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Requizen
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Still not going to buy that shitty series or the Kinect, but it's kind of cool. | ||
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HaXXspetten
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Xenocide_Knight
Korea (South)2625 Posts
On July 24 2012 03:57 ASie wrote: Gee is THE freaking gateway drug. Although if your friends are coming from a more electronic background, Electric Shock wouldn't be a bad place to start. A lot of K-Pop has some interesting sounds that may get some time getting used to, though. I don't know if your friends can handle the broken English, because some of mine can't. I actually introduced one of my friends to kpop through Electric shock. It wasn't on purpose but surprisingly good reception. I personally still cringe inside at Krystal's "laser" line even though I love the song. Taking a tally of successful intro songs I've used we have Gee (4.5) + Show Spoiler + The half on Gee and Lovey Dovey is the same person, I actually showed him Gee but he came back a day later playing Lovey Dovey on loop for like 5 hours straight. Lovey Dovey (1.5) Electric Shock (1) Cry Cry (1) Interesting to note that Gee/Lovey were all males and the other 2 were females. (Both of these girls had seen Gee before to no effect). Although I'm convinced that the actual factor that gets you into kpop is having a bias. Obviously you can't have a bias without an introduction first but without a bias, it seems to stagnate at a handful (2-6) of songs. Once you have a bias though, you pretty much snowball yourself into kpop madness. | ||
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aloT
England1042 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4S02W.jpg) This has been my background since I got into kpop. Even though she isn't my bias, not even in SNSD, everytime I have switched I feel a sense of loss. | ||
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
On July 24 2012 04:42 Xenocide_Knight wrote: I actually introduced one of my friends to kpop through Electric shock. It wasn't on purpose but surprisingly good reception. I personally still cringe inside at Krystal's "laser" line even though I love the song. Taking a tally of successful intro songs I've used we have Gee (4.5) + Show Spoiler + The half on Gee and Lovey Dovey is the same person, I actually showed him Gee but he came back a day later playing Lovey Dovey on loop for like 5 hours straight. Lovey Dovey (1.5) Electric Shock (1) Cry Cry (1) Interesting to note that Gee/Lovey were all males and the other 2 were females. (Both of these girls had seen Gee before to no effect). Agree on those being good picks, but let me drop a wild card for ya. I had huge success with YaYaYa. As wtf as that might sound, that is exactly the point. Many people will assume that what you're showing them is nothing but a troll in the first place, so by going with something as extremely wtf as that, there is no risk whatsoever as you've always got a free ticket out, and it'll make most people laugh. It might not be a good song in itself, but you get a secondary reason to introduce people to it, making it easier to push onwards towards giving them the real deal. | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
To be fair, that is a stupidly adorable picture. | ||
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Sugarfluff
Sweden132 Posts
On July 24 2012 04:45 HaXXspetten wrote: Agree on those being good picks, but let me drop a wild card for ya. I had huge success with YaYaYa. As wtf as that might sound, that is exactly the point. Many people will assume that what you're showing them is nothing but a troll in the first place, so by going with something as extremely wtf as that, there is no risk whatsoever as you've always got a free ticket out, and it'll make most people laugh. It might not be a good song in itself, but you get a secondary reason to introduce people to it, making it easier to push onwards towards giving them the real deal. Might try YaYaYa, so far the only korean song my friends have accepted is Gangnam style. In no small part due to the video, which can definitely be considered "extremely wtf".  Granted it is quite different from the stuff I prefer myself but I'm hoping it's a start which I can build on. | ||
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Lokk
Canada635 Posts
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Taesica
United States173 Posts
On July 24 2012 04:52 Sugarfluff wrote: Might try YaYaYa, so far the only korean song my friends have accepted is Gangnam style. In no small part due to the video, which can definitely be considered "extremely wtf". Granted it is quite different from the stuff I prefer myself but I'm hoping it's a start which I can build on.yeah it seems like everyone likes Gangnam Style. was watching the Korean WCS Prelims yesterday and they played it during 'commercial' break, and everyone was going crazy all night demanding moar Gangnam Style. i kept trying to get them to put on Bing Bing during commercial, to little avail :[ | ||
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unichan
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andyrau
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On July 24 2012 05:07 unichan wrote: gangnam style is this year's bubble pop I dislike both as well as bing bing. row row fight the kmd train I wonder if boa is going to sing live if she performs that choreo on stage. that routine looks exhausting. | ||
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ShmeeZZy
United States254 Posts
On July 24 2012 04:42 Xenocide_Knight wrote: I actually introduced one of my friends to kpop through Electric shock. It wasn't on purpose but surprisingly good reception. I personally still cringe inside at Krystal's "laser" line even though I love the song. Taking a tally of successful intro songs I've used we have Gee (4.5) + Show Spoiler + The half on Gee and Lovey Dovey is the same person, I actually showed him Gee but he came back a day later playing Lovey Dovey on loop for like 5 hours straight. Lovey Dovey (1.5) Electric Shock (1) Cry Cry (1) Interesting to note that Gee/Lovey were all males and the other 2 were females. (Both of these girls had seen Gee before to no effect). Although I'm convinced that the actual factor that gets you into kpop is having a bias. Obviously you can't have a bias without an introduction first but without a bias, it seems to stagnate at a handful (2-6) of songs. Once you have a bias though, you pretty much snowball yourself into kpop madness. Here are the songs I have tried using with multiple friends at different venues and on the playlist. Surprisingly, people don’t like it when you try to sandwich in T-ara’s “Like the first time” with Usher’s”Scream” and David Guetta’s “Titanium”. Who knew? Wonder Girls • Like Money • Stop! • SuperB Miss A • Love Alone -Got the worse reaction =( T-ara • Like the first time 2NE1 • I love you SNSD • Gee • Genie • Boys Hyuna • Bubble Pop The bold are the songs I tried at the party. The SNSD songs I avoided from that party because of the reactions I received from friends when I tried playing it in front of them. “What is this? Kids Bop?” I cringe whenever I get that reaction! Same reason why I have avoided playing a song like Lovey Dovey around any of my friends. I agree with the bias theory. I didn't start to snowball untill I had my Sunny bias. After that it was all downhill. Once I had all the SNSD songs I wanted, I started to expand out to the other groups. | ||
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HaXXspetten
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Monocle
United States1509 Posts
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Pulselol
Canada1628 Posts
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Retgery
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Requizen
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
Gangnam style is a bad intro song imo, it'll give the wrong impression of Kpop to kpop virgins. Epik high is pretty good intro too, w/ wannabe, and run | ||
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ShmeeZZy
United States254 Posts
On July 24 2012 05:56 Pulselol wrote: or just not give a fuck to what your friends think. Not about caring what my firends think. It's about having people to share the experience with. KMD is nice and all but I would like to have some RL friends to go to concerts or listen to music with. | ||
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