HOLY SHIT GUYS?!?

Hyoyeon will be joining MBC’s “Dancing With the Stars Season 2″, which will be airing on April 27th. An MBC staff member stated, “After confirming her participation, Hyoyeon has been busy practicing. You will get to see a new side of Hyoyeon ( Read more... )

3-hour Mechaike SNSD special

OH SHI--

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This is either going to be the usual amounts of epic Okamura, or it will be so disappointing I never watch SNSD in J-variety ever again.

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Appearances for David Letterman(!!!!) and Live! With Kelly set for Jan 31 and Feb 1 respectively ( Read more... )

Numerous world-famous musicians have participated in SNSD’s first U.S. single project, including Snoop Dogg.

I don't know how to feel about this o_o. (Article here on AKP)

[ETA] Listened to the Snoop remix and the first thing that came to my mind was, "Well, that was pointless." -_-; SM, you're transparency (re: just wanna get more money 8D!) ( Read more... )

For all of the "Kpop did a better job at using social media than Jpop," AKB48 just announced that they and Aki-P will be on Google+. "Streaming lives" was heard during the press conference.
http://www.google.com/intl/ja/+/project48/

ACCHAN HAD A HANGOUT EARLIER TODAY OMG ( Read more... )

The ಠ_ಠ:

1. Mr. Taxi is the follow-up single

2. Seoulbeats writers have no idea what the fuck they're talking about 90% of the time and pretty much every article suffers from really bad Did Not Do The Research.

Not so much ಠ_ಠ as wtfbbq!?

SM to make an idol drama, following in the steps of the AKB48 anime.And now onto the good: MAMA! Last year ( Read more... )

EDIT: I couldn't help myself. The SnF/VitaSong similarities were too strong, and I already had the video editor open from Epic SNSD. Plus even a little bonus analysis at the bottom.

Tracklist;

1 THE BOYS ._.'
2 텔레파시(TELEPATHY)
3 SAY YES
4 TRICK Well, well, SM
5 봄날 (HOW GREAT IS YOUR LOVE) XD
6 MY J Words cannot describe how hard it was for ( Read more... )

I know we roll our eyes at allkpop (a lot), but they're good for breaking news, even if omona beats them sometimes: www.allkpop.com/2011/01/karas-seungyeon-nicole-hara-jiyoung-to-split-from-dsp-media

A bid to renegotiate their contracts was my first guess, but the wording of their statement seems to go against it--look at the ending sentences of all ( Read more... )

Melon Music Awards Round-up

Red carpet photos SNSD-only
Red carpet photos everyone
Boobtastic! Seriously! Most everyone's got lowcut outfits, and those that don't have skintight tops. HYOTAE CLEAVAGE XDDDDD And Sunny well, is Sunny. Yuri is in fetish leather, o_O Sooyoung is in pants fuck yes! Wasted Seo and Jessica boobage potential, but Jessica was ( Read more... )

I'm so behind on news, but I was talking to CP and I have some simple questions. "Genie," as much as I love it, is an interesting choice to port over to the Japanese market. I mean, this single was SNSD's leap into the "mature" image, the contrast they deliberately provided against their super power sugar pop hit "Love Machine""Gee," which was so ( Read more... )