KPOP dance genre

After my first adventure of making a cover dance video was proven to be very fun and the result was pretty entertaining, I got quite hooked up in learning some more dance moves for fun =9

And that's how I was then introduced to the world of Korean pop songs, KPOP.

Thanks to my fellow dance game friends who are apparently such a die hard fans of KPOP, they proved very much helpful in providing my morning workout session with plenty of dance-for-fun materials :D

This super easy and catchy KPOP song was the first one that I learnt (and apparently already copied by indonesian group 5 Bidadari?) : Nobody from Wonder Girls

J is very supportive to this new hobby of mine. Even J could be caught at times humming the songs I was working on and imitating some of the moves xD
Most notably the one with the hand gesture from this "nobody" song expressing "blablabla" xP

Then I learnt this fun dance from the song Genie of the group SNSD/Girls Generation, a group consisting of 9 girls.
Upon me dancing this song's signature leg moves, J commented with cheerfully neighing, horse style, lol

Next was this rather too simple dance but definitely in the cutesy side song : A-ing
Aren't those clothes just adorable! i wanttttttttttt xD
This one dance is super easy and the jumps are nice for cardio workout xP

Although upon checking the lyrics...
these KPOP songs lyrics are just not making sense at times xD
But then, probably some are just lost in translation *shrugs*

Next in my list is the infamous buttdance Kpop song! Mister by Kara.

For this song, I've already got my dad's shiny blue training sweatpants to match their style hahaha xD

And... while I have only learnt the girls songs so far, the kpop boybands also have nice selection of songs!

Truthfully, I'm not very fond with korean pretty boy fab going, so, the ones I like are usually the upbeat ones rather than the ballads.

My absolute favorite KPOP male group is epik high!
I found almost all their songs are very nice to listen to.
This is one of their song that I like : love love love

And for the dance part, this is my most favorite one, from the group Super Junior :
sorry sorry
I think the dance is just fun and very manly! *_*

I'm looking forward to learn that dance, but might not be anytime soon :P
I guess the main point of such dance to be fun is to have ppl to dance with. This Super Junior group consists of 13 people.
If only this was already existed back then during my bachelor degree...
I bet I would have proposed us to dance it for the campus event! hahaha

Learning all these dances got my eyes opened to the this kind of KPOP genre, where it's not only about catchy songs and pretty faces, but also great dances with serious choreography. These singers were reported to undergo really serious and exhaustive trainings to practice and perform their dance routines.

This got me thinking... how come such genre hasn't existed yet in Indoesia?

And... as they said, be careful of what you wish for,
lo and behold, my friend informed me that apparently Indonesia has one KPOP boyband style!

Smash!

My friend told me of how people complained though about them. That their name is just like the korean boyband with the exact same name, that the opening of their song sounds just like Justin Bieber's song, and that their dance routine was copied from some koreans boybands.

But I said, o, come on give it a chance. It's already a good thing that we have a pioneer in that kind of genre.

Yet, upon witnessing their official song music video (MV), I have to admit I shouldn't have put high hopes on them yet ^^

The moves seem not too well practiced yet, and their expression...
I really don't want to be mean, but their expression in the movie was kind of a turn off, really ^^

Probably it's such a tough start for them using this as a debut song. The song is rather in the ballad side and it isn't very helping in providing the dancing atmosphere. Thus they had to come up with that pretty boy style presentation... which is not really my cup of tea ^^

This parody of them even seemed better as they could just be fun in doing it and not having to maintain the "cool" and "charming" (and...seducing? xD) image as the real smash in their MV.

but thennnnnn!
I found that they performed in ITB!
hahaha, oh my dear, beloved campus.

And while their voices aren't... really top notch.. ^^
they looked really enjoying it and having fun with their dance.
And I think that's what missing in the MV.

So.. I guess it's not such a bad start for this genre in Indonesia.
J teased me already when I explained about this to him: "Teheeee, so you like them eh?" xP
well, honestly, no. or at least not yet.

but, hey, really, I'll be looking forward to the day I'd proudly do a dance cover of an indonesian song!

So... let's hope they'd practice their vocal more, and practice their dances more, and...
we'll call it.. .Ipop? will we have any copyright problem with apple product lines? lol

Go forth Indonesian music! ;D