![]() ![]() ![]() After its release, Lee Gai was kicked out for lying about her age, but the inclusion of Yoon Eun Hye finally stabilized the lineup, and the band went on to have its first chart-toppers with the singles "Get Up" and "Killer," and the third album, Come Come Baby (1999), garnered the group a considerable and loyal fan base in China, as well as recognition in other countries of the region, including the main show biz stronghold of the Far East, Japan. ![]() The new five-person lineup underwent intensive training for a year and returned with a new, more innocent image, presented on the album Ya Ya Ya (1998). The sexy sound and image were heavily borrowed from the Spice Girls, but it didn't catch on with the strict Korean public the debut single "Haircut" and the self-titled album (1997) both underperformed, and the bandmembers began conflicting with each other, which led to sacking "the older generation," and being replaced by Shim Eun, Lee Gai, and Kan Mi Youn. The group has since seen two reincarnations, both aspiring to regional success, but neither topped the original configuration of Baby Vox.īaby Vox (the name meaning "Baby Voice of Xpression") were established in 1997, and initially included Jung Shi Woon, Jang Hyun Jung, and Cha Yu Mi as the older "generation", and Kim E-Z and Lee Hee Jin as the "younger" one. At their peak, Baby Vox topped the charts, shifted millions of units, and enjoyed a collaboration with Jennifer Lopez but being a girl band in conservative South Korea was hard work, and the lineup problems, as well as the general fickleness of pop audiences, didn't help, leading to disintegration of the original lineup of the band in 2006. and FinKL, were the "big three" of Korean all-female pop bands that came in the wake of the Spice Girls, took the country by storm, and resonated throughout all of the Far East. ![]()
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