My post last night about French pop star Alizée elicited a comment from Joachim Mairböck in Germany Austria. (Google translation into English of his blog is here.) Joachim pointed out a YouTube link from Studio 100 UK.
I had talked about Studio 100’s ambitions of expansion beyond Belgium and the Netherlands, yet I’m disappointed that even as they were promoting K3’s tenth anniversary they were auditioning for an English-speaking K3, to be called UK3.
In September, Studio 100 posted a video of Wir3 from Germany with an English overdub. The caption reads “Basic version of U.K audition pop song. Learn the words and the basic dance moves to increase your chance of being chosen. Good luck. Best Regards Peteer”. As often happens, YouTube got the shape of the image wrong, so I’ve corrected it here.
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Then, just a week ago, Studio 100 posted the results of that audition, with this caption — “Emily, Lauren and Tahnee, 2 days after meeting for the first time ever, create a decent music video in less than 4 hours. Amazing!”
[flv:http://s3.amazonaws.com/dogratcom/Video/K3/UK3demo.flv 512 288]
Well, there it is. The house that K3 built moves on. Karen, Kathleen, and Kristel are now all 30 and over, and it’s time for younger women, who are native English speakers. UK3 looks like just another fabricated fluff girl group, and I couldn’t be less interested. Again I say it’s the people, not the package. Studio 100 got lucky with K3, who were already together before Studio 100 found them. Less than six months ago I didn’t know K3 existed, and now it’s disconcerting to contemplate that they may be getting closer to the end of their run.
YouTube has become, for me, a library that requires the selection and checking out of items, and I agree that the comments are so junky as to be essentially graffiti.
Hey! Since when was over 30 OLD? I must be near death at 53! 😉 And hello, Joachim, I LOVE that name. Not sure what you speak in your part of Austria [German — D], but I know you border on Slovakia. My husband is half Slovenian (surname Soltis, both husband and wife, though no related). He grew up listening to his grandmother speaking that.
Doug, I’ve grown to the point where I won’t even look at YouTube. I’m tired of the infantile remarks and the poor quality videos!
Thank you for the correction Joachim, which I have made. The distinction between Germany and Austria is, I know, significant.
I find YouTube to be disorienting and sometimes simply too much, so I select certain videos to highlight. I feel anybody looking for an introduction to K3 would be much better served by clicking on the category I’ve set up here, rather than going through YouTube and trying to sift through the pile.
Just to correct a small mistake: I am from Austria and not from Germany, but I know this was my fault that I don’t have said this in my comment. I don’t have a big problem with you calling me a German, I just wanted to correct that one.
And please keep posting K3 videos instead of (or along with) one from Alizée as I like them better and I still get the basic meaning of the Dutch songs which I cannot say of French. Dutch is indeed rather similar to German.
I agree. In the smaller, quieter settings where they’ve performed the three K’s have shown they can perform material for older audiences. So maybe it’s just a matter of them making the transition away from kids and tweenie boppers. On the other hand, I’m a bit discouraged, reading one dad’s comments about taking his daughter to see K3.
http://www.caliban.org/mt/archives/2008/11/k3_e1.html
Maybe K3 will be over but depending on what the ladies have planned, they’re not THAT old for the adult contemporary chart. After watching “VH1’s One Hit Wonders” and “I Love The 80s” I found out some of the 80’s female pop singers are now doing children’s music. So I don’t think the 3-K named ladies can be counted out unless they retire. 🙂