kficanon ([personal profile] kficanon) wrote2012-10-19 02:36 pm
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(Anonymous) 2012-10-21 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
oh man, yeah. for a while i thought hong kong was supposed to be their ~final stop~ or w/e but now the london concert (at wembley arena!!! so proud of them omg) is after it and i read somewhere that they're trying to add dates in japan after the new year?! lmao when is it gonna end??? (not that i want it to, the more international fans that get to see them the better, but also... flying to a new time zone every week can't be fun :|)

e x a c t l y. and lol omg "selling out" what the FUCK, that's even more laughable than the idea that epik high sold out when they signed w/ yge... like please both groups still have so much autonomy when it comes to their creative output, it's not like yg threatened them into this shit?!?!? it's still all stuff... they... wrote, idek

teddy almost seems to be in a rut? which sucks because i've liked a lot of his earlier stuff. i'm nervous as hell for 2ne1's new album, whenever yge chooses to finally release it lol :|

lmao that's true! but yeah i was watching the taiwan presscon and wincing whenever he did shit (the ridic mom sweater get up and stupid braids weren't helping), and i started laughing because even the mc lady was picking up on it u__u at this point i'm mostly just like JIEUN WHY DID YOU ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN??? I TRUSTED YOU!!!! and then i have the horrifyingly chilling thought that maybe yb was pushing for something even more over the top than this and everything we're seeing rn is after jieun managed to talk him down a little bit lol ~__~

CACKLING, OH TOP. literally the most ridiculous endearing person on the planet :')))

(Anonymous) 2012-10-21 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
i'm so chuffed for them about wembley. if i had more money, i'd fly to london to watch them. i used to live there and miss it so much. and i'm so proud of them and their tour in general. i saw some article that said 450,000 people would've seen them live this year (and this was before wembley). that's the population of a mid-sized us city. that's fucking insane!

but yeah, i love seeing them tour and i think they're geuinely surprised by the response. it's so cool to watch non-koreans sing their songs to them. i want them to keep touring.

the other comment was "their heart is not in it" , which made even less sense. so, you're telling me they're getting more and more invloved bts because they dgaf any more and want to coast? how does that even make sense? i get that people may dislike the change in their musical direction and it's always sad to fall out of love with someone's music but as long as that change is organic to the group, i don't see an issue. people move on. they have. so should you and if that means saying goodbye to them, then so be it.

i honestly don't know what's up with teddy. his work, especially with 2ne1, has been mediocre for the past few years. i'm dreading the new 2ne1 album because kush is not around.

i'm pretty sure he looks the way he does because of ji eun. if it was just him, it'd be 10 times worse. she's a flawless noona who can do little wrong. it's him that's the problem. someone needs to sit him down and school him in how not to be emabarassing.

how is he a person? idgi? how is he this flawless, startlingly good looking, amazingly funny, surprisingly thoughtful bingu? i have so many feelings, anon. i cry.

(Anonymous) 2012-10-21 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
i think the idea of "selling out" itself is what bothers me the most, and the implications that come with it, because whenever people use that phrase in conjunction with ANYTHING it's invariably associated with the idea that the creative output is now more mainstream/appeals to a wider audience than it did before. which like—wow, there's a reason popular things are popular. i hate music elitists/hipsters who are like oh pop and hip hop isn't ~real music~, because um yeah they are, just because more people like it doesn't mean it's somehow cheaper than anything else. what are they supposed to do, purposely produce music that DOESN'T appeal to a wide audience/sounds bad??? that's so counterintuitive! and like no one exists in a vacuum therefore everything is inspired by other stuff/everything is derivative, so i really don't get it.

obviously experimenting with different sounds and new styles is to be lauded, especially when the product comes out sounding great, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with creating something that a lot of people will find fun and can jam out to :| NOTHING!!! SORRY LMAO i just have a lot of feelings about this ~__~

ugh anyway--the last question they were asked at the taiwan presscon was about other members' solo projects and gd mentioned that yb and daesung were working on stuff for release but THERE WAS NO MENTION OF TOP ASIDE FROM HIM STILL WORKING ON ALUMNUS and he also talked about seungri continuing japan stuff so i'm like WHERE IS TOP'S SOLO ALBUM???? WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR LIKE THREE YEARS AT LEAST can't we have something :'(((

and yes ugh i loooove watching them on stage so much. energy and chemistry and they're all so fluid and comfortable w/ each other and ugh. babies *__* ugh i hope you somehow find a way to go to london and see them!!!

(Anonymous) 2012-10-21 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
anon, i want to frame your comment. ia with everything.

artists/actors sell out all the time and when they do, it's obvious. by which i mean, it's obvious that something was done purely for money. for me that's selling out. not working in a genre that's popular and appeals to a large number of people. there is space within mainstream music to experiment, to be bold, to try new things and there are artists who do that (and tons that don't). just because they didn't do it while playing in their mom's basement or it's not a song about big, important issues doesn't make it any less valid. it's not a crime to make enjoyable music ffs!

i think top is a sneaky bastard who does what he wants. THIS DOES NOT MAKE THE LACK OF A SOLO OKAY BECAUSE WHERE THE FUCK IS YOUR ALBUM TABI??? HOW CAN IT TAKE 5 YEARS??? honestly, i don't think we'll see an album from him any time soon. he takes a while to recover emotionally and mentally after a movie. if he does release an album, we might get something mid next-year. i think with top, we're going to get only one album ever and it'll be flawless from start to finish. because that's simply the way he works. and he's so critical of his work, that i don't think any track will ever be good enough to get on this legenary album of his. i keep hoping gd steps in and says, stop. this is perfect. release it now (or no sex ever).

and while i'm all excited for dae's album and seungri's continuing activiites, i'm all :( for yb's.
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