Mnet Asian Music Award 2010 aka MAMA 2010 was a Korean music award show. It's like those year-end award show like everywhere else. This one is held at Macau, China back in the beginning of December. I was excited to watch this show since it was the first big Korean award show being broadcasted on a Chinese channel. Then, the disappointment came. Chinese dub over Korean speeches. It won't be bad if the dub was good but it wasn't!!! The dub sounded "live" and "improvised". The translation was really bad and monotone. For example, three different female Korean presenters were introducing but the dub was by the same person with monotone. They even dub people "hahaha"... WTF!!! This kind of show should be used with original sound and put subtitles under instead. I am very disappointed with the production by Fairchild TV. I think they also cut some scenes due to the choppiness of the show; it has no good flow.
The only thing that saves the horrendous Chinese dub was the performances.
Miss A had Chinese lyrics for "Bad Girl Good Girl" and "Breathe": refreshing
2PM had an artistic performance: love it! A LOT of cheers for Nichkhun
i-Me (Chinese girl idols group) lip-synced their way through the song: similar dances to KARA, SNSD, and T-ARA
Perfrume (Japanese girl idols group): Jpop songs... *shrug*
DJ Doc: very charismatic
Gummy: cool haircut, great performance and great vocal as usual
2NE1 pumped up the crowds with Clap Your Hands. Even Min from Miss A was dancing to it. 2PM's Wooyoung was singing to Don't Stop.
Huk Gak - winner of Superstar K2. Powerful voice.
Taeyang, TOP, and G-Dragon - awesome performance with their first GD&TOP's song. 2PM's Taecyeon is rocking with TOP's rap.
Chemistry - an extremely popular Japanese male group. Used to listen to them; still as nice now. Lots of fans from Macau. 2PM loves them, too.
Far East Movement - they rise to fame this year with Like a G6. Nice performance, very club feel.
Wonder Girls - they performed their hit song, "So Hot" but got more cheers when camera zoomed to Nichkhun, Junsu, Wooyoung, and Dara. They also performed "2 Different Tears" and finally, their worldwide hit, "Nobody". Hyelim was touching Nichkhun... big nono...
Yoon Eun Hye was presenting Album of the Year. Surprised to see her.
That's all I caught on TV. Overall, it's a good show.
Pros: all the performances by different artists
Cons: the dubbing, bad timing, bad translation, and bad pronunciation in English
Improvement: use subtitles next time
Rating: 7/10
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