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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And does Shinyoo tick tock trot?

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Seoulbeats have posted an article about the phenomenon that is Hands of the Clock:

This marks the record’s 100th week on Billboard’s K-pop Hot 100 chart, logged at a respectable #26. Peaking previously at #23 and almost never falling out of the top 50, “Hands Of The Clock” is by far the longest-running song on the chart, making Shinyoo into some kind of unstoppable, mysterious musical force.

[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.

[azacab.livejournal.com]

Awesome, I can tell I'll be reading Beyond Hallyu for sure. I do agree though, there are a lot of fluff or just wrongheaded pieces. I'd love for SB to take a broader, more holistic look at their journalism. I think that endless pieces without a grand narrative means their analysis and insight is a little more disposable than it should be. K-pop has amassed enough critical and commercial appeal that some site can easily position themselves as a more thoughtful, editorial and review-based source for the music, not just a blog. We'll see though.

[koganbot]

Um, speaking of Crayon Pop — remember them? an idol girlband of the early '10s with very small production and promotion budgets who developed intriguing strategies for standing out — I posted this a couple of hours ago on ilX's K-pop 2013:

Until Apink's "NoNoNo" went to #3 last week, no idol group that had debuted in the last two-and-a-half years, since the beginning of 2011, had put a song in the Top 5. Not B1A4, not EXO (who apparently have in China, but haven't come close in Korea), not Block B, not B.A.P. And I don't mean that no idol groups have gone top 5 with their debuts, but that none of those 2011-and-on idol groups have gone top 5 at all. (With singles, that is. Albums and EPs are a different market.) Some "indie" groups from talent-show hell have hit, some successful ballad singers may be new (I haven't been tracking them), and solo acts Ailee and Lee Hi have gone #1 (though whether they're "idol" is somewhat iffy); but fame only has a limited number of slots, and among the K-pop idol groups, the relative veterans (Classes Of 2007-2010, more or less) have been filling them all.

But if early-in-the-week numbers on the daily and real-time charts hold up over the next six days — we probably won't know for sure until the Thursday after next — there'll soon be another idol group to join Apink in breaking this barrier:

CRAYON POP!

Astonishing. Right now "Bar Bar Bar" is top 5 on all the real-time charts except Monkey3. Is number 2 on mnet.

My predictions had been too pessimistic before; maybe they're too optimistic now. But every time the song seems to have stalled — e.g., it appeared stuck in the low teens three days ago — it's moved forward. Fwiw, it does seem to be slipping from where it was a few hours ago when I wrote that post, but such things are hard to tell. Is #1 on Daum and #2 on Bugs but down to #29 on Naver and #38 on Monkey3 (where it had been #1 this morning).

Crayon Pop played three of the four big K-pop performance TV shows over the weekend (weren't on Music Core), got to do the song full-length on M! Countdown and Music Bank (where it wasn't all lip sync either), were shorter length on Inkigayo but added a second line of dancers, male, though also reverted to sideways hops instead of the double-time piston (maybe the latter is too complicated with two lines, maybe one of Crayon Pop keeps injuring her foot, I don't know).

If you're looking for daily and real-time numbers yourself, go to Instiz and then hover your cursor over the number total to the right of the band name; e.g., 빠빠빠 is number 5 right now (that's its weekly rank, though since we're at the start of the week there's little difference from its weekly and real-time rank), then move right, where the text says "크레용팝," which is "Crayon Pop" in Hangul lettering. Then go right further to the number in the final column (624 right now, but it'll go higher as the week progresses), and that's where you should hover you cursor. The daily (일간) and real-time (실시간) rankings on all the charts that Instiz tracks will appear on a pop up.

[(Anonymous)]

It's number one on Daum again as of this writing, ahead of f(x) and the new BEG single.

"Bad" from Queen B'Z just came out. I was rather looking forward to it because of the teaser, an amazing mess promising what seemed like vampires, extreme violence and some very sassy vocals. The full video:



Don't know what to make of it but I do respect the Cranberries growl that tops off the chorus, as well as the fact that they snuck both "bammrappapapa" and "boom-shaka-laka" in there.