After School Red VS Blue,VOTE
Sweet or sexy? Innocent or mature? VOTE!
With rapper Bekah graduating from the group to
pursue a career as a designer in Hawaii, the eight remaining members of After
School have split up into two sub-units for simultaneous
promotions of their single albums.
In the racy Red corner
are Ka-hi, Jung-ah,
UEE, and Nana with the tracks “In
the Night Sky” and “Hollywood.”
In
the bubbly Blue corner are Raina, Lizzy,
Joo-yeon, and E-young with the songs “Lady”
and “Wonder Boy.”
The divisions seem a little unbalanced, but when it comes down to it,
the groups make sense. I feel After School Red kind of
has an unfair advantage because they have the most popular members and
the strongest performance-wise, while the members of After
School Blue are the ones that couldn’t pull off sexy that
convincingly. Yet, the girls of AS Blue are undeniably the members who
best pull off the youthful, cute image. In fact, although the whole
saccharine act is overplayed, AS Blue seem to have a better handle on
their image than AS Red, but it may just be the fault of AS Red’s
stylists.
With most girl groups either being sexy or cute, After School
splitting off to do both at the same time is a smart, interesting move
by Pledis Entertainment. They get double the exposure
in half the time. People can pick one or the other, and Playgirlz will
probably support both.
After School Blue have been accused of “plagiarizing” Fin.K.L‘s
“Forever Love“ with their song “Wonder Boy.” The
word “plagiarism” gets tossed out really easily in the KPOP music scene,
but Pledis has come out to say that they meant this to be an homage to
the iconic girl group, which sounds very plausible. There are also
rumblings that the “After School Boys,”(??????) the new yet-to-be-named Pledis
boy group debuting by the end of the year, were featured in this MV, but
I can’t really tell.
AFTER SCHOOL BLUE-WONDER BOY
AFTER SCHOOL RED -IN A NIGHT SKY (TEASER)
Music Core Live Stage - Wonder boy/ In a Night Sky
