I don’t really want to be a bitch but ..
what is this really?
I slightly jumped out of my skin …
when i first saw the facial tattoo!
AND FELL OFF MY CHAIR WHEN I REALIZED A FAN
BROUGHT AN ACTUAL LIVE BOA TO THE CONCERT?
What kinda image is that? Is that really her? and what kinda fans does she have? Are you even allowed to bring a wild animal in the freaking public concert?
Would you believe if I’d tell you she is the same girl we have up on our banner? GOD I MISS OLD SCHOOL KPOP SO BAD THESE DAYS .. it’s cause of this I was always against the cross over of these kids to the States! I heard Se7en already packed and returned to Korea! I can’t wait to have my old Se7en back! I MISS HIM SO MUCH!
It’s the end of the year Music Festivals, but this year it’s either the bad economy or the down turn of the general global interest in KPOP that caused no excitement even in singer line ups and planning!
But, just when we were bored out of our mind, deciding whether it worth our time watching any of these Festivals or not, LSM announced that will ship back BOA to Korea for the SBS Gayo DaeJeon performance of the miserable choice of debut song of “Eat You Up”!
Speaking of BOA and her English songs …
Seriously, we all know the ending of her US debut story already!
But just there, there is another song BOA sings along with that Yummy Yummy, LSM, BOA Will EAT YOUR TUMMY!
(How love between these two is at bloom, By the way!)
You know what I am talking about nah!
That other song that is called “Look Who’s Talking”
That one has a nicer beat and dance!
BoA – Look Who’s Talking [Jingle Ball Village]
Dear LSM-y, when we said the first MV was awful we didn’t mean the second one was any better, we just meant the second one was better than the first one! The whole song and concept of this debut song is just wrong dear! Do us all a favor and make that girl debut with “Look Who’s Talking” instead before it gets too late! Not that we foresee the future, it’s just that we can see!
Where was I? Oh, yeah so they are making BOA comeback to Korea to promote her single? that doesn’t even exist? I donno people … it just seems so childish all that is going on these days .. then again another look at the list of the performances .. all I see is pathetic attempt of junking those 9 number shoved into every possible opportunity!
From Big Bang and So Nyeo Shi Dae [Music Drama] to planning to perform still to that “Kissing You” song, which after over year hearing that song on and off, it’s more appropriate to be called “Killing YOU!” instead! Man, give up on that song already, WILL YA!
Update: I can’t believe they can’t still sing that crap live!
Anyways, the sudden rush of rubbing the failure number on the face of TV screens is a bit odd and that is when we all know how popular they are! The proof of that is the facial reaction of SNSD leader during the Button rehearsal, when crowd went wild for the WonderGirls leader! Miss TaeYeon, the so called the most popular and successful of all the rest of the failure-9-number could sit down right there cry! You don’t even need brain to realize the obvious! It was not until her prays was answered during her solo act later on that you could hear her releasing a breath! But just to realize when it came to the real performance the PD did the justice and rarely caught her on camera! Since that performance was the total failure all together, we let you do the googling!
Back to BOA, so could it be that LSM had to buy up the screen time for them through yet another sad attempt of using their seniors and this time DBSK or SUJU didn’t get them far enough but BOA!?
“BoA and even former employees were not able to hide their surprise,” a SM representative said after they were notified of how BoA managed to make her way up onto Amazon and iTunes charts. “It’s a good start because we didn’t publicly release the song nor do promotions. It will accelerate her growth from being Asia’s Diva to a Worldwide Diva.”
Next week BoA will go around TV stations in the U.S. to start full-scale promotional activities. She will go on local radio stations, tv programs and visit music stores to promote and increase awareness .
SM revealed that they will be taking highlights from the Eat You up mv by director Cha Eun Taek and showing them on large screens in New York and Los Angeles. The promotional video will be shown every 2 minutes at New York’s Broadway and will continously be shown at LA’s Wilshire Boulevard from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
The large screen promotions will continue for the next 3 months revealing other various clips in sequential order.
Plans on releasing her first album early next year and having a national tour have not changed. The title track off her album Look Who’s Talking, which is a strong song but is not by the same team that made Eat You Up. The song has been completed along with the choreography.
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translation + cre: suejinners @ BJJ
man, i wont even bother to read that shit about the promotional video schedule up there. but then of course, i’m not a BoA fan.
ANYWAY.
The MV starts with a few seconds of whatthefuck moment when BoA is literally described as “Best of Asia” and “Bring on America!”. and more seconds to show her achievements, like winning MTV Asia Award for The Most Influential Asian Artist, being interviewed by CNN and Financial Times (and i assume the topic of the interview was about bailout and the world’s economy? ionno, im not really into CNN and FT. not my kinda thing, you know what i mean?), being able to pull the Matrix stunt (1:15) and errr…driving a car (0: 35).
Now how that sounds, America? the girl can do THE MATRIX moves and kick some ass!!
The beginning scenes of the song (1:27) seems promising, with the futuristic city and tower and all. But then BoA’s face shows up and refuses to disappear (as in every scene is about her fukin face. ONLY.),and BHOOM!!, everything’s ruined.
The song’s quite catchy tho.
It reminds me of Britney Spears. Just that i’ve never heard any Britney’s song with a cat constantly meaow-ing in the background.
Well, wish you luck in America, BoA!
and America, wish you luck too, cos BoA is about to Eat You Up, ALIVE!! (for Boa: put more pepper and salt. heard American meat doesnt taste that good. ask Se7en if you dont trust me.)
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To our patient readers who have only shown us kindness… Sorry for the lack of updates, we will be more dedicated in future to giving more updates to the blog. Our forums is where we’ve mainly been updating, nevertheless we will be giving more attention to the blog from now on. So in that respect I will be rounding up some news in one post to get us a little up to date.
Choi JinShils Suicide
Another sad and depressing piece of news has rocked the entertainment industry. Choi JinShil the talented actress and mother of two was found dead on the morning of the 2nd of October. Ms. Choi had committed suicide in the bathroom and was discovered by her mother. Apparently, one of the causes of her suicide was lending money to the late Ahn JaeHwan, who also committed suicide last month. Our heartfelt condolences go out to her family and two children, rest in peace Choi JinShil. I came to adore Choi JinShil for her role in 장밋빛 인생 (also known as My Rosy Life), and kept an eye out for her appearances in other dramas, she is truly a great loss to the acting community.
Cast for Hana Yori Dango FINALLY revealed!
Just as the last ounce of interest was about to leave, they announce the F4 lead characters, yet no news on the lead girl. Anyhow, earlier this week Group 8 kindly let us know who will be starring in their ever-so-special Korean version of the Japanese mange “Hana Yori Dango” (Boys over Flowers). F4s Domyouji Tsukasa will be Lee MinHo, Hanazawa Rui is Kim HyunJoong (shock horror), Nishikada Sojiroh is Kim Bum and Mimisaka Akira is Kim Joon. After all this time, you would think that they would blow us away with a high profile cast, nevertheless I am remotely interested after seeing the list. The acting I imagine will be somewhat decent considering two of the boys are actors, whatever happened to all those idols auditioning? What next? The female lead please.
BoA needs her lunch
Whether this entire song is a play on little Miss.Kwon BoAs name we don’t know, but BoAs debut song for the US has been leaked? Released? With SM and Kpop artists/entertainment companies I really don’t know anymore. Check out BoAs American debut single “Eat You Up” though on Toudou…
Damn is the chorus catchy
SeeYa are back as…?
That big bow and hair and wigs and clothes and….O_O
Balladeers go disco. SeeYa come back in to the limelight with a new single titled “Hot Girls”, with an unexpected twist of image. Their clothes remind me of Roller Discos, all that is missing is retro roller skates and SeeYa are good to go….straight in to the 70s. What a waste of talent really, I do not dig the outfits, the hair, the clothes and choreography, the song isn’t so bad though. Whatever happened though to the news of Nam GyuRi leaving SeeYa? To be honest, I actually was egging on the news, since I find the two other members are criminally underrated and I truly don’t get all the interest Nam GyuRi is getting. Anyhow, good luck to them and their promotions, it’s sure to do well since SeeYa are so popular.
Epik Highs new album
Epik High – 1분 1초 (feat. 타루) English subbed by TheAsianMission
Epik High and their music differs from Season to Season/album to album yet still remains the same, and that is what’s so special about them. I have Epik Highs new mini-album and it’s up to par as expected with the talented Trio. 1분 1초 (1 minute 1 second) is definitely worth a listen and a watch for the MV, the rewinding and artistic interpretation of the songs meaning is vintage Epik High and continues to impress you as time goes on. It almost seems like these guys make things so effortlessly. I can’t wait to see them perform, their stage presence is always so captivating.
On a final note, The 7-Day Relay has been cancelled for more up-to-date and regular posts.
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After what seems like my week vacation (while Michelle took over the reigns of the weekly update), I realised how much I enjoyed writing these up. And I hope that you guys do enjoy them. With a thanks to Michelle, lets go ahead with this weeks news.
The Legend is Here.
And it’s damn good he is. Musical God Seo TaiJi has made his comeback sooner than expected and we are not complaining. He dropped his album earlier this week and unsurprisingly it’s been selling like hotcakes. Let me be honest for a sec here and tell you how I reacted to the news, I fangirled when I heard he was coming back sooner, I fangirled when the teaser started, and I super fangirled when I heard his voice again. Funnily enough I am no fangirl, but you guys need to know how awesome this man is. He didnt just pave the way with pretty bricks for this generations biggest creative singers but he also planted flowers and added shrubbery. His impact breathed life and enriched the soils of the K-Music industry, as his single “Moai” sold an astounding 37,408 copies on the first day of release. (thats not even including preorders and illegal downloads throughout the week ). This breaks Brown Eyes record in June, that shook up the industry itself, (they only sold 15,000). This is more significant as it is a single album (commonly known as mini-album), as opposed to Brown Eyes’s full studio album. How is that for you? Seo TaiJis re-introduction in to the Music Biz, breathes life in to it and makes things more exciting! Bring it on.
Check out the super awesome MV teaser, that he shot on Easter Island:
Held Up Due to Heavy Rain
Is apparently the reason why Big Bang is not back. They were originally scheduled to release their MV and mini-album on August 1st. But, due to the downpour their MV filming had to be delayed as they are filming outdoors. They have set both their album and MV release for the novel date 08.08.08, those dates over the years are usually left for gimmicks and marriages (I prefer the date 11.11.11 wait for my album then). Oh right and on the day of the Olympics, I’m anticipating the release as the teaser was entertaining and the words “stand up stand up wake wake up” have been ringing through my head ever since I heard it. I like these boys more now since they also mentioned that they regard Seo Taiji as “the best of the best”. Oh little Big Bang you are after noonas heart. <3
Malaysia and MTV go hand in hand Huzzah! All thirteen! I counted it three times!
Hello to all the Malaysians first of all. Last week Malaysia were hosts to the 2008 MTV Asia Awards. Where the 4 nominees for Best Korean Artist were Big Bang, SNSD, Super Junior and Wonder Girls (in alphabetical order). Super Junior won that night and a big Congratulations to them! To those that didnt win, it’s an honour to just be nominated. And for Super Junior I was expecting an “You like me, *in between sobs* You REALLY like me” acceptance speech, ah well, maybe next time.
It pays to be pretty
No it really does. When formerly faceless star Zia revealed her entire face on Music Bank last week, people went nutso. Let me refresh your minds about Zia, when it took so long for her to show her face, netizens went around labelling her as “ugly” and “fat”. This naturally made the poor girl upset and took a little time off from the Biz. Netizens dont seem to remember that the faceless singer technique is tried and tested in Show Business and has been successful for some, you don’t just hide your face cos your ugly. O_O They have paperbags for that. Anyhow, Zia performed, people liked what they saw, she was the number 1 on the searchlist and her album sales increased to 1000 per day from a previous daily high record of 500-600 orders. Being pretty really does pay. Wow how shallow.
Here’s the performance that converted those non-believers:
SBS is powermad and reckless I love the running man, he’s almost mocking
As international fans its hard not to notice the latest crackdown on Korean Entertainment videos on Youtube. The most popular users have been suspended and videos have been deleted. SBS is behind it. They allied with youtube to delete any SBS videos due to copyright. Funnily enough, SBS can dish it out but they cant take it. Not too long after that, they were hit with a copyright violation themselves. How’s that for ha-ha worthy? They stupidly leaked a video of the Chinese Olympics Opening Ceremony Rehearsals on their channel. I don’t understand why they would do such a thing as I’m pretty sure they were told explicitly to keep ‘mum‘, but alas what goes around does come around my powermad friends. Ironically that very segment was put up on youtube and deleted due to copyright infringement. What do netizens say again, oh yes, LOL.
BoA returning to Korea?
We covered not too long ago a case of two concerts being held on the same night. It was unclear to some the true purpose of the comparison, but nevertheless it was relevant. Now it seems that poor SM is suffering and had to pull BoA out of Japan to increase ticket sales of his SMTOWNLIVE ‘08. We never knew it was that dire a situation SM, perhaps the ticketsales were actually lower? BoA fans are complaining as to the real reason why she couldnt perform in the first place. She was scheduled for the Chinese performances and not the Seoul performance. it was thought it was due to schedule problems but now people are thinking otherwise. Not our problem…..
Davichi are Vitchin’! Yeah, that’s really them, I just loved the picture.
These girls are undoubtedly talented. And their efforts are finally paying off. Ok, the ex-ulzzhang needs to work a little more on her vocals, but they have a lot of decent and excpetional music out there. Davichi are also quite the performers, they beat out so much great competition to hit the number 1 spot. Their first and most significant in my opinion (if my memory serves me right). They beat out competition from killer balladeer Sunbaenims Brown Eyes, and awesomeness Sunbaenim Uhm JungHwa. Well done girls, count me as a supporter!
Here is also the weeks top 10 from good ol’ Edward1849 of Soompi. Weekly Music Chart – 1st Week – August
1. Davichi – 사랑과 전쟁 (Love and War)
2. Uhm Jung Hwa (feat. T.O.P) – D.I.S.C.O
3. Brown Eyes – 가지마 가지마 (Don’t Leave Don’t Leave)
4. Shinee – 누난 너무 예뻐 (Noona’s Pretty (Replay)
5. Wonder Girls – So Hot
6. Mighty Mouth (feat. Sun Ye) – 에너지 (Energy)
7. Sung Shi Kyung – 안녕 나의 사랑 (Goodbye My Love)
8. Alex – 그대라면 (If It’s You)
9. Lee Hyori – U-Go-Girl
10.Super Junior Happy – 요리왕 (Cooking? Cooking!)
While we were busy getting to know SNSD Bitches!
Waiting for the ‘Dream Cocnert’ …
in a hope of giving us something to hate them EVEN more! BOA’s new [single] came out with two music videos!
One boring than the other! *Yawn*
BoA – Sparkling [live]
Every ME? Every YOU?
MY GOD! What does that even mean?
Aside from the lyrics .. is her new Musicians deaf?
Seriously what happened to her old crew?
LSM was hungry ended up eating them?
I don’t get it ..
so they recorded these songs and they really thought to themselves!
“Yeah .. let’s make it happen?”
What is wrong with these people?
Wait …
Does BOA has any saying at all?
I swear if i were her i would have flat the face of a person made me sing this! You call this MUSIC?
She did a tour …
Actually …
I’m really impressed that people do go to her concerts still!
There is nothing exciting about this girl’s music at all!
The only reason a person would wanna go is for the outfits these days LOL!
she updated her blog again .. ^ can a person possibly get any more excited for a sip of an alcoholic drink?
a new version of HITE Beer [CF] came out!
^ if i didn’t know her … and watched this ..
i would have said she doesn’t even knows how to spell the word ‘dance’!
What on earth was with that random waist move?
^ and this happens when you over work the fashion!
Her single made it on the top 10 for this first week ..
but sales figure are worrying her fans .. same old stuff!
Too broring to bare?
Seriously …
Congratulation if you got reading this far!
Here thankfully something little ‘different’ happened with BOA’s career!
BoA and 9 other singers are remaking an english version a famous song by a singer named Wei Wei (i think.. i translated directly from the chinese articles.. she is one of the singers that will be participating as well…), named “Dedication of Love” ( direct translation of the song title 爱的奉献). These singers are from Brazil (丹妮拉), Paris (阿拉玛), Indonesia (Ruth Sahanaya), Russia (谢尔盖·叶塞宁), Korea (BoA), Ukraine (Rusiana Gaitana), India (SONU), Oman, Greece (PHOEBE) and China (Wei Wei).
Producers Roald Hoffmann and Brian Alan(?) initially invited these 10 singers to sing their composition ” The Same Earth” ( direct translation of the song title 同一个地球), with recording that will take place in New York. But the earthquake in Sichuan happened and the 2 producers saw Wei Wei’s performance of “Dedication of Love” (direct translation of the song title 爱的奉献) on one of the shows planned to raise funds for the earthquake area, and got to know that this song has been sung for over 10 years in China. Hence, they made the decision to remake this song.
It will be a world wide release for this single, and all singers have agreed that all the earnings for this release will be contributed to the Sichuan Earthquake to help rebuild the area. The recording will now take place in BeiJing, on the 9th of June.
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Mean while the Weezer band’s cover of BOA’s Merikuri song
that we reported before is out ..
[b]Weezer “メリクリ” (cover of BoA)[/b]
Weezer’s cover of BoA’s popular ballad “メリクリ (Merikuri)”.
It’s a bonus track found on the Japanese version of “Weezer (The Red Album)”
^ My earssssssssssssss!
Who are these bunch again?
Another American artist need the Asian singer support to make it in Asia?
We learned the lesson with Amerie and Se7en!
This time >>>> No but Thank You!
To all those people a.k.a boa fans said that she really did cut her hair…..well people here is proof that your sweet, innocent, angel Boa lied to you, KIDDIES. Boa showed up on MUSIC STATION May 9 sporting long, brownish orange, weavy and also dry looking locks….
Of course I knew she didn’t cut hair into what I like to call a “Dust Mop” do. But NOOOO people keep saying “Look at the Hite Beer CF video. She really did cut her hair”, which wasn’t much proof because they really didn’t show her getting hair cut. Also I knew that she wouldn’t have the balls to do something without the permission of her owner (Oops I mean her….OH WHATEVER! 8P). LSM wouldn’t let his money maker use her own brain (especially when she turns to alcohol in times of stress) because he knew that if he did she would surely ruin her medicore career.
BoA – Kissing You [Live]
Also to Boa……WHERE IS THE BROKEN LEG? Your leg sure do look ok to me, to even stand on too, or is that just another lie? Are you trying to get simpathy from people in hopes that they will go to your concerts? Psst…because we all know that your ticket sells are low.
Or maybe you’re trying to make up excuses why you will not be debuting anytime soon in the US? Check out that news here.
It is so sad to see stars lie for publicity.
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Ok I am all for reinventing your self with a new look, but in this case lets go back to the old style. Not only is she sporting this dust mop (I think it could be a wig) on top of her head, but she is also endorsing beer for Hite Beer . Hello Boa didn’t your little drunk episode teach you nothing…..BOA STAY AWAY FROM THE ALCOHOL.
The last thing I heard about Boa was that she was preparing for her US debut this May. What happen with that? Has she figure it out that that would be a big mistake, and now she is hitting the liquor due to the stress that she will fail. And due to the stress she is now pulling a Britney (Britney Spears break down episode when she cut off all of her hair) because when she showed up for CF shoot the whole production crew was shocked and surprise at her new hair do (some where probably even laughing because I sure would have been).
Anyways Boa new CF and hairstyle will make their grand appearance on television (Korean) May 25. But what you guys think of her new hairstyle is it “Styling with style” or “Household ready for dust duty”.
Boa – Hite Beer [CF]
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So we assume everyone has heard by now, that BOA’s 6th album “The Face”, finally took the first place in Japanese Weekly Oricon Music Chart.
Boa previously ranked her other 5 albums in the 1st place in the Japanese Oricon Weekly Music Chart as well. Her albums included “Listen to My Heart” in 2002 to “Valenti,” “Love & Honesty,” “Outgrow” and “Made in Twenty”.
The truth on my part is that … with the downward, her single’s sale curve was going, this is quite an achievement. However, in my humble opinion the album was not all that still compared to her classic albums, Don’t you agree?
Cannot help but wonder if the hype of her being sick and tired of the business and desire for leaving it all behind studying is US or the news of her US debut had anything to do with the latest album sale! I guess we will never find out .. but sure LSM is having one of those nasty smiles these days thinking of BOA! *ewww*
Whatever, the reason behind the ranking BOA is enjoying her latest success after Oricon News made a statement that Boa has achieved the second best record in the Japanese music history after Ayumi Hamasaki, who managed to get eight albums top on the music chart.
Boa also showed her thanks through an entry on March 5, in her Japanese Oricon blog. She will soon prepare her 14-City Japanese Tour held from May 8 to June 29. This brings to mind the initial SM announcement on her US debut plans starting at the end of MARCH!??? ****** Enough with lying to us already!?!!! Feels terrible we have no voice to let them hear us!
Anyways, here’s a clip of BoA recording the chorus for “Happy Birthday” from “The Face” album :
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The picture kinda gave it way … but it is Lina, of Cheon Sang Ji Hee (CSJH) the Grace!! She was a guest model for Ed Hardy’s Kobe 08 Collection in Kobe, Japan on the 25th and was complimented as luxurious and a rock star! The vintage tattoo clothing model said it were first time modelling as a model and was nervous but since she had a little experience in modelling, it wasn’t that bad and hopes to do more in the future!! continue reading First Time Ed Hardy Model!
). This breaks Brown Eyes record in June, that shook up the industry itself, (they only sold 15,000). This is more significant as it is a single album (commonly known as mini-album), as opposed to Brown Eyes’s full studio album. How is that for you? Seo TaiJis re-introduction in to the Music Biz, breathes life in to it and makes things more exciting! Bring it on. 
Last week Malaysia were hosts to the 2008 MTV Asia Awards. Where the 4 nominees for Best Korean Artist were Big Bang, SNSD, Super Junior and Wonder Girls (in alphabetical order). Super Junior won that night and a big Congratulations to them! To those that didnt win, it’s an honour to just be nominated. 
