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Silly Supremacy
The surprisingly fierce battle for Silly Song Of The Year has a new, unexpected leader: Lee Jung Hyun's "V." People who've been following electronic dance music in Korea from the beginning (i.e., no one who reads this blog) know that Wikipedia has its head heading up buttward in saying that in 1999 Lee introduced techno to Korea and to Asia.* Nonetheless, it is fair to say that she is held in esteem as an actress and singer, at least by our trusty Wikipedian. And she is held in esteem by me as well (who first heard of her last week), as she leaves the wobble and the wash behind for a trot two-step with 1940s razzle-dazzle vocals filtered through a helium balloon. Orange Caramel, are you paying attention.**
Here is where she commenced her assignment as ambassador of techno:
In other silly news, Wassup is creating consternation among those who want Wassup to twerk more, those who think no one should twerk at all, and those who think Korea's Monarchy Of Twerk is ruled by Min and Minzy and everyone else should leave the premises. Beyond the tease of twerk, the track is strong on its other merits as well, is hip-hop to its dance-pop core, has a credible playground vibe, has zero chance of being a hit, and makes no effort to sound Korean.
*I know nothing about the history of electronic dance music in Korea, but this is just not plausible. We're talking about a musical form that was taking shape in 1981 and was spreading round the world a half-decade later. Maybe she introduced techno to the Korean pop charts, but even there I'm skeptical, given that Chuli & Miae hit with the house-techno-freestyle hybrid "Why You" back in 1993.
**YouTube commenter ioasabi2in1 perceptively opines "This music instrumental is like Romanian songs instrumental....," the Romanian little circle-hop rhythm being one of the sources I identify in Orange Caramel's terrific "Lipstick." Also, note that this isn't Lee Jung Hyun's inaugural performance as a helium doll on the crest of chaos, though she's pulling the music together better than she had on Joolae.
Here is where she commenced her assignment as ambassador of techno:
In other silly news, Wassup is creating consternation among those who want Wassup to twerk more, those who think no one should twerk at all, and those who think Korea's Monarchy Of Twerk is ruled by Min and Minzy and everyone else should leave the premises. Beyond the tease of twerk, the track is strong on its other merits as well, is hip-hop to its dance-pop core, has a credible playground vibe, has zero chance of being a hit, and makes no effort to sound Korean.
*I know nothing about the history of electronic dance music in Korea, but this is just not plausible. We're talking about a musical form that was taking shape in 1981 and was spreading round the world a half-decade later. Maybe she introduced techno to the Korean pop charts, but even there I'm skeptical, given that Chuli & Miae hit with the house-techno-freestyle hybrid "Why You" back in 1993.
**YouTube commenter ioasabi2in1 perceptively opines "This music instrumental is like Romanian songs instrumental....," the Romanian little circle-hop rhythm being one of the sources I identify in Orange Caramel's terrific "Lipstick." Also, note that this isn't Lee Jung Hyun's inaugural performance as a helium doll on the crest of chaos, though she's pulling the music together better than she had on Joolae.
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Anyway, the MV for V was directed by Park Chan-wook, who made a short film called Night Fishing with Lee as a shaman.
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Meanwhile, Wassup have been working their asses, if not actually twerking them, on Show Champion.
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But e.via was exhorting her followers to shake it long before Wassup twerked their way onto the scene. :)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYO-suuPdlY
130807 Wassup 와썹 Bang Bang Show Champion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNKCb6sMjS0
E.via "Shake!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyROBgl7wlA
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But thinking about it, there has always been a sort of Addams Family goth-pop quality to Lee's music, just more or less explicit.
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Wassup's Wassup is now blocked by Sony Music. Looks like a another GLAM/VIXX situation, where the song is going to go away until the rights for the sample used in the song - I think it's the Wassup Wassup Wassup part in this case - are cleared.
It'll be a sad day when Sony's music lawyers start paying really close attention to all the music clips used without prior approval on, for instance, Korean variety shows.
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That kind of thing does happen. A couple of years ago, Utada Hikaru's YouTube account got suspended because EMI Japan hired a contractor to get unauthorised uploads removed but failed to include Utada on the list of official accounts. And there was an occasion when a NASA livestream was shut down when YouTube's content filters recognised an existing NASA video that a television channel had erroneously claimed copyright over.
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The situation with "I Like That" was weird because Fever Records blocked it on GLAM's own YouTube account, while the one on LOEN Entertainment's is still going strong.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26-o2F26f8
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A case of the left buttock not knowing what the right buttock is doing.
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