South Korea's World Cup babe has released her first album. While she was cheering up the South Korean national team of Guus Hiddink, the Dutch trainer. Mina was spotted by a few of the photographers during the 2002 soccer World Cup. Little did she know that only a few months after the World Cup she would become a big hit in South Korea. She's good looking, fine, cute and pretty. What about her song talent, writing skills and feeling for rhythm? Let's find out in this review...
South Korea became 4th during the Soccer World Cup of 2002, a splendid achievement for an Asian country. During the WC there were a few photographers with good zoom lenses took a lot of shots of this Korean beauty, and here her national fame started. Mina is just a regular Girl who became popular out of nowhere. She is 25 years old, 1,67 meters long (5,5) and pretty sexy.
After her popularity rose in South Korea, it was evidently that she became a singer right away. Mina already was connected to the music industry, she has been a backdancer for some Korean artist called "Park Ji Yoon". J Company, her Korean entertainment company signed Mina. And after some delay with her album it was released in December.
Lets' talk about the album: The "Intro" and "Middletro" are definitely the best tracks on the album, it's not because she's not singing on this track, but they're catchy and sound trendy with a bit of the 2step/garage feeling. The main title "Answer the Phone" is a typical Korean Dance/Jazz song, with a dance beat and kind of awkward vocals, this song is her first single released with a music video. The music video is really professionally done by J Company. The choreography in the video is very upspeed but still right and cool.
My favourite song on this album is definitely "Accident", a ballad with the right speed and samples. The thing that bothers me here is Mina's pronounciation of the letter S, maybe it's because of the Korean language or words. Don't know about that. The other songs are all upbeat dance songs, with Mina's unique voice, but not really worth it to buy the CD.
So my opinion, on the contrary to what some people may think of Mina, this CD isn't that worse. Getting attention through dressing with tank tops (or none) doesn't say she can't sing. The thing is that she's really pretty, she almost looks like the perfect Anime character. And real pretty people that sing are just looked down upon. I'm convinced that the 10$ are worth for buying the CD, if it's not only for the most provocative CD cover of Korea. 
The Tracklisting of Rendezvous
01 - Intro
02 - Something Happened
03 - Answer the Phone
04 - Dreams Come True
05 - All the Days of the Week
06 - Middletro
07 - Butterfly
08 - Who's Gonna Look
09 - I'll Do Whatever I Want
10 - It's a Problem
11 - Accident
Links
Video - Mina 1st - Answer the Phone Buy the album online @ YesAsia.com
