Gee gee gee gee gee~
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009소녀시대, or Girls Generation, is a girlgroup that it seems you either love, or hate. They are often compared to the Wonder Girls (another love-or-hate situation, apparently), a comparison that I think is unfair - to both groups. Their music style is vastly different, as is their image. The plans their companies have in store for them is also incredibly different, and while on the surface pop is pop, if you look deeper then you will see that they are in fact being geared towards certain specific goals and niches. JYP has his sights set on America for his 5 member girlgroup, while SM Entertainment is quite content to keep their 9 girls doing their thing at home.
One thing both groups do have in common though, is their fair share of fans and anti-fans alike.
Personally I prefer 소녀시대. I only liked 2 songs on their debut album, but I think that vocally they are a lot stronger than the Wonder Girls. The Wonder Girls, however, have had a few more catchier hits. Tell Me, So Hot and Nobody were three songs that, even if you hated them, were pretty much guaranteed to get stuck in your head whether you liked it or not. 소녀시대 on the other hand, didn’t have anything even nearly as catchy.
Until now. Last week, 소녀시대 released a mini album. The title song is Gee, and I think the chorus alone definitely has what it takes to rival the catchy tunes of the Wonder Girls. Check out the MV below:
How can that not get stuck in your head? Oh oh oh oh oh~ Gee gee gee gee gee~
And completely unrelated but I just had to share the following with everyone:
Super Junior’s 김희철 and FTIsland’s 이홍기 (and others) doing guess-the-word. In English. Its loud and crazy, and made me laugh a lot, and also made me wish that I could be so kamikaze about my own language learning.
Posted by Taliana in Korean Music |
January 14th, 2009 at 10:24 am
Maybe we need some “kamikaze” lessons from kclass!
January 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Hahahaha!!! That last video was hilarious!!
We should have a Korean version!!
January 15th, 2009 at 7:35 am
I watched that English-game video… Wow… I did a similar game in my ESL classes in Korea, but without all the pantomime. Still, the students definitely did get excited! Maybe next time I try to do it, they’ll be more even more enthusiastic now that guys from Superjunior and FT Island have done it, too.
January 15th, 2009 at 8:49 am
Seriously how is this song not in everyone’s head 24/7? The video alone is pure cuteness overload…
January 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
wah i wanna play! heechul is so good at it
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:02 am
AHAHAHHA
HEECHUL IS SO FUNNY. XD i think i can converse with him in english XDDD
January 23rd, 2009 at 9:31 am
@maxiewawa I’d love kamizake lessons XD
@Matthew I know right? Even if you don’t like the song, it’s just the kind of tune that gets stuck right in there and plagues you constantly!
@jaeismyrainbowsky Even if you couldn’t converse with him, at least you know you’d have a fantastically fun time TRYING
January 25th, 2009 at 12:23 am
lol considering im 14 and i love kpop
wonder girls and snsd are my favorite!
i love gee
its like so catchy i havent been able to stop listening to it for like the past month and a half ((:
May 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
[…] One of those songs is 너라고 (It’s You), which will be promoted as their next single, now that SORRY, SORRY (the song, not the album) is ending it’s run. It’s written by E-Tribe, the composer behind the super catchy will-never-get-out-of-your-head Gee, by 소녀시대, as well as pop queen 이효리’s U-Go-Girl. […]