Meet the Moranbong Band – North Korea’s Version of Spice Girls

Hey music lover! How are you doing? Glad you could make it by today and partake of a refreshing coffee and a virtual treat. Fill your mug, wrestle a giant muffin onto your plate and come on over here to the VIP table so I can tell you about a not-so-new music group I doubt you have ever heard of. 

Believe it or not, North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, is actually a big fan of K-pop music. In fact, he’s so passionate about it that he hand-picked every member of the girl group ‘Moranbong Band’ – his country’s answer to the Spice Girls.

As a result of Kim Jong-un’s endorsement, the band has been playing sell-out gigs across the country. Their first concert was so popular that the streets of Pyongyang were apparently deserted during the broadcast. Often dressed in conservatively sexy attire – with skirts cut well above the knee and hair clipped short – the Moranbong girls have received good reviews from local critics as well.

Although the band has been around for a few years, they appeared to have fallen out of favor in late 2013. But after a six-month hiatus, they were back to performing in April 2014 to rave reviews from Korean media, thus reclaiming their status as queens of North Korea’s pop scene, and the darlings of primetime TV. Their comeback concert featured ‘colorful numbers’ such as ‘O My Motherland Full of Hope’, ‘Our Father’, and ‘We Think of the Marshall Day and Night’.

Wow! They sound like awesome songs, eh! Hope for their sake that they never come up with a song the big guy doesn't like such as the theme song from The Interview, eh. Wouldn't be the first band that has fallen out of favour and faced his fatal wrath.

I'll let you know when the band schedules it's first International tour, okay?

See ya, eh!

Bob

Source: odditycentral.com