The end of today all over the sky

[koganbot]

Trying to start a conversation over on poptimists about the new IU video ("Good Day"):

http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/793519.html

By the way, what would you say are the best IU tracks? I've heard very few of them. I like the one variously translated as "MIA," "Missing Child," and "Lost Child"; and I totally love her live version of "Gee"/"Sorry, Sorry."

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[askbask.livejournal.com]

New IU single

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and a new track, "Cruel Fairy Tale"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8x9SsZIg0o

[koganbot]

Oh, this is superb (and I like "Cruel Fairy Tale," too). Is the piano player someone famous? And the girl on the bed?

They sub the lyrics but not the dialogue before and after. What would you say is going on? The lyrics seem basically to be "You were leaving for good, you never actually felt love, but I was the last to know this."

There're also Alicia" and "Someday", both of which I'm meh about, though she sings them nicely.

My guess is that she's a star for a long time.

[(Anonymous)]

The girl is an actress, Park Bo Young. The man on the piano is the composer, Yoonsang.

Spoken words:
“My body feels weird lately. It doesn’t feel like my body. Isn’t the weather really weird today? On days like this, I feel like someone might come to find me.”
- “Your father passed away, right?”
- “They all say that he’s my father, but he’s not.”

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Yes.. I don't know what to expect from a song made for an online horse racing game, to be honest. "Someday" is from "Dream High", a series IU acts in, which is SORT OF a Korean 'Glee'. At least in that it's set in a school and they perform numbers. The difference is that real pop stars portray many of the students.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

That was me, not the regular Anon.

[koganbot]

So "Alicia" is related to an online horse racing game? I'd assumed it was a movie.

Showing my age, I guess.

I see there's a version of "The Story Only I Didn't Know" on which IU is accompanied by a pianist called Kim Gwang Min, which is a different version from the one in the video; there are two versions of it on a just-released "Real+" mini-album.

So now we get EPs followed by deluxe versions of the same EPs? How long have they been doing that?

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Actually, this one isn't -- the title is misleading. It's just a three track long follow-up http://www.yesasia.com/global/iu-mini-plus-album-real/1024031694-0-0-0-en/info.html

But releasing deluxe versions is popular. Super Junior took it one step further in 2010, with three different original versions and THEN a re-packaged version. You feel blessed when someone like 2NE1 promote four songs from one disc (or more, since they put previously released singles on their album as well). SNSDs 'Run Devil Run' album was just the 'Oh!' one with two new tracks. Not sure if this is done with EPs as well.

They want to sell more albums, I guess, but it certainly makes it more attractive to buy digitally.

[koganbot]