The Constrictor

BoA is a Korean pop star. She is not to be confused with the boa constrictor. I am a strong fearless gay man, but snakes are not my thing. I have got to be careful when I google her. I always include “singer” or “Korean” or “K-Pop” or anything to let google images know not to show me some killer snakes. 

Side note never to use Bing. Bing is my default on my tablet and I was googling “Surprise Bitch”. You know like the Emma Roberts, American Horror Story, surprise bitch. Picture it. I'm sitting in a room of my peers, were all dressed up, and I google “surprise bitch” and porn comes up. Why would that ever be the appropriate thing to show first. I don't know. It was horrifying. 

BoA is one of the best manufactured pop stars of Korea. She dances. She sings. She's pretty as fuck. Please make a point of following her on instagram. She's adorable. I love her so much I follow her on twitter and it's all in Korean.

BoA is one of the biggest crossover successes in Asia. Actually, she's the biggest. BoA is fluent in Japanese and English and her native Korean. She's also sang in Mandarin. There's just a point where you have to be like please stop being better then me. She's had unprecedented success in Japan. She's had multiple number one albums and hits. She's absolutely amazing. 

Her English career is where I got started with BoA. I absolutely adore her song “Eat You Up”. It's catchy. It's sexy. It's basically everything you could ever want from a Korean pop star. She's only had one English album and it was self titled. Honestly, it wasn't the strongest release. A few songs miss the beat, but it is still a solid pop album. Especially “Energetic” and “I Did It For Love”.

My personal favorite Japanese album she did is Identity. It's slinky. It has a very interesting sound and if you've ever wanted to try out J-Pop, I would say definitely try out this album. Not every song is perfect, but this is girl is releasing an album a year, and sometimes she's releasing one in Japan and one in Korea. It's kind of a mess. My favorite song on this album is “Possibility”. It's a duet with this cute Japanese man and I have cried so many times to this song. I don't know what they're saying. But, it's so sad. It breaks my heart.

Her Korean career is what I'm surprisingly lacking on. I can talk about her Japanese music, but where she got her start. In Korea. Really, I don't know. The only album I have that she sang in Korean is Hurricane Venus. This would have made a great vinyl. The first half is sleek dance-pop. The second part is ballads. Some of which are incredibly heavy and weigh the album down. I enjoy it. That's all that matters.

Honestly, what surprises me is that we never got another English album. Yes, her first album had a poor performance in the United States, but the Koreans and Japanese ate it up. When Psy had his major hit “Gangnam Style” that was the time to strike. American's would have bought into a Korean pop star. BoA could have killed it. I'm honestly surprised no one tried to break into the market. America has never had a true Asian pop star. That needs to be fixed.

In true Korean fashion. BoA is also an occasional actress. I swear everyone who's famous over there has multiple facets of talent. She was even in this movie called Make Your Move. I wanted to see it so bad. Derrek Hough was in it and he's pretentious prep boy cute. I'm sure the movie was basic as fuck. It was a dance movie with some Romeo/Juliet shit that has been done before, but BoA is queen. I honestly hate how much prettier she is then me.