Crayon Pop is a group who debuted in 2012 with Saturday Night, a dance pop song. Later, they made a comeback with Dancing Queen, whose coreography was extremely funny and their clothes too. This year, they re-released Bing Bing who was in the first mini album and they made another great coreography with a break containing Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. And now they release Bar Bar Bar, their strongest release in my opinion with another quirky and amazing coreography. They are going viral now with a lot of people covering their dances and they have a lot of crazy ahjussis who support them
That Bar Bar Bar song is annoying like it's not even catchy
Cute cover
The guys singing are from Bangtan right?
What are their best songs? I only heard the title track but
I see them all the time on tumblr and V-sus is super cute so
i want to get into them
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2NE1's Falling in Love performance on MuCore
CL and Dara's hairstyles i love when CL wears twintails
Bom YAS
Thanks NestyRih, I'll give them another chance. I was initially turned off by that one video where they dress like cutesy traffic cops. But they seem to have a quirky sense of humor that I haven't seen in other K-pop acts.
I have no idea what's happening in this video, but I love their energy. I've seen too many interviews where the girls look bored or catatonic. It's nice to see them so lively, though I'm not sure if they're just picking up the hosts' infectious spirit or they're just trying to be more approachable in media appearances now.
Dancing Queen deserves this kind of attention too. I remember bopping to it when i heard it for the first time, though i am glad crayon pop is finally garnering the attention that they deserve. They are the next national girl group.
Hyorin's vocals during the entire last minute of that performance...
She sounded a little (re: very) hoarse though, I think she needs to rest her voice a while.
Crayon Pop is a group who debuted in 2012 with Saturday Night, a dance pop song. Later, they made a comeback with Dancing Queen, whose coreography was extremely funny and their clothes too. This year, they re-released Bing Bing who was in the first mini album and they made another great coreography with a break containing Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. And now they release Bar Bar Bar, their strongest release in my opinion with another quirky and amazing coreography. They are going viral now with a lot of people covering their dances and they have a lot of crazy ahjussis who support them
And if you want to dig in a little deeper, their company -- Chrome Entertainment -- is just as odd as the group itself.
Because they're not a big company, they've looked for ways to cut costs and minimize their burn rate. The girls themselves are a little older than usual, meaning someone else invested the time and money in their training. And it's not just the girls that are bulk-housed in a dorm, but pretty much most of the company lives in the same building to bring down living expenses.
In many ways the company has the feeling of a start-up rather than of an entertainment company. The core of the company is the CEO (a serial entrepreneur who may or may not be a right wing extremest ), two music producers (who may or may not have broke into the business working with PSY a decade ago), and a choreographer whose claim to fame was being in a boy band in the 90's. They may have initially met while serving in the military. Or maybe they made that up, too.
After renovating their office building and coming up with "Bing Bing," they went to China and then Japan in search of investors as well as experience for the girls. In hindsight, their break came when their original rapper left to pursue acting (or maybe just a steady paycheck), and Choa's twin sister Way (who had fronted an Hongdae indie band that unlike Hurricane/Crayon Pop at the time, had a CJE&M distribution deal) agreed to join the company. The trio of sub-160cm performers in Soyul, Choa and Way suddenly transformed the group from a generic kpop act to an extreme aegyo cosplay act that got a lot of interest from Japan, and gave them a clear direction to build upon.
And then there's the promo. Crayon Pop became one of the rare kpop acts to directly interact with fans over sns. Hey, it's cheap. And they didn't have many fans, so it was manageable. They leveraged the fancam phenomenon while bigger companies are debating if fancams should be banned. They also took advantage of whatever skills their "iLife generation" office staff had and produced plenty of in house videos with just enough quality that made them look like a bigger operation than they actually were. And when the office staff weren't busy editing web videos and booking festival organizers, they doubled as back up dancers during the "Saturday Night" era.
There's plenty of Crayon Pop material out there right now -- including a 3 part diary series they did for MBCPlus. But I think this is one of the better ones since it's sub'd, it's only 7 minutes and it captures the spirit of the company as well as the girls. The company produced it, and as such they're the ones responsible for the content -- the on screen commentary/shade is all theirs, it's just been translated.
This took place early November '12, about two weeks after their first viral success -- when they debuted their "Dancing Queen" concept on Music Bank, and later in front of a pharmacy or something so their favorite fancam'r could post it on his youtube channel. And the rest, you know.
They're definitely not for everyone. But they don't need everyone -- they just need enough.
Watching Exo made me wonder where Regina is. Does she still post? I miss her.
I post sometimes. I'm just not here for any group other than Exo so I find it more fitting to post on a website like Onehallyu that has a designated Exo thread, as opposed to here where most people don't like/appreciate Exo and their supremacy.
Crayon Pop's the dark horse of 2013.
All of their dances can catch on, their musics stupidly catchy, the members are likeable and interact with fans, they're completely different to every group on the scene, their performances are entertaining, etc.
Out of a sea of boring rookies, they're interesting enough for us to stop and think/talk about THEM.
If they don't get a hit now, it's only a matter of time.
They have the recipe for success, and it's based around a $10 budget.
i love when CL wears twintails 
), two music producers (who may or may not have broke into the business working with PSY a decade ago), and a choreographer whose claim to fame was being in a boy band in the 90's. They may have initially met while serving in the military. Or maybe they made that up, too. 