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koganbotMy attempts at affirmative action in support of vocal cords of the nonyoung, the non-Korean, and the nonfemale haven't netted me much beyond Neil Young, though I'll admit that those attempts were half-hearted. My exploration of the nonmainstream was even less-hearted and, not surprisingly, less successful — except that the never-predictable indie-rapper E.via reverted to a gem of a failed attempt to crack the mainstream (on this list at 26, though never higher than 100 on Gaon).
In the meantime, my respect for the power of human stupidity was reaffirmed by the viciousness and hysteria with which the Internet mob scapegoated T-ara, none of which has changed my limited understanding of the group. Over the last three years, T-ara have made the most consistently good music in earshot. I wonder if now, going forward, cuteness will feel like less of an option for them, and what the result might be. I was listening to Pere Ubu's "Heart Of Darkness" the other day and tried to imagine what it would sound like with Jiyeon singing; had the fantasy that people thirty-seven years ago who were like what I was like thirty-seven years ago might be able to speak across time and say something more helpful to Jiyeon than what the world around her is currently offering.
The vid for Dev's "Take Her From You" first appeared a year ago, but Chuck reports that her Wikip page lists the song as a 2012 digital single, and Rhapsody is treating it as a stand-alone single. I've never been able to parse its lyrics, since whom the "you" designates keeps shifting back and forth, along with the identity of the designator.
TOP SINGLES Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
3. ChoColat "I Like It"
4. Dev "Take Her From You"
5. Dev "In My Trunk"
6. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
7. Wonder Girls "Like This"
8. T-ara "Day By Day"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
11. 2NE1 "Scream"
12. Flashe "Drop It"
13. After School "Rambling Girls"
14. 4minute "Volume Up"
15. Miss A "Touch"
16. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
17. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
18. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
19. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
20. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
21. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
22. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
23. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
24. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
25. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
26. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
27. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
28. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
29. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
30. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
31. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
32. T-ara "Sexy Love"
33. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
34. T-ara "Round & Round"
35. The Cataracs ft. Dev "Sunrise"
36. Crystal Castles "Plague"
37. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
38. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
39. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
40. After School "Flashback"
41. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
42. Kara "Pandora"
43. A-Jax "Hot Game"
44. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
45. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
46. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
47. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
48. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
49. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
50. Usher "Climax"
51. Knife Party "Bonfire"
52. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
53. Da' Zoo "La La La (Hot Girls)"
54. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
55. Blush "Up Up & Away"
56. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
57. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
58. Kara "Speed Up"
59. Melanie Fiona "4 AM"
60. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
61. Shinhwa "Venus"
62. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
63. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend"
64. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
65. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel"
66. Kang Mi Jin "MIA" (webrip)
67. Tyga "Rack City"
68. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
69. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
70. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
71. Chi Chi "Leon"
72. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
73. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
74. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
75. Psy "Gangnam Style"
TOP ALBUMS Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. T-ara Funky Town (repackage of Black Eyes) EP [Core Contents Media]
2. ChoColat I Like It, The First Mini Album EP [Paramount]
3. T-ara Mirage (repackage of Day By Day) EP [Core Contents Media]
4. E.via E.viagradation Part 1. (Black & Red) EP [Dline Art Media]
5. Miss A Touch EP [JYP Entertainment]
6. DJ Bedbugs Teenpop Lock And Drop Volume 2 [self-released]
7. 4minute Volume Up EP [Cube Entertainment]
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Americana [Reprise]
9. After School Playgirlz [Avex]
In the meantime, my respect for the power of human stupidity was reaffirmed by the viciousness and hysteria with which the Internet mob scapegoated T-ara, none of which has changed my limited understanding of the group. Over the last three years, T-ara have made the most consistently good music in earshot. I wonder if now, going forward, cuteness will feel like less of an option for them, and what the result might be. I was listening to Pere Ubu's "Heart Of Darkness" the other day and tried to imagine what it would sound like with Jiyeon singing; had the fantasy that people thirty-seven years ago who were like what I was like thirty-seven years ago might be able to speak across time and say something more helpful to Jiyeon than what the world around her is currently offering.
The vid for Dev's "Take Her From You" first appeared a year ago, but Chuck reports that her Wikip page lists the song as a 2012 digital single, and Rhapsody is treating it as a stand-alone single. I've never been able to parse its lyrics, since whom the "you" designates keeps shifting back and forth, along with the identity of the designator.
TOP SINGLES Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. T-ara "Lovey-Dovey"
2. Trouble Maker "Trouble Maker"
3. ChoColat "I Like It"
4. Dev "Take Her From You"
5. Dev "In My Trunk"
6. Cassie "King Of Hearts"
7. Wonder Girls "Like This"
8. T-ara "Day By Day"
9. Sistar "Alone"
10. Davichi & T-ara "We Were In Love"
11. 2NE1 "Scream"
12. Flashe "Drop It"
13. After School "Rambling Girls"
14. 4minute "Volume Up"
15. Miss A "Touch"
16. ChoColat ft. Sung Hyo Ram "One More Day" (also called "Same Thing To Her")
17. Yoon Jong Shin ft. Kim Wan Sun "I Love You All Days"
18. Nicki Minaj ft. 2 Chainz "Beez In The Trap"
19. Chi Chi "Sexy Doll"
20. Miranda Lambert "Fastest Girl In Town"
21. Nicki Minaj "Stupid Hoe"
22. Girl's Day "Oh! My God"
23. Rihanna ft. Chris Brown "Birthday Cake (Remix)"
24. Orange Caramel "My Sweet Devil"
25. Paulina Rubio "Boys Will Be Boys"
26. E.via ft. Lee Su Jung "I Know How To Play A Little"
27. Orange Caramel "Lipstick"
28. Kanye West, Jay-Z, Big Sean "Clique"
29. Diamond Rings "I'm Just Me"
30. Javiera Mena "Luz de Piedra de Luna"
31. Sunny Hill "The Grasshopper Song"
32. T-ara "Sexy Love"
33. Wonder Girls "The DJ Is Mine"
34. T-ara "Round & Round"
35. The Cataracs ft. Dev "Sunrise"
36. Crystal Castles "Plague"
37. Clazzi ft. Koti & Jubi & MYK "Sexy Doll"
38. Lil Chuckee "Da Wop"
39. Bobby Brackins ft. Iamsu & Roach Gigz "Golden State"
40. After School "Flashback"
41. Eden's Edge "Too Good To Be True"
42. Kara "Pandora"
43. A-Jax "Hot Game"
44. Jhene Aiko "3:16"
45. Tyga ft. Lil Wayne "Faded"
46. DJ Raff "Digital Rain (En El Desierto)"
47. Y.N.RichKids "Hot Cheetos And Takis"
48. Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
49. Super Junior "Sexy, Free & Single"
50. Usher "Climax"
51. Knife Party "Bonfire"
52. Jess Mills "Pixelated People"
53. Da' Zoo "La La La (Hot Girls)"
54. Bella Thorne "TTYLXOX"
55. Blush "Up Up & Away"
56. Teedra Moses ft. Wale "Another LuvR"
57. B.o.B ft. André 3000 "Play The Guitar"
58. Kara "Speed Up"
59. Melanie Fiona "4 AM"
60. Yangpa ft. Lee Boram & Soyeon "I Know"
61. Shinhwa "Venus"
62. Cloud Nothings "No Future/No Past"
63. Justin Bieber "Boyfriend"
64. Gangkiz "Honey Honey"
65. Kim Wan Sun/Clazzi "Can Only Feel"
66. Kang Mi Jin "MIA" (webrip)
67. Tyga "Rack City"
68. M.I.A. "Bad Girls"
69. Dawn Richard "Automatic"
70. Dawn Richard "Bombs"
71. Chi Chi "Leon"
72. Tony & Smash "Get Your Swag On"
73. Groove Armada ft. Slarta John "Pull Up"
74. Ryu Hwayoung "Hwayoung Rap"
75. Psy "Gangnam Style"
TOP ALBUMS Through Third Quarter 2012:
1. T-ara Funky Town (repackage of Black Eyes) EP [Core Contents Media]
2. ChoColat I Like It, The First Mini Album EP [Paramount]
3. T-ara Mirage (repackage of Day By Day) EP [Core Contents Media]
4. E.via E.viagradation Part 1. (Black & Red) EP [Dline Art Media]
5. Miss A Touch EP [JYP Entertainment]
6. DJ Bedbugs Teenpop Lock And Drop Volume 2 [self-released]
7. 4minute Volume Up EP [Cube Entertainment]
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Americana [Reprise]
9. After School Playgirlz [Avex]
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Re: La La La
Date: 2012-10-08 03:50 pm (UTC)Since I have utterly no idea as to whether there was any quid pro quo, I'm going to speculate, guess.
We could say that Yang Goon feels that Yedang (or whatever/whoever) is worth a favor, and this isn't just owing to support he'd received from Yedang (or whomever) way back when but also because he thinks they're a good organization and that there's an extent to which all the K-pop agencies are in this thing together, that general prosperity helps them all. And maybe he's been told that RaNia is at loose ends now that Teddy Riley's decamped, and maybe Brave Brothers is otherwise occupied. Or maybe he's always liked the RaNia concept (and maybe he's even met some of them and likes them as individuals) and was thinking, "You know, I have an idea of the sort of material that would work for them." And maybe he likes them baiting the censorship with their spread-leg ethos and thinks that if they succeed this could open things up (so to speak) for his artists; so, risk by proxy.
Those are alternate explanations that don't assume a specific price, though there might be.
Strangeness in RaNia's Wikip writeup: It says that all RaNia singles, including "Style," hit number one, which is certainly not true.