Male-female vocal collaboration can be a tricky thing.

The best examples in pop music history, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" or Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton on "Islands In The Stream" often have something copasetic, yet completely different about the different voices and the people they inhabit.

Only time will tell if the vocal blend that the three ladies of Orange Caramel and the singer Jung-Yul Kwon of the South Korean indie band 10cm earns them the same level of records sales or acclaim as those legends mentioned above.

The two artist's recent collaboration "Hug Song" entered the Billboard Magazine K-Pop Hot 100 this week at number 12.

But 10cm's re-imaging of their own original, "Hug Song" with Orange Caramel does recall those same dynamic duets of old, if only in the way that it blends because the voices are different, not because they sound the same.

The Orange Caramel And 10cm of "Hug Song" is part of the "re;code" album, a commercially successful project that has featured Geeks and SISTAR's Soyu's doing "Officially Missing You, Too," a duet between INFINITE's Woohyun and Lucia's "Cactus," and Daybreak and Sunny Hill doing "Love Actually," according to the website allkop.

The restrained production is also worth some praise.

There are horns and strings all over "Hug Song" yet the upbeat, anthemic single never gets too overwrought with layers.

Both string and horn arrangements were done with a pleasing touch of class. And that classiness extends to the singing.

Consisting of members Raina, Nana and Lizzy, Orange Caramel ignores the opportunity for vocal showboating in the "Hug Song" remake and instead delivers a sultry vocal reminiscent of Britney Spears at her most irresistibly nasty.

Understated, but with razor sharp harmonies, Orange Caramel's three members puts in a tight vocal performance that you have to hear several times to fully appreciate.

The highlight however, is 10cm's Jung-Yul Kwon.

On the verses, he is pure 1980s British pop-George Michael in his prime or Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon on a bender.

Then in the chorus he channels vintage Michael Jackson in such an uncanny way it is almost startling.

Many teen idols hope to channel the greatness of the gloved one, but Jung-Yul Kwon has clearly put in his MJ time and it shows.

Put all the voices together and it makes for something special.

Check out the music video for "Hug Song" Featuring Orange Caramel And 10cm RIGHT HERE