I'm frankly surprised I don't run into more Korea pop (K-pop to the rest of you), though I guess I shouldn't have said that... Anyway, this is my first exposure to a group that's huge in South Korea and Japan and is becoming known in the USA as well. They're so huge, in fact, that there's Girls Generation, and then there's a subgroup called Girls Generation TTS, the latter of which is the subject of this post. Essentially, what we have here is a Korean girl group whose music is as relentlessly Western as any USA homegrown group's, although they sing a lot in Korean -- in fact, only the title song has an English version, and it's here in Korean as well. As for what this sounds like, well, take the pop part of K-pop seriously, although they're a bit behind the trends, as their sound is roughly 80's R'nB, disco and pop. That said, the English version of "Dear Santa" is not bad, and the rest is listenable if you like dance music and don't pay much attention to lyrics. Of course, some of you will want to throw on the Korean language songs just to see what your friends think. (Amazon link is to an imported CD version; downloads appear to only be available at iTunes.)
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