Ah no… no idea at all! Specially with the ongoing staff strike, the PDs are otherwise engaged..

That’s interesting. 😀 But I think Daniel is an extrovert too. Maybe.
I’m a homebody as well. It’s truly dangerous outside of the blankets. 😛

i practically lived on Taiwanese & HK dramas when i was young, before i jumped into kdramaland lol. i won’t recommend those that i mentioned actually, 🙊 they weren’t as good. 😅

well, it’s a remake of You’re Beautiful afterall, so not surprising to see her cameo her own character i guess? haha.

yeah, kdramas are better lollll. there’s other great taiwanese dramas too of coz, since my ultimate favorites are from them too.

i see, coz u mentioned the girl in church so i thought it was her character like in the original haha.

They didn’t officially date yet! Ah, so much more to explore in that lil drama! Drama gods, we’re waiting. 😊

I know. I was like how do they notice all these things? Someone mentioned on Facebook (before this parallel universe thing even started) that EXO’s MVs are kind of going back in time. Which got me thinking that, is the repackage album going to be our EXO came to Earth? Because Kyungsoo mentioned one of the scenes in Ko Ko Bop MV as when EXO first landed on earth but it is their most recent release while MAmA, their debut song, almost feels like they’ve been on earth long enough to become confused at how humans can treat each other so badly. I’m clearly losing my mind because of all these theories now. Lol.

Yes, that’s what I thought too! EXO were soldiers in the war, their weapons was their superpowers, but they lost and their planet got destroyed so they came to earth. Also, someone mentioned that this teaser was filmed at the same time as the teaser for the war album so Lay isn’t going to be in this comeback at all. There’s also that whole THAAD issue going on which hasn’t been resolved yet, so he might not be back for a while.

I wonder if there’s someone who has been tasked with doing all the science related to EXO, and like all the thread-weaving. Do you think the boys know beforehand how many theories their MVs will spawn? Do you think they just sit in a corner after filming with their collective minds completely blown? Or do you think they are informed ahead of time.

You’d never heard of him at all or you’d just never heard his actually name? It was/is a really good album.

Ah right. Understandable haha A lot of the time their real names are hardly mentioned.
The whole album is daebak and I think I know it back to front by now haha

… haaa… yeah the first two have a lot of swearing in them. That’s understandable. I get that.

I’ve read all the lyrics on all the tracks on that album. I think Divine Comedy and Super Star have my favourite lyrics, because they’re quite raw and pointed. I don’t necessarily agree with his view point on a lot of things or how he sings about some things (Bullshit, for example) but I do understand where it’s coming from … I guess. Hmmm
But I totally see why it’d be offputting.

🙂
Super Star is heartbreaking actually. Very much like a confession.
(Sober is mine. The beat might be part of that though haha)
개 is dog yeah! Hahaha Yeah the translations are funny because the swear words don’t transliterate directly 😛
Yeahp… lots of dogs. Everywhere… >.> hahahha
“And yes, I don’t agree with everything in his songs but I appreciate his honesty. He doesn’t care if people like it or not. He’s himself.” < All this.
There's a few artists who've done similar, or released diss tracks, for example. That I don't always agree with how they talk about it, but I'm like 'it's a diss track for all the people who think they are less" and I understand that.

Yeah. It’s fun. And catchy omygosh I think I played it on repeat when I first heard it for a good day.
Hahahaha. It is a bit like studying isn’t it?! There’s just so much. And well, Big Bang is a good place to start. They influenced a lot of what we have now.

Oooh thank you. I love Zion T. The Song by him is (haha) one of my favourite songs.
I think I have actually heard the song before but never looked up the lyrics haha. The lyrics are really good too. Not fully diss, as you say, but he’s written other songs in that style and I know what you mean.
Have you seen Zico’s ANTI? The lyrics in that are… ugh kinda dark in a way but really good. (He wrote it from the perspective of his anti/he’s almost his own anti sometimes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwS_XO3-A3w

The Song is just so… idk, I can sing along to it and harmonize in places. Self Aware yes haha

You’re welcome. 🙂 Dark wasn’t really the right word, but it was the best way I could think of explaining it. It’s certainly less dark without the MV but I just find the lyrics really accurate and sad and they hit home in a way, and it’s just so observant and kinda horrible, but yeah.

Ah… hahahaha Block B is whatever they want to be. They don’t have a “concept” or a particular “style”, and that’s kinda what makes them them. They’ve done hip hop, and they’ve done funky, and they’ve done poppy, and fun, and sweet, and sad, and then they’ve done things like Very Good, which is straight up hard rock, and Jackpot, which is swing time, and Yesterday which is just about the happiest song ever, and then Toy, which is just different again. Oh if you want good music and poignant lyrics, check out Toy.
That’s why I like them so much actually, their style is so many styles done well.

Zero for Conduct is uh, yes, not for the light hearted, for sure. That’s their subunit BARSTARZ.
I’m not really surprised by anything Zico brings out, since ANTI, Artist and She’s a Baby are all by him and they’re all completely different, and yet all really good songs!

Ahhh nooo db froze on me and I lost what I wrote D: Let’s try this again.
Heee not to your taste? Understandable. I like it but I’m weird like that haha.

Ehhhh FMY championing Block B!! Hahaha.
You’re welcome! Funnily enough the first time I heard Toy I didn’t like it much. But the more I listened to it the more it grew on me and now I love it.

Ahhh most of them are yes. What’s not written by him is usually written by Park Kyung (another member- his solo stuff is quite nice), he usually writes their sweeter songs, for example, he wrote Yesterday.
But Taeil, their main vocalist, has written a few ballads of his own for their albums, and the others have definitely written lyrics and I think occasionally music. BASTARZ write their own stuff too usually. But Zico, along with Pop Time (not a member) are their main composers and producers and have been from the very start. Yes! Same!

Oh! You’re welcome! Haha. I’m enjoying it too! I like that we’re having such a pleasant conversation even though it started because of differing opinions haha.

Hello! Haha no that’s ok… Lyfe is like that. Just reply whenever you can 🙂

Ahaha! I meant that I like the ANTI MV, but I also like the ZfC MV and ANTI as a song, and no don’t worry I didn’t think you didn’t like the song. The MV is kinda weird, but the start in particular I was like ‘ooooh this is interesting’ hehe. Yes, people do like different things.

I always want to keep chatting 😛
‘my’ Block B… hehehe. (Please do! They’re unconventional but I love them for it)
My main groups are BTS, Block B, Seventeen, FTIsland and Mamamoo. (And SPEED although they no longer exist).
Main soloists- Jiyong and Eun Ji, Zico (and probably Zion T too)
Subunits: BARSTARZ, MOBB, FANXY CHILD
I listen to them and watch the most of them. Could talk the most about them… etc.

I listen to a lot of other stuff though and ‘casually stan’ several too.
I listen to Nell, 10cm, Drug Restaurant, AKMU, Jannabi, B.I.G, g.o.d, K.A.R.D, Winner, iKon, Suran, Dean, Laboum, some NU’EST, MBLAQ, Monsta X, EXID, BAP… Idk… I have a lot of singles from artists saved. And a lot of more obscure artists too (won’t mention all of them haha)

I casually follow SHINee and INFINITE, KARD, Amber, sort of Winner & iKon (although I need to get into them more), I love Got7 in person and variety but I don’t listen to them (although I quite like JJP). Jae from DAY6 is hilarious. I love JJY in both variety and music. I follow Tao, but have never got into EXO, and don’t follow them, (despite knowing all their names from pinterest meme excursions)
BUT I recently started listening to their Chinese stuff, and I really like their first album Chinese version, but that’s about it.
WOops, that was a lot of names… hahaha

Thank you! Hehehe yes I get a birthday twice! Lucky me. 🙂

1/2 Hahahaha I totally understand that, you don’t have to apologise. I’m aware that they’re weird and are an acquired taste! haha. Their folder on my computer is labelled “pretty sure they’re insane” so … you know. 😛

Hey, we’re allowed to have different tastes. I have different music tastes to just about everyone I know in some regard. We haven’t even talked about the other kinds of music I listen to outside of Korea… hahahaha

Ahh that’s interesting, see, I got into Kpop over a year ago through BTS. If I got into Kpop now I think I’d avoid BTS as well. The fanbase is a too much at times and frustrates me. But because they’re the reason I can even talk about this, and I still love the members… well they’re still top 5 haha.

It’s interesting, with EXO. I kinda avoided them when I first got into Kpop. I’d heard about them, in varying lights, and I just couldn’t get into their music to save myself. They just didn’t interest me.
And then the other month I was watching some clip of something? Or an edit on YT and it had Peter Pan as the background music and I surprised myself when I found out it was EXO and I really enjoyed it. Listened to the Chinese version and enjoyed it even more.
So no, I mean the XOXO album.
As to why I like the Chinese. Uhm… I know the songs are the same (or as the same as they can be) and the singers are different. I think it’s the language? I like how Chinese flows with their beats better? I’ve been listening to Korean stuff ALL THE TIME recently, so to hear Chinese is kinda refreshing, and also Mandarin is super weird and not like Korean at all, so it has a completely different flavour. Maybe I think Chinese suits their style of music better, idk.

That sounds weird, but then, to use a similar example; Even though historically rap originated in an English speaking country, I think English is one of the worst languages for rap. To use examples. I think Korean rap works so well because Korean is a very bouncy language, the way the syllables work, it bounces a lot, making it good for rapping. I think Finnish rap is incredible, because Finnish is a very lilting and fast language, and that also fits with rap. Spanish rap is so much fun, because Spanish is a fun language that is lilting AND bouncy. That probably still sounds weird but anyway, I think about how different languages fit styles of music. And why I like listening to other languages so much. Like, I think the reason I can draw well to Japanese is because Japanese is very hard, fast, and accurate, kinda like my drawings. So it’s almost mathematical to listen to.
I’ll stop… cos I could talk about music like this probably endlessly.

Anyways, Tao left EXO 2 years ago so it makes sense you don’t follow him. He might have a little bit to do with why I like that particular album in Chinese too. I kinda miss OT12 EXO even though I don’t stan them… haha

2/2 Hahaha re. SVT! That’s funny cos when I heard them first I swore I wasn’t going to get into them because there were so many…
And then Boom Boom came out and I got frustrated that I didn’t know them all. Hee
It’s fun learning them all though. And they’re a super fun group and their fandom is pretty chill, and they’re just refreshing.

Ah… Eun Ji, I should clarify. I meant Jeong Eun Ji, from Apink, also from the dramas Reply 1997 and Sassy Go Go, I like her solo stuff. IU’s real name is Ji Eun. Confusing, I know. I don’t listen to IU… haha And I don’t really ship Jiyong with anyone because he gets shipped with EVERYone, and I also TRY not to ship real life people that aren’t dating cos I find it weird. Sometimes it happens anyway but I try not to.

Haha you’re welcome!

I listen to most of my Korean music on Spotify, and I pay for premium. So I have not bought the albums either digitally or physically yet, although I have been tempted.
Are you looking to buy something? Do you need tips on where to go?

Hehe! Apparently so! Funny that. Although not surprising. They’re the two biggest groups right now hehe.
Oh all fandoms are a bit nuts really. All fandoms can be toxic too. It’s just how you respond to it really. Very true on size though.
Hehehe! Please do. I even like Ko Ko Bop in Chinese, but not in Korean… weird I know.

Yeah… I would not like to lose a member of my closest groups. Let alone three… in two years. It’s such a shame really, because SM had such a good idea with EXO, what with EXO M and EXO K- that was a really good marketing idea- too bad it backfired on them. And hurt a lot of people :/

That’d be nice… he’s stuck in China though isn’t he? And can’t promote in Korea? Or something… You probably know more about it than I.
Hah- funny you say that cos I only actually like one or two of his songs… I just like him as a person, I think he’s great, and he just sasses back at interviewers who try and dig up dirt on him. 😛

Hahahaha … yeah they get that a lot.
Imagine their dances with 17 members though… O.o

Yeah I love Eun Ji’s voice. And omygosh her trot!! I would buy a trot album if she made one. I actually really want her to release a trot song. She sings it so well and makes it sound so good!
Her Masked Singer performances are great also, if you ever want to check more of her out.
Hahaha it’s ok, you’re forgiven, whenever I search Eun Ji’s tag in tumblr it just comes up with IU and I’m like… waaat? hahaha
Yes I’ve heard Palette. She’s a bit soft for me too.

He really is… all of 2NE1 for example…
Oh wow really? You got into him via a ship… hahaha that’s hilarious altough I’ve got into entire tv shows of a ship before so I get it.
I’ve actually seen the second link! And part of the first one, although I haven’t finished it yet.

Ahhh hahaha… yes… I know that temptation… although mine is for concert DVDs at the moment O.o (what album are you tempted by if I may ask?)

Yeah! That’s what I thought too! Regarding the melody.
Hahahaha yeah, I like listening to lots of different languages so I’m cool with it, but it would definitely be weird if you’re not used to it.

Right. I can now keep EXO-L’s happy by saying I like SOME of their stuff hahaha. Power- ahaha actually, I’ve only heard the Chinese version… O.o hehe

I saw it but I haven’t listened to it/ watched it yet. Will do so as soon as I can/do/am in the mood for it.

I read somewhere that it has something to do with Chinese promotion restrictions or something? I don’t really know though :/ Lots of people miss him though.
Hahahaha you too? Ah pinterest. My other best friend. It’s real! Yeahp! haha More so since he left SM I think? But yeah, super savage at times.

So many right… it’d be crazy. The only thing I can think of is that at least they’d still have and odd number which is better for dance formations but yeah. Yeah line distribution is always a problem. Although one that hasn’t really bothered me much, because I know how hard it must be to distribute between 7 people let alone 13. And SVT has units, so everyone gets their time to shine imo. And even more so now that the China line are getting better at Korean.
AHAHAHA! You’re excused- Pentagon are very catchy. I like a few of their songs.

Lol good. She’s great.

Ooooh nice. Hahahahaha. Yeahp, dem photobooklets are so tempting. Actually, tbh, I would totally just buy an album for the packaging design, even if I didn’t want the music- like Dreamcatcher’s newest album is SO GORGEOUS OMYGOSH.

KWB and PHS bromance😘😘