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K-Pop Fanboy/Fangirl |OT6| Thank You for Love
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Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Youngji is too good in this. This is the kind of thing I always wanted to see Sohee do.[Choreography] GUHARA(구하라_ How About Me?(어때?) (Feat. Hur Young Ji(허영지
Why the hell wasn't this the lead single? Choco Chip Cookies is garbo, but this is awesome. And Young Ji's rap parts are surprisingly good.
Oh, so that's why there were so many people endlessly bitching about portrait videos?
Apparently Android only got the feature in the YouTube app a couple of days ago too.
But vertical video sucks really. It doesn't display well on anything but phone screens (And even then YouTube only supports it now). Only time it's okay is for fancams in order to keep the focus on one subject.
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Tiffany's tattoo makes another appearance.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I'm pondering the "It's just henna" reaction, everytime an idol gets a tattoo. It happened for Tiffany, and it happened with Taeyeon. Other k-pop places, always light up with comments about how it's henna and how it's just for a comeback or whatever...
I'll never get it lol.
Idols aren't allowed to have tattoos, they have to be pristine and perfect!
/s
Some weird people don't get how attractive a good tattoo is and are just in denial whenever an idol gets one.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
neoism
Member
neoism
Member
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Party promotions ended
Well from the teasers, we know Lionheart is even worse than Party (which is a goddamn feat by itself), but You Think sounded amazing...Can't they skip to that one already?
Vertical videos are great when you rotate your monitor 90 degrees ahah. Perfect for Ikaruga and Cao Lu.
[Choreography] GUHARA(구하라
Why the hell wasn't this the lead single? Choco Chip Cookies is garbo, but this is awesome. And Young Ji's rap parts are surprisingly good.
Edit: page topper gif
Will that be a second single or just something that gets performed a few times on music shows a couple minutes and that's it? Really is 8000 times better than the single.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
No I mean other k-pop forums. There's still people right now, saying it's a sticker. I didn't mean anyone in the thread.
Party promotions ended
But bring Lionheart and You Think!
Lionheart kinda sucks, but You think looks solid.
Oh cool, where'd you hear the full song?
jongkookie
Member
This is pretty fncking sad:
Why couldn't DreamTea buy Pledis instead of YMC(Ailee's agency)? AFAIK, they're not broke whatsoever.
Why couldn't DreamTea buy Pledis instead of YMC(Ailee's agency)? AFAIK, they're not broke whatsoever.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Fuck. Lizzy's like one of the most likable people in K-pop too. Depressed idols suck so much. After School is so damn good too. Bang and Flashback are some of the best damn tracks I've heard in the genre...No idea how Pledis fucked that up. Sacking Kahi and Bekah is the one step, they should have never took with them...then again, they fucked up the promotions for EVERY one of their groups.
vas_a_morir
Banned
that -ugh- feeling when a k-pop video shows up on gaf outside the k-pop gaf thread. Must be what j-pop gaf goes through when someone makes a baby metal thread.
Anyway: I hear the girl I'm secretly having cheating on Yura with in my mind, isn't fake blonde anymore (weirdly don't like real blondes) I will remember it well.
Need a source on this gif, please.
Valkerionseven
Member
No clue, guess its an ad or something since there is one for all the members. Found it on tumblr
jongkookie
Member
Easy. Look up their 13 member boy group called 17 or whatever.
IIRC they've been training for the last 4 years and were hoping to be the next SuJu. But of course, Pledis ain't SM and even back then they didn't have deep pockets to consistently train people. I believe 17 just became a sunk cost thing, in that they already spent money on them anyway, might as well try to recoup as much as possible instead of just flushing everything down the toilet.
vas_a_morir
Banned
yeah.... that girl's body is out of control. holy shit.
I've been going between having that and Remember stuck in my head all week.
Love the new Primary.
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Stellar honestly open up about why they had no choice but to go the sexy route
Sad, more at the link.
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Stellar honestly open up about why they had no choice but to go the sexy route
Sad, more at the link.
superseohyun
Member
broz0rs
Member
http://www.soompi.com/2015/07/24/ta...-gb-of-evidence-against-malicious-commenters/
I don't know whether I should admire @flying_petals or think he/she is absolutely insane.
I don't know whether I should admire @flying_petals or think he/she is absolutely insane.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
The agency sure seems to have a good ear for music, lol.
Getting help from Sweetune back then might have been a good idea.
Shame about how things went with Mask, and while they might be right to some extent about people paying attention/investigating with a sexy concept, it seems they are ignoring everything else as if it doesn't impact on how much people care about a new group.
Because of Sewol earlier in the year, pretty much everyone was coming out around then, including massive debuts and comebacks. It already wasn't a time to be moderate in both concept and music as a group that isn't big yet, but then Ladies Code had their accident in the middle of it and I think the gravity of that only left room emotionally for established favorites.
At that time Bestie also didn't do well with 니가 필요해, a legitimately great song, but I don't think it was because it lacked shocking erotic imagery. EXID came out with super-banger 위아래 and it took 4 months to catch on, and that's half because of a viral fancam. When kpop moves as a collective, you just have to know what your rank is to know if you'll be glossed over among the pack or not.
It is sad to see girls who aren't into it work like this, though. Rainbow would do sexy concepts for attention but their personalities are like "you're damn right we go sexy for attention, what's wrong with that?" or you get someone like Hyosung who seems to just enjoy connection with the public and doesn't give a shit what accomplishes it, and if AOA doesn't enjoy being sexy, they are amazing actors. That's all fine, but it's uncomfortable when the girls are.
No surprises with Stellar. Like I mentioned when the Vibrato MV came out, I seem to recall them saying that the concept made them uncomfortable and that's why I couldn't get behind all the "SLAY" comments about Vibrato. It's not slaying when it's exploitive and the performers aren't comfortable. Gayoung's comment about being to ashamed to upload the teaser picture to her social media sites is really telling, very sad that they've been forced into this position by their company and they seem to be in a position where they've just had to accept that this is how it has to be done.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
In other news, Sonamoo sure goes hard with their choreo. So much energy and pop. It really adds a lot.
Also WANNA.B is doing their best to channel some of that hidden After School for us.
But getting back to Stellar, lets be real, their level of talent does somewhat limit their options. Like, look at Poten here and tell me Ladies Code wouldn't have been able to sell that at least 5x harder, and not in Stellar's wildest dreams would they be able to do Um Oh Ah Yeh justice. Not to say there aren't any options for them, but if you want to catch attention without sexiness you need the talent to be attention-grabbing.
Also WANNA.B is doing their best to channel some of that hidden After School for us.
But getting back to Stellar, lets be real, their level of talent does somewhat limit their options. Like, look at Poten here and tell me Ladies Code wouldn't have been able to sell that at least 5x harder, and not in Stellar's wildest dreams would they be able to do Um Oh Ah Yeh justice. Not to say there aren't any options for them, but if you want to catch attention without sexiness you need the talent to be attention-grabbing.
150724 Z.HERA (지헤라 - XOX (feat. Euaerin (이유애린) @ 뮤직뱅크 Music Bank
I like this girl, promoting both Dal Shabet and 9muses.
Also, #Erine4UnprettyRapstar
I wonder how many of the non Taeyeon avatars from this thread have been reported
- XOX (feat. Euaerin (이유애린) @ 뮤직뱅크 Music BankI like this girl, promoting both Dal Shabet and 9muses.
Also, #Erine4UnprettyRapstar
I wonder how many of the non Taeyeon avatars from this thread have been reported
IU is too OP. They have to nerf her somehow.
Please dont tell anyone, but Im close friends with Taeyeon, so she let me listen to it a few days ago.
That's a really interesting interview. I'd assumed that Fool was the group's idea and that Vibrato was effectively the agency's reaction to Fool's failure but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Evidently Fool was all the agency's doing and while the genesis of Vibrato is less clear cut, it appears to have stemmed more from the members themselves reluctantly facing the realities of the market rather than the agency demanding a return to a sexy concept.
It's rather a sorry state of affairs but obviously a change in direction towards sexier concepts has worked wonders for the careers of Girl's Day and AOA. I guess I can only hope that Stellar's current discomfort works out for them in the long run.
Having said that, some members of the group do appear to be less uncomfortable about this sort of thing than others. Jeon Yul, for example. She seems to be more on the IDGAF end of the spectrum:
On a separate note, I'm surprised they didn't even have proper access to a practice room (or their own vehicle, or dorm) until after the modest success of Marionette.
I mean I get what you mean, and I would love it if IU had full control over what she did for the song too but at the end of the day it's a collaboration and I think JYP put it well in that she's able to do the music she's good at doing whenever but this is a chance to see a different side of her that she may be unable to show otherwise. I think it was one of the funniest parts of the episode.
As to why we haven't seen any other groups having to do that, well no other groups put in a "complaint" that their ideas on the genre of the song were clashing (Yet, I mean, since this was at the very end of the episode so we haven't even seen what complaints the other groups have made about each other).
It's all in the name of fun at the end of the day and it wasn't like "Oh you have to do EDM now", even Myungsoo wasn't saying that in the final interview.
Hopefully they can come to a mutual agreement on the tone of the song, but I do agree the less tacked on EDM the better.
The clashes between partners is some of the most entertaining stuff in these specials, I cracked up when Jaesuk immediately turned down JYP's demo song, telling him to save it for his album and make a song with a faster BPM. His obsession with fast BPM is hilarious.
Sungah fancams!!
The adorablest
Hurt locker
Drama
Dolls
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BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (두준 Teaser)
BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (준형 Teaser)
BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (현승 Teaser)
BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (기광 Teaser)
BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (요섭 Teaser)
BEAST(비스트 - 예이 (YeY) (동운 Teaser)
This sounds hype.
[ENG SUB] Shabet On Air # 40 - "Dal★Shabet [JOKER IS ALIVE] First Fan Signing"
샤벳 방송 - EP 49 (Shabet On Air Episode 49)
Gaeun filming the XOX MV (and forgetting the lyrics).
GFriend (여자친구 - 하늘 아래서 (Under The Sky)
Gfriend >>>>>>> Lovelyz
The adorablest
Hurt locker
Drama
Dolls
_______
BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (두준 Teaser)BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (준형 Teaser)BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (현승 Teaser)BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (기광 Teaser)BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (요섭 Teaser)BEAST(비스트
- 예이 (YeY) (동운 Teaser)This sounds hype.
[ENG SUB] Shabet On Air # 40 - "Dal★Shabet [JOKER IS ALIVE] First Fan Signing"
샤벳 방송 - EP 49 (Shabet On Air Episode 49)
Gaeun filming the XOX MV (and forgetting the lyrics).
GFriend (여자친구
- 하늘 아래서 (Under The Sky)Gfriend >>>>>>> Lovelyz
and A-Stink.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
You know I always focused on Minha, best Hyuna and Kyungri in Nine Muses, but the more I see of Sungah, the more I think I've made a terrible mistake. She's like this mixture of pure classiness, with Youngji levels of adorbs and fuzzies.
Sure she should find something that fits for the occasion, challenge herself, and that's what was good about the 2nd song compared to the first. Ruining that funky thing with EDM farts would be disastrous, and the PMS screaming EDM sounds joke is running thin after three episodes of it. But yeah hopefully the vote thing was all for show.
