Happy New Year

Happy New Year Everyone!

So I know that it's been such a long time since I've written a true blog but I promise you all that in 2013, I will try and write more blogs more often. Looking back at 2012, lots of major things happened in terms of EXO and the k-pop community. I will start with EXO first.

I'm really proud of EXO and how successful they've become in a few period. I mean, EXO had their very first teaser which was released on December 21 (I know that was still in 2011) and it became a huge success. There were many discussions about it everywhere. I still remember when my friend and I first saw it, our immediate reaction was, SM is going to debut a new boy band, but we were shocked when we found out that there was a total of 23 teasers, and 2 prologue songs, 1 showcase all for just one band. Here is a video of all 23 teasers.

My favourite teasers would be... 

• Teaser #1- the beginning of EXO
• Teaser #8- shows that the group will have 12 members
• Teaser #9- the birth of HunHan, also because it was the first "drama" teaser, like there was no dancing involved, and this was the teaser that made me fell in love with Angel. I actually kept on replaying it over and over because I absolutely love this song. This was also the teaser that made me think about the concept of this group especially with the eclipse at the end
• Teaser #11- because this teaser gave me a "mysterious" feel, and I started questioning if being mysterious could be their theme
• Teaser #17- because this was the teaser that allowed me to choose my bias which of course is Kris, but also because of the song. 
• Teaser #19- because of the song. Beautiful is another one of my favourite songs by EXO
• Teaser #20- again because of the song and the plot. I actually found the plot really interesting, and at first, I was like OMG Chan Yeol seems such a calm person, and two months later after their debut, I'm like, Chan Yeol, calm yourself

After the release of the teasers, two prologue songs were made, History and What is Love. When it comes to the song, I like History better, I really like the beat and the lyrics of it, but in terms of the music video, I prefer What is Love because I prefer music videos that has a story or a plot, but that's just my opinion. This is why I really like Japanese music videos because they tend have a very meaningful story line to the music. But overall, EXO has been super successful.

So, on New Years Eve, unfortunately, EXO was not able to be together. While EXO-K was in South Korea for SBS Gayo Daejun, EXO-M, was in China for Jiangsu TV New Years Eve Concert. I was really surprised that EXO-K performed a  different version of MAMA. It was the adlib version which fans have been waiting for quite a while. In addition, the performance was outdoors, and I can just imagine how cold it is especially not wearing much, and I live in Canada.

On a random note, I love Chan Yeol's new hair, and I'm really looking forward to EXO's comeback, which now apparently is in February.

EXO-M in Nanjing, China

While in Nanjing, China, EXO-M was performing MAMA and TWO MOONS. It was really interesting for me to be listening Two Moons because often when EXO performs TWO MOONS, the language is mixed between Chinese, English, and Korean, while yesterday, TWO MOONS was performed in only Chinese and English. 

On another random note, I really wish that one day, EXO will perform TWO MOONS with Key.

Tao's, "Ayo watsup Kris?!" was replied by Kris saying, "Watsup LADIES!?" I thought that was pretty funny, but I'm pretty sure that there has to be some guys in the crowd to. 

Luhan lifting his shirt up was something I did not expect and I really wished that the cameraman would have zoomed in a little, and then I would've been more satisfied. Honestly, looking at the personality of Luhan, who is shy and calm, I would've never guessed it would be Luhan who would lift up his shirt. Still, it's kind of hard for me to believe that he has abs really because of the way he looks. He has that baby face, normally, when people have a baby face, it's always hard to believe like you look at Sulli from fx, I'm sure she has abs, but it's just hard to imagine. Then again, Luhan lifting his shirt up, in a way, I wasn't so shocked but he did previously mention that he thinks he is the manliest out of EXO-M.

EXO-M performing MAMA, again....you know, I love EXO, but they honestly have to stop performing MAMA. I'm pretty sure that their fans are starting to get tired of them singing MAMA all the time. 

When EXO-M was backstage preparing for the concert, they took many pictures, I found this one the most amusing.

I really really really wish that I am Xiu Min right now. Hehehehe... To be completely honest, I knew that Xtiu Min would do something something like this, but I was surprised that it was Kris who helped Xiu Min complete it. When I told my friend about this picture, she didn't actually believe me. She thought that it would be Xiu Min and Lu Han, or Xiu Min and Chen. I would honestly never imagine Kris doing this.

I hope this post will make up for it and this marks the end of my post. I promise you all that in the future, I will write more. I have all the easy subjects next semester starting in February so I'll definitely keep you all updated.

Happy New Year everyone, and hope all your dreams and wishes come true!

-Rain