My Thoughts on YG's WIN Show

   -gasp- Not an MV review? No, because I didn't put a colon in. Ha! Instead, it'll just be me rambling on and on about this damn show.

   I told myself I wouldn't, but I started watching this show anyway. More than anything, I was pretty scared of crushing my own heart. I'd probably end up loving all eleven of them, and be so hurt no matter which team didn't get to debut.

   Some backstory, I guess, on this show. This is YG's way of deciding which of his two teams of rookies (Teams A and B) would debut. We get to look into their training and their skills and stuff, and at the end the viewers vote for who they want to debut. Killer way of hyping up a group's debut, eh? Also kind of brutal, since you're pretty much airing one team's failure, humiliation and the crushing of their dreams to anyone who wants to tune in.

   Team A consists of most of the older trainees, who are vocalist Kim Jinwoo, leader and main rapper Song Minho, main dancer and lead rapper Lee Seunghoon, lead vocalist Kang Seungyoon and maknae and main vocalist Nam Taehyun. Most of these guys are actually known from before-- Minho is that friend of Zico and most of the other Block B members, who almost debuted in Block B but then debuted in BoM later (BBCs, remember Match Up season 1, when we saw our manly Zico cry like a baby? It's that Mino). Lee Seunghoon was on a talent show for his dancing. Kang Seungyoon, well, apart from that he was on Superstar K, he already has a solo career-- he came out with Wild and Young earlier this year.

   Team B is younger and their members are less well-known. There's B.I., probably the most famous of them all, who's been hyped as the next G-Dragon. There's also lead rapper Bobby, and oldest hyung Jinhwan, vocalist Joonhwe, main dancer Yoonhyung and maknae Donghyuk. 

  Yeah, the Team B paragraph is quite a bit shorter than the Team A one. It's not really my fault. Yes, I might be a tiny bit Team A biased, but I think this is one area where Team B kind of lack-- I don't notice half the members. It just feels like there's only B.I, Bobby and Jinhwan-- and maybe I only notice Jinhwan because he's my Team B bias and I like him so much (and he looks like Block B's U-Kwon!). (Also, Bobby really reminds me of B.A.P's Himchan sometimes, with his eyes and his rabbit teeth... very cute). And how can you not know B.I? They talk about him quite a bit, and he's really involved. But Donghyuk is just the good-looking maknae, Yoonhyung the Indian-looking guy and Joonhwe is well and truly the other guy. Joonhwe's voice is really good (all their voices are, to some extent) but it feels like they're just continually pushing him to the background, and it sucks. Team B is really team B-- it's a B.I show, and you'll always know it.

   For Team A, the problem with their members is completely different. While Team B is so tight, Team A are not very close at all, and their teamwork has been criticised. Every WIN viewer knows Kim Jinwoo, even if for the wrong reasons. His voice is very pretty indeed, but he's a rather soft and sensitive guy. He can't take pressure and harsh critique very well, and he has a tendency to break down and cry. He's forgotten lines and messed up. He just seems to think that he's always going to fail, and let the team down, which is why he usually ends up failing. It's so sad to see because he's actually very talented.

   There's also Team A's resident diva, maknae Taehyun. To be fair, his concerns are pretty real, but sometimes he just comes across so diva-ish, and caring only about himself.

   Skills-wise between the teams, it's tough to choose. I'm not much into rap, but I can tell you the one rap that struck me in the show so far (only 5 episodes so far, and I skipped episode 4) has been Minho's. He seems pretty damn good, and he has stage experience and all that. He's the newest trainee in Team A, but he was picked leader for a reason.
   Vocally, both teams are pretty good, but I gotta give it to Team A. Seungyoon's vocal colour is really nice-- strong, husky, and when he did that adlib in the first evaluation... wow. Jinwoo and Taehyun are damn good too. They've been given good opportunities to show off, and when they have, they've stuck in my mind.
   Team B owns the dance title. They are tight. Team A are good (my Seungyoon's improved a lot!) but Team B really take this one. Choreography-wise, B.I versus Seunghoon... they're both good, but I saw that a lot of the choreo Team B did wasn't actually made by them, so...
   Variety skills, it's well and truly just Bobby. Seriously, the other boys are cute, and thus cutely funny, but the only one I think might actually make your stomach hurt is Bobby. The others do have potential (I think Seungyoon and Seunghoon especially. Love those two. I shall call them 2Seung.) but Bobby is just bursting with charms.
   Visuals... Team B has Donghyuk and Jinhwan-- I find those two very cute. But Team A's Jinwoo is perfection. Cute, innocent, fresh face, and a personality that will win him a lot of fangirls, Jinwoo is the top visual. Easily.

He's kind of scary-looking here. Hmm.

   The next episode will present the viewers with the first opportunity to vote. It's Team A with Taeyang versus Team B with G-Dragon. Team A have not won a single evaluation yet, so this one is double important for them. Hopefully it'll be a close battle. Most viewers are hoping for an 11-member band to come out of this, so a close ranking of votes should help that. I'm pretty sure we're gonna get 11 members. YG's so smart, we're just eating out of his hand.

Getting hand-fed by this guy. My skin just crawled.

   And now... my own crazy thoughts. I'd really like to jump into the screen sometimes. First thing I'd do: give Jinwoo an ice-cream and a hug. Tell him he's perfect like he is, and he shouldn't pressure himself too much. Secondly: slap that damn hairstyle off Taehyun's head. You're a good-looking guy. Stop giving yourself a middle-parting. Seungyoon keep doing your thing, you're awesome. Bobby, stop being so cute. It hurts my teeth. And just freaking show the other Team B members more.

   Well, I'm out. More ranting and blabbering later.

Album Review: Seungri’s Let’s Talk About Love EP

My Seungri baby is back! Long overdue review, and not really an album, but who gives a fuck? This is all about Seungri and how awesome he is.

Okay, I will try to be unbiased, okay? But I mean this quite seriously, the EP is pretty damn good.

He's so gorgeous, I can't

My Thoughts On: Seungri's Gotta Talk To U MV

  BIGBANG's baby-no-more maknae is back, blowing any other artists out of your thoughts. With the upcoming release of Seungri's Let's Talk About Love, he's given us his new music video Gotta Talk To U, and as soon as I watched it I just had to jump behind my keyboard and talk about it.

Blog News: Posts updated + New Blog!

Since I've finally discovered the jump break in Blogger, I've gone through my old posts and edited them, adding jump breaks and generally making the blog easier to read. Scroll through and enjoy :)

If you're new with me (because, let's face it, I doubt I actually have regular readers) then let me recommend to you some of my favourite posts:

• Review of my favourite ever album, SID's Dead Stock
• My first K-Pop Hottie of the Week, Choi Siwon
• My first and most emotional MV review, B.A.P's One Shot
• Review of one of my favourite ever MVs, XIA Junsu's Tarantallegra
• SHINee! Their K-Pop guide, and review of the Jjong-less Why so Serious? (yes, I will never let it go)
• My bias's post, Seungri as K-Pop Hottie of the Week,
• Dongwoon's Hottie of the Week post, my most popular one yet, and the picture spazz that followed
• The prettiest MV ever, Coffee Shop by B.A.P (people, I have so much BABY pride, you have no idea)
• That band that I will always love so, so much, INFINITE and their MV Destiny
• That first chapter preview of the source of so much love, That Super Hot Pervert is Mine
• Possibly my most useful K-Pop guide, the one on common words
• My nostalgic post on the end of Stuck With Him
• That post I put up when I first got into K-Pop
• And my first post ever, nothing special, nothing funny, just... there

Also, big news! My new blog, Love Stock, has just opened up! Well, it has no posts except an introduction one, so I guess it isn't really big news >.> I'm also working on my other new blog, to cater to all your fanfiction needs ;)

That's all for now, hope you enjoy reading and staring at pictures of really good-looking guys ;)

Ha, Let me talk about my

B2ST shoutout. Love those boys too much.

Just some updates. If anyone cares. No? Okay.

First off, in my non-internet life, I got my GCE results. For math, anyway-- that's the only subject I finished this June. I got an A. Happy right? No, because I was one mark away from an A*. One fucking mark. I hate life. Or fate or destiny or whatever the hell it is that made me almost make my parents super-happy and boastful, but now they're just... normal-happy and somewhat-proud. (My family's, like, typical Asian if you don't know). So yeah, destiny, you suck and I hate you.


Okay, now that I've got my INFINITE shoutout out of the way, I can talk about my writing. I've recently gotten some of my writing passion back, but I'm sorry, it's not for my Wattpad story, but rather my novel. It's gone through a major rewrite, pretty much rendering all the story and characters I built for three years useless, but it's definitely for the best.

Speaking of my Wattpad account, I'm really, really sorry to say that I'll be going on a hiatus. A temporary one, I hope, but I can't really say for now. Followers, I really do want to thank you so, so much for sticking with my and my occasionally shitty writing-- I do love you all. But I sat down at my word document one day and couldn't get anything good out. Now that I've set daily goals for my novel I really do need to work on it, and it really does eat into my time, what with my blogging and all too. Whether or not I actually accomplish my daily goal is not important.
I love you guys, and I hope you don't hate me too much. I didn't leave you in too bad a place, did I? I'm sorry.

I'm actually going to be starting up two new blogs. One is for this once-buried project of mine, a fusion of music and drawing, which I've recently rediscovered. Another is actually for... dun dun dun... fanfiction. People, I have only ever written one fanfiction, about Mukuro and Byakuran of the manga/anime Katekyo Hitman Reborn. It wasn't really the greatest. I have no fucking idea why I suddenly feel like writing more fanfiction, but I do, and I don't want to do it in this pure, innocent blog.
That's right ;)
Also, the only fanfiction I've ever written was about characters, while these new ones will be about... K-Pop-- what the hell is wrong with me? I told myself writing fanfics about real people was fucking weird and that I'd never do it, so why am I suddenly interested now? Well, just goes to show, you really can never predict the future.
Oh, the name for this K-Pop fanfiction blog is currently undecided, so if you have a good idea, please don't hesitate to drop a comment :)

That's all the updates for now. Thanks for reading, and thanks for sticking with me. S2

Dongwoon picture spazz

My Dongwoon post has crossed 1000 views! Yay! To celebrate and spread the B2uty love, I'll just be sharing some of the Dongni pictures I have with you guys~

My Thoughts On: VIXX’s G.R.8.U MV

(I wrote so much of this review, but then there was a power cut and I lost all of it ;_;)

Sorry B2ST, just saw this MV, and I adored it so much I have to write this >.<

Starlights, this is only my third VIXX MV, so if I make any mistakes, feel free to leave a comment and correct me :)

VIXX are back with the perfect summer song G.R.8.U, off their mini Jekyll. Warm colours, sweet smiles and lyrics, everything’s there in this MV that is sure to please. I have to warn you, though, I’m quite sure this was made keeping Starlights in mind, but if you like adorkable guys you’ll enjoy it.