Would you like me to translate the lyrics? The refrain is just "pick me pick me pick me up" on repeat though
It was the theme song for a survival idol talent show called Produce 101, the girls singing were the contestants (101 girls, yup, they went literal) and they were all idol trainees. The viewers ranked the girls with internet votes, the girls who didn't get enough votes for the cut got, well, cut, and the remaining 11 girls who survived the final debuted as a project group (stayed a team only for a year). The lyrics are basically this: We are star wanabees, we need your attention, PICK ME.
The Korean idol industry has tremendously high standards, except for a few rare cases you have to be at least moderately good at singing/rapping (if you can call it rap...) and dancing, be good-looking if not gorgeous, have a personality that can be shown on the screen, et cetera. You start training at least when you're in your teens (you're old in the idol industry if you're over 25) and stay a trainee for an average of 3-4 years until you finally get a chance to have your debut, if you're lucky. The show basically was the extremity of how brutal and harsh the industry is, was a massive hit, and spawned off two sequel shows. The show itself is a topic worthy of a culture studies/sociology thesis, and I'll have to stop here lest I start writing one.
^^^ Oh no!! Did you have to remind me?
that song! I was hoping that Todd would skate to it, & I got my wish. We've seen "Spamalot" three times (once on Broadway, twice on the National Tour)! 
I am also delighted that Keegan Messing skated to it!
"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" - from "Spamalot"
Spamalot?! :shocked:
... SPAMALOT?!
Why not the original?! As performed by the real Monty Python guys as the closing scene of "The Life Of Brian":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep9Vzb6R_58
:disapp:
Totally agree about it being a song that gets stuck in your head for ages after hearing it!
...just like it is with me now!
CaroLiza_fan
While I the song, the funniest song in the show (IMHO) is "You Won't Succeed on Broadway" (... if you don't have any Jews - ). We had no idea that a song like that was coming up in the show!
We saw "Spamalot" on Broadway in 2006. Back then we weren't aware that the song came from the movie "The Life of Brian," which we rented on Netflix a few years later. That final scene, OMG!
