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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
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| i wonder if a korean band will ever actually tour the US instead of just playing 2 cities. |
I wonder if a Korean band will ever tour KOREA instead of just playing 2 songs. |
If they have concerts in both Seoul and Busan, isn't that pretty much a tour?  |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
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Is this the Korean who sings "Come On Chameleon" (complete with the come here hand motions  ) on that one commercial? |
Or maybe, "Karma Chameleon"...  |
No, that's the actual song. The Korean singer sings "Come on" Chamelon, hence my italicizing and bolding that text... |
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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If I remember correctly, Rain didn't play in Madison Square Garden, he played in Madison Square Theatre, or something like that (I can't remember the name), which only holds roughly 5,000. His concert was played up in the Korean press, but he was uniformly panned in Western media.
This, too, shall fail. Konglish just doesn't work back home. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| JeJuJitsu wrote: |
| Is this the Korean who sings "Come On Chameleon" (complete with the come here hand motions ) on that one commercial? |
Or maybe, "Karma Chameleon"... |
No, that's the actual song. The Korean singer sings "Come on" Chamelon, hence my italicizing and bolding that text... |
That's not what I was alluding to. |
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Merlyn
Joined: 08 Dec 2004
Location: Korea
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Smee
Joined: 24 Dec 2004
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Hmm, lately the links to the Korea Times pages haven't worked for me.
Anyway, I'm right. He played at the Theatre in Madison Square Garden.
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The performances at the Theater at Madison Square Garden on Thursday and Friday are merely a prelude. "This is for the American music industry," said Park, "basically introducing Rain, giving a taste, and everybody is coming."
Most of the 10,000 people coming, however, will need no introduction. Like Julie Cho, 25, vice president of the Young Korean American Network in New York, who considers Rain "a really good dancer" and "very humble," they are already fans.
Immigrants or children of immigrants, they live in an era when technology makes it easy to connect with their homeland. Small-time entrepreneurs have long catered to the immigrant appetite for culture from back home. But what used to happen on a neighborhood level - a Colombian dance troupe at a Queens community center - is now taking place on a much larger scale. Like Rain, foreign artists are filling mainstream venues, their fans primed by the songs, videos, television shows and films that are ever more accessible through the Web, satellite television and new media outlets targeting hyphenated Americans.
Thus, word spread very quickly through New York's Korean community that a Korean pop star was coming to town. "There is definitely a sense of Rain-mania washing across the 32nd Street land here in Manhattan," Minya Oh, a D.J. on New York's Hot 97 radio station, said, referring to the city's small Koreatown.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/27/news/rain.php
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Korean Superstar Who Smiles and Says, 'I'm Lonely'
By JON PARELES
Rain, a 23-year-old Korean pop singer who is a superstar in Asia, is out to conquer the United States next. It won't be easy.
His first step was two sold-out shows at the Theater at Madison Square Garden, last night and Thursday night. The audience on Thursday was about 95 percent Asian, at least 90 percent female and always ready to scream. Like Rain, they were following the drill of a Michael Jackson concert from the early 1990's: songs that switched between stark beats and sweet choruses, angular group dances and tough-guy preening that gave way to professions of love.
Slender and wiry, Rain, known in Korean as Bi (pronounced "bee"), also acts in soap operas. He's a product of the globalization that pumps American products through worldwide media channels. People who fear mass-market threats to local styles need look no further for an example. If there's anything beyond the lyrics that's particularly Korean about Rain's songs, it's not obvious.
On the three albums he has released since 2002, Rain and his songwriter, producer, promoter and mastermind, Jin-Young Park, have imported and digested pop-R&B from the English-speaking world, emulating it with Korean lyrics. Since Rain's voice is lower and huskier than Mr. Jackson's, he dabbles in other pop-R&B approaches: the acoustic-guitar ballads of Babyface, the light funk-pop of Justin Timberlake, the crooning of George Michael and the importunings of Usher. Seeing him onstage was like watching old MTV videos dubbed into Korean.
The moment Rain appeared onstage, he was mimicking Mr. Jackson's costumes and moves: a fitted leather jacket, a dark suit and slouch hat, the freeze-frame postures. He's a fine dancer and a passable singer. At first, he tried Mr. Jackson's tense demeanor, but soon he was smiling. "I'm lonely," he announced, "I need a girlfriend," and he brought a young woman onstage from the audience, handing her a teddy bear and a bouquet of roses before giving her a chaste hug. (Perhaps with crossover in mind, the woman he chose was one of the few non-Asians in the audience.) By the end of the show Rain was dedicating a ballad to his late mother. Rain seems like a nice guy, but he doesn't have the tormented charisma of Jackson, the relaxed sex appeal of Usher or the quick pop reflexes of Mr. Timberlake.
The show was a combination of slick video-era effects � at one point, Rain jumped, and the buildings in a video image behind him shook � and odd moments. Mr. Park took the stage repeatedly while Rain changed costumes. Speaking in hip-hop-style English, he reminded everyone that he wrote all the songs, he introduced Sean Combs (Diddy) and the teenage singer JoJo to praise Rain, and he performed his own songs from the mid-1990's. Given his voice, he was wise to make Rain the vehicle for his newer material. The obstacle to Rain's intended United States career is that by the time Mr. Park has figured out how to imitate the latest English-speaking hit, American pop will have jumped ahead of him. Perhaps collaborators like Diddy could help Mr. Park keep Rain up to date. But for the moment, here in the United States, Rain sounded like a nostalgia act.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/arts/music/04rain.html?ei=5088&en=9adbd36a2f79bbdd&ex=1296709200&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:54 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if he'll be slapped with a big fat lawsuit from the producers of the movie Se7en when he enters the country.
That'd be awesome. |
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Thumbnail Postermonkey
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| The question remains....will America hit hard enough back? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| Thumbnail Postermonkey wrote: |
| The question remains....will America hit hard enough back? |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles already wrote: |
Se7en to hit America
Here's hoping America hits back. |
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Thumbnail Postermonkey
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:21 am Post subject: |
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| Ahhh...beer has impaired my ability to scroll. No disrespect, Tiberious....keep up the good work! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Se7en to hit America
Here's hoping America hits back. |
They did a preemptive strike: old James Brown, lobbed into Seoul. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Seven and rain will only be performing for the Koreans living abroad!
there are plenty of koreans studying and living in NYC they would love the chance to take their girlfriends to a korean show like BEE or SEVEN..
kyopos who want to feel more korean etc...
SEVEN or BI playing to a non asian (lets call it Korean crowd! )
I DONT THINK THAT DAY IS COMING!!
still they can make money selling out to koreas abroad then so be it..
its good for everyone.. |
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