I might give my analysis of SNSD‘s performance on “Late Show With David Letterman” later, but for now, what did you guys think?
What’s the thing that stood out most for me?
The disparity in reactions between SNSD & K-pop fans and regular American viewers who just happened to catch them on television.
I would argue the latter is the market they are here to impress.
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What were the “Top” tweets on the “#Letterman” tag?
Yikes.
The rest of the popular tweets?
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What about SNSD & K-pop fans though?
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Did I expect any different? No, but it’s still amusing to see the gap.
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Yuri’s “I wanna dance right now” bit was especially cringe worthy. God, I hate this song.
Some of these comments cracked me up. Man I hate that song.
That was baaaaaaaaaaaaaad.Whoever was singing was screaming and the dance break was tragic,Not sure if they were singing in english or korean. I just wish kpop would just leave the US alone and just make money in Asia,like they’re doing right now.
Thought it was okay apart from the dance break.
Stans think they run America now…and Americia is just like ….eh…good try tho.
As expected.
LOL! TonyKelly’s tweet cracked me up.
I felt myself cringe before that rap section even came in. Watched most of it with one eye closed thinking it would be better. ….just as bad.
I thought it was a good performance.
Am I in the minority?
Where did you find those tweets? All I see are deranged Koreaboos.
Proabably search “Letterman” plus “asian” or “group” on Twitter. Americans watching for the first time proabably don’t know the actual name.
I updated the post, it’s simply the “#Letterman” hashtag.
The performance wasn’t bad. It’s just the song is ridiculously bad.
Among who? K-pop fans or regular people?
FLAWLESS AMAZING…lol
I’m still waiting to watch it here in the west coast.
Twitter reaction is pretty much what I respected. SNSD fans shouldn’t take it so personally, Twitter users trash almost everything, especially the stereotypical Letterman watchers.. Just wait until Lana Del Rey on Letterman tomorrow.
Did a pretty extensive look at the tweets. Nonfans reactions were actually quite mild. Mostly jokes about if Bill Murray or Letterman was going to bang them, Regis boner joke, “there’s too many of them” comments, more confusion that visceral hatred.
Positive tweets were mostly the “I’m so proud that a asian/korean group is on mainstream tv” variety plus the usual fan worshipping. Oh and they thought Letterman saying “thank you” to SNSD in korean was cute/funny.
Oddly enough, I think all the attention that SNSD fans gave the people who said negative things made them the top tweets on the subject.
She is terrible.
She is arrogant as fuck too.
:O
Shut up, LDR is a perfect creature with perfect music!
What do you expect black girls and 40 year old white men to be tweeting about SNSD?
“Hi I’m the one American who’s not actually closeminded and extremely judgmental about everything foreign to me”?
The tweets are pretty lame and tame, which shows what a good job the girls actually did on the show.
Letterman is looking old as shit. He messed up 3 jokes in his monologue and he used to be solid as Gibraltar with that stuff
You’re one of those people who thinks that the only reason Americans don’t worship K-pop is because they’re racist.
How cute.
Same guy who posted this gem, by the way.
“What do you expect black girls and 40 year old white men to be tweeting about SNSD?”
You’re an idiot.
Right?
As if the International fandom is comprised of all Asians or something.
LOL
Shut the fuck up….and that’s coming from a black girl.
Now do I fit in your stupid generalization of what “black girls” supposed to tweet about?
I hope you’re Korean.
Already banned him and deleted his trolling comments.
It got worse after that.
No worries.
Thanks, appreciated.
wtf
Cringed. Hard.
Gotta love how you only chose the bad responses tweets to uphold the “validity” in your article. Why don’t you show some of the responses from “the important viewers” that harbored a favorable response to them?
Those ‘positive’ reviews were from guys who were jizzing themselves over SNSD’s beauty.
Validity of what?
The first two pictures are sorted by “Top” and are from the “#Letterman” tag.
What else do you want?
But most of the ‘favourable responses’ are from SNSD fans,which he included.
Only thing I can think of is how I sorted out the K-pop fans from the first portion of the post.
Though why I would put K-pop fans in the portion of the article where I’m trying to show what Americans thought about it is beyond me.
Lol mad sones are coming in here now.
I can’t wait for AKP and Soompi’s sycophantic translated articles.
You and me both.
Yup because no one spews more shit than the Korean media with things pertaining to Kpop’s ‘success’ in the States.
Why do I still fucks with Kpop,wae????
I always thought that SM got SNSD’s ‘The Boys’ idea from Rania’s ‘Dr. Feel Good’ tbh and obviously, Rania >>>>>> SNSD.
SNSD, as a group, just can’t do sexy/fierce no matter how hard they try, idek, and the name Girls’ Generation is just so cheesy…
Honestly their performance was good. But it’s true, we are essentially watching what’s been done back in the 90′s. I think SM’s true motive of debuting in the US was to target american’s who already have interest in kpop, rather than the US as a whole. And that’s why it will never work. Everyone’s saying hallyu this hallyu that. But in reality the hallyu can only grow as much as the amount of people that watch them on the internet. If SOPA goes through, we’re all fucked.
I can’t possibly believe their intention was just to give a gift to American K-pop fans.
You’ve said it yourself though, about the reactions between SNSD/kpop fans and the general viewer. You would have to think that either SM have to change their approach for promoting in the US or give up on it completely.
Doesn’t seem like any of the companies are giving up.
Love it! For once Yoona got little camera time and Sooyoung got plenty.
Holy shit, Batman, look at all the SONEs coming here to defend their precious girls! Seriously, though, the only reason I even watched was because I would like to bang Seohyun.
I suppose SNSD willl be/is marketed for teenagers in America. I don’t know how making this appearance on David Letterman would impact this plan, but looking at the reactions I see it’s a much older audience.
For example, kids born in late 90s haven’t experience the boy/girlband mania in America, and K-pop idols are surely something new for their generation.
But yeah, we can have a glimpse about how the older generations will be treating every hallyu idol coming – the same way they treat every Disney/ teenager singers like that too).
Exactly.
I mentioned that earlier about them missing their target demo with these appearances.
Especially agree with the point about Letterman viewers treating them like Disney teenyboppers.
For fucks sake, I was reading until I hit the “so Dan Rad is a sone” comment, which I’ve seen too many fucking times.
It went from him saying, “Someone gave me their CD, but I haven’t listened to it yet” to “he’s a fan” -_-
Their perf was okay, the lip-sync & Engrish wasn’t bad, the remix made it better
Nah, they would never exaggerate shit.
:o
I don’t think they were lip-syncing. It was live but the background track was loud as hell so it could help hide their pronunciation.
I know it was partially live because Taeyeon accidentally murdered the opening part of the song.
I actually liked the performance, maybe because listening to an actual band instead of Teddy Riley’s head beating on a wall is a lot more interesting.
I don’t really get how they rearranged the song, though. I mean, skipping to the final part and then going back to the dance break. The last part of the song builds a nice momentum to it and then it suddenly goes back, didn’t really work for me.
I only didn’t like the arrangement because the went to “the boys” part so many fucking times.
Well that was nice. Now it’s time to go back to Korea and forget about a US advancement. All the members are going to be busy with something soon anyway so why bother?
Tae/Seo/Tiff — MCore
Yuri/Jess/Yoona/Soo — Dramas
Sunny – Musical
Sun/Hyo – IY2
What bothered me the most was that they still had lipsyncing. Granted this was a better performance that what they gave than during their Korean promotions but it still wasn’t amazing. That and “The Boys” isn’t a good song to debut with.
What parts were lipsynced?
I figured Sunny’s was, but I thought it was okay for the most part.
Yoona’s and maybe Hyoyeon’s part sounded like lip-synching. I don’t think Sunny’s parts were though. When she ditches the ageyo, she becomes the 5th vocally competent member of SNSD along with Seo/Tae/Jess/Tiff. I heard some slight struggling when Sunny was singing that’s why I don’t think she lip-synched.
Coming to think about it, I get the fans’ reaction to this performance. When BoA was promoting in America I was anticipating a performance of any of her three singles on TV, but that never happened. It’s good to know that SM learned with their mistakes on BoA’s American venture and seem to have done better for Girls’ Generation.
I don’t think I will ever forgive SM for doing such a piss poor job of promoting Boa in the U.S.
I can watch beheading videos, curbstomp videos, ginger porn, and people getting garroted, but i couldn’t finish that performance.
What the fuck.
shit made me cringe
hahahhaa.hahahhahhahahhahahhahahhahahhahahahhahaa…..hahahhahahhahah ….
The performance just felt really messy to me. I don’t know if it was because of the remix or not, but it was a struggle to finish watching. Definitely cringe worthy.
I still say it wasn’t that bad. I only cringed at the Yuri dance breakdown, same as I did when I watched the music video.
:o
I would be happy to see a Korean girl group succeed in America, but I just don’t think that’s going to happen.
The only current group that I could see having some limited success in the US is 2NE1. I say that mainly because of some of the positive reactions they’ve already received from some non-Koreans.
They’ve basically been endorsed by Will.i.am and MTV, which should make it more socially “acceptable” to like them.
I think they’ve got the best shot.
I agree with you.
I think their style makes them stand out in Kpop which is why they would succeed in the U.S.
I love them and hope one day they get a chance, if not it’s fine with me. They’re already big and don’t need us (U.S.)
The last part is the thing I agree with the most.
They don’t need this market.
Pretty stupid to compare SNSD to Milli Vanilli. I don´t mind if people think like that. SNSD is anyways the best K-pop group and I like those girls too :D
Why?
You liked Milli Vanilli?
:o
Would love to see Park Hyo Shin sing on American TV(when he gets out of the military that is).
Those Americans who hate SNSD just don’t know how to appreciate Asian beauty and talent. They are more talented than what you think.
And talking about Americans who got confused about the number of performers in a group. Poor memory, I guess? Pity on you, guys. They are just nine girls, just NINE girls. Better search AKB48 all you’ll just be shocked about the number of this girl group. Maybe you’re just confused but when you watch their other music videos, you’ll also start loving them.
And talking about the lip sync issue, mind you guys, THEY ARE NOT LIP SYNCING at the David Letterman show. And so what if they are? Imagine yourselves in their places, dancing and singing at the same time with those tiresome moves. Wouldn’t you get tired of multitasking? Yes, they may be lip-syncing sometimes, but that doesn’t mean they’re not talented or something.
Please just don’t bash about them. They’re not worth your insults or let’s say “bad” comments. I know, it’s your opinion guys, but let’s just avoid hating them. :D
Nobody hates them because of this.