Earlier this year rumors circulated that SM was going to debut ANOTHER girl group and well! What do you know?!

TOUCHS (It’s NOT TOUCHES! we know, we know!) is a 7 member group, that will debut this June with a digital single! Here’s a little info about this upcoming group:

SM Entertainment’s TOUCHS will have seven members. Four members will be from Korea, while the other three will be from China, Japan and Singapore. Besides knowing many languages from many countries, it will have other specialties as well. Members include: Stella, 張夏珍、尹薰晶、裴熹彬、金藝珍、Joene. Their song will be written by famous lyricist 劉榮鎮 (Yoo Young Jin) and will be given a digital release.

I’m sure you’re now curious to see what they look like, so feast your eyes on these:

Stella (on the left): she’s a well-known trainee in SM, from NYC, and reportedly dated SJ’s Siwon! Plus she’s supposedly best friends with SNSD’s Tiffany and Jessica H.O.

Here are pictures of the other members:
we care about them as much as their 9 member group counter parts!

Done spazzing yet?

The official news about their debut came out already:

S.M公司继SJ少女时代后 又发布最新女子组合

S.M 继东方神起、Super Junior、天上智喜和少女时代后，于5月10日通过网路发布的最新女子组合‘TOUCHS’出道消息得到了网友的高度关注，消息在网路的点击率也高达百万次；其中组合里有一定人气的Stella和张夏珍呼声最高，更是有歌迷纷纷猜测其组合的出道形式，让网友高呼好期待。
获悉‘TOUCHS’组合将并于6月以数字单曲形式在韩国正式与观众见面。

Translation:

According to the above Chinese article, here’s my rough translation of what the article mention/says:
SM Entertainment had trained & created successful groups like DBSK, Super Junior, CSJH and Girls’ Generation, has yet again on the 10th of May announce the presence of the new girl group ‘TOUCHS’ through online media had caught many interest of the people. Information hit count regarding the girls’ group on search engine had reached the point of over hundred thousands times. In fact, members of the group such as Stella & Hajin(I suppose) has the highest popularity and many fans are right now anxious & guessing the style of this girl group’s debut. ‘TOUCHS’ this girls’ group will be meeting their fans & the Korean entertainment through releasing their digital single on the month of June.

So here we thought that SM would back off because of Goodberry Entertainment’s upcoming 7 member group, The B, but apparently not! While you were being distracted by getting ready for a fun summer full of KPOP, papa SM was getting some nice discounts for plastic surgery in hope of saving some cash to buy these girls their future awards after they debut! You know how these typical SM debuts work. Honestly, I’m hoping these girls learned from SNSD’s mistakes; the most important one being not to piss off anyone!

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While the world (or maybe just the K-pop world) has been inundated by bunch of spam-groups (if you can call the junk letter as spam, it’s applicable for groups too, right?), do we need another girl band with nothing spectacular within? you know what i’m talking about, it’s the B 7-member girlgroup.

righty, face it, since seems like youngsters are the biggest market and using the most favourite girlband in the country right now to set the standard, the best an entertainment company can do to cause a stir is by forming a girlband, naked.

Lads, would you like to masturbate using this? i don’t think so.

now if you’re protesting why i’m still using the same image you’ve seen everywhere, the answer is cos there’s nothing out there if you google “The B” cept for those repetitive things i’m sure you’ve read or seen. Nothing came out even when i tried “bushy-hair ahjummas who look like ghosts in their white gowns singing dramatically by the sea in an MV”. Now who said the more specific you search on Google, the better you can get? Oh i couldn’t even find a fucking clue about Goodberry Entertainment official website. it’s either me incapable or the good people of Goodberry can’t make a single website that can appear on Google with super-internet-technology they have in the country. Why don’t Goodberry learn something from LSM? you know, he may look like a preverted old man, but he did use some strategy for Sushi debut. Remember when Sushi members showed up piece per piece every single day on the website before the debut? 

If you have any pictures other than the one above, i’d be happy to post it for you here.

Now let’s hope they’re not aiming to gather fanboys, since they seem pretty too calm for that. But hmmm..some of them could have been members of Sushi, don’t you think?

some of you might think i’m being pointless and all, but that’s just because i think making another girlband is just as pointless. why don’t they just make the girls play their own instruments or something?at least that will make a real band.

For less opinionated : http://shenyuepop.forumotion.com/korean-entertainment-news-f3/7-member-girl-group-the-b-to-debut-with-b-love-t2417.htm

The B MV- B Love (So Baby)

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As you guys know, the following groups have been nominated for Favorite Artist - Korea:

1.) Big Bang
2.) So Nyuh Shi Dae
3.) Super Junior
4.) Wonder Girls

Some of you might be wondering “Why isn’t DBSK on that list?!” Well, if you were up to date with those overworked boys you’d know that they spent most of last and this year working their butts off in Japan.

With that being said, these nominees were chosen through a survey among music industry officials and journalists, but the fans, who can vote online, can choose the winner.

What exactly was in those surveys you might ask? Could it be how popular they are? How many awards they’ve won? Well, the second question is plausible since each group has won their share of awards.

Big Bang
These boys debuted in August 2006 and since then they have won multiple awards such as “(Cyworld) Rookie of the Month),” “(Cyworld) Song of the Month” (three times!), No. 1 Song Of The Year, 2007 Best Asian newcomer or breakthrough for French people (what? such an award exists?!), Best Male Group, etc etc. They’ve also released 3 singes which tallied up to 101,296 sales altogether! And let’s not forget: their first album sold a nice 110,408 copies. Despite their group activities, the boys also had activities outside of Big Bang: T.O.P ventured into acting, Seung Ri into musicals, Tae Yang just released his solo album, and Dae Sung will soon have a “trot” debut.

Vote for Big Bang here

So Nyuh Shi Dae
Girls’ Generation debuted a year after Big Bang in August 2007. Their awards include a few such as Best New Female Group, Anycall Popularity & Newbie Awards, and “(Cyworld) Song of the Month”. The girls have only released one single “Into the new world” (for some reason the title reminds of a “A Whole New World”…) which sold 31,369 copies and their debut album, “Girls’ Generation” sold 111,093 copies. Despite only releasing one single, these girls were promoted heavily and did activities in other areas such as MCing and acting. Another wonder here would be “Why are they nominated? What about the incident at the Dream Concert?” Well, these groups were chosen based on their musical works (albums and such), not concerts.

Vote for SNSD here

Super Junior
Super Junior originally debuted in November 2005 as twelve members with the name Super Junior 05, but after the addition of member Kyu Hyun in 2006, they dropped “05″ and were said to be a permanent group. The boys awards’ list include Photogenic Award, Best New Group, Mobile Popularity Award, Newface, Most Popular Music Video, Best New Asian Artist, Best Performance, Appreciation awards and many more (there’s a whole freakin’ page dedicated to their awards!) Since 2005, the boys have released multiple singles as a whole group or as sub groups such as Super Junior-K.R.Y., Super Junior-T, Super Junior-M, and their current sub group, Super Junior (H)appy. Singles from Super Junior as a whole and their sub group Super Junior T equaled to a very nice 137,414 copies sold. That tally does not include Super Junior’s Happy current popular single “Cooking? Cooking!” Their two albums, SuperJunior05 and Don’t Don combined to an amazing figure of 259,579 copies sold.

Vote for SUJU here

Wonder Girls
These girls debuted in early 2007, but did not reach popularity until later in the year. The Wonder Girls have received awards such as Best New Female Group, Digital Bonsang, Song of the Year, Female Photogenic Award, Best Special Stage, Best New Singer, and more. Their two singles, “The Wonder Begins” and “So Hot” have sold 27,317 copies, with So Hot still in the charts. Their first album “The Wonder Years” sold at least 66,409 copies. Despite not having high numbers like their competitor, Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls took the industry by storm with their “Tell Me” dance. Many videos of fans doing the “Tell Me” dance circulated on Youtube and Daum. Even celebrities such as Shin Hye Sung, Hong Kyung-min, and Kim Tae Hee would dance to this song at their own fan meetings! Their new song, “So Hot” has created a new addicting “V Line” dance for fans to follow.

Vote for Wonder Girls here

So, after getting schooled on the nominees for favorite artist, I think fans can more or less make an educated choice.

My vote goes to Wonder Girls, although there’s a good chance Super Junior will win this award…

Note: The results after you’ve casted your vote may be wrong (don’t know why~), but do not be discouraged from voting!

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Heya guys, sorry for butting in again. How’s the complicated love-hate connection goin’? (You know, the “We hate Sushi, Sushi lovers hate us, and Sushi loves or hates whoever only God knows” thing.) SYP haters, go take a break now, you won’t be interested to comment on this one. except for the grammar, perhaps. ah, just do as you wish then.

Anyway, I was relaxing in my sofa and having my bowl of popcorn here watching the haters launched the emotional rockets at us, when i remembered about these following two things to share. Bother to join me? get your own popcorn, i don’t share mine.  

Remember Poppin Hyeon Jeon’s Chinese movie, Kung Fu Pop or Kung Fu Hip Hop or Jing Wu Meng in Chinese ?  well, we’ve got the previews now, so you can decide whether you want to add it on your summer movie list or not before it hit the cinema on 27th of June.

3 minutes preview :