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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote 2013-08-04 01:32 pm (UTC)

I forget if I've mentioned it here, but Kim Yong Im's "Life As A Floating Weed" is still afloat on the charts, as it's been since three-quarters of forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjFUMP2g7E4

What I embedded seems to be a version from back in the days of the good old times (at least, it seems to have old pics of her,* as opposed to now), though I'd guess that it's a remake that's charting — but obviously I don't know. I like the song quite well** but I don't like her singing nearly as much as Shinyoo's. I like his easiness, while I don't take to her soggy warble.

*I assume they're of a younger her (rather than of some actress on a TV show to which this could've been the soundtrack).

**Has a lot of late '50s/early '60s r&b/rock 'n' roll in it; could imagine Gene Pitney or one of the girl groups letting loose on it, or the Everly Brothers doing it with tactful restraint.

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