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Super Junior's ballad unit, Super Junior- K.R.Y. will be holding their concert in Korea for the first time.
Super Junior-K.R.Y. will hold their own concert titled 'SUPER JUNIOR-K.R.Y. THE 1ST CONCERT' from February 11th to 13th. The concert will be held in Seoul Olympic Park Woori Finance Art Hall and are expected to mesmerize the audience.
Super Junior- K.R.Y. is the first unit of Super Junior and are comprised of Super Junior's members Kyuhyun, Ryeowook and Yesung. As the ballad unit, they have participated in Super Junior's albums as well as various OSTs, getting recognition for their superb singing abilities and beautiful harmony.
The group has successfully finished their concert in Japan and Taiwan last year. Due to ardent requests from Korean fans wanting to see Super Junior-K.R.Y.'s concert, the group decided to hold the concert in Korea.
Because it's the first time that Super Junior's unit will hold their own concert, people can expect to see Super Junior-K.R.Y.'s unique music color. Also, the concert is expected to receive high interest from many music fans.
Meanwhile, Super Junior have finished off their album activity and are currently working actively in various fields as MCs, actors, DJs and musical actors.
The tickets will go on sale on the internet ticket booking site G Market (http://ticket.gmarket.co.kr) on February 13th at 8PM.
Source: TVDaily Translated by Minnie @ SUJUISM.BLOGSPOT.COM
Not everybody can express their thoughts through music. And not everybody can organize and speak of the result of the thoughts they have gained from making music. But G-Dragon (GD) and T.O.P are musicians who can do both. They spoke only of their music throughout our interview with them and talked about the thoughts they injected into their music. Whether you agree with their music or not, we recommend you read this interview to hear what the two have to say about their music. This is what it means for these two young men in their early 20s, regarded as idols stars, to make their own music and present it to people.
10: How does it feel having to work together during Christmas time? (laugh) T.O.P : We feel sorry for each other. (laugh) 10: I feel bad that I'm interviewing you as well. (laugh) It's been a week since you resumed your activities. How has the reaction been so far? GD : We have to accept that we've been on a long break. (laugh) In the past, we really felt the heated response we'd get at once but it doesn't feel quite the same now that it's been two years since we've been Big Bang. I think that from now on, we'll receive attention from people depending on how we do. If necessary, I might appear in some variety shows to attract attention so that people will watch us perform. T.O.P: I'm not quite sure yet. The album was released just yesterday and it's great to hear that a lot of copies have been sold so far. But I think it'll take some time before I will really start feeling it.
10: How does it feel to perform on stage for the first time in a while? It's the first time just the two of you are performing together. GD : I was nervous on our first televised stage performance but the burden has been lessening since then and I've been enjoying myself more. And when we pre-record performances, it'll leave us exhausted because we'll shoot three or four times over but it seems the best cuts always come out during go. On the first take we'll be overly conscious of the fact that we'll be on television so only do planned movements which isn't fun but then at the end, when we've almost given up and just move as we please, the best cuts seem to come out. So we'll usually try to take to the stage with a heightened mood in order to maintain that condition.
10: So you're "HIGH HIGH" just like the title of your song. (laugh) T.O.P : Yes. We talked with our dance team a lot as well because we wanted to appeal with something more comfortable and free rather than putting on a uniform group dance. GD : Idol groups are basically defined as doing pre-arranged dances and wearing matching clothes. But we decided that we will try to put on more natural performances and make people think that idol singers too can show their apply in such natural ways. It's more fun showing something different every time than repeating the same thing over and over again.
10: But Big Bang has danced pre-arranged moves before. Although you two seem to be set on capturing the audience by showing them that you know how to have fun on the stage. GD : The biggest strength that Big Bang has is that although we are a single team, we each have our individual styles. And we're a single team but we can create a new form of synergy depending on how we re-group ourselves. That's what we wanted to show people and rather than focusing on where the camera is, we want to communicate with our audience during that moment so we decided we have to lift the mood as much as we can. I believe it's our duty as singers to make our fans enjoy our performance from beginning to end and leave them exhausted when they're leaving after watching us. So we want put on performances that'll even make viewers at home jump up and down.
10: I think you were like that particularly for your first performance [as a duo unit] at cable music channel Mnet's Asian Music Awards (MAMA). There really wasn't anything that was set up on stage and you two performed as if you were just skimming the stage. GD : We really didn't have a single stage effect, that's for sure (laugh). No equipment and fireworks weren't allowed. T.O.P : But we're Big Bang and we've been performing for five years now which means we're bound to have learned something during that time so we half jokingly said, "Hey, let's make it through with our accumulated expertise." (laugh)
10: And it worked with your expertise? (laugh) GD : We were in Macau so we wanted to leave a strong impression on even the people who don't know us. We also wanted to challenge the mindset that the stage can only feel complete when singers move around on it a lot -- we wanted to show people the weight and presence that can be felt by a single person standing on stage. So with nothing prepared, we said, "Let's kill it." (laugh) I'm sure crowd felt it. We had also had our company's CEO, Yang Hyun-suk, pressuring us through text messages...
10: Pressuring you? (laugh) GD : He wrote, "You guys will be scolded if you mess up on stage." We had no choice but to do well that day. (laugh)
10: Yang definitely seems to push you hard. (laugh) But not everyone will have such thoughts just because they're pressured to. GD : I think it has to do with a sense of owning the stage. On music programs alone, there will be as many as 30 groups waiting for their turn to sing, which means each team has three minutes or so to prove themselves. When you're on stage, you have to own it because once the performance is over, it's no longer yours. An owner is free to act whatever way he wants to at home, no matter how many people have gathered there because you're the owner and I think you also get to accept people's response from an owner's point of view. I think that is why I can perform on stage with confidence.
10: I can see that that sense of ownership has been reflected into your new album because there seems to be a story to the first six tracks. You introduce yourselves in the "INTRO," with "HIGH HIGH" and "OH YEAH" have fun on stage, and then you come down from it begging a woman "Don't Leave." (laugh) GD : Us, as well as YG, and Big Bang in particular consider the flow to an album very important. If an album is one complete work, we believe there has to be some sort of a natural flow to it to a certain extent. So we start big, gradually somber, cut it off with "KNOCK OUT" and then show our individual styles. We always pay a lot of attention to these things. T.O.P : It's actually been a while since we made our solo songs. It was decided later on that we'd include our solo songs in our project album. My songs are from when I was working on film "71 Into The Fire (2010)" and KBS drama "IRIS (2009)."
10: And that's even more so why unlike your solo songs, you had to maintain a consistent vibe to the songs you two worked on together. How did you discuss on the direction you would take your album? T.O.P : I think it just came to us instinctively. Instead of saying, "Let's take it like this, this time," we just went to the studio and stayed up several nights writing up lyrics and recording songs. In the past, we'd get together after GD records the parts he has made and I've recorded the parts I've made, and then make the necessary changes and additions, but this time, we gave advice to each other on what could be improved and a lot of the musicians we work with helped us out as well. I think this may be a product of YG's instincts. (laugh) GD : That's actually what our unit is about. Before making this album, I was working on Big Bang's album and since it'll be the first we're releasing in a long time, I wanted to try a lot of things so I experimented with a variety of units including me and T.O.P, Taeyang, Seungri and Daesung, Daesung and me, and Seungri and Taeyang.
10: I think the other units would've been interesting as well. GD : But it turned out that they're all busy with their individual activities and appearing on variety shows. (laugh) Only T.O.P and I had some time to kill so we ended up working together and producing the most songs together. (laugh) But our other projects were getting pushed back so Yang suggested we try various experiments for Big Bang's music in the mean time and then have Big Bang's album itself contain songs with all five of our voices instead of in units. So that's why Seungri's song, which was actually supposed to go into Big Bang's album, will be released in his upcoming solo album and we're releasing our songs separately as well.
10: So it seems like your album came about by coincidence but how did you two actually make music together? It seems like you two had entirely different interpretations of "BABY GOOD NIGHT"? GD : He has changed his name to e.knock now but that song was made when I was over at Kush's house. I was just hanging out with him when he played the arrangement for "BABY GOOD NIGHT" he'd made, asking me what I thought about it. I took it from him as soon as I heard it. (laugh) Then I came up with the melody that I thought would go with it, humming up the part that goes "Baby good night" and T.O.P added the rap to it. Then I added more lyrics to it, singing for the first time with this album. We made "DON'T LEAVE" after that. T.O.P : That was the first song we completed together for the album. GD had been working on Big Bang's album and when I joined him after getting done with film "71 Into The Fire," we recorded this song first but the result was satisfying so we started working together lot after that. In that sense, I think "BABY GOOD NIGHT" was how are album came about. GD : For that song, the first thing we did was to come up with its theme. We thought of what song we would sing to our lovers if we had one. So we came up with the lyrics imagining that I was caressing my lover's hair while she sleeps, and then added the melody to it. We also wanted to make a very sexy song and I also wanted our song to be one that people would turn on when they want to create a romantic atmosphere with their lovers. (laugh)
10: Is that the reason you included narration in French for "BABY GOOD NIGHT"? GD : I've done a lot of narrations for Big Bang's album and my fans probably won't mind hearing me do them again but I felt that other people might be sick of it. (laugh) I also wanted to give the song more of a movie-like vibe to it through the dialogue between a man and a woman, as well as use a language that goes better with the song's sound.
10: Are you saying that there are certain pronunciations that go better with certain sounds because GD, with all of your songs, it seems like you paid more attention to making sure you pronunciation mixes well with the sounds rather than making an effort to pronouncing everything accurately. GD : People have pointed out problems with my pronunciation a lot since I was young but I thought about it a lot instead of trying to fix it. I feel that this is something I'm curious about as someone who listens to current music but I realized that songs become weird and their unique vibe gets lost when non-Korean songs are translated into Korean. It's like how a movie seems different when it gets dubbed into another language. So I try tried to write the lyrics in Korean as much as I could but pronounce it differently. For example, I rolled my tongue more for pronouncing "round and round" in song "KNOCK OUT." I regarded my voice itself as an instrument so I paid careful attention to the effect that my voice is giving off.
10: I think that's why it seemed like you purposely affected your voice this time. GD : Yes and I do it quite often. I tried as hard as I could to make it sound like an instrument and I also tried to make as many instrumental sounds as I could with my mouth.
10: T.O.P, you on the other hand, pronounce your words very accurately -- it's probably the most accurate you've sounded out of all of your albums so far. You've made the complete opposite choice from GD. TOP : It wasn't something I intended on, I just went with how I felt, but I have changed my vocalization technique. A lot of people listen to Big Ban's music so I want people to hear each and every sound, as if I'm talking right into their ears.
10: I think that's how your voices work together to produce the songs we hear in the songs in your album. For example, in "HIGH HIGH" and "DON'T LEAVE," GD seems to be leading the flow of the sound rather than just rapping while T.O.P on the other hand gives impacts to the songs. GD: T.O.P's voice has weight and is very charismatic while mine is extremely light so I think we work well when I flutter around his grounded voice. (laugh)
10: But it's interesting to see that this is the album that two artists with such contrasting styles have produced. It's as if it reaches a bit beyond reality, that it's literally 'high.' GD : Yes. That's the style we like. T.O.P: We wanted to create music that is dreamy and with a sense of space.
10: Why did you choose to go with such sound? Both "HIGH HIGH" and "OH YEAH" seem to go beyond music one would listen to at a club to have fun and rather give off the vibe that you're 'drunk' with your music, as if you've reached a state of nirvana. GD: We wanted to make music that can be pictured in one's mind, just by reading the lyrics, and we wanted to make music that is visual like a movie. It's no fun simply enjoying yourself all the way from start to finish. During concerts as well, it is up to us to lead the crowd and in order to do that we have to know when to push, pull, loosen or tighten, because that's how you create tension for excitement. So even during the short playing time, we changed the flow of the song and emotions expressed within it, and added in various effects to create ups and downs to make the listeners become immersed.
10: Is that how you brought the sense of space felt in clubs to life? You seemed to have made quite an effort to create the space at which your song is being sung as well as giving it different texture depending on what the song sings of. GD: That's something we demand for in extreme detail. We don't say, "Hey, let's have that guy who's good at mixing work on our music" but instead explain everything saying, "Bro, this part has to ring more, as if we are singing from somewhere very far in the background and this part has to seem more as if we're whispering." T.O.P : Our company also puts in the most effort into the sound mixing. Yang will sometimes do the mixing himself as well. For this album as well, the sound will seem different depending on whether you're listening to a CD or listening to the digital sound source because our boss personally took care of the sound mixing himself to suit the listening environment. (laugh) GD: That's why YG's music is different depending on the generation you're in -- Perry's generation, Teddy's generation and our generation. Each producer will imagine of different sounds and that precisely is what gets reflected into the albums they work on.
10: That is why when you listen to "HIGH HIGH" or "OH YEAH," they sounded similar to Big Bang's electronica style on the surface but it rather seems you two reproduced what goes on inside a club. And there may not be too many people who know how to enjoy themselves with the sort club that your song gives off. T.O.P: We too knew we may be taking a chance. But if we had focused simply on the song's commercial success, we would've gone with the styles we did as Big Bang but we altered it a bit instead. And the first things we wanted to do was to present the public with our color to show who we are. We kept thinking that we need to seem different in some way since we're in front of the public for the first time in a while. GD : Whether people know about club culture or not, I wanted to make them think, "Ah, so that's how you have fun in the club and that's how you move to this music to have fun" from watching our performances. We were confident that we could make people understand our music through our televised performance.
10: But "HIGH HIGH" and "OH YEAH" were not composed by you two although they're the title tracks to your album. T.O.P: When we first started working together, we wanted to do more heartwarming music. But we needed to take the public into consideration to a certain extent and our CEO thought the same as well so we asked Teddy for his help. We set the direction the details to the songs would take but we somewhat needed to go with a style that people are familiar with. GD : There actually hadn't been that many of Teddy's songs in Big Bang's albums so far. We always talk about this with Teddy as well but it had been hard to work with him because composers with strong musical tendencies don't work with each other a lot. But we came to realize that we couldn't stay like this so we had talked with him from six months ago and reached a conclusion. (laugh) When we get a song from Teddy, he'll pass a song to us after he comes up with the structure for it. He'll take his hands off of it completely. Then we'll talk again to him again to share our opinions. I think these are the two songs we worked on together properly.
10: That's why "HIGH HIGH" very strongly exudes your style GD, even though you didn't compose it. It's as if the song changes a level at each new section. GD: I think it's because I start the song and when I come in strong, T.O.P will set the grounds for the song and when T.O.P comes in strong, I'll set the ground for the song, which is why the song was fun. We didn't want it to be boring. T.O.P: I think that's the result of our collaboration. We all have different styles so the whole process was about us adding our individual interpretations of the song if Teddy presents us with the basic direction. I think that's why it felt a bit different.
10: But the response for "KNOCK OUT," which you don't promote much and "DON'T LEAVE" which you haven't sung on television at all, have gained response as favorable as that of "HIGH HIGH" or "OH YEAH." It's not easy for songs like "KNOCK OUT" that has no melody and contains only rap, to get such response. T.O.P: To be honest, I didn't think the public would like this song. But at the same time, I also had a hunch that they might. It's true that hip-hop element becomes more prominent when GD and I work together but we just wanted to do something that can be expressed at our age. While taking a break from our activities as Big Bang, I think hip-hop was the music through which we could express what we have felt and learned instinctively. We could've gone the easy way but we wanted to draw a bigger picture for ourselves. GD: We aren't not confident when we release new albums, whether it be Big Bang's or Seungri's. What we're not sure of is the rapid change in music trend. We'll release an album but people will only listen to the title song and forget about the rest of the tracks. In the past, we used to have this nostalgia for music like how old I was at the time and how it comforted me when I was with who. But now everything is decided within three weeks time and most people go "I only remember the chorus of the song." I think we need to make people think of every song in an album as title tracks to catch up with this trend. And in order to do that, the overall flow and the quality of the songs have to be close to perfect.
10: So you're saying that "HIGH HIGH" is not the only title track? GD: We wanted to create an album in which some enjoy "HIGH HIGH" and others prefer "BABY GOOD NIGHT." So we didn't put in extra effort into the title track. Of the songs we worked on with Teddy, we decided that the piece that is likely to be embraced by the majority of listeners would be the title track and tried to balance out the album by including other songs with different charms.
10: Apart from "HIGH HIGH" and "OH YEAH," your album seems to have reached out to genres beyond electronica, such as hip-hop or something entirely different. T.O.P : This is the album that contains most number of music that we wanted to do. Electronica alone sounds too cold and we get tired of that easily. We wanted to put a lot of effort into inserting what we felt throughout our singing career into each and every one of our songs by using new methods.
10: Couldn't you have been more adventurous then? If you had chosen "KNOCK OUT" as the title track, you could have presented a new style to mainstream music. T.O.P: That's what we're disappointed about too. You're allowed to use the term 'knockout' and curse in dramas but that's not quite the case with music. We want to promote "KNOCK OUT" too. (laugh) GD: I'm not sure if it's alright to say this (laugh) but I got the idea for "KNOCK OUT" while watching "My Name is Kim Sam-soon (MBC, 2005)." Kim Suna keeps repeating "It completely knocks me out, it's a knockout." I started composing the song based on that idea but the screening committee will not give it the green light. (laugh)
10: That seems to be the most personal story of the songs to your album (laugh). But how does it feel to receive response to the music you two have most wanted to do? The lyrics also tell of your personal stories and it's all working with the public. T.O.P: I think we had always wanted to create music of our own in which listeners have no choice but to recognize. So I think what we wanted to achieve the most through this album was to produce an album [so great that] nobody would say anything about Big Bang's music in the future, no matter what it's like.
10: I'm sure your thoughts on music has changed a lot as well. You're both heading more and more towards doing music that is of your personal taste and talks about yourselves. GD: It's been five years since we debuted as members of Big Bang but I think we're finally feeling a sense of satisfaction. I'm sure it would've been difficult to make a hit out of "KNOCK OUT" had we promoted it when we first debuted. But it feels like we're heading in the way we intended them to. I think that the more we present people with such music, the more they'll naturally come to accept it. It feels like things are going the way we hoped and pictured them to be. T.O.P: If possible, we'd like for our album to be remembered as a work of art, something that people can picture in their minds, instead of something they just forget about after listening to. GD: And if I may add one more thought about Big Bang, we are aware of the rumors of discord amongst our members with our album getting pushed back. But we've proceeded with both our and Seungri's album thinking they are projects leading up to Big Bang's album. What matters is not who comes out first and in what way it happens but that we present the path we want to take. If you consider our performances as 'shows,' there'll be the show us to put on, Seungri's show, and Big Bang's show and I'm hoping you'll enjoy all of them. We get upset over such rumors but they also cause headaches when we talk about them. T.O.P: Discord or whatever it is people call it, we've never even fought before. (laugh)
10: What will Big Bang's next step be? GD: Whenever we get together, we always say we should do heartwarming music. People may think that singers are supposed to do music that will relieve them of their exhaustion from everyday life but we want to think of things on a bigger picture. We live in a harsh world and people have changed a lot. We may still be considered young but there's a definite difference even between us and the generation below us. So if we could, we'd like to change that through our music. That's why we want to do heartwarming music and why the next album we release as Big Bang may be very different from what you're expecting from us. At the same time, there are reasons people like us because we have a style that is unique of us and for the music we've always done so we'll still have to satisfy those two prerequisites.
10: It somehow seems you two have become grown ups while working on this album. GD: During the past two years we halted our activities as Big Bang, there had been various rumors about us but I think we rather matured a lot because of that, growing closer to each other and forming stronger bonds. We may still be young but it's as if Big Bang as a group has become bigger. I can't tell you everything yet but I think proving how big we've become will be more important than what music we do.
10: A bigger Big Bang? GD: Our upcoming Big Bang album will involve us working with artists in various genres which will largely expand the scope of music we do. I'm excited to get to create a bigger framework for ourselves. For example, you can consider Diplo's participation in "KNOCK OUT" as the start to it. And it didn't get included in the album but we tried to work with Tiesto as well. Through such collaborations, we wanted to show the public that such attractive music exists and encourage them to listen to it. We're not teachers of any sort but as people who know a bit about music, we hope our music will tell people, "What do you think of this kind of music? Try listening to it. And try having fun like this."
10: Your job is always about showing something to others but it feels like that with this album, you found the balance between talking about yourself and what you show on stage. T.O.P: We have definitely changed in regards to personality but I don't think for the worse. (laugh) Our perception has broadened a bit which is why I think we were able to enjoy more freedom in making in this album. I don't think how we rank on music charts will matter anymore. GD: Because we produced the album ourselves. We'd be putting on an act if the lyrics to our songs were about things we didn't or couldn't do but what we speak of are things that only we can speak of. So that's what we tried to write about as much as possible. In the future, when people listen to our music, we'd like to make people think, "Yes, they'll think this because they're Big Bang" instead of "Oh, they actually know how to think like this?"
Senior Reporter : Kang Myoung-Seok two@ Photographer : Chae ki-won ten@, Lee Jin-hyuk eleven@ Editor : Jessica Kim jesskim@, Lee Ji-Hye seven@, Heidi Kim heidikim@
When boy band SHINee debuted in May 2008 with "Replay," Taemin, the youngest of the members, was only a 9th grader. And by the time SHINee gave their first concert "SHINee World" on January 1, 2011, Taemin said he is about to see the end of his teenage years. SHINee, who has continuously grown in presence during the past two and a half years, releasing two regular albums and three mini-albums in the process, put on a concert which shows the artists as they are. Following is a press conference with the boys held on the second day of their concert on January 2.
10: How does it feel to get to hold your own concert for the first time? Did you prepare any thing extra? Jonghyun: During practice, I was excited that I'd get to perform so many songs on such a big stage and I was happy that it seemed like we had improved by gaining a lot of experience. It feels absolutely great to begin the New Year with our fans and it feels like we'll do well in the year 2011 too. Key : I was worried about how to do a good job of repackaging our title songs for the concert but we've managed to create some fun and interesting performances so I think that'll be the charm to our concert.
10: How would you score your first series of the concert you held yesterday, the first day of the New Year? Jonghyun : Since it's our first concert it feels like we could've done more. Key : If I look back at each and every moment of yesterday's concert, I find that nothing was satisfactory and there is only much to feel regretful of. I think I'll have to make up for it today by trying really hard. To score ourselves… Onew : My score is… (laugh) Minho : What is it? Onew : About 30 points… Jonghyun : Out of what? Onew : About 300 points? Jonghyun : The lower we score ourselves, the more we'll work harder to improve through experience so we'll try to put on a better performance today than we did yesterday. (laugh)
10: You're known for crying everytime you perform at concerts. Who would you say cries the most?
Jonghyun: But we've only held a concert once! Minho : There is one cry baby in our team. Key : I am usually the first to shed tears in concert… Jonghyun : Key and Onew are just too sentimental… Minho : (to Jonghyun) Wait, how dare you try to sneak out of it? (laugh) Jonghyun : We'd been preparing for and dreaming of this concert for so long that I think we all became increasingly emotional as the end drew near and we ended up crying because we felt grateful toward our fans and staff members. (laugh) Onew : I hope you don't make too much of a fuss over us having cried so hard.
10: Did any incidents occur while preparing for this concert? Jonghyun : This isn't exactly what you'd call an 'incident' but we had to go to three year-end award ceremonies in a row so we had to work till very late and then rehearse for our concert till nine o'clock in the morning. Key : We greeted the New Year at the venue for our concert. (laugh) Onew : It was like we became early birds with the coming of the New Year. (laugh)
10: Your recent concert in Japan also ended a success but it seems language will be important to your future activities in Japan. How is studying Japanese coming and who's the best? Jonghyun: Everybody started taking Japanese lessons at the same time and we usually study about Japanese culture through dramas or animations. And Key seems to excel at Japanese. He's really good. Minho : He's gifted. Key : (in Japanese) Everyone, we are delighted to have you all here. Thank you for coming to our concert.
10: Key, you seem to have grown a lot taller during the past few months despite your busy schedule. What's your secret? Onew : He had a hard time having to grow while leading a busy schedule. (laugh) Key : I had stayed the same height for about a year and a half after I debuted but I've been hearing that a lot these days. I don't know what I did, I guess it's just time to. Jonghyun: Seriously, what's the secret? Key : Maybe because I eat a lot? Or eat well? It may also do with my staying in a good mood all the time.
10: Onew sang opera Turandot's "Nessun Dorma" for his individual performance at the concert which was quite an unusual selection. Why did you choose that song? It must have been quite different from practicing SHINee's songs.
Onew: I chose that song with the hope that it will touch people's hearts greatly but practicing it was really tough. And although I four or five lessons, I went into a brief slump because I was doubtful of being able to pull it off. But I pushed ahead, thinking that I want to impress people and believing that I'd be able to move them if I sang it with my heart.
10: Minho, how is it performing with Simon D from Supreme Team for your individual performance and you Key, with Krystal from f(x)? Minho : I performed alone yesterday but I'm performing with Simon D. today. I was looking for a way to encourage the audience to become one with me the stage and to make my performance even more enjoyable so I decided to have Simon D. perform with me. I hope you enjoy today's performance. Key : Having decided to sing 3OH!3's "My First Kiss," I thought it would be a good idea to have a female performer join me. So I began to think of the person who would be perfect at pushing me away for the performance when I thought up Krystal. She did an excellent job as expected.
10: Taemin, you're the youngest member of the group set to turn 18 this year. How do you feel? Taemin : This will be my last year as a teenager. In the past I think people took my age into consideration when complimenting me for my performance but since that will no longer be the case, I will have to work even harder once I become a real adult.
10: Your biggest strength is known to be dancing but you'll be singing "Romeo+Juliette" all by yourself this time. It seems like you have been going through vocal training.
Taemin : Frankly speaking, I hadn't been that great in singing ever since my debut so the task got me motivated as a challenge to do more. I began practicing and because it seemed like I was improving, I've been pressing myself to keep up with it since then. Onew: Taemin practices singing in the company even after finishing his schedule at dawn. He is really a hard-working guy so the rest of us want to learn from him in that aspect.
10: I think having performed in front of over 10,000 fans for your latest concert must have helped you realize a new sense of confidence and maturity from within yourselves. What will your goals be for the New Year? Jonghyun: I don't think the number of audience and size of the stage matters. We'll keep working hard to show good performances. Minho: As it is our goal to improve and show more character with the hope of becoming more familiar with the audience, we will reflect the experience we gain on this big stage on the New Year in our future performances. Onew: I would like for there to be many chances for us to be with our fans like concerts. Furthermore our Japanese debut is set for March so we'll be actively promoting ourselves in Japan around that time as well. In the meantime, Korean fans, please listen to our music a lot so that you don't get too lonely. (laugh). We'll keep up the good performance.
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It seems that IU has become a favourite among kpop stars these days,many of them have taken selcas with her already,i wonder who will be the next person to snap one with her ^ ^
Girl's Generation, 4minute, Kara, Brown Eyed Girls. They all have moved on to the Japanese market.
With news of T-ara being offered millions of dollars to be signed on to a Japanese label to advance into the market, why hasnt any action been done yet?
"T-ara were trained to be entertainers. All-around entertaining including movies, musicals, acting, and variety shows. That was always our goal with T-ara." CCM explains. And because of these activities T-ara have gained more fans through showing a wide variety of charms.
Kim Kwangsoo, CEO of Core Contents Media, explains, "T-ara has received alot of offers, and they are very big offers, too, from major japanese labels. We are in the final step of negotiations, but we are still extremely careful. The members are currently enjoying success as soloists and are very busy"
January 3rd was the mark of Eunjung's 2nd lead drama, "Dream High". She was previously cast in "Coffee House" as the lead actress, and has also been cast in the movie "White" as a lead actress.
Boram's debut in the musical world happened recently, through the musical "I Really Really Like You" with her father, the musical legend Jeon Youngrok. She has also appeared in a CF-drama with 2PM.
Jiyeon who has debuted in her movie 'Death Bell 2' was also cast in the dramas 'Jungle Fish 2' and 'God of Study' to which people praise her for acting weird characters well.
Hyomin is a regular member of 'Invincible Youth' and was also cast in 'My Girlfriend is a Gumiho'.
Soyeon who has been active in variety shows, has also received, and accepted, a movie role last year. The release date of the movie is still yet to be revealed.
Qri was also cast in the drama "South Korean Trader Kim Cheol-Soo". Kim Kwangsoo revealed that Qri along with Hwayoung has also received movie roles, but has yet to decide on them.
Finally Kim Kwangsoo ended the interview saying "We are not in a rush and will never rush T-ara's entrance to the japanese market. We are just more on building a solid identity of T-ara more"
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Cr: Newsen Written By: Lee Jaehwan Translation By: *YANiPOPO* @tiaradiadem.com
2AM, who just held a succesful concert not long ago, appeared as guest stars on the Special New Year edition of MBC comedy show "First Time In My Life". In one of the corner in "First Time In My Life" called "Let's Try To Be Honest" each of the members revealed their honest feelings.Chang Min, who always says that Kara's Ji Young is his ideal type, revealed that he was waiting for Ji Young to graduate. And Seul Ong, who has the body envied by health trainers, revealed that he once tried eating 100 eggs to work on his chest, surprising everybody and leaving everybody envious. Jo Kwon revealed that he shook his pelvis to buy a house and the studio burst into laughter. Jin Woon also revealed that he hated girls who did not wear short skirts and everybody cheered. 2AM did not just revealed their honest thoughts, but Jo Kwon and Chang Min also surprisingly transformed into kindergarten students. All of that can be seen in "First Time In My Life" aired on January 5. S: nate TRANS: suzelle@IAMfor2AM - 2AM International Forum
Perez Hilton, popular blogger in the American entertainment world, prases TVXQ new album title song "WHY" (Keep Your Head Down) MV.
On the 3rd after TVXQ new MV has been revealed, Perez Hilton on his self managed blog "perezhilton.com" posted TVXQ MV, and provided positive comments.
Using "K-Pop Fierceness!!!" as the title, and wrote under the video "Check out the brand new music video from TVXQ (above)! Too hot to handle!!!!"
Visitors of the blog left comments such as "that was better than most american music videos!!!""one of the best 4:46 minutes of my life!". In addition, Perez Hilton's blog was placed 34th in Billboard magazine as the best way to promote music around the world.
Sunny talked about how her parents were concerned because of her adolescent-like attitude which only came after debut.
On MBC's 'Come To Play' aired on January 3rd, Sunny confessed, "I did not go through adolescence. Indeed, there was no adolescent rebellion".
Sunny elaborated, "My adolescent-like attitude only came after debut which became quite an issue. One day, my sister gave me a call from US. She said, 'mom and dad wanted to punish you but they decided not to'. After seeing me working so hard, mom and dad just could not get themselves to reveal it to me although it was upsetting for them".
Sunny added, "When mom and dad noticed what I have gone through, they felt the pain inside them". After revealing her touching story, tears came rolling down Sunny's cheeks.
If you had expected the sweet music of girl groups, then you are wrong about VNT. Their debut song "Sound (Yeyeye)" is a strong dance music, which adds R&B to hip hop rhythm. Among the girl groups performing, they made 2NE1 as their role model & competitor. They said, "2NE1′s stage is the best. They seem to really know how to rock & enjoy the stages. Uncle Gun Mo advised us to "always be on the stage jumping, enjoying the stage like you are in the singing room."
SHINee held their first solo concert, titled "SHINee World", on January 1, at the Olympic Stadium in Seoul. The day after, before their second performance, the boys held a press conference to discuss the concert.
Although the boys were tired, having to attend three year-end award ceremonies in a row and then rehearsing for their concert, Jonghyun stated that they were excited to spend the New Year with their fans. However, looking back on their first solo concert the night before, he admitted that he thought they could have done more to improve things. Key agreed, saying, "I find that nothing was satisfactory and there is only much to feel regretful of. I think I'll have to make up for it today by trying really hard." Onew joked that if he had to score his performance during the concert, he would have given himself "About 30 points… [out of]… about 300 points?" Ouch! Don't be so hard on yourselves, guys. Your fans love you and they know how hard you've been working. However, Jonghyun assured reporters that it was a good thing. " The lower we score ourselves, the more we'll work harder to improve through experience so we'll try to put on a better performance today than we did yesterday."
In any case, we bet the concert went a lot better than these modest boys claimed. For his solo performance, Onew surprised fans by choosing an extremely difficult… opera aria! He sang the gorgeous "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". When asked why he chose such a difficult and unusual piece, he said, "I chose that song with the hope that it will touch people's hearts greatly, [but] I went into a brief slump because I was doubtful of being able to pull it off. But I pushed ahead, thinking that I want to impress people and believing that I'd be able to move them if I sang it with my heart." Minho and Key opted for a slightly more familiar route for their solo performance, pairing up with veteran performers. Minho rapped with Simon D. from Supreme Team, and Key covered 3OH!3's "My First Kiss" with f(x)'s Krystal.
Since the boys debuted at a young age in 2008, they've had to grow up in the public eye. Reporters told Key that he seemed to have gained quite a bit of height during the past few months. Jonghyun teased him, asking what the secret was. Key responded, "Maybe because I eat a lot? Or eat well? It may also do with my staying in a good mood all the time." The reporters also asked how maknae Taemin felt about turning 18 this year. Taemin responded that he would have to work even harder once he became a "real adult", because people would no longer cut him slack by considering him to be a kid. We don't think he'll have any problems, considering that Onew stated that the rest of the group looks up to Taemin for his intense work ethic. Apparently the maknae of the group practices singing even after finishing his schedule at dawn!
When a reporter mentioned that SHINee appears to cry during every performance, the boys started joking and defending themselves. Jonghyun protested, "But we've only held a concert once!", while Minho clarified that "There's only one crybaby in our team." Key admitted, "I am usually the first to shed tears in concert." When Jonghyun began to chide Key and Onew for being too sentimental, Minho said to Jonghyun, "Wait, how dare you try to [escape blame for being sentimental]?" Onew addressed reporters worriedly. "I hope you don't make too much of a fuss over us having cried so hard!"
We think the boys can be sentimental all they want! They had a great year in 2010, performing in front of over 10,000 fans and seeing their concerts in Japan and Korea get sold out immediately. But this is just one year of many. Jonghyun said, "It feels absolutely great to begin the New Year with our fans and it feels like we'll do well in the year 2011 too."
The final battle we're talking about here is Daum's '2010 Idol Voting Final – Fan Battle'. With 114,428 votes from the 1-week poll, SNSD again have proven their domination not only in the music industry in Korea, Japan and all over Asia but also in the hearts of the fans. Winning by a comfortable significant margin of more than 70,000 votes over their closest challenger, Kara who also made a big splash in Japan in 2010, the girls are kicking off 2011 with a great head start.
T-ara came in 3rd with 21,817 votes while 2NE1 and rookie, miss A took the 4th and 5th spot respectively.
Eunjung from the girl group, T-ara has established herself clearly as an 'actor' in KBS2tV's 'Dream High.'
On the first broadcast of 'Dream High' (January 3rd), Eunjung, who plays a young singer, proved her acting skills with her charisma.
Eunjung's character Yoon Becky looks up to Hyemi (miss A's Suji) and they train together and Becky looks up to Hyemi. Later Hyemi is eliminated from a contest (?), and Becky gains confidence.
Eunjung first debut as a child actor in the 2004 drama 'Land' and last year had a role in 'Coffee House.' Her second big role came in the drama 'Dream High' and gives a more clear impression of Eunjung's acting skills.
The viewers also praised Eunjung's acting. "Eunjung's acting is the best out of the idols and has become better," "Eunjung's expressions are changing."
*** Source: Nate Written by: Mun Wansik Translated by: Nathaniel @ Diadem
Girls' Generation fans get excited! SM Entertainment is sponsoring a fan meet-up in Los Angeles on January 8, 2011 and is inviting all fans to come join us! The event will be from 3PM-5PM at CGV Cinema! There will be plenty of special media/content from SM Entertainment being shown as well as free goodies to be given out to fans!
All fans are invited to come and show SM Entertainment how much you love the girls! Bring your placards/Girls' Generation support items (lightsticks, banners, posters, whatever you have) to the event and get ready for some fun surprises (yes that means taking out that Soshified SM Town Meet-up shirt and wearing it to the event!)! Let all your friends know and spread the word!
MBLAQ Mir has become a second generation of rich farmer at entertainment industry after Kim Suro.
Mir has appeared in MBC 'Come to Play' special episode of 'Century of Good Daughters', which was broadcast at night of 3rd, and revealed a hidden background of his family.
At this day's broadcast which SNSD members appeared and talked about filial duty, Mir appeared as a candidate of good son-in-law along with Lee Joon, BEAST Lee Kikwang, Yang Yoseob, Super Junior Lee Teuk, and Yesung.
At a process of explaining SNSD members why he is a good son-in-law, Mir revealed that "I have a 400 floor spaces of a house with a garden. There are also 8 mountains in our family's property.", which surprised everyone.
Mir rise up as a rich farmer's son which threatened Kim Suro by also stating as "We raise a lot of black goats and that black goat is knocking over the mountain. We are also raising home-made ginseng.".
SNSD made a cameo appearance on Japan's drama 'Sazae-san Season 3′ which was aired on Fuji TV on January 2nd. The girls appeared as caddies on a golf course.
SNSD appeared in Nami Hara's dream where the main star struck a hole-in-one and the beautiful caddies (SNSD) ran up to him and cheered, "wonderful", "sugoi(amazing)" and "nice shot".
With lively gestures and expressions, the girls introduced themselves, "We are Shoujo Jidai" and revealed their dreams by saying, "We want to be singing and dancing stars". Upon hearing that, the leading male character in the drama gave them a big cheer.
Although it was only a brief and short appearance on the drama, the name 'Shoujo Jidai' left a very deep impression in the minds of Japanese viewers.
'Sazae-san' is adapted from one of Japan's popular 'national animation' of the same name. Due to the overwhelming response for Season 1 and 2, 'Sazae-san season 3′ is currently being aired to fulfill the viewers' high demand.
Supreme Team just released Soundtrack for Athena.
When boy band SHINee debuted in May 2008 with "Replay," Taemin, the youngest of the members, was only a 9th grader. And by the time SHINee gave their first concert "SHINee World" on January 1, 2011, Taemin said he is about to see the end of his teenage years. SHINee, who has continuously grown in presence during the past two and a half years, releasing two regular albums and three mini-albums in the process, put on a concert which shows the artists as they are. Following is a press conference with the boys held on the second day of their concert on January 2. 
10: You're known for crying everytime you perform at concerts. Who would you say cries the most?
10: Onew sang opera Turandot's "Nessun Dorma" for his individual performance at the concert which was quite an unusual selection. Why did you choose that song? It must have been quite different from practicing SHINee's songs.
10: Your biggest strength is known to be dancing but you'll be singing "Romeo+Juliette" all by yourself this time. It seems like you have been going through vocal training.
Girl's Generation, 4minute, Kara, Brown Eyed Girls. They all have moved on to the Japanese market.
SNSD made a cameo appearance on Japan's drama 'Sazae-san Season 3′ which was aired on Fuji TV on January 2nd. The girls appeared as caddies on a golf course. 
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