What's Wrong With My Age?

[koganbot]

This song's been on the Billboard K-pop chart for 12 weeks, whereas the Gaon chart refuses to acknowledge that stuff like it exists.

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If anyone has any music-theory insights, feel free to post them. Is not my strength. The crucial chords seem to be I II V (as opposed to I IV V), though my guitar is tuned about a quarter tone off from this so I'm not sure. The fa and the ti of the western scale seem to be getting short shrift. If there's a crucial leading note, it's the fifth of the V chord, which happens to be the second (or ninth) of the I chord, the chord it leads to. As for an analogue in my American listening, it would — I think — be the music of the rural British Isles, which of course is one of the inputs into the southern cauldron that produced what's confusingly called American "folk" music.

Meanwhile, Shinyoo's "Hands Of The Clock" hangs around at 36; has been in Billboard's K-pop Hot 100 for the entire year-and-two-thirds (88 weeks) that there's been such a chart, and presumably goes back months or years before that, though it's never gotten higher on Billboard than 23. (A typical Korean hit, one that goes top five, might stay in the Top 100 for not much more than three months. E.g., SHINee's "Dream Girl," at a couple of weeks short of three months, is down at 85 on the Gaon chart.)

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Shin-yoo hits 100

[azacab.livejournal.com]

"Hands Of The Clock" is about to hit week 100 now, and I'll be doing a piece on it soon. I can't find anything - anything - about the song at all, except for your writing, which is of course informative and (I assume) stuck in a similar situation about the track's origins, impact, etc. So I guess I wanted to say thanks for pointing out this awesome anomaly. This is when I wish I could read Hangul.

Re: Shin-yoo hits 100

[koganbot]

You're quite welcome. You could try asking on I Love Music's K-pop 2013 thread, though I wouldn't expect you would get an answer. But Mat is at least in Korea, and maybe he'd have an idea whom to ask.

Re: Shin-yoo hits 100

[koganbot]

Btw, who do you write for/where do you write?