What January Holds

I thought of making a post where I list all the things that I'm looking forwards too this coming January, since in shallow Teensplop world, there are quite a lot of them. Here they are!


I AM ANTICIPATING:

- SNSD's I Got a Boy Korean comeback!!! 
     This is their first Korean comeback since The Boys, which was released October 19, 2011. That is over a year ago, so it's about time! Not that they haven't been busy, of course. Since then, they've been busy with a subgroup as well as at least three Japanese singles and they've each had their individual acting careers and endorsements.
     The album and MV will be released January 1st (tomorrow). There will be a dance version and a story version to the title track. As you know, the album will be released in ten different infuriating versions. Here's how I would prioritize them, if I were in a position to buy any at all:

- Group Edition

- Tiffany

- Seohyun

- Taeyeon

- Yuri

- Jessica

    I actually kind of want Yuri's and Jessica's more than Taeyeon's, just because they are better suited to this concept, I think. But I will remain loyal! It's weird though, because I have a feeling that Jessica's will turn out as one of the bests picture-wise. I definitely don't want Sunny's because it would have that horrible picture of her on the front. Blech.
     Anyways, it's gonna be SO AMAZINGLY AMAZING!!!

- SNSD's I Got a Boy comeback show
       There's a teaser for this show on allkpop, which they've already filmed, and will air on January 3rd. It seems like a work of rather epic proportions, probably including all sorts of non-album solo acts (possibly in English???) I can't wait to watch.

                OMG.... Seohyun.... you've got a GUITAR!!!

- Pretty Little Liars Third Season resumes with episode 14

                After three unbearable months of Not-Pretty Little Liars, PLL is back! Mona is being released from the asylum and the girls are freaked out and everyone thinks she's psycho, etc., plus Toby is an evil creepy maniac and Spencer doesn't know, as demonstrated in the creepy hot tub sneak peak.

                                   

                  Plus Garett is dead, after telling Spencer that Aria's dad was with Ali the night she died - as far as we know, the last person to talk to her. Nate is still dead, which is probably troubling. Lucas is still disturbed. Mona, as we know, is still a CRAZY PSYCHO PERSON!!! Airing January 8th.

- Ali's Pretty Little Lies shall be published

                  The same day the television series is revived, Sara Shepard returns to the tabel (only a month after the release of Burned) with Ali's Little Lies, the first book from Ali's point of view, as well as the only current one with ALI ON THE FREAKING FRONT COVER!!!

                  AAAAAAAAH!!!

                  I seriously cannot express with words how freaking exciting this Ali doll is to me, but I shall try to sum it up with THE ALI DOLL IS PRETTY FREAKING EXCITING.

OMG, this is like the perfect Ali doll.

                 I don't know who will be modeling on the back cover, but I'm really hoping it will be Sasha Pieterse. For those of you who don't know (ha), Sasha plays Ali on the TV show. Honestly, I think it would be totally awesome. Sasha is a pretty good Ali appearance-wise, and it would just be so cool.

                 I haven't really been that pleased with the models for the other books. Emily is okay-ish... unless it turns out that the Spencer person is supposed to be Emily, in which case NO. Aria is a pretty good match, except she has this deep scowl all the time, which is a bit silly.

                 Anyways, please please pleas be Sasha. Or someone else, if you want to. Just look like Ali!

                OMG, what if there's more pictures or inside stuff on Amazon? Only eight days before??? I MUST GO CHECK!!! Sigh, no. Well, I'm really looking forwards to that. It's unlikely that I'll get it when it only comes out four days before my birthday... maybe I could ask for it from Clarissa or someone. Friends are generally pretty last minute anyways.

                So yeah.

- My Birthday

                   Fun. Unless I have a party. Then not as fun. But still. Fun. Yummy food. Cake, or something. Presents. Yay. Lookin' forwards to THAT. :)

             
 That's all that I know the dates for, but there are a lot of comebacks that are supposed to happen at the beginning of the year. T-ara's comeback promoting new Dani, Sistar19's return, a bunch of other groups that I don't especially care about... but I'll let you know!

Anyways, that's it for now.  Happy New Year, self-audience! Have fun in Mexico! Get lots of sleep tonight!

I Can Totally Recognize People

So this is the new teaser group picture thing for I Got a Boy.

And I'm basically posting this here with their names to prove that I CAN IDENTIFY MA PEEPS!!!

(That sounds kind of creepy. But no one reads this. So WHATEVER.)

From left to right: Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Seohyun, Jessica, Yoona, Yuri, Tiffany, Taeyeon, and Sunny,

SO HA. I'M A TRUE SONE.

Also, in semi-related news, did you know that the I Got a Boy album shall be released in TEN DIFFERENT FREAKING EDITIONS? AAAAAAAAH! MIND EXPLODING.

SM. WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO US???

Each edition has a forty page photobook. And there's a different edition. FOR EACH FREAKING MEMBER? And what's the tenth edition? A group edition. The one you'd think they could just MAKE THE OFFICIAL RELEASE. Urgh, it makes my head hurt. The length that SM will go to make sure that I will NEVER GET ALL THEIR PRODUCTS. It's insane.

So it would seem that the pictures on each cover are the same as the teaser pictures that had been released. I can only imagine what the photobooks are like. 40 pages. FOR EACH MEMBER.

URGH I WANT THEM AAAAALLLL SM WHY DO YOU TURN ME INTO A GREEDY LITTLE MONSTER??? :(

Sigh.

Anyways, if I were an amazing rich person like Dylan, I would obviously start with the group, then proceed in this order:

Tiffany

Seohyun

Taeyeon

Yuri

After that it doesn't really matter. I guess I would do Jessica or Yoona next. Anyways, there'll be a ton of unboxing videos to walk. OH GLORY. I'll update you on those.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS.

(Btw, SNSD has socks just like T-ara)

I don't recall Taeyeon ever having pink hair... but whatever.

(And Yuri spelled Yoori? C'mon now, people.)

I Got a Boy Danse Teaser

OHMYGOOOOOOD!!!

Girls Generation, you are AMAZINGLY AMAZING AND AWESOME AND AAAAAAHHHH...


OH MY GOD.

THE DANSE TEASER FOR THE BOYS WAS RELEASED. OH MY GOD.

I can't even HANDLE IT.

Seriously, this is going to be the most amazing SNSD comeback ever. They look SO HOT in their closeups in the teaser! Like SUPER SUPER SUPER HOT!

Apparently Sunny has branched out into Multi-hair-color-crazy-chic. 

OMG SEOHYUN, YOUR HAIR.

TIFFANY
YURI
YOONA
SOOYOUNG
HYOYEON
TAEYEON
AAAAAH CAN'T HANDLE IIIIIIIT!

Just cannot cannot wait.

I love the teaser so much! AAAAH! CAN'T WAIT!!!

Korean Gallup Poll

The Brightest Singing Stars of 2012

1. Psy – 24.4%
2. Girls’ Generation – 19.8%
3. Big Bang – 9.5%
4. IU – 6.9%
5. Jang Yoon Jung – 6.6%
6. SISTAR – 6.4%
7. T-ara – 5.5%
8. B2ST – 5.3%
9. Tae Jin Ah – 5.2%
10. Busker Busker – 4.1%

Best 5 Singers for Teenage Demographic

1. Big Bang – 20.7%
2. Girls’ Generation – 19.0%
3. Psy – 16.3%
4. B2ST – 16.1%
5. IU – 10.7

Best 5 Singers for People in their 20′s

1. Girls’ Generation – 26.6%
2. Psy – 23.9%
3. IU – 12.9%
4. SISTAR – 12.7%
5. Big Bang – 12.3%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 30′s

1. Psy – 28.9%
2. Girls’ Generation – 22.1%
3. Big Bang – 9.6%
4. SISTAR – 8.1%
5. T-ara 7.7%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 40′s

1. Psy – 30.7%
2. Girls’ Generation – 20.3%
3. Jang Yoon Jung – 10.0%
4. Tae Jin Ah – 6.6%
5. Big Bang – 5.1%

Best 5 Singers for People in their 50′s

1. Psy – 20.2%
2. Tae Jin Ah – 15.3%
3. Jang Yoon Jung – 14.4
4. Girls’ Generation – 12.3%
5. Song Dae Gwan – 12.3%

Best 5 Songs of 2012

1. Psy “Gangnam Style” – 30.7%
2. SISTAR “Alone” – 3.2%
3. Busker Busker “Cherry Blossom Ending” – 2.8%
4. TaeTiSeo “Twinkle” – 1.9%
5. B2ST “Beautiful Night” – 1.5%

Best Female and Male Rookies of 2012

Male: Busker Busker – 17.0%
Female: Ailee – 4.6%

Melon's Official Year End Song Rating

Melon, the really big show thing, has released its rankings of the releases of 2012.

I'll highlight the important bits.

Overall TOP 50 Ranking Chart:

1. PSY - Gangnam Style
2. Sistar - Alone
3. Busker Busker - Cherry Blossom Ending
4. Sistar - Loving U
5. BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby
6. 2NE1 - I Love You
7. Busker Busker - If Your Really Love Me
8. Ailee - Heaven
9. Seo In Guk & Eunji - All For Your
10. Busker Busker - First Love
11. IU - Every End Of The Day
12. T-ara - Lovey Dovey
13. SNSD TTS - Twinkle
14. Huh Gak - The Person Who Once Loved Me
15. Naul - Memories of The Wind
16. Busker Busker - Yeosu Night Sea
17. BIGBANG - Monster
18. BIGBANG - Blue
19. Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
20. Huh Gak ft. Zia - I Need You
21. Baek Ji Young - Voice
22. Wonder Girls - Like This
23. IU - You & I
24. Lee Jong Hyun - My Love
25. Lyn - Back In Time
26. Verbal Jint - You Are Pretty Enough
27. K.Will - Please Don’t
28. Lee Hyun - My Heartache
29. T-ara - Day by Day
30. PSY ft. Lena Park - What Would Have Been
31. 10cm - Sorrow
32. f(x) - Electric Shock
33. PSY ft. Sung Si Kyung - Passionate Goodbye
34. Juniel - Illa Illa
35. Lee Ha Yi - 1234
36. Roy Kim & Jung Joon Young - Become Dust
37. Ailee - I Will Show You
38. Busker Busker - It’s Hard To Face You
39. GD - Crayon
40. Troublemaker - Troublemaker
41. Ga In - Bloom
42. Busker Busker - The Flowers
43. BoA - Only One
44. Orange Caramel - Lipstick
45. Ulala Session - Beautiful Night
46. Huh Gak - One Person
47. 10cm - Good Morning
48. Maroon 5 - Payphone
49. Dynamic Duo - Without You
50. GD ft. Kim Yoona - Missing You

Streaming Chart (Most Streamed Songs):

1. PSY - Gangnam Style
2. Sistar - Alone
3. Sistar - Loving U
4. Busker Busker - Cherry Blossom Endings
5. 2NE1 - I Love You
6. BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby
7. Busker Busker - If You Really Love Me
8. Seo In Guk & Eunji - All For You
9. Ailee - Heaven
10. Naul - Wind Memories

Download Chart (Most Downloaded Songs):

1. Busker Busker - Cherry Blossom Endings
2. Sistar - Alone
3. BIGBANG - Fantastic Baby
4. T-ara - Lovey Dovey
5. Ailee - Heaven
6. PSY - Gangnam Style
7. BIGBANG - Blue
8. Lyn - Back In Time
9. IU - Every End Of The Day
10. Busker Busker - First Love

Album Chart:

1. Busker Busker - Busker Busker 1st Album
2. PSY - The Best 6th (Part 1)
3. BIGBANG - 5th Mini Album: ALIVE
4. GD - 1st Mini Album: One Of A Kind
5. Busker Busker - 1st Wrap Up Album
6. BIGBANG - 5th Mini Album (Repackaged): STILL ALIVE
7. Naul - Principle of My Soul
8. Various Artists - Superstar K4 TOP 12 (Part 1)
9. Primary - Primary & The Messengers
10. Epik High - 99

Merry Christmas from our Favorite Celebs

It's really sweet that all these kpop people take the time to wish us lower folk their best on this hugely celebrated holiday. I have a large degree of christmas wanting right now. Sigh. It's not just because everyone else is celebrating it. It just seems like such a fun, cozy thing to do. Christmas tree. Presents in the morning, waiting for you all at once. Cookies. Friends. Family. Dad not being sad and lonely.
Maybe next year we could celebrate Christmas.

Anyways, tumblr and twitter are roiling with tweets and pictures and instagrams of celebrities in reindeer ears and Santa hats and whatnot. Really cute. Here are some of my favorite christmas pics all through the ages.

Jessica gets stylish in her new Santa hat.

2NE1 buckle up for a sleigh ride in their costumes as... sexy pink penguins.
From left to right: Minzy, Bom, Dara, and CL (!!)

After School have developed by far the most extravagant setting, as they lounge on a stack of giant presents,
managing to display both their extremely long legs, and their brilliant gold ribbon outfits.

SNSD in various sweaters, socks, antlers, and... high heeled converse. Wow.
From left to right: Yoona, Seohyun, Jessica, Sooyoung, Tiffany, Yuri, Taeyeon, Sunny, and Hyoyeon.
I don't know when they took this picture, but they are all very cute.

Secret seem to be huddled up very cozily on these long winter nights.
From left to right: Hyosung, Jieun, Zinger, and Sunhwa (wow, I can't believe I was able to do that!)

This shot was taken from Sistar's Christmas greetings video last year, which you can see below.

T-ara so young! Pre-Hwayoung, even. They look so cute! I love how all of the other girls are in these
knee high seductive bathrobe things, while Eunjung's just gloppin around in a big snowman suit. :)
Plus Qri's a tree.... AAAAAW...
From left to right: Qri, Soyeon, Boram, Hyomin, Jiyeon, and Eunjung.

Jia posted this picture to her fans. Nice and... morbid, Jia!

AAAAAW! Thank you instagram! This is Jia cuddling with her adorable little kitten.

Someone's a little impatient over at JYP...

Jessica... my little snow angel....

A recent picture of Soyu with... a gingerbread house? Something like that.

Selena Gomez joins the fun. Lookin' good!

Yuri bundles up for a fashion shoot  harsh winter over there in Seoul.

Awww...

Woa, an American? How did that get in here?! Must've snuck in with Selena Gomez...

A series of Christmas performances by T-ara (see below).

Sistar's Christmas card to all of us.

AAAAW TIFFANY... YOUR CHRISTMAS SELCA IS BETTER THAN SANTA!!!

Merry Christmas from your favorite couple! This collection of Eunji holiday pics were found on Tumblr.

Jiyeonie...

So, those are terrific. And then we have a few Christmas greetings by way of video...

This was Sistar from last year. So cute!

T-ara's greetings from this year.

SNSD way back in 2010

Ailee this year... in English! Yaaay!

Miss A from last year.

And now, a collection of my favorite Christmas performances. Enjoy!

The Countdown Continues

So yesterday, remember how all those teaser pics were released?
Well today SM published a COMPLETELY NEW BATCH!!! Like, Seohyun's official one leaked yesterday, so no new one for her... but OMG SM ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS EVERY FREAKING DAY???

I don't know how they can afford to do that... If these pictures will be used in a photobook or something, how can they?

On that note, here ya go:

TIFANNY!!! OMG, she looks like YOONA here. Totally bizarre.  Wow, that hair color is super awesome!!!

Jessica, OMG. I love these pictures because they are closer up. Her hair is awesome.
Plus she has those cutesy little eye gems.
And lol, does that badge say Sweet Potato? Awesome.

OH MY GOD THANK GOODNESS.
Pant pant pant.
Oh, thank god.
Sunny! Your hair is back to purple! Awesome purple! Not crazy yellow-green! Cuz that would be DISGUSTING!
Phew. Phew. Phew. THANK YOU SUNNY.

Woooooooa. Yuri.... you are so freaking punk. You're gonna rock this comeback.
Oh, I really really REALLY hope SM gives her more air time!
She barely had any lines in Flower Power.
I WANT MORE YURI! Her voice is so nice... I like it.

Aw... aren't you cute, Sooyoung. Green suits her.  She has sort of a green voice.
Her hair bunch is really cute.

Yoona. Yayayayayayay. Yoona. YAAAAY.
Her eyes are back to normal :).

YAAAAAAAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAAAAAY!

OMG AAAAAH. Her hair is back to normal! And it's awesome! So cute! Taengoo!

Yup, still this....

Flower Power

OHMYFREAKINGGODAAAAAAAH!!!!

SNSD JUST RELEASED THEIR FREAKING COME BACK WHILE I WAS TRICK OR TREATING AND IT IS REAL AND AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Flower Power is REAL!!! I can't believe it! This requires an extra big font of excititude. I didn't even realize this would matter so much. IT'S SO FREAKING AWESOME!!! The girls look amazing! Except donut-girl version of Sunny. But whatever.

AAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!

They are so freaking sexy and beautiful and aaaaah!!!! The lyrics aren't even up yet. I am the FIRST PERSON TO BLOG ABOUT THIS! Ha, yeah right. But still. I can't find any other posts.

The album isn't on iTunes. Actually, the album isn't released till November 21st. FLOWER POWER BETTER FREAKING BE ON ITUNES BEFORE THEN OR I WILL FREAKING EXPLODE.

It didn't always seem like the parts of the song matched up, so it's not their best... but I love it sooooooo much! Can't wait for the Soshi Vlog on this. IT BETTER BE ON ITUNES.

I don't like donut land. I mean, they look amazing, but it's just so bleached of color... it doesn't seem to go with the rest of their sets.

I love the individual shots of them whirling around. Tiffany is like WHOOSH and Yuri is super amazingly sexy and Hyoheon looks really good. Them girls getting down!

Even if the parts of the song don't exactly correlate, all of it is catchy and amazing. I just can't wait for lyrics! I have determined that although large quantities of lyrics are in English, it is in fact a Japanese Single. On a Japanese Album. That makes sense. 

Once this album is released, it is TOTALLY going straight to the top of my priority list. After the first three. But STILL!!! I wish I was like those other kpop fans, who start at the beginning of their groups and then have all the albums so they can just keep buying them as they are released.

If I had a million dollars, I would buy up my whole priority list. Then I wouldn't even NEED a priority list because I would just be gobbling up each delicious installment as it comes along.

I don't know why I'm so freaking hyper. Maybe because of candy? It's just... this is the first time I've actually witnessed an SNSD release. You cannot BELIEVE how fast comments are piling up on  Youtube. It's insane. Like, there'll be 50 freaking comments from "1 second ago" and I'll lean in to read it and it'll be swallowed by this wave of new comments. My observation-ness of it is enough to energize me.

SO EXCITED AAAAAAAH!!!!

OH MY FREAKING GRR

Sigh. Like, minutes after I did that whole iTunes extravaganza, I caught up on the latest Soshi Vlog and discovered that....

SNSD's Paparazzi is now available on iTunes!

After ALL THAT calculations. This totally screws the tables.

Luckily, it's $1.29. So I probably wouldn't have bought it today anyways.

I've decided I want to buy it on iTunes. Even though it's a priority on my album wishlist. The sucky thing is that it's the ONLY song in the Paparazzi package, so I can't really justify buying it. But does it come with music videos? It might.
Anyways, I'm going to maintain its place on my wishlist because it's amazing. I'm also going to move it to the top of the iTunes budget. That's just how I roll ;)

(The cover of the iTunes edition is lame. It's like them, sitting in a room. No awesome paparazzi getup or anything like the physical album.)

In related impulsive decisions, I screwed my planning and bought my two songs on iTunes.

They were the songs I had planned, though. No craziness there. I'm seeing how long I can hold out before prompting dad.

Thing was, I told him at dinner that I was at my last song, and that I planned to get it next week. Good news is he seemed perfectly fine with my current conservative rate of spending, so if I explain that I was reckless for one last song, he probably won't hold out on me. Maybe tuesday? We'll see.

How much shall I ask for?
Well, I think it comes in increments of 10, but I'm not sure if that goes 10, 20, 30, or 10, 20, 50. Maybe I can check really quickly....
Okay, all measures of 10 from ten to fifty.
I'm thinking of asking for... forty?
Last time I asked for twenty, because the time before that I got fifty and snapped it up in about a month. Twenty is a lot more reasonable, and forty is much closer to fifty... but maybe I've proven I'm more responsible? Or maybe I should just settle and ask for thirty... but the thing is, I really don't want to be plunged back into the crazy cycle of avoiding spending for weeks on end once I hit twenty.
I really want to ask for forty.
I guess I will. If dad gets skeptical, I will immediately backtrack to thirty.
But seriously, 40 is a better idea.

Girls Generation

Girls Generation (SNSD)

#1 group in Korea

Members:

TAEYEON (Leader and Bias!)

HYOYEON (Main Dancer)

TIFFANY <3

JESSICA

YURI (Sexiest)

SOOYOUNG

SUNNY

YOONA (Face that I once found really ugly but for some reason
she no longer appears so anywhere!)

SEOHYUN (Cute li'l maknae!)

Debuted: 2007           Company: SMTown
Popularity: 10/10       Subgroups: TaeTiSeo (Taeyeon, Tiffany, and Seohyun)

Leader: Taeyeon
Maknae: Seohyun
Rapper: Generally SNSD songs don't involve raps, but Tiffany and Yuri have on live performances.
Lead Dancer: Hyoyeon
Other Main Dancers: Yuri and Sooyoung
Face: Yoona

General Rank of Usage in Songs:

Taeyeon	Jessica
Seohyun	Sunny	Tiffany
Sooyoung	Yuri
Hyoyeon	Yoona

More Defined Individual Rank:
1. Taeyeon
2. Jessica
3. Tiffany
4. Seohyun
5. Sunny
6. Sooyoung
7. Yuri
8. Yoona
9. Hyoyeon

Hit Songs:
-Gee
-Genie
-Oh!
-Run Devil Run
-Paparrazi
-Mr. Taxi
-The Boys
-Time Machine
-Chocolate Love
-All My Love is For You
-Twinkle (TTS)

My Member Ranking:

	Beauty	Singing	Favorite
Taeyeon	1	1	1
Jessica	4	3	4
Sooyoung	7	6	5
Yuri	3	5	4
Tiffany	2	2	2
Sunny	9	7	7
Seohyun	5	4	3
Hyoyeon	8	9	7
Yonna	6	8	6