sarah and her silly taste in music
Aug. 1st, 2010 05:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arishaI feel like I've been so obsessed with pop music lately but yet I somehow continue to be way behind on the news. Today's example: So you know my favourite-Kpop-group-for-no-good-reason Kara? And their song "Mister"? Turns out they're releasing a Japanese version of it! And it has a music video!! Aaaaah best thing ever. So anyway, I was coming up with all these theories about why I can think of a lot of K-pop artists who've released songs in Japan and yet I can't think of a single example of the reverse (one such theory: Japanese pronunciation is easy! Korean pronunciation is hard!), but then my mom pointed out the obvious, which is that Japan has a rather bigger potential audience than South Korea does. ... Oh. Right.
(This is like when my dad wondered why Nelly Furtado released an album in Spanish when she's of Portuguese descent. I feel the Spanish market is probably rather larger, haha. Also, now that we're talking about Nelly Furtado, allow me to point out how she pronounces the "h" in "yo que te he visto crecer" in her song "Manos al Aire." I heard this song played a lot while I was in South America so I guess nobody really minds, but man it bothers me! Did nobody ever correct her?!)
Awkward segue back to the original topic so I can post a link to Big Bang's "Tell Me Goodbye," another example of a Korean group releasing a song in Japan. I post this song because it makes me wonder, at what point does a song become a J-pop song? What's the criteria? Because this song may have 111 words in Japanese, but it also has 298 words in English. And yes, I counted. xD
(This is like when my dad wondered why Nelly Furtado released an album in Spanish when she's of Portuguese descent. I feel the Spanish market is probably rather larger, haha. Also, now that we're talking about Nelly Furtado, allow me to point out how she pronounces the "h" in "yo que te he visto crecer" in her song "Manos al Aire." I heard this song played a lot while I was in South America so I guess nobody really minds, but man it bothers me! Did nobody ever correct her?!)
Awkward segue back to the original topic so I can post a link to Big Bang's "Tell Me Goodbye," another example of a Korean group releasing a song in Japan. I post this song because it makes me wonder, at what point does a song become a J-pop song? What's the criteria? Because this song may have 111 words in Japanese, but it also has 298 words in English. And yes, I counted. xD