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Thursday, October 14, 2004
TVfXQ comeback :TRI-ANGLE vs I-yah: // gasoo(s)
I wanted to write about this once I got to listen to the whole album but I guess I'm not that patient enough. I want to skip Miduhyo (I Believe/Trust Me) performance because it's a ballad song and almost everyone agreed that they performed it nicely. I'll comment about the song later.
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The one that was hotly talked about is, of course the title song, TRI-ANGLE. That performance totally invited gayo observers to compare the song with Iyah, and TVfXQ with H.O.T. I heard that H.O.T fans become TVfXQ anti-s, and most listener were bashing TVfXQ for singing TRI-ANGLE.
So firstly, am I the only one who wish to watch more performance of this song?
I, myself, am an H.O.T fans, although I wasn't in super depressed condition when I found out that the members had gone separate ways. After all, I am a KangTa fan before I am H.O.T fans. And of course, I am TVfXQ fan too.
When I first watch the comeback preview, I was already reminded to H.O.T although at that time I was thinking about Git It Up. Then I listened to the song preview, I must say I fell in love with that song. I looked up for the lyrics in ilikepop.com, and I saw that the composer was none other than Yoo YoungJin. Only when I saw in the lyrics that the song used the sample of 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No.40 in g minor, K 550 ' that I actually heard the familiar music in the background. Right at that moment I was thinking, "This is so Iyah-like" and already expected for fans, anti-s, and observers to arouse with comparisons. Anyway, Yoo YoungJin must really like Mozart a lot.
Some people said that the boys looked pathetic, trying to be the much loved H.O.T. Choikang's pretendind to scream near the ending would never beat WooHyuk's screaming (although when I saw that, I actually reminded of KangTa's screaming at the end of Iyah). I doubt for both of the songs that Choikang and KangTa were actually sceaming in those songs, I personally thought that it was Yoo YoungJin's voice.
In my opinion, TVfXQ could be looked pathetic with the song though. Yet I'm willing to look at it in other way. When H.O.T was broken apart I was wondering when can I listen to song with their style, especially when KangTa then become close to Song KwangShik rather than Yoo YoungJin. Of course, there are Moon HeeJun and jtL, yet I was anticipating for the song like Iyah. So, when I heard the song I was like- there you go, the song is back.
And the performance was rocking enough, even though when Micky and Xiah bumped to each other I was laughing. I consistently reminded of Xiah as a skinny student so when I saw that I was like- oh dear, Xiah is going to be blown away~
The flaw I saw is in the song itself, as I must say these boys don't have the attitude like H.O.T, and their performance doesn't make me feel threatened like H.O.T did. As I said, I fell in love with the song when I first listened to the preview, but when I listened to the whole song there was a slight disappointment. The chorus was too slow, after hearing the screaming stuff, suddenly they were singing softly. I keep expecting louder, harder voice. In short, H.O.T singing Iyah made it seem like they are in anger, threatening, warning at us for the sake of the children but TVfXQ seem like pleading for the better world with two kids called U-Know and Micky suddenly rioting in the middle. And neither of them could beat KangTa's threatening glare in Iyah :P. Oh, and Iyah has better ending.
Oh, did I mention that Youngwoong was so sexy? I didn't mean the sexyness as a hot hunk, I meant girly sexy ^.^;;; He is a very pretty boy. And I think Xiah looked cool (Youngwoong and his hair extensions are cool). Hey, I even think the backdancers (A to Z) have cool clothes too. Micky reminded me of an iDance character. Okay, let's stop comment on the look because I already did that before.
All that I want to say is that the song is still good with TVfXQ, even though it resembles so much of H.O.T. Yet, come one... both are from the same composers. You don't get that mad when you keep hearing the same rapping style in various groups, do you? Or when the ballad singers seem to sound alike. And those Japanese groups with visual kei image always look alike in my eyes. People were focusing on the boys just because they are so accepted by the fans.
I'm not saying that making them another H.O.T is a good thing. SM surely were too greedy in creating another icon in korea music industry when they made the boys singing TRI-ANGLE. Now I can see the rythm. The boys started with adorable image in Hug, suddenly become 'sexy' in The Way U Are and now they finally showed what they were intended to be. Had SM forgotten that H.O.T themselves did lose some of the fans when they appeared with that 4th album look?
Yet, I also think that the boys need a song like this. Come on, let's say you never had listened to them singing before, and I introduce you to a group with the name 'GODS RISING IN THE EAST! - DONG! BANG! SHIN! KI! -'... Will you actually expect five boys singing mushy mushy love songs instead of this kind of song?
This is just an expected event in the world of SM, so why bother?
And I was totally annoyed by the big spotlights in the performance.
Couldn't find good quality clips... couldn't make clear capture... blah...
EDITED: Forgot to mention .. seems like Youngwoong's dancing skill had improved :)
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randomness...
Youngwoong sang about him believing that it's hard to fall in love at the first sight before he met the girl in The Way U Are, Xiah followed by singing that he do believe in love at the first sight in Miduhyo, so who is next? ^.^
The boys wanted to be everything of the girl in Hug, and in The Way U Are they wanted to know everything, so I'm guessing that they are the stalkers? (Hehehe, if it were Lee YunHee instead of Go ARa in Hug MV, I'd say, "Run, YunHee~")... just kidding :P
Posted at 09:20 am by red
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