Weird to watch one non-native English speaker school other non-native English speakers on how to sing in English. Thanks to ExpatKorea for the scoop. Also from the Arirang article I cited:
Ha Ju-yun was already known as "Baby-J" before she joined Jewelry.
She's from L.A. and boasts great rhythm, on top of her mastery for rap!
So there you go. An example of her mastery for rap is from the group's latest single "모두 다 쉿!":
shake ya! I get sexy ladies all over th floor.
walk it walk it walk it out sexy sexy sexy girl
walk that body baby now break it down.
I just want to touch me Let me talk to you.
bring it on.
Seriously, I had no idea it was a remake. Why didn't anybody tell me (sorry)? I guess it's well-known, then, and not a case of nobody realizing "Maria" was actually a Blondie cover. God, 김아중. Uneasy on the eyes and responsible for getting my students to say "beautipul gull."
3 comments:
Hey. That IS a beauty-pull gull.
Maybe the song was borrowed, but I'm sure the fingertip-touching dance move they do while they sing "One more time" was ALL Jewelry.
(PS: that little fingertip gesture is one of the most sure-fire laughs I know: when a Korean asks you to do something one more time (happens pretty often to me), if you bust out the jewelry fingertip thingy, you're almost guaranteed a snicker.)
That fingertip thing . . . this whole band is weird. I remember when they came back and they were just starting to get some attention. I thought they'd never take off, that they were horribly derivative, that their song was really boring, and that the fingertip touch thing was the lamest move in the world. I guess I was wrong.
You weren't wrong. You just forgot that you're in a country where people go to music bars and interrupt a playlist of Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Steely Dan or Nick Drake with requests for Il Divo, Mariah Carey, and Westlife.
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