In this series we remember songs that have been forgotten or were never even given the attention they deserved. Today's Hidden Gem is Oh! Boy by T.A.P
So this trio is kinda intersting. They were under LG's (like the phone/TV company) Korean entertainment label. You can tell they wanted the dance to go viral. Although it's kinda strange when you're debuting a group trying to have it go viral, and instead of having the members dance, you borrow the members from Tahiti to do the choreo instead. The plot of the video is that the members don't know how to dance, so they call Tahiti to help them. But the members can dance and even put tutorials out to learn the choreo. Sadly 11 years later (today actually) those tutorials have less than 1,000 views so it didn't take off. The song is actually really catchy and you can tell the main vocal has an amazing powerful voice. She sings the pre-chorus and the chorus. Also this song samples a popular Korean children's song. And the verses are super autotuned which can be a turnoff, but it's a guilty pleasure for me. There's kinda a lot going on with this debut, but I really like it. It's stayed on my Playlist for weeks.
This was the only song T.A.P released and I imagine they disbanded soon afterwards. They did not promote on music shows, just a couple busking events. And with LG backing you up, there's no excuse because they have plenty of money. Just very lazy promotions. I have no idea what any of the members are up to nowadays, it's kinda hard to find any information on them.
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