As promised in my Jonas Bros. article earlier this week, I am highlighting some of my favorite Wonder Girls Nobody Dance videos. The Wonder Girls are a popular South Korean Pop girl group. Korean Pop, abbreviated as K-pop, is bubblegum pop mixed with some R&B and dance flavors and has become hugely popular in Asia and making it’s way to North America. The Wonder Girls came into prominence in Fall of 2007 and in Fall 2008, were selected as a top girl group by Virgin Media which put them with the ranks of other popular girl groups like The Pussycat Dolls, Girls Aloud and Danity Kane. Their hit “Nobody” has become the Asian equivalent to Beyonce’s mega-smash hit “Single Ladies”. The signature dance moves in their Nobody video have been replicated, immortalized and posted on YouTube. These submissions have ranged from Japan to North Ireland and of course The United States to name a few.

I’ve selected my favorite videos which I found the most amusing and entertaining. Hope you enjoy them.

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Friday night while most of us were celebrating Seattle Pride, I get a text from Topher asking me the most random question: “Hey Donovan, do you and Brian want to go to the Jonas Bros. concert?” At first, I thought I was just drunk from all the birthday shots people were buying me. Then, the next day when I checked my texts, I realized it wasn’t a booze-enabled hallucination but rather fact. What was more interesting was the realization that I had said YES. EEKS!

Fast forward to Monday. I was feeling the effects of spending three straight weekends away from home (Portland, Toronto & Seattle). The last thing I wanted to do was be surrounded by 20,000 screaming tween girls hoping to catch the eye of one of the Jonas Bros. See, I’ve unfortunately had experience attending concerts where the majority of the crowd were Miley Cyrus look-a-likes. In my previous job at a kids/teen online magazine, I attended many events where I was one of maybe 5 guys in the audience. I either looked like a perv or a loser- either of which wasn’t very flattering. The only solace this time was the fact I was going with Topher, Patrick and Sous who had scored the free tickets from his sister.

While getting ready for the concert, Brian comes home after work and tells me there are thousands of girls already screaming and lining up outside. [Brian and I live directly across GM Place where most concerts in Vancouver occur.] As the boys arrive one by one to our place, each has an even more terrifying story than the next of how many girls are piling on the streets, with their glittered signs and even more glittered clothing.

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