Wonder Girls are taking over the world!
Wonder Girls are taking over the world!
Run for your lives!
I kid. But this has definitely been Wonder Girls‘ week, what with their Billboard-ranking single, their appearance in People magazine, and heck, even a Seoulbeats feature article. The Wonder Girls have always been hot, but they’re getting hotter…and JYPE knows it.
So where will the Wonder Girls go next to spread their ‘clap-clap-point’ charm?
“我們要 nobody, nobody bah-chu!”
Ah, yes. China. The elusive Asian beast of a market that seems to be nearly impenetrable by k-pop artists. Sure, the hallyu wave’s done its fair share of work down and around there, but to be honest, it seems as if the only k-pop group that’s had a decent amount of notable success in China and Taiwan is SS501. That is…until the day that JYPE announced that the Wonder Girls will be releasing a Mandarin version of ‘Nobody.’ I mean, they put a pretty impressionable scratch on the even beastlier US music market, so what the hey, right? Especially if you’re going to be making your China debut during the Mobile Festival in Beijing, alongside superstars Jackie Chan and Zhang Ziyi. Headliners much? Granted, I’ve gotta admit that JYPE’s strategy of celeb piggybacking (re: JoBros tour) is pretty smart.
Seems like JYPE’s really on board with their whole ‘global’ –or, should I say, country-hopping–endeavor. While Sony still has sour grapes with YG and various plagiarism allegations, and SM USA is still trying to keep BoA afloat in the States, the Wonder Girls are milking the global market for all its worth. But with such a quick transition from their budding success in the US market to relative newbie status in China and Taiwan, are the Wonder Girls simply going to be known as ‘The Girl Group With Shiny Dresses and The Same Song In Fourteen Languages’? Bah. Nonetheless, much luck in their future endeavors.
