Saturday, February 25, 2012

Blue by Bigbang

Bigbang 빅뱅, one of the most popular bands in K-pop, has come back with this song. It sounds so familiar when I first listened to "Blue". In the 80'th, this kind of Ballad music was popular with the youth in South Korea. Some singers playing guitars used to express their oppressed emotion through songs in the desperate political situation. The military dictatorship was totally gone though, the middle-aged Koreans still have the memory of the painful past with those songs.

Time has passed, new Korean generation is introducing the world unique and characteristic music, which is called Kpop, short for Korean pop. The age of IT together with Utube, Facebook, Twitter and the other social network services has given the chance of spreading new trend of Korean popular music, Kpop, which has fascinated young enthusiasts around the world. Kpop is a major aspect of Hallyu 한류 or Korean wave that has affected the world since the 1990s'. Kpop is estimated to create the new culture of popular music by the worldwide fans. Bigbang is one of the most beloved Kpop bands.