Music 


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 :lol: .

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

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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.

  • Girls’ Generation @ Live! With Kelly
  • Girls’ Generation @ Live! With Kelly
  • Girls’ Generation with Bill Murray @ Letterman

 

This is YUI’s acoustic performance of Green a.live at Bokura no ongaku back in the beginning of November.

YUI ~ Green a.live Live@Bokura no Ongaku 20111104

YUI ~ Green a.live Live@Bokura no Ongaku 20111104

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I really like this song. Here it’s arranged differently. It’s a bit more elaborate than the studio version. Bordering too elaborate, since I like the simplicity of the song. But still very good.

 

T-ara is currently topping the Korean charts with Lovey-Dovey (Go T-ara!). Another track from their latest album is We were in love (우리 사랑했잖아), which is a collaboration between some members (So-yeon, Ji-yeon, Hwa-young & Hyo-min) from T-ara and Davichi.

Davichi & T-ara ~ We were in love

Davichi & T-ara ~ We were in love

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I really like this video (and the song too). It’s very simple and pretty much only consists of close-up shots, but it’s mostly of So-yeon, so I like it :) . Hwa-young doesn’t rap until the end of the song, but she does it like a boss :) . I really like her new look.

Eun-jung isn’t in this song though. Otherwise all my favs would’ve been in it. Speaking of Eun-jung, she recently fell and injured her knee pretty badly :( . So, she most likely won’t be coming to Paris with the others. It’s a shame, because I was looking forward to seeing her, but I hope her knee heals up well.

 
Tae-yeon peas in a pod selca

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! :D

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:

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Time to fill a request by Chewi, which is also a request by myself :3. It’s T-ara’s Lovey-Dovey. I like the song, although not as much as I had expected to. I’m liking it more and more as I watch the lives.

This song is included (duh) on their latest mini-album Funky Town. At first I got the impression that they were going to release a part 1 and part 2 of the album, but it turns out that it was just the music videos (the long ones for Cry Cry and Lovey-Dovey). Funky Town is a repackaged version of Black Eyes, so it has all the songs. I didn’t pull the trigger on Black Eyes, so I’ll just go ahead and get Funky Town instead.

T-ara ~ Lovey-Dovey Live@Inkigayo 20120108

T-ara ~ Lovey-Dovey Live@Inkigayo 20120108

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I like Ji-yoon’s, I mean Hwa-young’s hair :) .

Does anyone know the fan-chant?

 

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

  • Tae-yeon in Hong Kong 2012.01.15
  • Tae-yeon in Hong Kong 2012.01.15

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

 

Teen Top’s latest music video Crazy (미치겠어), which features an appearance of 4Minute’s So-hyun in the story part.

Teen Top ~ Crazy

Teen Top ~ Crazy

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Requested by haminsekshi15/yoNIELOVER.

 

Dr. Feel Good by girl group Rania (라니아), as requested by Lena.

Rania ~ Dr. Feel Good

Rania ~ Dr. Feel Good

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As I was watching the video I was thinking that they couldn’t have been allowed to use that choreography on the music shows, considering that 4Minute had to alter their Mirror Mirror dance, which had the same “spread legs” move. Turns out they weren’t :P . I had to look it up, and Rania debuted with this song a little over a week after 4Minute came back with Mirror Mirror. Good thing they had 4Minute “test drive” the move, so they could tone it down a little. They were still criticised for being too provocative, though.

 
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Just saw this picture of IU’s “official” pose when taking pictures. So cute! :D (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 :P

 

Here are some messages from the artists that are performing at Music Bank Paris in February, just to hype it up a little :) .

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T-ara
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