F-ve Dolls Far From Toothless
Jul. 31st, 2013 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotBy now everybody has already made all the salient points there are to make about F-ive Dolls' "Soulmate #1." But, being aware that not everybody who reads this blog reads everybody, I've determined to, as a public service, simply restate the points that everybody has already made.
(1) While the riff may not exactly be the riff from "Funky Town," it's awfully similar. (Like maybe one note different.)
(2) F-ve Dolls were until recently 5Dolls, but now there are six members and the group name was changed to "F-ve Dolls," the logic of which I'm sure I don't have to explain to you (which is a good thing, seeing as I have no idea). The lineup has changed over the years.
I recommend that you listen to this track before reading the rest of this post.
(3) The catchy chorus to this catchy song goes:
(4) I was going to call this post "F-ve Dolls Seek Amy" but I chickened out.
(5) Back in the day, before splitting off as the subunit 5Dolls, they were combined with their labelmates Speed in a group called "Co-Ed School," who were once featured here at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koganbot (as were labelmates T-ara) in our special series on Problematic Korean Videos. If Core Contents Media would like to change the label name to "Problematic Contents Media," they will not meet an objection from me.
(6) The song is good — is more effectively cheerful than most of the summer cheer we've been drenched with recently.
(7) This isn't a point, just a question, not related to the song: I had the impression from what label-boss Kim Kwang-soo said in an interview that he'd have let Hyoyoung out of her contract if she'd wanted to go. I didn't stick with this little side issue in the Hwayoung story. (F-ve Dolls member Hyoyoung is Hwayoung's twin sister.) Anybody have any definite information (if there is such a thing)?
*On the remix they follow this joyous sentiment with — in English — "Kiss me loverboy, kiss me loverboy."
(1) While the riff may not exactly be the riff from "Funky Town," it's awfully similar. (Like maybe one note different.)
(2) F-ve Dolls were until recently 5Dolls, but now there are six members and the group name was changed to "F-ve Dolls," the logic of which I'm sure I don't have to explain to you (which is a good thing, seeing as I have no idea). The lineup has changed over the years.
I recommend that you listen to this track before reading the rest of this post.
(3) The catchy chorus to this catchy song goes:
꽉 안아줘요 꽉 안아줘요which the good people at pop!gasa translate as:
꽉 안아줘요 갈비뼈가 으스러지도록
키스해줘요 키스해줘요
뽀뽀해줘 앞이빨이 쏙빠지도록
Hug me tight, hug me tightwhich seems rather extreme. When the Hangul text is merely transliterated into romanized text, one gets something like,
Hug me tight till my rib bones break
Kiss me, kiss me
Kiss me so my teeth fall out
Kkwag anajwoyo kkwag anajwoyo kkwag anajwoyoI'll add as an aside that the phrase "Kkwag anajwoyo kkwag anajwoyo kkwag," as it reaches my English-language ears, sounds a lot like the English words "Fuck, I'm enjoy a fuck, I'm enjoy a fuck."* I'd say this was probably just me, except it's not just me, even if it turns out to be a coincidence.
Galbi ppyeoga euseureoji dorog
Kiseuhae jwoyo kiseuhae jwoyo ppoppo haejwo
Api ppari ssogppaji dorog
(4) I was going to call this post "F-ve Dolls Seek Amy" but I chickened out.
(5) Back in the day, before splitting off as the subunit 5Dolls, they were combined with their labelmates Speed in a group called "Co-Ed School," who were once featured here at
koganbot (as were labelmates T-ara) in our special series on Problematic Korean Videos. If Core Contents Media would like to change the label name to "Problematic Contents Media," they will not meet an objection from me.(6) The song is good — is more effectively cheerful than most of the summer cheer we've been drenched with recently.
(7) This isn't a point, just a question, not related to the song: I had the impression from what label-boss Kim Kwang-soo said in an interview that he'd have let Hyoyoung out of her contract if she'd wanted to go. I didn't stick with this little side issue in the Hwayoung story. (F-ve Dolls member Hyoyoung is Hwayoung's twin sister.) Anybody have any definite information (if there is such a thing)?
*On the remix they follow this joyous sentiment with — in English — "Kiss me loverboy, kiss me loverboy."
