Last week a new artist debuted and since I quite liked the song, I thought I’d share the MV of it with you all. The artist’s name is 태군 (Taegoon), and it looks like he’s going to be leaning towards the dance/R&B style of pop that’s pretty popular right now. This song is called Call Me, and it’s not all that amazing, it’s pretty standard fare but I quite liked it anyway:
The rather emotionless/possibly robot guy with a gun is 김재중 of 동방신기. I found it a rather random appearance! Apparently the two are friends, and 김재중 was helping to pimp his friend’s debut out a bit.
태군’s dance style actually reminds me quite a bit of 비, even some of the scenes remind me a lot of 비’s MVs. Anyone here familiar with 비 and thinks the same? A few of the scenes brought back memories of Sad Tango, and 태양을 피하는 방법 (my favourite 비 song, by the way).
I think though that I’ve overdosed a bit on the pop scene lately. This girl needs her hiphop fix, so you can expect to see some of that next week.
소녀시대, or Girls Generation, is a girlgroup that it seems you either love, or hate. They are often compared to the Wonder Girls (another love-or-hate situation, apparently), a comparison that I think is unfair – to both groups. Their music style is vastly different, as is their image. The plans their companies have in store for them is also incredibly different, and while on the surface pop is pop, if you look deeper then you will see that they are in fact being geared towards certain specific goals and niches. JYP has his sights set on America for his 5 member girlgroup, while SM Entertainment is quite content to keep their 9 girls doing their thing at home.
One thing both groups do have in common though, is their fair share of fans and anti-fans alike.
Personally I prefer 소녀시대. I only liked 2 songs on their debut album, but I think that vocally they are a lot stronger than the Wonder Girls. The Wonder Girls, however, have had a few more catchier hits. Tell Me, So Hot and Nobody were three songs that, even if you hated them, were pretty much guaranteed to get stuck in your head whether you liked it or not. 소녀시대 on the other hand, didn’t have anything even nearly as catchy.
Until now. Last week, 소녀시대 released a mini album. The title song is Gee, and I think the chorus alone definitely has what it takes to rival the catchy tunes of the Wonder Girls. Check out the MV below:
How can that not get stuck in your head? Oh oh oh oh oh~ Gee gee gee gee gee~
And completely unrelated but I just had to share the following with everyone:
Super Junior’s 김희철 and FTIsland’s 이홍기 (and others) doing guess-the-word. In English. Its loud and crazy, and made me laugh a lot, and also made me wish that I could be so kamikaze about my own language learning.
A friend showed me this a couple of days ago and I thought it was pretty cool, and wanted to share it with you guys. It’s a mash-up of some of the biggest songs of last year.
And at the MBC Music Festival at the end of December, there was a JYP and 비 special dance performance that I thought was awesome. Check it out!
Last week the 23rd 골든디스크상, the Golden Disk Awards, were held. I’m not entirely sure but apparently the results are calculated by a formula that consists of : 60% music sales, 20% popularity vote and 20% committee evaluation from December 2007 to November 2008. There’s a whole lot of politics under the surface though, some labels in the past have boycotted the event, and it’s all really just a big mess waiting to happen. But instead of getting into that, we’ll just take a look at who won what. There’s a few awards you can grab for yourself at the Golden Disk Awards. The biggest is the 대상, it’s the holy grail of the night. The next is the 본상 award, and then finally there are YEPP awards for various categories.
동방신기 grabbed themselves the 대상, for their album MIROTIC. Girlgroup Jewelry also got themselves a 대상, for their digital single Kitchi Island.
본상 awards were presented to 신화 (9집), 비 (Rainism), SG워너비 (My Friend), 김동률 (Monologue), 브라운아이즈 (Two Things Needed For The Same Purpose And Five Objects) (what was that, an award for longest album title EVER? XD) and 동방신기 (MIROTIC). Digital Single 본상 awards were also presented to Jewelry (Kitchi Island), Wonder Girls (So Hot), 브라운아이드걸스 (With L.O.V.E Brown Eyed Girls) and MC 몽 (Show’s Just Begun).
YEPP 신인상 (Newcomer) awards were given to 샤이니 (The SHINee World) and 다비치 (Vivid Summer Edition). There were also YEPP Awards for Nell (Separation Anxiety) and 장윤정 (장윤정 트위스트), rock and trot categories respectively. YEPP Popularity awards went to 동방신기 (MIROTIC), 손호영 (Returns), FT Island (Colorful Sensibility) and 소녀시대 member 태연 (Beethoven Virus OST).
Special Achievement Award was given to 김창완, New Trend went to 김종욱 and the Producer Award went to SM Entertainment’s founder 이수만.
And with that out of the way, today I’m going to show you something that totally made my day last week, almost more than 신화 getting themselves that 본상.
This is 박효신 on episode 4 of the KBS show 이하나 페퍼민트, doing a little bit of 나만 바라봐, one of the songs from 빅뱅 member 태양‘s solo album that he released earlier this year.
I love 박효신, I love 빅뱅, I love that song, and I love it when artists I love cover the songs of other artists I love XD
You can watch 태양’s MV below (with appearances by the other 빅뱅 members!):
