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''(That's just the way I like it, don't wanna be somebody else)

''If you could understand, why it's never enough

''(I'm gonna make it happen, who says there can't be girls on top?)''|'''[[Boa]]''', "Girls On Top"}}

[[BoaBoA]] is Kwon Bo-ah, an immensely successful Korean pop star who has been branded "The Korean Britney" by her fans and the media alike. She is most well known for her catchy music as well as her crazy dance skills and her ability to sing live decently while doing said dancing. She has sold upwards of 25 million albums in Asia alone and is only rivaled by Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki in terms of overall album sales.

Born Kwon Boa on November 20, 1986, she was raised in the Gyeonggi-do province of South Korea and initially had no interest in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry. That all changed when she was scouted by Korean entertainment company SME at a talent search that she accompanied her brother to. SME saw what they were looking for in the then 11-year-old [[BoaBoA]]; a young star who would allow Korea to break into the fickle and often closed-off entertainment industries in both Japan and in the United States. After two years of training she released her debut effort, titled ''ID; Peace B''. The album was a success and paved the way for her to pursue a career in the Japanese music industry. Two years after her Korean debut she released her debut Japanese album, ''Listen To My Heart''. The album was a success and [[BoaBoA]] quickly became one of the premiere pop idols of Japan, being the first non-Japanese Asian singer to have two million-selling albums in Japan (''Valenti'' and her best-of album ''Best Of Soul''). She also went on to become one of only two artists in Japan to top the Oricon weekly album charts six consecutive times (the other artist being [[Ayumi Hamasaki]]).

In 2009 SME decided that it was finally time to break into the U.S. market; they chose [[BoaBoA]] as the flagship artist for their new American label. [[BoaBoA]] collaborated with high-profile producers such as Bloodshy & Avant and Sean Garrett during the recording process. She released her English-speaking debut in 2009 to less-than-stellar reviews and even worse sales; the album stalled on the Billboard charts and was unable to sell even 10,000 copies. The three singles from the album became minor hits on Billboard's Club Airplay charts but it soon became apparent that [[BoaBoA]]'s stateside debut was a bust.

[[BoaBoA]] returned to Japan to release her seventh Japanese studio album ''Identity'' in 2010; the album didn't fare much better on the charts than her English album did though. However, she experienced a slight resurgence in her career when it was announced that she would release her first album of Korean music in five years later that fall. ''Hurricane Venus'' went on to spawn a number one hit with the title track and would go on to be the highest-selling album from a solo artist that year.

Although her first attempt at success in the American music market didn't go that well, it seems like [[BoaBoA]] may be getting another shot at fame, thanks in large part to the growing presence of K-Pop in the U.S. She is currently slated to appear in a dance-themed movie titled ''COBU 3D'' in 2012 and a new English-speaking album is rumored to be in the works if all goes well.

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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: [[BoaBoA]] is also a backronym for "Beat of Angel."

** She had issues with this when she began to promote her English debut...she quickly found out that [[BoaBoA]] also stood for Bank of America...she was rather annoyed.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: [[BoaBoA]], like so many other Asian pop stars, is very guilty of this trope, whether it be her Korean music or her Japanese music. It even crosses over into her English debut as there are a couply of oddly-worded parts throughout.

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: At 5'2" [[BoaBoA]] is pretty petite, so a lot of the time she's dwarfed by her male dancers.

* [[Old Shame]]: When giving an interview for a U.S. website during promotion for her ''[[BoaBoA]]'' she seemed genuinely embarrassed when the interviewer showed a clip of her "Valenti" video.

* [[The Patriarch]]: [[BoaBoA]] mentions her father in "Our Love: To My Parents" from her ''Made In Twenty'' album.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Officially [[BoaBoA]]'s name is stylized so that the "A" is capitalized due to the fact that 1) her Korean name is Kwon Bo A, Bo+A is [[BoaBoA]] and 2) it's a backronym.

* [[Stage Name]]: She goes by [[BoaBoA]] when on stage.

* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: The video for "Hurricane Venus" features a feather-clad [[BoaBoA]] entrapped in a cage while several men dressed in red-feathered jackets fly at her cage and seemingly attack it. Cut to the occasional non-sequitur dance segment and yeah, that's pretty much the vid. I don't get.

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