K-Pop Christmas Music :)

Annyeong!

For this blog, since we're nearing Christmas and we're in the holiday season, I decided to talk about some of the K-Pop Christmas music that's been coming out lately. I'll just go one by one and put the track names and the album cover.

First we have EXO's Christmas album, Miracles in December.

1. Miracles in December (12월의 기적)
2. Christmas Day
3. The Star
4. My Turn to Cry
5. The First Snow (첫 눈)
6. Miracles in December (12월의 기적) - Classical Orchestra Version 

They put up a music video for Miracles in December and it's really good so I'd check it out :)

Next we have Crayon Pop who released a Christmas single called Lonely Christmas. It sounds kinda sad but it's actually really upbeat and catchy so you should go search that one too!

SMTown came out with a Christmas Album in 2011 featuring a bunch of groups and artists from their label such as SHINee, Super Junior, and Girls' Generation. 

1. Santa U Are the One - Super Junior with Henry and Zhou Mi
2. Sleigh Ride - TVXQ
3. Distance - BoA
4. Last Christmas - SHINee
5. Diamond - Girls' Generation 
6. For the First Time - Kangta
7. Like a Dream - TRAX
8. The First Noel - Zhang Liyin
9. 1, 2, 3 - f(x)
10. Amazing - The Grace (Dana and Sunday)
11. Happy Xmas (War is Over) - J-Min

There are a bunch of K-Pop groups that come out with Christmas singles and I'll just list the track names below :)

• Infinite - Lately (White Confession)
• 2PM - Only U (Winter Remix)
• 4Minute - Jingle, Jingle
• BEAST - Let it Snow
• A.Pink - My My
• Boyfriend - I'll Be There
• MBLAQ - White Forever

I hope you enjoy the songs I put in this blog :) Feel free to comment any songs that I missed that you like and you think other will like also! Thanks for reading.
Here are some links to some of the songs.
EXO - Miracles in December MV (Korean Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLxRXoLaas
Infinite - Lately (White Confession)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1VvRnNYnww
4Minute - Jingle, Jingle MV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rET24WLL89Y

Annyeong!

EXO!!

Annyeong!!!

For this blog, I'm going to talk to you about each member in EXO and what the whole group is about, so sit back and enjoy the ride :) EXO is a group of twelve members that are divided in half as EXO-K and EXO-M where the "K" stands for Korean and the "M" stands for Mandarin.

EXO-K sings songs with Korean lyrics while EXO-M sings the same exact song but in Mandarin. One of their concepts gave each of them super powers so I'll tell you those too.

So now I'm just gonna through all of EXO one by one and just give you some info on each of them :)

Stage Name: Suho
Birth Name: Kim Joon Myeon
Date of Birth: May 22, 1991
Height: 173 cm
Position: Leader and main vocalist
Superpower: Water
Fun Fact: His favorite movie is Pirates of the Caribbean



Stage Name: Kai
Birth Name: Kim Jong In
Date of Birth: January 14, 1994
Height: 182 cm
Position: Main dancer, lead rapper, and vocalist
Superpower: Teleportation
Fun Fact: He is friends with Taemin from SHINee













Stage Name: Baekhyun
Birth Name: Byun Baek Hyun
Date of Birth: May 6, 1992
Height: 174 cm
Position: Main vocalist
Superpower: Light (Sun)
Fun Fact: His nickname is Bacon

Stage Name: Chanyeol
Birth Name: Park Chan Yeol
Date of Birth: November 27, 1992
Height: 185 cm
Position: Main rapper and vocalist
Superpower: Fire (Phoenix)
Fun Fact: He was in SNSD's music video Genie

Stage Name: Sehun
Birth Name: Oh Se Hun
Date of Birth: April 12, 1994
Height: 181 cm
Position: Lead dancer, rapper, and sub-vocalist
Superpower: Wind
Fun Fact: He likes acting

Stage Name: D.O.
Birth Name: Do Kyung Soo
Date of Birth: January 12, 1993
Height: 173 cm
Position: Main vocalist
Superpower: Earth (Beast)
Fun Fact: He also wants to be a chef and cooks for the other members

That was all of the EXO-K members and now here are all the EXO-M members.

Stage Name: Kris
Birth Name: Wu Fan
Date of Birth: November 6, 1990
Height: 187 cm
Position: Leader, main rapper, and sub-vocalist
Superpower: Flight (Dragon)
Fun Fact: He was born and raised in Canada

Stage Name: Xiumin
Birth Name: Kim Min Seok
Date of Birth: March 26, 1990
Height: 173 cm
Position: Lead vocalist and lead dancer
Superpower: Frost (Snowflake)
Fun Fact: He is Korean but he is a part of EXO-M

Stage Name: Luhan
Birth Name: Lu Han
Date of Birth: April 20, 1990
Height: 178 cm
Position: Lead vocalist and lead dancer
Superpower: Telekinesis
Fun Fact: He likes to play soccer and use the rubix cube

Stage Name: Chen
Birth Name: Kim Jong Dae
Date of Birth: September 21, 1992
Height: 173 cm
Position: Main vocalist
Superpower: Lightning (Scorpion)
Fun Fact: He is very good at playing the piano

Stage Name: Lay
Birth Name: Zhang Yi Xing
Date of Birth: October 7, 1991
Height: 177 cm
Position: Main dancer and vocalist
Superpower: Healing (Unicorn)
Fun Fact: He danced with SHINee on their The Misconceptions of Me tour due to Jonghyun being injured

Stage Name: Tao
Birth Name: Huang Zi Tao
Date of Birth: May 2, 1993
Height: 183 cm
Position: Lead rapper and vocalist
Superpower: Time control (Hourglass)
Fun Fact: His nickname is Kung Fu Panda because he is good at martial arts 

Well, that's all the members :) I hope it was helpful! Check out this sweet remix of their song Growl too :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbeDH9hIaPs
Annyeong!

Favorite Girl Groups and Biases

Annyeong! :)

So last time I posted about my guy group biases, and I COMPLETELY blanked and forgot to talk about INFINITE!!!!!! I love them so much haha :) The members are Sunggyu, Hoya, Dongwoo, Sung Jong, L, Woo-Hyun and Sungyeol. My bias from Infinite is between Sunggyu, Dongwoo and Sung Jong... I guess I'd have to go with Dongwoo cuz he is just so freaking hilarious and he has a really unique style. Plus he has the coolest hair :)

So I guess we're on to girl groups! There are definitely a few groups who I REALLY like but it's definitely going to be difficult for me to choose biases. Well, let's get to it!

First we have Sistar. I was introduced to Sistar through my South Korean friend Jake, and since then I've become obsessed with their music. Sistar only has four members, Hyolyn, Bora, Dasom, and Soyu. (There are other spellings so don't kill me, but these are the ones I've seen the most.) Actually, my bias for Sistar is pretty easy to decide. It's DEFINITELY Bora :D She is so beautiful, funny, nice, and she's a really good female rapper.

Another one of my favorite girl groups is Nine Muses :D They have a TON of members and I feel like I'm gonna butcher their names so I'll just tell you my bias, Kyungri <3 She is definitely my celebrity crush lol. Her picture speaks for itself so I'll just show you.

The last girl group I'll talk about is Orange Caramel. They're a sub-group of After School and the members are Nana, Lizzy, and Raina. My bias for Orange Caramel is definitely Nana :) She is super nice and pretty and funny and I've just always liked her voice and personality the most. 

Well that's it for this post :) Thanks for reading!

Favorite Boy Groups and Biases

Hello again :)

It's been a while since I posted so I decided to talk about guy groups. I could talk about this topic for a VERY long time so I'm just gonna go over my most favorite boy groups and my bias for each group.

So first we have SHINee. Now, I LOVE SHINee. All of their music is so unique and cool and awesome and I could listen to it all day. There's Onew, Taemin, Key, Minho, and Jonghyun, but my bias is Taemin :) First of all, he is a GREAT singer which is always good, but he's also really funny, handsome XD, and I just seem to like him the most out of all the members.

Next we have Teen Top. Now as you most likely already know, Teen Top is my FAVORITE K-Pop group of them all. The members, if you don't remember, are C.A.P, Chunji, L. Joe, Niel, Ricky, and Changjo. The problem here, is that I love all the members soooooo much so it's pretty darn difficult to choose a bias. If I had to choose though, I think I'd go with L. Joe. He's freaking hilarious, his rapping voice is super cool, he's handsome in his own kind of way, and he's a Christian which is pretty dang awesome in my opinion. So yeah, I'd go with L. Joe.

I'll go over two more groups, so the next one is VIXX. VIXX uses a variety of genres and styles in their music, and all their members have really cool and likeable personalities which I why I really like them. Oh, and of course their voices are really good too :) Their members, as I mentioned in my first post, are Ravi, N, Hongbin, Leo, Hyuk, and Ken. I have two favorite members, Hyuk and Leo, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with Hyuk as my bias. Hyuk is the youngest of the group and has such a fun, yet shy personality about him. When I watched the group form, Hyuk was definitely my favorite because he seemed like the underdog but he made it into the group and he's doing so well :) I guess you could say that I'm proud of him.

The last group I'll talk about is EXO. Now EXO is a very large group of twelve members, but they are divided into two different groups, EXO-K and EXO-M. EXO-K sings their songs in Korean while EXO-M sings in Mandarin. I decided that I can't give you one bias from the entire group of twelve, so instead I'll give you one from both EXO-K and EXO-M. For EXO-K, my bias would most definitely have to be Chanyeol. He is soooooooooooooo awesome!!! Plus I've seen EXO on this Korean show Weekly Idol two times and both times Chanyeol has made me laugh the most and his personality is just really likeable. Out of every K-Pop idol, I would definitely want to be friends with him :) My bias for EXO-M would probably fall between Xiumin and Chen. Xiumin is a bit more reserved than Chen but both of them are really cool and have different things I like about each of them so it's hard for me to choose. I guess I'd have to go with Chen just because he matches my personality a little bit more and I feel like we would have a lot of fun together :)        

Take a Leap

Hey guys and gals,

I really feel inspired to write another post for those who haven't listened to K-Pop and maybe who have an interest or don't in listening to it. Know this, I do not, by no means, want to force you to listen to it. I personally LOVE K-Pop as you probably know by now, but it's not for everyone so don't feel pressured to listen to K-Pop after reading this blog post. I would, however, encourage you to give it a go, listen to a few different songs by different groups, and just be open-minded.

Here are a bunch of my favorite K-Pop groups that you can search on YouTube or google. You'll find tons of different songs, so listen to them!

Groups:

• Infinite
• Teen Top
• SHINee
• Big Bang
• B.A.P
• 2AM
• 2PM
• BEAST or B2ST
• B1A4
• Girl's Generation
• 2NE1
• C-Clown
• U-Kiss
• VIXX

So yeah, go check some of those guys out :)
Signing off,
Jonathan

TEEN TOP!!! :D

Annyeong!

As you can see in the title, this post is pretty much gonna revolve around my FAVORITE K-pop group, Teen Top. The group consists of six members: C.A.P, Chunji, L. Joe, Niel, Ricky, and Changjo.

I was actually only introduced to Teen Top not even a year ago. My good friend Luke showed me their song, Miss Right, which is a VERY catchy song. After hearing that one song and loving it soooooo much, I just had to check out their other music. Little did I know that I would be hooked and have over 20 songs by them on my ipod. I could try to tell you my favorite song by them, but it's just way too hard. There's "Never Go Back", "To You", and "Be Ma Girl", which are my absolute favorites along with so many others. They also made a comeback not too long ago called Teen Top Class and the songs on it are really awesome so go and support that too! There's not much else to say but please check them out :) They really deserve it! Now I'm just gonna go through each member one by one so here goes!

Stage Name: C.A.P
Birth Name: Bang Min Soo
Date of Birth: November 4, 1992
Height: 178 cm
Position: Leader and main rapper
Fun Fact: He likes to compose his own raps and he enjoys drawing

Stage Name: Chunji
Birth Name: Lee Chan Hee
Date of Birth: October 5, 1993
Height: 173 cm
Position: Lead vocalist
Fun Fact: Loves to do puzzles whenever he has free time

Stage Name: L.Joe
Birth Name: Lee Byung Hun
Date of Birth: November 23, 1993
Height: 171 cm
Position: Lead rapper
Fun Fact: He is the most fluent in English out of the group

Stage Name: Niel
Birth Name: Ahn Daniel
Date of Birth: August 16, 1994
Height: 178 cm
Position: Main vocalist
Fun Fact: He loves playing soccer and he also is very good at acting

Stage Name: Ricky
Birth Name: Yoo Chang Hyun
Date of Birth: February 27, 1995
Height: 172 cm
Position: Vocalist and lead dancer
Fun Fact: He's good at piano playing and acting

Stage Name: Changjo
Birth Name: Choi Jong Hyun
Date of Birth: November 16, 1995
Height: 179 cm
Position: Main dancer and vocalist
Fun Fact: He was trained in self defense

Well, that's Teen Top for you! I really hope you enjoyed reading this and hopefully getting to know them a little bit better :) Until next time!

Jonathan

Don't Know About K-pop?

Hey,
If you're reading this, you most likely happened to just randomly stumble upon it and you might not even know what it is. It's a blog ONLY about K-pop, and if you don't know what that is, well, you're in trouble. I'm not really here to educate you, because I really just want to do reviews and tell you about my favorite groups and singers, but I guess if you really don't know I can give a brief explanation. K-pop is, if you can't tell, Korean pop music. It's, in my opinion, soooooooooooooooo much better than our dumb-downed, sexualized, and ultimately boring American pop music. I'm not say all American music is like that, don't get me wrong, I'm just saying that most of it is not, by any means, going in the right direction. Anyways, back to K-pop.

There are TONS of different groups, sub-groups, and single artists, that go into training for years til their debut. For example, I recently watched the formation of one of my favorite K-pop groups, VIXX. It was televised on a show called Mydol, where ten guys trained together until they were reduced to six guys: Ravi, Ken, Leo, N, Hyuk, and Hongbin. N is the leader and main choreographer and dancer. Leo and Ken are the main vocals, Hyuk and Hongbin are backup vocals I guess you could say, and Ravi is the rapper. See? Different from American groups. I hope that was a good enough explanation...

I think that's all I really want to put in this blog. It was a nice introduction so I think we're good.
Signing off,

Jonathan