Korean Drama Theme Song Playlist
The sad truth sank in this morning: no new episodes of Kill Me, Heal Me to look forward to. The good news is now I have time to re-watch the good bits. This weekend I made two important discoveries: 1) I figured out why the soundtrack reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock. 2) I realized it’s possible to learn more Korean than I thought from re-watching my favorite scenes.
I’ll post later this week on my new. But today, a little soundtrack love. Note: If you’re thinking of downloading any of these tracks, clicking the iTunes button below will make one or two pennies for K-Drama Today’s hosting costs. Yeah, we still have pennies in the States. I’m not sure why, either.
One reason Kill Me, Heal Me worked for me—and became a favorite—was its bizzarro soundtrack (OST). A distinctive soundtrack can be good or bad. A bland, average K-drama soundtrack doesn’t call attention to itself. But one with personality is one of the first things viewers notice.
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And let’s face it—one woman’s “” is another’s “Love is the Moment.” (Confession: both songs made me regret the invention of modern sound recording.) The Kill Me, Heal Me soundtrack goes for broke. It’s the musical equivalent of Ji Sung running down the street in pink lip gloss and a schoolgirl outfit. It does include a few quiet, elegant pieces of music, including the central vocal tracks. But most of the incidental music sounds like it was written by a mad scientist testing the effects of sound on the human nervous system.
And I mean that in a good way. Kill Me, Heal Me moves back and forth between melodrama, suspense and comedy, and as we go along, the soundtrack tells us what mode we’re in now. Even when the music is aiming for the heartstrings, it puts the moves on us in a complex way. It’s almost what we’re used to, but not quite, like the overlapping female singer and male rapper in the main theme “Hallucination.” Just as I find it hard to imagine this show without Ji Sung, I can’t imagine what it would be like without this tune: But when the music aims to really get us off-kilter, it pulls out deranged stuff like this, the piece called “Kill Me,” #7 (scroll to 7 on the playlist): The central melody here makes me think of Alfred Hitchcock. Fat, late-career Alfred Hitchcock, appearing in profile in the credits of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
If you don’t know the famous Hitchcock theme music, here it is: Why do they sound so similar to me? (It reminds me a bit of the Addams’ Family theme, too. Did I watch too much TV as a kid or what?) My music theory is pretty dodgy so I can’t say for sure. One guess is that both are in an unusual time signature for a television theme: two beats per measure (2/4). You can hear the clear ONE-two-ONE-two even if you aren’t a musician. It’s the rhythm of a march. Most popular music is in common time, or 4/4, so most TV themes are in that time signature too.
When you get to the Kill Me, Heal Me soundtrack, the pop songs and meditative, melancholy background music are all in common time. But whenever they want to change gears radically, they switch to cut time—the fast two beats per measure stuff.
Korean Ost Songs
When the music sounds “kooky,” a big reason it sounds kooky is the swinging two-beat rhythm. And if you have the right sense of humor and you like kooky, it works. The “crazy music” made me notice and appreciate the quieter pieces more I usually do. I particularly like “Manchurian Violet” because of its simplicity and the way it fit into the story’s final turning point. Park Seo-Joon technically has a “better” voice than Ji Sung, but his song on this particular OST isn’t as interesting as Ji Sung’s. And the indy ballad quality of “Violet” fits nicely with Ji Sung’s voice.
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I haven’t figured out the best way to include music clips on the site (YouTube isn’t it) but I couldn’t let the show go without some appreciation to whoever compiled this eclectic, wacky mix of tunes. Buy it from iTunes or YesAsia: Retail Price: $23.99 You Save: $6.00 from: YesAsia.