Since I basically have nothing to do this particular week, I've been wasting my time for lurking things on web! I've been searching over some magazine spreads of Korean artists who I like, then booooooom I got lots! There are so many nice recent and past magazine spreads of my favorite artists which I've never seen before. So I began saving my favorite shots!

As always, click the image for its source.

First, no other than my man Choi Seunghyun. I've seen many spreads of him, like for Cosmo, Vogue, but his looks for this spread (especially the cover shot) for Dazed and Confused is just a picture perfect of T.O.P, rapper Seunghyun. Yes it somehow reminds me of him rapping full-heartedly and by saying that, yes, I miss his voice, which pulled me to this whole world of Korean music scene in the first place and I really want to get it again soon(er).

Next, the Cosmopolitan spread of the tiger and the giraffe: Kim Jong Kook and Lee Kwang Soo! Whoever watch Running Man must know about this two men. To be honest, this spread is pretty shocking to me because, well.... I have different impression about them haha! Again, whoever watch Running Man surely understand what I mean! I mean, I know that Kwang Soo is a model in daily basis and Jong Kook is a singer, but that impression is kinda brushed off by their witty and funny appearances in variety shows! So looking at them through this spread, all friendly and manly, is very heart-warming! And may I add that the article along the spread is worth to read, it shows how well and lovely relationships they have in reality.

Move to my most favorite female idol group, 2NE1! And may I add that I really, really miss them and I really, really want 2NE1 comeback. Hear that, YG? These various spreads of each member in four different magazines which are released on the same month this year (I think on March) simultaneously is like shouting 'COMEBACK! COMEBACK!' and yet there's still no news!

Anyway, I love all the spreads! My favorite is Minzy for Marie Claire! All of them are fabulous, Dara for ELLE is so pretty, Bom for Allure is graceful, CL for Harper's Bazaar is as fierce as always, but this spread shows us that the baby Minzy has grown up into a beautiful lady. She goes fierce and all confidence with her electric blue hair. Dara is being goddess and vulnerable in her photos for ELLE. The queen of corn, Bom, is really really pretty and CL is just being her usual self: queen.

As for the closure, I'd like to introduce a lady singer which I've previously known from variety show Family Outing: Lee Hyori. She's a well-known national singer in Korea, loved by the public despite all the controversies around her. She recently just released her fifth album Monochrome with three new MVs on Youtube. I really, really love the track and the MV of Amor Mio. Have been listening to it all day and not gotten tired of this yet. 

As part of her promotional activities (well, I guess), she's done a pictorial with Vogue. She nailed the circus-theme perfectly and I love it.

And... that's all for this post. I still have a lot pictorials that I find amazing but this post would be very very long! These are my ultimate favorite, though. But the Dazed and Confused with TOP as its cover is the ultimate favorite! I (wait, ALL his stans!) miss him so much that we could cry over a single picture or selca or fanacc or everything about him for days. 

Come on, man, drink your wine outside your cave.

A mind-blowing song and lyrics from Tablo. Brief introduction: he is a famous Korean rapper and also part of a hip-hop group Epik High. To be honest I didn't really catch the actual meaning of this song until I read some reviews on web. This part 'I'm looking for nirvana but you Geffenize me', I didn't even know that word of geffenize and I found nothing on dictionary. Then I found this explanation from here: This line refers to Geffen, record label for the rock band Nirvana - a label that some Nirvana fans felt the band had to sacrifice their creative vision for.

And here it is, my simple thought about the meaning of this song:

I think this song is about how media really affecting people's mind and thoughts about everything. How media reports everything the way they want and make people believe it. The world is your aphrodisiac, so you stay turned on every minute every second I breathe. Nah, because I'm pretty sure that Tablo wrote this album based on his true feelings after the controversy and his life as an artist, I think that line refers to how media never sleeps, always watching his moves and waiting for his mistakes or glory so they can report it straight away... and sometimes they portray it wrong. If a heaven is a show, well televise me. It tells that media reports everything, every details that you might never thought they would know. Then it ends with don't act like you know me 'cause you recognize me, you sell my record me. Just because we see him performing on TV or reading news about him on papers, it doesn't mean we know him. Like I first said, sometimes media tells the turn-around facts, exaggerating things, so as long as we don't reaaaally know him (like, in person), we basically know nothing about him.

This song is very short -only 44 seconds. I like this song because it's different and it sounds sincere. Plus, from this song, I learn a lot of new words -some of them I've never heard before. Thank you, Tablo. Well no wonder since he graduated from Stanford (English Literature major!)...

Enjoy!

Tablo . Fever's End PART 2

Dear TV,
Desensitize me.
Gimme more genocide please.
The world is your aphrodisiac,
so you stay turned on every minute,
every second I breathe.
You weaponize greed,
kill me with incessant I need.
Got me checkin' out those,
and checkin' out these.
Mainstream me, disinfectin' my breed.
I'm lookin' for nirvana but you Geffenize me.
Point me to the skies till heaven's eye bleeds.
Anoint me with your lies then divinize me.
If heaven is a show, well, televise me.
But I won't lie my way in, no fakin' IDs.
I'll die standin'. Try breakin my knees.
I'll do a handstand like I'm breakin'.
Now freeze. Don't act like you know me 'cause you recognize me.
You sell my record, not me.

 

NOTE: I got the picture of Tablo above from this article of WIRED. The controversy I mentioned above is Tablo's Stanford degree controversy, which I previously mentioned in my article on this blog. I suggest you to read that WIRED article to know more about it.

Halo, blog! Udah delapan bulan nggak nulis apapun disini. Cerita gue (dari yang sepele sampai yang serius) menumpuk banyak banget. Mulai dari rasa cinta gue sama Big Bang sampai fakta kalau sekarang gue udah jadi anak kost Bandung. Oke quick news, sekarang alhamdulillah gue udah resmi jadi mahasiswa Fakultas Teknologi Industri ITB. Akhirnya, kawan, nasib membawa gue kembali ke FTI, mau betapa seringnya gue galau soal fakultas/jurusan :’) Dan alhamduillah nasib membawa gue ke FTI ITB, fakultas dan perguruan tinggi idaman gue! 

Oke jadi... Post ini gue dedikasikan untuk... BIG BANG! Bosen banget gue sekarang haha, mending gue racunin kalian-kalian semua ini biar suka Big Bang! (Fyi, gue udah sukses racunin beberapa temen gue bahkan yang cowok hanya berbekal video klip dan klip konser mereka.) Cerita serius tentang hidup gue belakangan ini kapan-kapan deh ya.. #siapajugasihyangpeduli #yakaliajaada

Pertama-tama, perkenalan! Dari kiri ke kanan -dalam kurung adalah nama asli, di depannya stage name-: G-Dragon (Kwon Jiyong), TOP (Choi Seunghyun), Seungri (Lee Seunghyun), Taeyang (Dong Youngbae), Daesung (Kang Daesung).

Ada yang nyangka nggak gue bisa ngefans sama boy band Korea? Gue aja nggak nyangka gue bisa jadi fangirl juga hahaha, tapi lebih nggak nyangka lagi lihat orang-orang di sekitar gue juga sekarang bisa jadi fangirl/fanboy.. Bahkan gue punya temen cowok yang udah lebih gila dari gue (doi ngefans Big Bang juga, sebut nama nggak nih?). Mantep banget lah nih industri musik Korea, sukses besar (setidaknya untuk saat ini) dengan segala kelebihan dan kekurangannya (ini juga gatel banget pengen gue omongin, next time deh).

Ok. Big Bang ini bukan idol group pertama yang gue tahu. Di sekitar gue pada muter lagu-lagu Super Junior sama SNSD otomatis gue taunya mereka duluan. Tapi gue nggak pernah ke-hook sama mereka, gue bahkan masih nggak peduli gitu sama Kpop. Sampai akhirnya teman gue mengenalkan gue pada variety show Korea: Running Man. Itu acara sukses bikin gue ngakak guling-guling dan ketagihan (duhai orang-orang yang capek belajar dan bekerja, tontonlah acara ini disini, hidup kalian akan jadi berwarna lagi). Dari acara ini gue jadi kenal sama artis-artis Korea dan MC nya yang dahsyat banget: Yoo Jaesuk. Dari sini juga gue jadi kenal sama acara lain, pendahulu Running Man, yang MC nya Yoo Jaesuk juga: Family Outing! Ini juga bikin ngakak dan nagih banget hahahahah :D Dan dari sini gue jadi tahu Daesung :3

Kalo ada yang menduga kalau gue suka boy bang Korea karena tampangnya... SALAH! Jujur pertama kali gue lihat Daesung gue nggak tahu banget kalo dia itu ternyata anggota boy band. Abis dia wajah-wajah pelawak sejati gitu, lucu banget! Dan beda sama karakter wajah-wajahnya boyband lain gitu. Enggak, bukannya jelek, tapi sebelumnya gue udah kemakan sama stereotype wajah artis-artis Korea. Sampai akhirnya di FO Daesung digodain karena Big Bang baru release hit terbaru mereka: Lies. Penasaran, langsung gue buka Youtube. Dan gue jatuh cinta. #eea

Yang bikin gue suka sama mereka itu awalnya karena musiknya! Lies itu bagus banget dan langsung lah gue penasaran sama lagu-lagu mereka yang lain. Dan nggak sengaja, pas gue nyetel V Channel, lagi ada video klip lagu. Judulnya Tonight, penyanyinya Big Bang. Dan gue langsung terpana gitu video klipnya bagus banget, lagunya bagus banget, dan member nya jadi beda jauh......... Jadi makin ganteng. Silahkan bandingkan sendiri.

versus

Tapi tetep ya yang paling atraktif dari Big Bang ini ya musiknya. Dan gue makin terpana setelah gue tahu kalo produser Big Bang ini salah satu member mereka sendiri: GD. Oh iya, dia ini leader Big Bang. Jadi ya gitu deh. Musik mereka itu beda sama tipikal-tipikal musik Kpop lainnya. Bukan berarti yang lain itu jelek, lho, tapi Big Bang itu punya karakter musik mereka sendiri. Yang bikin mereka beda dari idol group lain juga kualitas music video mereka. Yah, silahkan cek sendiri di channel Youtube nya BIGBANG. Nikmati musik dan music video-nya!

Buat pemula, gue saranin silahkan dengarkan lagu Blue dulu deh, ini dari album Alive mereka (baru release Februari 2012 loh!). Personally, this is my most favorite track and mv from them. Everything is perfect.

Huhu udah panjang banget ini post, padahal masih banyak juga yang pengen gue share. Pake poin-poin deh kalo gitu.

• Not only a producer, leader, and rapper of the group, GD is also a fashionista. Ampun banget sama satu orang ini. Sejarah rambutnya tak terhingga, sekarang aja rambutnya pink. Bikin syok, tapi pada akhirnya gue hanya bisa bilang "ah.. He's GD." He attended Paris Fashion Week 2012 recently. Front row, baby!
• I don't have bias. But I feel like my heart loves TOP so much lol. GD&TOP collaboration is daebak (this is a sub-unit). GD&TOP Vol. 1 is a masterpiece, love ALL the tracks! And I'm begging for Vol. 2, please T_T
• Reliable international fansite: bigbangupdates :)
• I'm in dilemma. I already purchased a Big Bang concert tix in Jakarta on Oct 13 but I have midterm test on Oct 15 T_T (Roberta, Ave, gimana ini!!!!)
• Taeyang = forever mohawk.
• Daesung is known as smiling angel. He used to be called ugly but NEH. His smile is precious.
• Their fans are called VIP!!!
• The rappers are GD and TOP, the rest of them are vocalists (although sometimes Taeyang raps too). TOP is also an actor and currently he's filming his new movie: Alumni!
• Seungri is the most fluent Japanese speaker *proud proud proud*. And currently he's busy filming in Japan, ALONE :D

Kira-kira begitu deh hahahah :D Terakhir... Inilah list lagu Big Bang terfavorit gue, in random order:

1. Blue

2. Lies

3. Haru Haru

4. Tonight

5. Fantastic Baby

6. My Heaven

7. Baby Goodnight

8. High High

9. Still Alive (DAEBAK!!!!!!)

10. Monster

Gituuuuuuuuuu deh. Bye bye!