I express my confusion over at the Jukebox

[koganbot]

Not at all clear yet as to what I'm hearing when I listen to the new 2NE1 single. I express my confusion over at the Jukebox. Can't say I'm able to pick out the non-Western sounds the band are talking about in interviews* (trot, enka). Sounds like R&B-based dance-pop to me, but pushed into interestingly disparate melodic sections. But then, I'm not educated in Korean forms. Maybe you can help.

Watch on YouTube

*At allkpop and kpopstarz.

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More on a Korean connection to enka

[(Anonymous)]

Just read something of potential further interest to you, from the book I mentioned, during my lunch break:

"Koga's [sic] music is said to provide a paradigm of Japaneseness in music, but Kogan himself was raised in colonial Korea and acknowledged that he had developed his style around the songs he heard laborers sing there. Even Yamaori Tetsuo, the stalwart defender of Hibari's essential Japaneseness, acknowledges the ongoing debate over whether enka might not best be considered an essentially Korean, rather than Japanese, genre."

And so on.

Bourdaghs has a blog here, in case you were not curious enough to google: http://bourdaghs.com/

Rudipherous

Re: More on a Korean connection to enka

[(Anonymous)]

oops, I did slip up and make Koga into Kogan. It's Koga Masao.

Re: More on a Korean connection to enka

[(Anonymous)]

Or better: http://bourdaghs.com/blog/

Re: More on a Korean connection to enka

[koganbot]

Ah, I see he's a Kinks fan!