Feb 24, 2012

Boy Bands, Girl Bands, Goodbye Originality

I've been in the Philippines for 3 years now and I'm dragging the days where I'll have to go home.. which is soon. I should start planning on how to get all my stuff out from here. I'll miss my apartment here.. It's quite cheap for the comfort of the place. Don't think there will be any better apartment that I'll find for such price back home.

When I decided to browse videos on youtube, I saw on the "suggestion" box was a channel called standupcomedyindo and one of the guys was talking about a boy band group called "smash" so I was curious and I searched it. I'll regret it forever...

SM*SH which, according to wikipedia, stands for Seven Men as Seven Heroes. Oh dear god. Of course this pushed me to to look up on at least one of their music video and I did.

I pretty much laughed throughout the clip. It's not that they're comedic.. it's just that.. the video is filled with a bunch of highschool / young looking boys with "white skin", some with bleached hair, singing about love. It's so unoriginal, copying K-pop, with it's occasional English sentence and don't forget the rap part.
That, I think, is the best part because I laughed and played it over and over again.

Mind you, the kind of laugh I had was the type that's confused on whether it's crying or laughing. It was so horribly funny and sad at the same time. It just made me not want to go home..

Curiosity kills the cat or stabs you in the heart and eyes when I decide to go further. I typed "boy band indonesia" on google search and out came a list of boy band / girl band there are.

I can say I only liked 1 group which is "Kilau" because they're the least at trying to be K-pop / cute. They're experienced dancers that danced for big pop artist in Indonesia so they're not "young" and "fresh" and used as dolls to make money. Too bad the music video I saw was of a cover song they did. But after seeing the original songs that the other group did, I'd still choose Kilau any time.

I put pictures of them and sopa might bust me.. Then again, who cares?

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