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.

Re: And does Shinyoo tick tock trot?

[koganbot]

the scant English-language references to Shinyoo consist primarily of humorous shout-outs to his enduring presence

. Good to know that people like you and me are categorized as "humorous."

(Don't know if I have time to read their linked "trot" piece: may contain interesting info even if Seoulbeats has always struck me as rather naive and clumsy in its analyses. E.g., the quoted sentence, "Trot music lyrically and musically has expressed and continues to express the heart of the Korean people throughout history, and it is perhaps for this reason above all others that Koreans have chosen trot music time and time again." I wonder with what description they identify that heart.)

Re: And does Shinyoo tick tock trot?

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Dana's article is worth reading because she at least begins to explain what makes trot distinctive:

Surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly), the genre didn’t exactly originate in Korea; rather, it was born in Japan from late 19th century protest songs and imported to Korea through a variety of channels. Japanese trot music, called enka, evolved largely in response to Meiji Japan’s call to modernize in the image of the era’s (supposedly more civilized) Euro-American powers; as such, it sought to incorporate more “modern” Western elements into traditional Japanese music in order to create modern pop music that was still palatable to a people unaccustomed to new sounds. Born from these efforts were the yonanuki major and minor scales ( Japanized adaptations of the pentatonic major and minor scales commonly employed in Western music — they are characterized by their lack of fourth and seventh degrees) as well as duple (1,2) rhythm borrowed from American foxtrot. As these musical elements made their way into Japanese music, so were they transmitted to the colonized people of Korea.

Re: And does Shinyoo tick tock trot?

[koganbot]

they are characterized by their lack of fourth and seventh degrees

A ha! That's what I was saying on the What's Wrong With My Age thread: "The fa and the ti of the western scale seem to be getting short shrift."

By the way, I see — by hovering the cursor over the author's (generic) icon — that it's our very own azacab who wrote the Seoulbeats piece! So indeed he was referring to us (and himself) regarding the humorous shoutouts.

This is cool, that we know someone who's written for an actual K-pop site.