Tomorrowland!

Hi everybody, here I am again!

If you like music, I have good news for you. It is the biggest electronic music concert in the world. It is called Tomorrowland. It is going to be held in Belgium this summer. The bad news is that it only lasts two weekends, from 21 to 23 of July and from 28 to 30 of July. Hurry up! Buy your tickets!

It is something amazing, you can go with your friends and spend the whole weekend together doing the things that you like the most, listening to your favorite artists, dancing and enjoying the experience.

The stage is not a normal one, it is huge and it has the shape of a castle of a fairytale. They play with the lights in an awesome way. The best moment to see it is at night and it also has breathtaking fireworks.

Don’t worry if you are wondering where you are going to sleep, it has a campsite with tents decorated for this event. It is near the stage so you can decide when you want to go to relax or come back to see more concerts.

Do you know who is going to play there? They are always famous artists such as Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Avicii, etc.

You can meet new friends from other countries but if you can’t afford it, you can see it from YouTube. It is not the same experience but you also get involved in it.

I strongly recommend it to you. 

KOREAN WAVE AND KPOP

We all know the importance that Asian culture has had through history and still has nowadays. Usually, when someone talks about any Asian influence we think about Japan or China, but I want to focus on a recently popular movement called the Korean Wave. It doesn’t have a “starting point”, but we could say that it started being recognised in the 90’s.

The main source of its fame is music. I first started to become interested in Korean music after I heard the famous musical success “Gangnam Style” by Psy, because I didn’t know which the language of the song was.

Today they have their own musical category called KPOP and some groups are even more famous in foreign countries than in their native one. Some bands like EXO, BTS, Super Junior or Topp-Dogg are widely known around the world because of their amazing videos and performances.

When I first watched one of their videos I was impressed by the coordination of their movements despite the large number of members, because most of the bands have at least eight members. Probably you’re wondering why they have so many members; well, it might be just to draw our attention, because you have a more complete range of voices to work with or because you don’t need to hire dancers, but none of them are the real reasons. They have so many members because their objective at first was to please everyone’s preferences. These bands were mainly intended to have girl followers and as everyone has different tastes, each member of the band was to represent a type of personality (there’s a cute one, a cool one, a rich one... and usually there’s a rapper too).

But then... what happens with the boys who like this kind of music? Seeing that it was so well accepted by men too, there appeared a lot of female bands such as AOA, KARA, Cosmic Girls or Sistar. These bands work exactly the same but all their members are girls.

Sometimes two bands perform a song together, but it’s not very common because they never hit so many views as they usually have individually. I really recommend you to watch some KPOP videos even though you don’t like the song just to see the dances, and who knows, maybe you can find a song you like (some videos are just nonsense and that’s why they are so funny). Although it’s called KPOP there are some groups that have tried to write songs from other genres.

Last but not least just in case you search for the lyrics online let me give you some advice; unless you know Korean or have a really good pronunciation with foreign languages, don’t try to sing in front of other people because they may think you are either cursing someone or calling them stupid (personal experience).

And that’s it! I hope you’ve enjoyed and learned something new. Feel free to let me know if you’ve heard KPOP before or if you intend to do it. SEE YA!