【ありがとう】RAIN（ピ）39【ごじゃいます】
OMG! DID YOU READ THE NYTIMES?!
what stupid... they called him IMMATURE or whatever... take a look:
By JON PARELES
Published: February 4, 2006
Rain, a 23-year-old Korean pop singer who is a superstar in Asia,
is out to conquer the United States next. It won't be easy.
His first step was two sold-out shows at the Theater at Madison Square Garden,
last night and Thursday night. The audience on Thursday was about 95 percent Asian,
at least 90 percent female and always ready to scream. Like Rain, they were following
the drill of a Michael Jackson concert from the early 1990's: songs that switched
between stark beats and sweet choruses, angular group dances and tough-guy
preening that gave way to professions of love.
Slender and wiry, Rain, known in Korean as Bi (pronounced "bee"), also acts in soap operas.
He's a product of the globalization that pumps American products through worldwide
media channels. People who fear mass-market threats to local styles need look
no further for an example. If there's anything beyond the lyrics that's
particularly Korean about Rain's songs, it's not obvious.
what stupid... they called him IMMATURE or whatever... take a look:
By JON PARELES
Published: February 4, 2006
Rain, a 23-year-old Korean pop singer who is a superstar in Asia,
is out to conquer the United States next. It won't be easy.
His first step was two sold-out shows at the Theater at Madison Square Garden,
last night and Thursday night. The audience on Thursday was about 95 percent Asian,
at least 90 percent female and always ready to scream. Like Rain, they were following
the drill of a Michael Jackson concert from the early 1990's: songs that switched
between stark beats and sweet choruses, angular group dances and tough-guy
preening that gave way to professions of love.
Slender and wiry, Rain, known in Korean as Bi (pronounced "bee"), also acts in soap operas.
He's a product of the globalization that pumps American products through worldwide
media channels. People who fear mass-market threats to local styles need look
no further for an example. If there's anything beyond the lyrics that's
particularly Korean about Rain's songs, it's not obvious.
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