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]

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.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

Based on my own experiences with SB, the trouble is that obligatory nature of the writing. I got an invite to trial-write for them, before, and I believe the requirement was once or twice a week? Sure, many authors have said that the harsh incessant deadline nature of professional journalism has taught them to churn out writing regularly, instead of the commonly abandoned writing projects of amateurs who lack the self-discipline to stick at it. But then again, do those said churning authors produce a truly well thought out piece every time, as opposed to the labor of love pieces of literature?

There's also the matter of tone that SB has adopted. Idolminded's creator, Ray Mescellado, was one of those journalists who learned to write regularly, and he has a very large body of excellent works. But the difference is that Ray never quite adopted an aggressive tone in his writing. On Idolminded, he was doing "Idol Thought of the Day," short articles musing over various issues in the industry, but always in an exploratory, questioning manner, looking for alternative interpretations that could challenge his own view.

Seoulbeats editorials, in contrast, tend to take on an "offense is the best defense" strategy, a "here's my opinion, deal with it, I can already tell you you're wrong" approach. There's hardly ever an indication that they might change their opinion later, because of the implication that their admitting that they're wrong would be terrible. The Angry Review/Rant is somewhat of a popular format now, especially when paired with comedy, but the site that has best put it to use only works because the reviewers have made sure that the "angry review" part strictly belongs to exaggerated personas that are not necessarily reflections of their actual opinions, but just calculated for maximum entertainment value.

Seoulbeats editorials have taken on that same kind of brash self-confident identity, but then don't leave wiggle room for themselves or their audience. They can't backtrack. They can't apologize. They always leave that obligatory last paragraph of supposed comment thread hooks to invite reader participation, but they're usually tacked on, without an actual connection to the content.

In other words, Seoulbeats doesn't write to discuss, they write to win. It's an invitation, but not of a "talk to me" sort, but a "come at me" one.

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

The writing requirement doesn't help things, as any of the more introspective posts that need that extra time to hammer out nuances and check details and double check arguments are either pushed back for more froo-froo easy to write pieces, or the research and self-reflection is dropped for time and the original strong opinion is slammed down in rant form and no thought for the potential aftermath of publication. Yet it is that steady stream of release that makes them such a popular site in the first place.

For a long time I used to think that the snsd_ffa community (and before that, greywing's journal) was the only place that examined Kpop critically from a fan's perspective. (The Grand Narrative is all good and well, but trying to speak for a fan's motivations never quite captures the truth in its entirety, and to a certain point, the greatest expert on a subject is/was a very devoted fan of it) And a lot of the things that Seoulbeats covers concerning idol culture are things that veteran Jpop fans have worked through in much greater depth, but have done so so long ago that there isn't a need to put it out there. So you get new fans looking for that critical discussion, and SB seems to be doing so, but they're only scratching the surface of things, and the conversations that went through to the heart of issues happened piecemeal buried in forum and comment threads on long defunct sites or private email/PM chains, chatroom sessions not archived, etc. Places that a new fan could not ever know where to look, and some that will never be accessed again, as they've been deleted as some said veteran fans, having explored all idol issues to their conclusion, move on from fandom entirely and delete their online history.

And what's left are the shallow musings of new fans still full of the fires of first love, continually reinventing the wheel.