Information collected is aggregated and anonymous.“Hye Ri = fat?! NO WAY!” That’s the thought running through everyone’s minds in the office as Min Suk spams everyone’s mailboxes with the image. These cookies enable us to provide better services based on how users use our website, and allow us to improve our features to deliver better user experience. Marketing Cookies are placed by third-party providers with our permission, and any information collected may be shared with other organizations such as publishers or advertisers. These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. We use the information collected to evaluate and improve the performance of your shopping experience. They also enable use of the Shopping Cart and Checkout processes, assist in regulatory and security issues, measure traffic and visits, and retrieve order information for affiliate commissions. These cookies are required to use core website features and are automatically enabled when you use the site. You can use this interface to enable or disable sets of cookies with varying functions. We use data cookies to store your online preferences and collect information. You can tell that Oh Joon Sung is having fun with the music in many of the score instrumentals as well, like the bossa nova piano piece Cooking Sunday, the fast and frisky piano and string number Working or walking, and the delightful orchestral jam Blue Sky. Who is, a jazzy folk rock number with a touch of retro and trot, is a lot of fun with its alluring mix of deep vocals and mischievous melody. Oh Joon Sung may be adept at producing perfectly pop compositions for other artists, but for his own band Green Cacao, he goes for a completely different sound, though with the same ear for entertainment. The song's dramatic sentiments are softened by a light arrangement and alternating tempo, and magnified by Monday Kiz's beautifully harmonized vocals, which grow in strength and emotional intensity with the song. If Fly High and Give Me deliver the cheer, then the angst is definitely embodied by Goodbye My Princess, an emotional, near perfect ballad that sealed the soundtrack for me. Kim Yoo Kyung's mid-tempo ballad "Have You Ever Been Loved" also makes a good theme for the heroine, its bittersweet lyrics and moody composition brightened by a sprightly arrangement.
Sounding like nineties Britney Spears might not sound like a ringing endorsement but let's face it, we've all got a Britney Spears hit hidden somewhere in our music collection, and this girl power pop anthem from Seo In Young and rookie girl group Nine Muses is pretty much too happy and appropriate for Kim So Yeon's character to dislike. The song that leaves the deepest impression in the drama's early episodes though has to be ending theme Give Me, which completely channels Britney Spears circa 1998. SHINee's fresh vocals and image match the uplifting lyrics and brisk contemporary pop melody, and even the obligatory rap portions fit well into the song thanks to the cheesy background vocals and energetic piano and synth arrangement that set the tone for the piece. Prosecutor Princess's theme song Fly High is as unabashedly trendy and perky as the heroine's fabulous high heels, though it still comes across more subtle than Boys Over Flowers theme Paradise. This balance of bubbly angst and melodramatic lightness is captured in the drama's catchy score and soundtrack crafted by Oh Joon Sung, the music director of Boys Over Flowers. Despite the seriousness of the tragedy, deceit, and romance connecting Kim So Yeon's bumbling but self-aware heroine and Park Si Hoo's flippant, brooding lawyer, Prosecutor Princess doesn't turn to the kind of teary treachery and alarming melodrama that undermine many a Korean drama in the later episodes, and instead reaffirms empathy for and among the characters when the worst is revealed. It follows the Korean drama protocol of starting out fluffy and ending up angsty, but the way the story takes its heroine, a flighty and fashionable public prosecutor who would make Elle Woods proud, down the path of personal growth and emotional awakening is refreshingly warm and perceptive. Out of all the 2010 spring K-Dramas that consumed too much of my time, Prosecutor Princess is the one I was saddest to see end.
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