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Sunday, December 20, 2009 Okay, I have to say. I pretty much hate the hell out of most recent English songs. Why? Because I seriously dislike Caucasian idols, Americans (mostly). People like Miley Cyrus, The Jonas Brothers, whoever else the fuck, I don't really like you guys. Now someone called me opinionated for saying this once, but fuck off, this is my blog. Now, I can't really tell you why I hate most English music so much. Maybe because I just don't like their kind of style of music. I have to say, to most other people, I have really bad taste. My sister's boyfriend calls my kind of music complete crap (well, tbh, fuck you and your oldies or whatever the hell you do like) so yeah. I like hiphop quite a bit, mostly stuff like Epik High (a bunch of Crown J songs but does he really qualify as hiphop?). I also happen to like some black musicians. I think we would classify Ne-yo under that, yes/no? If no, lemme know because I'm not good at all these genre shit. I can't tell the difference in genres at all, unless you give me kpop and some ballad, then there's definitely the large difference. Otherwise, for most dance songs, I cannot really differentiate between genres (I think someone told me I like R&B music once too). Someone, please enlighten me about how the different genres are different. Anyway, so one of my latest crazes are BEAST/B2ST, courtesy of Oppa, as usual. I checked out their MTV B2ST documentary and in one of the latest subbed episodes (4, for those who don't subscribe to b2stlysubs on youtube yet, go do that now), they did a dance mission. Basically, they were split into two different groups and then asked to choreograph something original to the same song. They were then judged by a bunch of noobz (no offence, they looked pretty nooby to me) although I did agree with those noobz that Yoon leader's group had better choreography and danced, on the whole, better. However, they were later judged by their dance teacher who decided the winner based on team work. From the subs, I interpreted that he doesn't really like the choreography that much or something like that, but he awarded Junhyung's team (for people who don't really like Junhyung and notice him, in other words, AJ/Kikwang's team) the win. Why? Because they supported each other like real team mates. Now, you might be asking me, what the fuck is the point of this whole post? Well, this is pretty straightforward. I just kind of fell in love with the song that they danced to. For all you people who were like me and don't know what song they danced to, its R.Kelly's 'Bobble'. I'm not a big fan of the video itself, but BEAST/B2ST didn't really dance the full song. If you guys are interested to watch BEAST/B2ST dance to the song instead, here's that video. They danced to some other beat in the beginning before 'Bobble', probably something Cube Entertainment produced themselves. It was after that, then they danced to 'Bobble'. If you did go ahead and watch Episode 4 of MTV B2ST (the documentary), then you would also notice some of the choreo is from Junhyung's team. Okay, besides that, I have to say. This is one hell of a good song. Buuuuuut, as usual, despite the fact that I'm pretty vulgar and coarse myself, I really dislike the lyrics of the song. This song was really awesome for me until I really listened to the words that was spewing from the song and then I went like, "fuck". It happens sometime in the song too, but this is a totally different issue. It might be the feminist in me that hates gender bias (but I'm a hypocrite, really, who isn't? Other than Jesus maybe), but I hate how the song is talking about some girl who is apparently really sexy. Lyrics can be found here: http://www.elyricsworld.com/bobble_lyrics_r._kelly.html If that's any accurate, then I really cannot take the lyrics. It is really, really sexual. If you guys are really pure (unlike me), then this wouldn't make much sense to you, this would be a really harmless song, but hell. I live in a male chauvinistic society, so I hate it when females are spoken about sexually in a song and portrayed in such poor light (as if we're as loose and easy as they make us sound). I assume the 'little crack' in the song is referring to an ass crack (unless we're talking about cleavage which is the same damn thing). I find that seeing female ass cracks are disgusting. Women like that just want attention, either that or they like airing their asses to the world, but most of the people I know cringe at the idea of others seeing their ass cracks. Okay, so I'm Asian, but seriously, to see a female ass crack (or any ass crack at all) is disgusting. It is so. Not. Sexy. I also searched the dictionary definition of the word 'bobble'. Now, typically this word means; a small ball made of strands of wool used as a decoration on a hat or on furnishings -however, I don't think 'she makes it a small ball made of strands of wool used as a decoration on a hat or on furnishings' is the right definition we're looking for here. Another definition of the word is; mishandle (a ball) -let's try to fit this in again: 'she makes it mishandle (a ball)'. Nope, I don't think we're looking at this definition here. Okay! One last try, this one has definitely got to be the winner. move with an irregular bouncing motion -once again: 'she makes it move with an irregular bouncing motion'. Now I think this would be the most accurate definition of the word 'bobble' (please take note that the last two definitions were defined in verb form, there are noun form defintions which are basically of the same meaning too, for the word 'bobble'). It clicked right in my mind, thinking of the lyrics and the whole mood of lyrics, that he's referring to boobs of the mentioned female in the song and how 'she makes it move with an irregular bouncing motion'. In case you guys still aren't picking up on what I'm trying to point out, the simple translation would be: he's staring at her boobs while they jiggle. The stereotype that most Asians don't understand English is pretty true for Koreans, since I doubt that Cube Entertainment would air something like that (and use it for their dance teaser) if they really knew what the song meant, since Asians are still conservative (maybe not Japan). This is the country that banned TVXQ!'s 'Mirotic' because of the line 'I got you~ under my skin'. That was either a scandal to create more unnecessary attention for the song or they really are strict for no good reason. What is seriously so damaging to young youths about an English line of the song that no one understands (both the band, their audience and the lyricist)? Either way, so I figured they might not accept the word 'fuck'. Seems like they did however and did not ban this dance teaser off most channels (since there would likely be some news about it if they did). <--- Okay, all that was just a random little rant about the stereotype of how Asians don't understand and can't speak English. Or mostly how Asians just don't comprehend English. However, I disprove that stereotype/hypothesis. My English is more kick ass than some native English speakers (apparently, for example, Americans who stereotype against us a lot and the Englishmen, who I heard do stereotype against us a lot too) out there (either that or you guys just don't bother to type in proper English, which just pisses me off some times). Honestly, I got to say though, I think the stereotype comes mostly from Americans, but I was just being politically correct (to some extent). This is what I really wanted to type: My English is more kick ass than loads of Americans leaving shit comments on Youtube, especially the ones who flame my fandoms (= korean music). I just had to say this because really, sometimes you guys are dense. I'll expand more, if possible, about this later after I'm done getting pissed over the lyrics of 'Bobble'. Anyway, back to our main subject, which was me saying how females are portrayed in the lyrics of 'Bobble'. I cited the reason of shitty lyrics as to why I dislike English songs, but I do like 'Bobble' despite its shitty lyrics, so I have to correct what I said. I dislike most mainstream English music because their kind of music, to me, is just shit (see: Miley Cyrus). I think the reason why the lyrics turned out this way is because Americans are just so sexed up (reminds me a little of a certain someone who pisses me off because of the same reason, although I do have my mood swings in the sexual direction positively sometimes, mostly I just think sex is gross, but hey, I gotta admit hypocrisy is hypocrisy). American women probably do behave that way, which is the result of the lyrics of 'Bobble'. Either that or songs like that brainwash women into behaving that way thinking that guys like R.Kelly might actually fuck them if they do (if that is, they're into R.Kelly that way but for me, if it were R.Kelly, I'd be doing the entire opposite. Sorry, R.Kelly). Okay, so maybe the point of this post wasn't that R.Kelly's 'Bobble' rocked. It kind of veered into the direction that - I hate Americans for being sexed up and disgusting that way (see: "I just think sex is gross"). Back to the subject of me thinking that Americans are dense because some of you, although not all of you because I do have some charmingly intelligent American friends from online, still think Singapore is a part of China. This totally mind boggles me because Singapore doesn't even sound have as close to most of the names of places in China (i.e: Beijing, Shanghai, Hainan, Fujian, Heilongjiang etc.) I mean, if you heard of Singapore's name in Mandarin Chinese, which would be Xinjiapo, I would still understand. But honestly! Singapore doesn't sound like a place that comes out of China. The people who tell me this aren't even kids or teenagers, who I would forgive (somewhat, although not entirely) because they might not have learnt about it. It is the adults who presume that Singapore is a part of China that I dislike horribly. Also, the foreigner (note: This foreigner was a Caucasian and not a native of the country) whom I met in Koh Samui. "So where you from?" "Singapore." "Oh, Singapore... -pauses because he's trying to be friendly and market his goods too, but he doesn't know what to say and ends up saying the following, trying to be intelligent- So which part of Singapore are you from?" Now if he had any sense in that mind of his, he would have told us he didn't know where Singapore was from, apologize and maybe ask more about Singapore. However, he went ahead and asked one of the most ridiculous questions I've ever heard about my own country and I shall repeat this quote: "So which part of Singapore are you from?" Maybe there are people like him, who probably don't understand my fury about this whole situation, but Singapore is an island city-state (country thing). We are not like America (the United States of America) that has 53 states (the last time someone taught me unless they lied to me). The only thing we have that is closest to the 53 states of America are divisions. We have areas like Hougang, Jurong, Tanjong Katong, Bukit Timah, Tampines, but it is no way a proper equivalent of the 53 states of America. And I bet even if I told him where I was from, he wouldn't even know. It wouldn't be like the following situation: "So where you from?" "America." "Oh, America! Which part of America are you from?" "Los Angeles." "Oh, LA! -proceeds to mention something about LA from his vague knowledge of it in his mind-" It would go more like this: "So where you from?" "Singapore." "Oh, Singapore! So which part of Singapore are you from?" "Yio Chu Kang." "-stares with a 'what the fuck is Yio Chu Kang I barely even know where Singapore is (is it in China?)' face-" Yeah, so that is pretty much how it would go down. Some people are so fucking stupid. Either way, I'm just going to leave the matter there. This post is far too long for my liking and I need a shower at like 1:30am. What the fuck. I really need to sleep. I might come back and continue this post (although that would be highly unlikely). So enjoy R.Kelly's 'Bobble' and that awesome video of BEAST/B2ST showing off their slick moves to that song. ★, Julle 줄레 12:23 AM
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