Yeah Jiyoung had the blue hair for Pandora. It was.... a lot. The one you went "whoa" to with the bat was Hara. She is the visual for a reason lol. My bias Seungyeon hitting those high notes in Pandora, her absolutely adorable face belying her soulful singing voice. Glad to get you on KARA finally. Its SO hard to choose songs for a group as legendary as this, but this is what I came up with. I wasnt even sure if you were gonna like Step but I had to include it as I think its legitimately a perfect kpop song. One of the greatest of all time. But I dont blame you for liking Pandora more, I chose it because its also an absolute banger (KARA basically has no misses from Mister until the end, but w/e). That was one thing I forgot to mention was the usually massive jumps you would see today in KARA's MV quality, because after they blew up with Mister and promoted in Japan constantly they would have like one Korean comeback a year and like 3 japanese MVs, and they absolutely raked in the cash in the in-between in Japan with album sales and tours. God this group was so good man. it might be some time before we get back to them because I have so many 2nd gen girl groups to work through and show off, but we'll get there eventually (I havent even doubled up on my ults, T-ARA, for reference)
KARA was HUGE back in the day. Everyone talks about SNSD, and 2NE1, but consider that KARA was the top-selling Korean group in the Japanese market in their time ;o Well, KARA was still big in Korea too XD That's a trait for KARA songs, is that the solo member parts are generally quite short, so it actually took me way too long to be able to pick out each of the members myself XD For other groups, like SNSD, T-ara, miss A, etc. there are more solo parts where it's easier to pick out members, but their songs also do generally have those "chorus" parts where everyone's kind of singing in unison, which is much less common nowadays :o
Kara has so many beautiful, lovely and cute songs, and each member is very popular because of their distinct personality and cuteness. I miss them. Kara is still my favorite girl group.
Kara is one of the best selling kpop girls group rank at no.3 after Twice and Girls Generation. The group has sold more than 3.8 million physical copies combined between South Korea and Japan.
So glad to see reactors watching Kara. I grew up listening to them with "Wanna" and "Pretty Girl" and stayed a fan until the end. They also recently had a photoshoot for their anniversary, it was beautiful.
I’m going to be popping in and out on some of these iconic old kpop songs. I have heard them but haven’t seen the music video. Step by Kara was one of the earworms for me. Pandora, was a song that I was trying to find because I heard it and I didn’t know the name or group that sang it
KARA was one of my favorite groups back then! My favorite story to tell people that might not know is that "Mister," responsible for the infamous "butt dance" of kpop, is actually a b-side track! It didn't get an MV until they released the Japanese version. But that dance took Korea by storm. (Also, aside from the butt shaking, their abs in their Mister outfits was 😳)
one of the og queens. Kara was the only group back in the day that was able to compete with GG in terms of sales and charts. They were the queens of japan
I got into K-Pop in mid 2012, and let me tell you IT WAS THE BEST TIME! Their were so many groups that just made everyday for me a party, and I loved it. KARA was one of those groups, and I still listen to them today to get pumped up! Really hope you check out more 2nd Gen groups!!
Well, second generation of Kpop definitely the best era or we called golden era of Kpop. So many Legend group paved the way for Kpop to international. My favorite group: Girls' Generataion 👑
That "wet hair," look you mentioned might be sweat due to the fashion changes in 2nd Gen videos. Back in 2nd Gen, Fashion and Set Design was on a different caliber then today. Companies would have at least 3-5 different looks for their groups to wear, and they would film the MV 3-5 times with these different outfits, or even film the MV with the same outfit in different locations Depending on timing these different shoots could happen all in ONE DAY, or within HOURS of each other. Directors could even ask to see a certain point of the dance in different outfits. I remember either f(x) or T-ara said once that they filmed a version of an MV with a certain style of outfits, and that version wasn't even used in any way for the end product. This still happens today, but companies nowadays usually already have a certain look in mind before hand, and bring outfits accordingly. Back in the day a number of female groups would crimp their hair, and when sweat interacts with hair that has been dried in any way, it makes that unique wet yet firm look.
honestly kpop back then had a lot of individual parts too, it's just a matter or whether you notice it or not or maybe the mixing or sth. maybe the chorus, yes it's more sung as a group than now where it's repeatedly sung by the main vocals/centers in some groups. but anyway with groups back then it's definitely easier to get a grasp of their vocals, because they don't sing with overly loud backtrack to purposely cover their live voices and hence you hear their voices, neither did they have the technology now has to trick people into thinking prerecorded as live since they even included breathing sound etc. although maybe because i am from those times. KARA infact was my first girlgroup, back in 2007. i mean i did check out Wonder Girls first(a live stage) but then i vowed to not check out any girlgroups anymore being very sure i won't like it...but thankfully a friend in a boygroup forum i frequented convinced me so hard on repeated occasions to try KARA because she was so sure i would love them, and she's right. more interesting was that she's more of an sm stan but she never pushed her sm favs on me unlike with how she would start bringing up KARA everytime we start talking on the forum... it's like she just knew me too well. xD...that was during KARA's debut era with Break It, so i managed to become a fan before their debut period ended thanks to that friend. and indeed then i met a bunch of dsp groups/singers(2nd gen era specifically) whose music, voices, etc. i love and i guess that's generally my taste in idols. though i do check out big names' music just to see if i was missing out anything and i do check out unknown groups too just to see if i could find more gems. but these days... it's hard to not get bored. maybe it's me who has changed. i just feel kpop over the years has changed to try tooo hard to cater to ifans taste n expectations with all the focus on crazyass universe lores noise songs that are supposedly cool n badass n edgy and whatnot...that it lost the elements that made me love kpop in the first place. of course even now, every now and then i would find some songs i love but yeah, i think even now my expectations had been lowered by a lot. of course now with 4364748584353 groups debuting left n right it's impossible to keep up with all n mostly i'd check out the hyped ones to see if they'd live up to the hypes. so there might be more hidden gems.
kara was pretty big in Japan at their height, records that were only broken recently with Twice. (As far as I know). Damaged Lady has that "wet hair" look and then some. I recommend it! I think Lupin would also be something cool for you to check out!
MISTER and STEP made them almost as big as SNSD and 2NE1.I heard their songs everywhere in Taiwan, where I lived back then. Unfortunately their comebacks later were not as successful as STEP. And also sad for the problem on the management company, disbandment , and Goo hara especially.
pandora, the song that ended gangnam style winning streak ... KARA one of the top girl group in 2nd gen, along with 2ne1, T ara, wondergirl n SNSD(the 5 OG of korean GG)
well, i wouldn't include 2NE1 and T-ARA as 'OG' since they debuted in 2009 when the three other groups n more had already well established themselves enough to have a bunch of girlgroups debuting left and right by 2009. although if we're just talking popularity, yes. Jewelry and Brown Eyed Girls had been around longer. (although Jewelry had been from 1st gen but changed members a few times, n the last lineup had no original members) n Brown Eyed Girls debuted in same year as Wonder Girls but were considered faceless singers n nobody cared for them until they went the mainstream image with Abracadabra. both of those groups actually surpassed the big agency groups in 2008 though, with both having major hit songs- One More Time and L.O.V.E that were wildly popular in Korea n won bunch of music shows back to back(both songs even released n promoted around same time)
@@hslpt3 yeah im talkin about their poppularity n achievement, thats why they are the 5 OG of 2nd gen !!! n why u say BEG debut same year with WG ?? u talkin to much about BEG but u dont know their debut time ?? let me tell u honey BEG debut in 2006 n WG debut 2007 okok ... !! 😂😂😂👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣 #greetingsfromretired.LAZY.SONE.
Oh man, kara... back when my dog first got me into kpop (starting with falling for mamamoo on immortal songs) there was a local kpop channel that played both current music and older stuff. They played a whole lot of kara's "mama mia" and i honestly still can't get enough of, though it also hurts seeing hara in it (she was the one that always caught my eye there...) I'm sort of expecting to see some specific songs from super junior (sorry sorry), t.ara (roly poly), brown eyed girls (abaracadabra) and wonder girls (tell me)...just for a thing that's brought those four back to the limelight for many people and introduced them to many more
@@KpopPrince ha, yeah... crazy reason, but it's true. I got my dog almost 8 years ago. She was a rescue...i was her third owner... and hated/scared of people. She'd bark at everything going on in the hallway outside my apt so i started leaving the tv on, just as background noise, while i did other things. And because i kept getting caught up in whatever show was on, opted to try other language channels. Went through spanish, indian, chinese, vietnamese, thai and a few others but the korean language really seemed to sooth her, so started leaving it on kbs world...where i was introduced to mamamoo and other amazing artists through immortal somgs 2, got into korean variety shows like 2 days and 1 night and gag concert and started my kpop journey with music bank episodes. Then i found a local kpop channel, as well, though it repeated things every 6 hours. So, started for my dog, fell in love with a bunch of stuff myself
Please react to KARA - RUNAWAY, DAMAGED LADY, MAMMA MIA (4 member) and KARA SOLO (Hara-Secret Love, Nicole-Lost,Seungyeon-Guilty,Gyuri-Daydream,Jiyoung-Wanna Do)👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@KpopPrince Yess I've seen your reaction to Sugar Free and Number Nine but I meant older than those 😂 They actually have this series of a drama version of their music videos (Cry Cry, Day by Day, and Sexy Love) Hope you'd give it a try.
Yeah Jiyoung had the blue hair for Pandora. It was.... a lot. The one you went "whoa" to with the bat was Hara. She is the visual for a reason lol. My bias Seungyeon hitting those high notes in Pandora, her absolutely adorable face belying her soulful singing voice.
Glad to get you on KARA finally. Its SO hard to choose songs for a group as legendary as this, but this is what I came up with. I wasnt even sure if you were gonna like Step but I had to include it as I think its legitimately a perfect kpop song. One of the greatest of all time. But I dont blame you for liking Pandora more, I chose it because its also an absolute banger (KARA basically has no misses from Mister until the end, but w/e).
That was one thing I forgot to mention was the usually massive jumps you would see today in KARA's MV quality, because after they blew up with Mister and promoted in Japan constantly they would have like one Korean comeback a year and like 3 japanese MVs, and they absolutely raked in the cash in the in-between in Japan with album sales and tours.
God this group was so good man. it might be some time before we get back to them because I have so many 2nd gen girl groups to work through and show off, but we'll get there eventually (I havent even doubled up on my ults, T-ARA, for reference)
Kara❤
i miss hara rip queen
teary-eyed when I saw Hara again
For real 💔😭
pls more of KARA!
KARA was HUGE back in the day. Everyone talks about SNSD, and 2NE1, but consider that KARA was the top-selling Korean group in the Japanese market in their time ;o Well, KARA was still big in Korea too XD
That's a trait for KARA songs, is that the solo member parts are generally quite short, so it actually took me way too long to be able to pick out each of the members myself XD For other groups, like SNSD, T-ara, miss A, etc. there are more solo parts where it's easier to pick out members, but their songs also do generally have those "chorus" parts where everyone's kind of singing in unison, which is much less common nowadays :o
Ya people always compare Snsd and 2ne1 but KARA is the only girls group that compete with SNSD based on physical sales especially in Japanese Market.
Step and Mama Mia are my all-time favorite songs of theirs!!!
Sweetune really did a good job with this song. Iconic.
Kara has so many beautiful, lovely and cute songs, and each member is very popular because of their distinct personality and cuteness. I miss them.
Kara is still my favorite girl group.
Kara is one of the best selling kpop girls group rank at no.3 after Twice and Girls Generation.
The group has sold more than 3.8 million physical copies combined between South Korea and Japan.
So glad to see reactors watching Kara. I grew up listening to them with "Wanna" and "Pretty Girl" and stayed a fan until the end.
They also recently had a photoshoot for their anniversary, it was beautiful.
I’m going to be popping in and out on some of these iconic old kpop songs. I have heard them but haven’t seen the music video. Step by Kara was one of the earworms for me. Pandora, was a song that I was trying to find because I heard it and I didn’t know the name or group that sang it
The classics. Talent on top of talent.
KARA was one of my favorite groups back then! My favorite story to tell people that might not know is that "Mister," responsible for the infamous "butt dance" of kpop, is actually a b-side track! It didn't get an MV until they released the Japanese version. But that dance took Korea by storm. (Also, aside from the butt shaking, their abs in their Mister outfits was 😳)
Their songs title are building s name in Step... Mr., Lupin, PrettyGirl, Jumpin'
one of the og queens. Kara was the only group back in the day that was able to compete with GG in terms of sales and charts. They were the queens of japan
My Kamilia Heart is crying now for this reaction;; Thank you sooooo much for this♥♥
I got into K-Pop in mid 2012, and let me tell you IT WAS THE BEST TIME! Their were so many groups that just made everyday for me a party, and I loved it. KARA was one of those groups, and I still listen to them today to get pumped up! Really hope you check out more 2nd Gen groups!!
Best k-pop girl group of that era for sure!
OMG OMG OMG. I got into K-pop thanks to Kara, specifically Step.
Yeees me too 🥺💕
I clicked so quickly cuz I rarely see RUclipsrs react to these queens and I got too excited 🥺
Kara is the first kpop group that I discover in late 2008..since that i has been kpop fans for 12years++
KARA!!
They were everywhere and all their songs are bops!
2nd gen is something else.
😍😍😍THEY ARE BACK NOW FOR THIS MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2022,,, IT IS MY FAVORITE GROUP AND THEIR PERFORMANCES ARE EPIC
Finally the old kpop🔥
i love their debut song Break It and Wanna
Well, second generation of Kpop definitely the best era or we called golden era of Kpop.
So many Legend group paved the way for Kpop to international.
My favorite group: Girls' Generataion 👑
If you haven't seen it, I beg you to try their video for "Lupin". Vastly different visual style and surprisingly modern tone.
OMG, thank you for reacting to KARA! They're my ult group in 2nd gen. My Kamilia heart is so happy!
That "wet hair," look you mentioned might be sweat due to the fashion changes in 2nd Gen videos. Back in 2nd Gen, Fashion and Set Design was on a different caliber then today. Companies would have at least 3-5 different looks for their groups to wear, and they would film the MV 3-5 times with these different outfits, or even film the MV with the same outfit in different locations Depending on timing these different shoots could happen all in ONE DAY, or within HOURS of each other. Directors could even ask to see a certain point of the dance in different outfits. I remember either f(x) or T-ara said once that they filmed a version of an MV with a certain style of outfits, and that version wasn't even used in any way for the end product. This still happens today, but companies nowadays usually already have a certain look in mind before hand, and bring outfits accordingly.
Back in the day a number of female groups would crimp their hair, and when sweat interacts with hair that has been dried in any way, it makes that unique wet yet firm look.
your reaction is the best and most well-detailed i've ever watched on yt.
honestly kpop back then had a lot of individual parts too, it's just a matter or whether you notice it or not or maybe the mixing or sth. maybe the chorus, yes it's more sung as a group than now where it's repeatedly sung by the main vocals/centers in some groups. but anyway with groups back then it's definitely easier to get a grasp of their vocals, because they don't sing with overly loud backtrack to purposely cover their live voices and hence you hear their voices, neither did they have the technology now has to trick people into thinking prerecorded as live since they even included breathing sound etc. although maybe because i am from those times. KARA infact was my first girlgroup, back in 2007. i mean i did check out Wonder Girls first(a live stage) but then i vowed to not check out any girlgroups anymore being very sure i won't like it...but thankfully a friend in a boygroup forum i frequented convinced me so hard on repeated occasions to try KARA because she was so sure i would love them, and she's right. more interesting was that she's more of an sm stan but she never pushed her sm favs on me unlike with how she would start bringing up KARA everytime we start talking on the forum... it's like she just knew me too well. xD...that was during KARA's debut era with Break It, so i managed to become a fan before their debut period ended thanks to that friend. and indeed then i met a bunch of dsp groups/singers(2nd gen era specifically) whose music, voices, etc. i love and i guess that's generally my taste in idols. though i do check out big names' music just to see if i was missing out anything and i do check out unknown groups too just to see if i could find more gems. but these days... it's hard to not get bored. maybe it's me who has changed. i just feel kpop over the years has changed to try tooo hard to cater to ifans taste n expectations with all the focus on crazyass universe lores noise songs that are supposedly cool n badass n edgy and whatnot...that it lost the elements that made me love kpop in the first place. of course even now, every now and then i would find some songs i love but yeah, i think even now my expectations had been lowered by a lot. of course now with 4364748584353 groups debuting left n right it's impossible to keep up with all n mostly i'd check out the hyped ones to see if they'd live up to the hypes. so there might be more hidden gems.
I miss Hara so much ;-;
The Queens of Kpop!!! KARA 💗
kara was pretty big in Japan at their height, records that were only broken recently with Twice. (As far as I know).
Damaged Lady has that "wet hair" look and then some. I recommend it! I think Lupin would also be something cool for you to check out!
My ultimate from 2nd gen. I adore every members of Kara. For the music their 1st album was so tasty.
MISTER and STEP made them almost as big as SNSD and 2NE1.I heard their songs everywhere in Taiwan, where I lived back then. Unfortunately their comebacks later were not as successful as STEP. And also sad for the problem on the management company, disbandment , and Goo hara especially.
Check their live performance of step (also other songs of KARA) when you have time :) That’s another amazing experience!
pandora, the song that ended gangnam style winning streak ...
KARA one of the top girl group in 2nd gen, along with 2ne1, T ara, wondergirl n SNSD(the 5 OG of korean GG)
well, i wouldn't include 2NE1 and T-ARA as 'OG' since they debuted in 2009 when the three other groups n more had already well established themselves enough to have a bunch of girlgroups debuting left and right by 2009. although if we're just talking popularity, yes. Jewelry and Brown Eyed Girls had been around longer. (although Jewelry had been from 1st gen but changed members a few times, n the last lineup had no original members) n Brown Eyed Girls debuted in same year as Wonder Girls but were considered faceless singers n nobody cared for them until they went the mainstream image with Abracadabra. both of those groups actually surpassed the big agency groups in 2008 though, with both having major hit songs- One More Time and L.O.V.E that were wildly popular in Korea n won bunch of music shows back to back(both songs even released n promoted around same time)
@@hslpt3 yeah im talkin about their poppularity n achievement, thats why they are the 5 OG of 2nd gen !!!
n why u say BEG debut same year with WG ?? u talkin to much about BEG but u dont know their debut time ??
let me tell u honey BEG debut in 2006 n WG debut 2007 okok ... !!
😂😂😂👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣
#greetingsfromretired.LAZY.SONE.
Oh man, kara... back when my dog first got me into kpop (starting with falling for mamamoo on immortal songs) there was a local kpop channel that played both current music and older stuff. They played a whole lot of kara's "mama mia" and i honestly still can't get enough of, though it also hurts seeing hara in it (she was the one that always caught my eye there...)
I'm sort of expecting to see some specific songs from super junior (sorry sorry), t.ara (roly poly), brown eyed girls (abaracadabra) and wonder girls (tell me)...just for a thing that's brought those four back to the limelight for many people and introduced them to many more
Your... Dog?
@@KpopPrince ha, yeah... crazy reason, but it's true. I got my dog almost 8 years ago. She was a rescue...i was her third owner... and hated/scared of people.
She'd bark at everything going on in the hallway outside my apt so i started leaving the tv on, just as background noise, while i did other things. And because i kept getting caught up in whatever show was on, opted to try other language channels. Went through spanish, indian, chinese, vietnamese, thai and a few others but the korean language really seemed to sooth her, so started leaving it on kbs world...where i was introduced to mamamoo and other amazing artists through immortal somgs 2, got into korean variety shows like 2 days and 1 night and gag concert and started my kpop journey with music bank episodes. Then i found a local kpop channel, as well, though it repeated things every 6 hours.
So, started for my dog, fell in love with a bunch of stuff myself
@@kalaksed That has got to be one of the best stories ever. Thank you for sharing. 💕
Legend.
I miss hara 😢😢
We need all 2gen groups to do a cb 😭 one of thr best eras omg i miss it
Please react to KARA - RUNAWAY, DAMAGED LADY, MAMMA MIA (4 member) and KARA SOLO (Hara-Secret Love, Nicole-Lost,Seungyeon-Guilty,Gyuri-Daydream,Jiyoung-Wanna Do)👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
React to Kara killing voice please🙏
R.i.p
I miss kara🥲❤
I miss that era🤧
When you said 2019 was two years ago my mind exploded 😳
Also the vocal style really different, older generation of kpop have real vibra, or visible vibra to their voice.
very very oldkpop
but thay are qeen of girl group~^^♡
How about you react their come back song "When I Move"?
I will eventually!
I hope you'd try T-ARA's older music as well.
I have reacted to them once before!
@@KpopPrince Yess I've seen your reaction to Sugar Free and Number Nine but I meant older than those 😂 They actually have this series of a drama version of their music videos (Cry Cry, Day by Day, and Sexy Love) Hope you'd give it a try.
I mean, they did sexy but it was sassy non-cheap sexy.
Ahhh so hard for me to listen to their stuff