Chae Yeon Mini Album - Shake
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numinair
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June 10, 2009
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Shake, Salsa and Carnival
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[Time : 38’38] On listening to Chae Yeon’s electro synth “Shake” here, I couldn’t help notice the quite prevalent salsa carnival rhythms on several songs. So much that I wondered if I played this at a reasonable loud volume, a street carnival would soon commence in my local vicinity. The opening main song “Heundeulryeo (Shake)” sports a cliché (almost iconic) dance electro beat to begin. But “Shake” fleshes out into a fine and hot dance song with a great middle refrain and, as mentioned, an additional salsa beat. In fact the opener song as become one I really like (the ‘Gee’ of the album, maybe). The album consists of seven songs with four additional mix versions of [T1] and [T2]. But as noted about these Club Extended DJ Koo mixes, there is only really one different mix of each, with two radio edits (bits lopped off the Club Extended versions to fit radio song time) that make two mixes as mere fillers. Probably a 8:00 or so minute dance carnival mega mix was needed here! Overall “Shake” is a light affair that isn’t full throttle club music but nice moderate upbeat dance K-pop. It’s ‘hot’ though! Track 3 “Baboya” begins with an 80s synth pop intro (reminded me of ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’ by Depeche Mode) that soon changes into a catchy upbeat melody that breezes along nicely; the song to get you uplifted on a dreary morning to work. Track 4’s poppy salsa disco continues to keep the carnival spirit with T5 a more a funky disco stomper beat for soul girls. The two ballads are excellent and sung wonderfully (K-drama calibre) and mitigate the more carnival musical atmosphere. Chae Yeon’s album brought to mind Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai with the song “Ooh La La” [T2] by vocal and melody and Uhm Jung Hwa somewhat on track 7. But Chae Yeon’s lovely melodic style holds her own. Vocally, CY sings lovely and being the well-established singer she is, as a good and varied voice to carry her well with dance or slow ballads. Yes, this is another good party piece to add to your collection of K-pop wonders growing by the minute. Familiar generic bits maybe, but really catchy numbers to get you in that upbeat, eh, carnival mood. But these familiar deja vu moments are good ones and an album I’m sure to be regularly played in bedrooms, dormitories, ear plugs and favorite dance clubs. Especially if you find you have a carnival happening near, where this CD would be right at home with all the party goers. |
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| This new mini album is very different from anything she's done before. However, it isn't bad at all. It's actually Really Really good... and she didn't turn cutesy like half these other popular Korean girl groups out now either. The mini album flows well and has a bunch of great songs on it with some great lyrics and compositions. I was very pleased with what she's done with it. My only real problem with this mini album is the remixes. They're good, but there's a problem. The first 2 remixes are of the same song, but they sound almost perfectly identical to each other, and yet the same thing happens for the second set of remixes that finish off this mini album. Chae's had some great remixes before, and each one was different and refreshing enough that you almost forgot it was a remix of the same song as you just listened to. There was at least a few remixes of My Love on her last album, but they all sounded quite different from each other, but in this case it feels like they just dragged the same remix into the next track or something. Over all it's a good mini album. I give it a 8.5/10, and I'm looking forward to her next release. Hopefully the next one won't take so long either. |
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