I hadn't thought I'd heard of S.E.S. until this very moment, though my browsing history says that I've listened to their version of "I'm Your Girl" (one of you all must have embedded it for me at some point). Definitely need to explore more.
I hear M2M in the sound, all right, though M2M didn't have the dance or the hip-hop. (The vid does include hired dancers, however; covering the bases, I guess.) My sense of M2M is likely distorted by subsequent events, the American teen confessional that they foreshadowed*, but they carried with them an air of being complicated girls who wrote poetry and kept diaries, which is probably exactly what they were. Don't know if that aspect was a big thing for their Asian audience, or if there was a contemporary Asian teenpop equivalent, or if the image of the teen poetry girl was included in the Korean girl groups. Wouldn't be surprised if it was.
*I also wouldn't be surprised if the words to Avril's "Complicated" were inspired by Marit's verse on "Give A Little Love," except Avril had to go and make things less complicated:
Did Hoku ever get much of an Asian audience? She was kind of halfway between the poetry girls and the dancing girls (though she's not on the writing credits)(and perhaps the main reason I associate her with M2M is that Chuck Eddy put both her and them on a mixtape he made for me in 2000).
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I hear M2M in the sound, all right, though M2M didn't have the dance or the hip-hop. (The vid does include hired dancers, however; covering the bases, I guess.) My sense of M2M is likely distorted by subsequent events, the American teen confessional that they foreshadowed*, but they carried with them an air of being complicated girls who wrote poetry and kept diaries, which is probably exactly what they were. Don't know if that aspect was a big thing for their Asian audience, or if there was a contemporary Asian teenpop equivalent, or if the image of the teen poetry girl was included in the Korean girl groups. Wouldn't be surprised if it was.
*I also wouldn't be surprised if the words to Avril's "Complicated" were inspired by Marit's verse on "Give A Little Love," except Avril had to go and make things less complicated:
Did Hoku ever get much of an Asian audience? She was kind of halfway between the poetry girls and the dancing girls (though she's not on the writing credits)(and perhaps the main reason I associate her with M2M is that Chuck Eddy put both her and them on a mixtape he made for me in 2000).