If you want to be hip with the kids these days, jive to what they are into here in Thailand, it's all about K-Pop. The Wonder Girls are South Korea's biggest export since masculine LPGA players started dominating the links and the infinitely hipper than thou Kogi Taco Truck began roaming the streets of Los Angeles slanging kimchi tacos to booze filled hipsters. Nobody is their biggest hit to date and I can't get this song out of my head. The bar behind my house plays it nightly, I think it is beginning to creep into my dreams. My students love it, for some of them the chorus is the only thing they know how to say in English. Sing, not say, would be more accurate. The teachers did a rendition of it at the faculty Christmas party, full costumes and choreography included.
Currently the Wonder Girls are teaming up with the Jonas Brothers to create an unstoppable wave of virginal teen pop set on a world music takeover, their weapons of choice, insanely catchy hooks and a pre-packaged squeaky clean image that seems to know no international borders or country lines. The dreamy, Disney spawned Brothers. The MTV groomed Girls. A match made in Tiger Beat heaven.
It's kid tested, mother approved tunes. The dance moves certainly don't hurt either. You can't argue with the double finger gun and wink combo, timeless. If the subtitles have your brain working harder than you like don't worry, the English album is due out in February.
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