Wow! There's A Cell Phone You Can Eat!

[koganbot]

Wow! I'd never heard this before! Writer Kenzie* and producers Bloodshy & Avant take a dramatic "Reach Out I'll Be There"-type melody, throw it into waltz time, and make it a funny, bumpy promenade. [EDIT: I meant to say they throw it into SWING time. My brain went herky-jerky there for a second. In any event, this most certainly isn't a waltz; it'

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Re: Without love, it pop! pop!

[arbitrary_greay]

Using this,(it's annoyingly hard to hunt down credits for non-album Kpop songs) throwing the credits for "Chocolate Love" into Babelfish gets me "Bloodshy& Avant composition Kenzie lyric making," so there.

I agree that "Chocolate Love" has the more beautiful melody, but in some ways "Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex" is a more interesting one, as you said, feistier than "Chocolate Love's" pure sultry. Makes sense, considering the lyrical content. (Of course, I like playing both over one another best, best of both worlds and simultaneous counterpoint weak spot and all that)
There were a few more mashups out there, including one without the f(x) bits, but they've been taken down since and I can't find alternative uploads.

Are you listening to sound intonations or rhythms when you mean cadences? To me, she's still sounding the syllables in a very American fashion, (even Tiffany still has some American "roundness" to some of her speaking, and it definitely is more prominent in her Japanese singing) and as the songs I've heard her rap in are mostly Norwegian-written...*shrugs*

hitchhiker seems to have a better grasp on arrangement than songwriting. His best song is probably BEG's "Abracadabra," where he collaborated with others on the music. I tend to enjoy but also feel slightly dissatisfied with his composed-and-produced works, but I can't tell if that's just me superimposing expectations onto the progression instead of enjoying his style for what it is, or if there's justified disappointment to be had.(especially this little puzzler) For me, he tends to be a little too static, but some songs, like "Visual Dreams" and "GAME," become immensely fun to pay attention from the bridge onwards. On the other hand, "Telepathy," his most recent SNSD offering, shares its progression with "Teenage Dream"/"California Gurls" and, to my neverending amusement, progression(I think) and hook with EW&F's "September," but I still couldn't pay attention to the length of it if I tried.

Re: Without love, it pop! pop!

[koganbot]

I shouldn't have used the word "cadences," actually (it's a confusing one in that it seems to have two barely related meanings, one having to do with rhythm and the other with resolving chord progressions, or something; I'm obviously not a music theorist). I probably meant no more than "falls into ways of sounding Korean, whatever they are" which can probably include rhythm and accent and ways of emphasizing syllables, or just that maybe she sounds like Korean hip-hop in her delivery, even though a lot of her raps are in English.

I've been whistling "Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex" for two days now, so I withdraw anything derogatory I said about the melody. In fact I may even prefer its melody to "Chocolate Love"'s. But I still prefer "Chocolate Love" overall, and I probably can't figure out why. Warmer overall with the group vocals, perhaps.