Strategies of incoherence

[koganbot]

On the latest 4minute EP, four* different sets of producers/writers make the same decision (or follow the same instructions), which is to create songs that have lots of empty space, highlighting each singer and song segment without worrying too much about tying sections together musically or emotionally. These tracks belong to a strange and

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[koganbot]

I like "In The Night Sky," but strangely (for both A.S. Red and A.S. Blue) I prefer B-sides "Hollywood" and "Lady." Don't know who produced either. I'd expect that a lot of people would probably put "Because Of You" in the B. Brothers canon, though there is something neither fish nor fowl about it, lilting ballad or lilting dance. I do like it. In my early K-pop days, "Bang!" was the first After School I heard; I loved it enough to immediately begin After School continuing education, but nothing else had the same bang, and I began to underrate the group. Was the strange Scando-produced pseudo-Native American Japanese-language "Rambling Girls" that brought me back in.

I'm just now listening for the first time to After School debut tracks "Play Girlz" and "Ah," both by our enigmatic Dr. Brave Brothers, and both powerful. Encompass his strengths and weaknesses, throwing a dance style none-too-subtly at us but leaving enough space for the performers to shine or not shine. The live performances are real exciting, even if a lot seems lip synced.