I’m sorry the world had been so cruel to you
I’m sorry that I couldn’t have done more, that I didn’t give you enough of the love and kindness that you need
I’m glad to have known you and your beautiful hearts
I will always remember your smiles, your presences on stages, your ideals, your kindness, and your friendship
Sorry, Thank you and Rest well. I love you Goo Hara and Choi Jinri.
If you have been a Kpop stan for at least 2 years now, you should be used to see headlines and news articles about 2nd gen girl groups disbanding. It’s a sad fact but most 2nd gen girl groups are slowly (or quickly) disappearing ever since 2016 (Kara and 4minute kinda started the disband trend).
Rainbow was unfortunately one of those groups that suffered from the same fate and eventually disbanded in 2016. After a 7 year long career (despite being inactive for 2 of those years, f*ck you dsp), all 7 members decided to leave DSP Media and therefore Rainbow was disbanded. However, the members prove that they have one of the strongest bond of all Kpop as they shared photos of them getting together almost all the time and all 7 girls still gather around every year for their anniversary.
And this year, they took a step further and decided to do a full on comeback with a special album to commemorate their 10th anniversary.
For the special album, they not only gave us 1 song, but 2! Yeah they’re not the “Mach” or “A” bops but it’s an anniversary song what do you expect? It’s a miracle that we got a song at all. The song is cute and definitely heart warming if you know them from before and know how much they haven been through as a group. The MV is particularly touching with scenes of the members doing their own things but then gather together on stage.
I have known Rainbow since their debut back in 2009 but I didn’t fully appreciate them until earlier this year when I had a marathon of their discography. So I basically stan them after they had disbanded and I still managed to experience a comeback. I know a lot of After School stans can’t say that.
Anyway, this reunion was honestly everything. Seeing the members together again performing and their visit to IDOL RADIO brought tiny tears to my eyes. It’s just so rare for 2nd gen groups to have a reunion like this and it makes my 2nd gen couldn’t be any happier.
LONG LIVE RAINBOW! I would still be here for their 20th anniversary yup idc idc
probably gonna have another post for their 10th anniversary where i rank their songs but maybe if i’m not too lazy idk bye
One of my favorite videos to watch these days are the stage compilation videos made by MBC which they compiled all the stages of an artist into one video. Sometimes they would make special videos that aren’t just exclusive to one artist per video but the stages are compiled based on a specific theme. And thanks to this clip below, I managed to rediscover a hidden gem.
The video is a compilation of catchy songs from Kpop 2nd gen (the golden gen btw). I had one hell of a time bopping to all these past hits that were so familiar with me. Through my years of being a Kpop stan, I am what they would call a “girlgroup stan”, so I am not that too familiar with boygroup songs. I know the really popular ones, and I have a few favorite songs by male artists as well.
But from watching the compilation video, I was shocked to rediscovered a boygroup song that I had completely forgotten and it is a COMPLETE BOP!
So yup the song that I recently rediscovered is Boyfriend’s Don’t touch my girl. I actually knew and even liked this song already when it first came out 8 years ago (wtf 2011 was 8 years ago!?) but as time went by I completely forgot about its existence.
To share a fact about me, my absolute favorite type of songs are the ones which have clear, pretty melody with a melancholy feeling that just keep building up until the final chorus where every emotions just burst out that makes the whole song feel like a short movie. Since I suck at explaining, some examples of these types of songs are SNSD’s ITNW, GFriend’s Rough, WJSN’s Secret, Astro’s Confession, Seventeen’s Pretty U, April’s April Story, Loona 1/3’s Love&Live… From the examples, you can see most of them are girl groups, so it’s pretty obvious that I prefer girl groups because they deliver music that fits my preference more.
But in this case of the mentioned Boyfriend’ song, the song fit completely with my ideal of a perfect song. The melody is beautiful, catchy and the chorus just totally won me over, way better than all those terrible instrumental ‘drop’ songs these days. Not to sound rude, but most boy group songs never give me much emotions listening to them, mostly due to most of them having a ‘cool swag’ concept (a concept I literally despise). And when boygroups step out of those concept, they deliver excellence.
I don’t study music or know any of those music terms so I don’t know what to say besides the fact that the song is just so good. It reminds me a lot of Girl’s Day – Don’t Forget Me, which is another masterpiece btw. Another weird comparison I would make is that it sounds like something GFriend would release if they were a boygroup. Funny how both groups have parallel group names.
So yeah that’s it bye, give Boyfriend a stream so they have money to sue Starship for screwing them over or sumn like that bye.
I’ve been wanted to created a Kpop blog for a long time now and it’s been long overdue. There’s a lot of stuff I want to express and a stan Twitter account doesn’t really satisfy all that need. So that’s why this blog is created.
This blog will literally just be a dump where I write anything that is Kpop related. There might be series like Album reviews and stuff like that but don’t expect this blog to be organized. Actually, don’t even expect this blog to be active. We’ll see how it goes.
Anyway that’s it for now. I’ll leave a cute gif of Hwall to end the first post bye.
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