Is there much couples dancing in K-pop?

[koganbot]

Posted this over on the Jukebox, where I underrated "Trouble Maker":

It took me a while to get HyunA as a dancer. What I first thought was sloppy now strikes me as having a nice flow. She's no BoA or Min (and here) when it comes to footwork or arm-and-shoulder coordination, but she's getting more at ease.

In "Trouble Maker"'s final two performances (Trouble Maker have wrapped up this round of promotions), HyunA was about 50 degrees warmer than JS.*

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I don't know if there's much couples dancing in K-pop, there being so few co-ed acts. I'll have to ask my K-pop cohort. I know there's interaction with backup dancers, and in the singer-rapper one-offs, but I doubt there's much Astaire-Rogers lovey-dovey.

*Mat and Sabina's chemistry discussion is here and here, if you missed it.

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[askbask.livejournal.com]

This girl featuring on Huh Gak's ballad, whose rapping sounds quite a bit like Hyuna's, is credited with lyrics (together with the composers) on Trouble Maker (as well as this song). She's a member of Shinsadong Tiger's forthcoming girl group, whose lead single he WON'T produce (but instead his protege Rado will), and in an interview he pitched her as someone who could take control creatively as well.



Shinsadong is a clever guy. He talks up how they haven't spent years training together like other groups, how he's just let them get to explore on their own after signing with him, etc, getting a few good news articles out of it. I think his group can do well.

[koganbot]

What's her name, and the girl group's?

Good video: I got enough caught up in the story I almost forgot to listen for the rap.

The video does contain some stereotypes, e.g., women are an encumbrance when you're on the run. Actually, it works that stereotype well. Is love good for the criminal, or is it debilitating?

Are there any K-pop vids where women are hardened — or at least major — criminals? Qri and Eunjung get to be petty criminals in "Lovey-Dovey," but they're not the main deal in a criminal enterprise.

My ballad problem resurfaces with Huh Gak: I have trouble paying attention to the music.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

Tasha's new vid might not count since I don't think she's a criminal.

Lee Hyori is an alien trucker that destroys stuff. Um.

BoA does a futuristic take on Smooth Criminal. Technically Jpop.

On that note, Jpop probably has several, but I don't know if you want links to those.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

She's LE, girl group is EXID.

For your request, I'm not sure. I can't think of that many videos where the artists are criminals anyway. There's violence, though.

[koganbot]

I can think of a few where the artist gets involved with criminals (Ga-In in "Irreversible," where the criminal wants to free her from her relationship with him, "Anyclub" where Lee Hyori is getting romanced by the evil organized-crime dude who wants to move in on the club where she works) but not where the artists are themselves the criminals. I assume it would be a hard sell in K-pop (or at least hard to get by network censorship). But then, I've not seen that many vids, and these days I'm realizing that the live TV performances are often more intriguing than the MVs.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

FinKL's "Now,"(the Destiny's Child to Lee Hyori's Beyonce) released in 2000, involves them breaking into some guy's house and doing random stuff in it. It's also the defining "Girlgroup gone dark/mature/whatever" song in Kpop.
Wonder Girls did a remake in 2009 with more proper heist content in the MV, like a laser field sequence and it being suggested that they stole a necklace from the guy. Or something.

the live TV performances are often more intriguing than the MVs
Not the least of reasons of which includes performances of things that aren't in the MV. I don't know if you've ever watched After School's accompaniment showpieces:


"Let's Do It!" was the introduction to Bang!, while "Let's Step Up" was the introduction to Shampoo.

I also seriously can't figure out if BoA's Bad Drive is even a good or bad song because I'll never be able to mentally disassociate it from that amazing performance.

[askbask.livejournal.com]

May aim for abstraction, but the crime is fairly straightforward:



I'm not sure if I'm in on this. It's not really even 'cool' - there's no other level to this video than a girl who's pissed at ex-boyfriends and executes them one after another. Even with the pink blood it's needlessly violent, isn't it? Just the other day MBLAQ put out their "It's War" video with similar imagery.

[koganbot]

I forgot Lee Hyori's Anystar, where in the video Park Bom plays a shoplifter/juvenile delinquent/pauper to Hyori's princess (though I don't think shoplifting quite meets my criteria for being a major criminal enterprise).