When I first heard "Gee" it made me think of Hi-NRG Stock-Aitken-Waterman perhaps as reimagined by various Swedes aiming at the North American market, by which I probably meant Bananarama and their unison vocals - which only sold well briefly in North America; it holds on in Britain in the fake sophistication of Girls Aloud, and SNSD doesn't seem to be trading in fake sophistication. But I do hear the chorus of "Gee" as something that (1) sounds fairly Asian but (2) would fit very well on American pop radio. Unfortunately, the American pop radio I have in mind is the radio of 1992, with "Gee" fitting in among the girl jack swing of "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" and the flowering of Bell Biv Devoe et al. and "Jump" (the Kris Kross track) etc. I don't know about now; there's a prejudice in the U.S. against too "clean" a look; Taylor Swift is combating that prejudice by being obviously smart and complicated, but Taylor veers towards singer-songwriter respectability in a way that "Gee" doesn't. For better or worse, "Gee"'s girliness will have to play as "knowing" and "in control" here, not just as "cute."