#and we love a.c.e

[junsfangs]

2024.04.28 Thank you so much, thanks to you, I was very happy with this tour 😍🤍 let's meet again soon 🤍

[slowlydiving]

King Wow's #1 Fan

[jinhogae]

i love them so much i’m gonna hurl

[jwooyoung]

"jade will see a person i stan and say 'well aléks must be right' and start fawning over them. you should all learn from this." - @taeminblr

[okaysign]

1 / 2 / 3 (tw flashing) / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7

[vladilife]

scaramouche’s pov:

queen - love of my life

cr to the fancams on yt: forever_jh2, s_cya_tar, ffin531

[februaryflowers]

fun fact :D im a nerd who likes making + keeping spreadsheets so i’ve been keeping track of my posted wcs for everyone ive written for on here so.....

if you were curious...wonwoo is number one with 30k...and...seonghwa is two...with 18 (almost 19)k... (that’s 22.1 and 13.7% of my total posted wc respectively 8] )

[081098]

concert nostalgia pt.2

[fairyjiu]

Below you'll find a list of underrated gifmakers who deserve more love and support for their creations. I've tried to list a few groups and artists they create for to help navigate a little but obviously that is not going to contain every single one so please take some time to look through their creations. I've made a similar post about gfx makers before so check these creators too.

Okay here we go

@minzbins : mixed bgs - lucy, tempest, onewe, cravity, sf9, onf - tag

@mizugucci : mixed bgs - onf, omega x, blitzers, 24k - tag

@moonsua : mixed ggs - billlie, aespa, fromis, dreamcatcher - tag

@zhaozi: mixed - zb1, just b, wayv, cravity - tag

@sillyabtmusic : mixed bgs - kingdom, oneus, onewe - tag

@junsfangs : mostly a.c.e - tag

@nishihiroto : mixed bg - vanner, astro, wayv, b1a4 - tag

@dreamaze : mixed bg - onewe, monsta x, m.o.n.t - tag

@chaeryeongzz : mixed - weeekly, triple s, red velvet, itzy - tag

@chowonsang : mixed bgs - lucy, xdinary heroes, dkb, superkind - tag

@idontmissu: mixed - lightsum, stayc, woo!ah!, nmixx - tag

@wonpiris: mixed bgs - day6, xdinary heroes, stray kids - tag

@dosireh: mixed ggs - artms, billlie, pixy, purple kiss - tag

@pixypunch: mixed ggs - rocket punch, nmixx, dreamnote -tag

@hwichanis: mixed bgs - sf9, onepact, pentagon, zb1, ateez - tag

@cherry-heartss: mixed ggs - twice, red velvet, itzy, pixy, - tag

@reveloser: mixed ggs - red velvet, artms, wjsn, woo!ah! - tag

@rinador: mixed ggs - red velvet, badvillain, twice - tag

@master-tonberry: mixed - wayv, kiss of life, aespa, seventeen -tag

@bravegirlss: mixed ggs - red velvet, dreamcatcher, kep1er -tag

@atlantis-area: shinee - tag

@chearyeongs: mixed ggs - twice, artms, loossemble, aespa

@shin-ryujinies: mixed ggs - red velvet, aespa, itzy - tag

Please support our gifmakers by reblogging their posts and following them.

[wongyuseok]

Bex's Top 20(+1) Songs of 2023

Spotify Playlists: Top 20(+1) ♡ Top 100 ♡ 2023 On Repeat (<- the unabridged favorites list [19+ hours])

tagged by @xiaojuun @dongkwan @hohowonho & @yangsminho thank you beloveds 💜

So I have learned that I am incapable of picking a reasonable number of favorites throughout this whole process and I even kept an extra song bc I wanted to make the gfx for it. Also the layout. But here are some of my favorites from 2023!

Some thoughts: I still don't know the purki members even tho I was OBSESSED with cabin fever. Busted top song of 2023? Multiple hags had comebacks this year & teen top's tt stood out to me when I was looking back (I don't count exo as hags even tho they are...)! Infinite's & tvxq's cbs were also really good! I still think knock knock by reve should've been the tt of chill kill. Loved my soloists in 2023 (jo yuri, kim sejeong, woodz, b.i, tabber, onew, d.o, kai). Several of whom were new to me. WayV may not be kpop, but their album was too important to me not to list. I joked that my top 10 was just the omy album, but it really was very good. EXO returned!! And we probably won't see them again until 2026 😭 Perfume best debut of 2023 /hj. I still don't technically stan the boyz somehow even tho I tuned in to all of their cbs this year and now know all the members. Also 🕯 pls let a.c.e drop a full album (as a full group 😒) in 2024 🕯and ilu everything I didn't mention but made the top 20. ok enough outta me 🤐

tagging (if you've already done this pls tag me!! I'd love the see it 🫶🏻 & if you're not a cc, I'd still love to see a list if you want to do one! 💜): @jwooyoung @lee-minhoe @bethereforme @possession1981 @honeydewtual @28reas0ns @sunminshine @sunghanbin @awek-s @jeonwon-wonwoo @zuhoz @kimsmingyu @jaebeomtual @okaysign @onmywayv @goblinvern @baekhyunonlyfans @wifehwa @flaredpantsagenda @haechannabelle @kihyunsgf @sunmisbf @neonsbian @wayvmp3 @duovxq @tipannies @pinktaeyeon @jftk @ninqz @nfly5 @talksaxy @baekslight @byunbaekhyunie I'm going off memory and definitely forgot people (I'm sorry🫣) but I think most people who are gonna do this have done this already anyway 😅🤷‍♀️

[ultkpopnetwork]

Thank you all for all the votes on the May poll <3 June has been crazy busy we have a record for amount of songs on the poll for this year at 89!

Click here for poll! votes and reblogs appreciated

Full May Results

Aespa -Supernova 51,2%

TripleS - Girls Never Die 51,2%

Aespa - Armageddon 41,9%

Artms - Virtual Angel 34,9%

Ateez - Work 34,9%

Yves feat. Lil Cherry - Loop 27,9%

D.O - Mars 23,3%

D.O - Popcorn 23,3%

A.C.E - Supernatural 20,9%

Chen - Empty 18,6%

ZB1 - Feel The Pop 18,6%

B.I - Tasty 16,3%

Mark Lee - 200 14%

Oneus - Now 14%

Soojin - Mona Lisa 14%

Yook Sungjae - 14%

Alexa - I'm Okay 9,3%

BM feat. Jay Park - Nectar 9,3%

Dxmon - Girls, Love Boys, Love Girls 9,3%

RM - Lost! 9,3%

Sorn feat. Hongseok - Crazy Stupid Lovers 9,3%

Suho - 1 to 3 9,3%

Suho feat. Wendy - Cheese 9,3%

Asc2nt - Love Me Do 7%

Kino feat. Lay Banks - Broke My Heart 7%

MCND - X10 7%

NewJeans - How Sweet 7%

RM - Come Back to me 7%

Ryu Sujeong feat. Yein - Orange Juice 7%

Blasé feat. Chungha - Turtle 4,7%

E'Last - Gasoline 4,7%

Hyuna - Q&A 4,7%

Hyunjun - Backseat 4,7%

Stray Kids feat. Charlie Puth 4,7%

Treasure - King Kong 4,7%

Vromance - A Good Day to Walk

Wooseok feat- Taka Perry - You 4,7%

Apoki feat. Somin - Nu Boo 2,3%

Eastshine - Hearthrob 2,3%

Hanbyeol - Wish 2,3%

Just B - Daddy's Girl 2,3%

Kim Hyerim - If I am with you, it's always spring 2,3%

Lee Dongyeol - Drip Drop 2,3%

Leo - Come Closer 2,3%

Lim Young Woong - Warmth 2,3%

Nexz - Ride The Vibe 2,3%

Nika - Easy to Please me 2,3%

Park Jeup - My Everything 2,3%

Taeha - Satellite 2,3%

Waterfire - Possible 2,3%

We;Na - Baby Step 2,3%

Whib - Kick It 2,3%

You Dayeon - Keep It Low 2,3%

Younite - Geekin' 2,3%

[junsfangs]

2023.11.28 😇wow

[minhosblr]

━ Year-end 2023 and 1k appreciation post! ☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

Hello there! It's me Maja and I just want to make this post to show some appreciation to some of all the people, who has made my 2023 on this blog so so so worth it! If now isn't the best time to do so, idk when would be. First of all, it's the end of 2023, which means we all somehow made it through another shit-show (I am proud of all of you!!). I also hit 1k followers on here yesterday. It's wild to me, seeing how I only made this blog back in April. It means a lot to me, knowing that so many of you decided to follow me on here - either after following me on my main or just because you found this blog and decided it was worth it! ♥

Thank you to all of you. Thank you for following me (not the probably 1k bots I've had to blog) and for reblogging my stuff and supporting me on here!

I will promise that I will continue to make lots of Minho content in the new year as well!

Under the cut is a list of some of the people, whom I appreciate a lot on this blog. Doesn't matter if we talk or not. If I see you on my dash or in the notes, then I consider you as one of my (at least) somewhat homies! ♥

Thank you folks! (this is in the order of my following list, because I am too lazy to do it in order of anything else).

@fauna-and-floraa @wantbytaemin @jeongined @blueprintchan @minho-knows @skzfaker @minchanz @usergyu @seungmoes @leenope @backformores @christakisbang @hongamon @boba-skz @crazy-form @hyunebear @jerirose @strayklds @lee-minhoe @shorelinnes @booskwan @yang-innie @cheekyquokka @chanrizard @agibbangs @dinoboos @yonglixx @chrizztophers @jinniebit @bandzboy @leefelex @nevoono @go-saeng @quokki @avocadomin @jizung @seo-changbinnies @exocean @hyunpic @chanstopher @yunwooz @leeknown @stray-but-okay @seungminhos @yangjeongin @hyunjinz @snug-gyu @bangzchan

Chances are I might have missed people, and I am sorry for that! I just looked through the people I follow, and I might have forgotten some of the multis who also post or reblog skz stuff (I still love you! If I follow you, I am literally confessing my love to you as we speak). I follow quite a lot of people for my main and a.c.e blog (aka. non-skz, so yeah)

Thank you once again and I hope everyone will have a great 2024!

[the-strange-world]

Summer Vibes ☀️ Kpop Songs

Part 1

PARTY - Girls’ Generation

THRILL RIDE - THE BOYZ

WHISPER - THE BOYZ

WE GO - fromis_9

Our dawn is hotter than day - SEVENTEEN

BLUE - WONHO

Dance The Night Away - TWICE

One of Those Nights - KEY feat. Crush

Take Me Higher - A.C.E

RUN - H1-KEY

Tiki-Taka (99%) - Weki Meki

Red Flavor - Red Velvet

Mojito - Red Velvet

Cherry On Top - YOUHA

ISLAND - YOUHA

FOREVER 1 - Girls’ Generation

Summer Night - Girls’ Generation

No Air - THE BOYZ

Summer Time - THE BOYZ

Bloom Bloom - THE BOYZ

Sweet Travel - VICTON

Shine - PENTAGON

Humph! - PENTAGON

SUMMER! - PENTAGON

Naughty Boy - PENTAGON

Chi Mat Ba Ram - Brave Girls

Rollin’ - Brave Girls

Rollin - VANNER

PLAY DUMB - OMEGA X

Surfin’ - Stray Kids

Alcohol Free - TWICE

Tamed-Dashed - ENHYPEN

WAVE - CIX

Wave - ATEEZ

Love Dive - IVE

Drama - TXT

DUMDi DUMDi - (G)I-DLE

Candy Sugar Pop - ASTRO

After Midnight - ASTRO

Crazy Sexy Cool - ASTRO

End of Spring - ONEWE

Travel - MAMAMOO

HONEY - SOLAR

Somebody! - Hwa Sa & Loco

BEAM BEAM - JEON SOYEON

Weekend - TAEYEON

Ring The Alarm - KARD

Lilac - IU

Bbibbi - IU

Blueming - IU

[boysplanetrecaps]

Build Up Episode 1: Don’t Go

Hello and welcome back to my Build Up recaps! In the last one, we covered the first two “Pre-4” Mission performances -- If You and Every Moment of You. In this post, we’ll cover Don’t Go (Kajima) and wrap up episode 1, finally!

I found some decent links to watch the episodes. 

Episode 1

Episode 2

I’m deliberately hiding them behind a read more since I’m not sure if MNET knows about them and/or if they’ll be there forever, so watch while you can! 

Just a little note before we dive in -- I noticed after I had posted the previous one that Seunghun from CIX has braces! 

I’m just really surprised, because I would have guessed that his agency would have made him take them off for this show, or something. I’m glad he has them if he needs them, for sure -- it’s just a surprise. Knowing this helps explain why he smiles so strangely sometimes. 

Anyway! 

Don’t Go

The next performance is Kajima, Kajima (Don’t Go, Don’t Go). 

A little about the song before we get to the performance. It was originally performed by a singing duo called Brown Eyes, which, per Wikipedia, is “considered one of South Korea's most important R&B groups, given their immense commercial success.” The duo consists of Yoon Gun and Naul, both of whom have gone on to do other stuff. Naul recently did a duo with Sung Sikyung, the guy who first sang Every Moment of You (the previous song on this show). The song Kajima, Kajima won the Best Ballad/R&B Performance award at the 2008 MNET Asian Music awards.

Kajima, Kajima is the miserable wail of a deserted lover begging their partner to come back. Some of the lyrics, per a blog I found: “Stupidly / I still live for you / Where are you? / I need you so much / Oh baby, my only one / Please stop and come back now / Just tell me this is a joke / Simply return to me.” 

Mini Korean lesson: You might recognize the -jima ending from the GOT7 song Stop It, when they say “hajima, hajima” over and over (“hajima” means “don’t). And you heard the “ka” verb at the beginning of the Oneus song Lit, when they say, “Kaja!” (let’s go!) So ka is for go, and -jima is a negative command, so kajima is “don’t go”. Woot! 

Kajima, Kajima is known for a really high note -- a high G#5. I would have to warm up to hit that note at all -- and I’m not confident I could hit it with much resonance. And I’m a mezzo-soprano -- it would be insane to hit that note as a tenor!  Like the other ballads on this show, it’s known for being particularly emotional, but in this case it’s also tricky to sing. That’s why the other guys call it a “hell song.”

So, who would want to take this song on? Why, mister high notes himself, Park Jeup.

Park Jeup was second to choose and chose this song right off, but it took a while for anyone else to join him, to the point that he started to get nervous. But after a bit, 16th ranked Detective Donghun from A.C.E. chose it while there were still spots open in every song. It turns out that Donghun really wanted to sing Breath but chose this song so that he could work with Jeup. Aww! They were on I Can See Your Voice 4 together, so Donghun may have admired Jeup’s voice for a while. They’re “chingus” in the sense that they were born in the same year, 1993, and in Korean culture having someone around who is the same age as you is sort of meaningful, almost like when you meet someone from your home country when you’re abroad.

“Will I be able to sing this song well?” … “I’m sure you’ll do well.”

Also, Donghun proved he’s not scared to tackle tough material when he did an EXO song for his teaser performance. 

By the time Neon chose the song, Ditto, Tomboy, and Shall I Love You Again  were closed, but he seems to choose this song without hesitation. By the time 36th place Hyukjin choose it, the only songs open were this song, Every Moment Of You (the one we just saw), or Breath, but I think he might have really wanted this song anyway. Based on his teaser performance -- that wild metal performance -- he also likes to tackle tough material. (Hyukjin was also born in 1993, making him also a chingu to Jeup and Donghun. Neon is a little younger, about 28 years old.)

In my original assessment of Jeup, I noted that I loved his technique but wasn’t sure about his timbre, but that I’d give him a chance to grow on me. For Hyukjin, I recognized the ambition of what he tried to do and again decided to reserve judgment. About Neon, I said that he has nice, clean vocals, with good technique and a lot of power. And I said that Donghun has an appealing warm vocal color with good breath support, but strains his throat a bit. If I had to pick a favorite voice of the four based on their teaser song, I’d choose Neon, but Donghun wouldn’t be too far behind. This is a group of powerful vocalists, regardless of the category they chose, and I am hopeful that it will turn out well.

The group seems pretty happy to all be working together, and they view each other as talented colleagues, which might make it tricky to divvy up the parts. They’re all really good, so who should sing what? 

Look at how shiny Hyukjin’s suit is! Those gray lines are just lights reflecting off of creases in the material. 

They begin singing the song a bit to test out the waters, and Jeup’s strong clear tenor fills the studio. Over in team Beautiful, Lim Sang Hyun wonders out loud, “Is that the original song playing?” 

LTR: Lim Sanghyun, Taewoo, Jeong Yunseo, Kim Minseo 

They take turns singing a bit and they all sound fantastic. They’re not really sure what to do, because Jeup doesn’t want to take the verse, which he thinks is too low for him, and so he wants to do the chorus, which is a long part. Donghun also wants to do that long part, but decides that it suits Jeup more and decides to do a different part that is more emotional, even if it’s shorter. The rest of the part distribution goes well.

Then we go into a mini montage of Donghun’s struggles in his life. He’s always wanted to sing, and went on various shows to make that happen, but though he made top 10 of Superstar K5 that wasn’t quite good enough, and then he made the debut lineup of that shitshow that was MIXNINE but of course that group didn’t debut. He thought that debuting (in A.C.E.) would make it ok, but it didn’t. I beg to differ, sir! People really like A.C.E.! But I guess it’s not like A.C.E. have hit the highs of BTS and Seventeen, so I understand what he’s saying. “Actually the survival program itself was a bit of a trauma for me,” he adds, and I feel that. These shows seriously should gift each contestant at least 20 hours of a post-show mental health counseling. 

The guys are meeting in some sort of staff room, probably at one of their agencies. Looks like three of them were drinking something cool, but smart Jeup is drinking something hot. Cold stuff is bad for your throat, my friends. Jeup knows where it’s at.

Left to right: Hyukjin, Neon, Donghun, and Jeup

Also, I think Jeup looks so much nicer with his hair this way, sort of parted and brushed back, instead of down over his face like bangs.

Anyway, at this meeting, Donghun is saying, “I want us to decide what kind of thoughts we’ll have when we sing this song, so that we have a unified approach. The song title is Don’t Go, Don’t Go. We can make it about our dreams. I haven’t seen my dream lately, and I hope it comes to me now.”    

The editors play some sad piano music as Donghun’s words sink in. All four of them know what he’s talking about. Honestly, Hyukjin and Jeup know what he means even more than he does -- A.C.E. is about 100x more popular than Jeup’s group was, and about 100,000x more popular than Hyukjin’s current group. 

Hyukjin, partly quoting from the song, says, “Living like a fool is heartbreaking. But we keep living like fools.” Then he smiles incredulously, as if he almost can’t believe that he’s made that connection. Donghun has really hit a nerve here. 

Donghun agrees with Hyukjin, and says, “yes, we keep singing like fools.” He interviews that he wants to reclaim his dream and get it back. 

As the lights go down on performance day, Donghun voiceovers, I want to sing my heart out with no regrets. 

Here’s the full version, no reactions. 

My thoughts:

Damn, that was good. 

Let me nitpick for just a few seconds. Yes, Hyukjin’s voice is a little thin and he strained on the highest notes, and Jeup’s voice is a bit too high in timbre to be my favorite, and Donghun’s voice still sounds strained, like he must be hurting his throat. 

But it all ended up working. I don’t know, man, this was good. For one thing, all the voices are really good individually, and then they also are a great mix. You’ve got the slightly tart Jeup, like a strawberry. You’ve got the bright voice of Hyukjin, like a raspberry. You’ve got the slightly challenging voice of Donghun, a pineapple. And then the smoothest voice, Neon, as a slice of banana mixed in to smooth the whole thing down. It fucking works. I don’t even like this song and I liked listening to their performance. I mean, this is going on my playlist, you guys. This is good shit.

I particularly like Neon’s voice, even though I recognize that it’s not quite as powerful or well trained as the others’. To me, he sounds just a little like Do Kyungsoo and that’s just about the highest compliment I can give to a singer. 

Also, damn, I don’t normally talk about this kind of thing exactly but Park Jeup, in addition to being a real sweetheart, is a really good looking dude. I’m not made of steel, you guys. 

Those cheekbones! Those shoulders! Am I alone on this…? 

The MNET edit, like all the edits so far, is pretty restrained. I guess they told their editors to not do a whole bag of coke before they sat down to their editing control panel. There are a few instant replays of high notes, but they’re blended in to the background mix so it’s not so jarring to listen to. 

All the reaction shots are positive. We see the judges just loving all of them. Vocal Coach Guy even asks, “wait, is this live or playback?” The love seems slightly more focused on Jeup and Donghun, less so on Neon and even less so on Hyukjin, but all four of them get some love, which is nice. 

Solar likes it. I think. I guess? Not sure.

She’s excited Jeup hit that one high note! She tries to hit it too and kind of can’t! 

Backstage, the guys all kind of fall over hearing Jeup’s high note. They almost can’t believe it. Hwanhee kind of hits his own knees with his hands involuntarily. 

When they’re done, the judges give them a standing ovation!

They lavish praise on all of them, again focusing a little less on Hyukjin and a little more on Donghun. They think that the four of them could just debut as a group the way they are. Basically, the judges agree with me, so that’s good.

Vocal Coach Guy points out that Jeup doesn’t just hit high notes -- he sings with emotions. Then he adds that Jeup has nice shoulders, so that was funny. Wendy asks about Jeup’s range, and he says that he can sing any male song, that they’re all in his range. 

Dahee says that it was nothing but compliments, so the question is, who could win? Backstage, the boys aren’t sure either. No one floats Hyukjin’s name as top tier, but the other three get named, and the boys think that all four were excellent. 

So, who wins…?

Baekho, Solar, and Vocal Coach Guy all vote for Donghun from A.C.E. 

Eunkwang and Jaehwan vote for Neon, and Wendy votes for Park Jeup. 

So, Donghun wins! Vocal Coach Guy lavishes a bit more praise on him, saying that it was an easy choice to pick Donghun because his voice is so good. 

And then, oh guys, it’s so sad. Donghun starts to cry, saying it’s the first time he’s been recognized like this. 

The judges are a little uncomfortable because the “win” is kind of a minor one, and they’re surprised at his reaction. It’s like this is what Donghun has been waiting his whole life to hear. 

Donghun adds that he didn’t expect to win, that he was focusing on working well with his team.

Backstage, the guys are like, oof, wouldn’t want to have to follow that! 

So who is up next? Team Breath. The editors do that thing like they’re trying to trick you into thinking that the performance is starting, but the episode is almost over and this obviously just a teaser. Thanks, editors. Theditors. 

Since we’re at the end of the episode, I’ll end the post here. Woo! Finally to the end of the first episode! I'm only two full episodes behind... great! Anyway, I'll see you in the next one, and thanks as always for reading. <3

[vladilife]

the powerpuff besties in the wwry cast