Pop bands and synchronized dancing (Carly, yet another reason for you to visit me) are still alive and well in Korea. The number one song topping the charts for the past three weeks has been "Tell Me", by The Wonder Girls, a teenage girl pop band. This song has exploded everywhere. I hear it on M-Net (Korea's music video network), commercials, grocery stores, outside when I'm teaching class...it's seriously everywhere! The Korea Times claims that the song has "captured the nation" and my favorite quote from the article is this:
"A housewife who disclosed only her surname Kim said, 'My husband likes the group so much, and I thought it was kind of gross, you know, a 40-year-old man watching and enjoying teenage girls in short skirts dancing. However, I soon found myself humming the song unconsciously and imitating the dance when watching the television.'''
What's all the hype about? I'll let you decide.
Even better is the fact that people here are so obsessed with the song, they'll learn the dance moves, and film themselves recreating the magic. Which of course, isn't too different from America. Just type in "Britney Spears dance moves" on youtube, and tons of how-to videos will pop up...uhhh, not that I would know or anything...
4 comments:
oh my gosh. i love this. i want to have their asian babies. and i kind of like that song too...sucka for pop. they look like 14!
synchronized dancing rocks my world. why cant people break out in synchronized dance all the time?
is it weird that the the skinny dude in the back left kinda turned me on with his self booty rubbing? get me his digits, sis.
How hilarious!! Catchin' any Korean style CMT over there? "I saw you, I saw you" - Tracy
Haha, i love it how you say, "the skinny one in the back" and they're all so skinny.
You should be friends with these dudes.
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