Is This South Korea's Next Dance Craze?

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Forget "Gangnam Style." Forget "Bar Bar Bar." 2014 could be the year that we all start dancing to "Ear Attack."

By "we," I mean "you"—or, at least, someone you know.

Below, you can watch the video for "Ear Attack." It's a tune by a new Korean pop group called Badkidz.

At the time of posting, the above clip has around one hundred thousand views on YouTube, so by those numbers, this certain hasn't gone supernova. Yet. (Here is the club version if you are into that sort of thing.)

The song debuted at a terrible time for South Korea—during the recent Sewol ferry disaster. The country's attention was directed elsewhere, obviously, but the group appears to be getting another push, recently appearing on music program The Show.

Badkidz's official website has loads of clips of various different people doing the Ear Attack dance.

Kids on the street.

Motorcycle racers.

Schoolgirls in a sketchy part of town.

Soldiers.

Macho men.

Cops.

More cops.

Maybe this is simply viral marketing! The group is appearing on Korea television more and more and there are more and more clips from other YouTube users. P

Oh, or videos like this of people going nuts.

Dudes with sparklers.

A dance school.

Small children.

Another dance school. (There are lots of dance school vids for "Ear Attack.")

See?

And if this dude in his backyard is anything to go by, expect to see "Ear Attack" in a neighborhood near you. Literally!

Source: Kotaku.com AsianDreamVOD

Comments

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Song is bad, choreo is bad, MV is barely ok and vocals are decent at best... well no, vocals are ba too
But I have no doubt drunk people will dance to this

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Lol is any song good nowadays lbr?

[sergel02.livejournal.com]

Plenty.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Name 1?

[sergel02.livejournal.com]

Well if we're talking about just Korean stuff:

AKMU - 200%
100% - Bad Girl and You & I
NS Yoon G - Crazy, I
Navi - Gone Too Far
Big Baby Driver - Alone Again
Mr. Mr. - Mr.Mr. (lol)
Sunmi - Burn, If That Was You, Who I Am
BtoB - Is This The End
Rainbow Blaxx - Silhouette, One Word
Hyosung - I don't know women
Kiss & Cry - Domino Game
Yu Seong Woo - Hesitating Lips
Park Hyo Shin - Wild Flower (okay maybe a bit boring)
TVXQ - Off Road
Ailee - Singing Got Better
Kim Kyung Rook - It's no big deal
Royal Pirates - Drawing The Line (the whole mini is rather nice)
Mammoo - Don't Be Happy
Soyou & Junggigo - Some
Rumble Fish - Basically the whole album she released this year.
Grave Eve - Loving You
g.o.d. - The Lone Duckling
Wheesung - Night & Day
Some good tracks off of 2ne1 and Exo's latest albums.

Admittedly, last year was better for releases IMO.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Never said Korean stuff tho but ok.

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

Define "nowadays"?

In just april/may:
AKMU's whole album
Phantom's Seoul Lonely
OC Abing Abing
Wheesung's Night and Day
MEGAN LEE's 8DAYZ
...

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

I meant in this generation of Justina, Miley being hits tbh....

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I do not care for these people, and they're not known for making good music so...

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Exactly. :/

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

I liked Drive by Miley Cyrus. But that's it.

[yolleh.livejournal.com]

That's a bit of a specious argument though.
There's plenty of amazing music out there and you don't have to search that hard either. The mainstream has never really been indicative of anything lbr.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the song, it's charming in a low-budget way.... they are terribad dancers though.

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

[hellodee16.livejournal.com]

lol her face was the best thing from that mv lbr.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

oh i remember this group because one of the girls is from germany i think

but what kind of media play is this. try harder next time

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Well it's certainly a lot easier than Bar Bar Bar.That dance fucked up my knee something fierce

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Ouchies!

[torontok.livejournal.com]

so much respect for crayon pop after learning it, that takes some serious strength

[curioustaiyo.livejournal.com]

ok

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

not feeling it, but I always wish kpop groups hits and songs that everyone enjoys, so I hope these girls get their hit, even if it's a one hit wonder because getting something like that and coming from an unknwon company is an awesome thing!!!
good luck girls!

[light-lee.livejournal.com]

yasssss love this song, love the dance

[xredada.livejournal.com]

I.......like it. That MV felt so early era crayon pop.

[scheisse.livejournal.com]

Crayon Pop, ha impact.

But no, this song isn't catchy so bye.

[odd-fish-stick.livejournal.com]

hahaha wat.
that video of the crowd was cracking me up

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

hired actors, paid to dance, etc etc

[milafanway.livejournal.com]

Ah yeah, I saw this video before and I thought I'm sure this is going to be kind of famouse but thi is
Crayon Pop's rip off

[mundanetuna.livejournal.com]

lol, they tried

[undeniablysarah.livejournal.com]

I really hope this gets big cause I wanna laugh my ass off at drunk people doing this at the club

[jeliza]

I'm gonna go with "going viral because excuses for pretend slapping are fun". It's okay, I guess, but the lyrics, or at least the english translation in the video, make almost no sense.

I do want this to hit big enough that other people spend the time to make good slapping animated gifs.

[winged-monster.livejournal.com]

Is it still viral if the imitations are staged?

[jeliza]

Maybe if it spawns enough legit imitations (like that last one)? Kind of like a lab-created plague. :)

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

I like it! I like it a lot!

[kneekalies.livejournal.com]

love this song

[youlittle.livejournal.com]

L M F A O....!!! when i went clubbing in seoul last month i saw a lot of this? that damn whistle and the ba ba ba ba ba chant my friends and i had no idea what was going on like why are ppl dancing like that everything makes sense now

[veryimportantu.livejournal.com]

i like it? \ (. - .) /

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

yas@dem muscular men. the fact that both had no rhythm made it cuter tbh

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

IA with almost everyone else that this is so staged to go ~viral, but it just might work.
This article keeps mentioning them as Badkidz but there is no second D on the text in the music video or on their youtube page. (Same with the show "Cool kiz on the Block") what's up with that?

Also, did the girl at the end (around 3:05) really walk up to the front like she was going to have an awesome dance break and then bust out some old Turbo choreography?