New digs

[koganbot]

As you may have surmised, foreign agents shut off the transponder on my home DSL. Search parties expect to find said DSL sometime midweek. In the meantime I've been walking around my new neighborhood. I'm now living in heavily Latino west Denver, though my apt is just a couple minutes' walk from the Little Saigon business strip on Federal. The ratio of phở joints to marijuana establishments is about 30:1, a ratio you don't find in other parts of the city.

(Spambots are still pounding the hell out of my comment threads. With my not having frequent Internet access, spam posts may accumulate. I'll do my best not to delete legitimate comments.)

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Good news and bad news from the lower tiers of K-Pop idoldom

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

The good news:

Juliane of Chocolat has appeared on Let's Go Dream Team again.

TREN-D are coming back on 21st March with 두근두근.

The bad news:

Elly has been absent from TREN-D's public appearances and photoshoots since February. People are saying that she's ill, but there doesn't seem to be any source for that apart from international fans talking to each other.

Meanwhile, the Chocolat fans at onehallyu have concluded that Melanie has left the group. Or that Lori has left. Or something.

[koganbot]

Haven't gotten to the point with TREN-D where I remember their names.

Hope that Melanie hasn't left, since singers, even when they're very good, often don't go on to have viable careers once they leave the group. There are exceptions, of course:

My So-Called Life, during field trip to museum:

Teacher: The most important thing to remember is to stay with the group.

Angela: What is the big deal with staying with the group? What if Amelia Earhart had stayed with the group?

Ricky: Or Diana Ross?

Question. Are Vixx lacking in fame enough to qualify for No Tiers? And are they good enough? "On And On" is their only real brush with greatness, but I do like them, and the category does need some Y chromosomes.

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Also, do you think PungDeng-E are good enough? This is promising, though another song is the one that's getting pushed:

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Speaking of personnel changes, for the second time in their career LPG have completely changed their lineup. There are now nine of 'em. They call their album Filial Daughters' Generation, which may be a reference to another nonet. (I forget if I've been including LPG in No Tiers; again, they may be too lacking in nonfame; alternately, they're trot, which means it's questionable how much a part of K-pop they are.) Here's the best of their new ones, again not the single. Is a cover of this, by Wax, which is a reworking of Cyndi Lauper's "She Bop":

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[koganbot]

And referring to your question from January, the riff from "Big Baby Baby" is so freestyle that I'd definitely classify the track as freestyle, though of course there's no absolute line separating freestyle and Italodisco. Riff may have been provided by producer/co-writer Shinsadong Tiger. Here's the S. Tiger remix:

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Pop, Pop, Artpop

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Crayon Pop will be the opening act for Lady Gaga's North American tour in June and July.

Crayon Trot?

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

The MV teaser for Crayon Pop's new song 어이 is out. It sounds suspiciously like trot, which would fit with the ajumma-style teaser photos.

[koganbot]

Speaking of "digs" as in living quarters rather than just what I'm currently digging, I'm hearing someone blasting "London Calling" out their apartment or car window, which is interesting in this almost entirely Latino neighborhood (where what I'll usually hear are banda or Latin ballads or cumbia).