Breast Porket.

I just posted this on tumblr, but I decided it included enough content to warrant its own post....

OK,  i've decided these are the new nicknames for everyone in Beast.

"Check Head" & "Breast Porket" still being my dreamy favourite mega babes,  closely followed by "Shield" (although after yesterdays injury photograph, he's almost been promoted to #1) and then "Skull Flag" always has that special place in my heart, a special place for special people.

"Words" needs to get back on the bus already, no thanks.

Its a pity Gikwang wasn't included, lets just continue to call him "American Pelvic" but i'm sorry he can wait just outside the bus, he still doesn't do it for me.

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but seriously YIKES at some of these photos for "BEATOY" ... ♥_♥

- BUNNY

Summer Time Special lacking stripes..

Last week was a Music Core special broadcast from the Caribbean Bay Water Park, you know Caribean Bay the default go-to on location waterpark for every idol reality show and apparently music show, or maybe you just know it from "Cabi Cabi! the hottest hottest! Cabi Cabi! in crazy crazy!" that horrific commericial for the place which is guaranteed to raise the temperature with it's summery feel whilst it simultaneously raises your seething jealously as you watch lifeguard 2PM paired up with bikini clad Girls Generation...

Anyway, music special from the water park? its only June but yes! why not! and look at this, a lovely bit of nautical set design! I sure hope i'm in for a fine array of sailor outfits and some short shorts...

Well get ready to be disappointed, its not that kind of special, it was just regular Music Core at a fun location with a bit of a theme to the stage. Also my pet peeve the use of pyrotechnics in a daytime concert,  ugh, why do people continue to do this, we don't see and sparks and flares we just see clouds of billowing smoke, we don't need bursts of flame blowing waywardly in the outdoor winds when broad daylight is showing us all too clearly how close out precious boys are from roasting their perfect fringes. I actually began to worry that Beast had somehow set themselves ablaze (pressumably from someone accidentally lighting a match a few inches too close to their collective smouldering hotness - Yoseob aside) in their performance of Fiction, it really did seem at one point like I was looking at Dongwoon through the hazy vision of an inferno whilst his make up melted off his face and he screamed out for Noona to help him... but fear not everyone, it looks like spontaneous combustion, but I promise you they are all fine.

Gikwang and HyunSeung... literally smokin'.

Staging complaints aside, the nautical outfits were seriously lacking, "pale blue" was the choice of a few, or just all white like FT Island who looked like a group of emo angsty angels whilst the flames (of hell?) burst around them.  There one was man representing some sailor stripes beautifully, sadly he wasn't performing, but he was one the MCs, all hail SHINee's Onew and this perfect moment of him dancing along mid song (I think its Norazo's new song... lols) as only The Onew Condition can :

I LOVE HIM.

Well that feels more summery, more like we're at the beach right? having a party on the beach!! wooo!

OK so i'm over it, there were no jaunty sailor hats, nowhere near enough stripes and stupid flames blazing but Music Core did something right, I present you with ...

"ROOKIE BOYBAND PINK/PEACH & WHITE THEMED WATERPARK BACKGROUND ADORABLE SUMMERTIME CUTEFEST BATTLE"

Watch them one after the other and then watch them again and again alternately and then when you're really ready for it, watch them both playing AT THE SAME TIME. I'm serious. DO IT. and then keeping doing that forever. AND EVER. You will never need to watch anything else, only those two wondeful performances from B1A4 and Boyfriend. Trust me, i've been surviving on nothing but these clips for 7 days now and I feel GREAT.

I also feel strangely attracted to boys under 20 wearing dungarees or tracksuit jackets or white Doc Martins... but thats only natural.

Fingers crossed for a proper nautical special before the summers over... I want sailors! I want shorts! I want socks! I want hats! I want special summer stages! I want it all!!

although truthfully, it's not really like anybody is ever going to win over this MASTERPIECE:

NEVER FORGET !!!

 - BUNNY

An open letter to BEAST

Dear BEAST,

I would like to congratulate you on all the hard work you've put into your Japanese debut this year. I have been so happy at the thought of having your faces plastered all over the windows and displays of Tower Records just in time for my relocation back to Japan this Autumn - surely you will be popular enough for all that by then. Or will you. I have a bone to pick with you. Why on earth is it that you are promoting 'Bad Girl' as your follow up Japanese single to 'Shock'??? What are you thinking? I know the Japanese pop scene can leave a lot to be desired at times, but really, this single was a flop the first time around! The thought of hearing 'Bad Girl' being played over and over in shops and what not terrifies me. I like to be loud and proud about loving K-pop, but not that song! As UKISS Eli and Kevin would say, ewwwwwww.

I re-watched the original video, reluctantly, in preparation and tried to like it more.

But it didn't work. You can keep these new school sounds to yourself thanks very much. I think maybe that the only good thing about it is Junhyung's hair? The clothes are ugly, the dance is fair but the song is super cheesy - it's not a patch on your follow up singles 'Shock', or 'Soom', or 'Fiction' for that matter! BUT, I was willing to try to keep an open mind in preparation for the Japanese version - maybe everything will be different this time around I thought. Is it?

Not different enough in my humble opinion. Yes all of you (bar one) look totally dreamy. I particularly love your bomber jacket Junhyung, and Doojoon the interesting kyudo-esque (Japanese archery) breast pad thing you are sporting is really great. But it can't always be merely on pretty faces that things are judged now, can it? And the question that keeps really plaguing me - how can you be promoting this at the same time as 'Fiction', which is a work of art??? I guess you will just not let me have my cake and eat it.

Anyways, to round this letter off, I want to tell you that I still love you all (bar Yoseob) dearly and will simply focus on the end of 'Bad Girl' promotions, listening over and over to 'Fiction' in the meantime, and pray that it doesn't damage your cool Japanese debut image too much. Keep working hard and being diligent and we will put this behind us already, no more said of it, yes?

Forever yours,


Jessica Jane

Hot to 'Trot'

Super Junior's Sungmin is ready to sparkle in SuJu sub group Super Junior - T (T for Trot, duh!)

The current generation of international k-pop fans might already know what 'Trot' is, you've probably seen some of your favourite idols put on a sparkly sequined jacket and a bow tie, hold the microphone strangely and sing some kind of funny dated sounded pop songs with a weird wobbly voice? Well that's Trot. Its what Korean pop survived on for decades before the dance music and the boybands and the shirt ripping and the autotune showed up.

"Trot music is described as two-beat rhythm or duple rhythm, traditional seven-five syllabic stanzas, and unique vocal style called Kagok" - wikipedia

Well what does that mean? It means its a lot of good clean fun, it's nostalgic and full of over exaggerated action and emotion and young people parodying it or embracing it seems to make everyone laugh. I suppose its a bit similar to 50s and 60s pop songs or impersonating Rat Pack crooners in the Western World. Young people singing in a style from long ago, its funny to other young people and its fun for ajusshis and ajhummas... everyone's a winner.

Famous Trot singers from yesterday still have their place in Korean entertainment filling up some of those numerous guest seats on TV variety and talk shows, getting the occasional special stage or collaboration with youngsters from time to time, and i'm sure there is still a whole world of touring concerts and fan clubs I know little to nothing about. What I do know about is the current idol groups and their various ventures into Trot, and I love it.

Two of my favourite k-pop singers who really embrace their inner Trot singer are SHINee's Onew and Key who performed a far too short duet at the 2010 SBS Gayo Daejun in the Trot Medley Special where Beast's KiKwang and Yoseob also had a short but sweet performance, and its really a testament to my love of the genre of Trot that it almost makes me like Yoseob! almost! Beast as a whole are pretty special in their Trot renditions, here's one of my favourites from last year's Idol Star Trot Chuseok Special:

If you even need a reason to love Jang HyunSeung then 1m10s would be it.

Even though its completely irrelevant to my post on Trot I just want to slip in a link to remind my inner circle of readership that this was the one and only Chuseok Trot Special that also featured the leg wrestling contest in the middle of it.  Kiseop VS Doojoon anyone? and JJH, i'm not sure but I think we might have completely overlooked SUPERNOVA's performance. Did I mention I've been going off Sungje lately... the sideburns aren't helping.

For a lot of the idols, singing Trot is kind of a joke, whether they are respectfully mocking their seniors hits or whether they are parodying their own songs in a Trot style, its even more of a joke when its comedians performing Trot versions of hit idol songs, to an almost identical tune each week on Gag Show. Special mentions to this version of 2PM's I Hate You and SHINee's Ring Ding Dong. Other idols have to take Trot a bit more seriously, like for example if your dad is a famous Trot singer than you're going to need to embrace it for example F.Cuz's Lee U is he son of famous Trot singer Sul Woon Do and even appeared with dad, pre F.Cuz debut on an episode of Happy Together (which kind of needs to be seen for his nervous interactions with TVXQ, adorable face and unexplained Britpop hairstyle... watch it here) One of the girls in VNT's dad is also a famous Trot singer, but I barely know who VNT are, let alone her dad... sorry.. Then there are the occasional bands (or subgroups or solo ventures) who purposely fit themselves into the modern mold of Pop Trot. I'm not talking about SuJu's Shindong & Leeteuk's fabulous summery Trot digital single, i'm talking about an idol group who were created for the very purpose of TROT... and Jessica Jane how on earth we missed these delightful boys I will never know....

so let me introduce .... 3 CHONGSA (3 Musketeers)

IMPORTANT PROFILE INFORMATION:

Leader - HwaRang (real name Hyun Seok)

1989 - bloodtype A - 181cm

SasYa (real name Hae Won)

1991 - bloodtype ? - 186cm

Maknae - Kang Ho

1992 - bloodtype A - 183cm

Now those pretty faces (mainly i'm talking about the first 2, sorry Kang Ho) and long legs were not what you might expect from a Trot debut, but oh its a match made in heaven!! The only released 2 singles, one in 2009, one in 2010 before they called it a day and left the Pop Trot scene altogether, but the songs they left shall be legendary, to me at least.

Firstly "LET'S GO!". It's a Summer Party Trot on the Beach spectacular, and usually, along with my hatred of Summer, hot beaches, tropical coloured clothes I cannot handle a forced feel good party tune, but I can now say that this song, along with Shindong & Leeteuk's song and Shinhwa's "usha usha" has me practically begging for a some teen hunk in stripes and flip flops to whisk me away on a jet ski. I don't know who I am anymore.

chik chik ppo ppo ddui ddui bbang bbang KAJA! KAJA!

The song was heavily promoted on the music shows, including special versions with 2PM (3 of them come out right at the end for a bit of a dance) or Super Junior, who love to get involved, also possibly best outfit award to 3 Chongsa.   3 Chongsa featuring Kangin, Eunhyuk & Shindong :

where was Leeteuk? why did Kangin have to be there..!

After a long absence they made their comeback with a really unnecessary perm and a song about cooking "Eat Eat!"

They also recorded a gentle ballad (not so Trot) called "Sweet Silly" , I'm not sure if it was ever performed but i'd prefer to remember them skipping about in their nautical get up or their chefs gear going all out with the action dancing.

Now if like me you are left feeling a little deflated that 3 Chongsa are no longer an active group then please wipe away your tears, unless you're a KangHo fan in which case I can't help you. Sorry.  I have some fantastic news! I was pretty happy on my chance discovery of 3 Chongsa, I was even more happy on my discovery of Hwa Rang (hi!) and much as love some Trot it did seem almost wasteful that these boys would never get a chance at the chic dressing hip thrusting probably full of autotune dance bangers...  maybe just maybe they will. Every cloud has a sparkling silver lining and the demise of 3 Chongsa meant Hwa Rang and Sasya jumped ship to a new management company, and I heard we're going to be seeing the pair of them again pretty soon, and not a bad perm or a jokey costume in sight... HyunSeok... HaeWon... (you see there was a reason I gave you their real names earlier) and friends.... i'm looking forward to it.

For a whole lot more pictures of 3 Chongsa, gifs, video links and cyworld treats, head to the 3 Chongsa forum at soompi. and of course, keep and eye out for X-5...

 - BUNNY

2000 + heaven (= 2011)

Christmas is meant to be over, but what is this appearing on my screen, angels sent from the high heavens, in the form of none other than more teasers!!

I'm not over the GTOP drop yet, not even close, and I'm already being made to come to terms with the fact that Infinite (please not just this ballad boys) and MBLAQ and Teen Top are coming right back into my life, and in no time at all. Not even time to breathe! Golly S.Korea, you may have to slow it down. And not to mention I've got BEAST duets coming out of my ears (I have a bone to pick with whoever put Yoseob and Junhyung together! Such a wasted BL opportunity. Bet Bunny isn't complaining with DongwoonXDoojoon) as well as the prospect of the new SHINee live in Japan DVD. What a busy time of year this is.

Really, I know there are lots of teasers sent out together often, but I love it when I trace the feeling of a new tread, one that matches my own sentiment. The official terming for 2011 has become 2000 and heaven, and I think S. Korea agrees.

------Angelic beauties alert---------

Without further ado, I will let them speak for themselves:

Hey Teen Top! Can't wait to have you back! Aaaaand opening SBS Gayo Daejun 2010 and seeing you dance battle with ZE:A no less. Yiiiiikes. Dancing boy Ricky, I hope you are ready to take magnae Dongjun on!

And MBLAQ, boy oh boy have I been worried - I thought I may never see you again. I was getting myself ready to write to Rain oppa or something, ask what the hell is going on. But now you are being looked after by JYP? Oh god, if he touches you I will kill him, mark my words. Not a single hair on your head (unless it's Thunder's...).



SHINee, literally shining Key, star of David. Cannot wait to see a full on Johnny's style bonanza, but actually done fashionably!! (As I can't sign into Tumblr at home this was also my way of reblogging, Bunny).

I think that this is going to be a very happy new year. Roll on the New Year Performance Spectaculars, all three of them!

Lastly, my new years resolution 1# To neglect Nunas less.

새해 복 많이 받으세요
seh heh bok mahn ee bahd euh sae yo
Happy new year!

Yoon Doo Joon is not a pervert (sadly)

This was just going to be one screen shot on tumblr but I decided it needed so much more (when I reached 5 screen shots)

So, there's a new sitcom "All My Love" which features a sprinkling of K-pop idols in its cast. 2AM's Jo Kwon and Brown Eyed Girls' Gain (who fictionally inappropriately are a "married" couple on "We Got Married") play twins and whilst I do love Kwon and Gain (and their "married" life, although i'm about 20 episodes behind..) I wasn't convinced I was going to bother with this, I mean its a sitcom anyway, not a drama so that means canned laughter, slow plots, exceptionally family friendly and sets that seem to look exactly the same as the ones in the few clips of sitcoms i've watched (heechul's, taemin's, no min woo's .. always the frontage of the building/shopping mall thing, am I imagining this?) aaaanyway, the casting of BEAST's leader, romantic, football obsessed, big eyed all round dreamboat Yoon DooJoon/DooJun (whichever you prefer, I prefer the triple double "o"s)  had me excited, and then I saw this headline:

"Yoon Doojoon shows off his acting skills as a "perverted soldier," wins the title of "Acting-dol""

Well I wasn't going to need much more persuading. I knew Jessica Jane had been the early bird and already watched episodes 1 & 2, but like the fickle girl I am I just went right for what I was looking for... Doo Joon's character shows up in episode 3 as the pervert soldier, who isn't really a pervert at all, but somehow I delighted in watching DooJoon constantly berated as a pervert, especially as they made a kind / unimaginative decision to just call his character "DooJoon". Freshly discharged from the army (the best way for a Korean boy to be, that way he's not going to have to leave you for 2 years right when you start getting to the "holding hands" stage of dating...) DooJoon gets mistaken for a pervert as he tries to pick up a coin that rolls to the feet of a chubby girl in a short skirt. Protesting his innocence moment 1:

(Great use of Yoon Doo Joon Moon eyes.)

Unlucky DooJoon is mistakenly thought to be following home the girl with cute hair who unbeknown to him is subletting his bedroom. Some how he gets there first, eats food, passes out in his underwear with his food in a plate of food:

Somebody give him a key to my house, he can come over and do that anytime. Unflattering angle, scratching his belly, eyes half closed half open, PERFECT. DooJoon is like a real boy. I don't know if this is all my head, like most things are, but the biggest appeal of DooJoon for me is that he seems different to a lot of the other idols, I guess a little more down to earth, less concerned with vanity/fame/idolness, more sincere (?!) and a sweet and humble leader, I put him in my very special category with my beloved Seungho, they have their moments of absolute smoldering hotness but I find them just as attractive when they look like they just woke up from a long nap in their sweatpants, hence they largely escape my wrath of haircut and outfit spot checks. It must be love or something... (somehow this paragraph seemed embarrassing to write? is it because I swooped a little deeper than my usual haircut comments and went for logical points of attraction? who knows, god i'm blushing over DooJoon, I will probably cry the day they ruin those perfect gelfling/spock sideburns though, I warn you now...)

Back to the story, the authorities are called who removed DooJoon, and his beautiful thighs, and take him out on the street where he protests his innocence some more, gets hit by a grandpa and then his mom shows up and says "omona! why are you half naked" as if t-shirt and boxers is half naked!! Playing it safe sitcom! playing it safe! which reminds me I just remembered reading about DooJoon talking about filming this scene and "playing it safe" with some pants under boxers... lol, overly shy much?

I did actually enjoy the whole episode, even non DooJoon moments, and the acting was all (surprisingly) good! but I'm yet to decide if i'll be a regular viewing, I might have to resort to scanning through, Gain and cute haircut girl has some snappy outfits I dont want to miss out....

Also I completely forgot that Kwon and Doo Joon would be together, a Hot Blood Men reunion! and boy OH BOY what a reunion!!! After watching this looped MANY times I have decide that, this is probably how Jo Kwon would actually greet DooJoon in his bedroom in this scenario, in fact this is probably how Jo Kwon greets many of his pals in many bedrooms... and also this is definitely how I would greet and unsuspecting DooJoon distracted by towel drying his hair....

Really I just wanted to make that GIF, share it with you and tell you that I love acting success pervert leader Yoon Doo Joon! and I really like saying his name.

PS.  PEREFCT

- BUNNY

A reply to my unnie...

Unnie HWAITING!

Hwaiting claw!

GD wants you Hwaiting

I can only apologise for Minho. Hwaiting!

SuJu, all twelve of them, hwaiting!

All of FT Island kind of hwaiting (sorry about HongKi's tantrum)

Closed circle BEAST hwaiting! (see, no blonde in sight).


And Minwoo, definitely hwaiting! Mazletov!

Cyril Sneer, hwaiting.

SHINee never give up hwaiting!

Never ever!

Onew definitely doesn't.

Saranghaeyo!

GD is my temporary secretary

Having had some exceptional interview X interviewee dialogue brought to my attention today (thank you Alice!), I just couldn't resist making a note of it here, and then sharing something else with you that I have been mulling over and contemplating in my head all day long.

First means first, Taemin, bless your mind, body and soul babes. You have made me as happy as a lamb, as happy as the time I first heard that T.O.P. likes Nine Inch Nails! Who knew!

Q: Now that you are past your first and second albums, what styles of music or concepts would you like to experiment with in future albums that you have not had a chance to do yet?

Onew: I want to try band music.

Taemin: I want to try something like Linkin Park. It seems really stress relieving.

Key: Definitely not trot music (Korean folk music).

Full interview here

Seriously, please, just try it. Go ahead boys, if it goes wrong I won't be mad, not one little bit. I just insist on a music video to accompany, please. Maybe a look like this though, more glam rock than nu metal:

See, even your Big Bang sunbae's know it's worth a go...

Onew pretty much already has it down to be fair (with a little help from "Foreigner"). But I feel he can go further than this:

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But now, to the real reason for my post. I cannot and will not get G-Market, the new G-Dragon CF song, out of my head. It will not budge, and I sure as hell don't want it to. If this is any indicator of what is to come on the new Big Bang album then I am already beside myself, delusionally happy!

All the way from ur head, shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes

Gmarket, Gmarket, Party (aauuu...)

Honestly, it may be the most commercial song in the whole entire music making industry but frankly I couldn't care less! I love it. And this is without even a proper video. There are so many fantastic songs that this reminds me of. But most of all it would have to be this:

Temporary Secretary by none other than Mr. Paul McCartney!

That's not to mention the Hammer time at the start too! Oh Captain G! Captain G Sparrow!! And the hats. So many fabulous hats!! This one really reminds me of Austrian yodelling:


Which in turn, reminds me of Hyunseung also with his milkmaid hat in the new BEAST teaser for Lights go on again.


And both of these remind me of the one and only Rain yodel scene from I'm a cyborg but that's ok. (you can watch it here)

But the main moral of my story is still, it ain't nuthin' but a G thang!

Happy Haroween!

With the awe-inspiring abundance of aigo (cuteness) in the K-popping world, I feel that I am hard pushed to present you with any top-notch horror frights or teen-terrors (and I mean that purely in the theatrical sense). We occasionally do get to enjoy the gothic delights of our part time princes of darkness, but sadly not often enough if you ask me. To be honest some days there are few things that could thrill me more than vamped-up 2AM or zombified 2PM. Anyways, I have gathered just a few things that made me go more "Ohhh" or "Ahh" than "Wahhhhh", but I guess I will claim a lose and rather vague Halloween theme.

Need I tell you that this is, of course, the party I ventured to last night. Obviously I don't need to mention how, as I entered the room, Taec took great joy in 'sucking my blood' as some form of dramatically enacted initiation-type ceremony.

2NE1 were there too, Dara with her super fierce hair and CL with epically feathered hunch on.

Ki Kwang popped along for a bit after recording too, and did some touching with his hands. Maybe I should say we all played the game where one person wears a blindfold and they must rely on their sense of touch alone to guess who the person posited opposite them is...


Junhyung accompanied him too. Again, he was just working with what he'd got. These boys and their busy schedules!!

Taemin snuck his head round the door. And I should tell you that he won best costume hands down.

I think that these boys may have run out of time with getting ready... I guessed they were going for the sasquatch look? No prizes for this one.

As 2PM were indeed the hosts of the party, they decided to do a special stage once everyone had arrived and was in full swing. Let's just imagine that they were inspired by Daesung, as the carried out their very own mini-performance of Cats.

However, let's just say that some of the other guests thought they could do better. And what is Halloween without thriller anyway?

So with Kwang with his 'American pelvic thrust' and crotch cupping, Taemin with his robot-inspired jerks and limp waves, Chansung and Wooyoung trying to steal back the show and finally Minzy showing us all how it's really done, we got right back on the party track.

And then it started getting late into the night, so the 'entertainment' arrived... Yes they appeared jumping out of the box, and it was a duo performance none of us would have wanted to miss...

Need I say that it was the best party that could have followed on from my birthday, and we danced and danced until our feet could hold us up no more. It was a sleepover though, all the best parties are, so 2PM took the lead once again in getting ready for bed - and they watched over us like this until we fell to sleep.

I worry that I may have failed to describe anything of any real scary substance here whatsoever. I guess it just goes to show that some of the worst fears we all face are in the real world of K, and not the imaginary costumed one. コワイ！

I'm going crazy, crazy

In the wise words of Se7en:

I’m a person who never starts to apologize
I’ll shout even louder at you every time (here we go again)
There’s no way to stop our madness
I don’t know what to do
I don’t even know why we started this

No matter what I say now
You won’t listen
You don’t believe me (no~)
The love in our hearts when we first met
Where has it gone to?
Have we gotten rid of it?

I dislike how our love has changed
I’m tired of repeating our arguments everyday
Much worse than when we’re alone
Being stuck in an endless time
I don’t want to blame you for that
I guess we are going crazy~

I’m going crazy, crazy
In our love, we just going crazy


And do you want to know why I/we have gone crazy? I blame it on all the crazy co-ordinator nunas! Seriously ladies, I thought you loved our boys as much as I do - am I wrong? I can't be wrong otherwise why would you put Onew in legwarmers over his jeans, Junhyung in a giant fascintor (did you forget he is the rapper and not Yoseob! I know he is 'the joker', but still!), and this is in just one airing of Music core!

Thank god someone put Simon D in a golfing knit jumper to placate me! And the U-KISS boys were on mega touching mode to make me smile again (though these really aren't the performance outfits I had my heart set on!)

Really though, I am displacing my most intense and complex angers on these poor unfortunate souls when, in all honesty, this Music Core airing is not my main concern. What is at the forefront of my disturbed mind is the witch hunt is now on for whoever the crazed nunas are who did this to my beloved 2PM!

Seriously, what a hella headbomb travesty! Right now I am so mad that I can barely express in words my honestly heartbroken reaction to their fall from grace. Talk about some fresh hell Bunny! They look like old decrepit men in semi drag, and not in a good way but in the very worst way. Seriously boys, what the hell? You need to learn to say "NO!" to these nunas - even you yourselves must realise this is not a good look. Your last comeback was such a happy one, and now, dare I say it, I already want you to Go Away! In the words of Eli, You Make Me Pissed Off. And I'm not the only one who is mad - everyone over at omona seems to agree with me. What you should mostly be in fear of though is my very own Bunny unnie. Maybe this time it is irreparable, I just don't know. (And our dearest friend Alice, so new to the world of K, is no doubt experiencing the pains of a devoted nuna way too early on in the game - you were her favourite 2PM!) I have read that there would be more Junho in this MV and, you know what, I'm not even sure that I want more Junho at this rate. He may have come off the best out of this, along with Junsu, but that is not the point. How can these blasphemous words even come forth from me, why has it come to this?!

Let's just leave it with the fact that I am bracing myself for the 12th October, the final blow of the full MV.

"..no way, losing ma bra-ain..."

Oh gosh, I thought Shock (Beast) and all the joy and surprise this song could ever elicit from me was dried up, literally. And I never even really liked Can't let you go even if I die (2AM)- sorry JinSwoon, but I did wrong is infinitely better!

I take it all back!

Whilst on the subject of Beast, I'm not sure about this Junhyung:

This really better not make an appearance on your comeback stage. The ballad is already less than exciting (trust me, I am clenching a tight fist as you read). With this terror coif combined, how the hell am I meant to resist flicking forward to Dalmatian..?

Giving me all I need

Teen Top, I couldn't be happier for the moment, not really. You have given me hot debut photos, intense teasers and CLUB BANGERS, most importantly. Now all I'm waiting for is the full on MV to rock my world, and you'll have me in the palm of your hand. This has been a great couple of days then.

First, this happened:

Oh L.Joe, how did I know so early on that it would be you! I'm not sure if you can see well here but the freckle on his lower eyelid. Yikes. These are the things I live for. And a selca with Hyuna of all girls. If it can't be 2NE1 then she is always the runner up for me, alongside BOA. Excellent work L.Joe.

And then of course the teasers followed.

Some piano to start out with, in the tradition of so many a wonderful teaser, not least of all 2PM's recent Without you. We have a hint at the music then, which is already sounding good to me. And silhouettes become the real boys, all in white, angels. A toy plane? I love a toy plane, and why not. Here's hoping that this is a direct reference to a model building hobby. And then there is the dancing sneak peak; the shrug is so 2PM Heartbeat to me. And oh god, here it goes, (I know you're not bothered Bunny but..) L.Joe on violin. Is there anything that this boy cannot do?! I couldn't believe my luck. Still can't. Freckles, toy planes and violins. God I hope he gets the knit wear out come winter. The dance moves by C.A.P even seem to incorporate some violin simulation in.
Basically, bar a couple of hair qualms and a few accessory trifles, this is the prefect teaser for me. Job well done boys.

So, something that I left out of the teaser comment, only because it pops up even clearer in the debut photos, L.Joe in baseball jacket:
Yes, yes, yes. One of my all time FAVOURITE pieces of clothing. And in such a lovely blue and white with red highlight. And bowl cut too of course. No one else in the band has any shots wearing anything remotely like this. Let's just pretend that it's "models own" and be done with it. So dreamy.

Basically ALL L.Joe's photos are perfect, you can see that for youself. And the other boys didn't do half bad either. I'm enjoying C.A.P's Jaebeom style coiff a lot too:

And inevitable high tops.

In the rest of these pictures the short of it is that Niel is just precious, as is Changjo, Ricky has hair charms andChunji, I can't quite put my finger on it yet, but there is something in a little hesistant over, but nothing terrible.
So the debut pictures were on the hole good, and where it mattered most to me they were great.

So then came the audio tracks, something I was very nervous about. Apparently I had no need to be either. The intro, Come into the world (hopefully not a sick reference to how recently they were born) has all the drama and exciting build up that I have come to expect from a k-popped mini-album track 1. A hint at the melody of the song to follow and a heaviness which weighs on your heart, soon to explode. It reminds me a lot of BEAST's Shock album intro as well as 2PM, and that is no bad thing.
Clap, the debut single and track 2, follows on excellently and is brilliant. There are claps, of course, and some type of synth beat which is oh so catchy and totally ups the ante from the piano in the preceeding lead in. When the chorus hits, "I'm so cra, cra, crazy, cla, cla, cla, cla, clap..." my oh my. It is stuck in your head within seconds and pulls you along with such force. I love it. It reminds me of so many things, yet feels so unique at the same time. I see some Italo disco there somewhere and some WHAM(?) for some reason... who knows. I love it whatever it is.
Finally, Let's Dance is another club banger. Some Spanish guitar bringing to mind MBLAQ and an "You (r)leday" a la BEAST's Jonghyun to open. It's great. "Go shake it, go shake it, go shake it, shake it, baby shake it, go shake it, go shake it, go shake it, shake you booty shake it". These boys have a way of repeating words that is going to get me everytime, I can tell. If it works for TOP and GD, it's totally working for them too.

It's so rare and such a joy when the whole mini-album is good, and this one is great by my standards.

All we need now is some sweet "one two step" and the better half of the debut photo cosumes to be used in the majority of the MV and it will be all it needs to be. I know these boys can go all the way - "Let's get in hot in here"

Teenz on top?

And when I say teens, I mean teens. Teen top - the official name of this brand sparkling new band. Their musical stand point, "emotional teen pop band". Boy oh boy, I don't even know what to make of this, which is why I feel the need to work it all out publically (and legally).

So, what first hits me is the name. I know half, or a least a portion, of the boys I lust over are barely legal. And thanks to dearest Bunny I just had yet another Dongho (UKISS) scare, but anyway, to put this fact in the name itself - now that's just bullying your poor old nunas.

After reading the name again I realised that I had seen it before; this is the six-member group which will be featured on MTV USA this September. Their company T.O.P Media claims the show is to be named "Vice Guide to Everything". Does this mean it's actually a Vice production? I'm not sure, but I am sure that k-pop is starting to get a bit bigger certainly than it was over in the west, and I hope that this band will set a good example and not embaress me and my nearest and dearest.

Apparently, since January, MTV have been combing for idols who have yet to debut. As it turns out, this programme will show the boys at the time of their actual debut, as well as some of the formative stages. According to some sources, one of the MTV associates claims that, "Niel, who is the lead vocalist, has the tone of a young Michael Jackson. They are fit to compete in markets overseas too because the English skills of one of their members is at the level of a native speaker." Well, how about that, UKISS.

Without further ado, lets have a peek at the members. The websites for them are all in Korean and as I'm only a beginner I'm not so hot at navigating this, so you'll have to make do with some real tooty pictures I found with English descriptions:

Always best to start with leader. So, a whole 17.8 years of age - they better get big sharpish before he outgrows his teens. He seems tall-ish, I can say that much, and I do love me a rapper. An artiste too! Actually, I've seen one of his drawings on twitpic (yes they have a twitter). I reckon he's probably better at exercise, but at least he's trying.

Oh, dancing boy, how snazy! '95, hmm, that would make him still 14, and yes, still in middle school. -----MAKNAE alert----- However, with music appreciation as a hobby, how edearing. But I'm stopping here. Self-defence skills, he may need these...

Power voice, I look forward to being blown away, but all 52kgs of you. Now we are onto '93, moving up - up and out of danger. It's legal, just. Although he is in 2nd grade middle school apparently - is this because he maybe spent too long in kpop training and not enough time at the books? Imitating something as a hobby though, how scintilating! Puzzles he also gets brownie (or should I say Cubs) points for.

Devil bad rapper. Now this is what I am talking about. With a face like his, 'bad' rap skills and some piano on the side, we may just have out next Seungho (MBLAQ) protege right here. There's even English as a speciality - could it be than I've already discovered my 16 year old ichiban?

Emotional voice and a profile picture way to genki for my liking. I'll blame it on him being not quite 16 yet, but I don't like it all the same. I'm also not into soccer - sadly this one may be a bit of an early write off. Also, Niel, what a name to choose from all those cool western names you could have had, like CAP or L.Joe...

Oh god, even reading 'lovely Ricky' makes me want to holler out in a Bianca (Eastenders) style fashion, and that's without this terrible gormless picture to accompany. Poor boy, he barely stands a chance with that kind of introduction. Lucky for him I've seem some slightly better evidence of him about the interweb, in the form of twitpics again.

So yes, welcome to the boys. Fresh faced and none yet out of school (though we may have a drop-out on our hands).

Next up, the music. I saw a clip of their debut live stage, one of their own songs maybe(?), and I was not enthralled, but then I discovered this darling clip:

How sweet of them. And seriously, Nirvana t-shirt, are you kidding me. DREAMBOAT. I knew that L.Joe had my heart from the start, I just knew it. Those sick piano skills, the grunge edge. What a pair, honestly. And I take back all the mean things I said about you Niel, I LOVE the emotional voice. I was a bad nuna and I did wrong, and no you're not too genki either. The smiling looks they exchange, it's precious, just precious. And they re so fresh and clean that they aren't even covered in jewels yet!! I'm too excited. Taeminnie (SHINee) you certainly have some competition.
Having seen this and then looking through some of the comments prime viewers are making I do feel a slight warning: "The pianist is on fire! The vocalist is like a Korean Justin Bieber. My interest is piqued~" snarkybookworm1989. Yes, this is the demographic that I have evidently entered myself into. Oh dear.

But then even better that this is the whole band, covers galore:

YES. Couldn't have chosen better myself! 2PM baby. This is what I always want. All kpop bands should model themselves on this, and then it can't go wrong, can it? Grow up to be beastly idols my young boys, and you will surely do well.


And not forgetting HEARTBEAT! I wish I could find a better quality one for you, but sadly I can't as of yet. You can hear them, just, and they do good! And the dancing, well done boys. I am totally satisfied by this cover, and to achieve this praise they have pretty big boots to fill (we are talking Junho, Taec and Chansung here). We even have the acrobatics at the end!! So nimble at their young age.


And some Big Bang to follow? Of course. They really have picked THE BEST hyungs available. Lies, such a banger too. We even have some real good T.O.P attempts with the rap, possibly by L.Joe, and I'm not going to laugh at them, as I'm pretty sure he was going for gold. We can't expect him to have a voice as deep as T.O.P's yet, he's still going through puberty for christs sake. The silhouetted thrusts at the beginning too... that's the way to do it.

Having written this then, and touching on the surface of what is to come, and having had an emergency conference with my one and only K-sensei, I am totally sold on Teen Top. This may be my answer to your Infinate Bunny. The only problem seems to the the name - there is no way to really make this sound plausable, but I guess I'll get over that in time.

I see high tops, I see skinny jeans and a cap. There is even what I would dare say are bowl cuts. A name is just a name, right?

The debut title track Clap is to be released on 9th July. I will be there ready and waiting with open arms. I am begging, hoping to god, to the high heavens, that this is not a BEAST Bad Girl repeat. Please let them have a good debut song, and a mini album with club bangers to boot.

Note the pussy bow that Niel is rocking. Dreamy!

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