Hello, guys! Christina here! How are you? How was your day? Did you watched MAMA 2013? Did you enjoyed it? Because I’ve watched it and I am so D I S A P P O I N T E D… like, well, all the past 5 years… So, firstly, let’s see who won and then let’s make a review/point of view about this award show:
Best Dance Performance – Female Solo – CL
Best Dance Performance – Male Solo – G-Dragon
Best Dance Performance – Female Group – SiStar
Best Dance Performance – Male Group – SHINee
Best New Female Artist – Crayon Pop
Best New Male Artist – Roy Kim
Best Vocal Performance – Female Solo – Ailee
Best Vocal Performance – Male Solo – Lee Seung Gi
Best Female Artist – Lee Hyori
Best Male Artist – G-Dragon
Next Generation Global Star Award – Apink
Style In Music Award – SiStar
Discovery of the Year – Baechigi
World Wide Performer – INFINITE
Best Female Group – SNSD
Best Male Group – INFINITE
Best Concert Performance – Lee Seung Cheol
Best Rap Performance – Dynamic Duo
Best Band Performance – Busker Bucker
Best Music Video – G-Dragon
Best OST – Yoon Mi Rae
Grand Prizes:
Song of the Year – Cho Yong Pil
Artist of the Year – G-Dragon
Album of the Year – EXO
Now, I’m not being biased or hating on anyone because all of the artist work hard this year bla, bla… but, some of the winners just don’t deserve it. For Example: SiStar winning the Style in Music Award, Crayon Pop for Best New Female Artist or Cho Yong Pil for Song of the Year and the list can go on… I don’t understand how and why those artist won. It’s obvious that Song of the Year was EXO’s “Growl” only by looking at M!Countdown music show. It was the most popular this year.
Another winner that didn’t deserve to win in the Best Dance Performance category was G-Dragon for “Crooked”. Like seriously! Did the judges ever watched a live performance of that song? It has 0% choreography and GD didn’t even dances that much… For Best New Female Award I think we can all agree it was Lee Hi‘s but, then again the judges thought otherwise. I don’t have anything in particular with Crayon Pop but, they just had one song that it did well when Lee Hi’s all 3 title tracks were charted and also won many times. If I’m not wrong she also won Song of the Month in Cyworld Chart. Yes, I know that is something else…
I think out of all categories I agree with Best Music Video, Best Dance Performance – Male Group, Best Female Group, Best Male Artist, Best OST, Best Concert Performance, I not sure about Best Female Vocal Performance yet (I’d like IU to win), Best Rap Performance, Best Female Artist and Album of the Year.
On the other side, the show was a total mess… the camera times were most of the time wrong and bad. I’m still wondering what happened to Hoya and Hyuna at the end of the performance… Some of the performance were so bad filmed that you need to pay attention to listen and try to guess who’s singing more than who’s singing in front of your eyes. Also, the mics and sound were so bad and out of sync and because of this a lot of artist had to suffer.
The only nice thing about the whole MAMA show were some performance which made a total impact to the audience such as Ylvis and Crayon Pop’s collaboration (this one was probably the best and hilarious one!), BIG BANG‘s or EXO’s. Oh, and how did I forgot about Troublemaker‘s one…?! Yeah, I can’t wait to hear another “they are just friends” article from CUBE Ent. after that scene xD
I think the show became less boring with Rain‘s appearance! That performance was so brilliant and awesome and if I’m not mistaken there was a countdown too for his comeback. It said something like “2014.06.01“. Will Rain’s comeback be in January? OMG! I’m so excited!
All in all, this year’s MAMA was like it was in the past: a total joke… The awards weren’t given to people who truly deserve it… but, why I am complaining? I should have known it before the actual award ceremony that it will be “made up”.
I spent 6 hours of my life to watch this show. I’m not going to say it was a lose of time because I’d lie if I say this. I enjoyed some of the performance and some awards MCs… like for example Jang Hyuk who announced Album of the Year. I think that was the most amazing part of the show. He teased us so much… and I think I wasn’t the only one who figured out that the winner will be EXO. The hand gesture said it all! I’m just sad that because of all his teasing I wasn’t able to see EXO’s full speech thou… my internet connection died EXACTLY a few seconds before he announced the winner. Name it bad luck… >_<
And yup… this is my story and opinion for this year’s Mnet Asian Music Awards. Pretty mad but, you know… the true winners are in our hearts and in reality the MAMA show doesn’t matter. Till next year support your favorite artist! And remember there’s still Golden Music Awards, Seoul Music Awards and the list can go on!
Go! Go! Hwaiting!
KOREA SMILE 