The latest(well actually it´s been around for awhile) trend in K-Pop(that´s Korean Pop for you non-Asianphiles) is catchy dance songs with relatively easy, cute, if not somewhat silly choregraphy. Guilty pleasure, silly fun whatever you may call it, it´s incredibly successful in Korea.
I remember growing up in Korea,
it was popular to memorize the choreography to the latest hit song and dance in front of people during the school outings or events(dear god)
I think starting late 2007 it became massively popular to dance along to the hit songs and one of the most successful group has been Wonder Girls, thanks to JYP management´s genius choreography team(and catchy beats to accompany them´); there are numerous parodies of fans ranging from High School boys to Kindergarten teacher, dancing to their hit singles, ¨Tell Me,¨ ¨So Hot¨ and ¨Nobody¨
Youtube is featuring this insanely cute ukele version of Nobody. The singers/players are sooo adorable in their full dorky glory haha:
the original:
(lol I can´t believe I used to dance to JYP´s Honey in the beginning of the video)
The song that kind of started the whole trend:
Wonder Girls´Tell Me:
Wonder Girls´ So Hot:
also, their ¨rival¨ Girls´Generation(aka SNSD)´s last single ¨Gee¨ featured (for my taste, way too) cute melody and choreography that was quite popular as well:
Another singer that had quite popular songs in this department is Son Dam Bi aka OMG-WANT-HER-BODY:
Crazy:
(although I speculate that the choreography wasn´t as popular as it required a chair haha)
and personal favorite, Saturday Night:
the catchy tune in its full 80´s glory(although I assume some of the choreography was based on the movie ¨Saturday Night Fever¨), the 1st minute of the video is quite amazing, it reminds me of a Wong Kar Wai film.
