Crayon Pop Considered Wearing Tambourines On Their Heads, Juggling On Unicycles For 'Bar Bar Bar' Follow-Up

No one can say the members of Crayon Pop aren't creative.

In an interview last Friday on the South Korean radio program "Cultwo Show," Crayon Pop singer Kim "Ellin" Min Young revealed some of the wild ideas the group had to follow up their now-famous helmets and track suits look in the music video "Bar Bar Bar," which went viral and earned the group international fame.

"It would be a lie if we said we didn't feel any pressure," Ellin said.

The look the Crayon Pop members were searching for, was for their new music video "Uh-ee."

"We had many meetings to decide on our concept," Ellin added.

"So many ideas came out, and one of them was to wear tambourines on our heads. People obviously usually shake tambourines with their hands, but we thought of doing that with our heads. We also thought of juggling while riding a unicycle, but we gave up on that since there was not enough time to learn how to do it."

At least one member of Crayon Pop wasn't used to having to jump through so many hoops in order to get noticed.

During an appearance on the cable talk show "Beatles Code 3D" on Tuesday, Crayon Pop singer Park "So Yul" Hye Kyeong recalled her time in high school where she was voted as being in the top 10 prettiest.

"There would be male students waiting for me outside school," she said. "And on my birthday, there would be a bunch of messages on the wall that read, 'happy birthday Park Hye Kyung.'"

But according to the Wall Street Journal, the group's efforts may be in vain.

An April 2 post by reporter Jonathan Cheng on the paper's Korea Realtime blog, claims Crayon Bar has an tough climb ahead of them with "Uh-ee."

"This being 2014, Crayon Pop has updated their sound with an almost frenetic backbeat, and a far harder-to-replicate dance routine. The costumes, too, a kind of modified traditional Korean summer outfit, could prove more confusing than cute to those outside Korea," Cheng wrote.

"Those limitations alone could make it a tougher sell than 'Bar Bar Bar,' which spurred a wave of tribute videos, especially among the uniformed services, who perhaps saw in the helmeted Crayon Pop as five impossibly chipper fellow travelers."

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