Kpop: Girl's Generation - You Think

However you measure who is the biggest and most popular group from Korea, you will undoubtedly land with the answer Girl's Generation/SNSD. The title isn't wholly undeserved but so often with this kind of position it means that the artist in question deliver slightly bland and, by definition, mainstream, pop songs. I loved Catch Me If You Can relesed this spring but then came the totally meaningless Party followed up by the two latest Lion Heart and now You Think. If these three I would say You Think is the one most deserving of attention, so I suggest giving that one a chance.

• Girl's Generation - You Think
• Girl's Generation - Lion Heart
• Girl's Generation - Party

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