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K-Pop Stars-2AM.

2AM

2AM is a South Korean boy band formed under the management company of JYP Entertainment. The group is a four member ballad group that is consists of Jinwoon, Jo Kwon, Seulong and Changmin. The group of the two subgroups coming from the eleven member boy band called One Day, the other group was known to be the 2PM. They had made their official debut on the 11^th of July, 2008 on the KBS’s Music Bank prior to their debut song “This Song”. They had won their first Mutizen at Inkigayo on 7^th of February 2010 with “Can’t Let You Go Even If I Die”.

The group had made their comeback with their second album, “Even If I die I can’t let you go” and the promoted track. In the week before its release, their management company, JYP Entertainment had revealed a total of four teasers on their Youtube account. Alongside with the group teaser, their individual shots were based on the seasons, summer, winter, fall and spring. On February 7, 2010, the group had won their first Mutizen award on Inkigayo. While on February 25, 2010 they had won their second award on Mnet M! Countdown. They had achieve their second Mutizen on the group’s final day of promotion for the Even If I die I can’t let You Go on March 7, 2010.

On the 5^th of March, 2010, the group had revealed the cuts for their new images; they had it posted through their official website. Jo Kwon, Changmin, Seulong and Jinwoon had completely transformed to a club DJ, an ice hockey player, a biker and basketball player respectively for their new 10 minutes drama music video. The repackaged of their mini album featured four more songs, three coming from their first and second singles and one entirely new song named, “I Did Wrong” which is also their promoted track. One of their representatives had stated, “The song we’re releasing is something that 2AM has never shown before and is a brand new type of music”. A part of the song was unleashed on the first episode of 2AM’s new reality show entitled 2AM Day on 10^th of March. The show features the members playfully sing along to it in the car. Four teasers were released for each member from 12^th of March up to 14^th consecutively. There was a leaked version of part one of the said music video that was released on 15^thof March, having been recorded by camera at 2AM’s subway showcase. The album was released in Mrach 18 and their song “I Was Wrong” won the MNet M! Countdown on the April 1^st.

From June 30 to July 20, 2010, 2AM had opened for Wonder Girls on the second half of Wonder Girls World Tour. The group was also featured in Made in Wonder Girls. On October 26, 2010, 2AM had released their first full length album entitled Saint o’clock, with “You Wouldn’t Answer My Calls” and “Like Crazy” as the promoted tracks

Sejarah K-Pop Music.

K-pop, kepanjangannya Korean Pop ("Musik Pop Korea"), adalah jenis musik populer yang berasal dari Korea Selatan. Banyak artis dan kelompok musik pop Korea sudah menembus batas dalam negeri dan populer di mancanegara. Kegandrungan akan musik K-Pop merupakan bagian yang tak terpisahkan daripada Demam Korea (Korean Wave) di berbagai negara.

Musik pop Korea pra-moderen pertama kali muncul pada tahun 1930-an akibat masuknya musik pop Jepang yang juga turut memengaruhi unsur-unsur awal musik pop di Korea. Penjajahan Jepang atas Korea juga membuat genre musik Korea tidak bisa berkembang dan hanya mengikuti perkembangan budaya pop Jepang pada saat itu. Pada tahun 1950-an dan 1960-an, pengaruh musik pop barat mulai masuk dengan banyaknya pertunjukkan musik yang diadakan oleh pangkalan militer Amerika Serikat di Korea Selatan. Musik Pop Korea awalnya terbagi menjadi genre yang berbeda-beda, pertama adalah genre "oldies" yang dipengaruhi musik barat dan populer di era 60-an. Pada tahun 1970-an, musik rock diperkenalkan dengan pionirnya adalah Cho Yong-pil. Genre lain yang cukup digemari adalah musik Trot yang dipengaruhi gaya musik enka dari Jepang.

Debut penampilan kelompok Seo Taiji and Boys di tahun in 1992 menandakan awal mula musik pop moderen di Korea yang memberi warna baru dengan aliran musik rap, rock, techno Amerika. Suksesnya grup Seo Taiji and Boys diikuti grup musik lain seperti Panic, dan Deux. Tren musik ini turut melahirkan banyak grup musik dan musisi berkualitas lain hingga sekarang. Musik pop dekade 90-an cenderung beraliran dance dan hip hop. Pasar utamanya adalah remaja sehingga dekade ini muncul banyak grup “teen idol” yang sangat digilai seperti CLON, H.O.T, Sechs Kies, S.E.S, dan g.o.d. Kebanyakan dari kelompok musik ini sudah bubar dan anggotanya bersolo-karier.

Di tahun 2000-an pendatang-pendatang baru berbakat mulai bermunculan. Aliran musik R&B serta Hip-Hop yang berkiblat ke Amerika mencetak artis-artis semacam MC Mong, 1TYM, Rain, Big Bang yang cukup sukses di Korea dan luar negeri. Beberapa artis underground seperti Drunken Tiger, Tasha (Yoon Mi-rae) juga memopulerkan warna musik kulit hitam tersebut. Musik rock masih tetap digemari di Korea ditambah dengan kembalinya Seo Taiji yang bersolo karier menjadi musisi rock serta Yoon Do Hyun Band yang sering menyanyikan lagu-lagu tentang nasionalisme dan kecintaan terhadap negara. Musik techno memberi nuansa moderen yang tidak hanya disukai di Korea saja, penyanyi Lee Jung-hyun dan Kim Hyun-joong bahkan mendapat pengakuan di Cina dan Jepang. Musik balada masih tetap memiliki pendengar yang paling banyak di Korea. Musik balada Korea umumnya dikenal dengan lirik sedih tentang percintaan, seperti yang dibawakan oleh Baek Ji Young, KCM, SG Wannabe, dan sebagainya. Musik balada umumnya digemari karena sering dijadikan soundtrack drama-drama televisi terkenal seperti Winter Sonata, Sorry I Love You, Stairway to Heaven dan sebagainya.

Berbagai artis Korea menangguk kesuksesan di dunia internasional seperti BoA yang menembus Jepang dan digemari di banyak negara. Kemudian artis-artis lain seperti Rain, Se7en, Shinhwa, Ryu Shi-won, dan sebagainya berlomba-lomba untuk menaklukkan pasar musik di Jepang. Rain tercatat sebagai artis Asia pertama yang mengadakan konser internasional bertajuk RAINY DAY 2005 Tour, di Madison Square Garden.

( Based on Wikipedia Indonesia )

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