random ramblings; the music industry K-POP

Yes, it's one of those time's I have to talk about something.
Let's see, let's talk about music. In the next few entries I would like to share my thoughts on individual asian countries music.

K-pop
In the scenes of kpop, I always think being a korean singer/artist is much harder than becoming an hk-pop one. The differences in which of the other '?-pops'; that you can audition. But once you're through from the audition, theres another rough 2-6 years of training depending on your talent and strengths. During that time, your thoughts may change and forced to leave since handling of the training is hard like other popular kpop trainees.

The music style is quite hectic, full of varieties; from genres of trot to ballad.
But I have to say, some of the singers do have talent, but some don't. (not mentioning any artists or anything)

Debuting in the k-pop industry is quite tough, like I said. By the time you audition and become a trainee, you have somewhat wasted quite deal amount of time. Think before auditioning. If you were to audition and you're approx. 19 years old, by the time you train your dance moves and vocal cords and debut you'll be well over 23 or over. With that age it seems impossible to become a popular as many groups and singers, nowadays artists/groups debut as young as 16-20.

At the same time music means looks, companies like SM only stage for the looks. (plastified/natural). Some singers that cant take the stress and pressure of the kpop industry even decide to end there lives at one point, and some just leave the kpop scene. This is just the plain hard truth.

Now I need to mention some singers/groups I have in mind.

Lee Seung Gi is a worth mentioning singer, not because his good looking but at the same time you can fall for his voice and sweet smile.

Younha, with her unique voice and music style is one of my favourite female artists.

Groups that are worth listening to is the famous DBSK. The first time I heard them was when they were singing accappella. You can listen to Epik High's song with its unique vibes of music, they can never fail to impress me.

There are many other groups, but I don't like the group as a group. I like the group because of one particular outshine member. Taeyeon from Girl's Generation (SNSD) is a worthy mention as well, her solo songs "If" and Beethoven Virus OST struck me. Kyuhyun from the popular group Super Junior is the best out of the group I think, he's good in both music and live.

There are many other singers/groups. You can research them yourselves either on Soompi or some wiki search engine.

More dramas

Yes, I spent my holidays staying home and watching dramas and anime and movies.
I can't think of any right now, since its the morning, I pulled an "all-nighter" didnt sleep all night because of the drama addiction.

I'll edit later ;)

Older posts from my previous blog

Like some people know, from last year I used freewebs, now i moved to blogspot. To fill in the empty spaces some old posts from my old blog.

Good dramas I'd like to recommend:

Heart of Greed
Basically its about a family that owns an abalone buisiness, but soon due to family matters the whole family is in great chaos.

Hana Yori Dango
This is a jap drama. It tells a story of a young girl in a very rich, and i mean rich high school. The bad thing is evryone is rich except her. In that school there is 4 super rich guys that practically control the whole school because their parents contribute money to the school. The 4 guys that is extremely rich were name F4 (Flower 4). They have this system where if you stood up or did something bad towards them they'll issue you a red note (tag) This tag gives permission for people to attack, or to put it BULLY the person for the rest of their highschooling years. When the young girl (whos quite poor) stood up to the F4 because they were going to bully this transfer student she was issued with a red note, the story soon develops into a romantic and comedic drama.

Hana Yori Dango 2
Basically similar to the first season, except it leads off from where it ended. You'll understand what I'm talking about when you watch it ;P.

Nobuta Wo Produce(Jap)
This is really reccomend. Why? It's a point of life and self esteem. The story is about a guy that in his high school years, his friends with all the people in the school, from nerds to jerks. Until one day his popularity starts to drop all because of these 2 friends. One of the friends include a guy whos all "drunk" like and has no point in life whatsoever. The other friends whos new, but is bullied due to no self esteem. Both him and his other friends try to "produce" the new girl to make her popular. Throughout the whol plot friendship starts to break, yet new friendship starts to form. I'll rate it 9/10. Its REALLY good.

JK subs

I have officially joined JK subs. A fansub group which has their mission to complete the uncompleted shows/dramas.

I'm an encoder now in JK subs.
But so far I'm having trouble converting rmvb to avi. Does anyone know how I can convert it properly, with the right audio matching the video?

Anyways, the team is still looking for more TRANSLATORS for japanese, korean, taiwanese dramas/shows.

Anyways that about it, check out the fansub group in my links :)

First

Yes, this is the very first entry of my blog.
=) Just wanted to post this.

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