T-araN4

It's Friday the twelfth... and that means we know more about T-ara's subunit!


The subunit is named T-araN4, which apparently stands for "T-ara Brand New Four." I'm not thrilled with this title. As with Sistar19, subgroup names that just stick random numbers or letters onto the end of their name as a full group just aren't that interesting. Not that TaeTiSeo was that creative... but I was hoping for some cool title! Like Orange Caramel gets their own cool name.

Anyways, the name doesn't really matter. What matters are the girls and the music!

Speaking of girls, this information was released along with Hyomin's teaser picture! It's not what I was expecting from Jiyeon's - Hyomin is dressed much more simply (if exotically stylish) and has wet-yet-epic hair. It makes me wonder if the others will look just as unique in their promotion posters.

I like this picture more than Jiyeon's. Even though Jiyeon looked stunning and the background was a lot sleeker and less cluttered, Hyomin is wearing a Hyomin expression, while Jiyeon was wearing a not-quite-Jiyeon face. They both look gorgeous!

You can see on the poster that it says "Would you mind waiting a bit longer?" and then crosses out the current date, replacing it with 4.15 - April 15th. That is when the next teaser poster will be released. Will it be Eunjung or Areum? Who knows? Whichever, I can't wait!

Also, according to t-araworld.net, the next poster will be accompanied by a music teaser for the song. I like how each one comes with new information and a date for the next release - like a treasure hunt. I'm predicting that the final poster will come with an actual music video teaser. It seems as if these are being released every three days, so far, but that would suck if after getting the mv teaser (On April 18th, if this pattern continues) we would have to wait more than a week before getting the full thing.

Looking forwards to their comeback on the first of May!

T-ara's Sub-unit of Epicness

This has actually been on my brain for a long time, but there was a lot of uncertainty surrounding the topic, so I didn't feel confident talking about it until two days ago. Then I got into my blogger mode and took a stand!

I suppose it will be most effective to get to the meat of the matter first, and then explain the treacherous backstory.

Okay, here it goes.

T-ARA IS MAKING A KOREAN COMEBACK.

OR SHOULD I SAY...

T-ARA'S SUB-UNIT!!!

That's right. Considering that they have been around for four years and had reached the status of third most popular girl group in Korea, it's surprising that they haven't taken this step a long time ago. They might have been preparing it when Hwayoung left the group, heavily denting their popularity.

Anyways, guess who the members are?

EUNJUNG

HYOMING

AREUM

AND FREAKING JIYEON.

Y'all know me, cuz y'all ARE me, so you understand that this is like a dream come true. It can't go wrong! They'll each get so much more screen time and lines too... so happy.

The name of the group will be revealed tomorrow (Friday the twelfth) and the single - "Country Life" will be released May 1st. The concept seems to be similar to their Breaking Heart look. I hope the name is something jewelry related. Like "Diamond" or "Ring" or something. Because that would match with T-ara/tiara!

Luckily for us, we have been gifted with Jiyeon's amazing teaser picture... I don't know when she had time to do that to her hair, but it looks epic. It kind of reminds me of the weird hair changes that occurred with SNSD's "I Got a Boy" comeback, but this is kind of cooler, if I'm aloud to say that...

I have mixed feelings about this teaser picture. It's obvious that Jiyeon will look stunning in this concept, and I'm eager to see how it suits the other members... but at the same time, this isn't the most Jiyeon-ish picture possible. I know that that happens all the time with kpop pictures, but her expression is just... a non-familiar expression on Jiyeon's face. I can't wait to see her in the music video too.

Okay, so what happened with this story? Well, maybe two weeks ago, Allkpop reported CCM announcing this sub-unit and I was soooo happy. Then t-araworld.com had an article, and all the other sites fallowed some time after... but, the very next day, there were some comments on the allkpop article that said "No, this is fake, the company denied it, they were hacked..." or something like that. 

I didn't really believe them but when I went to check t-araworld.com, the article had been TAKEN DOWN, probably just due to uncertainty. I was so confused and it made my heart break because it WOULD have been the best sub-unit ever.

Then allkpop released another article saying that there were more details about the concept... it was just fuzzy. 

Luckily, everything has been cleared up. The company reassured the fans, t-araworld.com posted another article and everything is good now.

The one icky-ish feeling I have is that the comments that the company made about the comeback were a little... over-confident. They made aspirations to dance anthems like YMCA and Gangnam Style, which frankly I just think is a BAD IDEA. I'm sure the comeback will be amazing and catchy and sexy and will blow everyone out of the water, but comparing it to Gangnam Style... I just doubt it will work. Nothing can match Gangnam Style, and T-ara might receive hate for not living up to the hinted glory.

Sigh. So excited!

IT HAS A COVER!

OMG IT'S GORGEOUS.

Hyorin looks so pretty! Oh, I love album covers that just go ahead and PUT the faces of their members right across the cover, because Sistar19 deserves it!

It sort of reminds me of their Shady Girl album design, with the pink and white color scheme (with touches of blue) and the large scrabbly title.

This album comes with two new songs, plus and instrumental. Here's the tracklist:

1. Ma Boy

2. Gone, Not Around Any Longer

3. A Girl in Love

4. Gone, Not Around Any Longer (Instrumental)

So there. I'm not sure what this is. Does it count as a mini-album? Really I would just call it a single, with beefed up packaging... I dunno. 

Doesn't matter what it's labeled, though, because I can't wait!

OMGGGGGG

Okay, the song is called "Here Then Gone" and I am SPAZZING OOOOOUT!!!

Only four days left!!!

Sistar19's Comeback

So excited. There Ma Boy comeback of 2011 was just a single, but will this be a mini-album? Anticipating it so much! I hope that there will be a whole group version of one of their songs - like the Ma Boy on their So Cool album.

I'm really looking forwards to it, but I'll miss Soyu and Dasom :(. They should have a subgroup too! Soyu's vocals are so much stronger now. She's really improved.

Anyways, there are teaser pictures.

They look awesome. The comeback is scheduled for January 21st - only seven days from now! It's a good thing I'm finally getting my January blogging act together.

Unfortunately, these teaser pictures really don't tell us anything. If only we could trust them, but the video teaser for Ma Boy was like the BIGGEST mislead ever!

                                    

Oh yeah! That's that part from Ma Boy where they sat in bath tubs looking sultry! On surveillance cams! Being sad! Because that happened.... um...

So yeah. Prophet Blog often references that. I hope this video teaser will ACTUALLY tell me about the song, because I really want to know as much as I can as soon as I can.  I don't even know the name of the upcoming song! At least a teaser would tell me that much for certain.

SUPER DUPER EXCITED! PLEASE BE MORE THAN A SINGLE - THAT WOULD BLOW MY BRAIN WITH AWESOMENESS!

(P.S. T-ara, where are you in this whole comeback business??? Isn't Dani about to debut??? You better step up your game by next month or I will die with lack of T-ara!!!)