Shinee fucking ran so that kpop could walk and those are just the facts that everyone should accept.
They debuted when kpop had a very specific style and concept of what young boy groups could do in order to sell but Shinee really knocked on the doors with replay and as soon as they opened, they deadass shot out Lucifer and Ring DD and no body was prepared lmao.
They legitimately redefined kpop and I really don’t think they get enough credit for that? FROM DAY ONE, they had the most intricate and class choreographies in kpop. There’s a reason why shinee are called performance legends. It’s because you can pick any damn shinee choreography and it’s just so amazingly well executed; Not to mention they’re the first kpop idols who started releasing choreography practice videos and dancing without backup dancers which as y’all can see, has become the norm now.
Also, TILL DATE Shinee had the most packed schedule for any kpop rookie group ever. They were out there performing for 8 hours and then going back home just to rehearse for another 8. Their success was so unexpectedly high and they were literally teenagers handling all that fame. Taemin was a literal child with a bowl cut ffs. Also, don’t come for my bowl cut children, they looked PRECIOUS in the replay MV.
Even as early as 2011, Shinee being known as variety show and pilot experts because they’re naturally so funny and have a bond within them that easily puts people at ease and makes for one crazy episode with no chaos or anything “extra” per say. Just shinee being shinee is enough. In an industry where idols don’t even react to other female idols at award shows cause of the knetz, ya bois, Taemin and Minho really went fuck it and did whole collab stages with Sunmi and Yuri. The flex. Not to mention the way Shinee and especially Jonghyun & Taemin said a huge Fuck you to Korea’s oh so precious “masculine aura” and just went on with releasing pretty boy and Taemin saying makeup isn’t something for girls and that makeup is for all genders, a legend.
The way Shinee had fans in countries like Dubai, Russia, India and many many others at a time when kpop really wasn’t a thing? It was just Korean music for Koreans but shinee went ahead and did their thing and it broke language barriers as if they were air. It’s 2020 and Barack Obama talking about shinee still feels like a fever dream to me tbh.
Not even mentioning anything else now BUT just their music and it’s impact man?? The way shinee put out ALBUM after ALBUM with no rest and the fact being that, Every damn song they put out was a WHOLE BANGER.
Like?? SHINEE’S FUCKING DISCOGRAPHY??
JULIETTE, SHERLOCK, RING DD, REPLAY, LUCIFER, STRANGER, GOOD EVENING, VIEW, PICASSO, MARRIED TO THE MUSIC, WHY SO SERIOUS?? BRUH WHAT EVEN?
SHINEE songs that get covered by rookie idols everyday, mentioned by established idols as their inspiration during trainee days, songs that the entire population of Korea would know. Songs that trainees practice on for hours hoping that one day they too, would debut.
Shinee, a boygroup who’s know as the group who “made their own concepts” and everyone else simple followed.
And the craziest part is they are one of the longest standing groups in kpop, been together for 12 whole years and are still as relevant and iconic as ever. The fact that all five members have so much solo potential and even then nothing trivial like fame or money had ever seemed to break shinee up as a group is really a feat.
Taemin is no doubts THE best dancer and one of the most successful soloists in the entire kpop industry. A living legend tbh. His discography is hot, molten GOLD. Jonghyun’s VOCALS are liter-al-ly one of the strongest vocals in the entire industry and every damn shinee song is a proof of his sheer excellence as a main vocalist. Cue to Stranger. Onew deadass sang opera for a loaded audience once and left everyone shook and his 40 sec long note. Also, this man leads the chaos that is shinee, mad respect. Key’s rapping style is honestly so distinctive. y’all put him in a room with 10 rappers and he’ll still outsell. Also, his ‘born to shine’ solo stage. HE DID THAT. Minho really out there being a multi talented class act, who’s a main rapper but has vocals that could kill. Not only that, man be out here having acted in so many successful dramas.
Imma say this once and I want all you third gen kpop stans to print it out, Shinee did for kpop what no one else did so you might not stan them or listen to their music but the one thing your ass will do, IS RESPECT THEM. Respect shinee and everything that they went through in a time where kpop wasn’t shit and kpop artists were treated so heartlessly as if they were nothing but cash machines. Also they’re from SM so God knows what kinda shit that company has put them through and one can never imagine the sheer amount of pressure on the members to have been so young and so in pain but having no one to trust at the heights of their success; Imagine being loved and cheered on by thousands on a stage only to come back home to nothing but you and your head in the now deafening silence. Imagine waking up one day and finding out that a boy you spent half your lifetime with, shared your best and worst moments with, is suddenly gone? Just like that? AND THEN having the sheer fucking courage to go up in front of thousand teary eyes and questioning glances, leaving a microphone empty on a stage and while using his damn background vocals; singing your heart out to the songs he wrote under an aqua blue moon knowing, for sure, that what began in 2008 will never really end, ever.
A quote I found on the TRNCG petition that I think fits very well to the different situations we’ve had this past year.
From Ikon and Monsta X being slandered with rumors with absolutely NO evidence and their members dropped because of it, to YG managing Blackpink, Winner, and ALL their artists so badly, to TS neglecting and abusing their artists (some of which are MINORS)…..
I’ve seen so many people complain about how the international community stereotypes all S.Koreans because of how they see the Kpop industry. That the Kpop Industy and what happens in the Kpop Industry isn’t representative of all S.Koreans and how they think and act.
BUT, this is what we see first. Your artists and your companies are the representatives of your country. I saw a story a IMBB living in Korea posted about how she was telling her friend, a native korean, about what was happening with Wonho and MX and that her friend brushed it off and said “oh that always happens. People get upset about a company dropping an idol for whatever reason, but they settled down to it because the companies never listen to the customers.”
You’re adding to the stereotypes by being complacent about idols and celebrities being slandered without evidence, being mistreated and mishandled by their companies, ESPECIALLY if they’re a foreign artists from somewhere like China or Japan or Thailand or Taiwan or SOMEWHERE that isn’t S.Korea, about CHILDREN being neglected and beaten and starved, forced to pay their own hospital bills because the company won’t lift a finger to help.
I’m not saying that the international community is squeaky clean and straight and narrow. We have our own issues we have to deal with and how the world views us, and we’re working slowly (so so so slowly) on fixing it.
However, that doesn’t change the fact that this is what the rest of the world sees first of S.Korea. After they get interested by the bright colors and flashy MVs and EXTREMELY talented artists, they see what they call “The Factory”. They see the neglect, they see the abuse, they see how a whole nation condemns and ruins an artists career from bringing something from 7-10 years ago (WITH NO PROOF), they see the thousands of starving, bruised and helpless kids lined up with fear in their eyes to APOLOGISE that their company for exposed for their mistreatment.
So, maybe instead of complaining about how the rest of the world sees you, you should work to correct what you put out into it. Protect your artists. Protect their mental and physical health. Protect them from being condemned and ruined when there is no proof. PROTECT THEM FROM MALICIOUS COMMENTS. GET THEM HELP WHEN THEY ASK FOR IT. They’re not toys, they’re not slaves, they’re not products. They’re humans that represent your country, and your complacent and condemning attitude is what’s harming them.
it has come to my attention in many forms (especially when one of my followers decided to send it to me to talk about on my account, which i agreed, would be a good idea) what is going on in kpop at the moment and in short, it is not acceptable.
as kpop bands get more attention globally, fans wars are some of the biggest there has been since i have got into kpop and certainly the biggest in a few years.
it starts harmless and i ignore it as much as i can and i never post about anything negative/triggering such as fan wars or hate on my blog as i just don’t think it’s a good idea. however, this is ridiculous.
^ these are some of the comments that people have managed to screenshot from chan’s recent vlive. who thinks this is okay? who seriously looks at this and thinks this is an acceptable thing to post on someone’s live video? most of the people commenting these things don’t even know chan and that what hurts me the most.
also, bringing anything that has happened with either sulli or jonghyun into other people’s lives or using it as an excuse to hate on them will never be okay. what happened to the two of them was devestating, hurt a lot of people and is never going to be acceptable to be used in this way.
i’m not asking you to do anything about this.
i understand that most of the time, hashtags and video projects don’t work. however,
i am asking you to reblog this.
reblog this, share this, screenshot and post anywhere you can just to spread the message:
this is not okay.
this is heartless and rude.
no one deserves this, especially not people who have worked for years to get where they are.
stays were always the brightest and happiest and calmest fandom i have ever been in and i don’t want to lose that, but this is not just about stays. this is about kpop fans. please, please, please, reblog this, share this and hopefully we can get it across to everyone.
With SHINee’s concerts coming up at the end of this week i just want to say if i see any of yall attacking Jinki or saying anything negative about him this week be prepared to square up because i will not tolerate that shit. Same goes for Taemin since ive seen people attack him for “not crying/showing emotion at jonghyuns funeral precession” or whatever. Ot4 stans yall can choke. Show some fucking respect for the group yall claim to love.
I posted this on Twitter and Instagram but I need to have it here too.
I really think Minho isn’t a person who can pretend he’s okay. That boy wears his heart on his sleeve. He was the last to see Jjong and I’m still so distraught over it.
I’ve never seen him look so broken and I just keep thinking about him. I’m not saying I know him. I don’t by any means. But…. I really feel he and I are the same in that respect.
I’d really love to just sit with Minho and tell him that grief is just love with nowhere to go. He has the biggest heart, so much love and that just hurts. He doesn’t deserve that.
He also was the one who went immediately back to work so he really hasn’t had time to grieve, he hasn’t had time alone to express, to give Jonghyun all that love. I hope everyone is mindful around Minho. He’s had his fair share of malicious words
I remember him saying that he knew of Jonghyun’s insomnia and would just sit with him and talk. I’m sure they spoke a lot… I’m sure he knew. I’m sure there was a reason he was always the one to console him right away. He listened to Blue Night regularly.
Minho has so much love with nowhere to go. He learnt so much about Jonghyun. He even said so himself.
He was always attentive around Jonghyun since debut but after his car accident in 2013. I noticed he was even more so. Fawning over him during EVERYBODY. He was just relieved.
The fact that Jonghyun had dedicated happy birthday to him at the inspired concert. I think about that a lot too…. I wonder what he’d been thinking then…. Minho attended all of his concerts but I think inspired will stay with him.
What was going through Jonghyun’s mind during happy birthday. I’m still thinking about this…. I mean I don’t know. That just breaks my heart.
I think…that was his way of saying “I’ll see you later, when you listen to this song please treat me kindly. I love you. Happy birthday.”
I’m sorry I’m just emotional.
I’m sorry for rambling. It’s just no one is talking about Minho much I just have a lot to say.
the music video “빛이나 (shinin’)”, the title track for poet | artist, has official been released. to begin: please do not download and upload the music video to any other youtube channel as the views will be important in helping to bring in potential wins on music shows next week. if you do not feel like you are ready to watch the video yet: you are not obligated to and do not feel bad for not being able to do so. take your time with it. you can help to spread word of the release around in other ways, such as: reblogging this post, sharing the link to the video on social media, etc. for people who do plan on watching it: please see this post for a tutorial on how to raise views.
