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I have seen HyunA screaming at a chicken
Dec. 31st, 2011 11:38 pmWhen HyunA did her first of a string of performances of "Just Follow," I wrote it up like so:
Live version of "Just Follow," with Zico in place of DOK2; HyunA's relative stillness makes her as steamy as ever, and Zico just kills. His rap in the middle is entirely new, and he improves on the original.
Rapping, and this slow tempo, suit HyunA well. She's digging in, sounding hard and wounded; meanwhile, her sensuousness operates on its own accord, drifts along with the music, a force field that saturates the room.
Of course the restraint — that she's withholding something: warmth, involvement — seems to be a big hunk of the allure. It is a big hunk of the allure. But then, the very last time they perform the song, she deliberately breaks character in the end. She winks, she goes into a broad grin. Then she and Zico return to their chairs and put on their tough, haughty, disgusted faces again, for a moment. And then HyunA's back to the grin, pointing at her mouth and breaking into laughter. And this seems to be a big part of her allure as well.
( Garbo laughs )
From the YouTube comments:
Hyuna's last face shows her cuteness and it clearly indicates that she actually has an ordinary girl style in her identities as well.
HyunA's a BAMF. She can hold her lady swag up against any guy, and she's actually adorable to boot.
As Mat said to me down in the comments, HyunA plays the two sides off each other, still and steamy in the musical performance, a goofball and brat on reality TV. It doesn't seem to hurt her aura one bit that we have seen her screaming at a chicken:
Erving Goffman says in Presentation Of Self, "It is a widely held notion that restrictions placed upon contact, the maintenance of social distance, provide a way in which awe can be generated and sustained in the audience."1 I wonder if awe in the age of reality TV works differently. That this accessible, frazzled nice girl can mount the stage and become simultaneously sultry and cool may be more awesome than if we had only seen her in awesome mode. And that she can hold this pose and then simply set it aside like a garment may be more awesome still, that she's warm and impish really but has swag and stillness in her repertoire. Or maybe she's just sexy in almost any mode, and is willing to try them all.
1The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life, Anchor Books edition, p. 67
Live version of "Just Follow," with Zico in place of DOK2; HyunA's relative stillness makes her as steamy as ever, and Zico just kills. His rap in the middle is entirely new, and he improves on the original.
Rapping, and this slow tempo, suit HyunA well. She's digging in, sounding hard and wounded; meanwhile, her sensuousness operates on its own accord, drifts along with the music, a force field that saturates the room.
Of course the restraint — that she's withholding something: warmth, involvement — seems to be a big hunk of the allure. It is a big hunk of the allure. But then, the very last time they perform the song, she deliberately breaks character in the end. She winks, she goes into a broad grin. Then she and Zico return to their chairs and put on their tough, haughty, disgusted faces again, for a moment. And then HyunA's back to the grin, pointing at her mouth and breaking into laughter. And this seems to be a big part of her allure as well.
( Garbo laughs )
From the YouTube comments:
Hyuna's last face shows her cuteness and it clearly indicates that she actually has an ordinary girl style in her identities as well.
HyunA's a BAMF. She can hold her lady swag up against any guy, and she's actually adorable to boot.
As Mat said to me down in the comments, HyunA plays the two sides off each other, still and steamy in the musical performance, a goofball and brat on reality TV. It doesn't seem to hurt her aura one bit that we have seen her screaming at a chicken:
Erving Goffman says in Presentation Of Self, "It is a widely held notion that restrictions placed upon contact, the maintenance of social distance, provide a way in which awe can be generated and sustained in the audience."1 I wonder if awe in the age of reality TV works differently. That this accessible, frazzled nice girl can mount the stage and become simultaneously sultry and cool may be more awesome than if we had only seen her in awesome mode. And that she can hold this pose and then simply set it aside like a garment may be more awesome still, that she's warm and impish really but has swag and stillness in her repertoire. Or maybe she's just sexy in almost any mode, and is willing to try them all.
1The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life, Anchor Books edition, p. 67
