Wonder Girls Like Money

Wonder Girls. Like Money Review

     Here I am going to review the song, not the music video. The music video has a generic Sci-Fi theme along with bionic Korean women, what more could you love? To shorten my opinion, the music video is boring. There is Akon in a chair, the Wonder Girls dancing in shiny suits, and Yubin in a car, pretty darn boring if you’re asking me.

     There is a special place for the Wonder Girls in my heart. Their song, Be My Baby, was the song that started me on my K-pop obsession. I was crazy for Be My Baby. I learned the danced and even performed it for my mother on Christmas. (Hey the song has a very Christmas-y song). And hearing this auto-tuned generic crap hurt my heart.

     Like Money, the song that seems like T-Pain took a giant crap, forgot to flush, and then the Wonder Girls found the feces brought it to JVP and he thought it was a great. Or maybe they recorded T-Pain’s farts and used it for the song’s beat. The Auto-tune tuned more than Sohee’s bad vocals, it fixed everything. It hid most of Yubin’s ‘Engrish’. Unfortunately, it hid the distinctness in Yenny’s vocals.

     The song starts with heavily accented Sohee saying that she is more precious than pearls. Sohee’s English is worse than Sunye’s but better than Yubin’s. It is something about Sohee’s voice that I cannot seem to understand her, when she sings in English. When I tried to listen to her verse by ear, I have mistaken a lot of words. In the first sentence, I thought she said my heat is beating out, instead of my heart is screaming out. I was shocked, when I read the lyrics online. Her singing fooled my wonderful hearing! The same for my DJ is mine; Sohee’s verses are my least favorite in their English songs. Her vocals are like she has a cold, which she never recovers from. It hurts me to say this. Sohee’s vocals were my favorite in Be My Baby. In her Engrish—I mean English—her vocals are my least favorite out of the group. Mandu Sohee, my bias (behind Yenny), stick to Korean.

     Next up is HyeLim. Hye Lim has replaced one of the former main vocalists, SunMi. SunMi has been replaced with the less vocally talented Lim. I knew nothing about MiMi, because I got into the Wonder Girls during Be My Baby, as I stated before. But I have heard Tell Me, So Hot, and Nobody anyone with ears can tell that MiMi has more vocal chops than Lim. But that’s in the past. SunMi is gone, and Lim is here. Lim has some big shoes to fill, Yubin and Sohee are less vocally talented in the group, and the group had MiMi, Yenny, and Sun to back them. Unfortunately, Lim is unable to fill these shoes. Lim’s vocals are average—at best. She is on the rank of Sohee and Yubin. Now, the only vocalists that keep the songs from falling apart are Yenny and Sun. It’s safe to say, without them, this song would be a wreck, a crap on the sidewalk mess. But on the bright side, Lim has really cute English!

     Yenny and Sun have beautiful articulation in this song. They have the best vocals. It’s really interesting that Sun has a heavy accent, when speaking English, but while singing English her accent disappears. Yenny and Sun are the foundation to this song, I wish that they sung the verses. But if that happens, who would adlib, Sohee? Nope. Lim? No. Yubin? Not a chance.

Yubin’s rap is meh to me. But It is better here than her raps in Be My Baby (English version) and Nobody (English version), but still not better than her rap in the DJ is Mine (although in the DJ is Mine, her Engrish is bam!).  Akon is useless vocally on this song. He brought nothing. I guess he is pretty popular nowadays, he brought the star power.YeEun and SunYe the Wonder Girls brought the vocals.

     The lyrics can use some work. The Wonder Girls are saying that they are more precious than material possessions, but they are comparing themselves to them? Yea, I’m mind fu*ked here.

Overall, the song is okay. I’m a Wonderful. I brought this song on ITunes just to support them. I don’t skip this song, when it comes on, but this song was a huge let down for me. I was expecting something with the Wonder Girls’ favor, but all I received was auto-tuned garbage that seemed like it was in Rihanna’s garbage bin.

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I rank it a 2/5.