Friday 24 May 2013

Best Of Weekly Music Shows: 4/29- 5/5

This week, we get a nice mix of guy and girl groups making a comeback, other groups into the second (or more) performance of the promotion cycle, and a good mix of solo acts.

One particularly note-worthy segment was the Music Bank ending dedicated to showcasing the career achievements of Cho Yong-pil, who won this week’s K-chart. It certainly is impressive to see that even as K-pop makes up much of Korea’s music exports these days, a legend still matters in his own country, and that the K-poppers in the studio also cheered when his song was played.

Here were some other note worthy performances:

Secret’s “Only U” and “YooHoo”, KBS2’s Music Bank, May 3, 2013

The hairstyles have certainly gotten more conservative and the outfits less flashy, but the group is still performing to the standards of the past. While “YooHoo” is as inoffensively safe as girl groups get, I am liking this as the antidote to the electronic layers of loud that seem to plague most girl group songs’ these days. Plus Secret is certainly a very cohesive unit when performing, where everybody appears to be at the same level.

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