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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 Thank you, S.Korea! Though more specifically, SBS Gayo Daejun! :D Taking the title from allkpop, it was the place "where guys become girls" and it was just one of the most epik things ever. Basically, to sum up the gist of things, boy bands got together to perform songs by their fellow female colleagues. Members of 2PM, 2AM, Super Junior, SHINee and BEAST were selected to perform for the big night! In this post, I'll be posting the original live performances of the songs and then their boy versions of the songs! If you're homophobic, don't like guys acting like girls, don't like guys dressing up as girls, do not even bother continuing. Then again, that's just your loss. ;D First up, we have Brown Eyed Girls' 'Sign' featuring the fan dance. Here is the wonderful original which the boy-parody was based on, I think, in terms of stage clothing. Our four male Brown Eyed Girls were (according who sings first), 2PM Chansung, 2PM Junho, BEAST Doojoon and then 2AM Jo Kwon. I loved Chansung and Doojoon the most out of all the four. I feel like Chansung did a great job at the singing part, even if it was lipsynch. Chansung sounds like he has improved a lot and he gives off the best feel, to me. He seems like he would belong in B.E.G the most, if I had to choose one of them. I liked Doojoon's rap in the song a lot too, his voice was very... pleasant to listen to. He sounds a little young compared to the rest (despite being 21 this year and pwnzing Chan) and his voice actually resembles Miryo. I think it sounds like a less harsh version of Miryo's voice (her voice was a little hard for me to get used to initially, but then it started to sound better after a while). I was a little disappointed at how little Jo Kwon got to sing, but it was nice to see him singing his WGM wife's bit. I think if they let him sing too much though, he would've made the performance too funny and ruined the actual mood of the song. Junho sang and dance well for the song, but for some reason I felt as though he couldn't immerse himself into the song and the role of becoming a female idol properly. He felt awkwardly out of place, in my opinion, but just the feeling of it all. Otherwise, he did really well! All in all, this one gets 4/5! Second song would be the one you guys should have noticed at the end of boy-parody-'Sign'. Which would be 'Muzik' by 4minute! I gotta say, I love the way Gayoon sings 'music alive!' Even though she isn't the prettiest, she's got a pretty solid voice (albeit a little breathless with the dance), so she's gotta be my favourite member. For some reason, her face keeps attracting me to look at her while I'm trying to watch Hyunah dance. LOL. Imitating 4minute will be (in order of singing): Super Junior Shindong, SHINee Key, MBLAQ Joon and... MBLAQ Mir doesn't actually sing. I don't even get the point of him being there if he doesn't even get any lines. Honestly. But he was cute all the same with his pig tails. <3 Shindong's hair was too excessive, in my opinion, along with his hot red lipstick on his pale white face. How does his face even get so flawlessly and smoothly white? I want to be that fair-complexioned! What is wrong with all these Korean boys and being prettier than me? :/ In any case, Shindong's dancing is still one of the best. He has the natural talent that is never hindered by his plus size body and this just proves to everyone that even chubby people aren't useless blubbers of fat that can't even exercise. I think Shindong assimilated well into his role as a female idol, but at the same time he managed to maintain a bit of his manliness (on the contrary to Junho who was just a guy trying to be a little girly). Needless to say, our diva Key showed a flawless performance and his dance skills are brilliant. I love his crazy popping and the way his In the end my mental state just died (because of watching Doojoon in 'Sign') and I resigned to the fact that actually, he was pretty damn good. If he was trying to be a girl with that look of his, I think he failed pretty much entirely. He totally did not look like a girl at all. In fact, I think he would make a pretty ugly girl. I guess that should be a compliment, since he is damn hot and sexy, good-looking, lady killing guy. I really liked the way he sang the chorus of 'Muzik', I can't really describe it well, but its like he really got into the mood of the song and sang it just the way 'Muzik' was supposed to be sung. I think his dancing doesn't need to be commented on. I'm still disturbed by him dancing the Gayoon move where she points to the front then the side. Nevertheless, he did a great job on the dance. And Mir... I have nothing to say about his singing because there is really nothing for me to say. :/ He seems like the weakest dancer amongst these four, but his constant smile and his pig tails just make up for everything that could've gone wrong. I wouldn't mind him being my grossly tall and broad sister. :Db Overall, i think this was the best performance aside from the fact Mir has no lines. D< GYURRRRIIIIIIII. My favourite member of KARA. :D The clothing concept for the boy-parody is exactly the same as this. I just wished our four boys pulled up their shirts like KARA to show a little ab. :/ I wouldn't mind taking a peek at Yoseob. LOL YES I'M A PERVERT FOR CUTE LITTLE BOYS LIKE HIM (even if he is older than me wtf). You can refer back to the previous boy-parody video with 'Muzik' first and then play the rest of the video to get 'Mister' done by (according to pants colour): 2PM Wooyoung (yellow), 2PM Nichkhun (pink omg), BEAST Yoseob (hot red, yeah sexy boy) and BEAST Kikwang (blue). One thing that keeps bugging me is how Nichkhun is wearing the 'Kk' shirt when his name is Nichkhun. Like, nich-khun. Nk. You know? And Kikwang isn't wearing it despite being ki-kwang. Kk. You know? I really don't get that bit. Maybe the stylists screwed up and no one noticed till it was stage time. Either that or no one can read English characters, even though Nichkhun lived in English speaking countries a bunch of times. OOOOOOOR, Nichkhun could have noticed but their stylists were too stubborn to agree. Since it was lipsynch, I comment only on their recorded singing. I think it sounded like all the guys were a little unwilling to be singing a song like that, mostly because its a song about a girl falling in love with a certain 'mister'. I think they wouldn't have minded to be the 'mister's of the song, but instead, they became the girl singing for the 'mister'. If it were me, I would have sounded just as miffed as them. This was a little subpar on the whole and I have nothing to comment on individually for everyone. It was a decent performance in dance and singing, but there was absolutely no passion, no energy, no drive. I guess Yoseob's angelic smile fixes everything. Otherwise, this song really fell flat. 2/5. :( The next song of this series of boy-parodies would be Girls' Generation's 'Gee'. One of the year's biggest hits, this song has won 'Song of the Year' at the Melon Music Awards. Many have speculated that if SME had not made its artists boycott the Mnet Asian Music Awards, 'Gee' would have grabbed another 'Song of the Year' award instead of 2NE1's 'I Don't Care'. I have no opinions on that, since I personally wasn't so into 2NE1 after 'Fire' because of their sudden popularity rise. My favourite of Girls' Generation has to be Tiffany and this was a great song. The boy-parody followed suit with their matching skinnys, even if the tops were of a different concept. Presenting our boy-parody version is (in order of singing): SHINee Taemin, Super Junior Heechul, Super Junior Sungmin, SHINee Minho (OMG BOY YOU SO HOT, MINHOT), Super Junior Leeteuk. This was a very creative and fun performance, with a lot of adlibs at the end by 'Heesica'. While I think everyone did a fabulous job dancing, since SHINee and Super Junior are from the same company as Girls' Generation, the singing was live for this one. Which surprised me a little. I think it was good, not fabulously done, not like 'wow omg!' but just, 'oh, okay. nice.' Leeteuk had a little difficult with his adlib, but I don't blame him. The range must've been way out of his own. O: No guy to be singing like a woman unless his name is Shim Changmin or Jo Kwon or maybe even Onew. I totally cannot agree with Taemin's hair. He looks like the stylist grabbed the nearest mop, dyed it black, tied a ponytail and plopped it on his head. An unrealistic wig that doesn't really suit Taemin at all. He would have looked nicer with his School of Rock wig or maybe if this had been during the 'Juliette' period, just his own natural hair. Heechul just creeps me out, just a note, so I'm not gonna comment (dude he kissed like three dudes before, one of them who is dancing alongside him and he totally doesn't seem uncomfortable. this is weird). Minho was... unbearably cute with his little ponytail and OMG HE ACTUALLY FUCKING SANG. LIKE OMG WTF. He never gets lines in SHINee songs but BAM! Put him in someone else's song and he actually gets a fucking line. Like the other time with Super Junior's 'Miracle' too. And Sungmin... idek. Super Junior members make me speechless. Or I'm a lazy bitch and don't have any opinion on them. Both are pretty accurate. :D I think it might be because I'm not a fan of Girls' Generation's genre, but I really don't get any feeling from this song. It was well-executed and all, but once again, I'm not getting that vibe that makes me feel like this is really a marvelous performance. Not much passion if you ask me, just a bunch of guys fooling around and pretending to be little girls. Effort acknowledged. 3/5. And last song of this review thingamabob. I have no idea what I'm doing here. :D 'Bo Beep Bo Beep' by T-ARA. Personally, I would have preferred 'T.T.L' or 'Lies' over this song, or even 'Like the Beginning', but I guess they wanted to perform this song because it was cute and fun. I notice we didn't get any renditions of emo songs, yes? Mostly because of the girlish clothes of this song, I think the guys opted for a different, more simple clothes concept. They retained the faux ears and paws, but that's about the only similarity between their outfits. I think Jiyeon has got to be one of the cutest girls alive and I really wanna squish her. She's one of the few girls I do like out of all the female idols. I like most of them, but there are only a few whom I really watch out for. Our male little kittens would be from 2PM (according to shirt colour, since its hard to tell who's singing if you don't recognize their voices): 2PM Junho (grey), 2PM Nichkhun (red), 2PM Wooyoung (yellow YAY WOO MY FAV COLOUR) and 2PM Junsu (blue). I don't have much to say about this song either. The recorded singing sounded very forced, especially during the chorus. I understand the notes are hard to hit for them, but they sounded bad. Just really bad. I think it would've been better if you'd gotten 2AM Jo Kwon, SHINee Key and SHINee Taemin to join 2PM Wooyoung in this song instead. I really didn't like this performance at all, so I don't really wanna comment on it. Just added this in because it was part of the series of songs and it would be mean to leave it out. 2/5 only and no comments, srsly. If I were to recommend any songs out of the few boy-parodies, I would definitely pick 'Sign' and 'Muzik'. Both were well-performed songs by the male idols and I really liked these two performances the most. Hope you enjoyed this little post and had fun watching those guys performing all those female songs. :D ★, Julle 주월 8:15 PM
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