blog.MuchMusic.com www.MuchMusic.com

Eat You Up, 22 year-old Korean megastar BoA‘s first English single, is due to dominate North American airwaves in the same the way her music’s been doing for a decade back in southeast Asia. Her self-titled album (the first one in English) will be out on March 17.

BoA’s multilingual (she’s fluent in Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and now English) and she’s been kicking around the music biz since she was only 11. She’s like South Korea’s Hilary Duff or Mary-Kate and Ashley – they’ve grown up with her.

The lyrics to Eat You Up are quite primitive (When I first saw you I knew nothing’s like it used to be / Boy you have got to be the finest thing in history / The way I feel inside is just so hard to understand / You’d feed my appetite in ways I can’t explain / You look so tasty I could eat you up alive) but then again you could argue the same thing about any English crossover artist (like, say, Tokio Hotel). And is anyone really listening for the lyrics, or are they digging the slick choreography (my favourite in recent months for sure) and the fact that BoA is gorgeous and has great style? Seriously, I love these dance sequences – everything is so fluid and lanky. It looks effortless, and I wonder if it’s easy or actually really difficult? I’m no dancer, so I dunno.

What do you think…are we ready for some Korean superpop goodness? Or do we already have enough of our own glossy, over-marketed pop singers? Admit it, the song is catchy.

BoA – Eat You Up

Posted on Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 10:52 am by Kat and is filed under Music & Videos.

Related Articles:

• Jay-Z to release 336-page book, maybe new album in spring too
• Katy Perry x Eylure: Get Ready To Bat Your Long, False Eyelashes
• Rihanna shows off new blonde look
• Beyonce’s Got A Brand New Look
• Live Earth UK – Madonna