If Gummi Bar Bar Bars, does she also Boom Bing Bing?

[koganbot]

Given that Crayon Pop recently recorded "Bar Bar Bar," and last year gave us "Bing Bing," it is pertinent to ask whether Crayon Pop member Gummi, therefore, Boom Bing Bings:

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Gummy Bear "Boom Bing Bing"

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[EDIT: This was the 130215 Crayon Pop "Bing Bing" at Music Bank. but the vid was scotched for copyright violations and I can't find the performance anywhere else on the Web; I particularly wanted this one because Crayon Pop are slinking around the stage in sweats with hands in their pockets and sucking on a lollipop, like juvenile delinquents. The closest I can find is this one, twelve days later on Show Champion, sweats and hands in pockets but the camera maybe not as focused on the lollipop so not as much deadly lollipop menace.

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Also, as we reported earlier, a woman who writes the blog D4ZZLING ME ("I'm just a mother of 2 kids who are obsessed with nail polishes and nail arts ^.^ ") was inspired by the Crayon Pop MV to do each nail in one of the five Crayon Pop training-suit colors:

http://d4zzlingme.blogspot.com/2013/07/crayon-pop-bar-bar-bar-inspired-nails.html



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Comments

[azacab.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks. It's hard to do Shinyoo justice since there's practically nothing known about him. I actually just joined SB, kind of - I'm still in a "trial" period so we'll see. Hopefully I can just sort of write about random K-pop stuff that interests me. It's hard to write about the genre while divorcing yourself from the idol drama craziness, something I will never really be into. And while I agree that K-pop goes woefully underanalyzed/undercovered (those aren't real words...) I will say that you, Frank, as well as a few others and the people at SB seem to the only ones putting brains into analyzing the music, of course at different levels of expertise and insight.

Just to clarify though, I don't think the shoutouts are all humor, but the befuddlement embedded in them kind of is. I mean, "Hands Of The Clock" is something really, really far away from anything I've ever known and I'd reckon that goes for all of us here. That's how I approached the song - with a knowledge that I can't hear what these old Koreans hear - and to be honest I ended up liking it quite a bit, because it's a solid record regardless. Mostly I wanted to make sense of how this song became so endlessly popular, and also kind of blast the quick cash-grab nature of K-pop singles. Shinyoo has a kind of loving craftsmanship, and I would hardly say the same for 99% of K-pop singles, even though I hold them in higher regard, albeit for much different reasons.

I will say though that Dana is the best writer SB has. Her pieces are always a good read, and they never feel like rudimentary rundowns of filler-packed albums or idol hair colors and whatnot. Her trot article is actually quite good, in my opinion. It's well-researched and helps illuminate a lot of trot's history and the totally different nature of the genre from today's K-pop.

Also, thanks for alerting me to change my Wordpress display name. You have some pretty sick detective skills.

[koganbot]

Well, you yourself had alerted me that you were writing a piece. And while I didn't think it impossible that someone else might also write such a piece, I thought I should check.

I've really only read Seoulbeats when hopping by on Google searches, so have not looked at it enough to justify my general impression; but I do remember that the two or three things I saw about T-ara, for instance, were terribly naive — a basic, "do I have good justification for believing this idea/assertion/judgment?" seeming to be missing. And one of the most recent pieces I read there was this really childish and poorly argued piece that arbitrary_greay inexplicably loved about the fact that a white, French woman had been signed to join a K-pop group.*

I'll definitely read Dana, not just because you recommend her/him but because of that bit that David quoted that talked about 4th and 7th degrees and duple meter. Seemed very smart. "The heart of the Korean people throughout history" still seems ridiculous, though.

There's a site called "Beyond Hallyu" that I've only recently looked at, but it has promise. Although the quality varies considerably, the writers are trying to analyze from liberal/left perspectives and feminist perspectives. I guess "has promise" is me being condescending again (see footnote below); once again I've really only read a little; some of it was primitive and naive, some of it was genuinely thoughtful, some was all three. I like their writer Sophie, not least of all because she said something very nice about me on her blog, but also because she's interestingly uneasy with the way the music she loves can be at odds with her social ideals.

*I suppose that a childish piece is better than no piece at all, and the writer Patricia's perspective isn't totally at odds with mine; but that's no excuse for her to indulge in rampant resentment and illogic. The followup discussion by arbitrary_greay and greywing was much better [though now I'll never be able to compliment either of those two without being worried that greywing'll think I'm being condescending, which is the way she took a compliment I'd tossed at arbitrary_greay].

[koganbot]

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.