Destroy My Eyes (Sistar's ALONE over on the Jukebox)

[koganbot]

Korean girl group Sistar begin their latest single with this arresting couplet:

"I don't wanna cry
Destroy my eyes."

At least that's how a few people heard it on the Jukebox. Great line, even if it's not what Hyorin was actually saying.

Here's the vid, if you'd like to mishear for yourself.

Watch on YouTube

(We also talked about "Alone" on a "Volume Up" thread.)

Comments

They're just like streetcars

[koganbot]

Wow! That's interesting. Each is a groove built around a four-bar minor-key repetition, two bars on one chord and two bars on another. I will point out, though, that they're not the same chords: "Miss You" goes (over 16 bars) i–iv–i–iv–i–iv–i–iv, while "Alone" goes i–v–i–v–i–v–i–v, which is actually a more significant difference than that appears: beyond the rhythm, going from i down to v is another feature that marks "Alone" as reggae. I wouldn't be surprised if a whole lot of reggae songs from the late '60s on used just that pattern. But as a matter of fact, none spring immediately to mind! — though parts of "Simpleton Badness" and "Screaming Target" run fairly close, while not sticking exactly to the two-on-two-off pattern.

"Miss You" sticks to its pattern till you hit the break, whereas leading into the break, "Alone" throws in some chord changes (a VI and a V (major)) before returning to i (my apologies if none of the numbers communicate anything). So "Miss You" is relatively more committed to groove and "Alone" is relatively more committed to song. But there is a feel in common between the two, the dance into sorrow. Also, I think "Alone" beats "Miss You," which is saying a lot, "Miss You" being important, one of the first songs where the Stones finally worked their way successfully into a Seventies groove.