Girls' Generation

Have you been catching the latest gossip of the Korean girl band Girls' Generation (SNSD) lately? To my surprise they are now currently ranked number one for being Korea's top 10 celebrities of 2014. They have been ranked number one since 2011 and they seem like they want to continue to be Korea's top 10 celebrities for quite awhile. I've been overly obsessed with this girl band for about four years now and I never though I would be finally writing a post about them! I'm very excited for their new album "Love and Peace" to come out this Christmas Eve! But my personal favorite album is the one that came out at the beginning of this year called "I Got a Boy" and one of my favorite songs is called "Gee." I could sing to that song all day long and watch they're music video for such a long time!

Girl's Generation is currently made up of 8 twenty-five year old including Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. SNSD was originally made of 9 girls, but one of the girls, Jessica, left because of some conflicts with the group and schedule problems had gotten in the way of her practice schedule. Therefore, while SNSD would continuing promoting their 8 members while Jessica would still work under the SM Entertainment as a solo artist. SNSD has been musically inclined and have won the interest of many Koreans since 2007. In Korea their name is referred to as So Nyeo Shi Dae or in short SNSD. The name Girls' Generation means that "The generation of girls' domination has come." 



Girls' Generation's  image has been a major impact in their rise to popularity. Earlier in their career, the group wore no makeup and dressed more politely and conservatively. They had many different props for each song and as an example of one of their earlier songs "Kissing You" they had lollipops as props during their performances and for one of their promotions for their single album in 2009 "Gee" they simply dressed in jeans and plain white T's. In 2010 while they were getting pumped up for their promotion for "Run Devil Run," the group was noted down for using a darker and sexier nickname called "Black SNSD." In early 2011, the group came back to Korea with "The Boys" with members choosing their own outfit and accessories and that helped make an impact on their individual image and it showed more of the members' own taste in style.




 John Seabrook, a reporter from The New Yorker said that "the group was a group of preppy-looking young women in skinny trousers." The New Yorker stated that the music itself isn't a decisive factor in the popularity of K-pop as a whole, and Girls' Generation in particular. But he did conclude that the group was made up of originally 9 members which showed that the efficient "K-pop machine"  can favor choreographed style over individual personalities.

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