Dancing to the beat of K

        Music preference differs from every teenager. Some teenagers like the types of music which offer suggestion on how to think, talk, act or live. Some choose religious songs over love songs and heavy metal than acoustics. Music has been very influential to teens that it reflects their lives. Its influence is very great that it has come to the extent that it is connected to the social and emotional needs of the teenagers.

        Music comes in different packages. It comes from different countries with different culture. Each country has its own touch of variance. Filipinos are fond of mellow love songs and Westerns love those beat-ty songs. Oh well, I like mellow love songs but I love pop songs. For me, pop songs make me wanna dance. The beats lift up the gloomy atmosphere especially after I fight a series of long exams.

        The pop songs I listen to are not the typical ones. It is rarely appreciated by teenagers in Cebu. I was able to discover its “beauty” when I was in second year higschool. At first it was like a beat-ty and noisy music with lyrics sang by different scrub-like-haired, chinky-eyed, pretty men. Yes, the pop songs I listen to belong to the genre of K-pop. It is an abbreviation for Korean pop which originated in South Korea. It includes dance-pop, pop-ballad, electronic rock, rock, hip-hop, and R&B.

        Its songs have catchy beats and impressive lyrical compositions, that’s why I got into it. It became the kind of music I preferred because it showcased my interests, like dancing. K-pop is mostly composed of different boy and girl groups. And yeah, I don’t like the cutesy and girly ones, so I prefer the boy groups. Of all the boy groups, there are only two who got my attention: TVXQ and SHINee. They are both a five-membered group. What made me like them over the others are their choreography and tune of songs. They have really complicated dance steps and yet they are able to sing live perfectly. They also do concerts in different countries. Yet, I can somehow say that they are a bit underrated. Let’s have for instance, the rise of Psy’s fame. Psy’s songs were full of RATED X read-between-the-line lyrics. Even the choreography isn’t that challenging and yet, many people patronized it. I guess, the fame of Psy should be given to the groups who had better choreographies and lyrics. Although TVXQ and SHINee are known globally, here in UP Cebu, particularly in the program I am in, only a few appreciate and understand the beauty behind the music of what they call the “chingchongchang” language. Most of my friends in the fandom live only in my internet life, so this is why I will write about these Kpop groups in order to find new internet friends and spread the awesomeness of the Rising Gods of the East and the Five Shining Boys.

TVXQ (left)             and          SHINee (right)