Most of my obsessions have a central and main theme...ASIANS! Although, if you really know me, you'll already have this figured out.
SECTION ABOUT JPOP:
This is pretty much how my love for Asians exploded. (i credit the start to anime/manga because of my best friend, but i don't know much about that cause i didn't stick around. There is still a like for it though.)
There's a little (not so lil actually) entertainment company in Japan called Johnny's Entertainment. I know quite a bit about this whole umbrella of talented males. Yes, it is an agency for only male talent, but that's ok, we all love cute boy bands, right? I know i do. There's so much that i want to say about JE that i think i should save it for another blog post altogether. Basically, this is the beginning of a beautiful obsession. Credited to my bestest friend in the world. We would randomly break into dances from different songs by bands in this, or actually sing parts of it. No one at school understood us. We were in our own lil world.
New song from my fav group, Tegomassu. (Actually a subgroup of a band called News)
-whoosh sound-
SECTION ABOUT KPOP:
Ok so this is my current main obsession. I can't get enough of them lovely Korean guys. No matter how much I love Japanese guys, i believe that Korean idols are hotter in a more manly way, Jpop guys are feminine, but i digress. So my first Kpop love was a group called DongBangShinKi aka DBSK/THSK/TVXQ (kpop,jpop,cpop version of name). My friends and i loved them dearly. My best friend even bought a DVD of their 3rd album so it had music videos and behind the scenes. We would often watch it and dance to the videos like how they were. (we even picked who we wanted to be, basically our fav member.) Remembering all this makes me sad now. You wanna know why? Well im telling you anyway...THEY SPLIT UP!! Dx Our world ended when this happened. 3/5 memebers felt that their company was not paying them enough or exploiting them or something. Did you know that they had the biggest fan base in the WORLD? The fan group was called Cassiopia and had like 800,000+ members But no, they had to go and break everyone's hearts and split into two groups, JYJ (an acronym of members Jaejung aka Hero, Yunchun aka Mickey, and Junsu aka Xiah) and then the remaining members (Changmin aka Max and Yunho aka Uknow) still under the same entertainment agency kept the name TVXQ (which i don't believe is right ><). All this is very heartbreaking. They were all so close especially watching them on behind the scenes and extra things. Why would they just break up like that??? Dx and i digress...
Now, I'm a fan of lots of other kpop bands. Like BigBang (my fav), Shinee, 2NE1, Supior Junior (was actually a fan around the same time as DBSK), 2pm, 2am, SS501, Girls Generation (SNSD).
Here's the comeback video for my fav band BigBang. They were apart for solo activites:
I would say Chinese pop, but specifically they are from Taiwan. I actually only got into TWpop through TWdramas. I can actually say that the music in Taiwan dramas impacted me more than Jdoramas (unless it was an artist that i loved). I found the music to just jump right out at me and say "Look at me!! I'm cute and happy!!" or "OMG im so gonna give you chills and make you cry even though you have no idea what I'm saying unless you look at the subs." It happens. But, yeah. So most of the TW artists i know or songs that i have on my Zune are from the dramas i've seen. (If you are confused on what a drama is, see next section.)
I had knew of some TW/C artists before, like JJLin or Golf and Mike (which G&M are a taiwan branch of JE and collabed with Yamapi to form Kitty GYM for a promotion to women's volleyball tournament). Anyway, artists i like now are Farenheit, S.H.E., Nicholas Teo, Rainie Yang, Cyndi Wang, Vaness Wu
(was part of group called F4).
Here's a song that i really love by Rainie Yang that was on my most favorite drama ever:
IM OBSESSED WITH ASIAN DRAMAS!!!!! That's all you really need to know for now.
Well basically dramas are Asian tv shows that usually only last one season. But that's how it's supposed to be. Depending on where the drama is from and how big the story line is determines the number of episodes. It can be somewhere between 11-20 something. Sometimes, dramas will get a second season or a movie. I will blog more about dramas some other time. TMI for right now!
SECTION ABOUT YOUTUBE:
I think the first Asian youtuber that I watched or was interested in was KevJumba. I didn't really stick with him at first, but I knew about him. Next, was probably Nighiga. I was shown these youtubers through online friends from a social networking site...for Asians. lol. No, I didn't pose as an Asian. They let me join cause i had a strong interest in Asian things. I am still friends with a few of the people i met on there. Anyway, just by that, it exploded into a LOT of Asian youtubers. They came out of know where and i started to subscribing to all of them. A few i found through other Asian youtubers collabing. But a lot I found on my own. Then the most amazing thing happened, THEY ALL STARTED COLLABORATING WITH EACH OTHER!! My world got happier. So now there's this Asian Movement on Youtube and they all help each other with videos and what not and it's so much fun. I feel so connected to them even though I've never met any of them. Just watching them vlog and post random vids and skits and such, i feel i know them personally. I even call them all by their real names now, insted of their youtube screen names. I follow them on Facebook, twitter, blogtv, youtube, tumblr, and their own websites and blogs. Now I shall list them in a long list: Wong Fu Productions, Nigahiga, KevJumba, Community Channel, Bubzbeauty/Bubbiosity, Shimmycocopuffs, David Choi, Aj Rafeal, Mychonny, ...and then dance crews came into the mix somewhere along the way Quest Crew, Marvelous Motion/ I.aM.mE. I may be forgetting someone, but oh well. You got the idea. Here is a GREAT collab that a few did with Smosh as well and it was a medium film, insted of short film.
In the words of FarEast Movement:
LIVE FREE STAY WIRED!
~Laila
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