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Ishihara Satomi Meiji Galbo CM
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I'm drunk and looking at photos of Nana
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Kim Tae Hee Wants You To Jack Off To Her In Ultra HD
Your wish is my command.
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Dear Kwon Nara,
Dear Kwon Nara,
I would like to sincerely thank you for being hot.
Earlier today some little kids pissed me off while I was driving into town. They were screaming at me as I passed them by, and I really wanted to back up and run those little pricks over. I have a severe anger management problem that I am able to control most days, mainly because I can just think of hot chicks such as yourself to calm myself down.
When I see hot pictures of idols like you, it makes my day a little better. Every day I have an urge to murder someone, but pictures such as these remind me that there are good things in life.
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Jealous bitches think they own Baek Yerin
So this is probably way out of the sight of most kpop fans, but it involves my favorite idol singer so I have to chime in. Apparently Baek Yerin has been criticized for playing favorites. But I have to disagree with the perspective here. You see, Yerin is ridiculously talented and clearly just wants to sing all the time and develop her ability in it. She's constantly posting videos of her practice in the JYPE dungeon and she made her own soundcloud and youtube, so you know she is legit.
One problem: JYPE doesn't give her shit to do! I mean fuck, even Miss A isn't getting a run this year, and it's not like the 15& material really utilizes her R&B/soul style anyway. So what's a girl going to do when she's trying to develop her performance and going stir-crazy in the dungeon? She'll fucking go out and perform for people herself. But let's remember she's still only 17 years old and depends on the company for everything. So naturally she won't be able to organize shit and will just do it with the people who actually make the time and put in the effort to be with her.
So is that playing favorites? I don't see any of these fans complaining that they went to talk to her and ask about when they could see her and then she withheld the information from them. I don't see anything about them trying to go to some of these busking things and being denied. Nope, I just see a bunch of lazy fucks sitting on their ass reading about what others got to do and then getting jealous.
Well hey, guess what, doing things with all fans together requires planning and money, and those two things either depends on JYPE or the fans. I don't see JYPE doing shit, and HMMMMMMMM I also don't see a bunch of fans organizing their money and everything and trying to negotiate things with Yerin insofar as JYPE will allow her. Nope, they are just sitting around whining as if they are entitled to her whole life.
These shits don't seem to understand anything about what it is to be an idol, especially a rookie who is a minor. If this was any indie artist nobody would give a single fuck because just finding anyone who actually cares to make something happen is how it always works. It is the standard practice and artists at JYPE are aware of how the real world of music works, but with idols we see this attitude of self-entitlement and possessiveness among the fans.
Yerin doesn't seem to care much about losing those kind of "fans" so she just got bonus points from this fan for being awesome and not letting people emotionally manipulate her into feeling bad about being a human with needs and yet also limitations. I hope she continues working with music and performance at her own pace regardless of what JYPE organizes for her or not.
One problem: JYPE doesn't give her shit to do! I mean fuck, even Miss A isn't getting a run this year, and it's not like the 15& material really utilizes her R&B/soul style anyway. So what's a girl going to do when she's trying to develop her performance and going stir-crazy in the dungeon? She'll fucking go out and perform for people herself. But let's remember she's still only 17 years old and depends on the company for everything. So naturally she won't be able to organize shit and will just do it with the people who actually make the time and put in the effort to be with her.
So is that playing favorites? I don't see any of these fans complaining that they went to talk to her and ask about when they could see her and then she withheld the information from them. I don't see anything about them trying to go to some of these busking things and being denied. Nope, I just see a bunch of lazy fucks sitting on their ass reading about what others got to do and then getting jealous.
Well hey, guess what, doing things with all fans together requires planning and money, and those two things either depends on JYPE or the fans. I don't see JYPE doing shit, and HMMMMMMMM I also don't see a bunch of fans organizing their money and everything and trying to negotiate things with Yerin insofar as JYPE will allow her. Nope, they are just sitting around whining as if they are entitled to her whole life.
These shits don't seem to understand anything about what it is to be an idol, especially a rookie who is a minor. If this was any indie artist nobody would give a single fuck because just finding anyone who actually cares to make something happen is how it always works. It is the standard practice and artists at JYPE are aware of how the real world of music works, but with idols we see this attitude of self-entitlement and possessiveness among the fans.
Yerin doesn't seem to care much about losing those kind of "fans" so she just got bonus points from this fan for being awesome and not letting people emotionally manipulate her into feeling bad about being a human with needs and yet also limitations. I hope she continues working with music and performance at her own pace regardless of what JYPE organizes for her or not.
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Tamaki Nami Is Still Living In 2002
Tragic. I don't think the song is bad, but it sounds very similar to the Gundam Seed songs she sang 12 years ago.
I was a huge fan of Tamaki Nami from 2002 to 2006 when she released her best music, but I find this sad to see an artist go back to a sound that is over ten years old. It works for rock bands in which all of the members are old enough to be mummies (such as Van Halen's latest album), but for someone in her mid-20s, it seems far too early to be rehashing a former sound. What makes is worse is that she had some great songs produced by Osawa Shinichi, one of my favorite Japanese producers.
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Akiyama Rina
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Big boobs in k-pop guide part 2: the boobs that Kpopalypse forgot
Ever since I did my big boobs in k-pop guide post, I've been inundated with people complaining that my list left out their fave. I knew this would happen, after all such an exhaustive topic is never going to be "complete". Not only did I leave out some people, but several new performers have also emerged as possible contenders of interest, so it's time for a follow-up post to address these concerns and educate the general population in the virtues of k-pop boobs.
Also featured in the blackboard image at the top of this post, Puer Kim's assets are so formidable that apparently jealous netizens have been campaigning for her to get a breast reduction. As if we didn't already have enough reasons to hate the hive-mind, there's one more. It's safe to say that Russ Meyer would have started a k-pop agency if there were more girls in Korea with figures like Puer Kim. Her broad shoulders suggest that the boobage is legit, too (natural boob volume is often related to shoulder span). The question is though - how much of this is push-up?
Maybe some extra volume is added from the industrial-strength underwear required to hold such boulders, and why wouldn't she want to present them positively.
In her "Purfier" teaser (which unlike 99% of teasers is worth a look because none of the footage is replicated in her actual feature tracks), Puer Kim lays a bunch of fruit out on the table and asks you to guess the most likely size of her tits. Even though the photos sometimes show rockmelon-worthy dimensions, I'm picking the orange as the closest raw volume equivalent. But who's complaining? The only thing keeping her away from snatching Martina's crown is that I haven't seen any bounce yet.
When I first saw someone nominate Woohee for possible inclusion in this post I was like "you must be kidding me, she ain't all that". But then I did some research and found some recent pictures that made me understand the nomination more clearly:
Okay, now we're talking.
Damn, are they absolutely sure it's even the same girl? Anyway, whatever, I don't care who it is, I can definitely still fap to this.
I decided to make ex-members of groups eligible this time, and what a good decision that was, because I now get to include Viki in this list. Viki quit k-pop seemingly to pursue a career in the "erotic film" industry, and you can read more about that plus view some video links to exposed idol boobies here courtesy of Asian Junkie. Don't forget to bring your popcorn.
What you will notice when you start watching the videos at the link however is that Viki's boobs are very much a surgical creation (I think the popcorn picture was from before she "upgraded her appearance"). Viki also gets shopped quite a lot, such as in this cover for Maxim which very obviously has some severe shop work on the boobs:
I'm not really into this type of look, but I guess in the world of k-pop everything is artificial anyway, so why not go with the flow?
Jaekyung was chosen for the Rainbow Blaxx "sexy" subunit and it's easy to see why. She also sure takes a lot of motherfuckin' selcas. Some look like this:
And some look more like this:
Maybe it's all in the angle. Who knows how much boob is really there? It could be one of k-pop's greatest mysteries, but the variance in boob size probably rules out surgery in favour of different types of support. What's less of a mystery is that Jaekyung looks good so nobody really cares.
Rainbow groupmate Woori also meets required standards and is happy to display cleavage, a sight which is thankfully becoming more and more common in k-pop due to trainblazers like her. She also looks pretty busty in the photo above but there's clearly a bit of smoke and mirrors going on, this casual selca while sleeping on the train probably reveals the correct proportions:
It's still quite an amount even in worst case scenario, and hopefully the above image fulfills your JAV-style public transport molestation video fantasies. Now that's fanservice on another level.
Rounding out our Rainbow trilogy is Hyunyoung, who probably has had her cleavage Photoshopped slightly in the above photo for Maxim (who should be required by law to photograph all k-pop girls) but here's a sleepytime photo to give you a better idea:
Posture is of course very important when displaying boobs so for someone to still look busty and maintain most of her volume even in this decidedly not-glamourous photo with a crappy hunching over position is impressive! It means that we're dealing with the real deal and not a Photoshopper's fantasy.
Rainbow aren't exactly a hugely successful group so you know that it must be the songs that people don't like - because the girls sure are likeable!
Clara was excluded from the first boobs list because she wasn't in k-pop at the time, but since that list came out she's done a song with House Rulez and she's also working on a solo song of her own apparently, which I'm sure is going to set the k-pop world on fire, or at least apply to it some significant warming friction.
We all know Clara is going to score big in this list here especially with regard to fanservice given that that's largely all she's famous for up until this point. The big question is however - are they real?
Looking at video evidence, I see a lot of firmness and I don't see a lot of bounce happening even during very bouncy dance routines, so I'm tipping some hefty implants (even though she reckons she just "got prettier"). Still, it's not like I gotta feel them when I go to sleep, so I don't care that much if they're real - their positive impression during photoshoots is still real, and my thirst is still real.
Ivy was some k-pop singer who had a controversy so she went on a career break for a few years to "reflect" as netizens are so fond of making people do - then she came back a few years later and netizens resumed the bashing anyway like she never left. Just goes to show that nobody should ever listen to those pieces of shit.
Don't ask me what the controversy was about - I think it was some bullshit because she fucked some dude when she wasn't supposed to or whatever, but I dunno. Add it to the ever-growing list of things I really don't give a fuck about, a list that some of you have noticed is getting pretty long:
I DO give a shit about some things though, such as spreading the cause of boob appreciation, hence me spending days of my life selflessly making this post for your enjoyment and entertainment. I thought that would have been fairly obvious to everybody but I guess some things are never obvious enough for some of you deadshits out there. Anyway here's a picture of Ivy plus some dude.
That should please any of you people craving some saucy man-meat objectification to balance out all the female-perving. You can't even see his face - can't get any more "reducing 'em to an object" than that. Don't ask me who the guy is though, I'm too busy staring at Ivy's boobs anyway. To think that she retreated from the public eye for years due to netizen cyberbullying, denying herself a career during k-pop's lucrative golden age and denying me fap value... and then netizens have the hide to go and accuse others of bullying, like the hypocrites even have a leg to stand on, while this hottie gets locked up without even a webcam to strip in front of. It's a crime, I tell you. How pathetic is k-pop internet culture, pathetic enough for me to blog about it, that's for sure. Support Ivy and troll a netizen today. Or if you can't manage that, at least fap to Ivy and ignore a netizen today.
I'm pretty sure Dahye is most people's fave in I-can't-believe-they're-not-nugus BESTie, one of those great new groups where everybody meets required standards. Unfortunately, Dahye insists on wearing 2267 layers of clothing in every photo of her ever, so determining true breast size is difficult. This means we have to go to selca land to get a true indication.
Even these photos, which is about as much cleavage as I've ever seen from Dayhe, don't really tell us a lot of accurate information. It's just as well that Dahye is cute and therefore easy to forgive.
Someone needs to tell this girl that "There's Something About Mary" was just a film, not an instructional video. I'm suspecting a fairly modest boob size, but then maybe Dahye is just playing them down so as to not make the other members of the group feel jealous. Not that any of them are really all that far behind her in terms of hotness.
Qri may be hot enough to get on my bias list but that doesn't mean that she actually has boobs of note - if anything it just goes to show that you don't need to be busty to be considered hot by Kpopalypse (it's just an advantage, so there is hope, non-busty Kpopalypse fangirls!) . I can't believe Qri was even nominated for this, surely she's the least busty member of T-ara, certainly in terms of proportionate height-to-boob ratio. I mean okay, some of you linked this photo, and her boobs do look huge in it:
But so does her hair braid, and her lips - and even the button on the dress, so that should tell you something about the illusion that the camera is generating here. And these are the only photos of her with anything even vaguely resembling cleavage.
She can layer up with thick leather and bras on the outside of her clothing in "Sugar Free" all she wants, nobody is fooled. Well, almost nobody. You guys nominated Boram too, but I'm not even gonna go there. Come on now, are you that easily hoodwinked?
Even more ridiculously, nobody nominated Hyomin. Look at her smiling like the cat that swallowed the cream, she's all like "ha, it's so hilarious that I'm so fucking hot and I'm promoting my new song "Nice Body" and it says "Nice Body" on my shirt, can you uggzilla haters feel the burn yet?". Even the other hotties in her own group are jealous, I can only imagine how everybody else feels.
She's even got her fucking measurements on her clothing. It's like she knew she was destined to appear in this post and only wants to make my job easier.
Looks at the shadow under that shirt, outstanding boob clearance. If she did the IBC the result would be similar to Sunny's, but unlike Sunny, Hyomin hasn't really grappled consistently with fanservice yet, which is a shame and maybe why she slipped under your radar. Or maybe you folks didn't nominate Hyomin because you just felt that her inclusion was a foregone conclusion. If so, you were right!
I was going to write about T-ara's ex-manicurist-seeker and bathwater-hogging specialist Hwayoung, but then I remembered that she has a sister with far more determination who at least two people still actually care about, so I thought I'd write about Hyoyoung instead. They have exactly the same rack anyway. The key difference, of course, is that Hyoyoung hasn't really discovered fanservice yet, which is a pity, she's another k-pop girl with nice boobs who is determined not to show them, she's always hiding behind 6872 layers.
Hwayoung on the other hand flops out her heavily propped-up titties for the public at any opportunity given to her, usually when T-ara are having activities at the same time so she can ride off the T-ara fame a bit more, probably because it's literally the only thing she's known for these days besides having a piss-poor attitude. But you've already seen all Hwayoung's pics and videos because she's thrusting them in your face all the time in desperation so no need for me to link any of them here. Maybe Hwayoung could teach Hyoyoung a thing or two about being determined to show tits, and Hyoyoung could them return the favour by showing Hwayoung how to play nicely with others.
As the most busty practitioner from the group who most heavily flew the "sexy concepts pay the bills so STFU" flag in 2014, Minhee was heavily requested and it's easy to see why. Her boobs are so nicely displayed that even other group members can't keep their hands off them.
However I do suspect a lot of padding, because Minhee wasn't rocking this much boob until recently. It's true that she may have "got prettier" but Minhee's "Marionette" outfits even incorporated exposed padded bras into their design.
Hyoeun from Stellar was also requested, and although I actually find Hyoeun a lot more attractive generally, she's got a long way to go to reach Minhee's level of cleavage exposure... and so do most idols, unfortunately. Let's hope Minhee can keep blazing that trail and doesn't get closeted back up with some stupid concept where she has to wear hanbok and do heart signs and shit.
You can tell that Nam Gyuri is another brilliant KKS recruitment choice, does the man have the eagle eye or what? Of course, she had some issues with him or whatever so she's no longer part of Korea's second-most-gangster record label, and that's a shame because I'd like to see more of this in music videos:
This dress looks straight out of Stellar's "Mask" video. However such a loose-fitting dress plus very firm boobs underneath also leads me to suspicions of an "upgraded appearance". We may not be sure but we can certainly speculate on it and write blogs as if we know what we're talking about for the amusement of others.
Choa and Way informed me in no uncertain terms that they heard that I was doing a boobs post and that they wanted no part in my shady objectification schemes. They mentioned that any such postings on my part highlighting the boobs of Crayon Pop members might lead to other poorer people in the vicinity of my dwelling suddenly becoming somewhat richer at my expense due to them accessing wealth redistribution services. Being a friendly, cooperative sort who likes his life uninterrupted by mishap, I hastily agreed to not include Crayon Pop in my boobs post. Also note that Strawberry Milk's song "OK" is really good, why don't you click on this YouTube link and play it a lot, make sure you disable your adblocker so Chrome Entertainment makes maximum revenue, and note that there is nothing to see in this video that is boob related. At all. Also don't forget that if you ever see a Crayon Pop girl in a CF, you are legally obligated to purchase that product or service. Thank you. Moving on:
EXID have been wearing a lot of form fitting clothing lately and that's a good thing. I especially like Hyerin's form, sure she's muffin-topping it a bit but I honestly like that too.
Super cute. Of course those turtleneck sweaters mean that there could be literally anything under there, but that's okay, I can just imagine that I'm this teddy bear:
What's softer, that teddy bear, or what it's up against? Like all the best k-pop scandals, we'll never know the truth... but we can imagine - and fap.
Hani definitely isn't as busty as Hyerin, and she's also not exposing any more than her, but you people seem to all like her a lot so here she is anyway, because I'm all about pleasing others.
At least she's got some good fanservice going on when it comes to props:
Someone really needs to help her out and show her which end of that thing is used for what purpose, she seems a bit confused.
Fast gaining a reputation in k-pop circles as "Big Boobs Wendy", the bustiest member of SM's replacement girl group for the laughably redundant and utterly shithouse vocalfag wank-group CSJH The Grace, Wendy at first slid quietly under the radar of k-pop boob appreciators. This however all changed quickly when she took on board some advice from yours truly and was snapped out and about in the following clothing:
I think her true bustiness is yet to be proven however. Never understimate the power of horizontal back and white stripes when applied correctly as per Kpopalypse instructions to enhance boob volume. So far other official photos have not yet backed up the busty impression of this street shot, suggesting that her company is playing their cards close to their chest... or at least too close to Wendy's chest to let us get much of a peek at it.
Whether Wendy will continue to remain of interest to boob connoisseurs remains to be seen, but I think she's off to a promising start. It's early days yet! Did anyone notice Sunny's boobs all that much back in "Into The New World" days? It's doubtful, so let's give Wendy time and see what the future holds.
I've always liked both Gangkiz and Haein, and I can't believe that I left her out of the initial boobs post. Gangkiz flopped incredibly, but why? The only thing wrong with them was that they were a marketing mis-step, Gangkiz had great songs and great girls but insecure fangirls don't want to know about a mature-age sexy girl group like this. Also maybe "Honey Honey" was just a little too similar-sounding to T-ara's "Lovey Dovey", which had just been a huge hit so people probably felt like they were being sold the same song twice and understandably said no. But who cares about that for now, let's talk about tits.
Haein is genuinely busty - you know someone's got serious boobs going on when they hunch over in a poor posture and it actually enhances rather than detracts from their boobpearance (that's a new word I invented just now, feel free to use). Her body shape is the kind that you see on more busty women too, so surgery is unlikely... and she looks busty in every photo, even the ones where she's got her arm in the way:
According to the wiki page on Gangkiz, there's only two girls left in the group and Haein isn't one of them, but even that's optimistic - chances are they've been permanently disbanded. I can only hope that Haein gets in some more bikini videos like the crappy one she was in for T-ara last year.
"G is for Guess" according to the shirt, and IU has been a popular nomination for this post - it seems she the one who's been making you all guess as to whether she is a late bloomer, "got prettier" YG style or is just wearing more padded bras lately to fit in with her more mature post-illness image.
I'm tipping the third option. Girls can do amazing things with bras, pads and tissue paper - but that's okay because I can do amazing things with my penis when I look at the result.
IU approves, look at that smile. Or maybe she doesn't, I don't care. May she be continue to be hot and enjoy her "close relationship" with male k-pop idols.
Lee Hyori has an impressive rack. But how real is it? Inquiring minds wish to know.
This picture would be better if the deceptive clothes were removed.
Ah, that's better. Okay, it's a pretty safe bet to say that there's no padding in this photo. Her boob profile pretty much fits those of natural boobs too, i.e there's a lot more weight at the bottom of the boob. If only all k-pop stars were this helpful.
Thanks Lee Hyori for making my job here dead simple, I appreciate it.
Nam Young Joo is a relatively new singer on the k-pop scene, who some of you may not have heard of. I certainly hadn't heard of her until she was suggested for this post, and so I promptly did some research to see if she was eligible. The results were.... amusing:
Someone over at her agency is clearly in love with Photoshop's "liquify" filter, because every official Nam Young Joo photo has got crazily obvious Photoshop all over it.
I can't fap to this, my brain is too confused, it's like fapping to that Dali painting with the melting clocks. Please stop messing with her proportions, whoever you are.
It has been called to my attention that Nada of twerktastic 2013 nugus Wassup has some nice boobs.
I like Wassup because they don't play the game by the k-pop rulebook in a lot of ways, such as their commitment to fanservice which goes above and beyond what most k-pop groups and individuals can muster. They seem to be pretty focused on an international audience only, and I say good. Never mind Korea, send these boobs directly to Kpopalypse, thank you.
Wassup's best kept secret is Dain and she is cute as shit, and her boobies are fucking nice. I know she's a well-kept secret because Nada got tons of nominations for this list, but Dain got none. Even this duckface photo above is tolerable.
Holy fucking shitballs she's cute. Honestly her great rack is just a bonus.
The fuck. How come Wassup's company can find girls like this and other k-pop agencies can't. BRB fapping.
Ex-Jewelry member Seo In Young's boobies are just fucking weird. They always look bizarre in every single photo. I've tried to figure it out and I just can't, I honestly don't know what's even going on in that dark space between her boobs which is at least as scary as Taeyeon's.
Maybe it's Photoshop, maybe it's a botched surgery, maybe she's one of those girls who has had really fluctuating weight in the past and it's altered her chest area a bit, or maybe it's a portal to another dimension. We can call it The Large Hard-On Collider.
Look at her all-knowing stare - only Seo In Young knows the secret, and she's not telling. In the meantime, she continues to taunt us with her cleave, prodding the deepest wells of our subconscious, inviting us to stare through the gaping chasm of flesh into the void beyond. A creation Lovecraftian in scope that pure science cannot comprehend.
Yewon from Jewelry is here with her magic wand of boob appreciation. She should probably turn her magic abilities to helping her group not flop for a change, but hey if she's not going to act in her own best rational self-interest and instead is just going to show us her boobs I'm not complaining.
She seems pretty happy about it. Yewon isn't shy of a bit of fanservicey underwear modelling and certainly does a better job of modelling for Yes than Hyosung who won't even show us both bra cups.
Even selcas come up very nice thanks to sensible Kpopalypse-approved application of horizontal black and white stripes. I never really paid much attention to Yewon before so thank you to whoever nominated her, for making me aware. Also I am a bad person for not supporting this girl more.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think Gain's boobs are really all that big. I just think she's very, very good at presenting what she's got appealingly.
Gain's especially good at presenting herself appealingly for molesters and perverts to fantasise about her. Lots of her music videos seem to depict people forcing themselves on her and doing rude and legally ambiguous things. Here she is defending herself against an attacker with a vicious guard dog. Gain's body language and the scary dog's gnashing teeth say "no" but the mind of the viewer (represented by the sign on the left) says "yes".
Another picture taken after the molester/viewer has attempted to have his/her (not all perpetrators of sex crimes are male, you know) way with Gain, tearing off half her clothes off and exposing her boobs before the guard dog's gnashing teeth finally sent them on their way. Gain's face looks sad and dejected, and the guard dog also seemed displeased having been unable to protect Gain from a thorough humiliation. However the sign saying "yes" still remains, suggesting that in the mind of the attacker she really wanted it. This is fanservice on a completely different level, known as "rape fantasy", or in k-pop as "classy sexy" (and just to clarify I think "rape fantasy" is okay as long as it's with consenting folks and doesn't become "rape reality"). It must all be the same thing, because Gain gets called "classy sexy" all the time, and never gets hate for her sexy concepts. It's probably because she gets raped in a lot of them, therefore in the minds of crazy fangirls who can't separate fantasy (aka their "young emotional story") from reality she's being 'punished' for being such a 'slut'.
Gain has tapped into the thinly-veiled misogyny that underpins k-pop and psychologically mined it to come out on top of everybody in the slut-shame-game. She's five steps ahead of you at all times. She knows what you're thinking, before you think it. She's already put your hate letter in the mail to herself before you even picked up the pen to write it. She's already made you jizz yourself before it even occurred to you to unzip your pants. Are you even reading this? Probably not, which just proves my point.
Kota impresses me as a Gain 2.0 with a similar sexual vibe, bigger boobs and great potential but unfortunately nowhere near the same level of fanservice, which is a pity almost as enormous as her rampant boob squeezing in the visually fantastic "Monday Blues" video.
Appealing and fanservicey Kota boob exposure is extremely difficult to find anywhere. Somebody needs to get on the phone to her agency and tell their company that we need more of this type of thing and less of... not this type of thing.
Here's Kota dialing the emergency red phone to boob appreciation HQ, demanding more fanservice and Maxim shoots. We hear you, Kota! We'll do our best here to influence the k-pop loving population!
Baek Ji Young has been in the k-pop as well as the k-entertainment game for a while now, and guess what? You guessed it, she's got some bustiness going on, so here are some pics of her.
This picture was shot in Australia, and for a brief second it looked like she had a pistol-grip on some kind of weird space gun before I realised that it's just her beach shawl or whatever behind her right hand creating a very strange illusion in my overactive mind. A massive disappointment, I'd love to see a film where Baek Ji Young runs around in a bikini showing this level of skin exposure and saves Australia from space aliens. Somebody with money and the right connections please make this a thing that happens.
I don't know much about her singing career, I got the vibe from the photos that it's mainly a bunch of shithouse ballads but this isn't really true as it happens (thanks AKF!). Her boobs look nice so maybe I'll consider listening at some point. Yes, the entertainment world has come to this, I'm just more honest and candid about the reality of it than most folks.
It's often been overlooked by all but the most courageous boob appreciators, but CL has been busty ever since 2NE1's debut. Time to delve into the latest extreme sport sweeping the k-pop world, a pasttime so extreme and dangerous that it may never receive full safety accreditation from sporting regulatory bodies - "extreme CL perving".
I guess it's fortunate for me that CL's boobs are on display very rarely; it's telling that a Google image search for "CL 2NE1 boobs" mainly brings back pictures of Bom. However when CL does decide to show the world how good it feels to be bad and bring out the gizibe cleaveage, she arguably out-busts all her groupmates with clearly natural assets plus copious amounts of push-up.
I know what you're thinking - "Kpopalypse, how can you be so certain that CL didn't get a boob job"? Come on, of course I'm sure - think about it. If CL was even remotely inclined towards any plastic surgery at all, surely she would have started with her face?
The cute singer of "Love's Battery" has amazing boobs. Hong Jin Young clearly appeals to the older boobs pervert demographic so I guess that would be me. Yeah trot music certainly gets a bit repetitive but then so does fapping and I enjoy that, so why be fussy about it.
I don't know what else to type, I'm kind of busy right now.
Oh that's right - this girl releases like one song every four years or some shit. She needs to get out and about in front of cameras some more. How come she has hardly any good MVs. That's all, really. Sorry I don't have much blood in my brain right now.
I was surprised to see Sojin nominated so heavily by Girl's Day fans for this blog post. Yep, Sojin was definitely the Girl's Day member with the most nominations, no doubt about it, which was weird because along with Minah (who wasn't nominated at all and won't be included here despite being my fave in Girl's Day) I always felt that she was one of the not-so-busty members. I mean sure, sometimes in photos Sojin looks like this:
But then when I look at fancams she's always more like this:
Sojin's bustline is never very consistent, and always bigger in still images for modelling than for stage shots, which is a sure sign of large amounts of shopping. Every day might be Girl's Day but it's still not every day that you can fool Kpopalypse!
I'm forgetting someone of course, aren't I? Why yes - Hyeri is often noted for her appearance.
Also I like that other girl in Bikiny with the face that looks like a rabbit. Rabbit faces are cute. If you've got more information please leave in the comments below.
Oh wait... wait... stop the presses! There's just one more girl that I remembered to include just now:
Seriously though, try searching for boobs of any other Girl's Day members besides Yura and good luck as Yura keeps appearing in the search results anyway. She certain has an ample rack. Some might say it's surgery but I doubt it judging by the high amount of jiggle-friendly footage out there (I won't link any because I've linked several Yura jiggle GIFs before and you've already seen them all). I think she just eats boob-enhancing food more than other group members.
I've been ignoring Yura for months in fap posts and it must have been the idiotic and borderline-illegal behaviour of Yura fans acting like spoiled, entitled children that temporarily erased the will to post Yura ever again from my brain. Don't make me get the law involved.
Yura fans, you're on probation. Remain on your best behaviour from now on if you want future Yura content.
Okay so that's it. Don't ask me to do a third one of these posts before at least two years have passed. This shit fucking took forever! Happy fapping from Kpopalypse!
WARNING: before you click to read more - this post is bigger than Puer Kim's rack. Prepare your browser appropriately for a large deluge of images of k-pop boobs.
Note that we are once again grading female boobs in four separate key areas:
Size - the amount of raw "pearly volume"
E Factor - enhancement using push-up bras, padding, etc
PS factor - surgical enhancement, also that "other" PS, Photoshop
Fanservice - if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear, can it be said to have made a sound? Likewise, if a k-pop girl has busty assets but never shows them in a positive light, is she in fact busty at all? The answer to both of these questions is obviously "yes, so stick your Zen Buddhist philosophical wank up your ass" but we'd still like to see more fanservice from k-pop girls.
All k-pop girls will be given a final score for boob fapability which is a combination of all the above important elements.
Nominations were taken from ask.fm and also I added a few picks of my own. I included most of the nominations but not all, so if your fave isn't here it's probably because I'm ignoring them either because they didn't meet minimum bustiness requirements, or maybe I neglected them deliberately just to be an asshole. Feel free to complain about that on some forum somewhere or whatever. I do not claim this list to be complete, merely the best that I am motivated to do. Anyway here we go and we may as well get started with our header image k-pop schoolteacher:
Puer Kim
Also featured in the blackboard image at the top of this post, Puer Kim's assets are so formidable that apparently jealous netizens have been campaigning for her to get a breast reduction. As if we didn't already have enough reasons to hate the hive-mind, there's one more. It's safe to say that Russ Meyer would have started a k-pop agency if there were more girls in Korea with figures like Puer Kim. Her broad shoulders suggest that the boobage is legit, too (natural boob volume is often related to shoulder span). The question is though - how much of this is push-up?
Maybe some extra volume is added from the industrial-strength underwear required to hold such boulders, and why wouldn't she want to present them positively.
In her "Purfier" teaser (which unlike 99% of teasers is worth a look because none of the footage is replicated in her actual feature tracks), Puer Kim lays a bunch of fruit out on the table and asks you to guess the most likely size of her tits. Even though the photos sometimes show rockmelon-worthy dimensions, I'm picking the orange as the closest raw volume equivalent. But who's complaining? The only thing keeping her away from snatching Martina's crown is that I haven't seen any bounce yet.
Woohee (Dal Shabet)
When I first saw someone nominate Woohee for possible inclusion in this post I was like "you must be kidding me, she ain't all that". But then I did some research and found some recent pictures that made me understand the nomination more clearly:
Okay, now we're talking.
Damn, are they absolutely sure it's even the same girl? Anyway, whatever, I don't care who it is, I can definitely still fap to this.
Viki (ex-Dal Shabet)
I decided to make ex-members of groups eligible this time, and what a good decision that was, because I now get to include Viki in this list. Viki quit k-pop seemingly to pursue a career in the "erotic film" industry, and you can read more about that plus view some video links to exposed idol boobies here courtesy of Asian Junkie. Don't forget to bring your popcorn.
What you will notice when you start watching the videos at the link however is that Viki's boobs are very much a surgical creation (I think the popcorn picture was from before she "upgraded her appearance"). Viki also gets shopped quite a lot, such as in this cover for Maxim which very obviously has some severe shop work on the boobs:
I'm not really into this type of look, but I guess in the world of k-pop everything is artificial anyway, so why not go with the flow?
Jaekyung (Rainbow)
Jaekyung was chosen for the Rainbow Blaxx "sexy" subunit and it's easy to see why. She also sure takes a lot of motherfuckin' selcas. Some look like this:
And some look more like this:
Maybe it's all in the angle. Who knows how much boob is really there? It could be one of k-pop's greatest mysteries, but the variance in boob size probably rules out surgery in favour of different types of support. What's less of a mystery is that Jaekyung looks good so nobody really cares.
Woori (Rainbow)
Rainbow groupmate Woori also meets required standards and is happy to display cleavage, a sight which is thankfully becoming more and more common in k-pop due to trainblazers like her. She also looks pretty busty in the photo above but there's clearly a bit of smoke and mirrors going on, this casual selca while sleeping on the train probably reveals the correct proportions:
It's still quite an amount even in worst case scenario, and hopefully the above image fulfills your JAV-style public transport molestation video fantasies. Now that's fanservice on another level.
Hyunyoung (Rainbow)
Rounding out our Rainbow trilogy is Hyunyoung, who probably has had her cleavage Photoshopped slightly in the above photo for Maxim (who should be required by law to photograph all k-pop girls) but here's a sleepytime photo to give you a better idea:
Posture is of course very important when displaying boobs so for someone to still look busty and maintain most of her volume even in this decidedly not-glamourous photo with a crappy hunching over position is impressive! It means that we're dealing with the real deal and not a Photoshopper's fantasy.
Rainbow aren't exactly a hugely successful group so you know that it must be the songs that people don't like - because the girls sure are likeable!
Clara
Clara was excluded from the first boobs list because she wasn't in k-pop at the time, but since that list came out she's done a song with House Rulez and she's also working on a solo song of her own apparently, which I'm sure is going to set the k-pop world on fire, or at least apply to it some significant warming friction.
We all know Clara is going to score big in this list here especially with regard to fanservice given that that's largely all she's famous for up until this point. The big question is however - are they real?
Looking at video evidence, I see a lot of firmness and I don't see a lot of bounce happening even during very bouncy dance routines, so I'm tipping some hefty implants (even though she reckons she just "got prettier"). Still, it's not like I gotta feel them when I go to sleep, so I don't care that much if they're real - their positive impression during photoshoots is still real, and my thirst is still real.
Ivy
Ivy was some k-pop singer who had a controversy so she went on a career break for a few years to "reflect" as netizens are so fond of making people do - then she came back a few years later and netizens resumed the bashing anyway like she never left. Just goes to show that nobody should ever listen to those pieces of shit.
Don't ask me what the controversy was about - I think it was some bullshit because she fucked some dude when she wasn't supposed to or whatever, but I dunno. Add it to the ever-growing list of things I really don't give a fuck about, a list that some of you have noticed is getting pretty long:
I DO give a shit about some things though, such as spreading the cause of boob appreciation, hence me spending days of my life selflessly making this post for your enjoyment and entertainment. I thought that would have been fairly obvious to everybody but I guess some things are never obvious enough for some of you deadshits out there. Anyway here's a picture of Ivy plus some dude.
That should please any of you people craving some saucy man-meat objectification to balance out all the female-perving. You can't even see his face - can't get any more "reducing 'em to an object" than that. Don't ask me who the guy is though, I'm too busy staring at Ivy's boobs anyway. To think that she retreated from the public eye for years due to netizen cyberbullying, denying herself a career during k-pop's lucrative golden age and denying me fap value... and then netizens have the hide to go and accuse others of bullying, like the hypocrites even have a leg to stand on, while this hottie gets locked up without even a webcam to strip in front of. It's a crime, I tell you. How pathetic is k-pop internet culture, pathetic enough for me to blog about it, that's for sure. Support Ivy and troll a netizen today. Or if you can't manage that, at least fap to Ivy and ignore a netizen today.
Dahye (BESTie)
I'm pretty sure Dahye is most people's fave in I-can't-believe-they're-not-nugus BESTie, one of those great new groups where everybody meets required standards. Unfortunately, Dahye insists on wearing 2267 layers of clothing in every photo of her ever, so determining true breast size is difficult. This means we have to go to selca land to get a true indication.
Even these photos, which is about as much cleavage as I've ever seen from Dayhe, don't really tell us a lot of accurate information. It's just as well that Dahye is cute and therefore easy to forgive.
Someone needs to tell this girl that "There's Something About Mary" was just a film, not an instructional video. I'm suspecting a fairly modest boob size, but then maybe Dahye is just playing them down so as to not make the other members of the group feel jealous. Not that any of them are really all that far behind her in terms of hotness.
Qri (T-ara)
Qri may be hot enough to get on my bias list but that doesn't mean that she actually has boobs of note - if anything it just goes to show that you don't need to be busty to be considered hot by Kpopalypse (it's just an advantage, so there is hope, non-busty Kpopalypse fangirls!) . I can't believe Qri was even nominated for this, surely she's the least busty member of T-ara, certainly in terms of proportionate height-to-boob ratio. I mean okay, some of you linked this photo, and her boobs do look huge in it:
But so does her hair braid, and her lips - and even the button on the dress, so that should tell you something about the illusion that the camera is generating here. And these are the only photos of her with anything even vaguely resembling cleavage.
She can layer up with thick leather and bras on the outside of her clothing in "Sugar Free" all she wants, nobody is fooled. Well, almost nobody. You guys nominated Boram too, but I'm not even gonna go there. Come on now, are you that easily hoodwinked?
Hyomin (T-ara)
Even more ridiculously, nobody nominated Hyomin. Look at her smiling like the cat that swallowed the cream, she's all like "ha, it's so hilarious that I'm so fucking hot and I'm promoting my new song "Nice Body" and it says "Nice Body" on my shirt, can you uggzilla haters feel the burn yet?". Even the other hotties in her own group are jealous, I can only imagine how everybody else feels.
She's even got her fucking measurements on her clothing. It's like she knew she was destined to appear in this post and only wants to make my job easier.
Looks at the shadow under that shirt, outstanding boob clearance. If she did the IBC the result would be similar to Sunny's, but unlike Sunny, Hyomin hasn't really grappled consistently with fanservice yet, which is a shame and maybe why she slipped under your radar. Or maybe you folks didn't nominate Hyomin because you just felt that her inclusion was a foregone conclusion. If so, you were right!
Hyoyoung (F-ve Dolls)
I was going to write about T-ara's ex-manicurist-seeker and bathwater-hogging specialist Hwayoung, but then I remembered that she has a sister with far more determination who at least two people still actually care about, so I thought I'd write about Hyoyoung instead. They have exactly the same rack anyway. The key difference, of course, is that Hyoyoung hasn't really discovered fanservice yet, which is a pity, she's another k-pop girl with nice boobs who is determined not to show them, she's always hiding behind 6872 layers.
Hwayoung on the other hand flops out her heavily propped-up titties for the public at any opportunity given to her, usually when T-ara are having activities at the same time so she can ride off the T-ara fame a bit more, probably because it's literally the only thing she's known for these days besides having a piss-poor attitude. But you've already seen all Hwayoung's pics and videos because she's thrusting them in your face all the time in desperation so no need for me to link any of them here. Maybe Hwayoung could teach Hyoyoung a thing or two about being determined to show tits, and Hyoyoung could them return the favour by showing Hwayoung how to play nicely with others.
Minhee (Stellar)
As the most busty practitioner from the group who most heavily flew the "sexy concepts pay the bills so STFU" flag in 2014, Minhee was heavily requested and it's easy to see why. Her boobs are so nicely displayed that even other group members can't keep their hands off them.
However I do suspect a lot of padding, because Minhee wasn't rocking this much boob until recently. It's true that she may have "got prettier" but Minhee's "Marionette" outfits even incorporated exposed padded bras into their design.
Hyoeun from Stellar was also requested, and although I actually find Hyoeun a lot more attractive generally, she's got a long way to go to reach Minhee's level of cleavage exposure... and so do most idols, unfortunately. Let's hope Minhee can keep blazing that trail and doesn't get closeted back up with some stupid concept where she has to wear hanbok and do heart signs and shit.
Nam Gyuri (ex-Seeya)
You can tell that Nam Gyuri is another brilliant KKS recruitment choice, does the man have the eagle eye or what? Of course, she had some issues with him or whatever so she's no longer part of Korea's second-most-gangster record label, and that's a shame because I'd like to see more of this in music videos:
This dress looks straight out of Stellar's "Mask" video. However such a loose-fitting dress plus very firm boobs underneath also leads me to suspicions of an "upgraded appearance". We may not be sure but we can certainly speculate on it and write blogs as if we know what we're talking about for the amusement of others.
Crayon Pop
I was about to do a big write-up of all the Crayon Pop girls but then I got a knock at my door. I opened it and was greeted with this sight:Choa and Way informed me in no uncertain terms that they heard that I was doing a boobs post and that they wanted no part in my shady objectification schemes. They mentioned that any such postings on my part highlighting the boobs of Crayon Pop members might lead to other poorer people in the vicinity of my dwelling suddenly becoming somewhat richer at my expense due to them accessing wealth redistribution services. Being a friendly, cooperative sort who likes his life uninterrupted by mishap, I hastily agreed to not include Crayon Pop in my boobs post. Also note that Strawberry Milk's song "OK" is really good, why don't you click on this YouTube link and play it a lot, make sure you disable your adblocker so Chrome Entertainment makes maximum revenue, and note that there is nothing to see in this video that is boob related. At all. Also don't forget that if you ever see a Crayon Pop girl in a CF, you are legally obligated to purchase that product or service. Thank you. Moving on:
Hyerin (EXID)
EXID have been wearing a lot of form fitting clothing lately and that's a good thing. I especially like Hyerin's form, sure she's muffin-topping it a bit but I honestly like that too.
Super cute. Of course those turtleneck sweaters mean that there could be literally anything under there, but that's okay, I can just imagine that I'm this teddy bear:
What's softer, that teddy bear, or what it's up against? Like all the best k-pop scandals, we'll never know the truth... but we can imagine - and fap.
Hani (EXID)
Hani definitely isn't as busty as Hyerin, and she's also not exposing any more than her, but you people seem to all like her a lot so here she is anyway, because I'm all about pleasing others.
At least she's got some good fanservice going on when it comes to props:
Someone really needs to help her out and show her which end of that thing is used for what purpose, she seems a bit confused.
Wendy (Red Velvet)
Fast gaining a reputation in k-pop circles as "Big Boobs Wendy", the bustiest member of SM's replacement girl group for the laughably redundant and utterly shithouse vocalfag wank-group CSJH The Grace, Wendy at first slid quietly under the radar of k-pop boob appreciators. This however all changed quickly when she took on board some advice from yours truly and was snapped out and about in the following clothing:
I think her true bustiness is yet to be proven however. Never understimate the power of horizontal back and white stripes when applied correctly as per Kpopalypse instructions to enhance boob volume. So far other official photos have not yet backed up the busty impression of this street shot, suggesting that her company is playing their cards close to their chest... or at least too close to Wendy's chest to let us get much of a peek at it.
Whether Wendy will continue to remain of interest to boob connoisseurs remains to be seen, but I think she's off to a promising start. It's early days yet! Did anyone notice Sunny's boobs all that much back in "Into The New World" days? It's doubtful, so let's give Wendy time and see what the future holds.
Haein (ex-Gangkiz)
I've always liked both Gangkiz and Haein, and I can't believe that I left her out of the initial boobs post. Gangkiz flopped incredibly, but why? The only thing wrong with them was that they were a marketing mis-step, Gangkiz had great songs and great girls but insecure fangirls don't want to know about a mature-age sexy girl group like this. Also maybe "Honey Honey" was just a little too similar-sounding to T-ara's "Lovey Dovey", which had just been a huge hit so people probably felt like they were being sold the same song twice and understandably said no. But who cares about that for now, let's talk about tits.
Haein is genuinely busty - you know someone's got serious boobs going on when they hunch over in a poor posture and it actually enhances rather than detracts from their boobpearance (that's a new word I invented just now, feel free to use). Her body shape is the kind that you see on more busty women too, so surgery is unlikely... and she looks busty in every photo, even the ones where she's got her arm in the way:
According to the wiki page on Gangkiz, there's only two girls left in the group and Haein isn't one of them, but even that's optimistic - chances are they've been permanently disbanded. I can only hope that Haein gets in some more bikini videos like the crappy one she was in for T-ara last year.
IU
"G is for Guess" according to the shirt, and IU has been a popular nomination for this post - it seems she the one who's been making you all guess as to whether she is a late bloomer, "got prettier" YG style or is just wearing more padded bras lately to fit in with her more mature post-illness image.
I'm tipping the third option. Girls can do amazing things with bras, pads and tissue paper - but that's okay because I can do amazing things with my penis when I look at the result.
IU approves, look at that smile. Or maybe she doesn't, I don't care. May she be continue to be hot and enjoy her "close relationship" with male k-pop idols.
Lee Hyori
Lee Hyori has an impressive rack. But how real is it? Inquiring minds wish to know.
This picture would be better if the deceptive clothes were removed.
Ah, that's better. Okay, it's a pretty safe bet to say that there's no padding in this photo. Her boob profile pretty much fits those of natural boobs too, i.e there's a lot more weight at the bottom of the boob. If only all k-pop stars were this helpful.
Thanks Lee Hyori for making my job here dead simple, I appreciate it.
Nam Young Joo
Nam Young Joo is a relatively new singer on the k-pop scene, who some of you may not have heard of. I certainly hadn't heard of her until she was suggested for this post, and so I promptly did some research to see if she was eligible. The results were.... amusing:
Someone over at her agency is clearly in love with Photoshop's "liquify" filter, because every official Nam Young Joo photo has got crazily obvious Photoshop all over it.
I can't fap to this, my brain is too confused, it's like fapping to that Dali painting with the melting clocks. Please stop messing with her proportions, whoever you are.
Nada (Wassup)
It has been called to my attention that Nada of twerktastic 2013 nugus Wassup has some nice boobs.
They're probably a bit shopped in this photo, or she's arching her back a real lot, but hey whatever. At least the shopping if it's there actually looks reasonably believable, Nam Young Joo's photographer take note.
I like Wassup because they don't play the game by the k-pop rulebook in a lot of ways, such as their commitment to fanservice which goes above and beyond what most k-pop groups and individuals can muster. They seem to be pretty focused on an international audience only, and I say good. Never mind Korea, send these boobs directly to Kpopalypse, thank you.
Dain (Wassup)
Wassup's best kept secret is Dain and she is cute as shit, and her boobies are fucking nice. I know she's a well-kept secret because Nada got tons of nominations for this list, but Dain got none. Even this duckface photo above is tolerable.
Holy fucking shitballs she's cute. Honestly her great rack is just a bonus.
The fuck. How come Wassup's company can find girls like this and other k-pop agencies can't. BRB fapping.
Seo In Young
Ex-Jewelry member Seo In Young's boobies are just fucking weird. They always look bizarre in every single photo. I've tried to figure it out and I just can't, I honestly don't know what's even going on in that dark space between her boobs which is at least as scary as Taeyeon's.
Maybe it's Photoshop, maybe it's a botched surgery, maybe she's one of those girls who has had really fluctuating weight in the past and it's altered her chest area a bit, or maybe it's a portal to another dimension. We can call it The Large Hard-On Collider.
Look at her all-knowing stare - only Seo In Young knows the secret, and she's not telling. In the meantime, she continues to taunt us with her cleave, prodding the deepest wells of our subconscious, inviting us to stare through the gaping chasm of flesh into the void beyond. A creation Lovecraftian in scope that pure science cannot comprehend.
Yewon (Jewelry)
Yewon from Jewelry is here with her magic wand of boob appreciation. She should probably turn her magic abilities to helping her group not flop for a change, but hey if she's not going to act in her own best rational self-interest and instead is just going to show us her boobs I'm not complaining.
She seems pretty happy about it. Yewon isn't shy of a bit of fanservicey underwear modelling and certainly does a better job of modelling for Yes than Hyosung who won't even show us both bra cups.
Even selcas come up very nice thanks to sensible Kpopalypse-approved application of horizontal black and white stripes. I never really paid much attention to Yewon before so thank you to whoever nominated her, for making me aware. Also I am a bad person for not supporting this girl more.
Gain (Brown Eyed Girls)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't think Gain's boobs are really all that big. I just think she's very, very good at presenting what she's got appealingly.
Gain's especially good at presenting herself appealingly for molesters and perverts to fantasise about her. Lots of her music videos seem to depict people forcing themselves on her and doing rude and legally ambiguous things. Here she is defending herself against an attacker with a vicious guard dog. Gain's body language and the scary dog's gnashing teeth say "no" but the mind of the viewer (represented by the sign on the left) says "yes".
Another picture taken after the molester/viewer has attempted to have his/her (not all perpetrators of sex crimes are male, you know) way with Gain, tearing off half her clothes off and exposing her boobs before the guard dog's gnashing teeth finally sent them on their way. Gain's face looks sad and dejected, and the guard dog also seemed displeased having been unable to protect Gain from a thorough humiliation. However the sign saying "yes" still remains, suggesting that in the mind of the attacker she really wanted it. This is fanservice on a completely different level, known as "rape fantasy", or in k-pop as "classy sexy" (and just to clarify I think "rape fantasy" is okay as long as it's with consenting folks and doesn't become "rape reality"). It must all be the same thing, because Gain gets called "classy sexy" all the time, and never gets hate for her sexy concepts. It's probably because she gets raped in a lot of them, therefore in the minds of crazy fangirls who can't separate fantasy (aka their "young emotional story") from reality she's being 'punished' for being such a 'slut'.
Gain has tapped into the thinly-veiled misogyny that underpins k-pop and psychologically mined it to come out on top of everybody in the slut-shame-game. She's five steps ahead of you at all times. She knows what you're thinking, before you think it. She's already put your hate letter in the mail to herself before you even picked up the pen to write it. She's already made you jizz yourself before it even occurred to you to unzip your pants. Are you even reading this? Probably not, which just proves my point.
Kota (Sunny Hill)
Kota impresses me as a Gain 2.0 with a similar sexual vibe, bigger boobs and great potential but unfortunately nowhere near the same level of fanservice, which is a pity almost as enormous as her rampant boob squeezing in the visually fantastic "Monday Blues" video.
Appealing and fanservicey Kota boob exposure is extremely difficult to find anywhere. Somebody needs to get on the phone to her agency and tell their company that we need more of this type of thing and less of... not this type of thing.
Here's Kota dialing the emergency red phone to boob appreciation HQ, demanding more fanservice and Maxim shoots. We hear you, Kota! We'll do our best here to influence the k-pop loving population!
Baek Ji Young
Baek Ji Young has been in the k-pop as well as the k-entertainment game for a while now, and guess what? You guessed it, she's got some bustiness going on, so here are some pics of her.
This picture was shot in Australia, and for a brief second it looked like she had a pistol-grip on some kind of weird space gun before I realised that it's just her beach shawl or whatever behind her right hand creating a very strange illusion in my overactive mind. A massive disappointment, I'd love to see a film where Baek Ji Young runs around in a bikini showing this level of skin exposure and saves Australia from space aliens. Somebody with money and the right connections please make this a thing that happens.
I don't know much about her singing career, I got the vibe from the photos that it's mainly a bunch of shithouse ballads but this isn't really true as it happens (thanks AKF!). Her boobs look nice so maybe I'll consider listening at some point. Yes, the entertainment world has come to this, I'm just more honest and candid about the reality of it than most folks.
CL (2NE1)
It's often been overlooked by all but the most courageous boob appreciators, but CL has been busty ever since 2NE1's debut. Time to delve into the latest extreme sport sweeping the k-pop world, a pasttime so extreme and dangerous that it may never receive full safety accreditation from sporting regulatory bodies - "extreme CL perving".
I guess it's fortunate for me that CL's boobs are on display very rarely; it's telling that a Google image search for "CL 2NE1 boobs" mainly brings back pictures of Bom. However when CL does decide to show the world how good it feels to be bad and bring out the gizibe cleaveage, she arguably out-busts all her groupmates with clearly natural assets plus copious amounts of push-up.
I know what you're thinking - "Kpopalypse, how can you be so certain that CL didn't get a boob job"? Come on, of course I'm sure - think about it. If CL was even remotely inclined towards any plastic surgery at all, surely she would have started with her face?
Hong Jin Young
The cute singer of "Love's Battery" has amazing boobs. Hong Jin Young clearly appeals to the older boobs pervert demographic so I guess that would be me. Yeah trot music certainly gets a bit repetitive but then so does fapping and I enjoy that, so why be fussy about it.
I don't know what else to type, I'm kind of busy right now.
Oh that's right - this girl releases like one song every four years or some shit. She needs to get out and about in front of cameras some more. How come she has hardly any good MVs. That's all, really. Sorry I don't have much blood in my brain right now.
Sojin (Girl's Day)
I was surprised to see Sojin nominated so heavily by Girl's Day fans for this blog post. Yep, Sojin was definitely the Girl's Day member with the most nominations, no doubt about it, which was weird because along with Minah (who wasn't nominated at all and won't be included here despite being my fave in Girl's Day) I always felt that she was one of the not-so-busty members. I mean sure, sometimes in photos Sojin looks like this:
But then when I look at fancams she's always more like this:
Sojin's bustline is never very consistent, and always bigger in still images for modelling than for stage shots, which is a sure sign of large amounts of shopping. Every day might be Girl's Day but it's still not every day that you can fool Kpopalypse!
Hyeri (Girl's Day)
I'm forgetting someone of course, aren't I? Why yes - Hyeri is often noted for her appearance.
I really don't think Hyeri is all that busty either, she just has a really skinny frame which makes her boobs look bigger in proportion. I'm just including her here anyway though for the sake of being a completist as much as is possible and making sure I didn't leave out anyone obvious. After all, I wouldn't want anybody complaining.
And that's it! Nope - definitely didn't leave anyone important out this time!
HONOURABLE MENTIONS
That coffee girl in Bikiny's "Take On Me"
I don't know their names so I can't do specific ratings but that girl making coffee from 0:25 onward is an iconic moment of extreme k-pop push-up boob fakery and needs to be included in this blog.Also I like that other girl in Bikiny with the face that looks like a rabbit. Rabbit faces are cute. If you've got more information please leave in the comments below.
Juhyun/Sihyun, Narae and Bohyung of Spica
Noticing that Jiwon was in the prequel to this post, everyone hurriedly nominated all the rest of the girls in Spica.S, the subunit that was created so Spica's BoA could take time out to go and get a boob job to keep up the boob volume pace with the other members. You might think that's just my wishful thinking but when the full group comes back in a few months and she's got an "upgraded appearance" remember Kpopalypse called it first. Anyway here's Spica.S for your fapping pleasure just because it's too much work to do an entry for all the Spica.S members, they're all about the same anyway in terms of fap. This post took multiple days as-is so I'm being lazy here.Anyone who is or was in After School
Yeah. Just me being lazy again. I write about those girls enough as it is and I don't wanna do like 5 entries. You all know what these girls look like anyway. Here, have a video.AOA (Areolas of Angels)
Nobody from AOA was nominated, which is good because they all look damn fine and I don't want to do a post for all these members either. Also, Jimin isn't that busty, don't let this group's expertly-deployed optical illusions fool you - she's just short. And hot.Anyone who is or was in Nine Muses
Fuck no. Half the female k-pop trainee population of Korea has been through that group. I'll be updating this post every week for the next six months if I commit to putting Nine Muses members in it.Apink
Hahaha no.Oh wait... wait... stop the presses! There's just one more girl that I remembered to include just now:
Yura (Girl's Day)
Seriously though, try searching for boobs of any other Girl's Day members besides Yura and good luck as Yura keeps appearing in the search results anyway. She certain has an ample rack. Some might say it's surgery but I doubt it judging by the high amount of jiggle-friendly footage out there (I won't link any because I've linked several Yura jiggle GIFs before and you've already seen them all). I think she just eats boob-enhancing food more than other group members.
I've been ignoring Yura for months in fap posts and it must have been the idiotic and borderline-illegal behaviour of Yura fans acting like spoiled, entitled children that temporarily erased the will to post Yura ever again from my brain. Don't make me get the law involved.
Yura fans, you're on probation. Remain on your best behaviour from now on if you want future Yura content.
Okay so that's it. Don't ask me to do a third one of these posts before at least two years have passed. This shit fucking took forever! Happy fapping from Kpopalypse!
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Lena Park feat. Verbal Jint - Sweet
Lena Park and Verbal Jint team up to release...an average song. When I saw that Lena Park was featuring Verbal Jint in the title of the song, I was hyped.
It's an alright song, but this is one of those slow tempo songs aimed to appeal the talentfags. Lena Park tends to release her best music when she is shying away from ballads, and Verbal Jint is a beast on good beats, but this is a run-by-the-numbers-playing-it-extremely-safe song.
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Can Nicole Really Make It Solo?
Nicole was my favorite member in Kara, but I was relieved that she was leaving the group. Now it has officially been confirmed that she will make a solo comeback under Butt 2 Munch Entertainment. I didn't even think she would get a real opportunity to go solo, but it actually is happening.
The first two things that people will say is that "If she has a good song, she'll do well," and "Sunmi went solo and became successful, so can Nicole." Sure, a good song is always helpful. Sure, Sunmi isn't a vocal powerhouse, but she became successful because of "24 Hours." However, I don't think Nicole and Sunmi are comparable at all given each of the girl's circumstances. Unlike Sunmi, I think Nicole will bomb with her solo debut because Nicole is hated by Koreans, she is a "rapper," her replacement in popular unlike Sunmi's, and her agency isn't powerful.
Nicole's first strike is that she is American. Koreans have a tendency to treat "unpure" Koreans like shit, and Nicole always has and always will receive shit for being American. On top of that, Nicole still can't speak Korean at an educated level, and while Koreans found it charming during her Star Golden Bell stint, Nicole has been in Korea for almost ten years and still hasn't surpassed a conversational level in Korean. Meanwhile, Sunmi is Korean-Korean and speaks Korean at a native level of fluency. Koreans are more accepting of Sunmi because she is one of them while Nicole is a perceptual foreigner.
On top of being a foreigner, Nicole held the worst position in a K-pop group: the rapper. Whoops, I mean the "rapper."
Sure, Nicole has a great ass, a lovable (on-screen) personality, and a title track produced by Sweetune, but I find the odds too stacked against her. I want a jam from Sweetune, preferably showcasing some ass shaking and excluding Nicole's shitty rapping. However, I don't see her song(s) doing well and I believe she will have a short solo career.
She can always marry me in a couple of years when I finish graduate school if things don't work out for her. (Don't kill me, TuElite.)
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Appealing To Tradition Is Bullshit: Part 1
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein.
By now, I am sure that the majority of people have heard this quote before. However, many people live by the creed of doing the same thing over in the same manner because "that's the way it's always been done." In life, there are things we have to put up with, but there's a breaking point for everyone. At what point should one simply accept one's circumstances - which are worsening by the day - just because that's the way it has always been done? Korean netizens and international netizens who wish to resemble their kimchi brethren, as much as possible, are at it again in regards to the drama industry's working conditions. These netizens use the appeal to tradition, and victim blaming while acknowledging what they are supporting is blasphemous - I'm attempting to figure out why they do that.
It's no big secret that the working conditions actors endure are inhumane: twenty-two-hour workdays are very common once a drama enters live shooting. For an apparent "first-world country," South Korea still uses third-world labor laws in sectors of their economy, for example there are many instances of actors not getting paid. In one example (of many), the cast of "The Great Seer" walked out after not getting paid for 18 episodes of filming. That's three months minimum of filming. Most employers pay bi-weekly in America, so there's no way that I would work two-and-a-half months for free. I would have walked off much earlier, because as workers we exchange our commitment to work to an employer for pay. If one side of the agreement is broken, further service should not be required from the party receiving the short end of the stick. The industry is broken if someone doesn't know whether he or she will get paid.
In addition to the ambiguity of receiving a paycheck, the actors and staff are worked to the bone. Han Ye Seul's "Spy Myung Wol" incident happened in August 2011. That should have been impetus for change, right? On the contrary. The following month, actress Song Ji Hyo fainted during the filming of "Gye Baek" and a couple days later was readmitted to the hospital due to dyspnoea. Did Song Ji Hyo receive ample time to recover? No - she was filming later that week. This is a common occurrence, as Gong Hyo Jin was involved in a car accident this summer and delayed physical therapy to continue filming her drama "It's Okay, It's Love." Koreans see it as noble when someone works through an injury, ignoring the welfare of the individual, for the "greater good". It's mindboggling how actors are essentially required to sacrifice their health for the sake of filming.
Why do dramas not pay people and force people to work through injuries? The live shooting system is the number one culprit. The common arguments for the live shooting system are that costs are reduced (as less days for filming are required) and the scripts can be changed at whim to respond to ratings. However, this is a flawed premise to start with as Japan's big-budget dramas have small budgets compared to the average Korean drama and are pre-produced. If Japan can do it, why can't Korea?
Although one Korean actor can make more than the entire budget of a Japanese drama, which some see as problematic, Korean dramas can afford the higher salaries as Korea exports its dramas, which leads to profit coming in the form of a larger audience. Production companies attain large sums of money from TV stations abroad to air dramas. However, the working conditions for Korean actors continue to be poor and detrimental to their health. Which is ironic, as Japan is able to provide good working conditions for its actors by having an insular system in which they ignore the fact that the rest of the world exists (like they do for just about everything). Neighboring countries to Korea also have better filming conditions - there's definitely room for improvement when it comes to the K-drama industry.
If a better way to do something currently exists, shouldn't one adopt that method? According to Korean netizens, the answer is "no" because of their obsession with tradition. Korean netizens have acknowledged over and over how bad the conditions are, always mentioning that "the conditions for the crew are worse." But, if the conditions are bad and there are alternative ways to improve the process, why continue shaming one person who wanted to go against conventional wisdom? Why appeal to tradition when the current way of doing something is wrong?
A common answer to the previously mentioned question is that "everyone has to go through some hardship in their profession". That is true - to an extent. Take my field of accounting as an example: currently I am preparing to enter graduate school, so I have to take the GMAT exam to get into the master's program. I am studying for that exam while taking four upper level accounting courses and doing additional training for my internship which starts in January. After that, I will work the internship and take one class in the spring. At the moment, I am attempting to get a second internship and will be trying to get an officer position in my fraternity. Then there's the summer in which I will be trying to secure another internship, and if not, I will start studying for the CPA exam, which is essentially a requirement to be a public accountant. Starting next fall, I will be doing a master's program in one year (the majority of master's programs are two years), while studying for the CPA exam, doing my duties as a graduate assistant (if I get this position, which requires a high score on the GMAT), attending fraternity meetings (and possibly more responsibilities if I obtain an officer position), networking with professionals, all the while trying to secure a job upon graduation. The most common route is to start off in public accounting: an industry known for its high turnover as accountants will typically work 70-90 hours a week during busy season. Everyone has obstacles and less-than-ideal conditions to overcome.
While it is true that conditions aren't ideal in every field, it doesn't mean that the way things have always been are done is correct. For public accountants, most stay three-to-five years and bolt to private accounting, in which the workload is 50 hours a week. Public accounting is what accountants "calmly accept" as a stepping stone to a more lucrative position in private accounting. We know public accounting isn't the ideal job for life, but the hours are long to give us more training. It's similar to why medical interns work so many hours in a couple of years so that they can receive as much experience as possible. However, for most of us, there is a light at the end of the tunnel and we know that if we put up with our conditions for a short period of time, then conditions improve in the future. In accounting, public accounting firms know that the current conditions aren't ideal, which is why these firms offer flex hours and reduced hours during the slower season. They are doing whatever is possible to improve the situation for public accountants. That is why we put up with the system, as it is improving and the benefits exceed the hardships in the end. Ideally, that's how every industry should be working.
However, we don't see the Korean drama industry improving when the means are available to do so. Now that we have debunked that appeal to tradition logical fallacy in this article, the next one will investigate why netizens are so adamant to adhere to poor logic.
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Birth Of A Beauty Episode 1
Today is the first episode of "Birth Of A Beauty."
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KPOPALYPSE INTERVIEW - Cheonsa
It's time once again for another episode of...
When I interviewed Sarah Wolfgang (ex-Tahiti) I also conducted another interview simultaneously with Cheonsa, an unknown just starting out on the long road that is attempting to enter the world of k-pop. The thought behind doing both interviews was that I felt it would be interesting to get the perspectives of people on both sides of the k-pop process - those who are leaving it behind them, as well as those who are trying to enter. Due to the closed-door nature of the k-pop industry, it's incredibly difficult to secure interviews with people while they are actually part of that system (as I've found out), so I'm hoping that by highlighting people while they are on either side, I can provide some insight by showing how perspectives can change. Here's Cheonsa's interview - enjoy!
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Hi, how are you? Answer in as much or as little detail as applicable.
HELLO! I'm great~ Although generally speaking I'm always great. So, maybe more so then usual?
Please tell us a little bit about Cholee & Cheonsa. Just some short biography-type information.
Cholee & Cheonsa is a a duet group that's of my friend and I. We're actually only 18 and 17 (respectively). The two of us live in the US and have been friends for a few years. As you probably know, I enjoy k-pop as does Cholee.
The plan for the group is to start off singing covers & making videos/cover music videos. After we are more comfortable and have some sort of fan-base then we'll begin the process of creating our own music. Neither of us speak Korean but we can both read and write it. So we just have to learn to actually understand it and work on pronunciation.
While we will have photoshops together, the summer (maybe longer) will mainly be spent for our training. Both of us have different things to work on as well as some of the same so we hope to bring it up to levels where we are okay with releasing something. I, personally, plan to release some covers very soon in the mean time.
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What was the initial drive that made you want to start a group? Obviously love of k-pop is a factor, but what was the trigger where you went from just liking k-pop and being a fan into wanting to make a serious attempt at the style yourselves?
That is actually a few things. I've always loved to sing. Does that sound typical? Anywho, usually the people when I'm around know what they want to be and it'd be something in a "usual" field. Others don't know. My mom was never in the "usual" occupation field. It felt like nature to choose something that wasn't typical. Since about 5 I've known the main thing is to sing. They've been other ideas like a lawyer or a doctor, but always a singer was number one.
Another reason is that I always see online collab groups and forums dedicated to the genre & cover the music and/or dances. That's when I've starred trying to learn dances & also joined some of those sites. And since 2012, when I started joining collaborations, I've greatly improved vocally. I just thought that it was about time I tried to put myself out there as an artist. Of course, I've tried making cover groups but at times the members always kind of disappear. So I said why not go solo or go debut someone who I know & can trust to not drop it after a month or two.
The biggest for me is probably race. I don't really enjoy bringing this up but it's a goal for me. Neither me or Cholee are Asian, let alone Korean. Our names are just nicknames among friends that we use and an alias for me. We are both African-American. I think if k-pop really wants to expand then they should definitely look to non-Asian/half-Asian potential which has happened in cases of ChoColat, SKarf, Michelle Lee, & many more. I think it should be based on talent THEN looks & race (but not saying they aren't important). And I do have talent, it just needs to be fine tuned.
Then just the style in general. I love much of the style in K-Pop. I think it's both cute, sexy, and mature depending on who you're talking about. I also think that it's not hard to imitate. You can easily find pieces that match the style or theme as well as clothing that matches what you see in many music videos even if it isn't the actual piece. Just simple to obtain especially for covers.
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They have. And, as I've said, it's not easy. They are newer and still have time, but many K-netizens do reflect negatively on the artists purely for not being 100% Korean or Korean at all.
It is a positive and a negative. The positive is that they have enough courage to enter an industry where being a different race, even if only a tiny bit, is mostly frowned upon. I especially look up to Michelle Lee for going on KPop Star & making it as far as she did. And even more for debuting despite the comments that some people have thrown at her. I also look up to SKarf and ChoColat for debuting. It's sad people look down on these females just because of something so small.
Which brings me to the bad. There will always be negative comments. People will always find something to complain about when it comes to these artists. Well, really when it comes to any k=pop artist. It's just nature. You can't like everything about everyone. If these things were thrown at me, I would try my best to not take them heavily. But that's what I say now. When it does, we'll see. I hope to be strong as many other artists are/look.
The Korean idol system is notoriously harsh in many ways. If the opportunity ever presented itself, would you consider getting involved with that kind of system directly via signing to a Korean agency, or would you prefer to stay on the outside?
This has actually come across my mind a few times.
If I were to sign to a company in Korea, I would definitely try to have some terms added into a contract if they were not there already. One thing would be some creative control. I would like to occasionally be able to use my work. But if I were to leave, then I want to keep what is mine. Another would be protection. There are accounts of sasaengs and antis doing the insane things to artists. I want to be sure that if something were to happen to me, that they would take care of me or that they will try to prevent it from happening. I've also thought of signing to a major label versus a smaller label. The upside of signing to a major label is that the odds of being known and better promoted are higher than with a smaller. But with a smaller the odds of me being ignored are lower. Bigger companies have groups that you rarely see promoted. They usually do their biggest artists. In reality though, I believe it all comes down to the quality of what is offered to me if they decided to sign me.
If I were to stay independent, then a lot would be harder. Promotion would be hard. Getting myself out there definitely would probably be the biggest hurdle. I have actually talk to my mom about it. That's a negative along with releasing material. Usually there are people for that but I'd have to do it myself (with help of course). The upside is that I can choose what music and lyrics I want to sing. There's really no one to say that I can or cannot do something. I get to use my own judgement and actually give fans what they would want.
There's also the probability of signing outside of Korea, but then it would kind of be a mix of the ups and downs that I have listed.
The dilemma with contracts with an established label of any size comes down to negotiating power. How do you reconcile the desire to be treated fairly as an artist with the reality that if the label doesn't want to provide you with creative freedom/protection/whatever, that they can just ignore you and sign up one of the other thousands of hopefuls?
Of course I will feel heart broken. You win some, you lose some. Sometimes you have to make choices depending on what your needs & wants are as well as the needs and wants for those involved. Whether that's money or any of the things I listed previously. When it comes down to if, I'll consult with my mom. I fully believe in the saying that mothers know best. If she thinks it can be negotiated or a compromise could be reached, then we'll try until the other party stops making offers & accept ours or when they retract the contract. If they retract then we can mourn over it but there are others. If she believes that it would be best to go on what they have is good enough, then I'll most likely will sign if my heart feels right about it. Honestly, in my opinion of course, you have to give up something to be an artist. I'd be giving up staying with friends & family to go to another country and produce work most of them have never ever heard of in a language farthest from their mind. It'll be my goal to show them I can make it and that it was worth it, and that might mean signing away some freedoms.
Can you describe the type of music that you intend to be making? Do you have any kind of vision of what it will sound like, or specific influences in mind at this stage?
I'm greatly influenced by older pop groups. I also really like traditional music and rhythms. What I want to do is create music that incorporates the older artist and new artist styles as well as create music that incorporates the traditional aspect. I don't really see that much and I think it'll be something nice to here in k-pop. I look up many Hello! Project groups for this. They seem to do it quite a bit. I also really want to incorporate more retro/vintage sounds into the music. Usually it's just for a single concept but I want to do this on a regular basis.
Tell us about your musical training. Do you play instruments? Are you self-taught or schooled? Also do you have any audio engineering or production knowledge?
I have two acoustic guitars! And every time someone asks if I can play, I have to say no and everyone (myself included) start to laugh. It's apparently funny. But I am trying to learn. I guess you can say I'm self-teaching. I have the lessons and what not but with usual school work it's not exactly easy to work in. So that's going to be part of my training over the summer. I want to take a Berkley summer program so that's always exciting.
As for production knowledge, I do know the process of creating the music and lyrics, putting them together, going into a studio to record, and then putting together what you have. This was part of a 10 week program that took place for 3 hours, 3 days a week. So I have actually gone through the process and even have performed on stage! That was nerve racking but it felt good when someone came up after and said they were looking for me because they enjoyed my song. Yes, 10 weeks on one song! Some squeezed two in but many only got one. Now I see why artists are so tried. Fitting that in a shorter schedule or fitting more into that schedule plus dancing & rehearsals. I plan on going back though. It was a nice experience.
I can play so I think you should give me one of your guitars.
You can definitely have one. Two is just a bit much when you can't play.
How do you think you would cope with a hypothetical (and if my sources are correct, fairly typical) idol promotional schedule of 2 hours sleep per night and no time off?
Oh, I hate sleeping anyway. And I have too much free time!
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If you could change something about the idol system as it exists in Korea, what would it be?
Hm... Just one? I just thought about this carefully. I would change how the artists are promoted. Especially in bigger companies. Some companies have great artists, yet they only promote the most popular or do more promotions for one and less for another. I can think of three companies with amazing groups - new and old - but they just don't promote equally against artists. I believe the groups have amazing members yet the companies just do not give them any/enough spotlight. They'll pop up, do some promotions, then go away. You won't hear from them for about a year and a half or more but their seniors or newer groups will have two or three releases a year. It's not really fair to me.
What kind of aspects do you believe companies are factoring in when they make these types of decisions about promotions?
I can think of a few. One being popularity. I think that probably plays a big part. Groups like that everyone has heard of at one point or another are usually the biggest and one I think everyone can think of is SNSD. They are known as the "queens" & are known as "Asia's Biggest Girl-group." They promote pretty much year round and release two or three things in a year. Whereas f(x) is popular, yet not as much and they promote between once a year & maybe even less.
Another is what they are trying to go for. Say a company has two groups where one has a sexy concept and one has a cute concept. The company may decide to promote the cute group more than the sexy because that's what they want to sell. So the sexy group would get less to no promotions compared to the cute group.
And of course, money. Money has always been and will always be a factor. Whatever artist/group has made the company the most money, will be the artist/group that they promote the most.
The interesting thing to me is that f(x) release either a mini album or a full album every year without fail but by the standards of every other commercial music genre in the world, that's considered highly prolific. Very few western artists have a release schedule anywhere near that busy, however in k-pop, it's a common complaint that groups such as f(x) who pop out only one comeback per year are being deliberately neglected. Why do you think this is?
I do. Companies release great teasers and hype it up, but when the actual content is released, some people feel let down. Whether it be from a different concept shown, a different song played, or just not as "cool" as it has seemed. I have probably felt this way once or twice.
Tell me your k-pop biases. No interview would be complete without this!
Ohh. Biases? Okay. Let's see how many I can list. Then maybe explain one in particular.
For females there's Michelle Lee, Ferlyn (SKarf), Hyoyeon and Seohyun, Amber, Jiyeon, Bom, Jia, Gayoon, Ailee, Yoonji, G.Na, Nana, Jimin (AoA), Choa, Way (Crayon Pop), Miryo and Gain, Nari, and Myeongji (Tiny-G).
For males there's JB and BamBam (GOT7), Kris, Lay, Luhan and Tao from EXO, TOP and GD, C.NU, Zelo (BAP), G.O, Hyunseung, Siwon, Aron and Ren (NU'EST), Key, Minho, and Woohyun.
I have a lot. I'm not even sure that's all of them. I usually don't list them. Now I know why. But I really like Hyoyeon and Jia because of how great dancers they are. I want to be able to move like them and still look pretty.Ferlyn Wong (ex-SKARF - she was still in SKARF at the time of this interview) |
Which one did you want to explain? Or was that Hyoyeon and Jia?
That was Hyoyeon and Jia. I also like their singing. ^*^
Is there anything that you want the opportunity to say to my readers that I haven't asked you about?
Well, about Cholee & Cheonsa, there's not an official debut date set. But it may be early or mid 2015 depending on how things pan out.
Just a few random facts about myself would be that I'm leaning 4 languages at once, I was vegetarian for three years, and I like to eat a lot. :)
I'll be thinking of you if an idol company signs you up and puts you on that brown rice and salad diet! Good luck with it!
Oh gosh. I don't know how I'll handle that. It'd probably work for two weeks before I either get tired of it or it stopped working.
I caught up again with Cheonsa briefly a few months after doing this interview to see how she was progressing. I also wanted to show her the interview that I did with Sarah Wolfgang and see if she had any thoughts about it. Here's what she said:
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To be honest, it made me think a bit differently. It's probably the most honest interview I've read that an ex-trainee (even ex-idols too) did. A few things caught my attention specially, like how things are sometimes over exaggerated or how trainees are shut off from the world for example. It's interesting to hear how Sarah didn't know if her vocals were on in the songs or not because of how altered the voices were. It just goes to show how much editing is involved.
Has your project has made any progress since we last talked?
As far as my project is concerned, it has sadly not happened. My friend and I have lost touch since we last talked. But on I've been more focused on practicing vocals, dance, and language as a result. I've also been doing collaborations with online coverists so that I can asses how I sound with others and to figure my range better. Next year I'll be old enough to audition for companies without parents permission so I'm working forward towards that. So although it didn't happen, it did allow me to focus more and get in contact with others.
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[Review] Zhou Mi "Rewind"
Watch as Zhou Mi solos it.
I like to like Zhou Mi. I've liked to like him since I first saw him in Super Junior-M's 2009 masterpiece "Super Girl."
So when SM announced that he would be its latest male to go solo, I was mildly excited, even though I thought a Zhou Mi solo was unnecessary.
SM released both Korean and Chinese versions of "Rewind." This review focuses on the Chinese version. It naturally flows better, and the rap by its respective Exo member is almost tolerable if I mute the video and squint really hard at the screen.
The song starts off pleasantly enough. It has a distinct beat, and Zhou Mi's whisper singing isn't terrible.
Then about 25 seconds in, this cheering starts: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." It reminds me of a sitcom laughtrack. It's like the composers also weren't confident anyone would get excited for a Zhou Mi solo, so they infused the song with fake enthusiasm.
Maybe people would be more excited if the music video didn't look like this:
Once the chorus starts, everything positive about the song disappears, and darkness sets in. Oh wait, that's not darkness. It's blandness. As one might expect, "Rewind" is just another SM throwaway R&B filler.
By the time the second verse kicks in, I begin to hope for the chanting to return to keep me awake. Luckily, the composers were more intuitive than I initially gave them credit for. They interspersed the chant throughout the rest of the song. That might be the only thing that kept me going to the end.
BOTTOM LINE: Zhou Mi deserves better than this, and I want to rewind the last few minutes of my life.
I like to like Zhou Mi. I've liked to like him since I first saw him in Super Junior-M's 2009 masterpiece "Super Girl."
So when SM announced that he would be its latest male to go solo, I was mildly excited, even though I thought a Zhou Mi solo was unnecessary.
Was anyone really asking for Zhou Mi half-nudes?
'Cause I don't think they were.
'Cause I don't think they were.
SM released both Korean and Chinese versions of "Rewind." This review focuses on the Chinese version. It naturally flows better, and the rap by its respective Exo member is almost tolerable if I mute the video and squint really hard at the screen.
The song starts off pleasantly enough. It has a distinct beat, and Zhou Mi's whisper singing isn't terrible.
Although his pants are
Then about 25 seconds in, this cheering starts: "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey." It reminds me of a sitcom laughtrack. It's like the composers also weren't confident anyone would get excited for a Zhou Mi solo, so they infused the song with fake enthusiasm.
Maybe people would be more excited if the music video didn't look like this:
Fuck yeah, let's get this party started!
Once the chorus starts, everything positive about the song disappears, and darkness sets in. Oh wait, that's not darkness. It's blandness. As one might expect, "Rewind" is just another SM throwaway R&B filler.
By the time the second verse kicks in, I begin to hope for the chanting to return to keep me awake. Luckily, the composers were more intuitive than I initially gave them credit for. They interspersed the chant throughout the rest of the song. That might be the only thing that kept me going to the end.
My face during the closing shot
BOTTOM LINE: Zhou Mi deserves better than this, and I want to rewind the last few minutes of my life.
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Han Ye Seul On Running Man
Today we have a double dose of Han Ye Seul. She'll appear on today's episode of "Running Man" and later today "Birth Of A Beauty" episode 2 will air.
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AKF Changes For End Of 2014 And Beginning Of 2015
I hope it's change you guys can believe in. We are currently overhauling how we do things at AKF to make it a better experience overall for the readers and commenters.
The biggest change we are undergoing is the posting. We are no longer going to try to cover the daily news and put our spin on it. After reviewing what are our best and worst articles are, I found a trend that our worst articles are the ones in which we tried covering the news and the best ones were the articles that made people come to AKF in the first place. Therefore, we will focus on what we are best at: commentary. That means we will continue MV reviews and editorials. If we do cover news, we'll try to do it in an amusing manner.
So how do we offset the decrease in posts for AKF? First of all, I think this will be a benefit to AKF, as we will remove the clutter of CF and picture articles that are posted just to have something posted that day. When we do CF and picture articles, they will appear in compilation posts. We want to give you better articles on a consistent basis instead of more articles.
As a lot of people rely on AKF to get news updates, we have found a solution that many people should like.
At the top, you should notice "Kpop Recap," which I have circled in red for you guys. This is a collaborative project between what used to be known as allkcrap, AKF and other contributors. The project is still in its beta stage, but we aim to deliver the most important news of the day in one convenient place and in one convenient post. As it is getting harder to keep up with the daily onslaught of articles from Allkpop, Koreaboo, Soompi and other sites, our job is to cut the bullcrap out. Instead of waiting for us to post about an article, you can view that and the most important news of the day at Kpop Recap.
We believe this move will be beneficial for everyone. There are other sites to get editorials and analysis of news, but a lot of people on AKF prefer this site to read and this community to talk with. You will be able to get your news faster with Kpop Recap while we can focus on which happenings in Kpop to write about.
To counter the decline of opportunities for the commenters to put their word in, we have reinstated Chatango, the chat client we used in 2011-2012.
Click the "AKF Chatroom" page to take you to a separate page where the new Chatango is located. Chatango now runs on HTML5, which eliminates many of the problems we had before with Flash crashing the site. However, to participate, you must have a Chatango account, which takes a whole minute to create. This is to reduce the chance of random fangirls coming into the chat as anons and complaining about how we're "anti-kpop" and us having to tell them we're "anti fangirls like yourself." Most of the staff will be there when possible and I'll be there when I'm taking a break from studying. We reinstated Chatango because we felt our Skype chat was too exclusive and no one was using the mibbit chat any longer.
Lastly, we have some changes in authors, but everyone here is remaining on board in some capacity. You will see that certain authors will not write any longer. We will be hiring soon, but we're putting that off for a couple of months for the current staff to get acclimated to the new system and for me to have more time to help with author selection. We may change the process of how we hire authors, but we'll work on that in the meantime.
If you guys have any suggestions, post them below. In advance, I will still say "no" to installing Disqus to AKF. Most of us on the staff hate Disqus for a myriad of reasons. We don't want to see shit such as:
in lieu of actual commenting. We have a chat for people who want to chat, so that removes another argument for installing Dicksucks.
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K-pop life lessons with Kpopalypse
Hey folks, it's Kpopalypse here. As someone a little older than the average k-pop fan with lots of experience in the ups and downs of life, I'm aware that a lot of younger people read my blogging, and therefore I feel a certain sense of obligation to them to impart wisdom and valuable life lessons. Of course if I just go around saying things like "bike safety" and "don't play with matches" nobody is going to pay any fucking attention, but that's where k-pop comes in - this post is all about some of the fantastic things we can learn through k-pop music videos!
Please note that the discussions of these videos contain plot spoilers, so be sure to watch the videos first (if you haven't seen them) before reading about the important life lessons that they contain! Let's get started and learn things!
In the Iraq war, a bunch of American snipers got themselves into some deep shit doing something very naughty. They laid out electronic items like wires and 9-volt batteries on the ground in certain areas where Iraqi insurgents were known to operate, and then shot and killed any people who picked those items up, using the shaky rationale "if they tried to leave with the items, this was a sign that they were going to use them against US forces". Of course, the snipers had no way of really knowing whether the people collecting the planted items were going to make a bomb with it or were just hoping that they could get their Duracell Bunny going for a few more hours, so a bunch of innocent people probably got murdered, but never mind the wacky and arguably illegal logic of the US forces Asymmetric Warfare Unit for now. The important lesson is this: if you see some shit on the ground that isn't yours and is kinda valuable, don't pick it up, because people don't just go around leaving valuable shit lying around out in the open for no goddamn reason. Somebody is probably deliberately fucking with you, so watch out.
If the guy in Davichi's lame Carpenters soundalike song "Don't Say Goodbye" used the aforementioned logic, he could have saved himself some trouble with Korean society's undesirable elements. Common sense alone should have dictated to him that nobody would throw a Minkyung out in the trash just for the hell of it. If he felt guilty about just leaving her there he should have alerted the proper authorities by dialing his local "Lost and Found Minkyung Helpline" and then left the situation for the properly trained experts to handle. But no - like most young and dumb guys he immediately starts thinking with his penis and has to play the hero due to his massive ego. Sure enough the mob gets in touch and inform him that they want their Minkyung back, but it's okay, they say - they'll swap her for a Haeri. Clearly the loser in this equation, our male protagonist calmly accepts the situation because he doesn't want to get brutalised by a bunch of angry mobsters. That's what you get for poking around in other people's garbage and touching things that aren't yours, now he has to listen to Haeri practice irritating vocal improvisations and whine about being the less pretty member of Davichi for the rest of his days.
Many years ago I found myself living in a three bedroom house, all by myself. The rent for such a big place was fairly high so when one of my friends announced that he had a girlfriend who was looking for a place to live, I jumped at the opportunity to let her stay in my house and split the rent and bills. I know what you're all thinking, and no she wasn't unattractive, but neither of us were going to go there because on top of her being unavailable I was a scungy skinny long-haired metalhead and she was a prim and proper type who liked buff footballers - it was certainly nice having the eye candy around the house though. Anyway the sudden presence of my friend's girlfriend still left a third bedroom unoccupied. "Mind if I use it?" she asked me shortly after she'd moved in. "Sure" I replied, after all I wasn't using it for anything and rent was low enough now that I really didn't need to bring a third person in - plus if she was using the third bedroom that means she'd have to clean it, saving me the trouble. The next day when I got home from work she'd converted the third bedroom into a sewing room. She had a big electric sewing machine in the center of it, plus a big ironing board, portable clothes hangers and fabric and clothes everywhere. She loved sewing, ironing and dressmaking, and I don't think I'd ever seen her happier than at that moment.
This girl's boyfriend didn't really seem to understand her much. She was a domestic girly-girl who liked pretty things and he was a footballer who liked alcohol, and they'd always fight. I never really knew what any of the fights were about, because it was none of my business so I didn't really care or pay any attention, but it was certainly an up-and-down kind of relationship that they had. He was always buying her the most thoughtless gifts too (usually alcohol, which he'd often just end up drinking himself), and she'd politely feign interest in the gifts but it was obvious that he didn't really understand her needs and eventually they broke up. It occurred to me while watching "What To Do" from flop nugu k-pop girl group Chocolate (not to be confused with Chocolat, a different flop nugu k-pop girl group) that if he'd mustered up the courage to get her a clothes iron as a present like the guy does at 1:05 in the MV, she would have been so happy, and would have probably reacted just like the girl does in the video, bouncing with glee. It may have even made their combined domestic ride a bit smoother. This video is often laughed at for being unrealistic due to the girl's elated "oh wow - now I can iron all your shirts!" reaction to receiving the gift, and sure enough you can't buy stuff like that for girls these days without people getting all uptight about it and saying that you're an evil patriarchal oppressor chaining the poor girl to housework... but what if she likes ironing? I find her reaction quite realistic because I've met people like that, people like the girl I lived with all those years ago, who burned through an iron once every six months and really could have used a new one at any given moment. The lesson here: don't let the politically correct police stand in the way of you doing what makes you and your partner or the people you care about happy - your personal relationships aren't the business of some crusading Internet dickheads who think that one size fits all and that they know what's best for everyone. If she really tells you that she wants an iron, don't question it - just get her a goddamn iron already.
Communication is handled very differently between boys and girls during childhood, and whether it's the fault of social conditioning, brain chemistry or genetic predisposition is up for debate but the fact remains that whatever the reason, the communication styles between the genders during the early stages of life are very different. Boys are often taught that power can be attained through force of will, so usually a conflict in the schoolyard will escalate into a verbal shouting match or a physical fight which continues until the lesser party gives up or a third party intervenes. Boys for this reason tend to take communication situations on face value. Girls on the other hand find that power through force doesn't work as well for them so they physically fight less overall, but instead compensate by learning how to get power 'around the edges' - advanced social skills such as forming allegiances and cliques, gossiping, and the language of non-verbal communication. Hence the stereotype of boys being "dumb" and girls being "bitchy" - neither of these are strictly true, rather boys are mostly locked out of the secret world of female non-verbal communication so they just work with what they have, whereas girls become accustomed to subterfuge sometimes at the expense of a degree of openness because this is often the most effective avenue of power available to them.
When puberty hits, the tables are turned and the old rules of direct application of power translating to a direct result no longer apply. Boys suddenly find that they now have a reason to talk to girls, but the lack of non-verbal knowledge bites the unprepared boys hard and makes it tricky for them to navigate socially at the girls' higher level - "how do I talk to girls" is a question that many young male teenagers struggle with. Girls on the other hand by this stage essentially have codified a secret language which they can use until the boys catch up... and which many of them never do. Unfortunately for girls, often they don't realise exactly how far ahead they are. A good example of this is "flirting" - flirting is classic non-verbal communication which is all about getting power around the edges without ever applying it directly by using the subtle power of suggestion, hoping that the other party will reciprocate with a more direct approach. The problem with flirting is that for the intended result to transpire, the other party needs to know that flirting is happening, and to the male mind trained on direct communication and face-value situations, the subtleties of flirting are a completely new language in which they have no experience. "Why doesn't she just come out and say what she really wants from me?" the boy asks. Meanwhile the girl asks "how fucking more obvious can I possibly make it for this moron?".
KARA's "Wanna" provides the solution. The girl is sad at the start of the video that she can't seem to get the guy to understand that she likes him. No problem, the girls wait until the guy leaves his house, trash the place and make it as dangerous and non OH&S-compliant as possible, ensuring that when he returns, he breaks his fucking legs. Fuck subtlety, guys don't understand that flirting bullshit, you gotta snap the guy's fibula in three places and then draw a love-heart on the cast if you really want some true love action. He's gonna stare at that love heart every day for weeks while the leg heals, and sure you gotta have some patience but eventually the thought will probably twig inside his pea-brain "hey... I just had an amazing idea... what if she drew that heart on my leg because she likes me?". Then he's yours. Try it sometime.
While you can safely ignore most idiots blathering on about "rape culture" (when someone steals from your house they don't call it "thief culture", do they?) it shouldn't be downplayed that rape is a big problem in society. Rape is statistically the cause of 100% of rape victims, 90% of annoying roleplayed screaming in Japanese adult videos, and at least 1% of k-pop CEOs going to prison plus it's just generally horrible on a "nobody likes to be raped, because rape is by definition something that you do not want" level. One of the worst things about rape is that it's a crime difficult to conclusively prove and that rape victims have a terrible time being believed, the ordeal of going through a harrowing courtroom procedure and reliving the awful experience in exacting detail for the jury can be as traumatic as the experience itself. It's little wonder that so few rapes get reported and even fewer result in a conviction.
The MV for the song "SeSeSe" from LPG subunit Chaness demonstrates such a dilemma. The scumbag rapist in the MV gets rip-roaring drunk and decides to get his rapey on with a disabled woman. When her carer tries to intervene, she find herself on the receiving end of the rape instead. The carer girl however is no dummy - she knows that the South Korean legal system is pissweak and probably won't back her, and that a rape trial that doesn't turn into a conviction can not only see her rapist walk free to rape again but can also result in a counter-suit for perjury and false accusation. Fuck all that noise, who wants to go through all that? Not our female protagonist, that's for sure - she instead decides to invite him to dinner, and then kills him with a drink spiked with RapeOff (slogan: "Kills Rapists Dead") or some other similar anti-rapist repellant. The rapist should of course be grateful for such a subtle, aesthetically pleasing method of death, a less kind person would have burned off his genitals first, but I guess that would have lifted the video from a mere 15+ rating for drunken rape sex to a 19+ for genital mutilation and therefore unbroadcastable on Korean TV. It might have also blown out the special effects budget a bit too, ask any horror film director and they'll tell you that convincing genital mutilation effects are a tricky thing to get right and require much "outside the box" thinking. God knows k-pop music videos are expensive enough as it is, I guess we've got to leave the genital gore to the death metal bands. Anyway the lesson here is that if you're a creepy dude inclined towards rape, you might think you can get away with it because the legal system is so shit regarding rape in most places in the world but don't get too comfy because someday someone will get sick of your bullshit and forget about the legal system (just like you did) and you will get fucking killed. Just watch JAV instead, there's plenty of pretendy rapes you can watch in JAV and get your rocks off without actually harming anyone in the real world... or if you want something that feels a bit more real ask your consenting partner to do a rape roleplay with you or something. Feel free to use "Kpopalypse" as a safeword.
Inquiring minds still want to know what I think about trendy butthurt T-ara hate in 2014. Although the answer's probably fairly obvious to most of you by now, it's always worth a good revisit.
The girls don't hate T-ara because of the scandal. The girls hate T-ara because the guys love T-ara, the scandal is just a convenient excuse which enables their hatred - the catalyst, but not the root cause. I've extrapolated on this before in fanfiction format, but it basically boils down to T-ara being way hotter than they are, and them feeling threatened - and nobody's more aware of this than the songwriters and concept designers who have been working with T-ara members lately. Bravesound are no doubt T-ara fans (after all, they're male) and likely just as sick of netizen bullshit as the next rational person, so they made sure that Hyomin's "Nice Body" amps up that threat to female self-esteem to absolute fever pitch.
The video starts off with a chubby netizen (no netizen was shameless enough to appear and actually portray themselves so instead we get Boram in a fat suit) taking a break from typing out rows of "T-trash ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ" to eat some nutritious doughnuts. Upon spying a particularly luminous doughnut covered in what looks like gold paint thinner, she hastily scoffs it despite the fact that it's been rolling around on the dirty floor and who knows where else it's been. The psychoactive chemicals in the gold paint take effect quickly, and the netizen promptly hallucinates for a few minutes that she is as hot as T-ara's Hyomin. Eventually she wakes up and feels sad as she plummets back to reality, then discovers a newfound commitment to weight-loss via hula-hooping. A quick summary of the song and video's key points:
That's the end of your K-pop life lessons with Kpopalypse! Remember to use your newfound wisdom and knowledge for good, not evil!
Please note that the discussions of these videos contain plot spoilers, so be sure to watch the videos first (if you haven't seen them) before reading about the important life lessons that they contain! Let's get started and learn things!
Davichi - Don't Say Goodbye
In the Iraq war, a bunch of American snipers got themselves into some deep shit doing something very naughty. They laid out electronic items like wires and 9-volt batteries on the ground in certain areas where Iraqi insurgents were known to operate, and then shot and killed any people who picked those items up, using the shaky rationale "if they tried to leave with the items, this was a sign that they were going to use them against US forces". Of course, the snipers had no way of really knowing whether the people collecting the planted items were going to make a bomb with it or were just hoping that they could get their Duracell Bunny going for a few more hours, so a bunch of innocent people probably got murdered, but never mind the wacky and arguably illegal logic of the US forces Asymmetric Warfare Unit for now. The important lesson is this: if you see some shit on the ground that isn't yours and is kinda valuable, don't pick it up, because people don't just go around leaving valuable shit lying around out in the open for no goddamn reason. Somebody is probably deliberately fucking with you, so watch out.
If the guy in Davichi's lame Carpenters soundalike song "Don't Say Goodbye" used the aforementioned logic, he could have saved himself some trouble with Korean society's undesirable elements. Common sense alone should have dictated to him that nobody would throw a Minkyung out in the trash just for the hell of it. If he felt guilty about just leaving her there he should have alerted the proper authorities by dialing his local "Lost and Found Minkyung Helpline" and then left the situation for the properly trained experts to handle. But no - like most young and dumb guys he immediately starts thinking with his penis and has to play the hero due to his massive ego. Sure enough the mob gets in touch and inform him that they want their Minkyung back, but it's okay, they say - they'll swap her for a Haeri. Clearly the loser in this equation, our male protagonist calmly accepts the situation because he doesn't want to get brutalised by a bunch of angry mobsters. That's what you get for poking around in other people's garbage and touching things that aren't yours, now he has to listen to Haeri practice irritating vocal improvisations and whine about being the less pretty member of Davichi for the rest of his days.
Chocolate - What To Do
Many years ago I found myself living in a three bedroom house, all by myself. The rent for such a big place was fairly high so when one of my friends announced that he had a girlfriend who was looking for a place to live, I jumped at the opportunity to let her stay in my house and split the rent and bills. I know what you're all thinking, and no she wasn't unattractive, but neither of us were going to go there because on top of her being unavailable I was a scungy skinny long-haired metalhead and she was a prim and proper type who liked buff footballers - it was certainly nice having the eye candy around the house though. Anyway the sudden presence of my friend's girlfriend still left a third bedroom unoccupied. "Mind if I use it?" she asked me shortly after she'd moved in. "Sure" I replied, after all I wasn't using it for anything and rent was low enough now that I really didn't need to bring a third person in - plus if she was using the third bedroom that means she'd have to clean it, saving me the trouble. The next day when I got home from work she'd converted the third bedroom into a sewing room. She had a big electric sewing machine in the center of it, plus a big ironing board, portable clothes hangers and fabric and clothes everywhere. She loved sewing, ironing and dressmaking, and I don't think I'd ever seen her happier than at that moment.
This girl's boyfriend didn't really seem to understand her much. She was a domestic girly-girl who liked pretty things and he was a footballer who liked alcohol, and they'd always fight. I never really knew what any of the fights were about, because it was none of my business so I didn't really care or pay any attention, but it was certainly an up-and-down kind of relationship that they had. He was always buying her the most thoughtless gifts too (usually alcohol, which he'd often just end up drinking himself), and she'd politely feign interest in the gifts but it was obvious that he didn't really understand her needs and eventually they broke up. It occurred to me while watching "What To Do" from flop nugu k-pop girl group Chocolate (not to be confused with Chocolat, a different flop nugu k-pop girl group) that if he'd mustered up the courage to get her a clothes iron as a present like the guy does at 1:05 in the MV, she would have been so happy, and would have probably reacted just like the girl does in the video, bouncing with glee. It may have even made their combined domestic ride a bit smoother. This video is often laughed at for being unrealistic due to the girl's elated "oh wow - now I can iron all your shirts!" reaction to receiving the gift, and sure enough you can't buy stuff like that for girls these days without people getting all uptight about it and saying that you're an evil patriarchal oppressor chaining the poor girl to housework... but what if she likes ironing? I find her reaction quite realistic because I've met people like that, people like the girl I lived with all those years ago, who burned through an iron once every six months and really could have used a new one at any given moment. The lesson here: don't let the politically correct police stand in the way of you doing what makes you and your partner or the people you care about happy - your personal relationships aren't the business of some crusading Internet dickheads who think that one size fits all and that they know what's best for everyone. If she really tells you that she wants an iron, don't question it - just get her a goddamn iron already.
KARA - Wanna
Communication is handled very differently between boys and girls during childhood, and whether it's the fault of social conditioning, brain chemistry or genetic predisposition is up for debate but the fact remains that whatever the reason, the communication styles between the genders during the early stages of life are very different. Boys are often taught that power can be attained through force of will, so usually a conflict in the schoolyard will escalate into a verbal shouting match or a physical fight which continues until the lesser party gives up or a third party intervenes. Boys for this reason tend to take communication situations on face value. Girls on the other hand find that power through force doesn't work as well for them so they physically fight less overall, but instead compensate by learning how to get power 'around the edges' - advanced social skills such as forming allegiances and cliques, gossiping, and the language of non-verbal communication. Hence the stereotype of boys being "dumb" and girls being "bitchy" - neither of these are strictly true, rather boys are mostly locked out of the secret world of female non-verbal communication so they just work with what they have, whereas girls become accustomed to subterfuge sometimes at the expense of a degree of openness because this is often the most effective avenue of power available to them.
When puberty hits, the tables are turned and the old rules of direct application of power translating to a direct result no longer apply. Boys suddenly find that they now have a reason to talk to girls, but the lack of non-verbal knowledge bites the unprepared boys hard and makes it tricky for them to navigate socially at the girls' higher level - "how do I talk to girls" is a question that many young male teenagers struggle with. Girls on the other hand by this stage essentially have codified a secret language which they can use until the boys catch up... and which many of them never do. Unfortunately for girls, often they don't realise exactly how far ahead they are. A good example of this is "flirting" - flirting is classic non-verbal communication which is all about getting power around the edges without ever applying it directly by using the subtle power of suggestion, hoping that the other party will reciprocate with a more direct approach. The problem with flirting is that for the intended result to transpire, the other party needs to know that flirting is happening, and to the male mind trained on direct communication and face-value situations, the subtleties of flirting are a completely new language in which they have no experience. "Why doesn't she just come out and say what she really wants from me?" the boy asks. Meanwhile the girl asks "how fucking more obvious can I possibly make it for this moron?".
KARA's "Wanna" provides the solution. The girl is sad at the start of the video that she can't seem to get the guy to understand that she likes him. No problem, the girls wait until the guy leaves his house, trash the place and make it as dangerous and non OH&S-compliant as possible, ensuring that when he returns, he breaks his fucking legs. Fuck subtlety, guys don't understand that flirting bullshit, you gotta snap the guy's fibula in three places and then draw a love-heart on the cast if you really want some true love action. He's gonna stare at that love heart every day for weeks while the leg heals, and sure you gotta have some patience but eventually the thought will probably twig inside his pea-brain "hey... I just had an amazing idea... what if she drew that heart on my leg because she likes me?". Then he's yours. Try it sometime.
Chaness - SeSeSe
While you can safely ignore most idiots blathering on about "rape culture" (when someone steals from your house they don't call it "thief culture", do they?) it shouldn't be downplayed that rape is a big problem in society. Rape is statistically the cause of 100% of rape victims, 90% of annoying roleplayed screaming in Japanese adult videos, and at least 1% of k-pop CEOs going to prison plus it's just generally horrible on a "nobody likes to be raped, because rape is by definition something that you do not want" level. One of the worst things about rape is that it's a crime difficult to conclusively prove and that rape victims have a terrible time being believed, the ordeal of going through a harrowing courtroom procedure and reliving the awful experience in exacting detail for the jury can be as traumatic as the experience itself. It's little wonder that so few rapes get reported and even fewer result in a conviction.
The MV for the song "SeSeSe" from LPG subunit Chaness demonstrates such a dilemma. The scumbag rapist in the MV gets rip-roaring drunk and decides to get his rapey on with a disabled woman. When her carer tries to intervene, she find herself on the receiving end of the rape instead. The carer girl however is no dummy - she knows that the South Korean legal system is pissweak and probably won't back her, and that a rape trial that doesn't turn into a conviction can not only see her rapist walk free to rape again but can also result in a counter-suit for perjury and false accusation. Fuck all that noise, who wants to go through all that? Not our female protagonist, that's for sure - she instead decides to invite him to dinner, and then kills him with a drink spiked with RapeOff (slogan: "Kills Rapists Dead") or some other similar anti-rapist repellant. The rapist should of course be grateful for such a subtle, aesthetically pleasing method of death, a less kind person would have burned off his genitals first, but I guess that would have lifted the video from a mere 15+ rating for drunken rape sex to a 19+ for genital mutilation and therefore unbroadcastable on Korean TV. It might have also blown out the special effects budget a bit too, ask any horror film director and they'll tell you that convincing genital mutilation effects are a tricky thing to get right and require much "outside the box" thinking. God knows k-pop music videos are expensive enough as it is, I guess we've got to leave the genital gore to the death metal bands. Anyway the lesson here is that if you're a creepy dude inclined towards rape, you might think you can get away with it because the legal system is so shit regarding rape in most places in the world but don't get too comfy because someday someone will get sick of your bullshit and forget about the legal system (just like you did) and you will get fucking killed. Just watch JAV instead, there's plenty of pretendy rapes you can watch in JAV and get your rocks off without actually harming anyone in the real world... or if you want something that feels a bit more real ask your consenting partner to do a rape roleplay with you or something. Feel free to use "Kpopalypse" as a safeword.
Hyomin - Nice Body
Inquiring minds still want to know what I think about trendy butthurt T-ara hate in 2014. Although the answer's probably fairly obvious to most of you by now, it's always worth a good revisit.
The girls don't hate T-ara because of the scandal. The girls hate T-ara because the guys love T-ara, the scandal is just a convenient excuse which enables their hatred - the catalyst, but not the root cause. I've extrapolated on this before in fanfiction format, but it basically boils down to T-ara being way hotter than they are, and them feeling threatened - and nobody's more aware of this than the songwriters and concept designers who have been working with T-ara members lately. Bravesound are no doubt T-ara fans (after all, they're male) and likely just as sick of netizen bullshit as the next rational person, so they made sure that Hyomin's "Nice Body" amps up that threat to female self-esteem to absolute fever pitch.
The video starts off with a chubby netizen (no netizen was shameless enough to appear and actually portray themselves so instead we get Boram in a fat suit) taking a break from typing out rows of "T-trash ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ" to eat some nutritious doughnuts. Upon spying a particularly luminous doughnut covered in what looks like gold paint thinner, she hastily scoffs it despite the fact that it's been rolling around on the dirty floor and who knows where else it's been. The psychoactive chemicals in the gold paint take effect quickly, and the netizen promptly hallucinates for a few minutes that she is as hot as T-ara's Hyomin. Eventually she wakes up and feels sad as she plummets back to reality, then discovers a newfound commitment to weight-loss via hula-hooping. A quick summary of the song and video's key points:
- Hyomin is hotter than you, because you are lazy and eat poorly
- You can only have a body like Hyomin through exercise and healthy diet
- Hyomin wants guys to desire her sexually
- Guys desire Hyomin sexually
- Guys like girls with nice bodies
- Hyomin has a nice body
- Hyomin's measurements are 34-24-36, we'll even put that on her clothing just so you don't forget
That's the end of your K-pop life lessons with Kpopalypse! Remember to use your newfound wisdom and knowledge for good, not evil!
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U.S. radio station hilariously edits 'I Am the Best'
A radio station in Boston played "I Am the Best" and hilariously edited out "naega" because it sounds like nigga. I'll admit when I first started listening to kpop I got a chuckle every time I heard that because to my disgusting non-Korean ears it does sound a bit like that. Now if only they could edit out the all of the lyrics as well as Bom and CL, we'll be set.
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[MV] Hello Venus - StickySticky International Version
Yet again a lovely group has come back with... a real stinker. Yes, while Korea may love boring shit like Busker Busker and Lim Kim, when testing songs on Western ears agencies have found we desire something with a bit more... chutzpah, so to speak.
So, much like when After School tried to put us asleep with First Love, for the international release from Hello Venus we see Brave Bros getting his tired old ass kicked to the curb where he can listen to Ah and remember when he was relevant.
In his place we have a saucy track that fits the energy that the girls bring to the table, and I have used my deep connections with Alice, Lime, and Yooyoung to net us the exclusive premiere. Enjoy.
So, much like when After School tried to put us asleep with First Love, for the international release from Hello Venus we see Brave Bros getting his tired old ass kicked to the curb where he can listen to Ah and remember when he was relevant.
In his place we have a saucy track that fits the energy that the girls bring to the table, and I have used my deep connections with Alice, Lime, and Yooyoung to net us the exclusive premiere. Enjoy.
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[MV] Clara ft. Yasu's Big Stinky Shit Sandwich [FEAR]
It's finally here. Who was asking for it though? |
Thankfully they're really good buns. |
You ever had so much fear you had to eat a huge fucking bowl of french fries? Clara has. |
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Towards the end of the video Clara realizes she's made horrible life decisions and tries to run away from the video but seeing as that doesn't work she cries on the beach then returns to her room in her bra and jeans.
Ultimately the whole thing can be summed up like this:
I guess I should probably link it?
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