The sweet and peppy song "Binks" has always been one of my all time favorite tracks from K-pop group KARA ever since the first time I heard it on the the incredible "Girls Talk" album, and finding a performance of them performing it live has always been a highly sought after item! While they'd never 'officially" released anything, there WERE several nice fan-shot videos of them doing it, the girls happily dancing around in these super SUPER cute and VERY 80's Idol-looking dresses, and oh how I wished DSP would releasea proshot version!!!
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| KARA in their "Binks" Outfits |
Well, time and time again there'd be a new DVD concert release from KARA, but maddeningly, though the footage was taken from concerts where the girls HAD performed Binks, no footage ever made it to the final DVD release! WTF!!!
Finally late this past year, I saw that they were going to release a new DVD with a complete and uncut concert, though the initial press release didn't list the track titles, I saw that the concert playlist for the date the cocnert was filmed DID feature Binks, so the possibility was HIGH that I would FINALLY get an official live performance of this song!
So right away at the beginning of this new year, the KARA DVD comes, and first off I am blown way by how goddamn BEAUTIFUL it is! The cover looks great- the girls look soooo sultry and sexy! The DVD set of 2 Concert Discs and one Making of Documentary disc also came with a HUGE packet of what contained over 40 huge postcards of the girls!!!! Not only that, but the set also came with a glossy fold-out poster!!
If all those aforementioned goodies wasn't enough, the absolute cherry on the top was the track listing. One glance told me that my dreams had come true when I saw:
YES!!!!! "BINKS" IS ON THE DVD!!!!!!
Well, I couldn't WAIT to watch that concert IMMEDIATELY!!!!! Popping it into my player, however, I was confronted with the horrifying sound of the DVD player skittering back and forth trying to read the DVD without success! I took the disc out and tried playing Disc Two of the concert, and it played fine. Tried playing the Documentary disc. It ALSO played fine! Panicking, I switched to my OTHER DVD player, only to have the SAME problem!
Sigh. Sadly, the first Concert disc was defective, and OF COURSE, it was the one with Binks on it!!!!! I was sooooo fricking bummed out. After all this wait. So I've emailed CDJapan and am still waiting for a response of how to return this disc and get a replacement. I'm kind of worried that the Limited Edition will sell out and they'll be unable to replace my copy! I would hate to send back this awesome set with the cards and poster and bonus disc if I couldn't get another set. In fact, I'd really think about if it was worth it to send back, though paying almost $70 for a concert I can't watch is kind of ridiculous. So far it's been three days and still no word from them. We'll see....
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
