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Showing posts with label K-POP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label K-POP. Show all posts

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Girls' Generation enter the charts in Spain (reported by channel "La Sexta")


Yesterday's performance of "The Boy" on Live with Kelly! and The Late Show with David Letterman  didn't remain unnoticed. In fact, a Spanish channel called La Sexta made a short report about the girls actually entering as the first Asian group in the Spanish charts. I'm half Spanish, I totally get it that they are breaking English speaking markets, but Spanish people listening to Korean music sounds somewhat surreal. Which, actually is a stupid thing, cause my buddy @sukowegalrevo lives in Spain, is Spanish and would sell his first born child to get to meet Koda Kumi and fellow Asian stars.

This girls are taking over the world by storm with the least amount of effort. I mean they are not even really promoting in the US. They're just doing it for fun, because they just felt like performing there and to make their fans a happy. 

Deep down I always wished that K-Pop and J-Pop would cross over eventually, but now that's starting to happen I'm quite overwhelmed with it. I mean if they take over Europe and they would, if the plans for a Europe debut are true, this means that people know them and my friends would eventually stop shaking there heads at me, because I listen to this sound. I would no longer be the unicorn in my area. That's fucked up.

Dead and buried. 
(Due to a mental instability, please ignore above paragraph and continue reading this blog without further ado)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Girls Generation continue the slayage with "The Boys" on Live with Kelly!


After basically shutting that shit down on the Late Show with David Letterman, the girls returned this morning with another performance of "The Boys"on the Live with Kelly! show. The whole performance was kept shorter, there was no remix, but non-the-less, these hoes went all in and came out with wigs. The audience; bald!

I was impressed at how secure they seemed. No more nerves in sight, definitely an improvement over the Letterman performance. The choreography was on point, the singing was also good, besides Sunny fucking up her part, but I'm gonna let it slide.

After performing the shit out of "The Boys", and leaving Kelly Ripa with the wish to join SNSD, they went on to speak about how they became Girls Generation and went on about the auditioning process. Soon after that, they started showing Kelly and Howie Mandel some moves. Very entertaining, indeed.

I'm really proud of this girls, to be the first act to perform on late night television. A huge step for K-Pop and in general the Asian music scene. Congratulations!!

P.S.: They so need to get a performance on Ellen.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Brown Eyed Girls' GA-IN to release sophomore album this February


Just when I thought that February couldn't get any hotter, because of releases such as "Silent Hill: Downpour" or "Final Fantasy XIII-2"(yes I am a gamer and proud of it), here comes Ga-In and surprises me with a new album.

The beauty  announced, she would be returning in February with her second solo album. She will be joining her other band-mates Jea and Miryo on that 2012 solo-train.

Unfortunately, there's no word on whether Narsha will be making a comeback with a solo record or not. But given the success that her first one was, it is pretty much a no-brainer and out of all solo projects, I loved hers the most. "Bbi Ri Bba Bba" is until this day, still my jam.

So let's see what Ga-In' will cook up for this next release, her 2010 mini album "2/4 step" was a complete departure from the general K-Pop scene with its Spanish and French tango influences. But adding up the music video to it, and her winning one music programm at Inkigayo made this a huge success for her.

Take a look at the video for "Irreversible", it's pretty much an 11 minute short-movie. It completely drowns the music, and some might think it's over the top and prefer the dance version of the clip. But it's one of K-Pop's best produced videos along with "Abracadabra".

Friday, November 18, 2011

Interview: SNSD / Girls Generation are interviewed by "Access Hollywood"


A recent video of Girls Generation's interview with Access Hollywood has been revealead.

Well, to be precise with Tiffany, Jessica and Sooyoung. Although I'm not really counting Sooyoung, because all she was doing during this interview was mumble, look weird and helpless. Bitch didn't know what to do with her life. In comparison, Tiffany and Jessica did a great job, they have very good English, it's clear they have been raised in the USA so it's their time to shine and all the other hoe's need to sit the fuck down. Especially Yoona, that tramp. Can't stand her face.

They basically, talked about the experience of coming to the US, recording they're first song in English and all the editing they had to do until it sounded halfway decent.

I wonder what the other 6 girls were doing? They were probably chained at a desk and had to learn the whole day English.

Take a look after the jump!

Bonus material: SNSD / Girls Generation - Boomerang


It doesn't happen quite often, but a discarded song has been leaked/released. The song is called "Boomerang" and should have actually been Girls Generation's first single back in 2009.

SM Entertainment might not have liked the song 100%, otherwise I don't see any reason for them to scratch  it and go with "Gee". This song would have demanded a more edgier look and maybe that was the problem. Let's face it, this girls try but the last thing they are is edgy. Brown Eyed Girl's are edgy, 2ne1 are edgy hell even 4minute is edgier.

Overall, this has been the right decision to go for "Gee", it's clearly catchier and the cute image was finally what made them successful.  "Boomerang" is an okay song, nothing special and in my opinion forgettable.

Take a listen:

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Music Video: Wonder Girls - Be my baby


This might be one of this years, best offerings when it comes to K-POP videos. Because for once it only has 5 girls, no monotonous stages with weird shapes and no boys pretending to be straight with more eyeliner than Gain from Brown Eyed Girls. *side-eyes Super Junior*

This video is everything but revolutionary, in fact it's pretty simple and that might actually be the reason why it works so well. It takes inspiration from Beyoncé's "Single ladies (Put a ring on it)" and throws in the  on/off light effect that could be found in Brown Eyed Girls "Abracadabra" video and combines it with an amazing dance routine that was choreographed by Jonte.

I normally can't stand Sohee and Lim, but gurl this bitches were grindin' this time around. Sohee was selling me the sex and Lim didn't look for once, like her cat just got run over by a truck. Way to go girls.

I'm not such a fan of the song, but the lights, the girls swagger, Sohee sounding for once decent, and Lim hustin' like no other make this ish work.This bitches might have left Korea for 2 years, but they just obliterated "SNSD" with this video. 

As of now I can only see two contestants making it big in the US, and this are the Wonder Girls and 2NE1. All other bitches need to sit the fuck down.
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