April 30th! - FtIsland Throwback!

For Valentine's day I was going to do a throwback to the band F.T.Island but I got busy being lonely so I'm doing it today!

Debuted: 2007
Group Number: 5 members
Company: FNC Entertainment

Choi Junghoon

Birthday: March 7, 1990

Height: 178 cm

Weight: 61 kg

Position: Leader, Guitarist, Pianist, Bassist

Notes: Also Composes for F.T. Island

Lee Hong Ki

Birthday: March 2, 1990

Height: 176 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Position: Lead Vocalist, Visual

Notes: Originally a child actor, Hong Ki continues to act in many series. Well known for his role as Jeremy in You're Beautiful

Lee Jae Jin

Birthday: December 17, 1991

Height: 177 cm

Weight: 58 kg

Position: Bass Guitarist

Notes: Acts in various TV series, ex-host of Kpop Planet alongside Btob's Hyunsik and Mamamoo's Hwasa

Song Seung Hyun

Birthday: August 21, 1992

Height: 180 cm

Weight: 60 kg

Position: Vocalist, Main Rapper, Guitarist

Notes: Replaced Oh Won Bin and also acts

Choi Min Hwan

Birthday: November 11, 1992

Height: 171 cm

Weight: 55 kg

Position: Drummer, Maknae

Notes: Acts in various series and Musicals

Ex Members:

Oh Won Bin

Birthday: March 26, 1990

Height: 181 cm

Weight: 62 kg

Position: Former Guitarist

Notes: Signed under a new Label, Won Bin has released Solo Albums and continues to act

F.T. Island debuted on June 7, 2007 with the song Love Sick from their album Cheerful Sensibility.

Also the dramatic song Thunder

There second Korean album titled Colorful Sensibility released in August 2008 featured songs such as After Love

In their follow up epilogue album that year entitled Colorful Sensibility Part Two, they released the dramatic song Heaven

In 2009 Oh Won Bin decided to leave the group and was replaced by FNC then-trainee Song Seung-hyun. They then released the song Bad Woman from their first mini album Jump Up.

In the same year they released their third album Cross & Change with the music video for I Hope. (This is around the time I started liking them)

This same year while members Hong Ki and Song-Hyeun were away, the remaining members dubbed FT Triple released a single entitled Love Letter with bassist Lee Jaejin as the main vocalist.

After becoming more popular abroad, FT Island returned to Korea in August 2010 to release mini album Beautiful Journey with title song Love Love Love

After gaining extreme popularity in both Taiwan and Japan, so much so they were named the highest earning artists of 2010, they returned to Korea with a mini album named Return in 2011 and a fast-paced rock song called Hello Hello

For 2012, they released fourth mini album Grown-Up and title song Severely. The album sold out in ten days.

That same year they released their Fourth Studio Album, Five Treasure Box, with title song I Wish.

As thanks to their fans in 2013 they released their mini album Thanks To filled with self composed songs including Memory composed by Hongki.

Later that year they released their fifth mini album The Mood with title song Madly.

In 2015 after a long hiatus they released their first fully self-composed album I Will with title song Pray.

Later that year Lee Hongki had a solo debut with Korean Mini Album FM302 and title song Insensible with a music video featuring Park Shin Hye who he had previously work with on You're Beautiful.

April 29th, 2016

Ok so it might seem like I haven't been active but there are a lot of unpublished posts that I'm just finishing up. But I decided to go back to doing my daily-ish kpop recommendations...

Mansae - Seventeen

With Seventeen's new comeback I decided to rewatch this old bop.

Stitches (Cover) - Eric Nam Ft. Sungha Jung

Eric Nam's voice is always amazing combined with Sungha Jung's amazing guitar skills, honestly this new company is doing him so much better than before.

Domino Game - Kiss & Cry

It's so unfortunate that this power house had to disband. This is still one of my favourite songs to this day. Luckily one member has joined a new group so hopefully she will find more success there.

Just choosing three songs is so difficult each time I do this I remember other songs I want to add. For example some new comebacks and other underated songs/performances.

March 31st, 2016

Today I feel like highlighting some Duets
First up:

Spring Love - Eric Nam & Wendy (Red Velvet)

This SM Station duet is just so sweet that I had to include it.

When Would It Be - Yoon Hyun Sang and IU

Love Day - Yoseob (Beast) & Eunji (Apink)

I have a couple more duets that I love but we'll stop here for now....

March 17, 2016

Sorry guys, I've kind of busy with school and things.

The song that I've been humming all day is:

Heart Attack - AOA

In light of her new scandal and the possibility of her career dying, I want to remember some of G.NA's greatest. I hope the rumour isn't true and even if it is I hope people don't persecute her for doing something that she felt like she needed to do.

I'll Back Off So You Can Live - G.NA

And the last song today will be...

Butterfly - Henry (Super Junior M)

Because it randomly played on my ipod even though I didn't touch it...lol

February 13th, 2016

And today's Kpop songs are!

Dumb Dumb - Red Velvet

I haven't listened to all Red Velvet songs but I have to admit that their title songs are super addictive!

 

Only You - Miss A

A less popular song but in my opinion super catchy and I've been thinking about it lately.

 

Like A Cat - AOA

 

The music video is hilarious but I loved the song and the dance!

 

Sorry no Rookie song for today :)...

Produce 101

So I've been following Produce 101 as it slowly has been airing. And I just watched the third ep so let me rant a little. I like Somi, I think she's pretty and I think she's talented but I think there are a lot of girls in Produce 101 that are better than her. There is a reason why she fell down to Group B. It pisses me off that the voting for the group battles was still essentially a popularity contest. I mean the contestants themselves were saying that the group with Somi in it was going to win regardless. That's an awful thought. The votes are so bias that we all know that Somi is definitely going to get a spot even if she drops down to Group F! On that note. The first group that did "Into the New World" was amazing but I know they won't win against Somi's popularity so it is really disheartening. I just hope that amazing vocalist doesn't get eliminated. Also Chanmi is really annoying me, but I don't know if its the editing or just her. From day one when she chose to sit on the number one chair I felt like she was way to overconfident. She was on a show where everyone was so humble but she acted so above everyone. Yea sure she could have been in SNSD and other groups but there is a reason why she DIDN'T debut. This show is sort of letting me see why. I hope that my opinion of her will change later.
As far as the Jellyfish ladies, I like Kim Se jeong but that's it. The other two don't really do anything for me sorry.

Current Contestants I'm Interested In

She is so cute and tiny. I love her. She may not be a stunning beauty but she definitely gives me a Hyuna/ ClC's Yeeun vibe. I guess this is just Cube Ent. liking the cute rapper styles.

Initially thought their group was really annoying and overconfident but they had the vocals to back it up! Also Se Jeong was a great leader to her group and a good teacher to the actress girl. She really takes care of people well and I think that I like her over the other two jellyfish trainees who aren't really leaving an impression on me.

She did an amazing job as the main vocalist in the group battle of Into the New World. I'm really angry that her group didn't win. They fit the image better and sung better in my opinion. Anyways, I'm a new fan of hers an hopefully she won't get eliminated.

For now these are the ladies that are standing out to me. We'll see how I feel after episode four.

 

Kracie Poppin' Cooking stuff is really cool and I got my hand on a couple of them. Here are pictures of my creations!