#leader's

So we're gonna skip ahead to the groups last release. They had 2 other songs, one for the Olympics which was meh, it's no To The Sky by CLC. Their other song is called Kimchi Witch. Which is such a cool song title, however both the standard version and EDM club version are just not super great sounding. It's mainly the vocals for me. If the vocals were more strong and the production more smoothed out and not crunchy then we would've had a huge mega nugu hit but for me it wasn't a song I particularly enjoyed.

The groups final release was Story. A very strong and beautiful ballad that has a Davichi feel. You might remember this song from a former NGGotW mention, Recipe (y'all still streaming Good Bye Bye?) as the 2 members of Recipe were in Leader'S. In nugudom it's okay to recycle songs 😔🤟 but yeah it would've been interesting to see a group like this exist back in the day but now we got TripleS and NCT so basically the nugu legends Leader'S paved the way 💕

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included a lyric video because these girls couldn't afford MVs or bus rides to Inkigayo.

Leader'S returns later in the year with their next single Kiss Me. The song is a bit more upbeat, having a nice club EDM beat, definitely takes you back to the era of kpop where every song had this type of beat. Granted our girlies are nugu so it doesn't have a smoothed out touch like other groups did but still it was a fun song back in the day and it's still got me bopping my head to it. Definitely a song that gives old kpoppies some nostalgia, atleast if you liked 2nd gen nugus like I did.

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included a lyric video

Leader'S was a girl group that debuted in 2011 and disbanded by 2015. The group is an interesting one as they originally debuted as a 7 member group but by the end of 2011 their label announced a huge change for the group. The groups name is based on them wanting to be trendsetters and leaders in the industry. So their label was going to go an AKB48 route with the group and reform as a 24 member group with 3 different sub-units. Basically NCT / TripleS before they were a thing, also a nugu version. However that never happened and plans fell through, probably bit off more than they could chew money wise I assume and by 2015 we never saw the vision materialize but we got a few songs before their disbandment.

I'm not gonna list all the members because the vast majority never released music and such, the most notable nugu darling 💕 attached to the group was Kimi of Bulldok (y'all still streaming Why Not?) along with several other ones.

Leader'S debuted with the single Please. The song, while dated in sound, is a nice mid tempo ballad type song, similar to Because of You by After School in a sense. The songs production is a blend of a pretty piano, some strings and a dated sounding synth beat. Nonetheless I think the song still has some edge in 2025, especially with the solid vocal line. The song did come with one b-side, Wish, which is more or less a continuation of the single sound wise.

Also for some reason their songs are on Spotify but not YouTube music app audio...so odd

If you're new here's the playlist with all the song recs 🧐

Below 👇 I included a live stage and a lyric video