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J-Artist of the day: tommy heavenly6

    When talking about japanese music, you can't forget about Tomoko Kawase, singer of the band "the brilliant green". This time I'll talk about one of her solo projects, "tommy heavenly6". Don't worry, the time to write about "tommy february6" and "the brilliant green" will surely come! ^^

Tommy heavenly6 and her guitar

    It all started in 2003. After years of successful releases with "the brilliant green", Tomoko Kawase was experimenting synth sounds with her cute-self, "tommy february6". But she felt something was missing. In that same year, in one of february's live concerts, Tomoko took off her glasses during one song and revealed her new solo project, "tommy heavenly6". The new image was created from february6's repressed emotions, which ended up in this rock-ish, rebel girl.

    The following three years had few releases from heavenly6 as Tomoko was still defining her style. Three singles and one eponymous album gathering those singles were produced.

"tommy heavenly6"s cover

    After the successful start of the new project, the singer decided to dedicate 2006 and 2007 for tommy heavenly6. Four singles, including "Pray", used as the opening for the "Gintama" anime, "Lollipop Candy♥BAD♥girl", the famous Halloween song, and "I♥Xmas", were released just in 2006. The following year had an album production.

  "Pray"s Promotional Video

    Unfortunately, Tomoko stopped the release madness and spent almost a whole year without producing new songs. It was only in December 2008 that tommy heavenly6 made her comeback, proving that she was still in perfect form. The single "Papermoon", used as the second opening for "Soul Eater", was an instant hit. It was the song that fans were dreaming to listen to.

"Papermoon"s Promotional Video

    In 2009, the singer released best-albums for both solo projects, containing all the singles released for each one. The "Gothic Melting Ice Cream's Darkness Nightmare" album pleased fans, especially because it featured the 2008 limited single "Unlimited Sky" and its video. Another album, "I Kill My Heart" was also released, composed most of unused songs from past productions.

"Unlimited Sky"s Promotional Video

    With the best-albums released, Tomoko decided sing again with "the brilliant green". 2010 was then filled with productions for the band. To show that the solo projects hadn't been forgotten, the singer made a new song for heavenly6 called "I'm Your Devil", but didn't release it. The song was received with much praise after it was distributed online and is expected to be another hit.

"I'm Your Devil" - from tommy's offical YouTube channel

    This week, Tommy announced on her twitter that the new song is getting a CD single release!

    This girl knows how to rock and her style is so unique that it's awesome to hear she's coming back. While some people call her the "Japanese Avril Lavigne", don't forget that Tomoko started singing before, so maybe the influence was the other way around! But anyway, it's a cool image so whatever. My favorite song is definitely "Papermoon" and if I had to recommend an album, it would obviously be the best-album, since it gathers all her best songs (all singles, actually)!

    Isn't she a cute rocker? ^^

 

   


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Uncovering: Hell on Twitter

    First of all, sorry for not posting this yesterday. It is such a complicated matter that I decided to make a bigger research on the facts and ended up not finishing the post on time... Well, here it is!

    K-Pop fans must have noticed that this week has been full of hatred and fuzz over some people's tweets. In fact, it's another part of the DBSK/TVXQ! Epic that has dominated netizens and korean news sites for almost a year now.

  Junsu, Yoochun and Jaejoong // Yunho and Changmin (credits to whoever made this photo)

    I won't go over all the problems since the lawsuit as this post is dedicated to more recent events, but for those who don't know anything about this, a little explanation:

    Last year, three members of the almighty, super popular boy group DBSK (also written as TVXQ! or Tohoshinki in Japan) filed a lawsuit against their agency, S.M. Entertainment. The reason for this was that they considered they were under a slave-contract and wanted to make a new, fair one. After halting the group's activities and not being able to reach an agreement, SME filed a lawsuit against the 3 members. 

    Many thing happened since that time, but what matters most in this very brief explanation is that the remaining two members, Yunho and Changmin, continued the group even with the same name and came back this week with a new album, while the three other members formed JYJ and are currently expanding to America as well as preparing a korean album, waiting for more results on the lawsuit.

DBSK(Yunho and Changmin)'s album "Keep Your Head Down"
JYJ's album "The Beginning"

    While JYJ's first album really disappointed fans for Kanye West's exaggerated presence on the songs and lack of the boys' beautiful voices, the "New DBSK" album "Keep Your Head Down" was received with much success. Well, that's not really a problem to discuss, right? I mean, sometimes artists get it wrong, sometimes they make hits. Where is the polemic?

    It all started with the "Thank to" section of KYHD. In this part of the album, member Yunho expressed his gratitude to SME's CEO, Lee Soo Man. It didn't take long until Junsu from JYJ tweeted about it, revealing his deep thoughts. Junsu couldn't accept that his ex-bandmate was thanking the man that was their "enemy" and that eventually caused the separation. The full translated tweets (credits to allkpop.com):

“Until now, I kept believing that it wasn’t true, I believed that (it) was the enemy of all five of us, but I guess it wasn’t really the enemy of all. To see that (they) expressed their gratitude to something I thought was both our enemies.. I guess a lot of things happened in the time we weren’t together. This is so tiring.”

“I keep wanting to think, hear, and see only good things, but it’s very hard to do that today. Even though we’ve been apart, you know that wasn’t right, hyung. We thought the same. Why are you being like this.”

    It is certainly interesting to read the tweet and think about all the implications. While it shows how tiring the sepation experience has been for the members (for both sides), it also demonstrates where things are heading. Many people are arguing about those statements and it's funny to see how blind a person can get when defending their favorite band or member. 

    Just to get started on my arguments, Twitter is a public space and Junsu should never have posted such things on it. If you're having a nervous breakdown, write about it on a diary, don't make a tweet, especially when you are a celebrity and a bunch of stalkers watch you on the internet 24/7. I don't know if thought about it, but it was obvious that it would cause hell on forums and even among celebrities. It already did.

    After only a day or two, it seemed as all artists from SMEnt decided to write about the controversies. BoA, the choreographer Sim Jaewon, SuJu's Shindong and Sungmin and later TRAX's Jungmo all expressed their thoughts, defending Yunho and saying that Junsu is "ungrateful". Of course, these artists write about Junsu's rudeness, but in the end one question remains in my head: why did they even get in the middle of this mess?

    With all the confusion, some people say that SM is forcing them to write the tweets, fuelling the hate against JYJ and looking for a way to gain more support for DBSK's comeback, considering that many fans are boycotting the album and even talking about separating the fanclub. Chances of separating the world's biggest fanclub are slim, but it is certainly enough to scare SMent. Still, I don't believe this rumour is true as the statements are just making the idols look bad and I'm sure that LSM is smarter than this.

 Le Soo Man - look at his face, he is obviously smarter than this!

    It has been only two days since Junsu's emotional attack and it's already too much. The fanwars seem to be infinite since each person defends one group. Facts get distorted every time they're mentioned. It also doesn't help when more idols tweet about it. It's just such a useless fight, IT WON'T TAKE JYJ OR DBSK ANYWHERE. 

    In the end, this idol showdown is just ridiculous. Everyone is getting hurt, especially the fans. And I say, there's nothing more important than the fans. You can be born talented, you can have the money from your company, you can have fair contracts or slave-contracts, but you don't get famous without fans. Artists should NEVER forget that. I don't know if it's true, but I heard that a girl suicided this week because of the controversies. I know, if she did that because of an idol group she obviously had some problems, but still, we all know some fangirls can get really crazy, so why give them more reasons to do so?

    I just hope that this Twitter hell ends soon and that JYJ's album can be released without any problems. They chose their paths and that's what matters! If they're are going to reunite one day, let it be decided by the 5 members and not by other people. For now, let's calm down and stop raging on forums when we don't even know what's true or false. Support BOTH groups if you liked old DBSK and there won't be a problem, at least not one that involves fans. 

 Good Ol' DBSK - If you liked them, keep supporting!

    Well, this is it for now. If you want to read the translated tweets from the other artists, here are the links (once again, thanks to allkpop.com):





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K-Artist of the day: Secret

    Excited for their comeback, I had to write about this glamorous girl group, Secret.

Secret's concept for the second single "Madonna"

    Secret debuted with a digital single released in October 2009 called "I Want You Back". Their performances caught attention for the vocal quality. Although it had been a great start, the group's first hit came with the release of the first mini album, "Secret Time", on March 2010. The title track "Magic" got really popular among listeners and the mini-album peaked at 4th on charts.

"Magic"s Music Video - MAH MAZIC

      After discovering a successful formula, Secret didn't take long to come back. In August, the group released the second mini-album called "Madonna", which showed a diva image of the girls. This title track got even more popular than "Magic", topping many online sales charts. As expected, great performances and a catchy song made Secret shine on stage.

"Madonna"s Music Video - Golden girls! 

    With such a successful year for a rookie group, Secret was able to "rest" until 2011 after promotions for the second mini-album ended. On January 4, 2011, the girls revealed their comeback concept for a new single, "Shy Boy". The music video was released on the 6th and promotions started once again. "Shy Boy" was created focusing on a 60s image and the choreography was designed to be like the ones from musicals.

 "Shy Boy"s Music Video - Cute 60s!

    While it was released only yesterday/today, the new single has received mixed reactions. Some fans didn't like the cute attitude as they were expecting something like "Madonna", the public's favorite. Still, most listeners are approving the concept and song, saying that it fit the group.

    Unfortunately, Secret has really few chances of winning anything with "Shy Boy" since there are a lot of comebacks this week, including the almighty DBSK, which will certainly take all weekly awards. Poor girls... Anyway, the new song is just stuck in my head, I love it!

    Can you feel Secret's Magic?~ ^^

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