| TVXQ: KYHD Review |

Gotta give it to the "HoMin"

Love the beats and their voices. Changmin is rocking his cords. 

My favorite track is Maximum. 

Got it as my text messaging ringtone. 

It starts out as traditional asian sound and becomes modern beat, very catchy!

Of course title track Keep Your Head Down is very powerful.

Other tracks are all upbeat, a bit groovy feel to them, 

I enjoy that, its not snoozy, keeps your foot tapping to the beat. 

I think it was done since Yunho is a rapper, so slowness isnt his best thing.

Lets got onto the packaging design. 

I purchased normal version without any posters. 

My walls hold my paintings, so I'm not interested in posters.

If you enjoy posters you can defiantly order them.

The packaging is the size of a regular CD case but out of sturdy paper.

Nice photobook is inside attached to one side. 

You get either Changmin or Yunho "autographed" card. 

I got Yunho. It's small but a nice touch.

Overall great music, wish it wasnt just two of them.

It's worth your money.

Purchase best from YesAsia.com

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| JYJ: Jaejoong Ramble ㅋ |

Having spent couple days in NYC this past November I have come to realization. 

No picture nor drawing nor painting could ever capture how Jaejoong looks like. 

I personally have drawn and painted his portraits before. 

I've also browsed DA, no one has ever captured how he really looks like. 

Im not even sure how to explain it, 

but if you have met him you'd know what I'm talking about. 

Especially when he had his golden hair, that was just surreal.

He'd hate to hear me say this in person so dont tell anyone, 

He looks like a doll.

(Too perfect)

Right now with black hair he looks at least like a human being ㅋㅋㅋ. 

All that said, he is one of the idols I admire and look up to.

I wish to Congratulate him and JYJ with their release of Music Essay!

I love love love it :)

Jiji also makes a special appearance in it! Very cute.

I am curious to see the Reality Show air, 

I know Jaejoong and the boys of JYJ will be making a lot of fans super duper happy.

Now, don't stress or overwork yourself too much, 

I know you can be a bit of hard worker. 

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| JYJ NYC concert breakdown! |

JYJ US TOUR NYC ticket seating confusion has began today. 

Here's a quick little guide to give you and idea on what is what.

The BREAKDOWN: 

Price Range 218.15 -166.99

ALL TICKET ARE GENERAL ADMISSION = GA 

No VIPs =[ 

 
3 types of seating:

Floor= first come first serve (aka start lining up as early as u can) 

Balcony = this one is a fishy one, i'm not possitive but this one could also be first come first serve, although its 50/50 could be assigned seating. 

BOX = assigned seating

The FLOOR seats can be the best ones and the worse, there will be no chairs to sit in, everyone is going to be in a mass group squeezed into the floor space. 

When you get your ticket which is about 167, it'll give you a seat number and such, ignore it, there are NO SEATS.

The BALCONY seating....it gives you seating number and row and such but I'm not sure if you actually sit in that specific seat or you get to move around at your will. BALC2 would be 2nd level balcony, BALC1 first level balcony.

The BOX seats are the most expensive ones, they are 218. NO, they are NOT VIP.  those are the box seats on the sides. You get the box either WBOX or EBOX (west/east) with a number at the end of it 1-3 depending on the level you're sitting at. and then there's a row and a seat, that seat is yours.

Ex. ebox1 row 1 seat 12       

it would be the east one, first level, row 1 and your seat 12.

 

Hope I helped you out,  SHARE THIS INFO!!!! (if direct repost dont forget credit~~)

UPDATE 12.02.10
ALL THREE concerts ended up being FREE. 
Sitting was first come first got the closest to the stage. 
Although, the people with already purchased tickets were let inside before ticketless fans. 
And within the already purchased ticket fans the ones with BOX tickets were let in first. 
ALL money for the tickets purchased were returned to the fans.
Why you ask JYJ held it free? We'll I suggest you go browse google or allkpop (they broke the news)
Yes, I was there for the NYC showcase with BOX seat ticket. 
@hope_slimzees

| JYJ the Beggining is sweeping the world ! |

JYJ, Jaejoong Younchoon, Junsu, my lovely boys from formal DBSK...(too sad to go into this topic)

Has released their first trio global album called the "Beginning". 

All songs are in English, my fav is Be The One, its been on repeat for hours on when it was released. 

(Okay its still is)

Very much loving their comeback to the music industry. 

We all know JYJ has been having major legal issues with SM and Avex, but putting that aside we got this new album released for us!

The trio is currently having concerts in various Asian countries with tickets SOLD OUT, as expected. 

They ARE coming to US....now the question is how the heck can you get lucky and get a ticket? 

HA! That's a good one! 

Their tickets are known to be sold out in full within ten-fifteen minutes of release, with major shutdowns of ticketing site due to overload...

Not to mention people going bazookas and planning airline tickets and hotel to travel all the way to concert cities. (They are nuts) 

So, good luck to you guys if you're even hoped to get one precious ticket. 

I suggest to youtube them, already HK concert is up on YouTube, pretty good stuff there =]

There's a newly added concert spot in US which is HAWAII!!! 

Take a vacation and see JYJ? A dream come true, you can die happy =]

Anyway, JYJ, you boys are making me proud, finally what I've been trying to tell the kpop industry has finally happened: Enter US. 

Great job for being first! 힘내!!

| 2NE1 |

The girls of 2NE1 has taken over kpop world this month. (and last!)

Their hip songs, catchy beats and aggressive dancing seizes the audience. 

2NE1 was constantly releasing new MVs for several songs from their 2nd album.

It got to the point where TV programs had to put restrictions on how many songs they were allowed to perform during that one program. (So other performers wouldn't be overshadowed)

Silly, but true, they had too many songs to promote all at one time. 

I believe it's a great tactic.

Capture the audience with variety of songs and dances instead of just one lead song from the album.

I loved it, I love the variety 2NE1 provides to us. 

Actually, the girls are very bold and feisty, in-your-face in the MVs. 

A bit raw-macho like, which is very different from the rest girl idol groups such as SNSD. 

I say YG Entertainment got some of the best recognized artists in the kpop and if I had to choose which agency to apply to I'd say go for YG. 

2NE1 is surprisingly a fairly new group in kpop, they debuted in spring of 2009; they are already as huge as Wonder Girls and Big Bang.

I can see the girls of 2NE1 revolutionize music industry, if they continue at this rate they might even beat the kings and queens of kpop such as DBSK, Big Bang and Wonder Girls. 

Support all the way~

| October BATTLE rising heat! |

Well what would you think if someone would inform you that SHINee, U-Kiss, 2PM, BoA, BEAST, JYJ, 2NE1 and several others including brand new rock band group LED APPLE would be out and about all in close proximity over lapping each other in their releases and promotions at the same time? I don't know about you, but my face expression was exactly like this ---->  O____O ! 

I say bring it on baby! Hells yessss!!!

That is what's happening right now, all the biggest idols of all Korea ARE releasing and promoting.

They are not letting the fans take a breather, which I dont mind, they want to keep our attention as close as possible. 

Now, is that smart to do looking from competition POV...well...kinda not really.

LED APPLE I think is crazy for having a release date when idols like 2PM & BEAST are also releasing their long awaited comeback albums.

The new babes of LED APPLE claim to be a rock band not an idols group...so they are technically going to compete with FT ISLAND and CN BLUE....good luck really, both Lee Hong Ki and Jung Yong Hwa are now out promoting their new releases and are doing very well.

This is a very hot hot hot month for idols groups, just look up music bank and all your favs will be there at the same time. 

Loving the comebacks and the best of luck to new babes~~ fighting!

| SHINee's UPDATE |

Their come back rocked our world.
The fact that SHINee boys rocked our world isn't a surpise, that was expected.
However, the way they rocked our world was the cherry.
Their new look perhaps changed our perspective about them to a very interesting angle.
With the teaser concept photos realese we were seeing the new SHINee, exciting, I have to admit.
Lucifer, is hit upon hits. The MV is edgy and gramatically done.
The SHINee boys have completely different looks to themselves. My fav, Key, got a very edgy-funky cut. He totally took it and worked it.
All the boys worked their looks, we got to see that clearly in the MV.
Minho has a different feeling about him. He looks more mature and his action are more confident.
Im loving their come back.
Nice job stylists !
Keep up the support fot the SHINee and get their new ALBUM!!!!!!!