After doing only prerecorded TV performances (and backing out of shows which don't allow prerecording), T-ara faced their first (?) live audience at a concert in Jeju Island.



http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2012/09 ... ckout.html

Ugh, supposedly their next Japanese single is a remake of Oh! http://www.sonejapan.net/news/index.html#news120909 With all the buzz about the current weakening of the hallyu wave in Japan due to market oversaturation, I'd think now would be a good time to actually expend some effort on putting out a...

Tiffany totally looks like an anime character here, and this is probably the most face time she's gotten in any of their videos. I guess the director liked her or something... I found myself missing the line distribution of TTS. Somehow with this song, the dance line barely gets any parts at all (an...

New J-ballad with a boring PV!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKAnYWNnYW8

Apparently Hwayoung is out of the group and, according to CCM, it's her fault. http://www.allkpop.com/2012/07/breaking-ccm-announces-hwayoung-will-leave-t-ara Honestly, I'm not sure what other solution was available, short of nuking the entire group (and that would never have happened). I guess CCM ...

The song feels like it's all over the place structurally -- very jarring on first listen, somewhat less so after getting used to it. It's not a classic, but I guess it's pretty decent for a post-2009 SNSD/SJJD title track. It's too bad that the video was the same old dancing in a box, albeit a more ...

Beautiful Stranger is great!

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1338986745' post='126692'] TaeTiSeo's next single is OMG and the music video is an insanely cheap cop-out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-yT_c8ZL2Y [spoiler2] It's just a collage of artworks and promo pics. [/spoiler2] [/quote] I'm pretty sure TTS's promotion cycle ...

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You are unenthused by a single moan ?

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Well, yes, but I am also unenthused by the longer clip (probably at least 20 seconds) that was played on Japanese news.

On the one hand, it's nice that they'll finally have an MV more ambitious than ITNW's. On the other, I am distinctly unenthused by what we've heard of the song so far. Hopefully the final product will sound better.

[quote name='Molly' timestamp='1337395665' post='125117'] So apparently MBC set up a fansection in the audience for Sone to see Hyoyeon on Dancing With the Stars, and only like 3 people showed up. Fuck ksone. I would never in a million years be a sone, and yet I love Hyoyeon more than most of them. ...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1337357810' post='125049'] Anyway, what I actually want to write about is the following picture. It's Taeyeon's design/writing on the back of the photo card. Does somebody here know Korean and could please translate it ? [/quote] I used my elite trial-and-error hangul...

Jessica made it to ESPN! <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... #>/wub.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':wub:' />

I don't think Hyoyeon is ugly by general populace standards, especially after exchanging faces a few times, but I don't feel like she fits SNSD's look all that well. If she were a somewhat better singer I'd propose trading her to Miss A for Suzy...

[quote name='Petit Melon' timestamp='1336587422' post='124456'] [quote name='eri' timestamp='1336360463' post='124271'] Oh don't fucking lie. There is no way in hell the average person can differentiate those two if looking at the set of pictures I uploaded. [/quote] I can't tell them apart either. ...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1336361973' post='124282'] Or maybe I misinterpreted your "I don't think that would be fun" and you mean "I don't want to do it" ? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hahaha.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':hahaha:' /> [/q...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1336360698' post='124274'] As you know by now, I'm extremely biased when it comes to Taeyeon, but I'm sure she never had any plastic surgery. The exception would be her teeth probably, but I for some reason I don't consider teeth "plastic surgery worth mentioning...

[quote name='eri' timestamp='1336360310' post='124269'] I am awed. However, you have to admit things are bad if you are differentiating girls by their eyebrow thickness. [/quote] Taeyeon and Jessica do look similar on rare occasions, but overall they don't look very similar IMO (and you don't need t...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1336358232' post='124261'] Maybe I'm reading too much between the lines here, but you're saying she had plastic surgery done on her face ? [/quote]That would be my guess, although I can't prove it. Maybe it's just consistently horrendous makeup after the wisdom teeth ...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1336357113' post='124258'] [quote name='moralar' timestamp='1336356790' post='124255'] I used to like Tiffany a lot more before she started to transform into Bom in mid-2010... [/quote] Please elaborate.[/quote] I think I bitched about this much earlier in the thread,...

As far as I understand it, the popularity rankings in Korea go something like 1. Yoona (most recognition among general public) 2. Taeyeon (most popular among fans) [distinct gap] 3. Jessica 4. Tiffany [larger gap] 5. Yuri/Seohyun [larger gap] 7. Sunny/Sooyoung [large gap] 9. Hyoyeon The gaps between...

The lives for Baby Steps and Love Sick have been somewhat of a buzzkill since it's clear that they bit off more than they can chew. (I'm not even going to consider Twinkle.) Tiffany has been the worst offender by far, but Seohyun has also been uncharacteristically weak and Taeyeon clearly has troubl...

[quote name='Molly' timestamp='1335939310' post='123948'] I feel like your post just explained to me why I hate all of their songs except like...10. [/quote] Glad I could be of service? In terms of vocals, I still like their first album the best, because Jessica had a much fuller tone back then, and...

I'm convinced that the subgroup is pretty much to keep Taeyeon from cutting someone when the full group gets their next cutesy K-single. She's pretty close to Tiffany and they work well together; then you have Seohyun is a strong supporting addition to any intra-group lineup. For a wannabe solo voca...

The mini is better than I expected, and I now see why SM went for the member selection they did. I feel that there's something lacking though, and I think it's that the girls don't quite have strong enough voices to pull off some of the songs. Also, the upper limit of their ranges (Taeyeon's in part...

Does anybody else feel like the appearance of subunits marks the beginning of the inevitable end? I'm betting that SNSD now disbands within two years. Of course, I predicted that for Morning Musume more than two years ago, and they are apparently still around... Anyway, if we simply must be given su...

[quote name='Ap2000' timestamp='1333417979' post='122588'] I've meant to ask this for quite some time now, but I always forgot... The (apparently, judging by the amount of water-marked pics I've encountered) #1 Korean fansites for the members have some really weird names: Flying Petals (Taeyeon): ht...

I know there's probably actually a difference between track 1 and track 13, but I'm kind of amused by the idea that they'd just start putting in multiple identical copies of The Boys to fill out an album. I must say that these sorts of blatantly extractive management practices are making it a bit mo...

And here 's some Tiffany footage from the showcase for the Fame musical. I've always loved her vocal timbre, but I didn't watch this clip for a while because I kind of doubted she could pull it off. Now I feel bad for having underestimated her. But it's kind of ironic that they cast her as a dancer,...

Taeyeon, Jessica, and Tiffany went on Radio Star yesterday (click through for writeup and some performance cuts). Maybe I'm odd, but I often vastly prefer when they sing random songs like this in a quiet studio setting, rather than when they're performing their own material. It's much easier to get ...