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"Girls' Generation" standing at the Y-junction December 2011

2022-11-02 23:00:07

"Girls' Generation" standing at the Y-junction December 2011
Ｙ字路に立つ「少女時代」2011年12月

'Girls' Generation' is the most shared MV on Facebook this year

It turned out that the most shared K-POP music video this year on the Internet exchange site "Facebook" was "The Boys" by the popular girl group "Girls' Generation".
On the 28th, MUZALIVE, a Korean social music analysis company, analyzed 89,450 links of K-POP music videos shared on Facebook from January to December 24th this year, and found that "Girls' Generation"'s "The Boys” was the most frequent with 959 cases.
　This is 14.8% of the total of 6460 shared cases in the top 50. "Mr. Simple" from "SUPER JUNIOR" ranked second with 379, "SISTAR19" "Ma Boy" dance practice music video (329), "Who Am I" (313) from "UV", " Girls' Generation's 'Gee' (200) followed.
By singer, Girls' Generation was the most popular with 11 out of the top 50, followed by "SUPER JUNIOR" with 7 and "Brown Eyed Girls" with 3.
(From K-POP News)

I personally prefer "Bad Girl" and "Genie". The melody is good, the dance is good, and on top of that, it's cute. I just wanted to enjoy this song a little more, but they had a dream. My dream is to stand on a big stage where people from all over the world can see me. For that reason, I couldn't stop at local songs that are only received in Asia.
In order for them to go out into the big world, they had to be "The Boys". It seems that it should have been an American sound born from the collision of classical music and African music. In order to make a debut in a place where the world is paying attention, it seems that the impact and scale of melody songs on the level of "Gee" and "Mr. Taxi" are too small.
When I opened the lid, people all over the world responded so well, so I think that the result was all right, and I think "The Boys" was good enough.
I know that the song was well received on the internet. I used to access and watch every single video that was uploaded. Everywhere immediately recorded a great number of accesses. The intense dance must have stolen the eyes of the viewers.
In the Japanese version that was shown on TV, I followed the lyrics with subtitles while paying attention to their performance, and even then I tried to distinguish them with my ears, so it felt like the stage ended in confusion. I could not understand the words "I don't really understand" that the moderator Hamada said, but when I listened to The Boys (JAPANESE ver.) again on the AUDIO sound source, it wasn't like that. Hamada had previously made a strange remark on the Girls' Generation stage that could be taken as ironic (it was long...!). Do you have any thoughts on this group...?
However, if you listen to this song without the performance, you won't find it to be a very attractive song. Taeyeon, Jessica and others are working hard to digest this song, but the image of dance does not come up in their minds like “Bad Girl” and “Genie”. If you listen only to the song, it feels like it is separated.
At any rate, the melody line is mediocre, neither fresh nor nostalgic. The beat is good, but the melody is very commonplace. This song seems to live only with their splendid and sharp performance. It seems that there is no choice but to call popularity with performance. Therefore, even if it can be a stage that represents them, it is unlikely that it will be music that will see the top of Billboard magazine. It can only be considered that their performance and the power they have accumulated so far have become a hot topic.
"The Boys" may be a straight-up song aimed at capturing the American market, but wouldn't it be a bad idea to take the plunge and compete with songs like "Bad Girl" and "Genie", which are the original lines? The songs are American, and the dance is a bit irritating in K-POP. "The Boys" has that flavor.
　Beast of "Cube Entertainment", which performed in London and Brazil, showed a passionate Asian-style singing (FICTION) with dance, attracting female fans. Seeing that, I felt that 'Girls' Generation' could continue in the same style as before.
Whether to go right or left, with "The Boys", "Girls' Generation" stood at a Y-junction.