A rude sexy folk song, Korean rock band " SsingSsing "

There are those who change sing by changing folk songs into Korean rock music.

I'm happy to introduce you to a group called the SsingSsing band today.

It is a group that focuses on Korean traditional music and band music because it plays unique music with sophisticated pop music in Korean folk songs.

Let's listen to their songs.

Korean folk song :

Literary writers and composers began to be called for without any reason, and as they came down through the voices and sounds of the people, they came to be known as folk songs with editorials from their ideas, life, and feelings.

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The group sings a regional folk style called minyo and the gender bending look has to do with shamans not glamour. As singer Hee-moon Lee describes it, "In Korean traditional art, male shamans, called baksu, have the body of a male. But as mediums, they need more than a single sexual identity, because they're channeling both male and female spirits. When I act a female character and sing, I have to overcome the fact of my being a male sorikkun (singer), and try my utmost to bring a more neutral, unisex feeling to the performance. It sounds silly, but I feel like going back to the sensibilities of my youth, when I liked Madonna, helps." - by: NPR Music

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It is a peculiar point that once you have Korean folk songs, you can enjoy Korean traditional music such as Gyunggi folk songs, Western folk songs, and the shaman music and shamanic music, which are the roots of Korean traditional music.

Especially, it is said that it is more popular when performing in foreign countries. By adding modern colors to traditional music that is unfamiliar to foreigners, it seems to offer singularity and pleasure to foreigners as well as Koreans.

It's interesting that Korean folk songs can be changed in this way, and it seems like a new genre.