heres a kpop video with no korean words

For the korean illiterate, which is all of us. Well, this isnt technically a song. It is just a dance video.This girl group is called AfterSchool. They stand out from the rest of the kpop scene due to their everchanging concept and experiments with music. Their previous concept was military drummers. Check out their drumming below:



They have performed live more than a couple of times and I saw one of the members perform in a variety show which was filmed in an isolated, secluded village so they are pretty much the real deal, not some CG gimmick with the sound effects cut and pasted. They also sang my favourite kpop song: Because of You. Nah, it has nothing to do with the english song of the same title.

I fall in love with the song the first time I heard it on my friend's ipod. Back then I didn't even know who sang it. I had no idea who AfterSchool are. I like it when the soothing sad melody is accompanied by the strong fiery beat. Not to mention the fierce rapping overlapping the sad vocals. I think it signifies the similarities between sadness and anger as emotions. They are just different points on a same spectum. I didn't understand a single word they sang. I just knew it was a sad, sad song and that sadness turned into anger halfway through the song. Have you guys experienced it before? When you were so sad that you started feeling angry instead. Well, I cant seem to remember any moment I felt that way, so that's a relief. lol.

Well, just thought that this is more interesting than the animal behavior assignment I am doing right now. Or you guys rather I blog about my assignment?

P.S. The first tap-dancing video was just released. So somehow, you guys are more well informed than some kpop fans out there. rofl. sheesh.

go ahead and tell me that this song isnt nice.

Fiery rapping, amazing choreography, soothing vocals (especially all the high notes), addictive fast electric beat, alternating transitions between fierce and calming tunes, most importantly, LIVE singing. What's there not to love?

And you wonder why I converted.

Korea Got Talent

Since the theme of this blog has suddenly turned towards Kpop recently, I shall continue with that trend.

Well, the purpose of this blog is to let me share stuff that I am uncomfortable sharing elsewhere. Stuff like my thoughts, opinions, views etc. (duh!)

Even though trivial, kpop is one of those things. I would love to share them on FB but not everyone is a kpop fan and I dont wish to spam the crap out of them. That said, I have been clearing my friends list on FB. I have like 900 plus friends on FB but I dont really know them?! I mean, we are acquaintances and all.. I really wish to make my list smaller. This large random group of 'friends' is also the one of the reason why I prefer to share stuff here instead.

Where do we draw the line? What makes someone a facebook friend? A random 3 minute introduction? A meal?

Dam. I dont care shit about being 'popular' and it really makes me uncomfortable in using FB to communicate. Imagine there are strangers who understand you so well, they know where were you last Friday night, they know that you dont eat chilli, love strawberry ice cream and has classes at 8am every Monday morning. wtf. My mentality has certainly changed. I used to be want to heard by as many of possible, I somehow liked the attention. Now I just want to mind my own business and do my own shit. Do we call that maturity?

I think I deleted like 30 'friends' but the list is still so.. big. Will try again next time.

Crap, I deviated from the Kpop topic and this post is slowly resembling a normal blog post lol! That's a pleasant surprise.

Oh yea, this is a cover of Tesha's Tick Tock by a Korean singer. It's an acoustic version recorded using a guitar and ipad's garageband. It is pretty cool. She used garageband to play the drums, bass etc, kind of like a one-girl band.

So yea, korea got talent. I am not saying elsewhere doesn't have any but korea sure got talent, just saying. *shrugs*

Comeback!

It has been awhile and a lot of things have changed while a lot of things have stayed the same.

Just wanted to share this somewhere! 4minute comback! I really quite like the choreography of the performance, especially the second song!

If you notice not all the girls are the 'ideal pretty' type. So I am not just watching it for the pretty faces! Tsk. Believe it or not.

Dont know if I should share this on facebook due to all the judgmental people out there. TSK. Kpop is such a misunderstood genre. The artists are as hardworking, or even more, as any other celebrities out there.

If you have no idea whats going on, dont belittle other people's hard work!



Didnt realise when I started only penning trivial thoughts in this blog.