Even though my IELTS instructor advises us to often watch English movies so that we can enhance our english listening and speaking skills, I ended up lately being addicted in to watching Korean drama/movies instead. (Lord patawad!) Haha!
Recently, I have finished watching “My Love from Another Star” and “Shut Up Flower Boy Band”. I wanted to make a review about these two drama series but since “My Love from Another Star” became so mainstream because it was recently aired in GMA 7 and was finished only last week, I’ve decided not to include it in my review although it was also a good one.
So let me focus with “Shut Up Flower Boy Band” also known as, Shut Up and Let’s Go. ( I dunno, but I always find Korean drama titles weird! lol) This was aired in South Korea in 2012. Yup, that was two years ago and unfortunately I was left behind that long. Hahaha. But correct me if I’m wrong, I think this was not yet aired here in the Philippines or maybe it was but in a different network, neither GMA nor ABS-CBN. I don’t have any idea so please inform me. Haha! Although I know some of you have watched it already. Yes? Well anyway..
Created bySeo Yoon-hee and directed by Lee Kwon, with the following main casts:
- Sung Joon as Kwon Ji-hyuk (the band leader of Eye Candy)
- Kim Myung-soo (L) as Lee Hyun-soo (Guitarist)
- Lee Hyun-jae as Jang Do-il (the drummer)
- Yoo Min-kyu as Kim Ha-jin (the bassist)
- Kim Min-suk as Seo Kyung-jong (for the Keyboards)
- Lee Min-ki as Joo Byung-hee (vocals and the original leader of Eye Candy)
- Jo Bo-ah as Im Soo-ah ( the leading lady), and
- Jung Eui-chul as Yoo Seung Hoon (leader of Strawberry Fields, Eye Candy’s rival band)
Shut Up Flower Boy Band is a teen romance musical drama. I described it as fearless, hard, and punk-themed but full of heart-squeezing scenes and offers a lot of life lessons to be learned.
Ji-hyuk, Byung-hee, Hyun-soo, Do-il, Ha-jin, and Kyung-jong are free-spirited high school boys that composed a band which they called, Eye Candy. Each one of them were dealing with individual family issues that had made them quite reckless and rebellious. But despite of it, they treat each other as real family professing their brotherly love and loyalty to one another. They were happy-go-lucky guys who always tend to break school rules, pick up fights, and fond of playing rock music. Until an unexpected incident happened to one of their groupmate that had lead them to start their journey towards pursuing their passion for music and figuring out what they really want in their lives. The extraordinary journey that had greatly test their friendship wherein they learned the essence of sacrifice and finding true love.
Although I’m not fond of rock music or rockers/rakista, this drama series made me appreciate them and be able to understand what kind of life these people are going through. And of course, the love affair of Ji-hyuk and Soo-ah never fails to bring kilig factor. A one of a kind drama which is all about friendship, love, family, sacrifices, finding oneself, and reaching for dreams.
“Falling in love is easy, but keeping that love going is hard.” ~ Rock Kim