Kpop Fever

FINALLY!!! After 4 months of anticipation, after 26 teasers, EXO finally debuts!!! And it was literally the best rookie debut I've witnessed ever since I got into kpop back in 2010. For starters, let's go back to the beginning of 2012.

We have TS Entertainments new boy group 'B.A.P' standing for Best, Absolute, Perfect. Of course after they revealed that cheesy name, I was very skeptical. Two of the members had already 'debuted' so I wanted to know more about the other 4 members. Well, fast forward to their official debut. Their song 'Warrior' WAS TOTALLY AWESOME! I was speechless for literally 10 minutes after watching the video. And then I watched 10 more times lol. TOTALLY AWESOME! They had so much charisma, swag, AMAZING dancing skills and their vocals aren't bad either. I can tell who is singing, who is rapping compared to other groups. They each have a distinctive color. AMAZING debut. It was great! They made a very impressive debut and even though they didn't win any awards, they are still left firmly in our minds and they plan on making another comeback later on this month.

Meanwhile, SM was releasing teaser after teaser of EXO. We had no clue when they were going to actually debut. Then, they released a PROLOGUE single. Booooo! Then, they released MORE TEASERS and then another prologue single! Boooo!! Then FINALLY we can anticipate an actual date, and EXO-K and EXO-M debuted on the saturday before Easter I believe. And the song, IS TOTALLY AWESOME. It's called 'MAMA'. -____- Yeaaaaaaaaaa. But see the lyrics are very interesting, something about society and technology, it's really cool except for the whole MAMA part, but you know it's kpop. We can overlook gibberish lol. Anyways, the mv starts with a long explanation on how EXO is from another planet blah blah blah, cheesy. And so yea. They have Gregorian chanting and an awesome dance break section, and screamo and string instruments, it is a totally awesome song. Like if I heard it on American radio stations, I would totally flip out on how awesome and different it sounds, even in Korea! It's not what I expected from a kpop group, but of course its SM. The 2 singers are good, Kai the dancer is good, and everyone else is irrelevant. That's a huge flaw!!!! They haven't even sang live yet!!!!! They just lip-synch and that's totally unacceptable in the kpop world. No matter how difficult the dance is, you need to sing! You simply do not mouth the words to the entire song and have fake lip-synching skills! NO! So it's a let down. Not ALL of the 6 members are equally talented. It's a shame that after Shinee, SM has created let down groups. SNSD only needs 4 members, f(x) only needs 2 and EXO only need 3. Why?!! I was dissappointed. Alot of people gave EXO's debut mixed reviews. Either you like them or you hate them, that's the kpop world. I like 2 members that's it lol. I still have their music, but until they can surpass DBSK and SHINee, they're just slightly over mediocre.

Their debut was the strongest of 2012 and they set the bar pretty high. Between BAP and EXO, EXO slightly overrides BAP but I think BAP has more talent as a whole together but we'll see.

Apart from rookies, 4Minute, the female group, made a comeback with their song 'Volume Up'. I wasn't expecting their comeback, like I wasn't anxious for them to return, but they needed to after their last comeback in March or April last year. There was some hype for this comeback, because sources kept revealing that 4Minute will have a new sound and saxophones and blah blah blah. I didn't really care, but since I like 4Minute, I tuned in. The song itself is nice, but only 2 members got more than 3 lines. For starters, this group is basically 'Hyuna and Co.' because no one knows who the other 4 members are b.c Hyuna gets ALL THE PUBLICITY. Shame. I know all the members b.c I watch their shows, but if you didn't do that, you really couldn't recognize them and even THEY said that. I would be so heartbroken knowing that no matter what I do, no one will know my name because of someone else. Like even though Beyonce' in Destiny's Child is a household name, everyone else knew Kelly and Michelle! So I'm patiently waiting for the day everyone in 4Minute will be on equal terms. 

This video, is amazing, they all look FIERCE but inappropriately sexy. Too much. Too much.

And then finally, to wrap it all up, the other comeback from the super sexy group 'SISTAR'. They had a great year last year with 'Ma Boy' and 'So Cool' so I was excited to see what SISTAR would whip up next. I'm not a huge fan of all their songs, I'm just a fan of the main vocalist Hyorin becuase SHE IS AMAZING! She is known as the Beyonce' of Korea. Anyways, the song is nice. Nothing special, I realllly like the choreography, it's typical sexy Sistar choreo, but with class compared to the sluttiness of 4mintue's Volume Up. 

Next week there will be another boy group debuting called DSP Boyz so if I look the song enough or if their debut is memorable, I might do another kpop craze...maybe. STAY TUNED!