ROBERT MICHAEL POOLE: Can you tell us about the concept behind the song “Ice Cream?” and who could be the real K-Pop breakout star in the West, too. We spoke with the young lady at the forefront of a generation in Korea now dominating their powerhouse neighbors of China and Japan in fashion and in music. At Cube Café in Gangnam, a coffeehouse for K-Pop fans directly under her music studio, HyunA waltzes in with a thick blue woolen bob-hat, self-styled fur-lined jacket,the tiniest of black hot pants and sunglasses wrapped around her fingers.Īn icon of the Korean fashion and pop culture wave that has already swamped Asia, HyunA’s performance in “Gangnam Style” only reinforced her reputation as K-Pop’s leading female provocateur-able to step out alone from the ranks of girl groups with confidence and power to represent a model of a new, modern Korean femininity.
“Bubble Pop!,” meanwhile, placed an impressive #9 on SPIN Magazine’s “Best 20 songs of 2011.”Įven wrapped up for winter, 20-year-old HyunA commands attention. It’s only fitting that Korea’s attitudinal pop princess was the subject of PSY’s seduction in “Gangnam Style.” Rapper-dancer Kim Hyun-a stands out from the super-clean K-Pop crowd, having controversially left one group (Wonder Girls) and then joining another, electro-pop unit 4Minute, and setting the tone for the more edgy side of K-Pop with songs like “Muzik” and “Hot Issue.” Her solo singles have been even more incendiary-the music video for “Change” was flagged for 19+ viewers for her pelvic thrusting dance moves.
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