dangermousie | Of all the random coincidences...

You know how I was obsessing about Rock Rock Rock over the weekend and was binging on Dream High today?

Imagine my shock that the song DH uses for its song-off meet between two of its characters is the song that was featured so prominently in RRR.

Here are Wooyoung and Kim Su Hyun going at it:

Here is Buhwal with Lee Seung Chul doing it:

I got to say I prefer the original (i.e. the Buhwal/LSC version - or at least as close to it as I can get since I have no access to their 1987 album) - I am always a fan of raspy voices and rock, plus LSC's voice is all sorts of insane. And the emotion is much more there. But I was shocked by (a) how much I liked DH's version and (b) how well Kim Su Hyun can sing as he is not a singer at all - I believe he got a bit of vocal training for the role but that is it. Of course, this further solidified the status of this song as a complete earworm that just won't leave my head. So I decided to share the earworm in the hopes of curing it thusly :)

And here is the sing-off song done by Boohwal last year with a different vocalist (thanks