If you were to ask me do I think T-ara are sexy or, instead, do I think they're cute, you've asked me an insane question, since their cuteness makes them sexy and their sexiness makes them cute. Not that there's a complete overlap: cuteness is only a part of their repertoire of sexiness and sexiness is only part of their repertoire of cuteness. And ( Read more... )

Q: What do the following have in common: Good Day, Dum Dum Boys, Get Away With Murder, In My Eyes, Try To Follow Me ( Read more... )

Look, how am I going to find time to write anything if I'm spending all my time watching Korean TV?

Background: on the East L.A. thread, I said,"But since I've pegged [Sunny] as a future President of South Korea or Secretary-General of the UN, or at least as the next Oprah, she really does need a command of English to fulfill my plans for her. Not ( Read more... )

I wasn't even born in a town at the far eastern end of Los Angeles County. Neither was Tiffany Hwang (born in S.F.), but that's where she grew up, in Diamond Bar, California ( Read more... )

And the girls toss a perfect "meh." (Jukebox link.)

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I thought that listening to huge gobs of Korean music would help me finally come to terms with ballads, since about a third of the music out of South Korea is not just ballads but is specifically in the genre "ballad" (as opposed to e.g. someone in r&b who happens to be doing a ballad). But what happened is that I realized I couldn't listen to ( Read more... )

Hate you!

That's not directed at anyone on my flist, it's just the name of the new 2NE1 single - which, despite its sentiments, and the violent video (where they merely save the world rather than blowing it up), is a nice little half-trance thing: late-night calm, early morning amble.

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Also, Mat points me to the new video shoot for "Ugly," where ( Read more... )