Saturday, February 5, 2011

Big Bang x Uniqlo Collection to be sold in other countries

Excerpt from an article on Hochi Japan:

BIGBANG x UNIQLO items will be sold in 11 countries and 950 stores. UNIQLO is a global company so they decided to collaborate with BIGBANG, who's popular in other Asian countries.

The other parts of the article were just about Uniqlo and stuff that have been posted already. No info though as to when and which countries or branches the items will be sold. Will just post an update when more details are available but you can also try asking the Uniqlo stores in your country.

Translation by noriko@bigbangupdates

Seungri VVIP's Critics by 100beats.com

Seungri’s mini album has been released. It is like that his solo activities started slower than other members who have either released their albums or singles and have consolidated their individual images. On the contrary, even since Seungri released ‘Strong Baby’in 2008, it has been a long time for him to release other solo songs. We can still feel the pattern of ‘Strong Baby’ has sustained in his new album.

The introductory songs ‘VVIP’, “What do you want’ convey a trendy and sexy feeling coupled with his fashion, his stage is always powerful. There are parts which resemble to the music style of Justin Timberlake. He is able to present his image as a young boy in the amazing music. For the second half of the album, what he presents is with his unique style of music via which we can feel his masculinity.

From ‘Strong Baby’ to ‘VVIP’, we can see there are traces of Justin Timberlake in his music. The image of boy that he gives is contrasted to the sexy image he has in the same album. Comparing with other member, Seungri has a relatively strong character. VVIP contains a new music style but it suits him. Following VVIP, we are looking for another one which includes more songs of this style.


Source: happyrichlife ameblo
Korean critics: 100 beats.com
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Big Bang x Uniqlo @ UT Store in Harajuku


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Big Bang x Uniqlo T-Shirt Designs

















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Big Bang x Uniqlo Hoodies






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T-ara’s Hyomin apologizes to Big Bang’s Seungri for speaking informally

T-ara’s Hyomin recently apologized to her senior, Big Bangs Seungri, for speaking informally to him on public broadcast.
She recently wrote on her Twitter, “I was in the middle of watching a broadcast, and that day Seungri and I decided to have fun together by jokingly mocking each other and speaking comfortably, but it’s been bothering me cause it looked like I was talking carelessly.”
Hyomin was in fact talking about scenes from the recently broadcast SBS TV’s “King of Idols”, where the two were playing a water game. Hyomin made comments towards Seungri such as, “This guy’s kinda weird” and “He’s dumb.
Although Hyomin is technically older than Seungri, he is considered her senior as he debuted earlier in the music industry with Big Bang. Hyomin expressed, “We both agreed to do it out of fun, but if it was uncomfortable to watch then I apologize. I hope people do not think badly of it.”

Source: TV Report via Nate
(via allkpop)

What lesson can the K-pop industry take away from IU and GD&TOP?

Music analyst Hanteo revealed that the top digital songs for January were IU’s “Good Day” and GD&TOP’s “High High“, which ranked first and second respectively.
While these two tracks are of different genres and attract different fanbases, they share something in common – they demonstrate the artists’ grip on their music, and their natural flair for their craft.
IU took charts by storm with her impressive vocal talent, playing up to the music fans’ desire of wanting to hear an artist’s voice ‘as is’. MR removed videos, a popular ‘tool’ amongst fans, allowed listeners to scope IU’s natural voice and talent.
What’s ironic about success is that she secured it in an industry where auto-tune is considered ‘trendy’ and ‘modern’.  IU went back to the roots of music with her famous ‘three high notes’, and many are of the belief that if “Good Day” didn’t feature those high notes, IU wouldn’t have earned the explosive popularity she enjoys today.
Meanwhile, GD&TOP went the complete opposite direction by immersing themselves in the electronic hip hop genre. They debuted as a sub-unit group of Big Bang in order to fully express their personal musical tastes.
Having earned a bit more freedom in both style and music, the unit came up with an interesting blend of club sounds that ‘revolutionized’ the image of idol groups. Instead of strict choreography, the two moved about on stage freely, to the ‘feel of the music.’
T.O.P expressed earlier that they wanted to “break the stereotypes of idols,” and the duo managed to achieve just that.
Though they focused on different aspects, they managed to accomplish their goal of showcasing true musicality. The two broke out of the molds that idols are often enclosed in by performing and creating music that doesn’t restrict their liberties as musicians.

Source + Photos: Osen via Daum
(via allkpop)