Fuck no, after doing all of the excel work to make this I ain't wrassling with html to reconstruct the table here. The very thought of it makes me shudder horribly.

So...many...numbers....
Now I'll have nightmares about this somehow gaining enough notoriety to come to SNSD's attention and Jeti seeing my lovely Whore Ranking joke. :P

( Half-assed analysis made while drunk on insomnia )

If you haven't read the previous posts in this series, do read them in the following order!
Part Ia | Part Ib | Part IIa | Part IIb | Part III
Disbandment

( The Curtain Falls )

This is part of a series of posts, so I'd recommend that you read this in the following order:
Part Ia | Part Ib | Part IIa | Part IIb

( Side by Side by Soshi )

Life As An Idol Group
ETA: Changed the video for 'On How To Be Lovely", thanks AG!

This is part of a series of posts, so please read these posts first if you already haven't! Part Ia | Part Ib

( A Chorus Nine )

( Showtunes Shidae Part 1b: Runaway Leader, Putting It Together and Debut Showcase )

Gentlemen Prefer Soshi: Girls’ Generation Gaieties of 2010

AG started the ball rolling, and here I am with an alternative revue song-list! The title, in case you wanted to know, is from a Rodgers and Hart revue series called The Garrick Gaieties of "insert year", and staged annually from the late 1920s to early 1930s. I formally declare that the ( Read more... )

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I've been thinking about this since SBS Gayo Daejun. It was the first time the approach in gendering stages and performances really hit me because there were comments at the time about which of the "change" stages people enjoyed more: the girls covering guys' songs or the guys covering girls' songs.

( Boys and Girls weren't created equal? Or, gender issues are close to my heart. )

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As the girls have their too-short break, it's nice to look back at some of their earlier performances. I was going to start on a massive rolling review of the vocalist rankings, but let's go back to our roots, shall we, when Girls' Generation was still singing, well, Girls' Generation.

( or why Sooyoung got vocally gypped by debuting with SNSD )

Not the grand ultra-meta debut post, but I figured that since the purpose of this comm was to cut down on off-topic comments by making them their own posts, here's some interesting stuff I found.

( Hey, this is like a subheading... )