Kanjani8 – Tsubasa ni koi
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So I have a love/hate relationship with this song.
I love it because the instrumental melody is amazing and I get chills listening to the first few notes.
But I hate it so much because omgwtf-my-LORD-who-let-these-people-sing.
Of the Kpop variety this week.
Five singers whose voices I love, but whose music is so boring that I just can’t listen to them
1. Shin Hye-sung
2. Park Hyo-shin
3. Lyn
4. Gummy
5. Kim Tae-woo
An assortment of annoying rap lines from T-ara’s songs
1. “Welcome to your wonderland, everyday I knock knock knock knock”
2. “I like it like it dis, I like it like it dat / I like this, I like that, yeah!” (what. the. fuck.)
3. “Limousine, champagne, bling bling jewelry chain”
Songs I’d like Kpop stars to stop covering:
1. Beyonce’s “Single Ladies”
2. Justin Timberlake’s “Sexyback”
3. Anything from Chris Brown
4. Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”
Any other lists you’d like to see? Lemme know!
What to say? This is a well-deserved comeback to be sure, but it’s underwhelming.
For one, it looks like Dana and Sunday have forgotten how to dance. Dana and Sunday were never the dancers of the group anyway, and on top of that, CSJH was never a particularly strong dance group, so watching the two dance has just been awful so far.
And the other more important thing is — this song is a good example of the sort of stuff that is wrong with the Kpop sound.
This is probably one of the funnest Kpop performances I’ve seen in a while. I would kind of kill to watch them perform this at some sort of venue where I can jump and dance. This song is not innovative to be sure, but it’s just the right amount of 2PM fun that we’ve been missing from our lives ever since their earth shattering Jay scandal, no? Everyone looks so good and the energy of the song fits 2PM perfectly. It’s also really age appropriate, which is something I can almost never say about anything Kpop related ever. (Grown ass girls holding lollipops as props, underage boys wooing women twice their age, adolescent boys dressing up like 50 year old bikers…)
Adolescent boys one-shotting and gyrating feverishly: PERFECTION.
My one and only complaint, and this is a repetitive complaint, is: why is the Junho to Chansung line ration always like 1:50? Who the fuck is paying money to listen to Chansung sing? To even open his mouth, in fact? Don’t get me wrong, I l-o-v-e Chansung but it’s just some sort of worldly injustice to keep a good Junho down to let Chansung rap and sing teeth-gnashingly bad.
To show you that I am a delightfully delinquent blogger, I will humor you by answering a formspring question that someone asked me a year ago (I started this post in July, 2010). He/she asked,
Most impressive live performances?
Kicking off with you-know-who:
DBSK’s “Five in the Black” concert
There’s just something so impressive and attractive about trying really hard.
All in all I think DBSK’s greatest achievement as a group was their success in Japan, and their Japanese concerts are nice markers in the different points of their careers. FITB was the tip of the scale: when they finally succeeded on some measurable standard that they and their companies had delineated for them, but not so successful that they could stop striving. They were good enough to be recognized, but they still had something to prove. There is something rawer about FITB that I don’t think can be found in any of DBSK’s other concerts. I’m also biased because I really like how they were dressed and mmmm suits :3
