Saturday, 26 April 2014

Girls' Generation

The other day I was on YouTube looking for music to listen to while I did my maths revision. I decided to listen to some Girls' Generation. Only because I had recently watched this music video for Baby Metal...a Japanese metal girl group and it reminded me of how much I like KPop. I know Japanese and Korean are two totally different places and languages but whatever.
So I typed Girls' Generation into YouTube and I found a video of their second Japan concert and I decided to watch/listen to it.
The thing was two and a half hours long. I will post it below.
I didn't like watch it all in one go or anything I kind of stopped and kept coming back to it but I got through the entire thing.
I don't know what it is about it but it was actually kind of amazing.
Like okay I read comments and a lot of people were saying they lip sync and all this other stuff but honestly I didn't care. I mean not everyone can do a two and a half hour concert with about two minute breaks so they can change costume.
Not that I know...but I have never been to a concert before so I don't know.
Anyway...I have to say that I can't tell the difference between Japanese and Korean. Mostly because when they were talking and not singing they were talking in Japanese, didn't know that until someone commented below that they speak good Japanese haha.
Also they sang a couple of songs in Japanese and to me they sounded the same as the Korean. Apart from Run Devil Run. I knew the difference with that one because I really like Run Devil Run and own the Korean version so I knew the difference there.
But yes the whole thing was pretty amazing. Like the arena they preformed in was HUGE. I would not want to be sitting at the back for that concert. I know there were big screens but they didn't show a lot.
I liked how when they went to change their costumes they had little video things that were shown on the screens. While I thought they were a little strange and I didn't know the relevance at all I thought it was a nice distraction for them to change.
Another thing about the arena, I mean they had everything going, lights, water, confetti at some points. You just don't get that at concerts over here so I was impressed haha.
One thing I noticed is they do favourite about four girls over the rest to sing parts in the songs. Either that was the time I chose to look at the screen or what but I swear some of the girls definitely had more singing parts than others.
Which makes sense for a group so big but you know...even out the parts a little more.
So yeah, in conclusion I liked the concert, I would totally go to their concert if they had one here.
You do not need to speak the language to like the music. At least I don't think you do.
After I watched the concert I did download some more of their songs. I typically like the upbeat ones because they are the catchiest.
So yes, Girls' Generation.
I don't know what it is about them I like so much in particular I mean they were the first KPop group I liked after Psy...and I only like Psy for that one song - we all only liked Psy for that one song haha.
Anyway yeah...the only reason I would want to learn Korean or anything is probably just to know what the songs were saying. Plus if you learn the language you would probably be able to sing the songs better than just mumbling the Korean parts and belting the English part which I am sure we have all done at one point in our lives haha.
So in conclusion...I probably prefer music in other parts of the world to the music over here most of the time. I mean after the Selfie song made it big I think we all lost some hope in our music industry...

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