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koganbotI'm preserving this long excerpt from Lee Sun-hee's Wikipedia writeup in case some dutiful Wikipedian discovers the entry and takes out all the good stuff:
"Ah! The Good Old Days"
In 1984, she participated in the 5th MBC Riverside Song Festival as a team named '4막 5장' with Im Sung-kyun, senior of the same department of university, and made her debut earning great attention to win the Grand Prize with a song "To J". At that time, she had a perm in a hurry because she was afraid that she might be caught the fact that she competed in the festival without any permission by her parents. That's why she seems so out of place.
When Lee Sun-hee visited the music office of Jang Wook-jo, a South Korean songwriter, in the second year of high school to find a song to sing, a composer named Lee Se-geon was throwing bunch of sheet music away in the garbage can. Sun-hee asked him watching that scene, "Can I use this?", and picked music with his permission. Surprisingly, the song in that music was "To J", her debut and signature song which gave her grand prize of festival. There was a joke that Jeon Doo-hwan, South Korean president at that time, would ban "To J" in radio because the song reminded the nation of the president because his family named starts with 'J'. In fact, this song was used when satirizing the news that always report their president at first.
She was famous for having female fans more than male fans even though she is a woman because of her explosive singing ability and the charm of her boyish attire. It is the beginning of 'sister unit'. At that time, video of her stage performance shows screaming sound of female fans like the sound coming out in the male idol's stage performance by yelling fans nowadays. The size of her sister unit of Lee Sun-hee was so huge, and the power of her sister unit was so great that there was a rumor that the company gave money and mobilized people.
Lee Sun-hee's round glasses and curt hair caused so-called 'Lee Sun-hee syndrome', which was popular among female students at that time. The unique image making that sticks to a course wearing pantsuit costume and her appearance like a shy boy attracted not only male fans but also female fans in 'Lee Sunhee syndrome'. Social atmosphere that rejects the decadent trend set up the environment that singers with healthy image like her can succeed and stretch their wings. Additionally, Lee Sun-hee was able to make herself popular with her unique vocal ability expressing strong power at high notes and songs that stimulate emotions of young women.
"Ah! The Good Old Days"
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Date: 2020-07-06 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-07-06 01:50 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2chupHLyzxU
Isn't as rock 'n' roll as "Ah, The Good Old Days," but was the best of hers from 1990 I could find.
*Track hasn't shown up yet (he's halfway through the Qualifying Trials), but here are today's heats.
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Date: 2020-07-06 05:01 pm (UTC)I have given up on Twitter, alas. Or given up on me on Twitter, more accurately.
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Date: 2020-07-09 03:40 am (UTC)In her higher register she'll go ripped-up and tormented in her throat, almost as if Karen Carpenter suddenly turned into Patti Smith. --Not sure if there actually is an Anglo-American equivalent to her high pitch. Was wondering if Kang Mi-Jin was going for a Lee Sun-hee pitch in her audition for The Voice: she was doing an IU song, and she started with an IU wispiness as a kind of fakeout. Then gave the judges a happy jolt.
Kang Mi-Jin was a Dolores O'Riordan stan.
(Kang had been in Brown Eyed Girls when they were in development but the agency pulled her out for some reason; maybe they didn't think she fit the group's vibe.)