Keep Nagging At Your Mom When You're Little (Orange Caramel/After School: Artists Of The Year, 2014)

[koganbot]

Lizzy's advice on how to acquire the voice she uses for Orange Caramel and for trot (but not for After School):

Keep nagging at your mom when you're little.

Demonstrated here, with variants here (happy) and here (annoyed)* (h/t David Frazer).

I'm even more behind than usual (mid-year list to come, once again w/ Lizzy). I keep promising research on After School, never get there. So just several adjectives for you:

After School, who were kinda all over in their early years, have settled into smooth vocals, effortlessly poignant, when required, but holding rough rhythms under their hood. One of the few K-pop groups to sound as good in Japanese as Korean. Meanwhile, Orange Caramel's** rampaging cuteness conquers all, style atop style. No social insights from me. Cuteness doesn't play in North America, probably for good reason, but that doesn't mean we're living our lives better than South Koreans are living theirs.

After School "Triangle"

"AFTERSCHOOL-Triangle[Lyrics & Romanized Japanese][Dress to kill 2nd Japan Album]" (Watch on YouTube)

Orange Caramel "Catallena"

"[MV] ORANGE CARAMEL '까탈레나(Catallena)' Music video" (Watch on YouTube)

*The hashtag is #twang_Lizzy.

**Orange Caramel is a subunit, consisting of three members of After School: Nana, Raina, and Lizzy.

Comments

JYP parties like it's 1987

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

The teaser for the title track of the Wonder Girls comeback is out, and it's synthpop with Ye-eun on keytar and Sunmi on the tollet. :)

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Someone in the Youtube comments says "Ooh it sounds like 80s freestyle which is my fav genre of music, next to Kpop ofc". Whether it really is freestyle I'll leave to you.

Tag/Untag

[koganbot]

Not that this has much to do with this post, but I'm now slowly going through and deleting my "K-pop" tag, since it had become so ubiquitous as to be almost meaningless, and was so big on my sidebar that all the other tags were small.

Re: JYP parties like it's 1987

[koganbot]

Speaking of JYP, I showed up at the Jukebox for GOT7.

Re: JYP parties like it's 1987

[koganbot]

Mat points to what looks like genuine promo copy identifying the style as freestyle. Seems more like frothy Madonna quasi-freestyle than the heavy barrio stuff, though. (Not that there's anything wrong with the former.)

Re: JYP parties like it's 1987

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, arcadey compares it to Exposé.

Anywa, I'm tempted to say there are freestyle influences in some of the other tracks, like Candle and Loved. John Doe at least has a freestyle curlicue at the beginning and the end.

Re: JYP parties like it's 1987

[koganbot]

Here's the link to the teaser David embedded (Wonder Girls "I Feel You"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62JoFqsdhM