Hello everyone! ^^


You guys know what time it is? It's 'crazy cover' week! And boy, do Alice, Amy and I have something special in store for you this week.

We may shoot with water pistols at each other,  but we're actually a pretty close group.

Last week's class


During our last class we did 'Noraebang'. Noreabang literally means 'singing room' and it is basically the Korean version of karaoke.


KCC had spit up the group in four teams, and after warming up our voices by singing the first verse of Arirang, we got down to the business.


Instead of just performing a song like normal people, we had a little competition amongst the team. Every team got assigned a random K-Pop song. Of that song KCC had chosen a fragment, so we didn't know which part we were singing. Then before the team got ready to perform every member had to drew a number, which not decided in what order the member were sitting, but also decided which lines were song by which member.


Once everybody was in their place the song would be played twice and all the member got to take notes of what their lines were. You might think "why does it matter so much if you the lyrics right?". Believe me, it mattered a great deal! Let me explain.

My face says it all: "Please, have mercy!"

Across from the singing team KCC placed some benches. Whenever a team was performing their song there would be another team sitting on those benches with water pistols (o.O), and whenever a member made a mistake the two judges would give the signal to stop the music. The opposing team would then be allowed to shoot at the singing team, who would have to start singing the song from the beginning again. The idea was based upon a Korean variety show called 'Happy Together' and it was hilarious!


Then again, I would say that. I was part of a really good team, team A, and we were performing Taeyang's 'I Need A Girl', which almost all of us knew. We got the whole thing down in just four tries and I didn't get wet at all, because the team that was shooting at us had a lot of mercy. Lucky me! ^^




Creative content


Choosing an assignment for this week's homework was a no-brainer. "Option A: Record yourself singing along one of your favourite K-Pop songs", all the way, baby! 


The only thing we changed about the assignment is that we didn't just want to record ourselves singing/rapping. Oh no! We wanted to made our very own music video!


Now we had a plan we just needed to think of the right song. Amy and I decided from early on that, since we are not the world's best singers, we should do a bad ass song instead, because then at least we could get crazy with it and hopefully the result would be funny.


Now when you say 'bad ass', you say Block B. And when you say 'go crazy', you say 'Nalina' (which means 'to cause uproar').


So here it is! Check out our brand new cover! 


(Or click the link in the title of the video. Believe me, you want to see this in HD)

K-Pop Academy - Nalina by The Europiennes

Did you notice our group name? The Europiennes. Amy came up with that name. The idea behind it is that we are quite an international bunch: Amy is from the UK, Alice is from Italy, and I'm from the Netherlands. It's a cute name, right? ^^

About the video: keep in mind that we only got this assignment on Saturday, we filmed it all on Sunday, and sang in the song on Tuesday evening, so naturally it's not a 100 pro cent perfect. Nevertheless I hope you still enjoyed it. I love the bit where Amy is shaking that thang, it cracks me up every time! ㅋㅋㅋ


I called this week 'crazy cover week', but the real title given to it by KCC is 'Brit-Pop vs. K-Pop'. The idea behind our video is based on that. The concept is simple: it's Korea meets Britain, as the three of us go absolutely 'nalina' while dancing/singing/rapping a K-pop song in front of high profile British tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Squar and the Houses of Parliament. 

A group of Frenchmen photo bombing us during our shooting. Nothing to see here.  

We all had a really good time during the filming. The best thing about it was that we made a lot of people smile that day, just by being silly and filming it. In the picture above you see some French tourists photo bombing us, they were not the only ones. Many people took photos and videos of us, or came over to say some words of encouragement us. Some people even gave us money! Not a lot (we only made eleven pence in total that day, so Amy and Alice are not quitting their jobs anytime soon to do this full time instead) but it's the gesture that counts.

Now, if you can't get enough of our craziness, I have a little scoop for you: me and Amy have another video coming out very soon. I'm not telling you which song or by what artist the next video is, because the whole second video is supposed to be a secret, so let's keep it between us, ok? 

Please look forward to it! ^^