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Sistar A Cappela - Hngh so good to the ears and those bora's small bouncing dance moves
wa$$up - wa$$up songs sounds boring to me. couple of cute girls. but no no to the dothraki girl
Ladies Code - first Ladies Code song I've heard, pretty good song and cute MV. also the girl in yellow (who looks like a bit of Taeyeon and Sojin) and the girl with black bunny girls are qts
SNSD - song is okayish for me, but nothing special. Video was .. idk.
yeah snsd was okay, I actually thought pretty bad music wise except for taeyeon carrying the group hard. dance video is meh overall but they are all looking good in it.
I like the new SNSD a lot, a shame they won't promote it because I like their styles/dance in the clip a lot as well. A shame about the epilepsy danger and the random english part (as always) as well
On September 05 2013 15:11 andyrau wrote: technically it's still an awkward/ironic issue that two native eng speakers can't make English sound decent, especially considering that Tiffany penned the lyrics for the boys
socal accents man smh
valley girl accents*
Hey man......valley girl accents are pretty much extinct now! I know, I live here!
All Japanese Pvs are shit quality so they can eventually sell you a bluray full of them for 200usd
Ah, that would explain why there was so much artifacting. I was wondering if it was just the inability of my monitor to process the lights (which usually isn't the case)
On September 05 2013 15:01 TheEmulator wrote: I actually really like both the song and the music video. Although I dislike the English parts, I always feel like SNSD does that poorly.
every korean group do the english parts poorly. even the ones that use native english speakers. the lyrics are just bad and doesnt go well with the song
Yeah, imo it never has anything to do with whether they have native English speakers or not. It's usually just horrible song writing
I don't think this is the case. In fact, it is so 'horrible' because of the writing. I'm sure that if they wanted, they could have the SNSD girls sing Oxford English, or in the cutest Southern Drawl for that matter. It's about the expectations of the public, and we are not their main audience. Same thing happens in the Netherlands and Germany (elsewhere probably as well), there's a certain image of what someone (singer, ceo, chimney sweep) should sound like, and if that isn't a strong enough force to induce people to speak (sing) in a certain manner, there is the production crew backing it up with a much stricter defined set of rules. Same thing as voice-overs in British/American(/???) media speaking with foreign accents, voice-overing with a certain accent is actually a job for some people. Of course the BBC has PR speaking people on the payroll, it's just that the 'strangeness' of foreign speakers has to be demonstrated. Such speakers often have less of a horrible accent in English themselves, but lets not have that interfere with the production of news for an audience accustomed to a certain way of being informed. Also, not suspecting kpop production companies completely controlling things like these seems rather naive.
Don't like the song, can't recognise any of the girls anymore (it's been a couple of years actually), final destination seems to be a cluster of indistinguishable gynoids doing simple dances to generic music.
Wait what, I think you misunderstood me because you basically just agreed with everything I said
I said it has nothing to do with their level of English, whether good or bad. Like you mentioned they could have Oxford level English and still sound terrible. And I said it was mostly because of horrible song writing which is also what you said.
You probably missed the "never" in my sentence. And read it as "imo it has to do with whether they have English speakers or not".
On September 05 2013 15:11 andyrau wrote: technically it's still an awkward/ironic issue that two native eng speakers can't make English sound decent, especially considering that Tiffany penned the lyrics for the boys
socal accents man smh
valley girl accents*
Hey man......valley girl accents are pretty much extinct now! I know, I live here!
All Japanese Pvs are shit quality so they can eventually sell you a bluray full of them for 200usd
Ah, that would explain why there was so much artifacting. I was wondering if it was just the inability of my monitor to process the lights (which usually isn't the case)
A lot of the time you don't even get the full video, this is already better than normal
On September 06 2013 01:59 Wesso wrote: I like the new SNSD a lot, a shame they won't promote it because I like their styles/dance in the clip a lot as well. A shame about the epilepsy danger and the random english part (as always) as well
I assume will be promoting it, though knowing Japanese tv shows they may not always perform the entire song. I expect atleast a few performances to come of it though.
And no its not for some Galaxy product... it is to help promote some fashion company however.
I'm feelin a T-ara comeback now with Kara's demise, this is what KKS has always dreamed of. Hopefully they aren't too terrible if they do comeback.
I like the SNSD track, the only bad part like everyone else said, was Sica's "Oh boy, do you believe the situation? You better keep this a secret." part. That's the only flagrantly bad part in the song that I noticed.
Clearly a sign that Tuelite needs to comeback. In all seriousness, they're probably just going to end up hiding in Japan the second this promotion cycle ends, anyways.
Hm, I have major mixed feelings about the new SNSD song. I don't think there are any song of theirs I don't like, even the one's that many consider crap. Yet I find myself not liking this song. Nothing stands out to me about it. I am hoping that it will grow on me.
I also saw it on facebook with 10k+ likes and a lot of comments complaining about Kara. Somehow everything has really blown up on them, it really only takes 1 misstep to really hurt yourself.
That video doesn't include Jiyoung crying cause people make her do aegyo or HSY talking about her terrible acting.