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January 30, 2006
The Asian Invasion Begins
If you were a 23 year old performer who had been performing to sellout crowds across Asia after promising your dying mother that you would become the best singer in the world, you may be tempted to rest on your laurels. Go on an exotic vacation to Bali. Take some time off on a yacht in the Mediterranean. Maybe, if you wanted to feel particularly productive, you could have someone ghostwrite your personal Cinderella tale.
Or, you could decide to conquer the American music market and spend your days studying English, Japanese, and Chinese, practicing your singing and dancing incessantly, jumping rope 2000 times a day, reading up on American history and culture, and finishing your university degree in postmodern music via correspondence. You have more time to do all this, of course, because you don't party, smoke, or drink.
And, even after all this, you could still brace yourself for failure:
"In the case that my music is not loved by the American people, I will work very hard to fix things and hope to please them the next time."
Rain, the twenty-three year old South Korean pop star, is doing just that. His first English-language album is projected for release in October when, according to his producer, he is will have achieved basic English fluency and be ready to incite palpitations in thousands of American female hearts.
Is America ready for a self-flagellating, disciplined, and eager-to-please Asian superstar? This is, after all, a whole lot of culture to cross.
Culture, Yo | By elissa | 01:33 PM
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Hooray for late January cards! I'm glad that you got it... you should ask it about the adventures that it had getting shuffled from pile to pile on my counter for 5 weeks. I'm sure it has quite the story to tell ; ).
I hope you have a great day, Elissa! Have fun with my family this week...
Posted by: becky at January 31, 2006 09:21 AM
