Olla another What’s Happening in Indonesia? Seriously?? There’s another riot because government tried to raise the gasoline price. How many times we must have been through something like this on each every time there’s an issue that gas price being raised up? Maybe it is a hint that we must start to stop our dependency on gasoline for our main energy source. Hah and then we move on to something a little bit fluffy, a little bit bubble gummy, a little bit flashy , which is none other than a crazy little thing called K Pop.
Honestly, I never try to group what kind of music I listen, and whatnot. Here I am, ready with open mind and open arm to listen every kind of music that’s offered to me, regardless the genre, the singer, the language, or the country it is coming from. I do have my favorite music but it comes after I actually listen to the music. So shoo all the prejudice. I may dislike certain songs for now, but I can't guarantee I won't like those for now till forever. There’re 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 30 days a month, 356 days a year, and my mood is varied by hours in a day, by days in a week. There will be a time for any kind of music, to cry with, to sing along, to dance like mad, and to soothe the grumpy mood.
So then I never get to understand the sentiment from people who said they have better sense of music than others just because they listen to classic and others listen to pop, or because they listen to indie music and others listen to some generic pop music, or because they listen to music from 40ties till 90ties and others listen to music that comes from huh like right now. Every time I see comment like this, my reaction is like: “Do you? Really? Do you need a help to dismounted from your high horse?” It is because I can’t help myself but to sing Nat King Cole’s When I’m Falling Love when my mood is perfectly good and sentimental, and I can’t deny my feet that start to move every time I hear SHINee’s Lucifer. Dude, my sense of music ain’t no better from anyone else’s.
And Hallyu wave strikes Indonesia hard, boy and girl groups, the reflection of their counterpart in South Korea, are swarming. They are infecting Indonesia music scene with their catchy electro dance music. There’s a time when “You know me so well, Girl I need you, Girl I want you, Girl I heart you, Cenat-Cenut, Cenat-cenut” was poping up in my head, and then I laughed. Not because it is bad, but I couldn’t control my mind not to sing it, err. Or when I heard 5 years old girls sing “Gak, gak,gakkuat, gak ,gak ,gak, kuat, aku gak kuat sama playboy, playboy; gak, gak, gak, kuat, gak, gak ,gak, kuat, aku gak kuat sama cowok gampangan”, I did facepalm and repeated the lines while imagining myself patting those kids’ back: Sorry for the lack of kid songs in these days.
And the comments drawn from this music are not far from the comments that drawn from western audiences when listen to K pop for the 1st time: “Ewww, they are so gay”,”Yikes, what kind of crappy music is that?”, “Noo, we have enough K dramas already, Indonesia can import anything from SK, but not this!” (Hah) And everyone is entitled each of their own opinion. Because not only the music that they are copying but the style too. The matching cloths, the spike, saggy, colorful haircuts, the guyliner, the pinky-lipbalmed lips. And not to forget the aegeyo, childish act that the girl groups do. The last one never fails to make me cringe either it comes from SK girl group or the Indonesia one. And the one thing that I want to give them applaud is that they are not shying away and boldly saying that they want to be “Indonesia Super Junior” *grin*, or recruit a Korean member as their attempt.
But nothing can convince me about Hallyu invasion more than..... *dugun, dugun, dugun, dugun* pile of books in book store talking about K pop fandom. Yesshh book, book , and book. I wonder my self. There must be something in the water. At the first time I saw them I could only smirk and well feel a little bit curiosity. It started with book from big group like Super Junior, SNSD (Girl Generation), Big Bang, and Shinee. And then at the last time I checked, there’re books from B2ST and CN Blue fans club as well. Even the relatively new groups have already had that many fans to make a book? Wow. How many K pop fans in general in Indonesia then? Now, my attention is picked.
For one big group, there’re several different books available. You can take your pick from thick to thin, from newspaper like kind of paper to magazine like kind of paper. You can choose which kind of bonus you want to have along with the book. There’s CD, postcard, pin up, poster, etc. And let me laid it for you that almost all these books are not officially released by each of the groups’ management company. So there’s no back up funding from the artist’s company. It’s pure a form of appreciation from fans to their beloved artists, 100% love.
And move to the dark side, shall we? What the use of these book anyway? That was the first question that hit my mind once I saw for the first time with this kind of book. I get that this book is written from fan to fan. But can you call yourself a fan when you don’t know all stuff that written in there? In this kind of age and time like now, I’m pretty sure you can find everything that is written in this fan book on internet if you diligent enough and crazy enough. Once again I’ll ask can you call yourself a fan if you aren’t persistent enough looking everything about your bias on any source that available?
Dark fact number two: If someone intents to buy these fan books to support their artist, none of these book profit sale will go to artist pocket. Not that, it is that important. The issue of “slave contract” is haunting our favorite idol life. How the profit from their hard work is not shared fairly between Idols and their company has troubled fans’ mind for the longest time. So many fans’ perspective has shaped up into thinking any support should be given to these idols. So would it be better if the money used for buying these books go to buying digital single these idols have? It is because official DVD is way more expensive than these books but not more than digital single.
Guided by my high curiosity, in one cozy after noon I took a walk to nearest book store. Random-styled I pick one of the books. And the winner goes to…..
Book Title: Shining SHINee
Writer: @off_shawolindo
Editor: sheenchan
Language: Bahasa Indonesia
Year of publish: 2011
Publisher: PT Wahyumedia
Shinee is back
Shinee is in the house
Give it up for Shinee….
Upon my mounted fiction books on my desk, it is kinda refreshing to read something nonfiction like this book. I always like documentary book. And lately I have a strange fondness of reading article on website, newspaper or magazine. I absolutely have no problems with this kind of book.
On the first half of the book, the book talks about the history of SHINee like on what year they debut, on whatever show and concert they already had appeared, and their debut and comeback singles and albums. And then we get to be introduced to SHINee members’ profile. After, they give away some Fun facts about SHINee members. What are their favorite food, what kind of their ideal type of girl *yawn*, and not to forget the effort to describe each member’s personality outside the “stage”. These personalities that this book tries to describe and to picture are pretty much what members shows on variety show means just another facet of idol life. I’m pretty sure there’s nothing new in this book if the readers have followed these boys rigorously on variety shows.
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| This was from a time before they signed with Etude, I guess. That's horrible make up. Ma boyz look better than this |
SHINee is one of few boy groups that I follow near enough but not close enough in term of music. And it is so fantastic, so elastic, they are one out of three boy groups that I can name all of the members *YAY*. So, it is easy to say that I’m not aware of all SHINee facts, fun or not, in this book. But I read and I learned, eh. Here they are, the things that I’ve learned:
1. Taemin is the prettiest and the most beautiful one among SHINee members. I thought that one place means for Key. Sorry Key I must give the tiara to Taemin. Those cheek bones, that jaw line, those lips, that shyly smile, all those noona can’t resist. Nam dongsaeng nomu yeppeo... *squish*
2. Stop calling Jonghyun the shortest! XD He’s the bubbliest one. I feel you Jonghyun, we got the same Achilles’ heel.
3. Key has the sharpest tongue and sophisticated fashion sense. I adore him if only for that.
4. Maybe he’s not the most talented member in SHINee, but I’m sure he is the one that has the loveliest and the most rounded eyes in SHINee from where he got all his flames.
5. Onew slowly becomes my nomero uno bias in SHINee for no obvious reason :D
6. I know, I know instead of a shawol noona, a shallow noona is more appropriate for me :P
7. I just knew that these boys got that many accidents during their career in SHINee, that bad enough till pushing back album released date, not attending concert, or even absence on CF shoot. No wonder though, they are such robotronic dancing machine.
8. I never thought many from SHINee songs are composed and produced by non Korean composer and producer. I thought I listened to Korean pop.
9. This system with so many single, mini album, full album, and repackage album is so confusing, I lost track on which and when SHINee’s songs were released. And it seems that one song can be found in several albums. Should I give prop to SME?
And the second half of the book, we are coming closer to what K pop fandom looks like from the inside. It makes me warm inside when I read comments (yeah minus the trolling antis) on one K pop group official Youtube channel, and I can feel how these fans so care toward thier idols, these people whom the fans have never meet in the real life. It is full of love, fluffy like cotton candy. I think this one thing is that makes K pop appealing to me. Behave like a kid and do stupid thing for no one care. Just have fun, and laugh out loud.
But K pop fandom is not always beautiful. The craziness that sesange fans did is heard left and right. These fans take their love to different level. And what used to be stupid and fun becomes crazy and harmful. Many time I think, this obstructive behavior is nurtured from false hood that done by both side, not only the sesange fans who should take the blame but the artist and the artist management company should too. There’s something about the way Korean idol management companies in promoting their idols. They make the relationship between idols and fans looks deeper than that. But there’s no way to rob fans’ money better than that anyway. Cause “Hey He’s my hubby and I’m his wifey”. Cause every song and every album that the idol group puts out is always GOOD, no matter how. And “my oppa is flawless, he can’t do no wrong”. Everyone who says the otherwise is an antis. “Oppa!! Don’t listen to the antis”, said fans.
Absurd comment is absurd comment. When this comment is printed in a book like there’s nothing wrong with it, it makes me want to open these fans’ skull and see what inside. Well book is not Youtube or blog comment section I can say.
“And I start to think when will come a time I can meet them in person, see their face and smile closely, see their hair blown by the wind, watch they are walking, singing, and dancing directly. When will come a time I can shake hand with them and feel their warm and their soft skin under mines. When will come a time I can ask for their signature added with ‘LOVE’ personally. And I’ll protect all of that more than I’ll protect myself.”
Please kids, your self is important, way more important than a piece of paper with a signature from your oppa. Even when your said oppa hit and slap you, you can sue him, not just brush it under the rug by hiding the video.
“Don’t believe anything bad rumor about them (SHINee). Don’t what antis saying. Just believe them. Just believe they always shine forever.”
I’m pretty sure what they refer as an anti is different with what I refer as an anti. There’s such a thing called constructive criticism. This kind of sentiment will hinder the idol growth as an artist. After, fan couldn’t blame anyone when the idols’ material goes weaker and weaker every year. And at the end, these idols are human, and human makes mistake.
“It is like every time, my friends mocked anything that I did. They said things that should not be said. I tried to be patient and relax. But the patient exists no longer when they said “SHINee is no man”. I answered straight forwardly “You can say I’m crazy or anything, but please don’t say such of thing about SHINee”. That day was mesh up, all my best friends from class X slowly going further away. Only voice and shadow of SHINee is there to be friend with spending the day.”
Aigoo, your friends in real life are as precious, if not more precious, as SHINee. They are the ones who can actually help you when the times get rough.
“How much I’m jealous with people who can see them clearly and closely”
But eh no wonder if this comes from people who said Kim Jonghyun and Shin Sekyung rumored relationship was Bad Thing that can be included as SCANDAL. He’s over twenty. It is normal if he dated a girl or girls perhaps XD
“How I cry happily seeing them put so much care about the environment (earth). How they keep down to earth even though they are already popular. How they always smile and wave to the camera everywhere they go. How I smile heartily seeing them be their self anywhere they go”
Eh?? I don’t know if this fan plays innocent or she/he is just plain ignorance. Their management company told them so. I wonder they would ever survive in the K pop entertainment world if they be the otherwise. And almost all the variety shows they involve in are scripted. SMH
I realize probably the fans who made these comments are hormone-driven teenage girls. But at the same time, this excuse is used by sesange fans, whom we know lot of them are still at teen age, to escape from the laws for invading idol privacy. I just hope as they grow older their views about how relationship between fan and idol is supposed to be change as well. The more I see the issue that way, the more I think the K pop fever is like infatuation, it will go as fast as it comes and hit. And then I come to question: Is that what's the people behind the Hallyu wave agenda want? As we come realize that Hallyu wave is more than K pop and K drama.
All in all, I never get the whole hype about releasing this kind of book. What’s the point? Now the books about K pop groups and their fandom have occupied several racks in the book store. Wow. My suspicious mind told me if it has something to do with the K pop fans’ habit in buying ever thing, I mean EVERY THING about their bias like they are under hypnotist and losing their mind on the process. Eh. And see if the last B2ST concert in Indonesia was the result of that one book about B2ST. So go go go Elf, Shawol, Primadona, Cassie, Wonderful, Bois, VIP, Blackjack! Anyhow I just want to believe it is just some kind of fans’ appreciation toward their idols. 100% love. And whatsnot for love?
늘 그자리에
SHINee Honesty
Onew
하나 둘 셋
Hana dul set
One, two, three
Taemin
잠을 쫓아 졸린 눈을 떠
Jameul jocha jollin nuneul tteo
I wake up and open my sleepy eyes
잠시 후면 또 내일이야
잠시 후면 또 내일이야
Jamsi humyeon tto naeiriya
It’ll be tomorrow in a little bit
깜짝할 새 지나간 하루가 허무해
깜짝할 새 지나간 하루가 허무해
Kkamjjakhal sae jinagan haruga haruhae
I feel bad for letting the day pass by so fast
가슴이 모랠 삼키지만
Gaseumi morael samkhijiman
I swallow sand
Jonghyun
정신 없이 시간이 흘러
Jeomsin eopsi sigani heulleo
Time passes by hectically
두근대던 우리 감정이
두근대던 우리 감정이
Dugeundaedeon uri gamjeongi
Will we get so used to our fluttering feelings
익숙해져 당연하듯 느껴질까
익숙해져 당연하듯 느껴질까
Iksukhaejyeo dangyeonhadeut neukkyeojilkka
That we’ll feel them as a definite thing?
괜한 걱정에 서러워
괜한 걱정에 서러워
Gwaenhan geokjeonge seoreowo
I’m sad over pointless worries
Key
소홀해진 인사들
So-olhaejin insadeul
Infrequent greetings
덤덤히 상처 줬을 행동들
Deomdeomhi sangcheo jwosseul haengdongdeul
Deomdeomhi sangcheo jwosseul haengdongdeul
Actions that scarred softly
아프게 하려 한 게 아닌데
Apheugeuryeo han ge aninde
I didn’t mean to hurt you
매번 미안한 마음만
Maebeon mianhan maeumman
I’m always sorry
Onew
늘 그 자리에 있어 날 지켜줘서
Neul geu jarie isseo nal jikhyeojwoseo
Because you’ve always been there to protect me
늘 내가 받을 비난 대신해서
Neul naega badeul binan daesinhaeseo
Because you’ve taken the criticism that I should receive
아무 말도 없이 날 감싸준 네 모습을 이젠
Amu maldo eopsi nal gamssajun ne mopseubeul ijen
You have shielded me without a word and now
내가 거울처럼 비추려 해
Naega geoulcheoreom bichuryeo hae
I will reflect you like a mirror
Key
또 되돌려 봐 기억의 필름
Tto dwedollyeo kioke philleum
Rewind the film of our memories
우리 처음 만난 날엔
Uri cheoreom mannan naren
To the day we first met
가슴 뛰어 감출 수 없는 눈물
Gaseum ttuieo gamchul su eopneun nunmul
My heart pounded, I couldn’t hide my tears
고마운 만큼 넘쳤어
Gomaun mankheum neomcheosseo
They overflowed as much as I was grateful
Onew
나보다 나를 이해해서
Naboda nareul ihaehaeseo
You understood me better than myself
내가 무너지려 할 때
Naega muneojiryeo halttae
When I was on the verge of breaking down
나보다 힘들어하는 네 모습에
Naboda himdeureohaneun ne moseube
Seeing you having a harder time than I did
또 아이처럼 울었어
Tto aicheoreom ureoseo
Made me cry like a child
Minho
우리 사이엔 끈이 있어
Uri saien kkeuni isseo
There’s a connection in our relationship
말론 설명할 수 없는 엄청난
Mallo seolmyeonghal su eopneun eomcheongnan
A huge one that I can’t explain in words
Jonghyun
우리 얘기, 추억이 차곡차곡
Uri yaegi chueogi chagokchagok
Our conversations, piled with memories
오늘도 계속 이어져
Oneuldo gyesok ieojyeo
Continue on today
Taemin
늘 그 자리에 있어 날 지켜줘서
Neul geu jarie isseo nal jikyeojwoseo
Because you’ve always been there to protect me
늘 내가 받을 비난 대신해서
Neul naega badeul binan daesinhaeseo
Because you’ve taken the criticism that I should receive
아무 말도 없이 날 감싸준 네 모습을 이젠
Amu maldo eopsi nal gamssajun ne moseubeul ijen
You have shielded me without a word and now
내가 거울처럼 비추려 해
Naega geoulcheoreom bichuryeohae
I will reflect you like a mirror
Jonghyun
늘 그 자리에 있어 날 지켜줘서
Neul geu jarie isseo nal jikyeojwoseo
Because you’ve always been there to protect me
늘 내가 받을 비난 대신 해서
Neul naega baseul binan daesin haeseo
Because you’ve taken the criticism that I should receive
아무 말도 없이 날 감싸준 네 모습을 이젠
Amu maldo eopsi nal gamssajun ne moseubeul ijen
You have shielded me without a word and now
안아주려 해
Anajuryeo hae
I will hold you
Key
힘들어져 포기하고 싶을 때
Himdeureojyeo phogihago sipheulttae
When it becomes tiring and I want to give up
Taemin
약한 맘에 도망치고 싶을 때
Yakhan mame domangchigo sipheul ttae
When I am weak and I want to run away
Jonghyun
작은 네 손이 내겐 가장 큰 힘 되는 걸
Jageun ne soni naegen gajang kheun himdweneun geol
Your small hand becomes my biggest strength
Minho
평생 널 위한 노랠 불러 줄게
Phyeongseong neol wihan norae bulleo julke
For the rest of my life, I’ll sing a song for you
Onew
늘 그 자리에 있어 날 믿고 지켜준 네게
Neul geu jarie isseo nal mitgo jikhyeojun nege
You have always been there, believing in me and protecting me
고마움 담은 노랠 전할게
Gomaum dameun norael jeonalke
I’ll convey this song of appreciation
Minho
길고도 긴 인연의 끈에
Gilgodo gin inyeone kkeume
At the end of this very long connection
어디에 닿을지 모를 종착역 끝에
Eodie daeulji mareul jongchagyeok kkeuthe
At the end of this train stop, unaware of where it’ll reach
서로 배워가며 많은 것을 느껴
Seoro baewogamyeo maneun geoseul neukkyeo
We learn as we go on and feel many things
마음 표현하긴 항상 늦어
Maum phyeohyeongin hangsang neujeo
I’m always late at expressing my emotions
가슴에는 잊혀지지 않겠지
Gaseumeneun ijyeojiji ankechi
You won’t be forgotten in my heart, right?
눈에는 남겨져 웃고 있겠지
Nuneneun namgyeojyeo utgo itgechi
You’ll remain in my eyes as you smile, right?
나의 기쁨이 너에게 행복이 된다면
Nae gippeumi neoege haengboki dwendamyeon
If my joy can become your happiness
고마워
Gomawo
I’ll be thankfull
Thanks To:kimchi hana @ shineee.net for lyric and translation
jiayiYT2, SMTOWN for videos
various sites and blogs for the beautiful shinee photos :D
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