Musing While Cruising the Hallyu Highway
On June 9, 2015, MBLAQ released their 8th mini album, Mirror. Melodic, sophisticated, jazzy and mature, it is a clear departure from their earlier works but it is with good reason: they are different.
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At midnight on June 5, 2015, J Tune Camp released a 48-second teaser video of MBLAQ’s upcoming release Mirror, and with it unleashed a wave of emotion that rushed over us culminating the last eight months of mystery, wondering and worrying.
Ok yeah, it was a rough autumn and a rather excruciating winter. Coupled with that, the prolonged hibernation of our beloved three MBLAQ teddy bears hasn’t helped matters much either. Yet as we enter spring, it seems they have begun to push themselves through the soil of those darker days and are starting to re-blossom as a music-making trio. With news of a new album in the works, hope does indeed spring eternal.
A couple of years ago I sat down with a Jyotishi to have a look at my birth chart in order to see how my karmic path was affecting my present life. Yes, I realize that sounds like a bunch of new-agey hocus pocus. But, I happen to believe in the inexplicable beauty of how the universe and our lives collide. I am weird like that.
Jyotish, or the science of light, is actually an ancient form of astrology that has been practiced for centuries throughout India. It is a Vedic science that basically describes the planetary patterns at the time of our birth and can give us valuable clues to understanding our life’s journey. When the Jyotishi asked me if I liked to write, I casually said yes. He then told me with urgent insistence to start writing and to begin right away because it would change my life forever.
I had a plan. It was a good plan. I had the goods. They were nice goods. And, I had a bias (G.O) ready to celebrate a birthday on November 6th. Having given Federal Express a good chunk of my hard-earned change via my MBLAQ Love Package campaign, I figured they would be the best bet to get my bias his birthday gifts, and do so well in advance of the actual celebration day. Best laid plans, right? It seems Fedex along with the Universe (and the Suwon Lotte Department Store) had something else in mind. When the birthday box failed to pass through customs in Seoul and was returned to me, it seemed the only way that darling man was going to receive his gift from my Byung Hee World blog partner, Nelly (MyMyooz) and I, was if I would deliver it to him myself.
Continue reading “When The Universe Conspires – Prelude to the Curtain Call”
There are many reasons for a native Chicagoan to dislike (and often detest and incessantly complain about) the most brutal of all seasons, winter. Winter often denotes the transition of everything in nature that was once warm, light, lush, in bloom and alive into something that is cold, brittle, barren and dying. Winter is a time of hibernation, and also a time to leave.
When I discovered that the new MBLAQ mini album being released on November 25th was to be entitled Winter and was to be an album of ballads, my heart felt heavy and somewhat sad. At the same time, however, hearing that this album would feature self-composed songs by the men, and G.O would be producing, I immediately became impatient to hear it. Now, after having it on repeat and listening to it non-stop, I have only one complaint: there are simply not enough songs.
So much to celebrate!! Apart from celebrating these five fab ones every day like I am want to do, three of them have birthdays coming up to wrap up the year. As such, I wanted to give you the logistics in the event you want to send each (or all) a birthday wish, either physically or via cyber means!!^^
I was truly hoping that video of the May 30, 2014 MBLAQ online Meet & Greet would be uploaded so I could rewatch it to make sure I was not hallucinating the events of that afternoon (well, it was early, EARLY morning for me). MWave obliged. It really happened. That sweet and furry bias of mine, G.O, visibly shocked at seeing my picture, remembered me, mentioned he knew who I was and told Seungho, Cheondoong, Mir and everyone watching how I came to Seoul to see him in his musicals. It was indeed one of the most surreal moments in my life and one I won’t soon forget.
Continue reading “That Ridiculously Surreal Fangirl Moment You Cannot Believe Actually Happened”
In anticipation of MBLAQ’s forthcoming sixth mini album, Broken, J. Tune Camp released teaser pictures of the group and I just wanted to share.
Ahhhhh, at long last, MBLAQ’s 6th album is about to drop (March 24). This teaser is enough to whet my appetite – I mean it opens with G.O! Soft and serious, this one sounds like it is going to go straight into the heart, pierce it, reside in it and take over. I look forward to the hearing the entire track as well as the entire album. And I am SO blessed to have my MBLAQ partner in crime, Nelly, whose anticipation, excitement and love for their new music jumps off of her blog post with such a delightful fervor! Love you, Nelly girl……! Thank you for this post!♥
Mayday! Mayday! We have a teaser!!!! Yes, yes , yes! Michele‘s and my boys are back with their 6th mini album titled “Broken.” Well, itsabout freaking time!!!! JTune, we are NOW a little satisfied with your promise! But please, don’t do this again! Not to our sweet, sweet boys! Pinky promise? The Between Us teaser is only 0:38 long but it’s enough to poke our dying passion with their most soothing emotion they could ever pour into this MV! Well, they succeed in doing it and I’m completely smitten by them! Can March 24 be here now??? The MV opens up by the best vocal in the group, GO serenading us with his sweet, gentle voice which I found it very romantic yet sexy at the same time. It was only a line by him but errrmagewddddd I want to hear more! *heart racing 100mph* Another voice we get…
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