The album portrayed the singer as more “mature and self-confident” and was a “declaration of war on male chauvinism” the “bohemian” look of the cover photograph represented “freedom and depth”, while music videos and album photographs that portrayed BoA in traditional Korean dress brought the “idea of Korean womanhood” into her music.
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Her fifth Korean album, Girls on Top, continued her image change. The sales of BoA’s Korean albums began to decline: the album sold 191,000 units and became the eleventh-best-selling South Korean album of the year. The album was the beginning of a foray into the Chinese market and contained two songs sung in Mandarin Chinese. Now compare the back and front covers of BoA’s Girls on Top album from 2005: ( Source) ( Source)īoA reinvented her image on her fourth Korean album, My Name (2004) she left the “cute” and “youthful” style that had characterized previous years and presented herself as “sexy” and “sultry”. 42), “if sexy means passionate or invested in one’s own fantasies and sexual proclivities, then the pictorials don’t quite do it.” Nor, I’d wager, that ad. Like Ariel Levy says in Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, from which that was taken (p. When you get yourself into the really contortionist position that you’ve got to hold up and your back hurts and you’ve got to suck in your stomach, you’ve got to stick your hips out, you’ve got to arch your back and you’ve got to stick your butt out all at the same time and suck in and hold your breath, you don’t feel sexy. And with her head raised back, accentuated by the BDSM-like clothing that covers her neck, then surely I’m not the only one reminded of poses you usually only see done by porn stars?Īnd just how sexy do those porn stars themselves feel doing them? Take Alex Arden for instance, a former Penthouse “Pet of the Month” ( July 2001, if you’re curious): With her exposed navel navel piercing hand thrust in jeans tight clothes confident gaze at the viewer hole in her clothes deliberately revealing her chest and long windswept hair, then she’s every inch the sexually-empowered and assertive female, or at least modern advertising’s definition of one.īut still, that slight body cant does look a little awkward. In particular, ponder how “sexy” she appears in it.
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But also, serendipitously, it helps focus our minds on just how unconventional the song is.
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You can find more English Translations of these artists coming back at “ About This Song” section and clicking in the artist name, music genre or (in some cases) even in the album name.Why open a post about music with a mascara ad? Good question, to which the simple answer would be that Girls on Top came out nearly 6 years ago, and high-quality, eye-catching images of BoA from back then are hard to find. Official album for BoA “BETTER – the 10th Album” is available on: Naegeneun chueokdeurinde wae Credits: Romanized Lyrics were taken from and The English Translation was taken from a Youtube video, you can watch it by clicking here. Hamkkehan modeun sigan mojori da balmit jeo meolli Jjotgideut domangchigo dasi doedoraon gil chaja Nangtteoreojiro wae mireonaeryeo haneunde I try to, try to, try to, try to remember youīut wae nal wae nal wae nal jakku mireoman nae Naegeneun dasi doraol su eomneun gireul taekan geon neo Sonkkeuteul tteona meolli naragan geon neo Geuman kkeureonaeryeo naegen sojunghaetdeon chueoginde Uimi eomneun dajimeul ttodasi nan banbokae