Notices by Erzbet (erzbet@apobangpo.space)

@youronlyone TVXQ is actually the Japanese name. DBSK is the original Korean name for the group.

I'll probably respond to more of the long post once I'm more awake. Lol.

@youronlyone BTS was always BTS. I've been around since their debut and their videos were always labelled as BTS and then the Hangul full name in parenthesis. At one point Big Hit hired a PR firm that tried to change the meaning of the name from Bangtan Sonyeondan to "Beyond the Scene" and no one was having it, not international fans and not Korean fans.

@youronlyone I've had to explain to a lot of people why SNSD has 2 names. I honestly think it would have been better to just use SNSD.

WSJN tried to do the same thing with Cosmic Girls and GWSN with Girls in the Park. Both did nothing but confuse fans. I don't ever hear either English name used.

Honestly, as long as the Korean name is either not too hard to spell or can be abbreviated, it's just easier for a group to have 1 name. There's not really a need for groups to have lots of names.

@youronlyone @kpop@fedigroups.social @kpop@a.gup.pe

I haven't watched the show yet...I'm just here for Woongki getting to debut 🎉 🎉 🎉

@youronlyone

I don't know if Niners would really work for an English name, at least not if you intend to target the US as an audience. Niners is a commonly used short name for the San Francisco 49ers NFL team... a kpop group with that name would be buried in search results coming from the US.

I'm not sure I get the SNSD comparison, most of my English speaking kpop friends use SNSD.

Oh it's time to post these again...

For those who don't use Spotify, you can get your Recap from the Youtube Music app (even if you normally just listen to music using regular Youtube, it will still pull over your stats for the recap).

Youtube Music Recap Playlist:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LRYRD74My3iTfn4kbdLDkQ3IRSvcgG5RdREzb&si=qWIY_DJN4icBJQTy

Spotify Wrapped Playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1FoTbdXK8SCfAU?si=PbXQdqarQVKbVfDtj4wawQ&pi=9TGU9xECTgqwt

#Spotify #YoutubeMusic #SpotifyWrapped2024 #YoutubeMusicRecap2024 #SpotifyWrapped #YoutubeMusicRecap

@sapphicscreaming
Most MVs (music videos) are free of flashing lights and there's also things like dance practice videos that will be safe for you.

@lookitmychicken

Thunderous by Stray Kids
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaswWiwMVs8&ab_channel=JYPEntertainment

#kpop #StrayKids #4thGen

G-Dragon is back!

Power by G-Dragon
https://youtu.be/NMjhjrBIrG8?si=zu_GkncYUL9YmTkp

#kpop #NewMusic #GDragon #Bigbang #2ndGen

#KpopMonday theme: #IGotABoy

Good Boy by GD x Taeyang
https://youtu.be/1ZRb1we80kM?si=qUVTEgVw-S9ht4el

#kpop #GDragon #Taeyang #bigbang #2ndGen #Subunit

@youronlyone
Thai: 555555555555555

Happy #KpopMonday !

This week's theme is #GoodOrBad (songs with good and/or bad in the title).

#kpop #music

@KDramaQn @youronlyone @ronsboy67

most of the 6 - 8 episode dramas are webdramas that usually also get released in movie format. It's totally different from a standard kdrama.

Yesterday I promised a thread on producer tags in #kpop songs, so I'm going to make this post and dump a ton of links in the replies so I can set them unlisted and hopefully make this less spammy possibly.

So what are producer tags? They are a small audio clip that a producer will tuck into the song, usually near the beginning. It's sort of like an artist adding their signature to a painting. Some producers do it, some don't.

Below are some examples. Feel free to ask questions in replies.

@cinderdazzle612 I've thought about doing a theme week of the songs with the producer tags at the beginning (like the whispered "JYP" at the start of all the songs he produced). There's also something to be said about the unique company intros at the start of a lot of kpop mvs.

:)

@cinderdazzle612 Oh, this is a whole fun tangent in kpop. Since there's so many producers that produce for lots of groups, they create little sound tags that they add to the beginning of songs "I need a Cha Cha beat boy" from Cha Cha Malone or "Woogie on and on" from Woogie. It's a way for fans to know they are behind the song even when it comes from other artists at different companies. Lemme collect a bunch of examples and maybe I'll do a whole spam posting of them tomorrow or something.

For the first #KpopMonday of 2024, the theme is #BestKpopOf2023

Share all your favorite kpop songs that came out in 2023.

#kpop #music

@youronlyone That dance move has been around a lot longer than last year. I was watching Melbourne shuffle compilation videos 15+ years ago where kids were doing those same steps as part of their shuffle routines.

Jubi probably didn't know about it when he made his dance challenge because shuffling comes out of a pretty specific subculture that existed before tiktok and what not so I'm not faulting him for taking credit for the challenge. Just clarifying that the move has been around longer.