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3 Differences between 'Gee' and 'Tell me your wish'
The popular 9 girl group SNSD released a mini album on the 29th, getting ready to seize command of the music world for the summer. SNSD has released their title song ‘tell me your wish’ on the 22nd online. Also, from the 26th to 28th, they have appeared on KBS 'Music Bank', MBC 'Music Core', and SBS 'Inkigayo', performing ‘Tell me your wish’ along with the choreography to the audience.
With the previous mini album and their title song ‘Gee’, they have set the unprecedented record of 9 consecutive weeks on the #1 spot for Music Bank, and was the most downloaded song for the first half of 2009. Album sales also exceeded 100k.
Thanks to the record-breaking performance of ‘Gee’, much attention is being paid for SNSD’s new album. We observed how SNSD is appealing to their fans with charms that are different than that of ‘Gee’.
Music ‘Tell me your wish’ is being appraised as a contemporary pop / dance song that is full of beat. Many comment that this song is well-suited for the passionate season of summer.
The fact that SM entertainment’s chief composer Yu Youngjin along with Yu Hanjin and European composer team ‘Dsign Music’ came together to create this one song has been the basis of good appraisal.
However, the song ‘Tell me your wish’ lacks the hook-style characteristics compared to ‘Gee’ which continuously repeated ‘gee gee gee gee’ and ‘baby baby’. This resulted in some fans pointing out that ‘Tell me your wish is ‘less addicting’ and ‘harder to grasp’.
Nevertheless, this ‘unnoticeable’ weakness does not pose a problem upon SNSD, as they are already experiencing explosive popularity for ‘Tell me your wish’ from its fans. Pre-sales of the new mini album has already reached 80k. Also, ‘Tell me your wish’ has sustained its top spot for most downloaded song for over a week since its release.
Choreography The main difference between Gee and Tell me your wish is that the movements in ‘Tell me your wish’ are bigger and broader. If the side-way walking ‘Crab leg dance’ was the capture point for ‘Gee’, then the capture point for ‘Tell me your wish’ is overall synchronization and balance.
The seductive arm & hand movements, broad leg movements, and flexible hip movements are placed throughout the song. The quick kicking motion of the leg is already being called ‘the shuttle-kicking dance’ and is gaining massive popularity.
These big movements in ‘Tell me your wish’ are being appraised as ‘refreshing’. Many fans agree that to enjoy this song to its maximum potential, one must watch the choreography while listening to the song.
Stage Costume During the comeback stage of SNSD at 'Music Bank', they wore Marine-style jackets with short hot pants. They changed the hot pants into mini-skirts during their performance at 'Inkigayo'. Overall, the fashion of SNSD is being appraised as ‘well suited for summer, refreshing but at the same time with intense sensation’.
These costumes indicate that SNSD have become more mature than when they were performing ‘Gee’. In fact, six of the nine members have celebrated their 21st birthday, which is the legal age in Korea.
Now, the concern is whether if SNSD will be able to reanimate the scorching storm of ‘Gee’ with ‘Tell me your wish’, equipped with new music style, choreography, and costume.
So Nyeo Shi Dae Jessica Scolding Seo Hyun? Credit: KBites
After the previous YoonA - Tiffany incident during their Music Core performance with ‘Etude’ pointing that YoonA has scolded Tiffany for not wearing safety shorts underneath, So Nyeo Shi Dae Jessica and Seo Hyun are Netizens’ next target?
This was also from Music core performance of ‘Etude’.
From a fancam, Jessica was seen supposedly calling to Seo Hyun, “Go away”. And then onlooking Sunny has responded with “What’s wrong with you?”
With that netizens have posted up discussion threads with titles like ‘Scary So Nyeo Shi Dae’ , ‘Jessica scolding Seo Hyun‘ up on the internet.
Netizens’ responses were, “It just seemed like she was scolding. You can’t say for sure”, “I would be irritated if someone walking in front of me while I am performing” etc
This came after the incident where YoonA was seen lifting Tiffany’s skirt on stage and supposedly scolding her for not wearing safety shorts.
The girls came up to explain about it on ChinChin Radio yesterday saying that YoonA had said, “You didn’t clip your skirt” instead of “You didn’t wear shorts?”. But YoonA mentioned that she should apologise for her act infront of so many people, and Tiffany had seemed a little embarrassed. But her intentions were coming from a worried friend alright.
Hopefully the incident clears up. And the netizens are really something spotting one thing after another. Here’s the girls’ live performance of ‘Because you love me’ on ChinChin radio.
Plagiarism issues with Genie Credit: Nikki @ asianfanatics.net
Meanwhile some fans of the song Genie has discovered the similarity between the song Tell Me Your Wish (Genie) and Raqsga tushgin by Dineyra.
Once again the SM is being accused of Plagiarizing my Korean Netizens. Whether or not they did, Dineyra's Music video is being attacked by Soshified with comment such as "SNSD's version is better". "SNSD can sing way better than her.." Ect.
--------------------------------------------- O.o They could have gotten the rights to do a cover of the song... it's not necessarily "plagiarizing".....
Source: Baidu + Nbbbs Translation: wyn0602 of CEFC
Jerry Yan Looking Happy, Ella Melancholy and Drunk
Even Ella who had the most MAN personality within S.H.E also had moments when she could not hold on any longer!
This magazine caught a picture of Ella, looking sad and melancholic, drunk heavily while having dinner with Jerry Yan, Xiao Xian and Michael Zhang. Furthermore, recently she had cried in secret due to great stress and even beating herself on the head while hiding in a car. In contract, Jerry Yan who had always been melancholic looked very happy. Obviously since his mood had improved greatly since he started to go the more approachable route.
Ever since filming for the drama [Down with Love] started, Ella with her heavy workload was so busy that she was close to exhaustion. Earlier, she got drunk while dining and drinking with the rest of the cast and had to be taken home by her sister who lived with her. As for the melancholy Jerry, not only was he able to hold his drinks much to everyone’s astonishment, he was smiling from beginning to end. The behavior of these two people was extremely contrasting.
Heavy Drinking during Dinner with Sake Bottles Strewn over the Table
On June 25th at about 10 pm, at the “Shi-er Shao” Restaurant located on Civic Blvd in Taipei, this magazine witnessed the cast and crew of [Down with Love] having drinks and dinner together, including Ella, Jerry Yan, Xiao Xian, Michael Zhang, Chen Zi-han, director Ke Yin-zheng and others. Ella, Jerry Yan and Xiao Xian sat closely to each other and were chatting throughout. The number of empty sake bottles on the table also piled up higher and higher as the dinner continued.
Around 11 pm, Ella went outside the restaurant to make a phone call and then went back in. In the early hours of June 26th, a totally drunk Ella staggered out the restaurant with the support of her sister who then drove her home. After Ella left, the rest of the group also followed Xiao Xian out of the restaurant. Jerry Yan first gave Michael Zhang a hug before patting his shoulder and saying goodbye. According to the owner of the restaurant, Ella’s group, once they got into the spirit of drinking, had ordered 30 to 40 bottles of sake. Jerry Yan was even seen commented with teary eyes that: [we are really like a family. I will put more time into this drama…]
Too Much Stress Led Ella to Hit Herself
Meanwhile Xiao Xian kept comforting Jerry Yan: [We really hope that you would be happy. As long as you are happy, we would be happy too.] Ella who really was not very good at holding her drinks yet still went around toasting everyone, even sentimentally expressed: [I hope this drama would never end!] Perhaps it was because of everyone’s encouragement that Jerry was very happy. The cast revealed that due to the earlier hectic shooting schedule, they were not able to celebrate Ella’s birthday properly. In addition, Director Ke had to take a three-day leave of absence, therefore they specially arranged for this dinner gathering. The cast were also aware that Ella was truly exhausted recently.
Through investigation, when Ella was shooting in mid-June, she had a touch of heat stroke due to the hot weather. Furthermore, she was also suffering from menstrual pain at the same time. As a result, she ended up hiding and crying in corner on the set. She had expressed her exhaustion in her blog entry “Today I Cried”. From understanding, Ella who had a reputation of being a “little sun” even hid in a car and beat herself on the head in order to relieve the stress that she was feeling.
The crew revealed that when Ella was shooting, not only she had to encourage the adults, she also had to cajole Xiao Xiao Bin who was distracted by the heat and forgot his lines. Normally, other than treating everyone to cold drinks, she even had to walk to the convenience store herself to buy cold noodles to replace the lunchbox that was hard to eat because of the heat. Furthermore, earlier she was also busy with the Macau concert, dance rehearsals for corporate performances, shooting the HEME facial product ad, MV and personally drawing sketches for the S.H.E new book [The 3 Spas of Love]. There was little wonder that even she with her strong will, would become totally drunk when she had the chance to relax in a dinner gathering.
As for Jerry Jan, his temper had been obviously improved since he started to shoot [Down with Love]. Other than having pretty good tacit understanding with the crew members who he had worked with before, it was also because of the bubbly Ella who would take the initiative to show care and to tease him. All that led Jerry who always worn a cold expression on the set before to slowly lower his defense to Ella. Not only he would joke around with the cast and crew, he would also go along with promotion gimmicks such as holding up Xiao S during the KangXi concert in Shanghai. Such behavior was the extreme opposite of what he had displayed in the past.
Ella’s management company expressed: [During the dinner gathering, Ella was not drunk. She was only too tired and wanted to sleep. Therefore, her sister who was living with her came to pick her up.] However, she noted that in S.H.E’s new book, there was a paragraph from Ella that truly could be a footnote to the “little sun” that she had personally drawn: [I am a little sun…but I don’t have as much energy, brilliance or heat as the real sun, I can’t address the world’s needs like the real sun and say yes to everyone’s requests.] This fully illustrated the sad side of her portraying the role of the bearer of happiness.
Note: Please credit wyn0602 of CEFC for translation of article and do not edit any parts of this article. Please quote this translated article (including this note) in its entirety. Thank you for your co-operation.
We have all known Lee Si Young for being one frank lady who always speaks her mind about everything and her fans love her for that. Well, that has to change now after her relationship with JunJin was made public not so long ago since she has lost an opportunity to headline a drama.
As we all know, Lee Si Young is in the movie Ogamdo, an anthology film based around the theme of eros, and she attended the premiere yesterday evening. But that will be the only time that Lee Si Young is promoting the movie as it was revealed that she will not be doing any promotions after that. This was a sharp contrast to earlier news that she would be actively involved, and that has puzzled many of her fans.
The original plan was for Lee Si Young to be actively involved in promoting Ogamdo, where she appears alongside Kim Dong Wook, Jung Eui Chul, Song Joong Ki, Sin Se Gyeong and Lee Sung Min in 1 of the five interconnected segments, Trust the Moment (provocative love) of the movie directed by Oh Ki Hwan. But after her relationship with JunJin was made public, she has become rather passive in front of the media and GnG Production also revealed that Si Young will not be promoting the movie.
The movie production company expressed that Lee Si Young has always showed a willingness to learn during the filming as she was still considered to be pretty much a newbie in the acting industry. But she has adopted a rather passive attitude in recent times and they are guessing that she is afraid that her frank nature during interviews would be misinterpreted by the media and subsequently blown up.
Lee Si Young has also declined all media interviews except for Korean movie website, Cine21. In addition, the reporter was reminded not to ask Lee Si Young anything about JunJin and just concentrate on asking about Lee Si Young's role in Ogamdo.
But it's not all gloom though as JunJin turned up at the movie premiere like he promised earlier, to hand flowers to Lee Si Young and give her encouragement.
JunJin actually did that in double quick time and surprised Si Young. Their 1st time in public together since revealing that they were a couple.
Virgina Lok's birthday party, TVB Fadan/Siu Sangs celebrate with her
TVB's "Everyone's Mom" executive Virigina Lok held a birthday party last night, many TVB's Fadans and Siu Sangs attended to celebrate with her. Attendees include: Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Michael Tse, Moses Chan, Fala Chen, Bernice Liu and Yoyo Mung, etc. The majority of the artists brought big and small bags of gifts in with them, seems like its more glamorous than TVB Anniversary.
Last night at the party, besides the Siu Sangs and Fadans, even the big movie star Anthony Wong attended.
TVB given up on Bernice Liu? TVB General Manager Stephen Chan arrived at the party and it has been rumored lately that TVB has given up on Bernice Liu, but despite that she was still was present last night. The birthday girl Virgina, Stephen and Bernice even took pictures together, definitely knows what to do, doesn't seem like there was anything wrong. Virgina also appeared excited, she expressed her birthday party was decided on short notice, the location was booked just that afternoon.
Charmaine Sheh secret gift and speaks in well behaved manner Mr. Lok spoke of her birthday wish, she hopes that her "children" (artists) could be happy and have a smooth career. This year, what gave her the most happiness was Raymond Lam opening his own concert and that Michael Tse was able to shoot his own movie. In the future, there will be many more projects to come, but will not reveal them just yet. Charmaine Sheh expressed that she gave a secret gift to Ms. Lok, that is from her heart, but not sure if the size is right for Ms. Lok. Charmaine also wished Ms. Lok a happy birthday, happiness and lots of rest in a well-behaved manner.
Derek Kwok iron head walks into glass door Besides all the good food prepared at the party, there were more than 40 bottles of whiskey. When Derek Kwok was leaving, he was drunk and walked into a glass door. He laughed and said that he's a person who martial arts and was practicing his kungfu iron head skills. === Other Notable Artists that attended: (Credit: Sehseh's blog) Nat Chan, Michael Miu, Fala Chen, Raymond Cho, Poon Kar Tak, Tommy Leung, Ron Ng, Pierre Ngo, Tracy Yip, Jason Chan, Yoyo Mung, Nancy Wu, Joel Chan, Matthew Ko, Oscar Leung, Michael Tse, Sunny Chan, Claire Yiu, etc. Other Interesting Facts: (Credit: Sehseh's blog) *Joe Ma brought a karaoke system from his home to the party. *Moses Chan cheekily requested for Raymond Lam to reprise his wet dancing from his concert. He also prepared some sexy dancers for Ray.
Anita Yuen complains that Chilam Cheung is not romantic enough
Anita Yuen and her husband Chilam Cheung admits that their good friend Christine Ng invited them for her 10 year wedding anniversary dinner. Anita praises Christine's awesome husband (Kasey Lin) because he's always romantic no matter what time it is, as opposed to Chilam who is not romantic enough. Turns out that Chilam and Anita have been married for 8 years already, seeing their good friend celebrate the 10th anniversary, makes her real happy. Anita is considering to throw a party to celebrate her wedding anniversary as well.
