Kpop: Girl's Day - Hello Bubble (헬로버블)

Ok, let's do this! I love most of what Girl's Day do, and even though I found "Bubble" flimsy at the time of its release one year ago, it grew on me and so, summer having arrived, I feel it should get its own blog post. The video is basically payed for by a hair product company, something not that unusual at all in kpop.

• Girl's Day - Hello Bubble

Kpop: Girl's Day - Darling (달링)

Girl's Day will with all certainty have one of my top songs this year, but it will not be with the new "Darling", but with the early january release "Something". Darling is a trip backwards for Girl's Day, as they exchange the sexy concept for the traditional aegyo (cute) theme. This isn't bad in itself, but it is combined with a song that really isn't that exciting in any way, just…standard pretty-girl-group fare. The four members of Girl's Day do what they can with the music they are given, like good actors with a bad script, so if you are a fan of them, this is still worth your while.

• Girl's Day - Darling (달링)

Kpop: Girl's Day - Female President (여자대통령)

If you didn't know it, Korea elected their first female president ever last December, Park Geun-hye (which btw I had no problems missing as I happened to be in Seoul at that time...). Girl's Day haven't missed it anyways, as their new song "Female President" obviously takes its cue from this to advance female empowerment in relations. Go grllls, they say! From the video, which is not bad at all, well its quite nice actually, one could make a lot of ironic observations about double messages, but hey, its kpop we are talking about. I would rather compare it to their song from earlier this year, Expect, which was my favorite song the first quarter of 2013. The video of F.P. does a good job to reach Expects standards, but Expects lyrics and their braces dance is really on another level (again: I loooove you LOEN for providing lyrics to your videos!). It isn't that F.P. is bad, because it isn't, its just that Expect is a classic. F.P. is clearly worth watching a number of times, but I don't honestly don't think it will grace my Samsung S4 playlists that much. Still, nicely done again, Girl's Day!

• Girl's Day - Female President

Kpop: Girl's Day - Expect (기대해)

Releasing their new video Expect on White Day in Korea is of course no accidental happening for Girl's Day. But the when the song is such a visual treat, and damn good music too, it seems like they should maybe have slotted this for Valentine instead? ^_^ And damn grrrls, suspenders are nice, arent they ;-P

• Girl's Day - Expect (기대해)