May3

He’s everywhere!

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Zico’s all over the place these days promoting, but this was really cool from his show. He had 10cm on (if you’re old like me, 10cm is now just one person, and not a duo), and they performed one of 10cm’s very early songs (which is why they keep talking about busking). As far as I can tell, the song was just released as a bonus track, and it really does sound like it was recorded on someone’s phone from a street performance, so it’s cool to see it brought up from obscurity like this–a real treat to 10cm’s hard-core fans, I’m sure. Then 10cm performed “Artist.” Very neat!

This kind of thing (or when Zico performed on “Chool Check” last week) is I think what’s really fun about this show–the crossovers and new spins on old songs. Looking forward to more of that!

Apr28

Really interesting

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Like I said, there have been about a million reaction videos to “Spot!” but this one stood out for me:

They’re both bilingual, and they’re going through what the lyrics mean, including all the wordplay and double meanings–since it’s Zico, that takes more than 15 minutes.

ETA: I know some people were wondering about what the store sign says at the end of the video; it says “Welcome.”

Apr27

And a hit!

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Yeah, wow, “Spot!” is doing really well. I think one of Zico’s strengths as a producer is that he’s able to work a song to really spotlight a singer’s vocal abilities–it always helps the song, but with someone popular like Jennie, it’s like catnip to her fans.

Because the song is doing so well, I have to sort through, like, a million reaction videos (yes, yes, please whine more about your successful-fan problems, said nobody ever. But I haven’t had to do this in ages, and I’m rusty). Anyway, this is up:

It’s an interview with! English! captions! and Zico sings a bunch, so it’s cool.

Apr2

Zico comeback, baby!

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Enough of these stealth releases, Zico’s doing press! Fingers crossed that this means, like, an actual album and not just a single….

ETA: OK, I was going to link to English translations, but both Soompi and AllKPop think that “Zico’s celebrating the 10th anniversary of his solo debut!” and “Zico’s solo debut, ‘Tough Cookie,’ was released in 2011!” are statements that make total sense together. (And they are both making the same mistake, because they just copy/paste from each other.) A nice reminder to me of the high, high quality of press coverage we can anticipate here….