Kpop Music Mondays: B2ST “Soom”

Filed as: Kpop // Responses: 63

For some odd reason, last week two songs about Breathing were released: Miss A’s “Breathe” and B2ST’s “Soom” (which is Korean, I think, for “breath). We could only review one of them, so we chose B2ST, since we did Miss A a few weeks ago. Now, since this song is really quite new, if you plan on talking about it with your students some of them might not have seen the video, so you can score extra points for being on top of the kpop scene. Ha!

What’s good about this song is that, even though the English isn’t perfect, it’s a lot, lot better than the English in their other songs. In their last single, their chorus was “Everyday I shock” which was nonsense. This song’s English is better than that. Good for them! Oh, and sorry for those of you who voted for Lee Hyori last week when we pitted her against TOP’s “Turn it Up”. Martina was responsible for counting the votes. There’s a strong chance that the voting might have been rigged! This week we’ll be a little less biased :D

Thanks to [ë‹‰ì‘¤] Enjoy Your Happy Life~* for the Korean subtitle translations!

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VIP

Miss A…. although i really enjoyed Beast's song
Maggie Higgins

MISS A ALL THE WAYYYY!!!!!! although i do like B2ST (JunHyung!!! <3) But Miss A is just SO CUTEEE <3
caseyspaos

I would like to take part in your survey because you guys are funny and I can tell you are really dedicated teachers. But in order to vote I would have to endure Korean pop music and shekshi videos. I cannot bear to waste another precious second of my time watching videos designed to arouse adult males set to crappy music written for twelve-year-old girls.
BTW, "shekshi" is a technical term referring to the crass commercial exploitation of the (usually female) human body for the purpose of getting otherwise conservative families to buy some product (music CD, car) or watch a lame ass TV show, as opposed to its counterpart "sexy" which connotes personal power. Ex: Doumi girls (like Lee Hyori) are shekshi. Sama Hayek is sexy.

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi

Ok, so I'm counting that as 1 vote for Spudgy.

raznaxd

Awsome! I love them too

Natalia

Miss A has my vote, catchier and I love the video. You two are my weekly entertainment, love it!
nihondancer

I like Beast better. Although I like both songs and MVs, I like the imagery of Beast better. However, it's hard to compare the two videos because Miss A is about the beginning of love, so it's going to be more colorful and fun, whereas Beast is about the end of love, so it's going to be darker and more intense (don't know if this is the right word, but hopefully you'll catch my drift.) Either way my vote goes for Beast.

http://www.eatyourkimchi.com Eatyourkimchi

That's a great explanation for the two of them. Thanks! I didn't know what they were fully about.

http://twitter.com/FleursDeLis @FleursDeLis

As much as I do like Beast, I had to listen to Soom like five times to really get into it. Granted, the MV helped (as videos of attractive men are wont to do >.>), but the moment I heard Miss A's "Breathe", I was hooked and already imitating that little step…dance…thing……… Yeah, I don't know what to call it. But either way, Breathe was on repeat for a good 3 hours as I cleaned the house, and not once did I get tired of it.

So, tl;dr, my vote goes to Miss A!
Stephen

Really funny episode guys! For the showdown, I vote for Miss A.
William

b2st definetly!!!!!!!!!! i like miss a, but their newest album isnt that good at all, especially breath, and then the music video is really weerd!
http://www.facebook.com/romane.anciaux Romane ë¡œë§ˆë„¤ Anciaux ê¹€

Guys, you’re sooooo awesome !
I can’t wait the next Monday to watch new Kpop video :)
Seriously guys, YOU ROCKS !
Thank you for making us laugh ^^ You should be humourists too LMFAO !
By the way, I vote for Miss A :)
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000209800469 Kanami Lam

Im going w/ my guys B2ST! and i luv Spudgy's dances at the end. ^.^
Jiyool

I vote for B2ST! Loved the MV, the slow motion, the "breathe in breathe out" part, the rain, the wind at the end, Yoseob's voice, Junhyung's rap, Dongwoon's short hair… ok, I'm out. :p
Bree

As much as I love B2ST Miss A has my vote. Miss A's song and MV is less strange.
Jeine

I don't think that You do something special or interesting, yes, sometimes it's funny, but sometimes absurdly.
I prefer Breath by Beast!They're the best for me….
michelle min

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA i am a total fan!
nana

lol YOU GUYS ARE TO FUNNY
alee

BESTAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! JAJA u are awesome. ajaj cheeras fron ARGENTINA!! byebye
ì •ë‹¨ì•„(dan ah-jeong)

i like b2st so much!
i can't take my breath breath breath~
http://twitter.com/Jastinbelieber â˜…

B2ST!!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000887280926 이레아

You lived in korea for 3 years already and don’t know the meaning of 숨 ? ..even I know that :P
Randi Wiggins

BATOOST!