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AI is deserving of recognition but perhaps this award shoudn’t have been for her and this song certainly not the one to single out.īest buzzAsia from Korea: Cherry Filter, “Feel It” The more I write, the more I think that this was a mistake on MTV’s part. The video itself reminds me of Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful”. However, I just can’t find an aspect of her voice that marks her apart from countless other R’n’B singers. Perhaps, as a Westerner, I don’t appreciate that fully. AI’s voice and musical sound is different to just about everybody else in the Japanese charts. I have to say, I don’t like the song or the video. There are a lot of people I would consider giving this to Aoyama Thelma, Jero…but AI has been around for ages so I don’t know what the award means. I thought this was a “one to watch” kind of award. I suspect it’s less to do with the video here and more to do with the overall package.īest buzzAsia from Japan: AI, “I’ll Remember You” Sohee and Yoobin can only get better and I’m sure the “sexiness” will come to the group with time….hopefully…Ĭarrying on from pondering how a “Best Album Award” fits in to VMAs, let’s move on to some of the more unusual awards. Overall, I’d say it was a good first attempt. I know that sounds horrible, but I’d hate to think that Yoobin wasn’t able to live up to the song in person! Let’s hope that it was a genuine problem and one that she recovers from soon. With Korean media you can never be sure that somebody really is sick, but I hope she is. As for Yoobin, her reported “vocal chord strain” forced he to mime her rap. Whether we put it down to age or not, she really needs to shape up and keep pace with the rest of the group. She’s still letting the others down though. I DO believe that she’s working on it and I think her voice has improved. As usual, the only weak point was poor Sohee. Vocally, it was a good all-round performance. Two-plus years of being trained to act in a certain way can’t be shaken off so easily. Hopefully it’s something that they’ll grow into. Dancing aside, the facial expressions etc just weren’t there. To me, it still smacks of “cute” rather than “sexy”. The only major criticism that I have of the performance is the on-stage attitude of the girls. Most of the time it’s a good routine, but some of the transitions are a little bit messy when members have to scoot past two others to get to their place. The choreography is modified from the PV. Unlike some of their other costumes, it really adds to the performance.
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The girls look great, the leopard print and those amaaaaazing pink socks really work for me. The performance is taken straight from the video, from the styling to the choreography. I’m not saying they’re DBSK or anything, but it should make SNSD take a long hard look at themselves…anyway, enough bitching. For a group that are as vocally strong as the Wonder Girls, dancing of that high a standard is unusual. Thus, the first live performance in this “new era” of the Wonder Girls was always going to be closely scrutinised.įirst, the positives. “So Hot” may have gotten a general response of thumbs up, but translating that success to the on-stage kind is not necessarily so easy.