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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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now if I flick through the channels on TV and MTV or Mnet or KMTV , I am just looking for cute girls!!!
I will listen to see if the song is good or not, I will make my prediction they will last 1 year 1 week what ever.. then if they get my vote for emmm pretty hot, I will turn the volume down and just watch the girls until I get bored which is usually 2 minutes that stupid dancing always makes me hate the Korean Music industry more!!
when I first came in 96-97 I thought wow check these out cool!!
that fade lasted all of a week when I realised every band was doing the same thing!!!!
I dont see the point in men in their 20's trying to be cute!!
I dont care what sells! thats crazy!! you dont see BSB or NSYNC selling out to those extremes!! well not that much anyway!
still BABY VOX and SES FINKLY and some others are still worth a look when they release a new video, they mostly use foreigner video directors so they get a little nasty sometimes,not quit christina DIRTY but ok..
I will only listen to korean ballads without pictures and a couple others if im driving or what ever.. |
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sakamuras
Joined: 21 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 11:09 am Post subject: |
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I LOVE KOREAN MUSIC!!!!  |
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gibbythecat
Joined: 26 May 2003
Location: hub
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:25 am Post subject: |
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i just designed n built a bar in kang nam,put in the soundsystem etc.
its a cool bar,similar to a new york,london,paris etc type thing...white,modernist,concrete floor, steel n glass.cool.
a place to drink n chill in an insane ugly city.
the barman[thick,early 20s,never left korea,you know the thing]turns up with his music..he knows a lot about music,knows whats cool,couldnt be told anything by this english designer who designs and builds and visits bars all over the world.
its summer2003
he puts on..childish kpop,the beatles,queen,early60s freddy n the dreamers or somthing,celine d,theme from titanic etcetcetc
i go out and buy the type of music that bars like this should be playing,and are playing all round the world.
you know the stuff..ambient,buddah bar,massive attack,whatever i can get my hands on here ...theRIGHT music for this kind of bar.music that compliments the lighting,the atmosphere,architecture..
he refuses to play it....'i dont understand what koreans like' he told me.
I guess they are only 'comfortable' listening to the same thing,everywhere,over and over again.group mentality with music,the familar, yet he was mainly listening to music from my homeland produced before he was born...yet he was an expert on music he told me again and again.
i wonder what he hears when playing this music,what it actually means to him?is he actually hearing it,or is it some kind of mantra,background white noise?
as soon as i'm out the door..its back to queen.
last time i was in there he was playing BUGGLES'video killed the radio star'
[which he had downloaded] in an empty bar,at massive volume.
he was terribly pleased with himself,he asked me if i knew it.
i told him the year it was released,then went outside to cry.
only in korea.
HE KILLED MY BAR
they know best.
they cant be told
hiseoul...the diverse dynamic up to the minute hub of the world
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Trinny
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| sakamuras wrote: |
| I LOVE KOREAN MUSIC!!!! |
Are you trying to be an online provocator? |
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kiwiboy_nz_99
Joined: 05 Jul 2003
Location: ...Enlightenment...
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| gibbythecat wrote: |
| last time i was in there he was playing BUGGLES'video killed the radio star' |
I see nothing but good and your tone is suggestive that this is somehow a bad thing.
On anoter note: Lee Jung Hyun's new CD is out. Write that down and buy it today. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| I see nothing but good |
The part about the empty bar didn't sound good, but who knows whether the music is to blame. I'd like to say yes, but I have no idea what your average Korean 20 something wants to hear when they go to a bar. |
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syclick
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
| On anoter note: Lee Jung Hyun's new CD is out. Write that down and buy it today. |
I will admit, I actually bought this the other day. I did a double-take when I saw the new video - it's NOTHING like her other stuff. LJH's videos are usually quite weird, and she doesn't smile a lot in them. Her new video is so uber-cute and silly that if you didn't tell me it was her I wouldn't have known.
While I'm not too hot on Kpop, I do like the odd song. I am currently addicted to that Loveholic song. At least they can play their own instruments and don't sound like a dying cat when they sing live.
I find most of Kpop to be sorely lacking in originality. Songwriters and instrumentalists don't get much popularity, it seems. Not that a lack of originality doesn't make for an occasional good song, but I can't really find myself really getting into any Kpop artists over the long run.
Sometimes it seems to be a problem of image over substance. Kpop is is so overly-concerned with image - if a Kpop artist is "changing his/her style" it usually is more concerned with a change of image than a change in the attitude or type of music. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| hiseoul...the diverse dynamic up to the minute hub of the world |
Interesting- went out for Vietnamese last night for supper and saw a guy wearing a shirt which had this on the front [the guy was eating with his back to me to but the back of the shirt caught my eye as it said 'woori bank' in Hangul with what appeared to be the old Hanvit bank logo- it reminded me of the banking thread]. Don't see too many shirts with hangul on them around these parts. So what exactly is "hiseoul"? Bar? Brand? Event? Company? |
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gang ah jee
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:20 pm Post subject: |
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'Hi Seoul' is the current tourism promotion slogan for the city. If you took 2 monkeys, gave them 2 typewriters and about 3 or four hours they could probably come up with something better.
I mean 'Seoul'... think of the PUNS |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I see... "hub of the world", eh? New York, London, and Paris (among others) are bound to be rather put out by that slogan... |
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William Beckerson
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Gord wrote: |
On anoter note: Lee Jung Hyun's new CD is out. Write that down and buy it today. |
Phah! She puts a new one out every two months. . |
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gibbythecat
Joined: 26 May 2003
Location: hub
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well the hiseoul promotion thing by the Korean govt. and Seoul metropolitan gov/tourist agency is sooo funny to me.
i assumed everyone knew of this lame slogan?
...i just add all the catch phrases together that koreans are using on aariang,billboards,tourist marketing etc to make
hiseoul..welcomes the world to the dynamic beautiful exciting hub of asia
mad korean centric claims..but you are bombarded with them everyday
anyone who has spent 10 mins anywhere else in the world would know how farfetched and frankly dishonest it is.
they havent got the world cup this year,and are compensating,desperatly trying to lure people to this polluted pile of stinking broken concrete rubble
called seoul.
not working tho,is it.
the only thing here that's hi is the drains
they actually believe this stuff?whats next.....
hiseoul..welcomes the world to the cradle of civilisation,the hub of the universe,an unspoilt paradise waiting for you..
hahahahah
they are driving me mad
ps. the bar is full now,thank god,despite the kpop  |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| William Beckerson wrote: |
| Phah! She puts a new one out every two months. . |
I just don't see this as being a bad thing. I rather dislike how the American music industry has shifted towards the one CD every couple years or more for most groups, while at the same time CDs in America cost twice the price.
I will continue to buy all her CDs. And add Kim Hyun Jung to that list, her sixth CD is out now and I picked it up today.
EDIT: Fifth CD was better. Tsk. |
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camel96
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When I was here a few years ago g.o.d was big. People were killing themselves because some girlie boy wouldn't requite their love. The Korean Beatles they called them. Even though no one at the time had any idea who the Beatles were. Now I come back. Hey I'm young. I'm trying to be cool. And I say to my first class back. "Hey do you guys like g.o.d?"
And they're all like "Teacher g.o.d sucks! YOU suck too!" So I've given up trying to understand Korean music. I try to stick to the constants. Like the Arirang TV theme song. You know that annoying saxophone one that they play when they're showing what's on for the rest of the night.
There's even a band now called "we've" or "we're" or something like that. I can't work out where to start on that one. It's making my neurons misfire. I give up. Gord where's the gun???????? |
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