I don’t want to pile on what is happening currently to this unfortunate K-pop girl’s group, but then again maybe this is really a crafty self-aware case of viral programming and my writing about them is exactly what they would want. As the news cycle confirms over and over again, there is basically no such thing as bad publicity, only no publicity is bad. There is a girl’s group called Six Bomb, which I have never heard of until last week, and likely most people haven’t ever heard of either. They are generating media and fan attention thanks to donning a totally WTF performance outfit that is visually awful to an unprecedented degree.

The four ladies of Six Bomb wear Pepto Bismol pink colored body suits to perform their new single, the melodically dreadful “Wait Ten Years Baby”. They have been likened to hairless pink chickens, or I flashback to the first season of American Horror Story and the latex dude. The accompanying video is also hilariously bad, with awkward choreography and the production values of a low rent high school home video. I laughed so hard sitting through the entire video, and then realized the powers that be who orchestrated this rollout might just be a diabolical genius – instead of the divergent races pitting the sexiest or  the most school girl with the other girl groups, Six Bomb just goes for broke on low budget and aesthetically awkward. Continue reading →