Country & Eastern, Part 2

[koganbot]

Posted these on Rolling Country:

POST ONE:
Jiyoon and Gayoon of the great K-pop girl group 4minute are billing themselves as 2YOON and have just released a country-dance-pop (or something) EP called Harvest Moon [EDIT: But see below]. I'll report back when I hear it. In the meantime, there's the single, "24/7," which subdee calls a mess -

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[sub_divided]

People are saying it sounds a bit too much like Hoedown Throwdown. I like the dubstep synth + banjo production, actually, there just doesn't seem to be much of a song there, outside of the kind of generic hook.

[koganbot]

Ah, I knew that part sounded familiar. I think, though, that 2YOON go, "Boom clap, boom-b-boom clap," whereas Miley went "Boom boom clap, boom de-clap de-clap." Think 2YOON give the whole thing more juice.

[koganbot]

Turns out 2YOON are not copying Miley but someone else who did the specific "boom clap, boom-b-boom clap." m-flo would be one candidate: Sabina recently reblogged an m-flo song, "Miss You," that uses the very "boom clap, boom-b-boom clap" under discussion, though it's a male voice doing the booming and clapping. I don't know if this is the original boom clap, boom-b-boom clap.

Here's Crooked I's boom-clap from the mid '00s, but it's not the exact boom clap, boom-b-boom clap I'm looking for.

[sub_divided]

I thought the issue wasn't the boom-clap, but the hook and the video... although, it's a pretty generic hook and pretty generic video concept. There's also the big deal Hoedown Throwdown makes out of being a country song with a rap verse while all Kpop songs have rap verses.

I'll thrown in No Mercy as another recent instance of boom-clap. Tons of Kpop groups have started saying "leggo" too, since this song came out.

[askbask]

Was "24/7" a result of American songwriters telling Jiyoon to make "less perfect" k-pop, even though she's not credited with the song? Gayoon goes fairly in-depth in her latest interview and explains that

There, she met with renowned songwriters and producers who all said this in regard to K-Pop: ‘From the arrangement, the sound to the choreography, if everything is too perfect, too polished, music is then reduced to a standard, a stereotype and it’s not music to enjoy anymore. It becomes something too clean, too sharp, a show.’

They said that it was the case for music videos as well. Fading in and out from individual shots to lead to the formation of the group dance makes the dance routine hard to follow. It’s something that directly touched me. It’s not the case for one group only but for most of them. That’s why we thought ‘Okay let’s do it differently’ with 2YOON.

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