What's Wrong With My Age?

[koganbot]

This song's been on the Billboard K-pop chart for 12 weeks, whereas the Gaon chart refuses to acknowledge that stuff like it exists.

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If anyone has any music-theory insights, feel free to post them. Is not my strength. The crucial chords seem to be I II V (as opposed to I IV V), though my guitar is tuned about a quarter tone off from this so I'm

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[askbask]

What's wrong is that there are too many people in Korea his age and above, and their percentage is increasing. Although for the audience present during that recording it means they get to decide who wins presidential elections, and get to surprise analysts when a high turnout most importantly means a high turnout of 60+s, not people in their 20s

[koganbot]

I assume there's the same problem as in the U.S., of getting young people to show up at the polls, much less getting 'em engaged in issues of property tax, zoning, etc. On the other hand, in the U.S. old people are hardly a solid conservative voting bloc, esp. given their having been socialized during the height of the union movements, and being themselves the beneficiaries of the basic Democratic Party social welfare reforms of the 20th century (social security, medicare, unemployment insurance, labor laws, consumer protection). Not sure how anything like this plays out in Korea, which didn't have its first free elections until 1988, and earlier had its left harassed and crushed by three consecutive dictatorships. Not that I know much more than that about Korean history.

Shin-yoo hits 100

[azacab]

"Hands Of The Clock" is about to hit week 100 now, and I'll be doing a piece on it soon. I can't find anything - anything - about the song at all, except for your writing, which is of course informative and (I assume) stuck in a similar situation about the track's origins, impact, etc. So I guess I wanted to say thanks for pointing out this awesome anomaly. This is when I wish I could read Hangul.

Re: Shin-yoo hits 100

[koganbot]

You're quite welcome. You could try asking on I Love Music's K-pop 2013 thread, though I wouldn't expect you would get an answer. But Mat is at least in Korea, and maybe he'd have an idea whom to ask.

Re: Shin-yoo hits 100

[koganbot]

Btw, who do you write for/where do you write?