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When you CAN sing

I'll bet many blogs are now discussing the rally speech and the various follow-up comments and articles. However, my brain is currently unable to process all these intelligent ideas, so I am writing today about much less important matters related to (and also unrelated to) this popular K singer called Rain.



Dee said sometime ago on her blog that Idol contestant Jonathan looks like Rain. I DO see the resemblance! (pic from here)



I happened to turn on the telly over the weekend and there was this documentary about Rain. He was at that time filming a drama serial as well as preparing for his Asian concert tour and slept 2 hours each day. I thought that was crazy.

He explained that he had to work so hard because anytime, someone else who could act, sing and dance as well, or better, could emerge and that would be the end for him. I suppose this industrious spirit is rather admirable but I'm not sure if it's healthy to take it to such an extreme. Is one's career worth so much?

He also said that he therefore had to make himself 'indispensable'. I wonder if his ambitions are too lofty and he is setting himself up for disappointment. Surely no one is indispensable? Surely there will be new and other singers/actors who will eclipse him?

Well, he definitely CAN sing and dance well, and his acting isn't too bad. There is suddenly a Rain blitz on SCV which is showing Full House and A Love to Kill. I watched the first 2 episodes of Full House and the show is rather promising. I will probably give the other show a miss -- it sounds a bit too intense for me. Sigh... so much to watch, so little time... War and Beauty is now showing on Channel 48, there's Sam Soon on Channel U, and I'm also trying to catch Train Man (on SCV).

Based very unscientifically on the very limited repertoire of K drama I have watched, some 'trends' I have observed are:
1. love quadrangles and what's-the-word-for-a-fivesome are preferred to love triangles
2. girls are in dire need of money
3. brash/obnoxious/arrogant rich guys turn out to be kind, sensitive souls
4. girls trot around on very high heels (even when running around chasing people who cheated them)
5. heroines are spunky girls (as opposed to the demure, tragic, sweetie types of K melodramas)
6. at least one person in the show has to ride a bicycle
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Anonymous said…
your observations are very accurate! i think korean guys are usually extremely chauvinistic, hence their male leads are generally seen as "brash/obnoxious/arrogant" who turned out to be kind and sensitive so that they can be likeable by the female fans. poor korean girls, they need these serials to give them "hope" that their chauvinistic guys are actually sensitive underneath. ;P
dee
11:37 pm
Anonymous said…
Hmm... so in real life, it's unlikely that the guy would piggyback the girl when she's drunk, cook porridge for her when she is ill, etc? Oh well, sometimes one does have to turn to the fantasies provided by the media. :-)

(not that I've ever seen a S'porean guy piggybacking a drunk girl either)
11:57 am
Anonymous said…
i would like to add one more observation from K romantic comedies. i think deep down, Korean girls really like brash/obnoxious/bad tempered/rich/chauvinistic men, because the male lead that they fall in love with is always so, while the REJECTED supporting male lead is always a SNAG. so i think chauvinistic men are a lot more in demand than SNAGs in korean or there's a conspiracy to get the female population to accept the great mass of chauvinists in korea. haha...
4:54 pm
Anonymous said…
dee
4:55 pm
Anonymous said…
hmmm... interesting...
:-)
12:16 pm
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