pages tagged k-popspwhittonhttps://spwhitton.name//tag/k-pop/spwhittonikiwiki2015-11-18T17:09:12ZWe need to talk about K-pophttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/weneedtotalkaboutk-pop/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2013-05-08T22:47:00Z
<p><a href="http://occupiedterritories.tumblr.com/post/16010722069/pop-utopianism-a-manifesto-we-need-to-talk-about">POP UTOPIANISM: a manifesto / WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT K-POP: a mix |
Occupied
Territories</a></p>
<p>There’s a lot of hand-waving going on here but some interesting ideas
relating to pop music and society. I think that there might be a lot of
good stuff under the heading “critical theory” that I would like to look
into, but my background means that I find it hard to deal with
imprecision, obscurantism (deliberate or not) etc.</p>
<p>I sympathise a lot with the below. Thinking about this sort of stuff as
I come to the end of university and try to figure out how I should be
spending my time.</p>
<blockquote><p>We must develop a way of thinking about the economy of pleasure, how
it is produced and used. Many of us halfheartedly walk around
disbelieving in capitalism on an ideological level yet fall prey to
its tendency to reduce everything to an economy of profit and
production. Our very notion of waste, not just in terms of production
but in a more metaphorical sense (e.g. “That’s a waste of my time”),
has been inherited by capitalism, and it frustrates our attempts to
embrace pleasure. It just might be that pleasure is wasteful, but it
is “productively” wasteful, burning off excess dissatisfaction
accumulated over the course of our lives under capitalism. We are
taught by capitalism that leisure in the form of rest and relaxation,
or a vacation, is what we need in order to regain the energy consumed
by our work, but a worn-down body can only be revivified through
pleasurably productive use (e.g. dancing). We no longer believe that
money and profit alone can bring us happiness, but we are still tied
to a view of our lives inherited from this ideology. Consider instead
what I call the intersubjective economy of being found in indigenous
cultures, where gifts are exchanged and food is shared not to
reallocate resources but to share our being and presence with one
another, producing pleasure and strengthening social bonds. This is
most evident in certain customs of gift-giving where the participants
largely end up with, more or less, what they started with: the gifts
are not as important as the social act of exchange.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Edit 9/v/2013:</em> replaced quotation</p>
Ailee -- I'll Show Youhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/illshowyou/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-10-21T12:21:00Z
<p><a href="http://kpoppeach.co.uk/2012/10/20/ailee-ill-show-you-mv/">Ailee – I’ll Show You MV |
kpoppeach</a></p>
<p>The ‘Rihanna of Korea’.</p>
Advert for Seoul with Super Junior and Girl's Generationhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/sjggseoul/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-09-27T08:24:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3Dup6n1WrB7aE&feature%3Drelmfu">슈퍼주니어 &
소녀시대<sub>SEOUL</sub>(서울)<sub>뮤직비디오</sub>(MusicVideo)</a></p>
<p>Want to go back <img src="https://spwhitton.name//smileys/sad.png" alt=":(" /></p>
Orange Caramelhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/lipstick/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-09-25T18:22:00Z
<p>Fun group, just downloaded their first album, here is the song of theirs
I like most so far:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DBCu4O_V-lOQ">Orange Caramel - Shanghai Romance |
YouTube</a></p>
강남스타일 number one?https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/psynumberone/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-09-24T10:22:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19658732">Gangnam Style could be UK’s first K-pop number one | BBC
Newsbeat</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19692730">Gangnam Style fails to top UK singles chart | BBC
News</a> … but
could do next week.</p>
강남스타을 London Parodyhttps://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/londonstyle/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-09-17T18:01:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DlMmyeXeXeK0">PSY - LONDON STYLE (Gangnam Style M/V
Parody)</a></p>
<p>To be expected, but this is v. good.</p>
강남스타일https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/gangnamstyle/2015-11-18T17:09:12Z2012-08-29T21:16:00Z
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D9bZkp7q19f0">PSY - GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) M/V |
YouTube</a></p>
<p>This is a lot of fun!</p>
<p><a href="https://spwhitton.name//blog/entry/gangnamstyle/#more">continue reading this entry</a></p>