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acchikocchi) wrote2009-10-03 03:17 pm
acchikocchi) wrote2009-10-03 03:17 pm
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the kpop edition
1. So give me the lowdown on SM Entertainment as a corporation. How do they recruit/train/market/etc., especially in comparison to JE? Info on shady business practices and lawsuits and things of that sort also welcome. XD ...How does the Korean music industry and market compare to the Japanese in general, actually? There is no such thing as tldr in comments here.
2. Favorite Korean artists/songs/albums/music videos? I am woefully ignorant. Pop, not pop, what have you - hit me. (Assume I know basically no one except Park Ji-yoon, since that's... true. Oh, and BoA.)
2. Favorite Korean artists/songs/albums/music videos? I am woefully ignorant. Pop, not pop, what have you - hit me. (Assume I know basically no one except Park Ji-yoon, since that's... true. Oh, and BoA.)
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SuJu's Kim Heechul, who is such an abrasive, eccentric character who spews whatever he's thinking all over his Cyworld consequences be damned, and is so damn loyal to his friends, its really charming lol
I, uh. May have a bias a mile wide in this direction already. Actually, why bother beating around the bush, I ADORE HEECHUL SO MUCH HE IS MY FAVORITE FOREVER AND EVER. ♥_♥ I did not actually come out and say this in the post but this was totally prompted by how, after two and a half years of knowing them and having basic exposure to them, in the space of like a day I fell madly in love with Super Junior and have been rolling gleefully in the shiny glow of a New Fandom all week. Half week. Whatever. Everything they say about the zeal of the recently converted is true. ♥ x infinity
...where was I? Got distracted there. Oh, oh, I didn't realize Trax was a rock band THAT COVERED X JAPAN, that is awesome. They go up to the top of the list. :D :D :D
Seriously, thank you again for everything, this is so fabulous!!
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Also. Also. HEECHUL BIAS, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH, I LOVE YOU FOR LOVING HIM. Heechul is pretty much amazing ALL THE TIME. And ahahaha, I don't know how you resisted the shiny gay that is SuJu for so long, but I'm dying to know what made you fall in love with them in a DAY. XD
Oh, oh, I didn't realize Trax was a rock band THAT COVERED X JAPAN, that is awesome
YOU'VE MADE ME HAPPIER THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW BY SAYING THAT. Actually, Yoshiki from X Japan actually used to produce Trax - I hear he used to be completely in love with Rose (Min Woo) the drummer. XD; They were all total X Japan fanboys beforehand too. It's just a pity they didn't do better in Japan. D:
OH OH OH. But. Also! :D Jay, the lead singer and Heechul have some hard-core BFFery going on! I didn't realise until after I was into both bands, but Heechul was like, Trax's biggest fanboy, and he and Jay used to live together in dorms (along with HanGeng and...Kibum, I believe). Jay actually once said that Heechul "was like his girlfriend" BRB LOL-ING FOREVER.
Last year Jay and Jungmo from Trax did a show together with Heechul and Kangin from SuJu called Band of Brothers which I haven't watched all the way through yet, but was pretty decent. And now Jungmo is working with Sungmin on Oppa Band. So the Suju/Trax collaborations are wonderful and plentiful. :D
>_> I REALLY LOVE TRAX, OK. XD
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re: Trax: skjdl;adjk;ls really?? omg! That basically just multipled by enthusiasm to hear them by a factor of ten. :D Oh Yoshiki, ahaha, I believe it. Aw man, that really is a shame! D:
Clearly this Jay person has excellent taste. :D (see first paragraph. XD) You do a very good job of spiking my interest in this group overall, I am downloading a sampler of their music right now!
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If you ever want any music by Trax, I've got their whole discography and I'm not afraid to share it. XD My love for them is as deep as the ocean.
As for the L in Leeteuk...I don't know for sure, I just have theories lol. It's a stage name anyway (real name is Jungsu, way to make things hard for us haha). It sounds (to me anyway) that it's pronounced 'Eeteuk' but I tend to see it written as Leeteuk on promotional stuff, so I think it's the official romanisation of it, and that's what I go with. I tend to shake it up a bit anyway, depending on what trend fandom is running with at the time (Leeteuk vs Eeteuk, Shiwon vs Siwon, Hankyung vs Hangeng, etc.)
Korean tends to be a bit crazy like that anyway with it's romanisations - I took a Korean history class last year, and we were learning about past presidents of the country and discovered that 'Roh Tae Woo' could also be written as 'Noh Tae Woo', and 'Rhee Syngman' could be 'Yi Seungman' and I was just like, "...s;lkjsdf;j, WHAT IS THIS SHIT."
Do occasionally hear things about new subgroups and expansion wank and kissing attacks. XD
ROFL, think I know who that last one refers to. XD
Also, it saddens me that you were bitterly opposed to K-Pop fandom so long, but I love that you've seen the error of your ways now. YOU SHOULD REALLY FINISH FULL HOUSE, ASAP.
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September 2006 - February 2007: Am bitterly opposed to kpop on principle. XD;
March 2007:
Visit
Me: ................................who - who is the one with the ponytail. *_* (internally, gibbering: he looks like a manga character! one that would be my favorite!)
Cori: So there's this show called Full House I think you should watch.
Me: HE'S SUCH A BRAT, I LOVE HIM. omg this whole show is hilarious. But I'm still not a fan.
Cori: Uh-huh.
March - August 2007:
Drop out of fandom just as I have been weakened and therefore delay my kpop doom by a whole two years. XD
August 2007 - September 2009:
Come back to fandom bursting with love for JE (as Jin had come back somewhere during that period), in complete tunnel vision. Retain fondness for Heechul and the five Suju songs I downloaded before I left but never finish watching Full House (more fool me! XD) and memories become v. hazy. Become once again bitterly opposed to joining kpop fandom on principle. MY MISTAKE. Do occasionally hear things about new subgroups and expansion wank and kissing attacks. XD
A week or so ago:
Flister posts this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4tP1Mk7-kc), I have nothing to do and click. "skdja;sd that's right, I remember how fond I was of him, ahaha. omg what a special snowflake. ♥"
Wednesday - Thursday:
Flister #2 posts this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aqzxpD_KpA). Casually click on it before class. Watch. Watch again. Drool over Siwon. Leave faux-casual comments asking just who is who again? Watch the PV. Watch the PV again. Add Sorry Sorry to my ipod. Drag myself to class. Come home. Spaz at anyone who will listen to me. Comment thread becomes more demanding. Pounce on Wikipedia. Pounce on Youtube. Watch Sorry Sorry, uh, some more. Click from clip to clip to clip. Watch Intimate Note. DIE OF GLEE. Admit that I am well and truly done for.
...And here we are now. Joy. Joy and rapture, I'm telling you. Shiny new fandom ALL FOR ME.