20 Best Pop Albums of 2014 No. 6 2NE1, Crush Almost two years after K-pop first giddily barged into Americas imagination, the genre hasnt sustained a post-Gangnam Style wave, but the Seoul machine keeps humming. Female foursome 2NE1, buoyed by a cameo on The Bachelor, moved more units of their album in its first week of release than any previous Korean act. That was about it for sales records, but the album itself was no stiff; in fact, its a canny downshift from the wigged-out I Am the Best maximalist mash-ups of the past. Happy is a sunny, strummy jaunt with no manic gimmicks and the ballad Good to You soars and sweet-talks likably. But Crushs centerpiece is MTBD, which spotlights group member CL on a bratty squirt of EDM-hip-pop with a bubblegum trap groove. C.A. Read more: rollingstone/music/lists/20-best-pop-albums-of-2014-20141219/2ne1-crush-20141217#ixzz3MRxZKtXp Follow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook
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