The very first time I listened to Korean pop songs (apart from those come in dramas) was a few years back, when my sister brought a CD, “BoA No.1“, from her Taiwanese classmate. Her friend recommended that she listens to the CD since it’s a hit and sure to like it.

The CD was neatly packed with a lyric booklet in which beautiful photos of BoA against each song. I remember, I drew 2 of her photos from the booklet. Oh, did I mention I drew quite well back in my early teen days (I sounded like a Granny now)?; just simple pencil sketches that is. I have a habit of drawing beautiful pictures to make them ugly, especially portrait faces, from the Magazines. Anyway, I remember BoA cos’ her name is very easy to remember compare to other Korean names which I can’t even pronounce. I noted that she sings well and has a nice vocal. I remember her as a young, talented teen who likes singing English verses in many of her songs. I find it strange to listen a song with English words popping up every now and then. May be if I understand Korean then I might enjoy a bit of English mix in the song. We gave an Ok to the CD. Since then I haven’t been listening any of BoA songs, although I seen her in many of Entertainment news and videos, not because I dislike her, it’s just that I rarely listen to songs that I don’t understand unless the tune is really to my liking.

Then the other day, one of the English entertainment news feeds that I roll featuring her new MTV, “Eat you up“, and I happened to watch it. She’s improved a lot in her English and now she’s singing the whole songs in English. I wasn’t paying much attention to the lyrics but I like the beat and the dances. I always enjoy watching the MTVs with great dance moves. But I kind of remember seeing the same setting in another MTV before, I mean, dancing in the ball room in front of the judges, I don’t know where but I think I’ve seen the same thing, the same room in one of the movies or MTVs, so I wasn’t impress with her video set up. Apart from that it’s a good video and she dances so well. Here it is, judge it for yourself.

BoA – Eat You Up

I must say, I kind of like BoA’s consistent look, the same long flowing hair style, the same color, the same overall style since I’ve first seen her back in 2002 or something. I dislike those changes their look very often eg. Pink changed her hair blonde; Avril Lavangue dyed her straight dark brown hair blonde, why can’t they keep their own original style and be consistent with it. It’s like you are not you at all, you keep trying to act like many others and lost your originality. That’s just annoying. Oh well, that’s just my opinion and everyone has their own so…who cares.

Enjoy BoA’s “Eat You Up”.

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