Dal★Shabet BLING BLING Over On The Jukebox

[koganbot]

Over on the Singles Jukebox, Dal★Shabet's "Bling Bling" scores high on the controversy index and not bad in the overall ratings. I marked it on the low end, and I might have been overpraising it at 6. Thing feels barren to me, even with hooks heaped high.

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A better Dal★Shabet track is "매력덩어리" (title translates as "Very Charming" or "Charming Bomb" or "Hottie"); better E-Tribe–produced tracks than either of those are Lee Hyori's "U Go Girl," T-ara's "Ya Ya Ya," and of course SNSD's "Gee." And this summer's best neodisco track is T-ara's "Roly-Poly."

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[askbask.livejournal.com]

Roly-Poly is by our friend the Shinsadong Tiger, as you've noted in earlier posts.

Another production duo whose name I didn't know until very recently: SweeTune. I think they've handily upstaged E-tribe these past two years. They've done all the recent Kara singles, including Jumping, the Infinite singles, Rainbow's "A" and "Mach" and the recent Nine Muses single "Figaro"



...a recognisable sound emerges. And next week Kara will release their new SweeTune-produced single which sounds like a lot of fun

[askbask.livejournal.com]

Ok, you didn't say E-tribe produced Roly-Poly. My bad.

[koganbot]

Wow, that's a very good track record for SweeTune.

[koganbot]

Just listened to Kara's Step LP. My favorite as of today is "따라와," which Wikip translates as "Follow Me" while Google translate gives me "(Follow)" when I put it in parentheses, but outside of parens it shows up as "Accordance With The." Song is high-speed upbeat full-sound girl-group freestyle, reminding me of acts like Exposé and Pajama Party (as opposed to the sparer heartbreak-and-anguish epics of Judy Torres, Cynthia, and Lisette Melendez). The style of the title song, "Step," is equally familiar, except I'm having trouble identifying it. I guess calling it Hi-NRG is safe. Maybe you can do better than I.

I should probably conduct a copyright search for Han Jae Ho and Kim Seung Soo as soon as I finish searching Sinsadong Horangee.

[koganbot]

Korean copyright association gives me "Ta Ra Wa" as the romanization of "따라와," which certainly is what it sounds like. For songwriters they give Lee Shine, Kim Jung Yoon, and Yun Woo Suk, which surprises me, since I was sure expecting SweeTune.

The only one of those three who has much of a record on the copyright site, at least under that spelling, is Yun Woo Suk, though the only thing I'm recognizing (while trying to make sense of the romanization of performer's names) is Yun Woo Suk as a co-author or maybe just arranger of "This Is Not What I Thought," the first track on IU's Real, and as the co-author or arranger of something that might or might not be a duet between Shun Si Kyung and IU and might or might not be called "It's You" or "Can It Be You" (though lots of times performers aren't listed for songs, or I'm having trouble making anything whatsoever of the romanized performers' names).

[askbask.livejournal.com]

The 따라-word can also be used as a "following this" /"in accordance with" yes. 따라와 literally means "follow come" -> "follow me".

The IU duet with the prince of softies has always been translated as "It's You" where I've looked,

The title track has held on to most of my attention and I haven't given much thought to the LP, but it seems to fit in with the "jack of all trades" attempts Kara and SNSD usually put out as albums (until SNSD released the good JP one).