Never Ever Stop Falling In Love

Girls’ Generation “Telepathy”

The lyrics of this song are mostly in Korean but bits of English come through here and there. The effect for me, as a person who only understands English, is that the rest of the vocals come off like a perky pop song reduced to phonetic sounds. This is different from how I hear most foreign-language pop, by the way – the language is usually very apparent and I hear it as part of the texture of the music. This is glossy and sleek, it seems like the lyrics would be nearly irrelevant in any language. The English words give some guide – “love story,” “telepathy” pronounced in a slightly awkward way – but then they toss out that “never ever stop falling in love” bit at the end, and it’s like, “wait, was more of that in English than I realized?” This tension gives the song a bit of a novelty factor, but the tune is a charmer, and a clear standout on a record of what sounds to me like pretty typical K-pop.

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