Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Song To Make You Smile: "Bing Bing" by Crayon Pop

So the other week my friend Shanomac sent me the link to this new k-pop girl group called “Crayon Pop” that he thought I should check out. He’s always been a supporter of the newer “rookie” groups, and every few weeks he’ll send me a new artist or group that he thinks I’ll find interesting… The link he’d sent was for their latest song called “Saturday Night”, and checking it out I liked it enough, but then I clicked on the sidebar link to another one of their songs called “Bing Bing”, and it was THIS song that HIT me- My GOSH was this a CATCHY tune!!!

 Whenever I watch a video from a new artist, I always try to watch a couple of videos from them so I can get a better “feel” of what the group is like; more often than not, I end up liking the other song even more than the one Shanomac recommended! This happened with T-ara when he sent me “Roly Poly” and I ended up liking “I’m Really Hurt”, GangKiz when he sent me “Mama” and I ended up liking “Honey Honey” and now the same thing happened with Crayon Pop!

Unlike the Saturday Night video where Crayon Pop look a bit more mature and glammed up, in Bing Bing the girls are childishly bright-eyed and rosy-cheeked, with the most playfullyly adorable outfits! Everything about them seems so sweetly J-Pop, with driving beats and cool horns and an awesome bass-line that makes you wanna shake your booty!  Just watching how much fun they’re having dancing around put a big smile on my face, it’s not often you see such unabashed playfulness! The song was so, soooo catchy I had to replay it over and over again, and the dance moves looked pretty awesome too- I wanted to find a dance practice video or something where I could see the choreography better!

Well, at the time I couldn’t locate a dance practice version, but I DID come across a live concert performance with a stationary center camera that did just as well, and upon watching THAT, I was completely smitten… the dance moves are so groovy and frantic, and these girls are so cute and look like they're having so much FUN, (love Soyul with her teddy-bear stuffed backpack, which I would later find she wore throughout the entire Bing Bing promotions!! ) watching them go through the performance all the while beaming their happy smiles, it added up to a perfect feel-good masterpiece, and from then, I was hooked! Check it Out!!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com