Just because I love calling them that And I’m really considering making it a theme

I always liked 4Minute. Sure I made fun of HyunAh a lot (HyunAjumma!) but it was playful teasing honestly, and out of the horde of girl groups out there…. Man, are they most promising. They’re recent song “Muzik” is so much fun to just boogy down to, and what a refreshment after that horrible music video I just saw ( La ChA Ta Ta TA(?) )

Now THATS a car, f(x), effects, or whatever your name is, take note.

And I must say, now  THIS is a HOT comeback stage, behold “Muzik” on KBS MusicBank:

The crowd is loving it

I never really had the chance to say this about them, but these girls are confident, have attitude and hella stage presence to back it up. Looking at that performance, you wouldn’t think this is their 2nd single promotions,  looks more like they’ve been in the biz for a while. I don’t know why everybody’s talking about 2NE1s “stage presence”, which I think is non-existent, these girls give it off, while I feel nothing when 2NE1 performs, I’d much rather listen to their songs.

They’re the full package when it comes to performers. Appealing voices, stage presence and have some decent dance skills. JiYoon is a STAR and thank the lord they stopped HyunA from that squeaky singing and she stuck to how shes meant to sound. Bearable.

I see a lotta potential, and just because I like them…

Member Profiles:

Name: Nam JiHyun (남지현 )
Position: Leader, Vocalist
Height:167 cm
Weight:49 kg
D.O.B: 01/19/90
Mini Homepage: Cyworld

Name: Heo GaYoon (허가윤)
Position: Main Vocalist
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 47 kg
D.O.B: 18/05/90
Additional: *2nd place in SM Entertainment 2005 9th youth Singing competition
* Featured in labelmate Marios Music Video “I’m Yours”

Name: Jun JiYoon (전지윤)
Position: Vocalist, Rapper
Height: 165 cm
Weight: 47 kg
D.O.B: 15/10/90
Mini Homepage: Cyworld

Name: Kim HyunA (김현아)
Position: Main Rapper, Vocalist
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 45 kg
D.O.B: 06/06/92
Mini Homepage: Cyworld
Additional:* Former member of Wonder Girls

* Featured in AJ’s song “2009″ and music video for “Dancing Shoes”.
* Featured in Mighty Mouth’s music video “Love Class”.
* Featured in Navi’s song, “Wasteful Tears”.
* Featured in Brave brothers song “Bittersweet”

Name: Kwon SoHyun (권소현)
Position: Vocalist
Height: 162 cm
Weight: 45 kg
D.O.B: 30/08/94
Additional: Former member of Elementary school students group Orange in 2005

The one in the middle reminds me of what SNSDs YoonA used to look like….

Back on track, girls brought funky back, what do you think?

Since Fabia.O can’t bear to talk about these girls (well, four of them are) anymore, I thought I’d check them out.

And then I realised why I didn’t check f(x) out in the first  place…. Check out their debut M/V… “LA chA TA”? (AHAHAHAH, it’s like those kids online tHaT WriTe LikE tHiS)

Whats with the side kicking in the beginning?… Well, at least its classier than forward kicking with skirts on(cough-SNSD-cough)

OH! How I cringed in the beginning. The song makes no sense to me as well, and the whole random semi-circus theme… wtf? I see what they’re trying to do but it just ended up looking really messy in the end, and the crappy song doesn’t help.

Also looking at the pictures of their showcase, all I could think was “Is that 4Minute gone a little slaggy?”

The more I look at Amber, the more I think shes just a JiYoon (4Minute) rip-off but manlier (And is it me, or does she, Amber that is, look a little like Big Bangs T.O.P?). While JiYoon is a tomboy yet still feminine, Amber on the other hand looks like a very confused him-she and even plays the role of a guy in the song (Listen to the rap O_O).

We know who she was based on now…

And my favourite androgynous female in Kpop will always be Lexy (Where is she anyway?).

Eh, I see no pizazz with this group, they’re dancing in the music video isn’t even in-sync, and that’s supposed to be the most precise. And by the looks of it, their vocals aren’t that great either, Luna’s the most decent out of them all, even the supposed  “Amazing dancer”  that is Victoria Song. And God knows how they’re going to be live, with the track record that SM has, especially with females (Well, to be fair,  just SNSD, they still can’t get it right to this day), but we’ll see, eh?

All in all, they’re pretty bla to me.  Anybody give a damn?

and so am I.

I think POminute (4Minute to be accurate) are quite promising, and I do like them, so when news broke out of them releasing their new single with a fabulous new teaser I was excited. I mean, something has got to clean out the sour taste in my mouth after the awful f(x) teaser.

They are also looking fierce! Although HyunAjumma can get annoying at times, she is actually one of the liveliest of the group, and her history in Wonder Girls was probably why they’re in demand so much with CFs. They just got themselves a Sony Walkman gig and are pretty much picking up all the CF deals that Wonder Girls dropped off. Lucky girls, that’s a nice chunk of change to get although they’re paid less than the WGs. 4Minute had a shaky debut stage but they recovered and started to improve daily with their confidence and performances, and that deserves kudos.

Nevertheless, I have my copy of the album and it’s a fun dance album, with a medium tempo (or two), making it almost Pussycat Dolls-esque but Koreanified.

(Speaking of Korean Pussycat Dolls, I miss After School, initially they were one of the most fun on stage girl group this year, they lit up the stage every time they performed and I liked it. Somehow they disappeared with the barrage of girl groups this summer, and I have missed them, even though their leader freaked me out.)

Back to 4Minute, check out the hot teaser:

“Boom boom boom naked naked, boom boom boom Naked AH!”

What? You didn’t hear “naked”?

Bring it on girls and show em what your made of.

f(x) new teaser:

WTF? I’m speechless.

P.s. The song sounds crap. T_T Could this get any more disappointing?

While DBSK are living in trailers:

Mr King PIMP Lee SooMan, biggest shareholder/Founder of Slave Management Entertainment is living the high life in KangNam baby!

Oh what a coinkidink! ShaBANG and I live in the same building, you’re the newbie on the 15th floor I gather…? We’ll come by soon with our muffin basket…

He’s got himself some killer pad there, it doubles as an office and he even bought two! It’s really nice to see such insanely rich people get even richer in this dratted economy, even when their companies are in the red!

And SM has the gall to claim that poor old them haven’t been getting that much money back since the DBSK boys kept them in debt while they were training.

Bloodsuckers the lot of you!

Haven’t we seen this pool before? With badly CGed ducks and a Geum JanDi in it?!

Lee SooMan reminds me of those crazy rich fools that don’t know what to do with their money, this pool here was in Boys Over Flowers… LSM either watched the show, was enraptured and just had to get the same pool, or he coincidentally bought an identical replica of it. Cos it seems that SM suddenly seem to have this obsession with the show (f5(x) anyone?). Either that or someone is just playing us for fools.

Buying wine, travelling the world, plopping out groups like they’re…GumBalls… Where the hell does SM and LSM get their money from? And who do they give it to, or where do they hide it? If you guys didn’t report a deficit for the last three years I wouldn’t bat an eyelid… Not to mention having a lawsuit going on right now against your biggest cashcows and your stock being as cheap as chips.

Nevertheless, can I take a dip in your pool newbie? Pretty please I’ll make you cookies next time.

I didn’t plan on having two posts back to back but….The new “girl” group f(x) have us all confused.

Firstly, I recognise none of them, secondly, the second person is definitely a boy, the middle chick forgot to wear her pants, and the poor girl on the far right wasn’t aware she was being photographed apparently.

And most of all, it looks like a bad knock off of this picture:

Main difference, none of the Kara girls look out of place and actually  look good and professional.

Also turns out SM have their genius team of wonderment on the case with f(x),and have finally revealed the meaning of their name.  And this is a big one folks, so get ready for this…

The F stands for FLOWER and the (X) stands for XX (female chromosomes). Sound familiar?

It looks like the folks at SM haven’t just been watching porn, no no, they’ve been busy keeping up with this years major trends… BOYS OVER FLOWERS!!!  It’s not F4, it’s SMs very own (knock off again) F5, but to keep things somewhat comprehensive, they decided to drop the number, add in brackets and an X for the genial code XX.  Problem is…. I’m pretty sure they’re not all female!

Oh yes…. this person has the netizens all going la la:

“Amber” (1992) is clearly a disguise of this wayward young male soloist not finding his true place in KPop. Ladies and Gentlemen, CheongLim:

But Amber looks manlier. O_O

If she has his seriously deep voice we know where he’s run off to. Or Amber is just his younger brother.

Here come the rest of the individual shots:

Victoria wearing the running theme accessory pompoms/baubles!

Luna…. No one knows anything about her, including her age….

Krystal.

And I knew lots more pics would come out for her… And I think she’s absolutely adorable:



Sulli.

Seeing their faces makes me more awkward about their dirty prostiution themed teaser “movie”.

They’re also focused on the fashion part of the genre, I wonder where we’ve heard that before (cough SHINee Cough)? SM should really start to market people as originals instead of female counterparts of.

Their showcase is set for September 2nd, and here’s to hoping we won’t hear about them again until then. But that’s seriously unlikely, I’m waiting for Amber to come out and confess her/his/it’s true sex!

And I am so not digging the fact that the main reason people are talking about them is because one member seems like a confused him-she.  Mind you I’m not really looking forward to them much, anyone buzzed?

(I’m aware that another name thing of theirs is to be able to adapt to any style, but that’s just so cliched that I poopooed it instantly).

Did I not wake up from sleep today?

Apparently SM churns out the groups like they do bad excuses. Easily and out of nowhere.

^^Damn Krsytal, that is some beak. No wonder they gave you a mask for Juliette.

Words cannot fully describe what I thought of this video teaser… I was mostly thinking “WTF I’m on Krystal meth” (geddit?), and even if I was high why would I imagine an intro that sounds like another porn teaser (cough SNSDs Genie cough). SM seriously listen to some real music for once, watching porn does not constitute as “research”.

Watch it if you wanna go O_________O Youtube link here

Then there’s the opening where it looks like G-Dragon made a cameo as a pimp surrounded by his Hoes. Classy!! I’m guessing you were inspired by Jewelry’s latest irony theme. Then the music starts and on comes that bad dancing, one forward flip and a dark street in front of a theatre (which I’m guessing is their workplace).

“Hey there soldier!”

I’m lost, really, cos I figured I would give SM some credit, and since they have NOONE PROMOTING right now, so they’re pretty much free (besides their legal department), they would make this something decent.

And um… two of them are 15, one is 15 and the others still 14?! Surely the whole prostitution theme is a little bit inappropriate…And plus, SNSD already have those grounds covered (Tell THEM your wish, not the minors).

I may be overreacting but whatever, a company like SM with their experience with the market and large production staff and marketing team should have made a better job with this.   Rather than make a member pretty much look and sound like a confused hermaphrodite surrounded by leather clad ladies. And the dancing is so much of a SHINee rip off, recycling, nice. While SHINee can dance these girls can…. do what exactly? Lacha tata?

Even though the first impression was a disaster, I’m still going to give these girls a chance. Ahh right their called f(x) (에프엑스), as in fox or fix or whatever it’s hard to care with that monstrosity of a teaser debut.

For those who do care, Victoria Song (1987):

She seems like the oldest, she has experience in both China and Korea as a CF model and featured in Super Junior Ms “U” and SHINees debut song “Noona is so Pretty”. And this Chinese lass is quite the pretty one.

Krystal Jung (1994):

The one that’s pretty much has a lot of the spotlight right now, SNSDs Jessicas little sister. Also known as the “pretty one”, and the “scandal-less one” in the Jung Family.  No matter what, I see her as quite plain and the only thing that sticks out to me is her nose… It looks like it can poke someones eye out, sister should be careful when she’s dancing, or flailing her arms and legs wildly like they do in the teaser.

Sulli (1994):

For the Child actress member, it’s quite interesting to see only this picture being spread around for the time being, expect to see more soon. But I can’t help but think of a sentence in an English Drama I once watched, “Oh dear I think he just sullied his pants”… :/ I may just think of that every time I see her now…

And the other two are oh so mysterious… Amber and Luna…

^^ is that SHINees MinHo at the top left?

Asia Pop Dance Group!

AHAHAHAH, getting far too ahead of yourselves darlings! A Chinese member or two doesn’t make you that well rounded, and to be a dance group I have to, at least, be impressed by their dance abilities.

I. am. so. sick. and. tired. of. girl. groups. WHY!?

But does this mean they’re going to ship SNSD somewhere else?  I vote China.  LOL.