Sorry for the late post loyal readers, unfortunately I had technical difficulties yesterday and couldn’t post this weeks segment on time.

Nevertheless we have a lot of updating to do, so let’s get down to business. Firstly I need to mention that the ‘news’ this week doesn’t need much elaboration so I’ve decided to give you guys a lot of news with not so much commenting. So, here goes the ShenYuePop K-Entertainment newscast:

Seo-InYoung boosts Maybelline’s Popularity

That’s right, little miss mushroom head Seo InYoung has impressively boosted Maybelline’s Internet sales a decent 10% ever since she signed on as a Spokesperson. Now, who needs Godly beauty for a makeup ad, personality is what really shines. (that and an extremely popular reality show)

Epik High promotes Subliminal Messaging

Well, not really. Apparently some have discovered that when you play Epik High’s album track “비(Be)” backwards the word “Jesus” can be made out. It’s called ‘Backward Masking’ and it is usually associated with devil worship and subliminal messaging, but um…. what the hell? It’s purely coincidental and whoever discovered this seriously has too much time on their hands.

Faceless star Zia, causes a stir

I’m pretty sure she’s no longer faceless and she’s revealed her face (hands up to whoever actually was anxious to see who she was), but apparently Zia also been bitten by the ‘plagiarism’ bug and her album poster looks a little too much like the new ‘Sex and The City’ movie poster.

Ohhh Lee Hyori and Mnet

This poor girl has so much drama thrown her way. Miss Lee HyoRi apparently needs as much attention as humanly possible to be successful with her new album. Get this, she’s dropped out of hosting popular variety show ‘Sang Sang Plus’ to concentrate on her new album, has had more songs off her album leaked, and has been accused of plagiarism for both her album cover and new video. Phew… that’s quite a lot of drama for just one album, and anyone who knows the Biz can tell how stupid Mnet is looking by purposely leaking it. YES, Mnet we weren’t born yesterday, we can tell you leaked 5 whole songs off her album yourselves and are announcing it so people can listen to it. Keep insisting your hunting the guy down that leaked it, where’s the dude that released the teaser then?

Not Another Girl Band?!

Apparently the music scene isn’t bombarded enough with girl bands and boy bands debuting, but they’re also not young enough either. Check out the music video of new girl group “Sweety“, whose youngest member is 7 and the oldest is 14 (korean age). Warning, this is going to keep playing in your head no matter how bad you think it is.

Ryu SiWon, talented and Honorable

Ryu SiWon has been making ajummas in Japan swoon for years now, and it’s obvious that he is a big time HallYu star. Now, he is a ‘Hallyu Star with a Heart’ and he’s been awarded for it. Mr. Ryu, was awarded a Japanese Emperor’s Medal of Honor last Tuesday at Niikata Prefecture for his large donations to the region. To those of you who didn’t know, Niikata was hit with a bad earthquake last year and Mr. Ryu contributed quite a hefty donation as well as holding a concert there. So nice.

Super Junior hit no.4 in Japan

My apologies, I couldn’t be bothered to find a picture of all of them.

I personally had no idea they were releasing any single, what with half of them in China and half being Happy, but word has it that Super Juniors’ Japanese version of ‘U’ has reached the fourth spot in the Oricon Daily Chart. Good for them, maybe when they all get back together and they go to actually promote their singles, they may in fact do better. It’s a good time to be a Korean Artist in Japan.

Seo TaiJi making hearts beat faster

Maybe it’s just my heart, but I seriously cannot wait for Seo TaiJi’s comeback album. This man is not only Music Legend in Korea, but a Musical Genius. His company has released the date for his Mini-Album and people write it down in your diaries, July 29th shall be the day we see true creative music get back in to K-Entertainment. Ok, I know there’s great music out there already, but it’s so few and far between… *sigh* I just love me some Seo TaiJi…

JinuSean comeback?

JinuSean recently graced the stage with sexy diva Uhm JungHwa on the great show “Yoon DoHyuns Love Letter” and there’s been cries of comeback for the duo. It’s about time if you ask me, come back JinuSean and make our ears scream happy please!

Baby VoX is back!

No sweetheart, just the name. There are no names left in the Universe, old ones must be recycled, it’s good for the environment. Well, not really, but Baby VoX ReV have come back with two new members and have decided to drop the ‘Rev’ part in their name. Collectively, the ‘Baby VoX’ name has seen 11 female members to this day, if my calculations are correct. I dont understand why this is necessary, nonetheless I have lost interest already, how bout you?

Well, so much for not commenting… Anyhow here is the top 10 of last week, and as ever thanks to Edward1849 of Soompi…

Weekly Music Chart – 2nd Week – July
1. Brown Eyes – 가지마 가지마 (Don’t Leave Don’t Leave)
2. Tae Yang – 나만 바라봐 (Watching Only You)
3. Wonder Girls – So Hot
4. Shinee – 누난 너무 예뻐 (Noona’s Pretty (Replay))
5. Alex – 그대라면 (If It’s You)
6. V.O.S – Beautiful Life
7. Ok Ju Hyun – Honey
8. Sung Si Kyung – 안녕 나의 사랑 (Goodbye My Love)
9. Super Junior Happy – 요리왕 (Cooking? Cooking!)
10. Mighty Mouth (feat. Sun Ye) – 에너지 (Energy)

Oh and Shin JungHwan has left the hospital and is back in action…

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Apparently netizens are at it again ….
Told you they can’t sit bored for too long ^^

Here is the new piece on the Taiwanese Boyband F4’s new released MV “Waiting For You”
Netizens think some scenes were quite similar to that of DBSK’s “Step by Step” MV.

F4 – Waiting for You [MV]

DBSK – Step by Step [MV]

But the question in mind is, where were Neitzen when Vanness Wu from the group released his single “Never Let You Go” from his second solo album, “V.Dubb” (his nickname), on April 20, 2007? Seriously, back then I thought Isaw more than one or two of Rain’s dance moves from his “I’m Coming” era in that MV!
I think Vanness Wu watches way too much K-Pop ^^ blame it all on the guy!LOL

Vanness Wu – Never Let You Go [MV]

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Some Rain fans or non-fans are making an uproar over Rain’s choice of clothing. Recently on SBS news a quick glimpse of Rain’s back shirt got some people really upset. Why you may wonder….well on the back of his shirt there is a picture of a woman’s breast.

if you couldn’t see it in the video here is a snap shot

Why in the hell are people so upset about this? It’s only a pair of boobs that all women have, and he is a guy for god sake. It’s only fashion people…..and trust me they show more skin on a fashion runway than what’s on his back shirt.

In other news…

Someone is copying Rain….Huang Xiaoming a Chinese singer is under heavy fire from Rain’s fans that he is clearly plagiarizing Rain’s third album “It’s Raining”. Huang Xiaoming’s recent release of his debut album titled “It’s Ming” has many similarities to Rain’s album, that includes the album title, the album cover of Huang Xiaoming half naked with a tattoo, Xiaoming in a similar army unitform getup as Rain’s “I’m Coming” video and concert, and also Xiaoming has a song on his debut album titled “I’m Coming”.

Clearly this Huang Xiaoming person is copying Rain’s style. But in the Asian entertainment this really isn’t shocking to see some one copying another artist’s work. Take Ivy for instance, her “Sonata of Temptation” video was found plagiarizing FFVII(Finale Fantasy 7), which later a court order Phantom Entertainment to pay 10 million won for copyright violations.

You can listen to Huang Xiaoming “I’m Coming” song here.
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after who knows how many months…we’ve finally made our post on korean remakes of songs from other languages, but they’re mostly from english songs! and as we all know, SM is known for remaking songs..and their list never seems to end! originally, this post was gonna be longer than this if we included all the chinese songs that were remade from korean!!

this is how the format goes: Artist – Song — Original Artist – Original Song

CSJH – My Everything — Maria Haukaas Stroreng (Norwegian) – My Everything
CSJH – Your Smile — Kiroro (Japanese Group) – Nagai Aida
CSJH – Renew — The Calling – Wherever You Will Go

TVXQ – Hey! Girl — Squeak (American singer) – What A Love Can Do
TVXQ – Get Me Some — Mercury4 (UK band) – Get Me Some
TVXQ – Dead End — DWB (team of producers and writers) – Get Ya New Mix
TVXQ – Magic Castle — The Classic (Korean singer), Kit Chan (HK celeb) also sang a cantonese version for TVB Drama Healing Hands 2 Sub Theme (it’s in Cantonese), Zhang Li Yin also remade a Mandarin version of it
TVXQ – On and On — apparently by Monica (American singer)…that is what it says on my cd!
and the original lyrics by Emmanuel Officer, composed by GREAT DANE aka. Carsten Lindberg & Joachim Svare
TVXQ – Ride On — don’t know artist – Is It Alright
TVXQ – Hi Ya Ya — Don Kenneth Ramage — Perfect Tragedy (it’s a really catchy song…so retro

SuJu – Twins (Knockout) — Triple8 (UK band) – Knockout
SuJu – Tic Toc — Cape (not too sure who he/she/they are – Tic Tac

Zhang Li Yin – Timeless — Kelly Clarkson & Justin Guarini
Zhang Li Yin – Y — Jamelle Fraley – Powerless

BoA – Don’t Give A Damn — Maria Haukaas
BoA – Spark — some Spanish song (couldn’t find any more info other than that!)
BoA – No. 1 — tune was taken from Norway demo…but not exactly copied
BoA – La La La Love Song — Kubota Toshinobu – La La La Love Song
Brooke Allison — BoA – Don’t Start Now (Brooke Allison sang it without permission)

SNSD (Sushi) – Beginning — Play (Swedish girl group) – 2 Blocks Down
Hyunjin – Raindrops — Maria Haukaas – Should’ve
SMTown – Snow Dream — Alexander Klaws (German)- Sunshine After The Rain
— Chieko Kawabe – Shining

Big Bang – This Love — Maroon 5 (US band) – This Love
Big Bang – Ma Girl — Israel (Australian hip-hop singer) – Ma Girl
Big Bang – We Belong Together — Mariah Carey (Big Bang remixed and sampled it)
Big Bang – Lies — FreeTempo – Sky (BB sampled only the beginning part…the piano part
Big Bang – No Number — Timbaland, JT (sampling part of the song..like 20 secs into the song)
*big bang usually takes a bunch of songs and remix and change it..they don’t take full songs..it’s something called “sampling”. it’s different from cover songs and remixes. it’s legal!
Tachyon – Feel Your Breeze — V6 (Japanese band) –Feel Your Breeze
Tachyon – Girl Talk — Dhani Lennevald (Swedish singer) – Girl Talk

Freestyle – Y (Please Tell Me Why) — Will Pan (Taiwanese singer) – Bu De Bu Ai (freestyle officially proved to be original artist!!)
SG Wannabe – Timeless — Tension (Chinese band) – Timeless (don’t know if true or not)
Hyesung – Take Me To Your Heart — Jacky Cheung – Goodbye Kiss
Jang Woo Hyuk – Flip Reverse — Blazin’ Squad (UK group – they have 10 members!!) – Flip Reverse
Kim Hyung Joong – Fairytale — Guang Liang (Michael Wong) (Chinese singer) – Fairytale

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the ones below are songs that were composed by foreigners but i’m not too sure if there is/are an original singer(s) to them!

TVXQ – The Way U Are — composed by Daniel Pandher, Robert Zuddas
TVXQ – Child — composed by Ken Ingwersen, Jon Rydningen, Jeff Franzel, Marjorie Maye
TVXQ – Will You Be My Girlfriend — Tommy La Verdi/ Daniel Pandher/EARSuJu – Dancing Out — composed by Daniel Pandher, Fredrik Willstrand, Svein Finneide
SuJu – Sapphire Blue — composed by Tomas La Verdi, Michael Hartung
SuJu – I Am — composed by Greg Lynch (but there are lyrics written by Eteuk, Sungmin, Donghae and Eunhyuk in the song)
SuJu – Missin’ U — composed by Ken Ingwersen
BoA – Break Final — composed by Daniel Pandher
The Trax -Without You — composed by Anders Grahn, Alexander Holmgren, Marcus Liliequist
CSJH – April Fool’s Day — Composed by Adam Reily, Paul Gray
CSJH – Ahnigireul (Not To Be) — Composed by Ingrid Skretting, Johan Boback, Jakim Nilsson
CSJH – Boomerage — Composed by Tommy La Verdi, Daniel Pandher, Asle Bergedal
CSJH – The Club — Composed, Arranged by Lori Barth, Marcus Coleman, Charlean Hines

i’ve realized that SM has Daniel Pandher composing their songs for them!

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I no longer know the definition of plagiarism, when it comes to Music videos/Music …
But i would like to share this one with you .. since i read some misleading info on some place … Korean singer Mina’s kiss video is a copy of Turkish singer Tarkan aka “Turkish Prince of Pop” and i happen to know this … since by the time it was a hit song in Turkey i was in elementry school and all our upper classes were insane for the dude! Believe me the guy used to be such a hottie known for his EYES!

Here is his wbsite: http://www.tarkan-music.de/

Mina – Kiss Kiss[MV]

Tarkan – Şimarik (kiss)[mv]

Tarkan – Bounce MV – 2005 (is the latest mv available )

This is the recent English interview i found on him …
It is in fact from Sunday, June 17th, 2007 !!!!! WOHO!!!
Wow he is planning to shoot for American market?? Maybe i Should help out my people a little too lol!!! u hear him say his favorite song of all time is still Şimarik (translated: Kiss) after all these years … and please be nice to him cuz i do relate to him … my mom is half Turk.