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Hyori & Girls
May. 26th, 2013 11:17 pmLee Hyori: Lee Hyori's Monochrome is the opposite of monochrome, with Hyori applying her gently authoritative style to all sorts of the last century's dance music (incl. country pop and western swing!). Strangely, I'm not hit with a lot of feeling — until the last four songs. That's only on one listen. Maybe the album simply takes a number of tracks before it penetrates, and when I go back to the start, the thing in its entirety will drive through me. In the meantime, "Miss Korea," track two, is an excellent lark (the lyrics as translated over at pop!gasa disputing the larkiness that the sound asserts), and emotion and discontent are at their deepest on track 12, the cheerfully titled "Show Show Show" [UPDATE: which turns out to be a rewrite and rearrangement of (and vast improvement on) Monrose's "No No No," with new lyrics by Hyori (see comments for Monrose embed)].
The lyrics throughout Monochrome convey a consistent uneasiness. A lot is going on, though I don't know how much of it I'll reach.
Girls' Generation: Imagine "Land Of A Thousand Dances" in both its doop-doop and na-na-na-na-na versions done as beach-blanket bubblegum. What you've imagined is probably better than SNSD's new Japanese single, "Love & Girls," and I think arbitrary_greay and acts of verbosity are right to take the single, especially its video, to task for laziness and complacency and general unimpressiveness. But I haven't been all that impressed recently with Girls' Generation when they're being impressive, and I actually find "Love & Girls" viable, hummable, groovable. As![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
actsofverbosity points out, it falls way short of Wonder Girls' similar "Like This." But then, "Like This" was last year's great summer groove,* and a pretty good summer groove like "Love & Girls" is, you know, pretty good. (Here's a link, though I expect Nayutawave will have it killed before you get a chance to click it.)
UPDATE: I've been dropping by every now and then, and switching out the "Love & Girls" video link whenever YouTube takes down the one I've already linked. In the meantime, here's where someone's ripped the song without PV; maybe it'll stay put a little longer. [UPDATING THE UPDATE: Well, this link is down now, but SM Town itself has now put forth the Japanese PV and it's in the link above and will presumably stay awhile.]
*Even if "Gangnam Style" was what hit the super-quadruple-lotto.
The lyrics throughout Monochrome convey a consistent uneasiness. A lot is going on, though I don't know how much of it I'll reach.
Girls' Generation: Imagine "Land Of A Thousand Dances" in both its doop-doop and na-na-na-na-na versions done as beach-blanket bubblegum. What you've imagined is probably better than SNSD's new Japanese single, "Love & Girls," and I think arbitrary_greay and acts of verbosity are right to take the single, especially its video, to task for laziness and complacency and general unimpressiveness. But I haven't been all that impressed recently with Girls' Generation when they're being impressive, and I actually find "Love & Girls" viable, hummable, groovable. As
actsofverbosity points out, it falls way short of Wonder Girls' similar "Like This." But then, "Like This" was last year's great summer groove,* and a pretty good summer groove like "Love & Girls" is, you know, pretty good. (Here's a link, though I expect Nayutawave will have it killed before you get a chance to click it.)UPDATE: I've been dropping by every now and then, and switching out the "Love & Girls" video link whenever YouTube takes down the one I've already linked. In the meantime, here's where someone's ripped the song without PV; maybe it'll stay put a little longer. [UPDATING THE UPDATE: Well, this link is down now, but SM Town itself has now put forth the Japanese PV and it's in the link above and will presumably stay awhile.]
*Even if "Gangnam Style" was what hit the super-quadruple-lotto.
