K-pop v Kim-pop: Battle of the bands, Korean style

Hits like “ice cream cake” and “peek a boo”???

Are these nursery rhymes?

Kim JonUn really an expert knows how to pick up girls!

Seohyun of Girls' Generation (RV's seniors under the same agency) is also attending as a performer and MC. She's been chosen to lead the delegation of SK performers who are going due to her huge popularity in both SK and NK.

Though I wasn't happy at the announcement of Seohyun, RV and the other performers being sent to Pyongyang. Of course they most likely will come back without incident but you can never be sure with a regime like NK and I would rather that they weren't put at risk.

We truly are living in astonishingly strange times.

The SK girls have to follow an agenda of no love, no romance, no reading 'feminist' publications yet have to gyrate and flex their sex appeal but give a 'near-virginal' look? And of course the NK girls have to give praise to Communism and Kim the Dictator Dirtbag of their land. Both teams have their lives totally guided by a totalitarian way of life. They give pleasure to perverts, and for the song 'My Way'? That song was written by a Frenchman and covered by everyone from Elvis Presley to the Sex Pistols and many more people who could do things 'their way' more than these girl group members can.

If SK wants to give a really good cultural exchange they should send the rock band 57 (pronounced 'oh chill'). I met and saw them play at a club in my hometown on an American tour that featured 57 from SK, a Russian punk/thrash band, a Greek punk band and 2 US punk bands. All were great. 57 stunned everyone, however. They're a man-woman guitar-drum duo in the mold of White Stripes but much more fierce, rocking, alive, electric and sizzling hot! We were all totally nothing less than amazed by these two! Call them K-pop, K-rock, K-punk, whatever - 'K' for 'Korean' of course but for them the 'K' really stands for 'KICK ASS!'. And man do they do that, and they do it very good.

Enough Idol groups already! Every time you turn around there's another freaked Idol group. The market is supersaturated already