Kpop: SNSD - MR MR

The kpop (girl) group with arguable the biggest fan base, SNSD/Girls Generation, is back with their much anticipated 4th album and headlines this with their "Mr Mr", reaching 2+ million views the first 9 hours. It really doesn't matter much how bad average or even bad their singles are as they sell big anyway, as last January's fail-song "I got a Boy" showed with its (now) 86 million views on YouTube. Therefore it is rather nice that their "Mr Mr" works quite well, and rather surprisingly, it is a song that grows on you. I find myself going from sceptical at the start to quite positive at the end of the video, so this will certainly pass 10 million views in a few days.

• SNSD - Mr Mr

Kpop: Girl's generation/SNSD (소녀시대)

GIrl's Generation, or SNSD as their korean name 소녀시대 first letters are pronounced, is Koreas most known girl group and with their 9 members somewhat the korean counterpart to Japanese AKB48, though not as influental. They conform to the standard formula of kpop by being an a) large group of b) fair maidens (cough) who c) dances in well choreographed music videos singing d) easy-to-listen-to radio pop.

Just a selection:

1. SNSD - Gee
2. SNSD - Catch Me If You Can
3. SNSD - Mr Mr
4. SNSD - Run Devil Run
5. SNSD - I got a boy
6. SNSD - Beep Beep (Japanese release)
7. SNSD - Visual Dreams (min favorit)
8. SNSD - Seoul (tillsammans med Super Junior)
9. SNSD - Mr Taxi