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God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too (Standouts From The Voice)

Apr 04, 2012 11:35

So far The Voice in 2012 has produced no moments of genius to match Dia Frampton's "Heartless," though "Cinderella" is audacious enough to make me think there's a chance we'll get one. And I've found six standouts that are better than good (and I'm doing this all by YouTube, so my listening hasn't been all-inclusive). Here they are in no particular ( Read more... )

2ne1, iu, the voice, brown eyed girls, meg & dia

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koganbot April 4 2012, 17:55:15 UTC

Speaking of Dia Frampton, she and sister Meg have finally discovered K-pop (they credit their version to YouTube singer Moa):

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koganbot April 4 2012, 19:10:52 UTC

Don't want to generalize from too small a sample, but something I've been seeing in the U.S. over the last decade may now apply to Korea too, which is that female voices produce more beauty and adventure than do male voices.

Mona Lisa Girl koganbot April 4 2012, 20:11:25 UTC

More on Yoari: in Sprinkler, she would sometimes perform wearing a mask; meanwhile, she'd post anonymous videos performing cover songs with a Mona Lisa mask superimposed in front of her face to make her unidentifiable.*

(By the way, Wikip says this about the Brown Eyed Girls launch: "Debuting as a 'faceless group' they did not appear on any visual media and choosing to not even show up in their own music video." Maybe NegaNetwork thought this was a viable promotional strategy for Yoari, as well, though I'd like to think it was Yoari's idea, to have her alienation and connect via it too.)

Quite the Dolores O'Riordan stan, evidently.

*But the YouTube posts I see usually have "요아리" (Yoari) in the subtitle or tag - though for all I know those are later reposts by fans, after the original posts have disappeared.

koganbot April 5 2012, 01:45:07 UTC

Whereas the American quirk girls who've heard Adele and had their ears open to the last two decades of singer-songwriters and quasi-eccentric stylists are hearing a world of permutation and possibility. And this is what the Koreans seem to hear in most everything, though of course, being unfamiliar with Korea, I could be projecting novelty onto whatever they do.

Which isn't to say I wasn't bored shitless by, e.g., two-thirds of last year's Leessang album, which sounded like an amalgam of sappy tuneful balladry and sappy tight-crotched rap. (Gil of Leessang is one of The Voice judges, the one who dresses the most hip-hop.) I was thinking of The Voice Of Korea in particular where the average style seemed to be calling forth more adventure in the performers. But there's probably plenty of adventure in Leessang; it's just not adventure for me. There's a lot potentially adventurous in the current dreadful Euro-American dancebeat'n'r&b'n'Autotune amalgam; I just think the results are crappy (and that stuff isn't getting onto the talent ( ... )