G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up - 4/02/25
I listen to an Aphex Twin album, and listen to Sofia Camara's latest release.
Favorite Videos include AYA a.ka. PANDA on blackboard, SAY MY NAME on It's Live, and more!
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...the Instagram of P.K, who composed and arranged the song and is listed as one of two lyricists, along with his FearGOD colleague, BIGTONE:
https://www.instagram.com/pk_feargod/reels/
A glance at the linked page suggests that "Thank you, Jesus/Yeah, I'm so lucky" lines were not just examples of English words and phrases being inserted without much thought to their meaning.
Some questions occur to me:
- I know that Christianity has a following in South Korea that it does not have, for example, in Japan. Are Christians in the Kpop industry represented in proportion to their presence in the South Korean population, or are they over represented?
- Usually Kpop songs are free of anything that might be politically or religiously controversial. Were Say My Name's agency unconcerned about any negative impact allusion to Christian belief might have in markets where either governments or populations are ill disposed to anything smacking of Christian proselytizing?
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So far this has been the stage I've liked best of Say My Name's curiously addictive 'ShaLaLa". The skirts and the green and white colour coordination lend an agreeable unity to the performance.
I wanted to find out more about the producers of the song. A few minutes on the InterWebz led me to....
I've been enjoying this city pop inflected cute concept song. Even though I don't love all of the outfits, I still prefer this Studio Choom to the MV.
Like many others, I was struck by the "Thank you Jesus" line. I wonder why that was included.
#Kpop #SayMyName #ShaLala #StudioChoom #CuteConcept
So of course I picked Beetlejuice for my horror pick 
#SayMyName 
And by the way, it’s one of my favorite movies too! #ILikeToWatch #SymSat
SAY MY NAME -- Goldilocks Water
https://youtu.be/af64qbsmPCw?si=8NROGivfNTtId4F5
Somehow this escaped my notice on its first release, but I am delighted to have discovered it now, preferring it to "WaveWay", the title track.
I stopped paying that much attention to western pop years ago, but I think I'm right in saying that this kind of bright melodic girl group pop isn't much in evidence there.
I'm not too sure about some of the combinations of frills with athletic wear here, but this is hardly the first kpop video with what strikes me as a flaw.
I've never heard of "Goldilocks water" before. My immediate reaction was it sounded like some Summer of Love Bay Area name for a liquid psychedelic. Perhaps the words "golden state" in the lyrics triggered me...
G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up - 10/21/24
Another annoying Johnny Cash live at a prison album is listened to, and I check out SAY MY NAME's debut EP.
Favorite videos include Kamasi Washington's Tiny Desk, Noochie’s Live From The Front Porch Presents: Sinéad Harnett, and more!
