Wednesday, 25 January 2012
OK, to be honest it's hardly doubtful. But the gossip about Avex trying to get them back together made my heart tremble a little bit. And that's the reason why: this band was the reason I started listening to K-Pop; this band was the reason I started researching about Korea, I fell in love with this country and it's culture which led me to applying for exchange program and spending half a year studying in Suwon.
This was the first Korean song I heard and actually I hated it! But after few times of listening to it I got really hooked up and dived into the world of K-Pop
I admired them for their talents, warm personalities and hard work.
For those who want to get to know them better here are all the members one by one:
MAX CHANGMIN - the youngest one in the band with great and powerful voice.
HERO JAEJOONG - I think his voice suits more rock songs, really unique tone of the voice (Taemins (Shinee) voice kinda reminds me of Jaejoongs actually).
MICKEY YOOCUN - a bit of a crybaby haha :) Lovely personality and a bit softer voice.
U-KNOW YUNHO - the leader of the band and his main talent is dancing.
XIAH JUNSU - duck butt, dolphin, "cutie" (real fans know what I am talking about lol). He has great dancing skills and the most powerful voice.
They were in a company called SM Entertainment. They were under ridiculous contracts, working nonstop, sleeping just few hours and stuff. So later on 3 members (Yoochun, Junsu, Jaejoong) decided that they are tired of the "slavery", left the company (lawsuits etc. included) and formed their own band JYJ. The other two (Changmin and Yunho) stayed in the company and kept the name of the band.
I wish they reformed the band and had an album or two coming out. As much as fans would love to see them on the stage together it's highly unlikely.
I miss them singing live (really loved their harmonies), acting like dorks, and just their songs in general.
Here are few more videos, just for your entertainment folks:
hehe love them in those stupid animal costumes ^^ I even know the dance moves for this song lol
And one more of them singing live. I always admired their live performances. For those who doesn't know why Mickey is the crybaby this video answers the question :) So lovely! ^.^
All the credits go to their owners (pictures and stuff). =^.^=
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Kpop events in London (Wondergirls Special - Easter Bunnies Special 9th of April)
0 comments Posted by Deimante at 14:35When I was in Lithuania it was nearly impossible to find any events related to Korea. I'm glad that in London they have it once in a while.
So if you are in London, looking for a night out full of Korean music, then you should be interested in this webpage:
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| pic taken from kpop team facebook page |
those guys organise kpop nights in various clubs and information is posted on that site. They have facebook as well:
The other facebook page that might be handy:
you will find the kpop events posted on there as well. Usually when you go to one of those kpop nights you have to say Simon's guest list at the door and the entrance is gonna be a bit cheaper :) Good news for the girls - if you come before 11 p.m you gonna get the entrance for free :) Ok so that was just brief information for the ones who might be interested in attending those events :)
Now a bit about my own experience. On 9th of April it was ''Kpop Wondergirls Special - Easter Bunnies Special'' event in Area club. I really wanted to go there, but as usual it was on Saturday and I had to work (hahaha the irony about my situation is that back in Lithuania we had nothing like this and now that I am in London I can't go to any of those nights because I am working every weekend :/). Well anyways on that night I was determined to get out of my job as early as possible and check out what those kpop nights are all about. I didn't have anyone to go with me as my friends are not really interested in that kind of music and I would have gone alone by myself, but gladly there was one guy who agreed to join me. Well actually he didn't have much of a choice lol because I was really persistant (pathetic I know hahahaha).
Anyhow, I managed to get out of my work at 12 and I was in a club at 1. At the entrance we all had to show our ID's, so don't forget to bring one, because otherwise you won't be let in. As usual in the clubs we got checked by the security (twice lol) and the security lady asked me if I ate anything before comming here, she was concerned that I am gonna get easily drunk hahahaha (come on I am from Eastern Europe - I can handle a lot lol). And a security guy was laughing at me while checking my bag, because I was just after work, so I had bunch of random stuff in there: clothes, shoes and even apples lol. Cloakroom cost 2 pound per item, so better be sure to bring a big bag, that you could fit all of the jackets, coats or other stuff that you don't want to carry around you while dancing.
Club itself wasn't fancy or smth, but I couldn't care less. As long as they played some kpop tunes I was fine with it lol. Too bad they didn't have any tables or booths to park our asses if we were tired. And the other thing - it was soooooooooooooooooooooooo hot inside (and by hot I do not mean sexy guys like Taeyang Jaejoong wannabes walking around... well maybe just a bit lol), but yeah it was hella hot, so half of the evening we spend dancing close to air conditioner lol. By the way if you want to buy a drink at a bar, be prepared to be patient, because it's busy as hell. Most of the crowd were asians, and there were more guys than girls (so no surprise they are letting girls in before 11pm for free, otherwise the night might turn out into ''guys only'' lol... (at this point you should've noticed that I use LOL too much hahaha)). Music was mostly r&b, hip hop, and some kpop (not too much), but I was not surprised actually, because in Korea it was pretty much the same. Clubs were playing either hip hop or kpop. Overall I had a great night, dancing to the songs that reminded me of the best time of my life. At one point I had a feeling like I was back in Korea (except there were no soju (or somaek), no noraebang afterwards,
no late night (or early morning) dinner/breakfast, no koreans sleeping on the street or all over the place and no crazy exchange students to make the list ''to do'' etc lol
So yeah anyways, I would be glad to attend more of those events. Hopefully I will.
Huh having a job sucks lol. Hahahaha I need to find other job, just so I could go to Kpop nights lol :)
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