#era: mr chu

[aeverse]

XOXO is a fictional South Korean girl group which currently consists of the four members: Aera, Jiyeon, Eunmi, and Yu. The group debuted on May 24, 2010 under Delphi Entertainment. They are mostly known for their diverse concept, giving all sides to ‘XOXO’.

ִֶָ 𓂃⊹. BASICS

GROUP ✧ XOXO

MEMBERS ✧ Aera, Jiyeon, Eunmi, Yu

FANDOM ✧ Valentines

COLORS ✧ #E24767 & #B51A3A

COMPANY ✧ Delphi Entertainment

DEBUT ALBUM ✧ Electric Love

DEBUT SONG ✧ Darling

DEBUT DATE ✧ May 24th, 2010

GREETING ✧ “Hugs and kisses, we’re XOXO!”

ִֶָ 𓂃⊹. MEMBERS

jung AERA leader, main rapper, visual 1991

lee JIYEON main dancer, lead rapper, center 1992

oh EUNMI lead dancer, face of the group, lead vocalist 1994

park YU yoojung maknae, main vocalist 1994

ִֶָ 𓂃⊹. DISCOGRAPHY

You can find XOXO’s discography here.

ִֶָ 𓂃⊹. HISTORY

XOXO debuted with the single “Darling” in May 2010. The group began promotions with their debut stage on May 27th at M! Countdown and continued promotions on various Korean music shows to June 20th.

The group returned a year later with the mini album “I Am Me” in June 2011. The album consists of four songs, including “I Don’t Need a Man” and “U-Go-Girl”, which XOXO promoted at the same time. “I Don’t Need a Man” gained XOXO quite a bit anti-fans, mainly men. They posted on Reddit about burning or cutting up pictures of XOXO’s faces and demanded apologies but there was no statement from Delphi Entertainment.

Though XOXO had gained some attention with their first comeback, it was not until their third comeback that the group rose to stardom. In March 2012, they came-back with their full album “Electric Love”. The album consists of nine songs, including “Mr. Chu”. The album peaked atop South Korea's Gaon Album Chart and has sold over 234,500 copies in South Korea. The album's title track peaked atop South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart and was the second best-selling digital single of 2011 in the country, selling over 3.3 million copies. XOXO received a total of five wins on music shows this era.

For their third mini album, Jiyeon did not participate in the stages as she had injured her knee but was in the music video. She constantly supported XOXO’s stages, posting constantly on Twitter and Instagram.

XOXO made their Japanese debut in 2014 with the Japanese versions of their already existing songs. At this time, Eunmi took a hiatus for the majority of the year for unknown reasons and was not seen until the end of the year music awards. The members did not mention her at all throughout activities, confusing fans who then made demands for XOXO and Delphi Entertainment to update them. Neither XOXO or Delphi Entertainment acknowledged these demands.

With the comeback of Eunmi and their second full length album, XOXO announced their first tour, XOXO 1st Asia Tour 2015. They had eight shows, 2 in South Korea, 2 in Japan, 2 in Thailand, 1 in Indonesia and 1 in Taiwan.

XOXO released the first episode of their reality show “Hugs and Kisses!” on November 2015 which comprised 10 episodes being released throughout the year following the four members as they traveled around Asia for their first tour, XOXO 1st Asia Tour 2015.

In January 2017, XOXO announced their North American tour and held four shows: New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Vancouver. Tickets were sold out in three minutes.

In 2019, Delphi Entertainment announced the indefinite hiatus of group activities. All four members still remain under Delphi Entertainment. Aera is busy with her modeling contract, Jiyeon and Eunmi both actively promote as solo artists, and Yu goes by Yoojung now and is focused on her acting career.

[minmos]

c for the song thing!

yayyy ty for the ask

top 5 favorite songs of all time starting with c: (in no particular order)

carousel - mr. bungle

closer - the tiny

clint eastwood - gorillaz

chu chu lovely muni mura - maximum the hormone

chop suey! - system of a down

i first heard closer by the tiny during the wtnv boom of 2013(?) era tumblr.. it's one of those songs that i remember listening to as a loser middle schooler and thinking that it sounded so different from a lot of the music i was listening to at the time. i still feel really fondly towards it for that reason

i’ll admit clint eastwood & chop suey! are both overplayed, but for a good reason. clint eastwood is still one of my top gorillaz tracks. chop suey! isn't my favorite soad song, but it's iconic & is overall pretty fun

the rest are simply because i enjoy them

[sadrosx]

[🥀] Pensamientos Nocturnos

[Por favor, no tomar en serio nada de esto.]

• || Paralelismos entre RanWan & Snarry.

Son las 4 de la mañana, y no puedo evitar pensar que el RanWan (MR x CWN) de 2HA y Snarry (HP x SS) de Harry Potter, tienen bastantes paralelismos ¿no?

Tanto Mo Ran cómo Harry Potter se percatan a primera vista de un profesor serio y distante, Chu WanNing y Severus Snape respectivamente. Maestros que se encargarían de “dificultarles” la vida durante su época estudiantil, lo que lleva a que ambos jóvenes tengan una idea negativa de sus correspondientes maestros y no es hasta la muerte de ambos profesores que se dan cuenta que no era lo que creían. Claro, estos hombres no eran santos como tal, cada uno tenía por ahí sus “defectos”, casi pareciendo los malos de la novela, pero realmente a su manera trataron de protegerlos, al punto de dar la vida por ellos. La diferencia obviamente recae en el hecho de que la primera es una ship canon y la segunda es una ship fanon, pero cuyas características sí se basan en el canon.

No sé, me parecía algo interesante y tenía que decirlo. Mis ships todas bonitas todas cuestionables y mis viejos gruñones, como me encantan. <33

[kwavecl]

Apink habla de su próximo álbum “SELF”, su vínculo único con los fans, y más.

¡Apink ha anunciado su próximo regreso, ha compartido su amor por sus fans y mucho más con la revista Singles!

El mes que viene, Apink volverá por primera vez en más de un año con “SELF”, su décimo mini álbum. Como la entrevista del grupo tuvo lugar antes de que se anunciaran oficialmente los detalles de su regreso, Jung Eun Ji comentó: “Soy cautelosa porque aún no se ha revelado la fecha de lanzamiento. Para describirlo de forma sencilla a pesar de ello, se trata de un álbum que hemos llenado de un mensaje brillante y esperanzador por primera vez en mucho tiempo. Realmente hemos intentado capturar el color natural de Apink y las historias que queríamos contar”.

Namjoo añadió: “He disfrutado tanto con estos preparativos para la actuación hasta el punto de preguntarme cuándo fue la última vez que me reí tanto. Hemos mostrado muchas imágenes carismáticas en el escenario, así que creo que éste fue un momento en el que nos confirmamos a nosotras mismas que, por mucho que cambiemos en el escenario, seguimos siendo igual de brillantes e inocentes que al principio.”

Tras debutar en 2011, Apink se encuentra ahora en el decimotercer año de su carrera. Cuando le preguntaron qué es lo que más ha cambiado desde sus días de debut, Yoon Bomi respondió riendo: “Lo que primero me viene a la mente es mi resistencia, pero independientemente de la edad, creo que es porque no hago ejercicio”. Continuó: “Lo que ha cambiado es que ahora soy capaz de disfrutar un poco”.

Chorong respondió: “Con cada año, creo que el valor de los discos se hace mayor. Mi gratitud por mis miembros también se hace más profunda. Para ser sincera, son cosas de las que no sabía mucho cuando era más joven. Cuando llevábamos una agenda apretada, estaba cansada y lo pasaba mal, así que esos momentos pasaban sin que me diera cuenta de lo preciosos y valiosos que eran. Ahora, realmente siento mucha gratitud y responsabilidad en cada momento”.

Apink no sólo se ha promocionado con éxito durante más de una década, sino que sus últimos lanzamientos han cosechado impresionantes resultados en las listas de éxitos y en los programas musicales. En cuanto a sus opiniones sobre por qué han sido tan queridas durante tanto tiempo, Chorong compartió simplemente: “Conocer a las miembros adecuadas. Y conocer a los fans adecuados”.

Jung Eun Ji añadió: “Los fans de Apink son famosos por ser muy leales. Creo que sienten algún tipo de responsabilidad hacia nosotras. Como hemos visto crecer a nuestros fans con nosotras desde una edad temprana, ahora hemos llegado a alegrarnos la vida mutuamente”.

Profundizando en la relación de Apink con sus fans, Hayoung comentó: “En lugar de vernos como famosas, nos tratan como la amiga de al lado. Son tan leales que incluso cuando los fans que traen cámaras para hacernos fotos se dan cuenta de que las miembros no se encuentran muy bien, dicen: ‘Hoy no voy a sostener la cámara. Caminemos juntos y hablemos'”.

Namjoo continuó: “Lo divertido es que nuestros fans tratan a cada miembro de forma muy diferente. Los fans de Chorong son delicados y escriben muchas cartas, y como todos los fans han visto a Hayoung desde que era una niña, la tratan totalmente como a un bebé”. Riendo, Namjoo añadió: “Los fans de Eun Ji se quejan y se regañan unos a otros”.

Jung Eun Ji añadió: “Incluso se ha corrido la voz entre los managers de que los fans de Apink tienen buenos modales y respetan los límites entre fan y artista. Aunque son nuestros fans, son muy guays y estoy muy orgullosa de ellos”.

Como Apink ha probado una gran variedad de géneros y conceptos a lo largo de su carrera, el entrevistador preguntó cuál era su álbum favorito. Hayoung eligió “Mr. Chu” y explicó: “Es una canción que completó la identidad de Apink y es como nuestro orgullo”.

Yoon Bomi explicó: “Personalmente, hice todo lo que quería hacer durante CHOBOM cuando promocionamos ‘Copycat‘. Pero estoy muy ilusionada con el álbum que vamos a lanzar esta vez. Mientras preparábamos este álbum, me acordé mucho de nuestro pasado. Me imagino que a nuestros fans también les recordarán exactamente esos recuerdos y emociones”.

¡Apink regresará con “SELF” el 5 de abril.

Fuente: Soompi.com

[koishua]

nothing feels as good as falling back into my pink panda era like pls mr chu ibsul wihae chu dalkomhage chu 🤧🤧

[mortallycolorfulpost]

Internet A Q Guo Wengui

       Speaking of Guo Wengui, for a long time, the wanted criminal who claimed to be the "God of War" has always felt good. What good law? Even if the news was revealed countless times, even if the crimes on the top of the head became more and more, even if Guo Baosheng, Xianglin and others had already separated from them, even if it had reached the point of no way, Guo Wengui still appeared in the video. Tell yourself and tell the public that his "breaking news revolution" will succeed. What is the spirit of self -deception and self -comfort? Mr. Lu Xun has already given the answer, A Q's spirit, in other words, spiritual victory. The reason why Guo Wengui, who was all Chu Ge and the betrayal, licked his cheeky and clamored on the Internet every day. It turned out to be a deep sense of spiritual victory. Guo Wengui is worthy of being an indiscriminate Internet in the new era.

   Let's take a look at what Guo Wengui reacts about cases involving his crime (the brothers of the Chen family are fraud, Zhengquan Company, Zhao Dajian and others forced transactions, etc.). He didn't explain too much, and he didn't even move out of any evidence that he could stand. Of course, in the face of facts, he was understandable. Instead, in response to these allegations, what we heard from Guo Wengui's mouth is the most, as such, "Great", "The thief is scored in the thief", "This is our victory", and summarized it in Guo Wengui's words. one's gift". Is it? Are there any people who have watched the live video of Guo Wengui, these words must have heard the cocoon in their ears. In my eyes, the major setbacks of Guo Wengui seem to be in the eyes of mortals. When Guo Wengui came to Guo Wengui, he became his "victory". Admire, Guo Wengui's mentality is really good, but his "victory" exists only in his spiritual world. Unfortunately, only Guo Wengui, who is only elementary culture, has not learned about materialist dialectics, and material will not be transferred by will. The real world cannot be lied, let alone the general development of fantasy in his mind. While Guo Wengui announced his spiritual victory, his road in real life went narrower and narrower, and accelerated the small run to his end. Look, there are still a few of the former hardcore Guo Fan, and how many news media are willing to interview him without having to repeat it.

   Having said that, why is Guo Wengui so favored the spiritual victory? The reason is nothing more than two. One self -"motivation". Guo Wengui fled to the United States with the label of the wanted criminal at first, let alone, let alone a series of felony in China waiting for him to claim. In order to avoid the disaster of prison, in order to continue to spend the money from scrambling, how can Guo Wengui return to China casually and how can he just follow the law. It is the right thing to shoot the American fart. Although the worse the more and the more they are, the character and the credit defeat are not left, so you can't admit the defeat. "victory". As for whether you can deceive Americans, it is hard to say, but Guo Wengui really cheated himself. In front of the camera, he was talking nonsense, cheering for yourself, and blowing a cowhide, and then his face continued to make the "spring dream" of political asylum. Second, face problem. As we all know, when Guo Wengui pulled out the banner of "breaking the news of the revolution", the gods were blowing, what "democracy and freedom of rule of law" and what "three years of victory", and also encouraged a farce of "the world's great Guo Paradise". As a result, it was very different. Under the thunderous rain, the main force of the "big parade" was pushing each other, and "victory" did not even see a shadow. Faced with complaints one by one, lawsuits, who likes to show off the richness and vanity, can easily recognize the planting, so he has to be a cooked duck, for his own face, and to take care of the group of money under his hand. Seeing the "little ants" with the rudder. This network Ah Q is really tired.

   To this day, our network A Q has been upgraded. While the spiritual victory, we are also accompanied by a little family. Ants, take a good look! Your spiritual leader is so funny, and a little "cute". Touching your conscience, do you believe that such people can lead you to democracy and freedom to rule the rule of law? Hey, let's let Guo Wengui continue to be his Internet Q, Guo Wengui is really ill.

[bomiverse]

nonono + mr. chu ✧ mcountdown [140710]

[giks128]

This is from an old project related to Apink's Japanese discography, the last progress was till a bit before the release of Pink Doll.

I hope they make soon a comeback there and in Korea too, I miss Apink so much

[mulgokizary]

chorong + mr chu era for anon

[madememory]

I Miss Mr. Chu era

[casasupernovas]

So I'm making a post on black and biracial actors in Doctor Who, The Russell T Davies Era ;)

Let's go! (This is long)

Firstly we have Noel Clarke as Mickey Smith the boyfriend to main companion Rose Tyler. He does most of the heavy lifting for black representation in Series 1 and 2 if there are no other prominent black characters within the episode. He is in Rose, Aliens of London, World War Three, Boom Town and The Parting of Ways in Series 1, The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion, The Girl In The Fireplace, Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday for Series 2. He returns in Series 4 in The Stolen Earth, Journey's End and The End of Time Part 2.

Next up, we have Yasmin Bannerman as Jabe, the Tree Lady from The End of the World. She was very cool, sultry and mysterious. I loved her interaction with Christopher Eccleston, especially how she handles her knowledge of who the Doctor is and the significance.

Then in Aliens of London and World War Three we have the first appearance of Lachele Carl as an unamed newsreader, later revealed to be in Trinity Wells. Apart from David Tennant as The Doctor, she is the only character to appear in all four series.

Following her, we have Christine Adams as Cathica in The Long Game, who I always remembered because she is so damn pretty and had sickening cornrows.

Then we have Patterson Joseph as Rodrick in Bad Wolf and The Parting of Ways and Abie Eniola as Crosbie in Bad Wolf. Crosbie isn't in it for very long but is a pretty convincing ordinary Big Brother housemate, and Rodrick was pretty much the epitome of every man for himself.

Onto Season 2 we have Chu Omambala as Major Blake and a other appearance from Lachele Carl.

Next we get Anjoa Andoh as Sister Jatt. We don't get her as a visible black character though, as she is a Cat Nun in this episode.

Then in School Reunion we have Eugene Washington as Krillitane under the guise of teacher Mr Wagner and he is sufficiently menacing.

That's all for Part 1, make sure to tune into Part 2!

[allfemaleidols]

send me your female bias + an era     ↳ eunji + mr. chu - @eunjieveryday

[henry-and-the-seven-lords]

I just had a wonderul idea

Emilia and Solomon owning a skeleton pet

Like she messed up a spell and brought the skeleton to life, now it's kinda just

Living with them

Maybe he could speak too... mostly because I want him to speak like a victorian era child

Solomon: What chu got there buddy?

The pet: Why, I was the most agreeable today, so mother saw it fit to bestow me with the most wonderous gift

Solomon: Oh neat, she got you that hat you wanted?

The pet: Why yes she did! It makes me look quite dashing

The image I have in my mind is Mr. Pettibone from the Scary Godmother movies.

He is the farthest thing from a Victorian Child.

But that is such a cute idea.

I think he would look great in that hat and I would love to talk about how dashing it looks with him.

[doyeons-archived]

send me an idol + an era

namjoo + mr. chu (for @ilysunmi ♡)

[springluvies]

mr. chu  ♡࿐

meu sonho era fazer uma capa com fundinho amarelo e n eh meme :)))

[fmdminhee]

headcanon 001. lily’s title tracks & minhee’s opinions. word count: 1,422.

notes: this is all new writing! song titles are not included in the word count. 

into the new world

nearly ten years on, minhee still insists that into the new world was an iconic debut song. she was only in her mid teens when lily debuted, and was full of hope, so ready to start a life free of her mother’s clutches. with all that in mind, there probably isn’t a better song in the world she could’ve debuted with. in the years since, so many girl groups have performed it, almost like a rite of passage, and they’ve rearranged it into a ballad version. if either of those come up, minhee will cry. she’s an ugly crier. it’s pretty embarrassing.

gee 

gee gee gee gee baby baby - hwang minhee (minnie), 2013. she wants the lyrics of gee engraved on her tombstone, if possible. it’s still one of her favourites, and not just because it was a career maker. to be honest, if they hadn’t managed to at least match it with hits going forward, she’d probably dislike it by now. but, as it stands, she loves how unabashedly cute it is. 10/10, would perform all the time if she didn’t know her members’ heads would probably explode.

nonono

nonono is super fun and super catchy, and minhee really enjoyed promoting it. nowadays it’s not one that she’d pull out immediately, preferring the comeback preceding it and the three directly after, but she likes the song. it feels very classic lily, and listening back to it, and the corresponding mini-album, makes her feel sentimental as hell.

tell me

one of minhee’s top three, i think! do not hold me or her to that. all of lily’s title tracks are bangers and ranking depends on mood. but tell me definitely consistently stays in the top five. it might not be technically as good as some of their other releases from around the same era, but it’s tied with gee and oh! for number one song that makes her hyper as fuck. it’s just too much fun, she can’t take it. she got to be wonder woman for the music video too, which was cool. everything about tell me scratches minhee’s silly little brain just right.

mr. chu

though not quite on the same level as tell me and oh!, which 100% turn minhee’s brain up to 2x speed, mr. chu still gets minhee hyped up. something about the chorus and choreography and concept just all fit correctly. she’d like to say they invented the weirdly popular girl groups on tennis courts concept, but she should probably cite her sources somewhere. it’s sort of like a more her nonono.

oh!

oh! came out around the same time that minhee was coming of age, and actually wanting to try something a little different to lily’s typical concepts, and oh!’s styling allowed her to do that -- she liked it a lot, she felt like she was the cool girl in an american high school movie. not only that, but she loves the dance and the addictive chorus too. she has about as much fun with it as she does with gee and tell me.

run devil run

when minhee said she wanted to do something different, she didn’t mean it like this. in all seriousness, run devil run is a fun song, but she appreciates it much more today than she did when they released it. the image reversal on stage was really difficult for her. still, if they were going to go down a sexy route, she hoped it wouldn’t feature so much tight leather in the future. short shorts >>>.

nobody

a very cool song, one that minhee thinks did better at showing off her versatility than run devil run, alongside showing the public lily’s more grown up and sexier sides, without going as far as run devil run did either. she got to be expressive in her face, and really had a lot of fun playing it up for the cameras. fun fact! it’s her dad’s favourite lily title track. 

genie (tell me your wish)

genie minhee’s beloved <3 truly one of their best. it’s the perfect blend of original and the at the time emerging new lily. refreshing and upbeat, flirty and fun. it’s an unbeatable combination of all the things that make lily great. she has absolutely no qualms about calling it a modern classic.

hoot

BOP. has a lot of the same positives for minhee as nobody and genie. she loves the whole old school thing from this era of lily’s title tracks. one of her personal top favourites (a contender for a slot in the ever rotating top three and five), not least thanks to the choreography in the chorus. she thinks hoot is iconic, and though yes, people would agree, she thinks it deserves to be even more of a widespread opinion. 

i got a boy

minhee’s tiny attention span loves i got a boy. she really loves it, like seriously. it’s one of lily’s most active choreographies, and she doesn’t think any other group could pull off a song like i got a boy. who else could get away with it?? she loves how youthful it feels too, and how it managed to be so without it feeling like they’d gone too far back after the mature-ish retro concepts before it. 

the boys

for minhee, the boys is kind of like run devil run’s better younger sister. run devil run was a test run, then they took the formula and made it ten times better with the boys. maybe it’s a confidence thing though. her self esteem was never low, per se, but she was definitely better equipped for a concept like this in 2017 than she was in 2015.

be my baby

retro lily best lily! minhee adores be my baby for its return to one of her favourite styles of lily song --  the kind she can really get expressive during. she could be cute and pouty up on stage again, while still acting her age. she had so much fun performing be my baby, and it’s another contender for the top five title tracks in her opinion. 

only one

only one is a nice song, for sure, but it’s pretty close to the bottom of minhee’s list. it’s like an unremarkable return to classic lily ... except it’s not fun or cute enough to satisfy minhee’s standards. weirdly, it makes her feel old. as if bc is putting an odd, grainy filter on an otherwise modern song and concept because they doubted whether or not the girls could still pull off the likes of mr. chu or nonono.

luv

luv is uncharacteristically somber when compared to pretty much all of their other title tracks, but minhee, surprisingly, likes it a lot. it’s catchy, both in its music and its choreography, and it’s a good blend of the old school drama type of vibe she gets from something like nobody or be my baby with the sweetness and sincerity of into the new world. a dark horse in minhee’s rankings.

five

five, in minhee’s opinion, is a much better attempt at whatever bc was trying to do with only one. it feels much more like proper original vibes lily, noticeably lacking the inexpiable bad vibes she got off the whole production of only one. everything about five came naturally to her.

remember

remember is a really unique song in lily’s discography in terms of its concept. the nautical summery themes also sort of reminded minhee of nonono and the sailor outfits they wore all the way back then. in the grand scheme of things, it lands squarely towards the end of minhee’s list in terms of preference, but above only one.

mr. mr.

ULTRA BOP. minhee loves mr. mr. so much. it’s got all of the retro influences that she adores, topped with a modern electronic dance flair. she’s conceited, so if you ask her, she’ll tell you that lily were the trendsetters behind retro coming back, citing mr. mr. and, like, half of their earlier title tracks for good measure. again, she’s come a long way since run devil run, and is much more comfortable being cool as well as cute now.

i’m so sick

i’m so sick is retro leaning, has a fun dance, and the styling makes minhee feel like a sad princess in a fantasy version of modern day. it’s perfect. she doesn’t love it as much as a lot of their previous releases, but she thinks it’s a really good concept for them to run with in 2021. she’d admittedly been sort of doubting bc and her decision to renew her contract because of her gripes with only one and remember, but thanks to 2021′s releases, minhee feels pretty satisfied with her choice.