Musing While Cruising the Hallyu Highway
Just a quick post before the Rain begins to fall! Today, Cloud USA-ers Toni Cammarota, Tammy Harriel and I met with Japan Clouds, Naoko Yamanaka and Michiko Ikeda at Michiko’s beautiful home in Sendai for some food, some laughs and some majah drool-over-Michiko’s Rain collection. This collection is SERIOUS!
I have to admit that when I listen to these guys sing, I get very emotional. This is the very serious power of music and the effect of a well-sung song. You don’t have to understand a word of it and it still translates. I really love this gorgeous ballad. I think I tend to favor those where beautiful Junsu opens the song up. This one is sung in Japanese and that amazing soul machine (still thanking Evez for coining that term!) Junsu wrote the lyrics to this beautiful song.
In this MV I don’t know who is shipwrecked. The girl. The guys. Both. Are the guys trying to find the girl? Is she just a ghost? Maybe I should take a look at the translation. Really though, I just like to listen to the song and feel it. Interpretation aside, it is film gorgeously. The color palette is almost monochromatic with muted tones and goes from golden hues to deep blues. I love the contrast. And our five handsome men are looking quite handsome.
But Junsu……..Junsu is so very lovely in this MV. My bias is quite evident, yes?
♥♥♥
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When the writers of this CF were told to come up with five adjectives that would justly describe Korea, they must have had Rain on the brain because the five chosen could easily describe him.
Inspiring
Check. From his humble beginnings to his incredible work ethic and unwavering belief in himself, Rain is the personification of inspiration. He leads by example, he mentors, and continues to out-achieve himself.
Spicy
Check. Rain is spicier than the spiciest kimchi.
Pulsating
Check. From his first album to Back To The Basic, his music is the epitome of pulsating. Every note, every lyric throbs with life, emotion, longing, and sensuality. When Rain sings, you feel the pulsating vibration from the core of his being. His art is his lifeline.
Magical
Check. Rain has his own special magic and essence that is indescribable and impossible to duplicate. If…
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Wow, wow and WOW again! In one week from today, I will be heading to Tokyo, Japan to take on another fangirl adventure of the Rain kind. I have always been adventurous and have always loved to travel, but I thought Rain would have least let me recover from Seoul before embarking on a concert tour. No dice.
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Rain sure does give good face. It is really difficult to imagine he was criticized for not having the right look, or at best, one that was not marketable.
Are you kidding me? Rain is a handsome man. Any beauty/skin care line that had the smarts to sign him on to endorse was not taking a chance whatsoever. There simply was no risk at all and no possibility of failure. In fact, failure is simply not part of Rain’s vocabulary.
Vonín cosmetic skin care line for men and Rain make handsome look so good in these commercial films. Filmed in muted, almost sepia tones, they ooze style and class – once again, two things Rain has a wealth of. In this first one for Vonín White Essence, Rain plays to the camera so well and the camera just loves him back.
I have to ask, did…
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Does anyone else end up in a puddle of tears after watching and listening to these five beautiful men sing? This song had me blubbering like a baby by the end of it and I didn’t understand a word of it. It really is true then that music is able to bridge all language barrier gaps because, on a vibrational level, music speaks a common language to us all.
This lovely rendition starts off like a lullaby and builds to an incredible crescendo and softly dissipates. I will always love the way the five of them bring their own vocal styles singularly but then pair off and create a synergistic vocal magic show of grand proportions. Changmin’s soft entry at :39 is like a gentle breeze kissing the skin followed by Yoochun’s deep caress. Oh my….
But when Junsu arrives with Yunho, that is when my tears started to fall. And they just kept coming. At 2:40 when Junsu and Jaejoong pair, well there are two powerhouse emotional singers colliding right there followed by Jae and Yunho whose voices are smoother than smooth together. I had to scream WHY?? Why can’t you all be together again??
Then Junsu pushed me over the edge at 3:40 and I was done. So.beautiful.
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By the end of this series of posts someone is either going to have to lock me up or lock him up!
When I began this Rain CF revival, I did so with no real plan or method to my madness. Meaning, I did not start with the first and chronologically deliver them in the order in which they were made, presented and/or aired. In reviewing what I have posted so far, I can say that the latter offerings are proving to be far more provocative. These two commercial films for SK Telesys W Phone back me up completely and also back me into a corner of incoherent thought function. In fact, I am surprised I am able to write anything at all after viewing them.
In the first of the two, I was trying to decipher the concept. Everyone is dressed in muted…
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야뇌 (Acoustic Version) – BMK [Warrior Baek Dong Soo OST]
I seriously do not know where to begin. This drama took me on such a ride, I simply was not prepared. There is so much to say about it, but since this is a postscript to my K-Shot post on Yoo Seung Ho, I am going to focus solely on the agonizingly conflicted Yeo Woon (Un). Gosh, the minute I say or think of his name, Un, I am filled with such incredible emotion. Yoo Seung Ho became Un – he wasn’t Yoo Seung Ho playing a character, no – he became the character he was cast to play. And it was amazing to watch unfold.
Continue reading “K-Shot Postscript: Yoo Seung Ho – Warrior Baek Dong Soo”
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When Korean corporation Daewon Company partnered with Vietnam’s Thu Duc Housing Development Corporation, the Cantavil Premier Apartments were born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. New, modern, and high-tech, this new development offered a plethora of amenities if you chose to live in one of its exquisitely designed and architecturally harmonious apartments. Complete with a Lotte Modern Cineplex, the Cantavil Premier had it all. And they had one very famous world star to tell you all about it.
Rain just oozes style and class. So he was the perfect spokesperson for a new and classy housing development. He happens to be one architecturally harmonious human who wears a suit like it was born into creation and designed solely for him. See if you can catch that Yves Saint Laurent belt buckle. Hot.
Even as he languidly awakens in his loose-fitting loungewear, he makes it…
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Ethereal. Angelic. Sublime. This MV has all of that AND the gorgeous vocals. If you haven’t fallen in love with these five young men yet, this could be the tipping point! Likewise, if you have, but haven’t chosen which one of them could possibly be your own particular bias, you may be hard-pressed to pick one from this MV. All five of them are softly styled in muted white tones against the lush greenery and oceanic views of the Saipan, Japan. All five looking so handsome. I read that my TVXQ bias, Junsu, wrote the lyrics for this song. And Junsu’s voice…..oh my. So lovely, Junsu….just like you!
<Sigh> To have all five back together again……
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