Diva
The other day, when writing here about the tremendous South Korean series, Extraordinary Attorney Woo, I mentioned that its star, Park Eun-bin, was a wonderful singer, which she got to show off in another of her series, the also-excellent Castaway Diva. I thought it only proper to given an example of what I meant. This is a music video of sorts with her singing one of the songs she performs in the series, “Someday.”
(Though the song is a standalone number in the series, one of many sung as part of a music competition, more than most of the others it has a resonance to the underlying plot.)
I won’t go into detail about Castaway Diva here for two reasons. One, it’s best to deal with one series at a time, and if you do watch Extraordinary Attorney Woo and like it and her performance, it’s worth keeping Castaway Diva in mind. Maybe I’ll write about it later. And the second reason is that Castway Diva is a very difficult series to do justice to in short. On the surface, one part of the show is light, fluffy, silly-unbelievable but a lot of fun – though another part of the show takes a lot of very surprising twists and turns, and at times gets extremely serious and even dark and very emotional. And all together, it's a mix of themes that conflict with one another, yet in the end work together wonderfully. And notable, too, as much as Park Eun-bin is the main character, and is terrific in it, for a good part of the series others take the lead, driving the story, and she moves to a back seat as a supporting character. That’s rare and helps make the show rich, for all its overlapping sensibilities.
All that aside, here she is singing “Someday.” As you’ll see, it’s not that she’s a wonderful singer for such an accomplished actress – but she’s a superb singer, period.
(NOTE: The song is in Korean, of course, but if you click the “CC” button on the bottom of the screen, you’ll get a reasonable closed-caption translation.)
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