
Get Your Groove On With K-Pop
Nusrat Jahan
Do not hide in a corner if people ridicule you for listening to k-pop. They just do not know how fabulous this world is, and have definitely not seen Choi Minho from SHINee winking or Kris from EXO-K smiling. People who do not listen to k-pop undermine the artists of this genre so much. All of them are multitalented- they can all dance, sing, and even act! K-pop songs are famous for their upbeat style and immaculate dance videos. It is amazing how the girls dance around for 5 whole minutes wearing 5 inch heels and not fall down like blocks of dominos. I remember how my best friend and I enthusiastically learned all the steps to some popular k-pop songs. In case you are a person who wants to try dancing to some K-pop (and the only dance song you know is Gangnam style by PSY) but do not know where to start, yours truly brings to you the most fantabulous list of k-pop songs to get your groove on to!
• SNSD- GENIE: The dance may look all complicated but it is actually not. Just try it three to four times and you will get the hang of it. You do that while I scratch my head and try to figure out how they jump up and down like that while wearing those heels.
• Brown Eyed Girls- Abracadabra: This song has one of the most iconic K-Pop dance moves ever. Yes, the Gangnam style dance move is NOT the most famous dance move out there. Speaking of which, the main move from Abracadabra was actually featured in the music video of Gentleman by PSY.
• Girls Generation- I Got a Boy: Any negative opinion I had about Girls Generation’s dance videos were tossed into the dustbin after I saw their video for “I Got A Boy”. It had the perfect blend of fancy hair flicks and the best surprise-it’s-head-banging-time sequence ever!
• A Pink- No No No: Now this is what I call a meticulously choreographed dance video, but you will probably need your girl-posse to do this one. In this video, the girls were standing straight in line, but then they started shuffling their hips in the adorable-Korean-way, and started to fan out. You have to watch it to know how brilliant it is, so head on to YouTube right now!
• KARA- Mister: If you thought, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift are the masters of twerking than you obviously have not seen the epic butt shake that goes on in this music video.
• 9 Muses- Wild: Okay, now this one is a bit tough unless you are an average girl by day and a street-dancing queen by night. At least, that is what I think. The entire dance was amazingly choreographed with fluid transitions from slow to fast movements. Yours truly could not pull this one off, but you should totally go ahead and try it out. Do mail me your secret if you can pull it off!
• EXO-K- Growl: This one has some Michael Jackson-ish type moves in them. It is actually a mix of very interesting and eye-popping dance moves.
• SHINee- Everybody: This one is the most hectic one yet. It has so much moving and jumping that it is impossible to keep up unless you are unnaturally hyperactive or a professionally trained dancer.
