You'd better surrender!
Posted on 08/31/2015 11:57:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
To Jar North, South Korea Used a Pop-Music Barrage
By CHOE SANG-HUN AUG. 30, 2015
SEOUL, South Korea — Chirpy bubble-gum harmonies bop across the desolate Demilitarized Zone. “Look at me, I’m your genie, your dream, your genie,” the K-pop band Girls’ Generation beckons as grim-faced soldiers patrol the border.
In what might be called the Hello Kitty offensive, the relentlessly upbeat girl group, a sugary confection better known for its hot-pants choreography than political statements, has become the latest weapon in the Korean cold war.
The group’s hit “Genie” was among the barrage of pop songs and polemics South Korea blasted across the border this month, driving North Korea to the point of firing artillery and massing troops on the border.
If the latest standoff between North and South Korea proved anything, it is that old-school propaganda, juiced up with a synthesized K-pop beat, still has the power to get under the skin of North Korea’s leadership. Turn off the loudspeakers, the North warned, or face “all-out war.”
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I surrender!
I volunteer to be their guitar player!
What do you call a guitar player in a K-pop band?
HA! Trick question!
Then again Fender makes that Roland GK/MIDI Strat so there’s hope you you dinosaurs yet I suppose ;)
Gangham style?
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