Frank Kogan

Orange Caramel - Shanghai Love - I remember the discussion about this unit being interesting, though I'm not sure we came to any conclusions or left it any wiser. They keep playing around, anyway, playing with jokes, playing with the joke as a concept, acting as comedians in the video, apparently serious about representing a new Asian city for each new single. Their first two singles just left me baffled, now I think they group is interesting because I can't predict what comes next, or what they're really trying to do (with the music, with the outfits, with their "Asia Project" (the Shanghai they portray here is something less than a stereotype, just signifiers thrown about. In a live performance they showed up in Bruce Lee outfits)), even if the songs themselves are kind of similar and clearly made by the same people .