only You (2010-2015)
Slump Phases
None
Rating Average: 8.47
Overall Trendline:
The Bias List // K-Pop Reviews & Discussion 
i thought your ratings would have grown a lot…bad girl good girl was in honorable mentions for your top 100 kpop songs, no? unless if ratings changed again 😛
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Miss A was my favourite girl group back in the day! Sad that didn’t work out 🙃 Their choreographies were fantastic. Pretty solid mark here too! 🙂
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Oh, Bad girl, good girl is a 10 for me. This was one of the first k-pop songs I really liked before I even knew it was K-pop. Nowadays songs are stuffed with hooks, and sometimes it works, but I do miss this simplicity that K-pop songs had before. They stick to one structure and make the most out of it.
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are they though? 🫢
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They’re stuffed with *something*!
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(I do get what the OP was saying, though)
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“Hooks” was probably the wrong word 😅 What I was trying to get at is that a lot of older K-pop had less dense production, which left more breathing room so you could really hear the individual details.
A lot of newer K-pop packs in more sounds, switches, and contrasting sections. Sometimes that does make a song more memorable, and sometimes it doesn’t, lol. Just my thoughts, though.
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Hush will always be the peak sensual-type k-pop song to me. Super sexy at its base, with a growing sense of urgency throughout that (sorry not sorry) hits its climax perfectly.
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4 or 5 of these are 10’s for me.
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