Well, so far
I haven't maintained a weekly update with this, but I will try to do it
more often. I truly need to remember to schedule my postings when I am
too busy to do them timely, haha.
Martin VS SHINee
Today, I introduce Martin.
Martin (Martin Hoberg Hedegaard) was the very first winner of the
Danish series of the show, X Factor. He is also credited as the youngest
winner of the competition. Honestly, I stumbled upon this by looking
for English subtitled music videos. I am glad that I have. His debut
studio album, Show the World, was released by Sony BMG in 2008 and went 3x platinum.
SHINee is a South Korean boy band (well, they were... they have of course grown up a bit) who did a cover of Show the World, called Love Like Oxygen, on their album The Shinee World soon after the release of Martin's single. Although it is a cover, the lyrics and the message is different.
I
felt it would be appropriate to include SHINee in today's music battle
since they have a comeback on the horizon. Soon they will release their
new single, Dream Girl. I will post more about it in an upcoming update!
We all know
that there are many songs throughout time that share the same melody,
beat, or even the same song all together. In my search for such music, I
wanted to share these songs with you! I hope to make this a weekly or
biweekly feature ^^ (I am slightly aware that I could run out of songs quickly, haha)
Duffy VS Girls Generation
Duffy's Mercy, released in 2008 from her album Rockferry. Her song was even performed on Glee.
I even get to hear this song played almost daily at work. Don't get me wrong, I really like the song, so I am not complaining.
Although it has been a major hit, the song wasn't bought by only one record company....
Girls Generation released their album, I Got A Boy, January 1st of this year (2013, in case you are like me and still writing the wrong year a month into it). Dancing Queen...
n,o not any relation to ABBA song whatsoever... is one of the tracks.
While I find the song pretty fun and catchy, the music video just
doesn't do much for me. These girls, er.. um... women, are in thier 20's
now. Is so much aegyo (acting cute/playful) really necessary?! What
happened to 'Girls bring the boys out'? I absolutely love Girls
Generation, but they can't stay 'girls' forever.
Let me know what you think of the songs, and um... the music video. :P
Ok,
so after quite a hiatus from blogging I am back. The holiday time is
such a busy time for me, so please accept my apology for the lack
thereof.
I got up before the crack of dawn so I could
watch the live broadcast online of the MAMAs (MNet Asian Music Awards)
for those who don't know, it is like the VMA or MTV music awards of
Asia. The biggest award event of the year for these artist.
Four
and a half hours later, here I am. For anyone who is interested in
watching they are replaying the awards now... wish I would have known
that... I would have watched the replay and gotten more sleep haha. Here
is the link to watch the 2012MAMA performances. Not only will you see some great K-pop performances, but also performances by Adam Lambert and B.o.B.
Indeed I was one to vote this year. I am pleased with the results. Some of which include:
Best Solo Dance Performand: PSY, Gangnam Style
Best Female Group: SISTAR
Beat Male Group: BIG BANG
Best Collaboration Performance: Trouble Maker
MNet PD's Choice: B.A.P (YESSIR!!) As much as I would have liked to see them win more I am happy they received an award)
Best Dance Performance Male Group: SHINee (YAYYYYYY!!!!!!)
Best Dance Performance Female Group: f(X)
International Favorite Artist: PSY
Best Music Video: PSY, Gangnam Style
New Asian Artist: EXO (I really wanted B.A.P to win this one... but I like EXO too)
Style in Music: Gain
Guardian Angel Worldwide Performer: BIG BANG!!!!!
Best Rap Performance: Epik High
Best Male Artist: G-Dragon (of BIG BANG) Get ya Crayon!!!!
Best Line Award: SUPER JUNIOR!!!!!!!!!!!! <3
Best Global Female Group: KARA
Best Global Male Group: SUPER JUNIOR!!!!!!! (OH YEAH!!!!!)
And the grand prizes:
Artist of the Year: BIG BANG (!!!!!!!!!!!! just wish I coulda seen them in concert earlier this month TT.TT)
Album of the Year: SUPER JUNIOR, Sexy, Free & Single (YESSSSSS!!!!!!)
Song of the Year: PSY, Gangnam Style (Op, op, op, oppan Gangnam style!!!!)
I would have loved to see TVXQ win an award and for SHINee to win another... and Block B!!!
As always BIG BANG had a FANTASTIC performance. I have to say one of the best performances for the event.
So much is going on and there is so much that I have missed updating on... I hope to get a recap written ASAP!
For those of you who haven't seen the exclusives on my blog, I am taking a moment to combine and share them here. :P
Has anyone else seen this yet? I woke up today to surf the net before
starting the day and THIS is what I see... WTF! Yeah, its Tosh, so I
shouldn't be surprised, but I must say that it seems a lot of fans are
pretty pissed off... Fans of B.A.P that is.
Needless
to say, there is racist banter back and forth in the comments of the
blog and fans voicing their disgust over peoples comments (and Tosh in
general, but what's new there?), among other responses.
I
have seen enough of Tosh.0 to know that no matter what they do, they
push the limits. Sexist, racist, rapist... regardless the topic, he is
going to make a joke out of it. That is one of the harsh realities of
the comedy world.
In all honesty, I don't approve of
the use of this image for his caption challenge because I am a big kpop
fan myself, but that doesn't change anything. Its already done and the
ethnic bickering has begun. I would rather people who don't know who
they are to not find out about them in this way.
But hey, it coulda been worse.
Like other fans of the group, I hope that if B.A.P sees this that they will take it lightly and know it is a joke.
If you want to read the growing list of comments to the blog, here is the link.
Curious what B.A.P's manager thinks about this... hmmm...
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There was another video that went viral, a short film by Wong Fu Productions called The Last.
I watched it... until the page locked up... I am amusing due to all the
internet traffic to the page, so I will finish watching it later. That
isn't the main point I am getting to anyhow.
What I
really want to mention is David So. He did a parody of The Last that is
hilarious which features Jay Park and Dumbfounded. So please check it
out below. While you are doing that, I am going to watch some of his
VLOGS. ^^
October 30th is a special day that ELFs
and Angels have been dreading and anticipating alike. Super Junior's
leader, Leeteuk, will begin his enlistment into the army as a serviceman
on active duty.
Many were curious about his haircut
after he tweeted about shaving his head. Below are a few images from his
last photoshoot before enlistment.
Leeteuk will be greatly missed during his time of service.
So
you don't know what KCON is? Would you believe me if I told you it was
the first ever convention for ALL THINGS HALLYU. And... for K-pop fans
that was the place to be on October 13th in Irvine California! Looks
like I will be making plans to try to go to KCON '13 in the future.
Hehe.
The convention was a day-long event full of K-pop, K-pop fashion
(including do-it-yourself-for-less fashion and you could even learn how
to put your guy-liner on), and even dance.
As with a lot of first time events, apparently there were some issues
with organization of various aspects during the convention. KCON's
facebook continues to be cluttered with messages from fans with
complaints. Pre-ordered merchandise was sold out before they could pick
it up, limited vouchers were passed out for the fan signings. There were
miscommunications about food vouchers and some issues with security.
KCON posted a statement in response to the feedback they have been
receiving. If you would like to read or visit their page, here is the link.
You
can't really expect the first event to go without a hitch. A lot of
fans had a great time and enjoyed the opportunity to attend.
B.A.P,
4Minute
(who's leader is Hyuna), EXO-M (I figure EXO-K had other schedules to
attend to), NU'EST, and VIXX performed in concert near the end of the
event. I would
have loved to have gone, because I am a huge fan of each of these
groups.
