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!
NEWS HEADLINE: IU AND EUNHYUK PICTURE SCANDAL (early November)
THE DISH: IU accidentally post a photo of her and Eunhyuk to her Twitter account and takes it back down withing two minutes.
The photo was reportedly of the two sitting on her sofa during the summer during a visit while IU was sick.
ISSUE
AT HAND: So called ELFs (fans of Super Junior) are petitioning to have
Eunhyuk removed from Super Junior or sent into the military to serve his
term. Others have created a petition against his removal from the
group/military enlistment.
I don't know why people who
claim to be fans of the group do things like this. If you were truly a
fan, you would support them all, as a whole and individually, with their
decisions that they make publicly and privately... Regardless of what
happened with the scandal, these guys are still human and have lives of
their own. They should still be entitled to do what they want. Who cares
what 'scandals' crawl out of the woodwork. Just because rumors come out
and news spreads as scandals, doesn't always mean the truth will come
out too about what goes on. People overreact! Let them have a life too.
Just
because there is a petition doesn't mean it will do anything! They
tried the same thing with SHINee over Jonghyun/Taemin Internet War
concert performance. Get over it. Let them entertain and enjoy their
music, performances, etc.
Just my opinion ^_^
FYI:
For those who aren't aware of the Jonghyun/Taemin indecent, the two got
really close as part of what is called 'fan service'. Plus the song is
basically about polluting the minds of people (including children)
through internet.
The
crowd seemed to enjoy it from the reaction heard on the fan cams... but
there are those certain 'fans' that went ballistic and basically
started to go on a rampage... they had a vendetta against them to kick
them out of the group... WTF?! PPL?!?! Seriously?! Anytime someone
famous does something that you don't like you are basically going to try
to ruin their career and life?! How about someone lock you up on a
padded room with no contact with the outside world for the rest of
yours, if that is that way you are going to be about things?!
And
people complain about this and that without concern for others and
their feelings or how it can effect someone and their life... I wish
those people would take a moment to see how things would be if the shoe
was on the other foot.
Petition all you want, but it is
just gonna make you and the others one that silly little list any
better of people... all it is going to do is prove how much of a fan you
really WEREN'T in the end.
