Big Bang. just listen to them.

Big Bang's album is coming out soon (and I adore that group)!! There will be a couple posts on them in general... just because :D

Some of Big Bang's big hits:

하루하루/Haru Haru/Day by day (In Korean, then romanized in English so non-Korean speakers can say it, and then the English translation)

The music video is reminiscent of a stereotypical Korean drama... but the song and the chorus is what really caught everyone's attention. Listen to the music... not what you would expect right?


Lies - Another huge hit for BB (the actual song starts around 00:25)

Even though the lyrics and music video don't really have much to do with each other.... the song is pretty nice- deviates from the normal "kpop" songs that were going around when Big Bang came out. Big Bang literally opened up an entirely new facet of music to Korea.

2010 Top Kpop songs performed by... an orchestra?!

So the hallyu movement seems to be going strong- so strong that someone composed a medley of some of the most popular Korean songs from 2010 into an orchestral piece.

The songs used are the following:
1. SHINee – Lucifer
2. SHINee – Ring Ding Dong
3. Super Junior – Bonamana
4. U-Kiss – Man Man Ha Ni
5. T-ara – I Go Crazy Because Of You
6. BEAST – Shock
7. Big Bang – Haru Haru
8. FT Island – I Hope
9. Wonder Girls – 2 Different Tears
10. BEAST – Mystery
11. 4Minute – HUH
12. T-ara – Bo Peep Bo Peep
13. KISS – Because I’m A Girl
14. 2AM – I Will Never Let You Go Even If I Die
15. DBSK – I Believe
16. SNSD – Gee

Even if you haven't heard half of these songs, it's pretty cool sounding... And it's even cooler to know that there are 16 different (Korean) songs in a 6.5 minute piece.. performed by the Nanyang Polytechnic Chinese Orchestra. They're even using some traditional Chinese instruments! Korean music seems to be popular in a lot of different ways these days! Hallyu movement is going strong :)