소녀시대, or Girls Generation, is a girlgroup that it seems you either love, or hate. They are often compared to the Wonder Girls (another love-or-hate situation, apparently), a comparison that I think is unfair – to both groups. Their music style is vastly different, as is their image. The plans their companies have in store for them is also incredibly different, and while on the surface pop is pop, if you look deeper then you will see that they are in fact being geared towards certain specific goals and niches. JYP has his sights set on America for his 5 member girlgroup, while SM Entertainment is quite content to keep their 9 girls doing their thing at home.

One thing both groups do have in common though, is their fair share of fans and anti-fans alike.

Personally I prefer 소녀시대. I only liked 2 songs on their debut album, but I think that vocally they are a lot stronger than the Wonder Girls. The Wonder Girls, however, have had a few more catchier hits. Tell Me, So Hot and Nobody were three songs that, even if you hated them, were pretty much guaranteed to get stuck in your head whether you liked it or not. 소녀시대 on the other hand, didn’t have anything even nearly as catchy.

Until now. Last week, 소녀시대 released a mini album. The title song is Gee, and I think the chorus alone definitely has what it takes to rival the catchy tunes of the Wonder Girls. Check out the MV below:

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How can that not get stuck in your head? Oh oh oh oh oh~ Gee gee gee gee gee~

And completely unrelated but I just had to share the following with everyone:

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Super Junior’s 김희철 and FTIsland’s 이홍기 (and others) doing guess-the-word. In English. Its loud and crazy, and made me laugh a lot, and also made me wish that I could be so kamikaze about my own language learning.