Latest Hit Song in North Korea-'The Song of the Blessed People.'
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And another, "Our Beloved Leader."
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And another arrangement of, "Our Beloved Leader."
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And the ever popular, Moranbong Band of girl singers, with ... "Let's Learn."
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And, now " Look at Us."
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To end our concert, the Military Band of the DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA,
sings, "Death to the USA."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33mKIcwfx8
and will complete tonight's concert with a rendition of "The Internationale" reminding
us of the unity of workers all over the world.
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Our concert tonite, reminded us how wonderful life is in our North Korean Worker's Paradise.
But our enemy will always try to corrupt us. Just remember how wholesome our lives are in the DPRK, thanks to the eternal wisdom of our eternal President Kim Il-sung, who still rules from heaven.
Our enemy tries to corrupt us with an effete and corrupt life in capitalist South Korea, run by American stooges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMgG7JTwppI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7n6u0IwXwo
Presently, they drop leaflets on our brave soldiers guarding our borders, attempting to bribe them by promising them, that if they defect to South Korea, they will be given a boy singer to live with.
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Re-reading my last post, which I wrote in too much of a hurry, my rather heavy-handed sarcasm did not make the point I wanted to make.
I wanted to draw attention to the different development of musical entertainment in the two Koreas. In the north, the state controlled media is very conventional and conservative, very similar to what we were encouraged to 'like' as servants of the big dog in the sky.
In the south, with a high degree of personal freedom (except not being allowed to say, that NK is good), the direction the musical entertainment industry takes is quite different, as I attempted to demonstrate. Of course, the South Korean industry is controlled by corporations, who, at least in the case of popular music are just as controlling as the north, except that the criteria for control is not rigid party dogma, but what the corporation believes to be the best way to sell their music. The kids who are signed on for these groups, are nearly as rigidly controlled as in the north. Break the corporation's rules and your out of your group.
So the two fan videos (the compilers of them almost certainly gay) consist of PR clips from corporation sanctioned shows etc. Interesting that they play around the gender fringe of sexuality.
I am not criticising either approach, just trying to be an observer.