This should come as no surprise to those of you who are closest to me or have had to suffer through a car ride with me where I'm in control of the music: I love horrible pop music. I can't deny it or even try to hide it, I fully embrace it. And being in Asia is possibly the best place for me because all of the music is basically bad pop but in a different language!
I've recently gotten really into K-Pop (Korean Pop) because one of my students gave me a flash drive full of K-Pop songs from her iTunes for me. During every single prep, and during some classes that have work time too, I have been jamming to boy bands and girl bands from the South Korean pop scene and it is awesome! I can't tell what the actual words mean but I can always guess what they're talking about. And funny enough, my one Korean student always tells me I'm pretty close on what the lyrics mean (pop songs all revolve around three or four themes so it's not too tough).
My favorite band? "f(x)" which is literally they're name. I like them not because of their music but because their name is a math symbol (the function of x) even though my students tell me that means something about a flower in their weird txt message language kids have these days. I tell myself it's still about math when I listen to their songs and it makes me smile. Gotta love K-Pop!
(CnBlue- the K-Pop band I saw in concert in Taipei this fall)
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