yah jeeze let me start out by saying i still haven't seen the teaser...i didn't have internet when it was posted and i'm saving it for a rainy day now, i guess, hahaha. i'm as scared as i am excited...like seeing a loved one after a long time apart and worrying about how they've changed.

i'll start with the obvious: they write their own music. as of this year jiho has at least 46 songs registered to his name in KOMCA and that, i'm sure, doesn't even include his pre-debut underground stuff - that's more than t.o.p, jay park, and junsu, who have all been around for a lot longer than he has. i'm a '93 liner myself, so the fact that jiho is only a year older than me and has already accomplished so much is mindblowing to me. i certainly haven't written 100+ songs in my 20 years on earth! add to that the fact that, to my knowledge, kyung wrote his verses predebut and whatever solo stuff he did after that, and even little baby pyo has written a fair amount of his own stuff. NOT ONLY THAT but their (non-pop) music tends to have interesting or important messages in it, that have to do with social and personal issues that you don't see everywhere.

their perserverance is the second thing that draws me to them. i was into bigbang before nalina, and more importantly, the thailand incident. that whole thing drew my attention and i absorbed all the information i could about them at that point, and i fell in love. i cried when jiho cut his hair (despite how hot he looked...) and i saw the looks on their faces at the 120221 show champion performance - they looked dead, or like they wanted to be. but i fell in love with the determination they had. no matter how bad they were feeling, they still got on stage and worked their asses off. i cried when jihoon was hospitalized. i cried when jiho had to stop performing for a while because of his health, when he wasn't in the action rmx video. i even cried when they released blockbuster, but for a different reason; i knew they would never give up. i knew they would stay together, forever, no matter what. they had been to hell and back and would do it a thousand times, because of their talent, because of their passion, because of US. i knew they would never give up. so i just sighed in exasperation when they started suing stardom, when their manager killed himself, when they lost the lawsuit - i didn't cry because i wasn't worried, i wasn't scared for them. i scoffed at the people who thought they would disband. if they were going to do that, it would have happened a long ing time ago. the next time i cried over block b was when i saw the translated tweets from seven seasons - the wait was over, we had made it through with their help, and they had made it through with ours.

next is their personalities, which actually annoy me sometimes, because they are 100% honestly teenage boys. they are blunt and stupid and insensitive and like playing pranks. they are all incredibly unique and they don't try to change to be more conventionally appealling. taeil doesn't lie about his self esteem problems, minhyuk is always ready to join in on a practical joke, jaehyo is unabashedly vain, yukwon doesn't sugarcoat his critiques, kyung picks his nose in front of the camera, jiho is painfully cocky, jihoon is incredibly immature. with other groups, imo, you notice how perfect they are before realizing their flaws, because they feel like those are something to hide. with block b, you have to get past all that bad stuff before you can realize how passionate taeil is about his craft, how clever minhyuk is, how dorky and sweet jaehyo is, how kind and accepting yukwon is, how truly genuine kyung's constant smile is (and how obvious something is wrong when it's gone), how jiho is an incredible leader that block b would be completely lost without, how jihoon tries his hardest to make his hyungs happy. i feel more like they are my brothers, than some celebrities on the other side of the planet.

i guess the last thing, that i just can't avoid mentioning, is their looks. they don't look perfect, not even close (except jaehyo). of course, they're all attractive, but when it comes down to it, they just don't have the looks that other groups have...and i love that. i love jiho's huge, wide face and taeil's tiny eyes. i love how there's a clear difference between minhyk's and kyung's bare and made-up faces. i love that they talk about how much weight they've gained. but, the thing i love most is that the way they look doesn't ing matter. people always jeer and joke, asking, "would you even listen to kpop if you couldn't see what they looked like? would you even like your oppars if you couldn't watch the mvs or look at pictures?"

yes i would

and that's why i love block b