Sexy

Sexy – Secret Oh god don’t listen to this. I can understand even more than yesterday’s song how unbearable this is to listen to. There’s an objective terribleness to it that i can’t deny, but it’s not enough to lift the greater spell K-pop has cast on me. It’s so embarrassing. And nauseating. The way [...]

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Shy Boy

Shy boy – Secret Secret have two sides to them: The fun, independent, messy club hair side of Madonna, Magic, Love Is Move, etc. and the squeaky clean, sanguine, malt shop, dream boy conjuring of Starlight Moonlight and this song. Maybe it’s a want to exist between those two worlds, maybe it’s a scattergun approach [...]

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Love is MOVE

Love is MOVE – Secret It sure is. Wasn’t it very exciting a few weeks ago when both Secret and Girls’ Generation released their new albums in the same week? No? Oh. But what gall by Secret, going up against the biggest comeback the Korean pop world will see this year. Call them brave, call [...]

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Magic

Magic – Secret Again on the hegemony of the English language in music. Korean pop is unashamedly and unavoidably influenced by American pop/r&b/urban/top 40 music, and as consequence English creeps into these songs frequently, with all transmitted sense of legitimacy and cool. And so we get lines like “let’s Secret time” and the pronunciation of [...]

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