guess who...
...is going to continue talking bout VAV once again....why...me of course,... lmao.
so i heard today VAV would have a live chat session where you could win free signed album...dfvgfdhfbdgjknfhjkg who wouldn't want that?!!!! (no,don't even try to answer the otherwise to spoil my mood lol)
so...silly me...who is so behind technology...and called abnormal by my friend...and just recently became normal...as she'd say it...thought it'd be on Vlive app or something...i saw V and just assumed...
so i went waiting but nothing came up...
and i went back to read their notice n it's actually at their own app...it's not Vapp but VAV app......and i'm like...KPOP IDOL NOW HAVE THEIR OWN FREAKING APP? LIKE WHAAA...
do all idols nowadays have it? i'm really at a loss...
i'm so...like...jakun (and i feel bad using this word, because people here usually use it to describe a certain behaviour that is fascinated at things like seeing it for first time when it's normal to others...when this word is actually referring to certain aborigin people here...even another kinda word with same effect was related to another aborigin people...i'm like...why are we so insensitive to use people's race/ethnic for derogatory word? but i feel like more people know the derogatory meaning rather than the actual one...even i only found out when i googled the word out of curiosity...but thing is...idk any synonym to describe the situation...it's so hard to live righteously...rest assured i don't use the word in real life...and even now...i apologize for my lack of vocab...sadly this term is widely used and accepted...sigh)
anyway...i'm kinda...countrified? idk what word really is suitable...forgive my lack of vocab thanks to my laziness to read read and read...xD...i don't have the sophisticated image people typically associate with city kids...and everywhere i go...people always guessed i'm from anywhere but 'the' city where kids from everywhere else would migrate to for the sophisticated life n then bash my city for all the 'bad' things/influence/ppl...duh...you'd be surprised the people you thought from the city could be from your own neighbourhood for all yknow..., ...and uhhh...who taught you to stereotype anyway...i might not have the stereotype of city kids with flashy image...but i can kinda survive better amidst the unsophisticated sides of the city like a true local...so...yeah...
oops...excuse the distraction...back to my story...i kinda found my way to download their app and went to the chatroom...only to find out...they had left five minutes ago...huwaaaaa.....no waaaaayyyy
i'm so sad...not just bcuz i thought i have a chance of winning the album...lol (it's not like i never got lucky before...i won ZE:A's n Jewelry's signed CDs in the past in separate events...probly bcuz the competition weren't so fierce unlike with bigger fandoms)...but...they also chat with the fans there...i thought such thing only happen in like yknow...fancafe n stuffs...wow...how time has evolved n i'm so unaware...now you just need to download an app and you're already like in the inner circle(no this is in no way referring to winner, please realize the word has existed since before...yknow how kpop fans are...claiming their opparunnirs invent everything.../rollseyes/)
and they replied in english too..and i'm pretty darned sure the one who wrote in english would be Ace since he always have english captions in his posts(and they tagged Ace and Ayno for the chat session)...he seems pretty quiet n serious during interviews/shows and idk...so i was really pleasantly surprised to find him the member who really made the effort to communicate with international fans all the time with his posts...it's so cute...and i feel so appreciated whenever kpop idols make effort for international fans...we know kpop idols and english isn't exactly the most popular match...except when it involves foreign members or sth....so...i'm really surprised by his thoughtful gestures...
and then i went navigating the app...and i found a section for private fanclubs from various places...like whoa...this is cool...and again...i'm pleasantly surprised to find my country has one of the biggest numbers if not the biggest as of now...is there a possibility they'd come here someday? xD...i'd promote the hell of 'em if they do...like i did with ZE:A(though it still failed...T^T...)...i guess my country has lots of kpop fans...but i just always see people only bother about the popular groups...so i'm a little pleasantly surprised...i hope it's no 'empty' numbers we have...numbers...that mean nothing.
there's even their news/updates(in english), and vids/pics/schedule...webtoon even (and these were not from the fan section mind you)...like whaa...that's kinda random...but i'm not complaining...
overall...that's about it...i just wanna brag about my embarrassing noob findings...lmao. as if this is something worth bragging...tsktsktsk...
and...we can't have a VAV post without VAV perf of the day...xD
*if you can't view the embedded one, click the link here: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjg3ODg0NzM4MA==.html?spm=a2h0k.8191407.0.0&from=s1.8-1-1.2#paction (typically you'll have to wait for a 30 seconds ad before the video plays)
from inkigayo...bcuz youtube block for my country n idk bout other countries but yeah....there ya go
random but i've been seeing ppl saying VAV's new song sounds like an Astro song...so...eventhough Astro never had gotten into my radar...i went to give them a try...and while i can see the comparison in music style...i wouldn't say the songs sound the same since if they really sound the same...i'd have fallen for Astro song the same way...VAV wasn't in my radar too earlier when they released Venus(Dance with me) even though i heard the snippet all the time while watching the chart i followed...only when i heard Flower(You) they really pinged my interest...and ABC(Middle of the night) solidified and sealed my fan/obsessed status...but back to Astro song...nope...i wasn't the least attracted to it...i didn't even want to finish the song since it lost my attention...and afterwards...i've forgotten how it actually went...so...nope. it's not the same...actually Astro's image kinda remind me of Boyfriend when they debuted...but i actually liked some of Boyfriend's songs later on...and i kinda feel bad for them bcuz of their cheesy name...yikes. i mean...girlgroups can easily get away with boring cheesy names bcuz generally they're expected to be cute n charming...but boygroups are often associated with cool image n it must be hard to be taken seriously with a name like Boyfriend. ok this is random.
conclusion: nope...i disagree on the comparison of VAV's ABC and that Astro song...simply bcuz they evoke totally different reaction from my ears. lol. and besides...weren't they released in a very short difference of time span to call VAV copying? -_-....kpop and a lot of things Korea is really about trends...i mean just look at how kdramas at a certain time always have the same subject/plot like time travelling/politics-law/medical/historic fusion/supernatural/psychopaths/etc n even random things like honey butter chips n so on....trends are so fking annoying...but that's what you have to accept with this setting, like it or not. let's not pretend your opparunnirs are the genius inventors and all oh so original...all bout boarding that train...you can like what you like, i can like what i like...
And speaking of trends...even in aff...i mean...i'm always looking around and wondering why are people liking the same thing, same idols, same kinda preferences n so on? at certain point, it made me feel small...because i'm always in my own little world outside of these similarity...these trends...all by myself(well, i'm not that delusional, i know there are many people like me...but none as loud as me...they're all in the hiding so i always feel alone though i know i'm not)......but over time, i've come to appreciate seeing all the sameness...and being just me...thinking differently, appreciating different things, being different just by choosing to stay true to myself than be succumbed n consumed by my surrounding and always proudly flaunting it aloud...i'm not saying i'm better than other peeps just cuz i'm different and loud bout it...but i can't pretend to deny that i indeed feel special...just for being myself...even if that means a little different.
which is why i sometimes feel sad when i see people who struggle to fit in and willing to lose their own uniqueness that made them, them...just to be accepted by the society who claims to value difference but really just support sameness...as the world continue to lose variety...tbh i detest trends n sameness...though i try my best to not judge those who choose to follow that path...
when i started the fic 디퍼런트 (Different) sometime ago...it was meant to be a satire n poke on this matter...but of course i lost steam so quickly like the inconsistent undicsiplined fickle dfdhfgdhfgf that i am...even now...to continue the two fics i'm determined to complete..i'm at war with myself everyday...
ugh,...what even am i trying to say...this post is so full of bragging like a kid..ugh...well, i am a kid at heart afterall...:p
wait...wat time is it now...waaahhhhh....
see ya~
ps: ok so i was stalking seokyu's instagram before sleeping n it hit me that this kid also seems like someone who's really not afraid to be himself n just do as he likes instead of being the same n joining the pack...i mean just looking at the people he followed in his instagram already suggest it...xD...well, in a way...it made me respect him...for not afraid of being however weird/different he wants to. more power to him and every single brave souls brave enough to be a little different...if that means being themselves.
wait...let me just end this with a random VAV song...from the past
though i believe this was right before Xiao and Gyeoul left and Lou, Ayno n Ziu were added since i don't see them in here...(apparently at this time they had another member who had left-Zehan). it seems Jacob didn't have lines here yikes. and Baron's visual...i always find striking in a familiar way...in every MV i've seen...i feel like he reminds me of someone but i can't put a name to it...i'm just going to continue observe him closely lol. i love how Ace sound here, and i kinda wished they had let him sing one of the chorus rather than St Van doing it all. but now that i've seen the older VAV and the newer one...i guess...the addition of Lou/Ayno/Ziu really amp up their liveliness n cuteness factor n charm since the new members really are full of personality/character...or maybe i just need to watch more of the old ones to fairly compare...i'm sure they had their own charms,...though i doubt they had a member as noisy/hyper as Ziu back then...:p
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