by kazaf10 on Jul.03, 2009, under Wonder Girls
Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” took over fans over the world with their pretty, cute and stylish moves.
(Picture above depicts the dance moves, pointing your fingers towards the front is the classic move.)
The dance moves are really sleek and cute, making it to be irresistible.
Most stunning imitation: 3 hunks in tight fitting female dress version
Most shocking imitation: Cebu inmates’ version
Most accurate imitation: Office men parody version
Korea’s security, Thailand’s high school students, Foreign blonde middle-aged men, hunks in female disguise and Philippines inmate…. All these people are from all over the world, different races and different age groups are linked together because of 1 hit song from Korea, which is “Nobody” by the Wonder Girls. They are the imitators of this dance, and because of their videos were too funny, too stunning and too shocking, it had became a frenzy all over the internet world, creating a new wave of “Nobody” dance trend! China’s high school students’ graduation night dance choice would be the number one choice “Nobody”.
The popular hit song “Nobody” was sang by Korea’s leading popular girl group, Wonder Girls, and was the hit song from their album “The Wonder Years – Trilogy” released September last year.
What is the charm that captivated the world, causing this frenzy and hype that makes people want to dance along? From its simplest dance move, you even can dance when sitting down, to its repeating dance steps, unknowingly, people would want to follow and dance along to the song. With such cutesy and sleek dance moves, it might be one of the possible reasons for this song to be popular around the world. However, the success of “Nobody” aint that simple, it was all the hard work from behind the scenes, renowned produces carefully planned and created this.
How popular is “Nobody”?
Imitation frenzy is still at hype.
It is difficult for us to tally how many people are actually imitating to this song “Nobody”. Foreign popular video sharing sites, Youtube, had also displayed over 3000 videos of imitations, be it imitating the dance moves or cover the whole song with their own version of “Nobody” (including the possibility of repeated videos). Wonder Girls are now ready to take a step to reach the world, preparing to open up the US and China’s market.
If you did a video search on China’s video site “Youku”, you can also find that there are quite a number of middle school and high school students performing “Nobody” on their various events. And dancing to “Nobody” is now a “trend” in schools: Chong Qing University and .etc
“Nobody” has become a “must to perform” segment in their school events. Not only the girls love to dance to it, even the guys will too.
Analysis of the reason that why it became so popular:
Cute moves, catchy tune.
Simplicity is the key; you can even dance when sitting down.
The success of “Nobody” will be first coming from the easy dance steps, easy to undesrstand and easy to learn. From the beginning to the end, you need not leave your original position, all you need is to move around in a circle of size about a square feet. Basically the whole dance uses the co-ordination of your legs, hip bones & arms. You don’t need any dancing background to be able to dance to this hit song. You can even dance sitting down just by looking at the dance moves, naturally arouses the humans’ desire to learn.
Repetitive is the strength, a total of 17 times repeated verses in the chorus part.
The duration of the whole song “Nobody” is 3minutes and 47 seconds. And the repetitive verse “I want nobody, nobody but you” had already taken up 1minute from the song, repeating a total of 17 times, not inclusive of the 7 times which doesn’t include “but you”. Even the dance steps are repeating it too. It is hard for you not to remember it with such high frequency of repetitive song verses and dance moves.
Lovely, Cute VS the traditional:
In tradition dance song, dancers are normally dancing and keeping their suave in the music video. Posing their different dance moves of high difficulty, dazzling in front the eyes of the audiences. However, “Nobody” chose to use a simple body language to send their charming and lovely message across to the people. Particularly, part of the dance moves was also seen in Korea’s sitcom drama. The part where it goes “I want nobody, nobody but you”, is also classified as classic by netizens, 5 girls shrinking their backs with fingers from both hands pointing towards the front, with such cuteness, it is hard for people not wanting to dance along with them.
Secrets revealed:
Such popularity ain’t come accidentally
1. The person who once crafted Rain, now putting much effort in creating the Wonder Girls, has a strong renowned background team together with him. JYP from Korea’s entertainment “dream factory” – JYP Entertainment, groomed this 5 popular “IT” girls. JYP also once groomed G.O.D, Rain and other top notch artists. And this successful popular song was written by him personally.
2. Before this “Nobody” frenzy came on, the Wonder Girls had already had 2 hit songs released in Korea, gaining immense popularity back there. The 2 songs were “Tell Me” in 2007, and “So Hot” in 2008, crowning the Wonder Girls as the “Nation’s Sisters”.
3. High rates of publicity made by “Nobody”. Once it was released last year, “Nobody” had successfully hit the charts of 3 top music programs back in Korea, becoming a song that is seen on TV frequently. Where as you can say that it is almost every day that you can hear “Nobody” on TV!
Nobody original MV : HERE
[Source: HERE]
[Translation by: kazaf10]
첫댓글 이게 맞을듯 ;; 사진이 같은것라서
내가본게이거군 원더풀월드서봤었군.. 짱깨들이 좋아하는춤이라던가
잘봤습니다 그러니까 한글로도 좀 ㅠㅠ 이거 뭐 외국어가 병신이니까 기사 하나 보는것도 몇 다리를 거쳐야 되네;;;