Crayon Pop

[tengaku squared 291]

 

Hey, look, another K-pop girl group.

 

That would sum up my reaction to this group before Bar Bar Bar came out. Now, Bar Bar Bar has hit number 1 on the Billboard Korea K-Pop Hit 100, and that is a truly impressive feat, considering they are still a fresh group.

 

Most importantly, their unique dance move in Bar Bar Bar, the Straight-Five Engine Dance, is certainly unusual. It's not unlike "Gangnam Style", which as everyone knows popularized a new dance move that no one even contemplated before. It's quirky and fun to see the group move up like an engine. The song is, like most K-pop songs, incredibly infectious, and the lyrics contrast from other girl groups as being entirely fun, not dark.

 

Besides the engine dance, the choreography for the song really fits the energy the song emits, and overall, Bar Bar Bar is just great.

 

It looks like Crayon Pop is on the course to becoming mainstream and popular, and who knows; the engine dance may become as commonplace as the horse-riding dance.

 

Thoughts?

 

[A L 217]

The song is catchy, or rather the video game noises in there but there are a lot of catchy songs like you said. At some points, I thought of power rangers. It has been a good going for rookie groups in K-Pop nowadays.