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GLAM over on the Jukebox
Jan. 15th, 2013 05:47 pmGLAM's "I Like That," over on The Singles Jukebox: Jukebox reviewers are always pretty good at K-pop, since they're coming in without preconceptions, or the preconceptions are wrong enough that there will always be angles I'd not thought of and attention to what's actually happening in the song. I like Ian's sense of the sun coming out in the chorus, and Iaian highlighting Zinni's squeaks. Meanwhile, I was trying to jam as many facts and overtones into my own writeup as I could. (Wanted to find a way of working in that hilarious YouTube comment Subdee uncovered about a GLAM dance performances with SeeU the Vocaloid: "it seems seeU is the only one who did the dance, 'right.' i=fantasy is not a sexual song, (as most people see it) GLAM, by there dancing makes it seems that way." But I couldn't figure out how to work it in without seeming to veer too gratuitously away from the actual song under review.)
I wouldn't be surprised if, in the "Party(XXO)" video when Dahee wears the big letters GL on her shirt, leaving off the AM, she's inviting us to fill in BT afterwards. I can't say what this means for Korea, since I don't know Korea; but that's why I was making such a big thing in last week's comments regarding whom GLAM record for. Getting major-label support, which they seem to have, is probably significant. And "Party(XXO)" is stronger than "gay friendly." It's "gay explicit" (or bi or whatever: see Eng Trans). So good luck to them, and for doing it in a way that's colorful and funny and complicated rather than simply earnest. But they are in earnest, too.*
( Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein not source of sample, but good song in its own right )
( Why You )
( Because Of You )
*UPDATE: I'm keeping the killed embed up because I'm fascinated by this sentence: "'글램 GLAM I LIK...' This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fever Records, Inc." Fever Records is the Cover Girls' old label. I would guess that Fever has decided to raise a stink over GLAM's use of Chuli & Miae's sample of the Cover Girls' "Because Of You." But a Google search isn't confirming this. And LOEN Entertainment's YouTube post of "I Like That" is still up. [UPDATING THE UPDATE: No, finally decided to put the good version in.]]
I wouldn't be surprised if, in the "Party(XXO)" video when Dahee wears the big letters GL on her shirt, leaving off the AM, she's inviting us to fill in BT afterwards. I can't say what this means for Korea, since I don't know Korea; but that's why I was making such a big thing in last week's comments regarding whom GLAM record for. Getting major-label support, which they seem to have, is probably significant. And "Party(XXO)" is stronger than "gay friendly." It's "gay explicit" (or bi or whatever: see Eng Trans). So good luck to them, and for doing it in a way that's colorful and funny and complicated rather than simply earnest. But they are in earnest, too.*
( Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein not source of sample, but good song in its own right )
( Why You )
( Because Of You )
*UPDATE: I'm keeping the killed embed up because I'm fascinated by this sentence: "'글램 GLAM I LIK...' This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fever Records, Inc." Fever Records is the Cover Girls' old label. I would guess that Fever has decided to raise a stink over GLAM's use of Chuli & Miae's sample of the Cover Girls' "Because Of You." But a Google search isn't confirming this. And LOEN Entertainment's YouTube post of "I Like That" is still up. [UPDATING THE UPDATE: No, finally decided to put the good version in.]]
