The modern-day Queen of Trot’s fourth album actually strays
a bit from the genre in her appellation. There’s very little trot on this
album, in favor of a wide variety of styles. The title song, “Jang Yoon-Jeong
Twist” shows Jang paying homage to the 1960’s dance craze, and the club tracks “Sudden
Grinding” and “Tiptoe Tiptoe” have very little in common with Korea’s
traditional foxtrot music. There are upbeat pop songs in “Try to Catch Me” and “I
Need a Man,” slow ballads in “I Am Anxious,” “Once Again,” and “The Life of a
Woman,” (that last title not a rendition of the Lee Mi-Ja classic), and even a
Korean-language cover of “One Night Only” from Dreamgirls. Like most of Jang’s albums, it’s all over the map
stylistically, but the material is strong and her vocals tie it together
cohesively.
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| Cover art via ManiaDB |
