These long posts do not help my headache 
I like to live in a fantasy world & not think about the behind the scenes things (besides the hot sexy time they have back at the dorm). The ins & outs of the business ARE reality but if I focus on them I get blinded to why I became, and still am, a fan. Ironically, I brought up the training thing 
I've said this before, but it does really irk me that SNSD sell so easily etc now based on their name & looks... I want them to get the recognition for their talent which we all know is pretty huge for each girl in different ways. It no longer matters how the song sounds or if the girls even try to do well (which they always do, don't get me wrong), slap their names and faces on it and watch the money and awards (weekly i mean) roll in. I know thats the way of the business but I can't shake the feeling of uneasiness I get from it, especially when at times, SNSD might not be the most deserving, but they will come out on type regardless.
Its more than just the way the business is, its the way life in general is.
I'm ranting coz I'm majorly tired and have a headache, I'll stop before I keep going and piss people off But yeah, sometimes I feel almost heartbroken by it. I don't think its only coz I'm such a huge fan of other girl groups and have this jealousy thing going on (which I think I do at times) because I want these 9 girls to be remembered and honoured for the right reasons too... Sigh, now I will actually shut up coz I'm not getting it across the same way I feel
Yeah, this is the downside to their having such a large devoted fanbase: they'll snap everything up that gets released by SNSD, which just decreases SNSD's credibility with the rest of the general public, further alienating the sales to a dwindling wota base...you know, like H!P?
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Lollipop - You took the words right out of my mouth. I've been thinking about that for quite some time really. But at the same time, like let's say for the dance battle shows, SNSD never wins those things... And sometimes they're against people that can't even dance at all! So yes, SNSD's lost their credibility as talented people so that when it's time to show off talent, people don't pay attention to it. Instead, they want SNSD to drop that serious side and shake their asses. Cool, everyone likes a jiggle, but still, I came into Kpop knowing that while people showed hot stuff, I was getting talent. And as much as I love SNSD, I'm afraid what
Rayle said is all too true.
I really hope SNSD's talents aren't just overlooked because they've already built up credit points from Gee. If that's the case, then we'd be right... SME will forget about marketing them properly and we'll just get random/unsatisfying crap just to make money quickly. I think SME knows exactly what's going on and so tehy're trying to milk every dime they can from SNSD as quickly as they can.
Call me a sour puss, but I blame this on the small mistakes that SME has made that no one realized were mistakes till now. Like BoA never coming back to Korea? I know she made good money in Japan and some cashflow in America... but then you put DBSK in Japan as well? Yeah, also good cashflow, but now you have more and more people to pay in Japan and so either way, you're not making as much money as you
thought you were making. If they all had stayed in Korea or at least spent more time in Korea, they would have made just as much money because everyone knows they're money makers too.
But of course, now everything's being put on SNSD... And now we get crap. Okay, I don't mean it like their new stuff is CRAP, but... I mean, they haven't been living up to standards for a while now in my book.
I think SM was either trying to avoid the Rain/Hyori/2NE1 comebacks, and/or paving the way for f(x), Shinee, and Super Junior to finally make their comebacks.
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In addition, I remember that in Jessica's case, they gave her a year of probation training to get over her camera fear before formally taking her on as a trainee. So I'd think that year gave Jessica the confidence she needed to become the HBIC trainee that pranked Yuri with fellow Senior Trainees Hyoyeon and Sooyoung. 
Not to mention SM originally casted Krystal first but her parents thought she was too young. So there would be the looming threat of being overshadowed by the little sister driving her too.
HO MAN! You're right (on both the releases and the training)! that makes total sense. Heh, I guess they just wanted to beat the crowd?
Well, I guess it's better to have pushed the RDR release sooner than later beacuse if they had waited until after all these April/May comebacks, people might have lost interest in the entire Oh! album. Unless of course they were to promote RDR later, but of course, that wouldn't be possible if BoA, SuJu, Eff of Ex, and SHINee were to come back... Whatever, I still demand BoA and SNSD together on stage!!
TBH I waited to order the repackaged album since I knew it would have at least an extra song and the packaging couldn't be worse than oh!'s goofy-random-retro bull crap.
But they'll win next week. It's nice to win the weekly awards but in reality they are arbitrary. It's a shame they are a gauge of a success for some people.
Here's a relatively recent picture with Sooyoung and Stella. At least after she got the short hair.
http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7867/2rcrg2q.jpg
I can't lie, I said the same thing about Oh!... I thought I was the only one lol. Everyone seemed so excited about it and I just cringed. All that curly hair... wth... and the weird bangs... Just doesn't fit!
I know it's arbitrary for the girls now, but I seriously like it when people I'm rooting for win
so hey, maybe they like it too. And as sad as it is that it's a big goal to win a weekly award for some, I think in SNSD's case, it still shows that people still like their music (
even if it's lost some substance)
WAIT, they still meet up with old trainees? I know Hyoyeon got in touch with Min (that JYPE trainee that Hyo used to take classes with. Min is/was Lil John's future success but after JYPE started making silly decisions, who knows what happened to that little bundle of talent) but I didn't think that old trainees came back to hang out. Especially someone like Stella who went back to the U.S. to study...
If you read all of that fun and interesting stuff up top, here's a present!
I skimmed: >>
Sunny has awesome English, as expected. Yuri's humor makes her a hero. TaeYeon doesn't like RDR?<<
I read only the first two paragraphs: >>
The girls are sick again -_-<<
-O_sLaVe
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