Mar. 4th, 2011

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At Maddie's suggestion, I posted Co-Ed School's "삐리뽐 빼리뽐 (Bbiribbom Bbaeribom)" over on [livejournal.com profile] poptimists as this week's problematic Korean video:



This presents the mentally ill as goofy and silly in kiddie-candy colors, so as potential objects of ridicule, I guess, though also as fun. The positive side would be that, in playing crazy, the Co-Ed Schoolers get to be way goofy and silly and colorful and fun. My question here - and I don't know the answer - is: does stuff like this actually harm anyone? That is, does it help perpetuate attitudes that lead to bullying, to cuts in services, and so forth? I think that most people know that mental illness is actually sad, grim, dangerous. For example, one of my best friends in high school became a paranoid schizophrenic in his early twenties and several years later committed suicide. But that doesn't necessarily make me get all upset at a video in which stereotypically catatonic, obsessive inmates get to dance in bright colors. This video doesn't do right by my friend's agony, but so what?

(And anyway, whether or not I get upset doesn't answer the question of whether anyone gets harmed. How do you answer such a question? How do you know?)

Think the song is a good one and I like the beat, though the singers are weak; typical anonymous Italodisco singers from 1985 could have given this more feeling. Fun is getting in the way of feeling, here. So this rendition is unfair to fun.

Co-Ed School's "Too Late" is a more gripping track and video, though again the singers don't give it what it needs.
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SNSD's "Hoot," Sooyoung's two brief parts spliced together from a large number of live performances. Unfortunately, the idea here is "Listen to how this crazy obsessed fangirl shows up and screams every time Sooyoung sings her part"; whereas what I'm getting from this is, "If you'd spliced this to run rhythmically you'd have created an amazing track!"



The original "Hoot" is pretty good, but has too many hooks and ideas to gather momentum. Whereas this bit alone just pushes and pushes, grabs and grabs. Someone's got to use this as the idea for a remix, follow the musical logic.

(For the time being I have no access to computers with sound, which may have an impact on how I participate in these conversations. Sorry that for the time being I'm not joining many other people's convos.)

(Not x-posting on [livejournal.com profile] poptimists this week, mainly 'cause I won't have time to check it.)

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