Thai Pop Music at its Best – I Love Four Mod!
Thai pop music is fantastic. I don’t mean the soppy ballads and the melodramatic love songs. The sort of Thai music that I’m into is the sort that makes me laugh at how completely nuts it is. My current favourite band are Four Mod. Four Mod are two Thai girls (I assume they are Thai; they sing in Thai) who like to run around on roller skates terrorising boys. Their latest CD, Wooo, more of an EP than an album, contains six tracks of odd Thai pop music. The signature track, Dek Mee Pun Har, which I think translates as “boy’s got a problem”, is suitably shouty and easy enough to sing along to if you you’re into that sort of thing.
The video is hilarious, as the two girls run around Tokyo chasing boys and confusing passers by with their neon-coloured clothes and peculiar dance moves. Four and Mod are, I think, the girl’s names. The duo have only been together for a couple of years. Also, as Thai pop music stars go, these two are really pretty and much more interesting to look at than the celebs I saw at the opening of Kongju restaurant last month.
If you live in a Youtube friendly zone and you want a serious dose of intense Thai pop music then follow this link to the video of Dek Mee Pun Har. If you don’t find that entertaining then I can’t help you. If you can’t access Youtube then watching Thai music channels over the next couple of weeks should do the trick; it’s quite a popular song I gather.
Four Mod were at B2S Central World a couple of weeks ago, but sadly I’m not that well informed when it comes to Thai pop music star appearances. Anyone got any more interesting Thai pop songs to share?
Update: People in Thailand, it’s your lucky day. Here is a Thailand friendly link to the Four Mod video. And holy cow! Here is the live version! Aren’t these two girls the prettiest things you’ve ever seen? I think I’m in love. Let me know what you think anyway.
Techno’ tags: Thai pop music, Four Mod
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Yes !! Supercute … but Thai media thinks her dress is not appropriate for young Thai girls. I have no idea.
June 23rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
four mod…mmm…they r cute (and cuddly)…i like their music video more than what they sing, maybe because of my pathetic thai (?).
Pim, for some weird reasons, thai media has weird rule of law. this goes for film censorship too. the so called ’sick nurses’ was allowed to be released where as ‘century and a syndrome’ (name right?) was banned outright…sad, isn’t it?
June 24th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Wow!! i totally agree……….really cute :)
June 24th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
The resemblance is uncanny: Anne Widdecombe’s identical twin sisters!
June 25th, 2007 at 2:29 am
fyi - Dek Mee Pun Har, translates more as “problematic kid” i.e. kid w/ problems. not necessarily a boy. in formal usage, i think it is refered to kids with psychological problems, but the casual usage is less strict in meaning.
June 25th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Phil, you’ve made me laugh this morning.
June 25th, 2007 at 6:45 am
How old are they?
June 25th, 2007 at 6:50 am
Speaking of Thai censorship. I was watching some cheesy Thai series the other day and they was a small shootout in a parking garage between some gangsters and the police. The police guns were not censored but the gangsters guns were censored. Doesn’t make sense to me.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Watch out for Girly Berry new CD soon. The pictures circulating over the net show their video is going to be HOT.
August 12th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Wooooo!
They are so cuuuute and funny.
Half Thai Half Japan sisters (I’m not sure).
Mod (left) is 16 and Four (right) is 21.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Four-Mod now has a international website in English at http://www.four-mod.net
Everyone who likes Four-Mod please come and support!
January 10th, 2008 at 9:23 am
they both really pretty….. and lovelyyyyy….
June 21st, 2008 at 1:11 am
thx 4 making such gr3at3 songz. i just love u guys !!!!!!!!!
August 12th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I don’t agree that all Thai ballads are simply ’soppy’, I think there’s many fine ones. I would agree though that Thai pop music has been very good over the last 10 years, possibly better than anywhere else. There isn’t necessarily great variety in it, but there is excellent craft, good melody and a consistent quality.