Brave Girls are back to break your ankle

Yo wassup! It's Tube Tuesday and I'm doing another reaction. 

Finally Brave Girls are back and I feel like this is the only appropriate response

I have tweeted about wanting them to come back since 2011 and 

FINALLY MY PRAYERS HAVE BEEN HEARD

#sorrynotsorry

Okay really now. I'm kind of a really shy person and the song isn't really a party song so it's not very obvious in the video but I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS COMEBACK! While editing and waiting for the upload to finish I had the song on repeat and by now I can sing along to most of it. I'm really enjoying this comeback and I really hope the girls will be successful and not hide again after this. 

As mentioned in the video, I checked the live performance and I'm really impressed. The new members did great, they really match Hyeran and Yoojin in my opinion and I really feel Bravesound found good replacements for the members who left.

So what do you think about the song, video, new members?

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re:k-pop - Feb 8-14

Hello people of the interwebs. It's sunday at that means it's recap time. I didn't manage it the last few weeks but it's back and going to last (hopefully^^)

This week a few countries including Korea celebrated the Lunar New Year and as it's a huge holiday no one was really in the mood for promotions and/or comebacks, instead there were many variety shows like "My boss is watching" and ISAC where idol groups competed against each other in various games and sports. 

My favorite release of this week is not a real comeback actually, it's Mamamoo's pre-release 1CM의 자존심 for their upcoming album. It's a hilarious track where the members diss each other for being short and it's gold! 

A few bands have hinted at or released information for their comebacks/debuts, including Astro, Spica, Fiestar and Wonder Girls. Out of these I'm looking forward to Spica the most because they've been gone for a long time and I have seriously missed their voices!

Not too long ago, f(x) finally got a fan club name after 7 years and rookies April and Seventeen got theirs this last week as well. In case you don't know, the fan name for April is Fineapple, a combination of fine (meaning good) and apple (short for April). The name for Seventeen fans is Carat, most likely referring to their debut album 17 Carat. 

Unless you live under a rock, you know that today is Valentine's Day and of course many idols have tweeted about it. This day is the first of many love/romance related days that are coming up on the 14th of each month. In Japan and many Asian countries girls give their love interest chocolate on valentine's day and a month later on White Day, the boys will give gifts in return. So if you didnn't get anything today, you may have to wait until March 14^^

Last but not least, here are some idols who have had their birthdays in the last 7 days:

Feb 8

100% - Minwoo

Grade7 Class1 - Sehee

iKON - Yunhyeong

Infinite - Woohyun

Feb 9

(Ex) Brave Girls - SeoA

ZE:A - Junyoung

Feb 10

100% - Rokhyun

A Pink - Naeun

SNSD - Sooyoung

Super Junior - Siwon

Red Velvet - Seulgi

Feb 11

2PM - Chansung 

History - Dokyun

Lovelyz - Jisoo

Seventeen - Dino

ZE:A - Dongjun

Feb 12

Boyfriend - Donghyun

DalShabet - Subin

Sistar - Soyou

Feb 13

Halo - Jaeyong

Feb 14 

M.I.B - Young Cream

Madtown - Jota

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Fan Friday - Art is beautiful

Fan Friday

Welcome to the first edition of Fan Friday. This is where we post and talk about some fan created content. This might be covers, paintings, cosplays, remixes, just as long as it was made by fans. 

For the first post I had originally thought about dance covers but then I stumbled upon this amazing fan art and I couldn't resist.

I checked his youtube and I'm just.....I mean look at this, this is incredible!

I don't know why there aren't a lot more views on Alex' videos when he is doing such a good job at digital art. I am just beginning to try my hand at digital art and I was hoping speed paintings and just videos of digital painting might help me but this is way out of my league. Maybe in a hundred years.

Anyways, do check out more of Alex' work on his deviantART and youtube accounts and feel free to comment other fan artists and maybe we'll talk about them in the next Fan Friday

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Tube Thursday - Leonies K-Pop Collection

Tube Thursday (a bit late, sorry)

Finally, after a very long time I am back with a new video,  or I should better say with two new videos.

In these videos I'm showing you my whole K-Pop collection.

If you want a closer look of any item you can tell me in the comments. I can also post a list of all the things I own, again just tell me in the comments. I hope you like the videos and don't forget to subscribe to us for more.

Leonie

Part 1:

Part 2:

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Tube Thursday - Imfact wants your Lollipop

Tube Thursday

I'm on a roll with these updates, wow. Here's another MV reaction, this time it's the debut of Star Empire's IMFACT. 

I don't know anything about this group except that they're the little brothers to ZE:A and 9muses. I do like their sunbaes so I had high hopes but I gotta admit Lollipop did not impress me. 

Watch the reaction here and read on for a review of the rest of the album below

The intro to Lollipop is called I'M FACT which I guess is supposed to be a clever wordplay but doesn't really make sense. It's okay for an intro, it sounds similar to Lollipop but more chill.

Rating: 6/10

The title song Lollipop is not my style as mentioned in the reaction. It sounds like when you have 2 tabs with different music open and I can't figure the song out. I don't hate it but I can't listen to it without trying to look for tabs with autoplay..

Rating: 6/10

The next song is called Shine and it's more on the slow side for a pop song but still enjoyable. I can't speak for the lyrics but the vocals are much clearer and the rapper sounds really good in my opinion. It would have been a good title song if it was a bit faster.

Rating: 7/10

The last song on the album is 양아치 which translates to "ganster" or "punk" so I'm guessing it's about a bad boy? I need to look up the lyrics. Either way the sound is nice, music wise it's faster than Shine but it still has a ballad-y feel to it. Overall this is probably my fave song on the album.

Rating: 7.5/10

I'm not sure if it's because I was expecting more from Star Empire but I feel like this album wasn't really put together all that well. Maybe it's supposed to be in this style but I feel like it's just messy, specially Lollipop is so all over the place...I just don't understand. But seeing as I identified most with the teacher in the MV maybe I'm really just old.

Rating: ~7/10

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Who are you?! - Bigstar

Welcome to another episode of Who are you?!

This week it's all about Kyra's favorite group BIGSTAR.

Bigstar is a 5 member boy group under Brave Entertainment (a.k.a Bravesound) 

Prior to their debut 7 boys were in survival show called "Bigstar Show" where they had to pass missions to become a group member. The 2 members who didn't make it later had their debut in other groups (Yuhwan - SPEED, Hojun - Topp Dogg) The 5 members who made it into Bigstar had their debut on July 12, 2012 with the single album BIGSTART and the title song Hot Boy. 

Their latest comeback is the mini album Shine a Moonlight with the title song Fullmoon Shine.

Music Videos: 

Hot Boy | Thinking of you | I got the feeling | Run&Run | Standing alone | Fullmoon Shine | Birthday

Official links:

Website: www.bigstar.bravesound.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bravefamily

Fancafe: http://cafe.daum.net/bravebigstar

Twitter: http://twitter.com/bravebigstar

Instagram: http://instagram.com/bravebigstar

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bravesoundbigstar/

Members:

Feeldog (필독)

Real Name: Oh Gwangsuk (오광석)

Birthday: February 26, 1992

Birthplace: Busan

Position: Leader, Rap, Vocal, Choreography

Blood Type: O

Height: 1,72m

Links: Instagram

Baram (바람)

Real Name: Lee Youngjun (이영준)

Birthday: October 8, 1990

Birthplace:  Busan

Position: Rap, Choreography

Blood Type: AB

Height: 1,75m

Links: Instagram | Twitter

Raehwan

Real Name: Kim Raehwan (김래환)

Birthday: February 15, 1992

Birthplace: Gangwon

Position: Main Vocal, Rap

Blood Type: O

Height: 1,75m

Links: Instagram | Soundcloud | Facebook | Twitter

 Sunghak

Real Name: Jung Sunghak (정성학)

Birthday: January 16, 1993

Birthplace: Gwangju

Position: Vocal, Rap

Blood Type: B

Height: 1,78m

Links: Instagram

Jude

Real Name: Kim Donghyun

Birthday: November 25, 1994

Birthplace: Gyeonggi

Position: Maknae, Vocal, Rap

Blood Type: A

Height: 1,74m

Links: Instagram | Soundcloud | Snapchat: judefrombig

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Tube Tuesday - 4minute hates you

Tube Tuesday

Happy February! Does time fly or is it just me? It's Tuesday and that means video day, who's excited? No one? We'll work on that.
Anyways, today I watched the new 4minute MV and did a reaction which you can see below. 

I'm also listening to the album on repeat and I'm gonna talk about that a bit.

The first song on the album is the title ‎"싫어‬" 

As I said in the video, it's nice but the chorus doesn't match the rest of the song. I don't know why this is such a big thing in K-Pop at the moment, maybe I'm just weird or getting too old.

Rating: 7.5/10

The second song on the album is "No Love" 

It's got more of an old school feel to it, kinda like western 90's girl groups? I like it but it's not my fave song on the album 

Rating: 8/10

The third song on the album is "Blind"

This is my favorite song from Act7, it's not really a ballad but it's got a ballad-y style, if that makes sense? The vocals are nice and clear and I'll probably listen to this song a lot in the future.

Rating: 8.5/10

The fourth song on the album is "Canvas"

This one is more of a laid back hip hop style that's not really my thing usually but there's something to it that had it stuck in my head half the day. I really enjoy Hyuna's rap in this, which isn't a given, even tho she's my favorite member there are just some times when her voice is...to much for me.

Rating: 7.5/10

Overall I can say that I like this album but it's not my fave from 4minute. It doesn't seem like they have found their own style yet, or at least this album gives me that feeling. I still enjoy it tho and I'm happy the girls are back.

Rating: ~8/10

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EMC - January

EMC - Ew K-Pop Monthly Charts - January

Welcome to the upgrade to Kyra's K-Charts, the EMC. 

This is where we rank our favorite releases of the month and since we're 2 admins there are 2 lists.

At the end of the charts you will have the chance to vote for your favorites from our list and in case we missed it, comment with your faves.

These are our Top 5 songs in January, click the titles to watch the MV's if you haven't seen them
(Titles with a * don't have official MV's)

Leonie:

5. Suzy & Baekhyun - Dream
4. K.Will - You call it romance
3. Teen Top - Warning Sign
2. Yongguk - X*
1. Road Boyz - Be my love

Kyra:

5. Mamamoo - I miss you*
4. Teen Top - Warning Sign
3. Stellar - Sting
2. Dal Shabet - Someone like U
1. G-Friend - Rough

So what about you, what were your fave releases in January? Vote or comment below!

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