So this isn’t a revival of ‘Wannabefob’s Playlist,’ as I have found that it’s actually hard to find new songs every week, as songs I like often stick for quite a while; it’s primarily just a (possible corner of Wannabefob) where I can pop up and say, ‘This song’s been on my mind for a while.’
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As I may or may not have shared, when I originally heard of Dream High, I was a bit skeptical about watching. All (practically all) idols? Meh. Idols are many times, wannabe triple-threats. We’ll see mediocre singing, rapping, dancing, and acting all thrown in together with little true skill. But I decided to give it a chance. Because of Suzy and Wooyoung and IU (actually listed in order of importance). The storyline itself was pretty interesting too.
And it didn’t disappoint. In both ways of failure and success — Suzy’s acting in the first few episodes was honestly, hilarious. It was so bad…and it got (kinda) better…but still worse than a ‘rookie actor,’ as in someone who trained to be an actor, not a singer or the likes, just a plain actor. In terms of success, the drama produced appealing performances and collaborations that I thoroughly enjoyed. I might even call it one of the best dramas of 2011, seeing how many flopped, but still in a sense that Dream High was of the higher-average sort of drama (not yet a ‘good standout’ drama personally like the ranks of My Girl and Giant, but getting there).
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Even just when Sunmi left, WonderFuls knew that there was always a looming possibility that she wouldn’t return. And as days and weeks and months and years go on since that day that her departure was announced, we know that the probability of her returning has gotten lower and lower and lower. And it continues to decrease with every passing day. But that doesn’t mean we have lost hope. We continue to hope and hope that she will come back. Even if she ends up returning as a soloist or doesn’t return to the entertainment industry, we will continue to hope to see her perform as a Wonder Girl, with the Wonder Girls.
And we will continue to hope. And hope. And hope. And believe in the Wonder Girls.
Generally, I don’t watch whole audition programs as they are time-consuming, and I often have better (*shock*) things to do. The way that I pick a few performances to watch is by looking for songs that I know among the ones performed in each episode, looking for specific talents that I discovered as I watched those performances in subsequent episodes.
One contestant that I noticed through this process is Choi Raesung, who I found through his cover of SHINee’s Replay; although quite a horrible cover, Choi Raesung, 12, proved himself to be the best dancer among the contestants on the show, thus keeping him on the show for a few weeks, even after an equally horrible cover of Justin Bieber’s Baby (Engrish included).
For the group audition/round, Choi Raesung was partnered with other so-called ‘dancing gods’ Lee Seunghoon and Park Jungeun, who were likewise very lacking in terms of singing. Check out the video below to see what came of their group audition.
As a big fan of Davichi, I try to watch most Davichi performances as they come out. [Subscribe to sinyanmei92 for Davichi videos!] That means that I started watching Immortal Song 2 for Lee Haeri and Kang Minkyung’s performances and random cuts…which led to this. The main highlight of this episode (of what I saw) was the formation of a Lee Haeri–Brian Joo couple line (scandalous news for Korean reporters!!). View full article »
And at last, time for the uncategorized top performances that come from miscellaneous shows!
At first, I planned to put all my favorite miscellaneous performances in this post; however, I realized that would be extremely biased, as all my favorite miscellaneous performances are of songs (and artists) I like, not to mention the fact that at least half of Davichi’s performances this year would end up on this post. So for the sake of succinctness, here is my very short list of top miscellaneous performances.
MBC had a large share of music shows in 2011, boasting new programs such as I Am A Singer and Birth of a Great Star. The second Korean audition program after Superstar K, Birth of a Great Star gives contestants a unique experience as the five mentors/judges choose four contestants to become their apprentices and prepare under them to hopefully become one of the program’s actual ten contestants (who compete with various individual performances), and perhaps, the winner of the program. View full article »
