一首新颖的流行歌曲是否可以带动流行音乐世界？ 在2012年底， 一首 “江南style”悄悄地进入了，并在Youtube得到超过10亿的浏览量。当这一切发生得时候，南韩的音乐，特别是韩国流行音乐“K-pop”看起来像是站在了一个持久突破的边缘。尽管PSY所拥有的是简单的魅力和地区性的吸引力，但是在这之前，东亚的音乐永远只能是个配角，就像新娘旁边的伴娘一样。
這首歌能在世界上得到認可，就連大西洋音樂記者現在都稱讚,記者們平時在一首歌熱墦的時候會討論一段時間,但很快便慢慢淡忘,很多人對這首歌這樣興奮,k-pop成功是否短期成功?Freya Bigg, United K-Pop的含夥人向BAMM.TV說:”PSY不知是否一個k-pop典型的代表,但是至少會令人們願意接受韓語歌,若流行音樂世界再有韓語歌,人們會更加快接觸韓語歌.因為之前巳有收聽韓語歌的經驗.”
現在亞洲地方的國內音樂市場漸漸變大的問題,西方對東方流行音樂的看法,是否變得重要?
Spiritualized have quite rightly gathered a reputation as the great survivors of British rock. Since their formation in 1990, they’ve endured countless line-up reshuffles as well as the serious illness of legendary frontman Jason Pierce (Pierce’s lungs filled up during a battle with pneumonia, and upon two separate occasions he was declared dead).
Despite these titanic hurdles, they’ve managed to produce some of the best spaced-out indie-rock in history. Studio albums ‘Ladies And Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space’ (1997) and ‘Let It Come Down’ (2001) remain perennial rock favorites – their orchestral soulfulness and epic scale have given them a timeless quality that other guitar-based odysseys from the era are sorely lacking. Plus their ‘Live At The Albert Hall’ is the second-best live album ever recorded (it’s not as good as Talking Heads’ ‘Stop Making Sense’ – but then what is?).
Now they’re back with new single ‘Hey Jane’ – a nine-minute blast of stop-start energy which acts as a prelude to their April album release ‘Sweet Heart Sweet Light.’ We’ve given you the chance to take a listen above, because we’re nice like that.