Ranting
Heard that TVXQ is releasing a special album celebrating their 10th anniversary. Heard also that some old songs would be re-recorded. If this is true (esp. the latter) then I don't really know how to feel about this.
If people have been following my fic "Memoria da Ieri", you guys would notice a big theme there is about forget/being forgotten, and one thing I wrote in Junsu's words was that the cruelest thing to do sometimes is not to kill someone, but to make that someone forgotten, to erase the memories about them like they have never existed.
Now I do certainly feel sometimes that they, SM chiefly, really tries so hard to erase the fact that Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu used to be part of TVXQ. Whenever they talk about TVXQ's achievements, all sounds just like Yunho and Changmin have built everything up as a duo. Which, I think, while I love the duo too, is rather shameless and terrible. Oh but we all know that SM is shameless and terrible don't we? Just that, sometimes, I'm still surprised by the level of thick-faced-ness that they show.
Changmin is my bias and I'm just so in love with his personality (or, at least, the personality he chooses to show). That is why I feel very thankful for the rest of DBSK5, especially JYJ, for bringing my attention to the group as a whole so I could know about Changmin the individual, one part of DBSK. Because I do care a lot what kind of music I listen to, as you guys could probably tell from my fics and all, had DBSK5 been sucky at singing I'd never have looked at them the second time! But luckily we know that's not true. DBSK5 was (how sad to use the past tense!) amazing at singing and dancing, and they had the amazing personalities for the "idol" component. (As, idol is like, you care about their personalities and their images too, apart from their specialties - but to me images can never replace talent.) It feels awkward whenever SM or Avex talks about TVXQ in ways meant to mislead people who don't know into thinking TVXQ has always consisted of only 2 and their successes have been only by the 2. It is just terrible.
And let's not even go about what they actively do to make sure JYJ can't promote. I have heard people arguing that this kind of bully behavior is just as expected from a capitalist market, in which you can do everything to crush your opponents (sad thing number 2: now JYJ and TVXQ2 are opponents!) in the market, and money and power would achieve everything. But as a student of Economics I would heartily cry out a big NO. No no no no no and NO! The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the people with abilities and talent will be rewarded, as the market works in a way that is naturally fair without any intervention or regulation from anyone. That is why behavior of the kind SM demonstrates just cannot be tolerated! It's just abusing power to pervert the market, to deprive the general market of good stuff, and I find it horrible.
With all the ugly things going around the idealized idol world, I guess I will not be able to like any idol anymore, after DBSK/TVXQ. I will just make do with the world about them I create in my fanfictions.
If people have been following my fic "Memoria da Ieri", you guys would notice a big theme there is about forget/being forgotten, and one thing I wrote in Junsu's words was that the cruelest thing to do sometimes is not to kill someone, but to make that someone forgotten, to erase the memories about them like they have never existed.
Now I do certainly feel sometimes that they, SM chiefly, really tries so hard to erase the fact that Jaejoong, Yoochun, and Junsu used to be part of TVXQ. Whenever they talk about TVXQ's achievements, all sounds just like Yunho and Changmin have built everything up as a duo. Which, I think, while I love the duo too, is rather shameless and terrible. Oh but we all know that SM is shameless and terrible don't we? Just that, sometimes, I'm still surprised by the level of thick-faced-ness that they show.
Changmin is my bias and I'm just so in love with his personality (or, at least, the personality he chooses to show). That is why I feel very thankful for the rest of DBSK5, especially JYJ, for bringing my attention to the group as a whole so I could know about Changmin the individual, one part of DBSK. Because I do care a lot what kind of music I listen to, as you guys could probably tell from my fics and all, had DBSK5 been sucky at singing I'd never have looked at them the second time! But luckily we know that's not true. DBSK5 was (how sad to use the past tense!) amazing at singing and dancing, and they had the amazing personalities for the "idol" component. (As, idol is like, you care about their personalities and their images too, apart from their specialties - but to me images can never replace talent.) It feels awkward whenever SM or Avex talks about TVXQ in ways meant to mislead people who don't know into thinking TVXQ has always consisted of only 2 and their successes have been only by the 2. It is just terrible.
And let's not even go about what they actively do to make sure JYJ can't promote. I have heard people arguing that this kind of bully behavior is just as expected from a capitalist market, in which you can do everything to crush your opponents (sad thing number 2: now JYJ and TVXQ2 are opponents!) in the market, and money and power would achieve everything. But as a student of Economics I would heartily cry out a big NO. No no no no no and NO! The beautiful thing about capitalism is that the people with abilities and talent will be rewarded, as the market works in a way that is naturally fair without any intervention or regulation from anyone. That is why behavior of the kind SM demonstrates just cannot be tolerated! It's just abusing power to pervert the market, to deprive the general market of good stuff, and I find it horrible.
With all the ugly things going around the idealized idol world, I guess I will not be able to like any idol anymore, after DBSK/TVXQ. I will just make do with the world about them I create in my fanfictions.