koganbot: (Default)
[personal profile] koganbot


I dremt there are Websites devoted to pictures of cats who look like members of T-ara.* Maybe even an animated TV show where T-ara (and all other people) are cats. I'm donating items to Goodwill, and I see, in a bag next to mine, decorative eggs that are painted as T-ara cats. As my friend Mary is driving me back, I proudly tell her, "This is where I got the idea." I'm chosen to direct the movie. It is originally to be lighthearted, but I say to myself, "I'm gonna do this right." In the movie, things are going well in Catworld, T-ara performing, sometimes as a band, playing all the instruments themselves. Then an evil sorceress transforms them into new creatures: human beings. There are worries that I'm going overbudget. We run a saturation ad campaign, in the U.S. as well as Korea, playing one clip over and over:

Jiyeon: When I move my arms, they seem as if they're not my arms but someone else's. When I move my legs, they seem as if they're not my legs but someone else's.

Psychiatrist: How long have you felt this way?

Jiyeon: Always.


Strangely, this dream makes almost no reference to the recent controversy, though there is the flicker of a thought that we have to mention it in the movie: I make the quick decision to write it briefly into an early cat scene, but not as a major event.

*This idea is not far-fetched, though when I do a Google image search for "cats that look like T-ara," I only get T-ara looking like cats. Now that I think of it, the mv for the Japanese version of "Bo Peep Bo Peep" has them as cats and (briefly) cats as them:



And T-ara have endorsed the Tony Moly Cats Wink Crazy Tint Stick (cat-shaped lip balm sticks, "hybrid lip product that's lip balm and tint that changes to a color that best suits your skin tone").

Date: 2012-09-06 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askbask.livejournal.com
This could definitely come true. Maybe not with you as the director, unless KKS spotted you on the street and found you captivating.

Date: 2012-09-06 09:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davidfrazer.livejournal.com
KKS's latest brainfart involves giving T-ara their own Mini-Mes, so cat versions of the girls can't be far off now.

Date: 2012-09-06 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askbask.livejournal.com
The mini-me performance was later scrapped after critical voices wondered if 'sexy love' was the most suitable concept for a kid-ara.

Date: 2012-09-07 05:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com
Kpop music shows are both live and pre-recorded at the same time, like how old sitcoms/sketch shows were: live audience and live performance are recorded. This allows for multiple takes, but are still technically "live."

During the live broadcast, I think the MC parts in between performers are live. Then for the performances, the pre-recorded performance is broadcast, but the artists also reappear on the stage and casually lipsync-perform over the pre-recorded audio. Then the sound guys mix in the audience screams during the broadcast live with the pre-recorded video/audio. This also allows for the performers to do stage shenanigans for the benefit of the studio audience.
Then, if there's an award at the end of the show, (I think only Music Bank still does) that's done live, as is the encore performance by the winner. (which is usually cut off for time)

An example of Music Core's pre-recording process can be found here, from 2:48 on the first video to 2:17 on the second.
And here's footage broadcasted vs. performance during broadcast.

There was once a "scandal" over a singer being denied a second take, but as you can see, the scandal wasn't over the fact that they do pre-recordings and second takes, but just that she aired complaints during the broadcast.
Edited Date: 2012-09-07 05:40 pm (UTC)

Date: 2012-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com
At least for Mucore, the audience sounds appear to be recorded during broadcast. There was one SNSD performance that was pre-recorded not even in studio, but from the stadium at which they were going to do a solo concert in later. It was not the concert performance of the song, so there was no audience present at the stadium. Thus the screams heard at the beginning and ending of the song were either recorded during broadcast, or from the fan-scream equivalent of the laughing track.

"facing an audience where there's the possibility of an adverse reaction,"
Reminds me of the "CL has a parrot on her shoulder" instance. I don't think YG announced beforehand about the parrot's presence, though, like CCM did with Little T-ara.
What struck me about the parrot thing, though, is that initial (probably pre-written) articles didn't note any outrage, and were the usual run-of-the-mill hype and praise for everything during the stage, maybe dropping a "shocking" and "awkward" here and there to reflect the novelty of the stage, but overall not a negative reaction.
The criticism that would later cause YG to apologize seemed to solely derive from people who watched the performance from a screen, and not audience who had watched in studio, live.

So any fear of an adverse reaction is not fear of one from the audience they're facing, but the one that they can't face, the ones who watch and criticize them through an indirect medium and in a delayed timeline.

But companies have never really been sincere in their apologies before, especially in those MV-bans or lyric/outfit/choreo alterations for "decency," exactly because any adverse reaction is delayed, and they can get their publicity in that time period and even because of the backlash. Little kids dancing sexy to Kpop is nothing new either, from the girls in AS's "Bang!" MV, to, um, this, which did not receive any backlash. Why is CCM backing down now?

Date: 2012-09-10 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com
And black ocean-type protests are planned beforehand and not targetting specific marketing tactics or performance gimmicks, so I really don't see why CCM bothered to pre-announce Little T-ara, much less back down from it.

Date: 2012-09-06 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] davidfrazer.livejournal.com
In other T-ara-related news, it seems that Hwayoung has put a short snippet of rapping up on Soundcloud. The lyrics are provided on the Soundcloud page and, according to Google Translate, they include the line "fall down, get up again", which sounds like it might be an allusion to recent events...

Date: 2012-09-08 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askbask.livejournal.com
걸, which serves a function in the syntax, can also be the hangul for \girl\, and looking at her cover art that's clearly what she intends, so it becomes "I'm a girl who knows how to play a little", but the translations I've seen seem to oversee this.

Re: Adventures in Google Translate

Date: 2012-09-09 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] askbask.livejournal.com
"To play" is often used for partying. You go out on town and "play" with friends.

Profile

koganbot: (Default)
Frank Kogan

March 2025

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
1617 1819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 11th, 2025 11:21 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios