anons do you ever miss someone you used to be friends with but stopped over (what now seems like) a stupid disagreement or misunderstanding? but your pride would take too much of a beating for you to go back and say "let's just forget the past."
this is the one time i wish the mv was simpler though tbh, i would like to see the dance version solely with no shaky cameras to get the full choreography
nine muses (also written as 9muses) is a great group! if you suck that sweet, sweet sweetune dick, then you should like nine muses by default, as most (sans "no playboy"/"ladies") of their original music has been composed by sweetune. if you don't suck that sweet, sweet sweetune dick, then their main draw is their personalities and what they've been through until this point.
nine muses debuted officially in 2010 and were marketed as a group of ulzzangs with a glamorous, more "mature" image. before their official debut, they collaborated with former labelmate seo in young (yes, nine muses and jewelry share a label, along with ze:a, who i know nothing about except their fans tag their pictures with "ot9" on tumblr and it irrationally annoys me) for the best ost song of of the year, "give me" (from the prosecutor princess ost, for the record). three of the original members of the group (rana, bini, and jaekyung) left in 2011. there have been a few line-up changes since, and there are six members total who have been there since debut: sera, lee sem (SAM UNNIE ;;), erin, eunji, hyemi, and minah. the current new members are hyuna, kyungri, and seungah. their fanclub name is my favorite fanclub name in the world: "mine." MINE. can you believe that? i'm still screaming about it.
a self-indulgent resource post for nine muses, part two
nine muses' main draw/strength is leader and lead vocalist, ryu "never before has there been a more perfect angel in all of kpop" sera. sera has performed a variety of solo covers for your perusal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrdVoyZbQRY - her audition performance of "stuck" by stacie orrico (partial cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POLMy4QTyBw - her performance of "you raise me up" (yes, she covered "you raise me up"; if you are a big baby like me, you will be crying before her performance is over OH GOD NO I'M CRYING RIGHT NOW) (full cover) (i'm still crying) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt1ifKPSf4 - her performance of "want and complain" by as one (full cover + piano accompaniment also by sera) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpGiaTM9aCc - her jisan rock festival performance of "angel" by sarah mclachlan (partial cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb21dUmESVM - also, once upon a time, she and hyemi covered "part time lover" by stevie wonder at shim shim tapa (full cover) and it was really great because it's a capella
as you can probably tell from her covers, she speaks (actually, she's fluent in) english! this is because she was born and raised in canada. as with the majority of bilingual (korean/english) speakers in the idol world, her grasp on english grammar seems to have waned just a little bit, but just look at this sweet letter she penned for her english-speaking fans (http://9muses.tumblr.com/post/34636304078)! it shows that 1) she is still fluent and 2) sera is one of my favorite idols and that letter/my rambling should explain why
sera is the member that i use to lure draw people in to nine muses because she is actually that great. she recorded this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Typd09-H0) self-camera (it's seven minutes long if you have a short attention span) about how, when she was still living in canada, she was straight-up abandoned by everyone in her family and circle of friends and she found strength through singing and also one time she hugged a tree for three hours because she had no one else to hug. and then she performs a (again, a capella) version of "where you are" by jessica simpson/nick however-you-spell-that-prick's-last-name because she used to sing that song a lot when she was fourteen and going through aforementioned hardships. she owns a chameleon named mingy, an axolotl, and a pair of spongebob slippers. she always looks sleepy. she once took this (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9sf10qxND1qkljdfo1_1280.jpg) selca, which is pretty much all i needed to love her, anyway, but the rest of her is pretty great, too.
sera is this potent combination of admirable and talented. she loves her group with an almost animalistic fervor; she's possessive of them as a concept and, while she loves the individual members, i feel like she'd do more to defend the group then the members that make up it, though she's obviously . she's very driven and very passionate, and with good reason - this is her dream, and that coupled with her past abandonment could make anyone possessive once they've achieved their dream.
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