KpOp & JpOp 2013/02/26
- YG Entertainment's New Girl Group Debut Date Pushed Back to After Summer
Currently it has been confirmed by Star News (They confirmed with various representatives in the music industry) on February 26 that YG Entertainment would push back the debut of the new girl group to after summer.
The confirmed members of the new girl group include Kim Ji Soo who was born in 1995 and Kim Jenny who was born in 1996.
The man himself YG explained why YG Entertainment would be pushing back the debut of the girl group. He stated, "Originally we had planned the new girl group's debut to be in early 2013, we even thought of January. However, due to the fact that Lee Hi, Kang Seung Yoon, G-Dragon, Taeyang, and 2NE1's album release dates have now been confirmed, it was only natural that the girl group debut date would be pushed back."
He continued, "We thought that it would be the right decision to release the new music for the waiting fans. When the YG Entertainment label singers have songs that they like, they will continue to release them throughout early 2013."
YG then ended the interview with, "For these reasons that is why the new girl group's debut has been pushed back. Although it has been delayed, we have more time now to prepare. They will now be able to debut in front of the fans, with even more uniqueness."
Only two members of the girl group have been confirmed by YG Entertainment. Currently, the name of the girl group and also the number of members is still a mystery.
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- Seohyun Reveals Insecurities and Secret Behind Beautiful Figure
Girls' Generation Seohyun recently revealed her secrets on how she maintains her beautiful body! On February 25 she appeared on Mnet's "Wide Celebrity News." To be more accurate, the crew of "Wide Celebrity News" went to visit Seohyun and Sooyoung who were both in the midst of a photoshoot.
The production team of "Wide Celebrity News" was granted an interview with Seohyun and Sooyoung. Both celebrities spoke about the parts of their body that they were insecure of and also secrets on maintaining their perfect shapes.
Sooyoung talked about her insecurity, "I have thick hair. I am envious of people who have thinner hair." Seohyun also stated, "I also have thick hair. My hair is heavy when I am trying to dry it. However, I doubt that I will have to worry about losing hair when I am older."
Sooyoung then stated, "Although I do like dark skin at times, I am envious of bright and light skin." On the other hand Seohyun stated, "I like darker skin. I don't think darker skin would fit me."
Seohyun then revealed how she maintains her figure, "If you do cardio exercise for one hour every morning on an empty stomach, you will feel your body change."
Looks like she is giving sold advice!
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- IU Transforms Into Marilyn Monroe
IU certainly looks great in a classical look! Pictures of IU transforming into Marilyn Monroe were shown for the upcoming KBS 2TV weekend drama "Lee Soon Sin Is the Best."
In the preview of "Lee Soon Sin Is the Best" IU's narration was revealed where she stated, "My name is Lee Soon Sin. People say that life is drama stage. Life is full of happy moments, sad moments, and angry moments. Let's all keep our chins up."
In the revealed pictures, IU is shown wearing a wig like Marilyn Monroe and the iconic white dress. She is also giving off sexy charms with her eyes.
"Lee Soon Sin Is the Best" will begin broadcasting on March 9. This drama will fill in the time slot for "My Daughter Seo Young."
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- Daesung Reveals More Teaser Videos for Upcoming Solo Japanese Album
With Daesung's solo Japanese album just a few days away from release, two commercial spots have been revealed on Big Bang's official YouTube channel.
Known as D-Lite in Japan, his album "D'scover" is set for release later this week on February 27. Many of the songs included are actually remakes of popular Japanese songs. In addition, Japanese versions of his past solo tracks "Wings" and "Baby Don't Cry" are also included.
In the second video, we get a short preview of each of the songs from his album. Earlier this month, Daesung also revealed his music video for "Singer's Ballad."
TV Spot
Special Trailer
Album Tracklist
1. Sunny Hill / original song by Do As Infinity
2. Love / by Hata Motohiro
3. Singer's Ballad / by Saito Kazuyoshi
4. Powerful Boy / by Sukima Switch
5. Hello / by Ayaka
6. Joyful / by Ikimono-gatari
7. Like Overflowing with Kindness / by JUJU
8. Missing You Now / by MISIA
9. The Flower Bud Of My Dream / by Remioromen
10. Baby Don't Cry (JP Version) / Original
11. Wings (JP Version) / Original
Special Collab Track feat. VERBAL (m-flo):
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- Joo Won's Home and Childhood Photo Revealed
Actor Joo Won's home and childhood photo have been receiving a lot of attention.
On yesterday's episode of KBS's "1 Night 2 Days," the members stayed close to home, opting to tour Suwon Hwaseong Fortress just on the outskirts of Seoul.
During their trip, the members decided to visit Joo Won's home in Suwon. As they were touring his home, Joo Won revealed that he lived in the same house for over ten years and showed off his room. As shown in the clip, Joo Won's room was full of posters, trophies, props, and scripts from his dramas like "Level 7 Civil Servant," "Bridal Mask," and more. The members were especially drawn to Joo Won's childhood picture, which he took with his older brother.
The photo showed a slightly chubbier Joo Won with a fuller face, and his fellow "1N2D" members playfully commented, "His brother looks more like a celebrity [than Joowon]."
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- BoA Fascinates Female Viewers With Funky Fashion Statement
SM Entertainment's representative judge definitely thought out of the box when she was looking for a fashion statement!
On February 24, SBS's survival audition program "K-Pop Star 2" aired its first live episode.
On this day, many viewers tuned in and spotted BoA's interesting ear fashion accessory. It's a type of ear cuff, one of several varieties of non-pierced earrings, which wraps around the outer cartilage. She sports a blue cubic ear cuff, which successfully shows off her individual personality. After this episode aired, "BoA's earrings" quickly climbed up the search engine rankings.
Some of the netizen comments included, "How did BoA where that thing on her ear?" "I want to try wearing that too!" "I guess it's because BoA's wearing it that it looks pretty."
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- SHINee Reveals Their "Dream Girl" Comeback Showcase
SHINee, having made their "Dream Girl" comeback performances this past weekend, have now also revealed their comeback showcase on SM Entertainment's YouTube channel. The event, which was held at on February 20 at Olympic Handball Stadium in Seoul, featured performances of their new tracks and special talk segments.
According to the video's description, "The 3rd album is released in two packages: Chapter 1. 'Dream Girl-The misconceptions of you' and Chapter 2. 'Dream Girl-The misconceptions of me', and Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 have hidden keywords organically related with each other that the album gives the fun of finding and connecting keywords and interpreting them in a variety of ways, and it also satisfies the diversity that a full-length album can have, the story-like element, the fun of listening, and even the value of the album itself."
It continues on to say "The title song, 'Dream Girl', is the most SHINee-like song in acid electro funk genre and is a work of Shin Hyuk who is famously known as the producer of the worldwide pop star, Justin Bieber, and his team of composers, Joombas Music Factory. The exquisite combination of the charming voices of SHINee and the thrilling melody is impressive, and with the wonderful performance that only SHINee can give, it will definitely capture the eyes and ears of the music fans."
Intro + Talk
"Aside"
Talk 2
"Beautiful"
"Dream Girl"
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- Krystal Looks Like a Spring Goddess on Her Recent Selca
Recently on February 22 on her me2day, group f(x)'s member Krystal uploaded a set of four photo along with a short message, "Spring is coming soon."
In the pictures, Krystal has her long straight hair down and gazes at the camera with a beautiful smile. She is wearing a jacket with colorful patterns. With her flawless skin and lovely eyes, Krystal looks like a goddess of spring.
Netizens that saw these pictures admired, "She looks so pretty with her adorable smile," "I guess spring is really coming," "A real goddess announcing the upcoming spring."
Meanwhile, Krystal recently graduated from Han Rim High School on February 7. To celebrate, some of the other members of f(x), Amber, Luna, and Victoria, appeared to her graduation ceremony and performed "Electric Shock."
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- Hello Venus Holds First Fan Meeting and Sheds Tears
Girl group Hello Venus recently held their first fan meeting since their debut on February 24. 200 fans attended the event.
For 2 hours and a half, fans had a chance to get to know members of Hello Venus more intimately at the Seoul Hong-dae V-Hall where the "Hello Venus 1st Mini Fan Meeting I'm Your Venus" was held.
The girls gave a mini-concert, where they performed songs such as "Venus," "What are you doing today?" and "Like A Wave" as well as solo performances and sub-unit group performances to boot.
They also prepared a surprise event for fans where they held paper hearts and shared moments of their career so far that had moved them deeply, often shedding tears.
Hello Venus stated, "Even though it hasn't been a year since we've made our debut, we're grateful to all of our fans who have allowed this fan meeting to become a reality. We hope we could do this more often."
Once the tickets to Hello Venus's first fan meeting went on sale, they were completely sold out.
Hello Venus will be holding fan sign events as Busan and Daejeon on March 1st to further interact with their growing fan base.
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- B.A.P Teaches Their Manly Dance Moves from "One Shot"
For the latest episode of LOEN's Let's Dance, the members of B.A.P showed off their manly choreography for their latest hit "One Shot."
Step one of their dance is "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," which incorporates a lot of arm movements along with a jump. Following that, they show how to do the song's signature "push up dance." The last part is the "flower bud dance." B.A.P puts it all together with the music at the end and shows off the complete main choreography of the song.
Himchan, who is not present in the video, fractured his finger before their comeback and is still recovering. Let's hope he gets well soon!
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- Brave Brothers Releases MV for "You Got Some Nerve" feat. Junhyung, Feeldog and LE
Brave Brother's project single "You Got Some Nerve" featuring BEAST's Junhyung, Bigstar's Feeldog and EXID's LE has finally been released.
Over the last few days, teasers for each of the three rappers were revealed. This hip-hop number holds lyrics about a couple who explains their respective side of the story after getting into a fight. It is said that Yong Junhyung and LE took part in writing the lyrics to this song.
While the song was originally set to have a 19+ rating due to its profane lyrics, it was later changed to 15+ rating to have it accessible to younger fans. Due to this sudden chance, Brave Brothers was accused of noise marketing.
Despite these noise marketing accusations, "You Got Some Nerve" climbed to the top of the music charts on the day of its release. Brave Brother's other hit song "Gone Not Around Any Longer" is currently battling "You Got Some Nerve" in many of these music charts.
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- Boy Group Tritops Does Acoustic Cover of SHINee's "Dream Girl"
It's a great compliment when another boy group covers your own song!
On February 24, Tritops entertainment company uploaded a video of the group doing a special cover of SHINee's newest track "Dream Girl" on their official YouTube channel. They rearranged the track to show off the members' vocal talents. A member of Tritops plays the guitar and all the members participate in creating neat harmonies often heard in SHINee's previous songs.
All netizens were full of praise with their rendition. Some even went to the extent that they sing the song better than SHINee while other fans vote that the two different styles can't be compared.
Meanwhile, Tritops released their latest single "Too Foolish for You" on February 20.
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- Infinite's Woo Hyun to Sing Duet With Female Indie Singer
Great news, Infinite fans!
Infinite's Woo Hyun will collaborate with female indie artist Lucia and their duet song "Cactus" will be released on February 27.
This will be the second project from "Re:Code," which is being planned and produced by Loen Entertainment. The project concept is to take tracks from skillful underground artists and arrange them in a way to encourage mainstream exposure. The underground artists will collaborate with popular artists, who will lend their voices to the newly arranged tracks. The first project "Officially Missing You," a collaboration between Sistar's Soyu and hip hop artist Geeks, was met with great success.
"Cactus" is a well-loved song by fans who are into the indie genre. The mature lyrics describe the heartache of ending a relationship and how the ego is figuratively like a cactus. Woo Hyun's fresh and mature voice will be a great match with Lucia's airy and slightly husky voice.
Soompiers, are there any indie artists you wish who could have more mainstream exposure?
Check out the video below and Pastel Music's official youtube channel if you're interested in Lucia's voice and want to broaden your K-Pop music knowledge.
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- Teen Top Releases Comeback MV "Miss Right" and First Full Album "No.1″
Teen Top makes their first comeback this year with the release of their first full album "No.1." and the music video for their title track "Miss Right" today.
"Miss Right" is a fresh track with an easy to remember melody line. After releasing a few teasers that showed off a darker image, it was surprising to see them end up with a colorful music video and playful choreography.
Their album contains a total of 12 tracks and features various genres ranging from hip-hop, ballad, to R&B.
Comeback message.
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- beatutifulwoman: Ayaka Sayama
- Why Japanese fall out of love with their pin-up idols goo Ranking has a survey that shines a little bit of light in a corner of Japanese culture that gives me the willies, quite frankly, with a look at why people fall out of love with a liked idol.
Demographics
Over the 9th and 10th of January 2013 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.4% of the sample were female, 8.5% in their teens, 14.1% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 27.1% in their forties, 10.4% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
The idol culture (note that both boys and girls can be idols) is a bit scary at times, in particular the grown men who chase AKB48. From a female point of view, I would guess that Takarazuka Revue stars would be considered idols.
Ranking result
Q: What caused your heart to wander from your liked idol? (Sample size=1.072)
Rank Score
1 I found a different hobby that I could get more into 100
2 I fell in love with a different idol 96.9
3 The songs were no longer the kind I liked 69.9
4 There were reports that my idol was badly-behaved 68.0
5 My real life got busy and I could no longer chase my idol 58.7
6 I fell in love in real life so my idol dropped to second place 46.7
7 I felt I was too old to be chasing idols 46.3
8 I found out my idol had a lover 43.6
9 My idol changed their image and it no longer suited me 28.2
10 My idol hit the big time so they were no longer mine alone 26.6
11 I saw my idol in concert, etc, and felt they weren't putting their heart into it 15.4
12 I saw my idol at a meet the public event but they were cold 13.5
13 I realised how much money I was spending chasing my idol 12.7
14 My idol left the group they were in 11.6
15 It became difficult to get tickets for my idol's events so I could no longer meet them 10.0!
16 I no longer liked the way they were selling my idol's CDs 7.7
17 My idol was curt when I shook their hand 7.3
18 My idol stopped doing meet-and-greets 6.6
19 I realised we would never be a couple 6.2
20 People around me teased me for being an idol fan 4.2
Source: http://whatjapanthinks.com/?p=5400
Judging 8, 10 & 19 so hard. XP - beatutifulwoman: Aya Takigawa
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