Surely you’ve heard about SNSD’s American network TV debut. Yesterday they made an appearance on Live With Kelly and the night before they were on Letterman to promote the release of the US version of The Boys.

On Letterman they performed a remixed version of The Boys. By the way, I can’t look at Bill Murray any more without thinking of Zombieland .

On Live With Kelly they performed a shortened version of the original mix, followed by an short interview.

I prefer the morning show appearance, since they performed the original version (although, in English, of course) and that there was an interview, which I felt gave off a positive image of the girls.

Tae-yeon uploaded a new selca to her UFO Star Call account the other day. It’s a new picture of her with her peas in a pod plushie. So cute!

She has uploaded a picture with the plushie before too and many airport photos show her carrying it with her. She actually has a whole bunch of them because when fans saw that she liked them, they bought more of them (mostly smaller ones) and threw them up onto the stage, like at SMTown New York:

I have to share these photos of Tae-yeon from SNSD’s concert in Hong Kong last Sunday. Unbelievably adorable! XD

They’re taken by Flying Petals. This is the page where I got them. There are even more pictures there.

Just saw this picture of IU’s “official” pose when taking pictures. So cute! (click for bigger image)

source: allkpop (sports chosun)

PS. Kind of funny that the allkpop post is titled “IU is the V-terminator” and I was actually watching Terminator 2 when it was published

1280×1024 SNSD wallpaper for January 2012 from Goobne. Black Pearl Yu-ri looks unusually dark here.

Source: yurui

Before IU makes her real Japanese debut, she’s releasing a “pre-debut” mini-album in Japan called I□U, which consists of a few of her Korean hits, as well as a new song called Last Fantasy. It also comes with a documentary called “All about IU” on DVD.

Here are some promo pictures:

The first picture is of very high resolution, but all the pictures are heavily compressed, so the files aren’t that large.

Credit: weheartiu

You can pre-order the album here if you, like me, want it for xmas

Update: I made a 1920×1200 wallpaper of the big picture. I converted the colour profile, so the colours look better.

After all the teasers, SNSD’s new album The Boys was finally released today. Along with it, two versions of the music video for the title track were unveiled. One Korean version and one English. As much as I like (and prefer) the Korean one, the English version is much better than I had expected. I thought it’d sound, I don’t know.. cornier?

With all the build up with all the teasers, there was a huge risk of disappointment, but The Boys isn’t even close to disappointing. I love the music video! After the short teasers, a 5 minutes and 20 seconds long music video almost results in pleasure overload though .

Girls’ Generation ~ The Boys

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Credit: source vid. nekelstal@jpopsuki

All the members show off a number of different styles and outfits in the video. Yoon-a looks amazing with her tiara, and the other outfits too. Tae-yeon’s multi-coloured hair nearly made me let out a fangirl scream! […] there’s more! »

In just a few weeks (November 2nd) YUI will be releasing her new album called HOW CRAZY YOUR LOVE. One of the new songs on the album is Lock On, which will also be the theme song for the upcoming drama Kaito Royale. The casino theme in the music video comes form the drama.

YUI ~ Lock On

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Credit: source vid. steely@jpopsuki

Lock On has a bit of a new sound compared to YUI’s previous stuff. Or rather, a combination of the various styles she has used in the past. It’s good, but my first impression is that it’s perhaps a little “all over the place”. It’s getting better with each listen though. I really like the “oo-oo-ooh” at the end of the chorus .

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I recently posted a picture of IU with short hair, that she posted on her fan cafe with the comment that it was her new hair style. Then the teaser for SNSD’s new album were released and Sunny shocked everyone with her short blonde hair.

I like both styles, but then I saw this fantaken photo of IU from yesterday, where she still has long hair. Did IU just troll everyone? It seems like it.

The teaser that was showing Sunny with short hair was recorded some time before September 27th (when the teaser photo was published). However, SNSD performed at Hallyu Dream Concert on October 3rd and there Sunny had her usual long hair. So it seems like my twitter friends were right, that she’s wearing a wig in the teaser T_T. I thought it looked pretty awesome, so I’m a little disappointed actually .

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T-ara’s So-yeon posted another cute picture on Twitter today. Kyaaa~♥! So friggin adorable! Also check out the picture of KARA’s Ji-young and her nice figure. She has really shone during the Step promotions, getting more and more spotlight. Perhaps because of how popular she is in Japan. KARA is concluding their Korean promotions this week and will return to Japan for a new release there. T-ara are releasing a new Korean album soon (in about a month, I think).