Because my greatest musical obsession in 2012 was 2NE1, I feel like doing countdown of my 12 favourite songs by the Kpop girl group extraordinaire!
12. Lollipop
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This song is so different from the 2NE1 we're used to. They're so young and fresh-faced and not swaggin' at all! This was their introduction to the world and so they were easing into the
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I also remember how Lollipop was like the biggest thing when I first visited Korea, and I think my LJ name is still "colour is rainbow", which is a GD lyric from the song; "색깔은 Rainbow" - love that song as well.
Where's Ugly? I love that song sfm. In general I really appreciate the fact that 2NE1, while wearing outfits that are sexy, aren't as much about pleasing the (straight) male fans with eyecandy as other kpop girl groups I like. They're more like a girls group for girls. Girls' Generation I always felt like is just being perfect girlfriends for oppa fans - I never liked them much, but even one of my favourites, Sistar, has such blatantly sexy dance moves it's pretty obvious everything is designed for male fans and for female fans to aspire to sexiness.
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Was it? Oh man, I'm not surprised. I like how it's a phone commercial but doesn't feel like it is one. Some of Girls' Generations advertisement-songs SCREAM commercial but Lollipop somehow didn't. :D
I love the acoustic version of Ugly. The actual version I enjoy belting out the chorus to, but overall it's definitely not one of my favourites by them. I completely agree with your take on 2NE1, that song and the message, but just as a musical composition itself it doesn't make me wanna jam the way some of their other songs do. :) Also, I always find it hilarious that the two younger members CL and Minzy are the ones always pulling out the sexy moves, even when they were teenagers, and Dara and Bom - who you would think would be more appropriate for that kinda stuff? - are just like "nah, we're not here for that" XD
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