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How Does The Baddest Unnie Kick It in LA?
Fresh from her closing performance at the 2018 Winter Olympics closing ceremony, CL gave Vogue 73 concise answers to the publication’s 73 question video series. Fluctuating responses between English and Korean, CL gives the DL on everything from Borat cameos, Disneyland, “Purple Lamborghini,” eyeliner as the ideal accessory, being a cat person, and how to say “cheers!” in Korean.
While the details shared here may not be completely new for long-standing GZBs, it does give something GZBs can be happy for: mainstream western media recognition for our favorite artist.
Catch the full story on Vogue: http://vogue.cm/2fP6W4V
Video by Joe Sabia
Getting Lifted with CL | Big Win on EXO’s Lotto | Quiz: Do You Know Kpop? | Kpopularity
Most Koreans never leave Flushing so maybe the uproar around CL’s alleged appropriation is fair. No one drinks a forty willingly; yet here CL is slinging a chorus about how great it is.
For this episode we review CL’s “Lifted” and EXO’s “Lotto” for Daebak or Not, discuss the Tiffany controversy and introduce two new quiz sections: “Do you Know Kpop” and “Kpopularity.” As we continue to explain in our show: we’re still experimenting on a winning format and feel like we’re getting closer to a set of recurring segments that we like.
[130 BPM, Key of Am] CL – The Baddest Female’s Old Skool (DJ Huygens Mashup)
The french mashup artist Huygens knows how to play with sampling to create a fluid mix. This Televisor instrumental with CL’s Baddest female acca has us thinking of CL’s song in a very different way – as all mashups should. As blackjacks we’ll admit it: the original was never really gangster – the CL single was too poppy to drop in a trap/hip hop set. This Huygens track lets us check the CL song off of the request list for the kids who ask for it – and lets us keep our electro-disco house set going. Continue reading
