Way To Go

[koganbot]

New Crayon Pop.

Advance single "Vroom Vroom"

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About perfect: Light splashy Italodisco, a boat ride past small islands. Writer and (I think) lead singer Way adds enough ache to give this a promise of passion, a hint of adventure.

Album teaser, Evolution Vol. 1

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First 8 tracks, I guess; 17 are due, 10 all new. Track 2 has interesting promise, as if

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[belecrivain]

okay, thanks to the choreography video, I can try timestamps:

0:00-0:13 intro/C-R-A-Y-O-N POP! chant
0:14-0:28 "doo doom chit" #1
0:29-0:44 Soyul's verse, ending in "put your hands up!"
0:45-0:58 Way (I think; one of the YT commenters says Choa's the one wearing a skirt) and Gummi split a slightly faster verse (pre-chorus?) with a plunky, plinky (?) electronic sound in the background
0:59-1:16 "Woah-ah-oh-woah-ah-oh" / "I'm so fantastic girl" #1
1:17-1:30 "doo doom chit" #2
1:30-1:33 brief instrumental break, building of tension
1:34-1:48 Ellin raps while something altogether different is going on in the background, a much lower bass beat (here is where my musical vocabulary starts to fail me)
1:49-2:03 Choa/Soyul split the faster verse/prechorus with the return of the plinky sounds
2:04-2:18 "Woah-ah-oh-woah-ah-oh" / "I'm so fantastic girl" #2
2:19-2:33 with no break, immediately to some sort of bridge led by the twins, but there's no slowdown in music or verse; the words are sparser but they're happening at the same rhythm
2:34-2:49 "Woah-ah-oh-woah-ah-oh" / "I'm so fantastic girl" #3, with the heaviest of the beat dropping out for the first four bars
2:50-3:06 "doo doom chit" #3

so I guess the structure is
intro
Chorus A ("doo doom chit")
Verse 1
Pre-chorus
Chorus B ("whoa-ah-oh," etc.)
Chorus A
Verse 2
Pre-chorus
Chorus B
Bridge
Chorus B
Chorus A

only that bridge doesn't really sound like a bridge so much as an interlude.

anyway. I'd have to hear it again to figure out what's going on in the background each time, because it sounds like they're switching things around and the "doo doom chit" part is actually the least complicated, with pride of place given to the sax riff. but in the meantime: live performance of "Vroom Vroom" and hopefully Soyul recovers fully.

edit: also I think it sounds a little bit, in the verses, like Hello Venus's "I'm Ill"? But Mo Kim can tell you that I was snarking earlier this year that Blackpink's "Boombahyah" sounded like "I'm Ill" written for weaker voices. So maybe I just think everything sounds like "I'm Ill" this year.

[davidfrazer]

Here's the statement form Chrome about Soyul.

By the way, I'd failed to notice that they've been performing Vroom Vroom on music shows:

Arirang Simply K-Pop

MBC Show Champion

Note that ChoA gets a hand-held microphone but the other members have little headset mics.

K-Tigers' Melbourne Bounce

[koganbot]

Korean Taekwando outfit K-Tigers has been putting forth music this year, including this bit that looks to be a total Crayon Pop imitation:

K-Tigers "Neck Slice"

On their post for the dance version they inform us:

Neck Slice is the basic movement of Taekwondo. It's Melbourne Bounce music which is popular as electronica genre. Unlike other musics, there is a guitar so that can make K-Tigers' own style. Five Girls' cute voices make us excited but at the same time, it vitalizes the impact lyrics.

Austral-Romanian Empire on the Riser?

[koganbot]

K-Tigers kind of have a point, not as to any originality but as to a similarity to Melbourne bounce. Here's what came up quick when I typed "Melbourne bounce" into YouTube:

Oxxid ft. Mind Invaders "Riser"

Also on that beat: Badkiz and Pungdeng-E.

Re: Austral-Romanian Empire on the Riser?

[davidfrazer]

Neck Slice sounds like Babomba slowed down a bit. I wonder if it was priduced by the same people.

The MV is a mixture of Babomba, FM and the original Bar Bar Bar video.

By the way, Soyul is getting married to Moon Heejoon, who was a member of H.O.T.