Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
Oddly enough, bright, uplifting pop jams by boy bands in K-pop have been few and far between this year. If you’ve experienced what a K-pop year feels like, you’ll understand that trends last forever and die hard, and this year we’ve experienced boy bands stomping the yards and going as hard as they can go in what I’m calling the masculine trend of 2012: boys acting on their toughness rather than just flashing skin.
It’s kind of a breath of fresh air, especially if you think back to the way boy bands used to approach this angle; i.e., tearing their shirts off for the sake of tearing their shirts off. Looking macho and actually being macho through actions are two different things, and I like that we’ve gotten a healthy dose of change this year. That said, I’m not opposed to boy bands serving uplifting tunes either, like Super Junior did with ”No Other” in 2010. There have been some this year, definitely, but not as spontaneously happy and pretty as I’d like them to be.
Well, enter SHINee, who are more inclined to execute the cheery concept than most boy bands, as they hopped over to Japan and dropped the gloriously whimsical “Dazzling Girl“.
A J-pop single (sadly) with energy for days, “Dazzling Girl” encompasses all the aspects of a bright pop anthem and then some. Its design is so Major key; so novelty; so addictive. It’s such a well thought-out recipe for joy and all things good in this world that there’s no way I could ever not feel warm inside when I listen to it. Every voice in SHINee works well with these songs, arguably more so than when they’re challenging a far darker themed jam, that “Dazzling Girl” becomes that much easier to listen to.
Onew‘s velvety smooth voice box of awesome resonates beautifully at the middle eight, while Jonghyun and Taemin lay out a blanket of lovely high-end throughout the body of the song. They each work it out really well, and the end result is rewarding for everyone.
FUCK YEAH FIRST COMMENT
I failed in life!
ARTICLE WITH TAEMIN’S GODLIKE COCK AND I AM SO LATE! FUCK YOU REAL LIFE.
Gosh, I love this little bastard so much. I want to steal one of his sweaty boxers and go to sleep with it every night. I want to inhale the scent like a fucking dog so I’ll be able to localize his every step. I want to wait around every corner at every place he goes to, ready to attack his dsl’s with my wet vagina. I want to spy on him every time he takes a booger out of his nose, jerks off in the shower, takes a shit or eats a left over cheeseburger that is already 1 week old. I want to crawl into his body and use his soft skin as a blanket when the snow falls on a cold winter night.
I want to use his tears as a talisman, protecting me from evil virgins and crazy christians all around the world.
I think I’d be the perfect sasaeng, but like an awesome and hot version of an actual one.
THIS is love and the rest is BS
If you ignore the MV, the outfits and the dance, the song is not that bad. I don’t really follow SHINee’s jap activities…. well stranger was an awesome song
Actually yes this, when I say “I hate the song” I generally mean “if I’m watching the video with it.”
Agree
The song actually reminded me of some of their old ones e.g. Juliette
my vagina has never been so disappointed sense I last fuck my ex,
SHINee some ugly looking drag queens
Your vagina must still be in a trauma because of Hyuna then.
Taemin’s penis could bring fucking world peace.
This is a surprisingly good song for a Japanese release, considering all the lackluster crap SM deals out. But all these dead animals in the PV…especially that skunk swinging around on Key. Poor thing. The skunk I mean.
The PV made the song comical imo. SM stays reusing them sets. Don’t they tire of having all of their groups dance in the same god damn room with bright lights and mirrors?
Yeah, it does seem like they’re on a music video budget or something recently.
Ever since that Exo flop their pvs have been on the tightest of budgets. They shouldn’t have wasted their budget for the year on that nonsensical piece of shit pv for MAMA.
I wish they made a set plastered with a thousand Taemin faces in the shape of Taemin’s penis.
And all SM artists should dance in that room from now on, for every single fucking song.
How about thousands of Taemin’s faces in the shape of Yunho’s penis, since it’s far more impressive. Yunho may have a horse shaped face, but he also has a horse sized cock to match it.
http://i.imgur.com/wlfTz.gif
Here’s some Taemin Bulge for you though:
http://i.imgur.com/mjaGy.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4EBEK.gif
I’m not sure why those fuckers at Imgur deleted my Gif, but here it is again.
http://i.imgur.com/DQPfF.gif
I liked the song a lot, but the powerful dance really sold it for me.
One can just image Taemin’s penis bouncing in his pants when they do the funny I-have-bees-in-my-pants-dance.
Fucking adorable, I’m telling you.
shinee is pretty much the group that can handle anything, which is why sm throws them the crap concepts that no one else would be able to pull off. that said, even though the outfits were horrible, the song sounds like fucking sunshine
I hate the song but I love all your reviews. Omg go write a novel.
Key – looks like a man
Jonghyun – looks like a flaming homo
Holy shit, how the fuck did this happen O_o
Regarding the music. Something bothers me about this song. I don’t really know what, but I can’t really enjoy it :/
Maybe it’s the fact, when I think back at their debut album I feel their style and music has changed to the worse. Most likely they are still quite relevant in Korea but to me SHINee lost it’s charm long ago. With every new song and MV I go into a deeper state of “wtf” and “no”…SM ruined them sigh
I agree. I loved their first full album SHINee World.
Replay, Love Like Oxygen and Romantic were awesome songs.
Lucifer I loved just as much even though it had the worst SHINee song ever on it (Up & Down): Lucifer, Obsession, Quasimodo and A-Yo were awesome.
I wasn’t too impressed with Sherlock but… Taemin. He’s still part of that group so that’s all I need for now.
I just want to see them out of the closet already. Only reason I still pay attention. Or marry, I don’t care which I just want them to either French kiss in public or stop teasing with the gay shit.
Me no like. It’s so cliche and cringing.
when will these pretty girls become men?
after some hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery.
I’ll turn them all into real men or whimpering piles of human flesh.
Not sure how it will turn out exactly but it’s gonna be one of those two.
@Minnie, i like your confidence :)
After watching this video, I’ve decided that SHINee’s official motto should be: “TWINKle TWINKle.”
It’s a disney song, they translate it in japanese.lol