Baby, it's now or never

It's a bit late (early?) for a full-length blog post but I thought I'd just write a little ditty on my latest foray into K-Music... C.N. Blue! A few days ago I wrote about newly discovering F.T Island and although I've been looping their Cross & Change album since then, C.N. Blue has really impressed me with their mini-album Bluetory. In all honesty, solely based on these two albums, I like C.N. Blue's music more than F.T Island's so far. But I haven't heard much from either band yet, so we'll see how it goes, especially since the styles are a bit different.

I've also been looking at some of their performances on Youtube, as well as their covers on radio shows. The lead singer, Jung Yong Hwa, is really talented and his English is pretty good (in fact, their first mini-album in Japan was all in English). I've heard him and the guitarist, Lee Jong Hyun, cover The Calling's "Wherever You Will Go", Incubus's "Drive", and Jason Mraz's "Geek in the Pink"; Lee Jong Hyun is pretty talented (he sings in addition to playing guitar), and Jung Yong Hwa's voice is surprisingly versatile.

The one thing I'm a little disappointed about (plagiarism issue aside, which isn't even their fault), and this goes for F.T Island too, is that they don't play their instruments live (specifically the Korean music shows). It would be nice to hear them play live more often because I don't doubt that they're hella talented. At least the singing (and apparently the drumming?) is live, and I have to say that Jung Yong Hwa's voice is great live.

C.N. Blue is still newly debuted (less than a year since their debut in Japan, less than a month since their debut in Korea) but I'm definitely looking forward to their future releases (faster faster faster!). Even if they're still a little green right now, I'm sure that they'll improve as both entertainers and musicians.

Also, I realised that F.T Island's Lee Hong Ki mostly looks like Super Junior's Kang-In (but skinnier). Not a bad thing, I think Kang-In's cute.

Haha, this turned out to be longer than I expected... goes to show how much I'm liking this band right now. ^^

Listening to now: C.N. Blue - Now or Never (Korean version)