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giesecke

Germany361 Posts

February 28 2014 10:02 GMT

#102061

a goddess

Nedereden

777 Posts

February 28 2014 10:09 GMT

#102062

On February 28 2014 07:28 rave[wcr] wrote:
so which kpop girl do you guys think has the best fancams? its mostly nana and jaekyung for me. aside from that famous chocolat tia bra strap fancam w/c is a given.

i think sooyoung would have great fancams but odly enough it seems she lacks any really good ones.

Da hek bro... you forgot Yura! zzz

And NS Yoon G..

evilfatsh1t

Australia8915 Posts

February 28 2014 10:15 GMT

#102063

On February 28 2014 14:58 DystopiaX wrote:

Show nested quote +

On February 28 2014 14:14 Sovano wrote:

On February 27 2014 00:03 DystopiaX wrote:

On February 26 2014 21:16 Grimsolution wrote:

On February 26 2014 16:24 zzAlan wrote:
Am I right in saying that the korean language lacks "hard" sounds? I enjoy listening to kpop (over other music) when I don't understand much of the lyrics, i'm sure there's a good reason for it but I can't put my finger on it.

They do have hard sounds, but some of the sounds like ㅂ= b/p, ㄷ= d/t ㄱ= g/k are neither the soft, nor the hard, it's somewhere in the middle most of the time. ㅋ= K, ㅌ = T, ㅍ= P are often used for the hard sound equivalent.

On February 26 2014 17:20 evilfatsh1t wrote:
im not sure what you mean by hard sounds, but by my definition korea definitely has hard sounds. i dont think its possible to properly explain why korean sounds pleasant to people ears unless youre a linguist though. for example i find japanese very pleasant to listen to as well, but cant stand chinese or any other east/south east asian language

For what I know, the Japanese and Korean language is in the same language group, distinct from Chinese and other Asian languages. I also find Japanese pleasant to listen to, but most J-pop songs don't really draw my attention.

The way I've heard it Japanese and Korean aren't really in any language group per se, but share the most similarities with each other. Not enough of a linguist to really know why they aren't classified as being in the same language group but there you are I guess

It's a bit difficult to explain..but long story short both Korean and Japanese are heavily influenced by the Chinese language and more importantly their writing system and that's all you really need to know. If I remember right, Japan developed their system from Korea which developed theirs from China, don't quote me on that though. I find it interesting why Korean and Japanese are not tonal languages though like Chinese is, but I suppose that removes one barrier to learning Korean and Japanese.

But fuck this is a great week. New T-ara, TVXQ, and BESTie songs which are all pretty good. I don't know if anyone else feels the same but I've never really disliked any song that T-ara has produced.

No I mean I know that much but Korean/Japanese are not in the same language group as Chinese (nor with each other apparently?) and it's that difference I don't understand. The similarities to Chinese/each other are obvious.

chinese was the main language in korea for a long time, even if it was slightly different to mainland chinas version. however, the only people who could read and write it were high class people, because chinese was too difficult to learn for the lower class citizens. thats why king sejong created the korean language in secret with an easy to learn alphabet so that everyone in korea could speak and learn the same language

shin_toss

Philippines2589 Posts

February 28 2014 10:23 GMT

#102064

Minah fell down @ 2:30 T__T , She handled it pretty well tho

Kaiwa

Netherlands2209 Posts

February 28 2014 10:24 GMT

#102065

New BESTie is absolutely amazing.

purpl3ninja

Australia25 Posts

February 28 2014 11:17 GMT

#102066

On February 28 2014 19:24 Kaiwa wrote:
New BESTie is absolutely amazing.

Yeah I'm digging it a lot. The live performance was great too.

Enken

France156 Posts

February 28 2014 12:47 GMT

#102067

playlist of the new Nell'
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhPGS9FPKryPbK8lMJyKa5f5Ue5Hk-JPu
so gud

purpl3ninja

Australia25 Posts

February 28 2014 13:30 GMT

#102068

Not feeling the MV unfortunately.

Gexs

Australia214 Posts

February 28 2014 13:38 GMT

#102069

On February 28 2014 22:30 purpl3ninja wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8j_XEn9b_8

Not feeling the MV unfortunately.

Better than IGAB imo

SwARmZzz

Canada193 Posts

February 28 2014 13:41 GMT

#102070

I must say, that MV was quite underwhelming.... Thought the MV would give an already uninteresting song some needed umf, but no...

Ciryandor

United States3735 Posts

February 28 2014 13:56 GMT

#102071

Didn't they say the lost their original MV file? It sure looks like a spliced-up job.

CrayonPopChoa

Canada761 Posts

February 28 2014 14:12 GMT

#102072

Okay I admit I was planning on shitting on SNSD no matter what since the song is pretty bad but by god this video..
and I generally like there videos but this one was fucking bad I dont think even hardcore sones can defend how shit this MV is

Craton

United States17302 Posts

February 28 2014 14:16 GMT

#102073

Maybe they were taught by MOA.

tehplank

977 Posts

February 28 2014 14:19 GMT

#102074

I'm a big SNSD fan but damn that was bad..

Nesserev

Belgium2760 Posts

February 28 2014 14:21 GMT

#102075

--- Nuked ---

DwD

Sweden8621 Posts

February 28 2014 14:44 GMT

#102076

I thought they had to postpone so they could fix the corrupted parts, looks corrupted still

Way too much hype for what the end result is.

TanKLoveR

Venezuela838 Posts

February 28 2014 14:59 GMT

#102077

Disturbing lack of dancing in that video, was hoping those black and white parts were longer (they so remind me of BoA

) guess they lost those bits?. Fine enough imo.

Requizen

United States33802 Posts

February 28 2014 15:49 GMT

#102078

The dancing bits looked quite solid (as expected from SNSD), but yeah pretty poor overall unfortunately. I remember when Pandora came out and everyone was shitting over what was otherwise a decent song and dance routine because of the jump cuts, and then this is as bad if not worse.

Oh well, it's not all bad though. The girls look amazing (not to bias spazz too much, but Tiff was just as much of a goddess as usual and Hyo looked absolutely fantastic) and the song is growing on me more and more. I find myself singing the chorus a lot more than I thought I would after the first listen.

In fact the whole album feels a lot like IGAB did after my first few listens: I wasn't sure at first, but now after I'm getting over the shock of it being rather different there's a lot of good songs on there.

Similarly, while nothing on CRUSH jumped out at me before, I'm really digging it now. Some of 2NE1's better songs in a while, and I actually liked some of their singles last year.