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koganbotWriter/producer Shinsadong Tiger made music that was catchy and excellently danceable. Korea had normalized, and sometimes sweetened, a lot of sounds that had been wilder and more explosive in electronic dance subgenres and in hip-hop.* The results were often just as good, and I felt that with Shinsadong Tiger in particular, the sweetness worked as an intensifier. Even while the freestyle riffs of a track like "Hot Issue" were shortened so as to live within his song structures, they still contained freestyle fierceness, though working like jabs more than like roundhouse swings.
4minute - Hot Issue
I don't have the chops to explain what he achieved beyond saying he had a gift for hooks and melodies, though I once attempted a two-part analysis of 4minute's "Volume Up" (here and here). With T-ara, he was especially fabulous, though I wonder if the exhilaration of the music contributed to the group's becoming a focus for so much drama and hysteria.
T-ara - Lovey-Dovey (mirror dance)
T-ara - Lovey-Dovey (live mix)
*I was the only person on ILM's K-pop thread to defend Bubble Pop"'s dubstep break.** (Go here and search "dubstep.") Others thought it killed the mood – I thought using it with a hilarious sex provocateur like Hyuna made the momentary squelch and dissonance as bubbly and bratty as the rest of the song.
**TSJ was far friendlier to the track's dubstep pretensions.
4minute - Hot Issue
I don't have the chops to explain what he achieved beyond saying he had a gift for hooks and melodies, though I once attempted a two-part analysis of 4minute's "Volume Up" (here and here). With T-ara, he was especially fabulous, though I wonder if the exhilaration of the music contributed to the group's becoming a focus for so much drama and hysteria.
T-ara - Lovey-Dovey (mirror dance)
T-ara - Lovey-Dovey (live mix)
*I was the only person on ILM's K-pop thread to defend Bubble Pop"'s dubstep break.** (Go here and search "dubstep.") Others thought it killed the mood – I thought using it with a hilarious sex provocateur like Hyuna made the momentary squelch and dissonance as bubbly and bratty as the rest of the song.
**TSJ was far friendlier to the track's dubstep pretensions.
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