the boys.....where?

Recently, Korean girl group Girl's Generation (aka SNSD) released their new song "The Boys". Now, I've seen many comments and remarks about it. Good or bad aside, my take on this is quite different than everything I've read so far. First of all, in every regular kpopper's knowledge, these nine girls are going to release an album in the US of A around late november. It has been the topic around the block ever since SM-company released the information to the general public, but rather than making statements on whether they will succeed or fail in the States, why not try them out first hand to see if people here will like it? With this in mind, I had my friend and her sister, both had never really been  into the kpop scene and were unaware of what's coming watched the music video in English with subtitles (Notes: one of them is 16 and the other 14years old, and they are both fairly girly). In the beginning, it was suprisinly an incredible dead silence rather than the awkward circumstance I was anticipating. They were obviously amazed and stunned by the strong background music and the pretty asian girls wearing different dresses (in fact, we stopped the video for a little while to pick out our favorites amount them). And then here comes to the girls really singing the song, my friend, just can't help herself but make fun of the little intro-rap Jessica did when she said "GG" which apparently stands for the group's name. With that remark, the girls started doing their thing, dancing while singing, making hand gestures, and looking pretty as usual. My friend and her sister didn't really said anything after the rap, it was only when the little sis brought somethin' up that really got me, "so, they are singing about the boys, but where are the boys?" she asked. The other two of as were like "yeahhhhh, that's a good question." My friend suggested me to fast forward it and see if the boys would show, but not totally suprising, in the end, you see the nine girls ended with signature group post.
"oh, too bad." I said.

In the end, all the comments they made about the mv are either "they all look the same except that girl with the short blonde hair (Sunny, that is)" or "I can barely understand what they were singing but that's all good, the song's quite catchy". After all, it is just another music video that people watched and pass-on perhaps forget about it the next day. So, would they make it in the states being the nine girl foreign group with mmm some dane skill and limited english? (come on! jessica and tiffany, teach other some useful english plz), I honestly don't know. They definitely got there currently strong fanbase globally, but that doesn't mean the majority in United Stated nor people who has absolutely no clue of kpop whatsoever. All I can say is, good luck, SNSD, I like you guys' stuff, but here people likes something called "individuality" and that seems to me the only thing this group is missing at this point right now. Also, the company made a song/mv about "the boys" that have no guys/boys in it, tell me if that would makes any sense to anyone who are just getting to know you.

Take notes, SM-team, take notes.