少女時代 Girls' Generation / SNSD (소녀시대) Official Thread [Ver.3] GIRLS 6ENERAT10N | HYO 4th Single "Dessert"

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really love SNSD..........forever gonna be SONE

[Guest YoonTaeRific]

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to soompi. I wanna camp here to from now on. been to other threads before, soompi is not so user friendly for me. so Im gonna have to familiarize myself with it more. and I don't know if it is just me but I get a lot of database errors and I need to keep refreshing the pages all the time.

Regards,

Forever a Sone

[Guest Tetsuya9]

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[Guest des99]

[Fancam] 120205 Dangerous Boys Performance @Street Jam 2012

SNSD Interview (Feb 6, 2012)

[Trans] 120206 JTBC SNSD Full Interview:

Reporter: (Being in the US) It's not a dream anymore, how do you feel?

Sooyoung: At night we decided to watch ourselves appearing on US programmes so we stayed awake and watched it. We couldn't believe in it too even after watching, until now we don't feel that it's reality.

Seohyun: As we watched the stage which still seemed like a dream, we went "Ah we look messy in a row here, let's work harder next time".

Reporter: Did you have feelings like 'Ah I've became famous'? Or what kind of feelings did you have?

Taeyeon: Instead of having these thoughts, we realized that they (fans) watch a lot of our programmes, everything seemed new to us.

Seohyun: We really found everything interesting. As the people involved, everything was new to us.

Reporter: If you were to attend an US programme in the future, what kind of programme would you like to attend?

Sooyoung: Personally, I think US award ceremonies have huge well-designed stages, so I'm ambitious in this area - such as AMA and EMMY, if they invite us...

Taeyeon: It sounds scary just by listening to these terms. (laughter)

Reporter: You talked about 'charter plane' in a conference, is charter plane really needed?

Taeyeon: Uh.. uhh..~~ We are really prepared, that when people who love us invite us, we are prepared to go there.. So if we have charter plane, we can prepare ourselves with the best conditions..

Sooyoung: Some times ago photos of us sleeping on the plane were taken... I think if we have charter plane, we might be able to rest more comfortably and take a good rest on the plane.

Reporters: After talking about the charter plane, do you know what was reported? I've printed some reports for you to take a look..

The titles read "SNSD in New York: Desire for charter plane", members were shocked, then started laughing.

Reporter: But you indeed have desire for charter plane, right?

Members: Yes of course (laughter)

Hyoyeon: In order to go around the world, we need a charter plane (Hyoyeon is playing a word game, 'world' is pronounced 'Jeon sekye' and charter plane has similar pronunciation - 'Jeon segi')

Reporter: If a reporter from the US asks you a question like this, how would you answer? It doesn't matter who answers it, but please use English.

(Reporter uses English): Please give me 3 good reasons why you think you really succeeded in the US?

4 Members: (............) Um...........

Sooyoung: Ah, Tiffany didn't come?

(Laughter)

60-seconds interview session:

Q1: There is a criterion in dividing samchon (uncle) and Oppa fans.

Taeyeon: No.

Q2: To be frank I feel stressed seeing samchon fans who go extreme.

Seohyun: Not at all

Hyoyeon: No.

Q3: (Reporter) Am I samchon fan or oppa fan?

All: SAMCHON FAN!

Reporter: Wha.. what's the reason for this?

Sooyoung: Whoever who asks question like this are samchon fans.

Q4: "Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do", which note best represents SNSD?

Taeyeon: Gasp!

Seohyun & Hyoyeon: Do

Reporter: Why?

Seohyun: Because it's the start and the end at the same time.

Q5: Which color best represent SNSD?

Members: Pink!

Reporter: Why?

Hyoyeon: Why am I the one who keeps thinking differently?

Sooyoung: Because it's our official color for our fans. In fact it seems that white best represents us.

Reporter: Why white?

Hyoyeon: Because there it defines things in a variety of ways.

Q6: What is the percentage of your lipsync stage (frequency)?

Taeyeon: When a stage mainly focuses on performance and we have to present a lot... In any case...

Hyoyeon: But we don't have a stage were we completely lipsync, we do sing to a certain extent.

Q7: It's been a long time after debut, are you guys changing your name to 'Suk-nyeo shi dae' (Matured girls' Generation)?

Hyoyeon: Hmm.. But we like the name 'So Nyeo Shi Dae'. (laughter)

Seohyun: We want to remain as 'So Nyeo Shi Dae' forever, even if we become grandmas.

Q8: Lastly, please say a few words to audiences.

Taeyeon: 2012 has started, I hope that everyone can have an enjoyable and good start like SNSD. We'll always be presenting good music to everyone, please stay healthy~

Seohyun: We'll be presenting the hardworking images of SNSD, happy new year!

Sooyoung: SNSD will be continue working hard, please give us a lot of love!

Hyoyeon: Please continue to be together with SNSD in 2012.

Members: Right now it's Girls' Generation!

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Video: http://news.jtbc.co.kr/Replay/news_replay.aspx?cloc=jtbc|top|top### (Please press the 3rd video)

Trans: @imwhywhy

[Guest des99]

Can Girls’ Generation Break Through in America?

Last week, K-pop supergroup Girls’ Generation got an unprecedented U.S. television showcase on “Live! With Kelly,” the Reegeless morning show currently featuring Kelly Ripa and a revolving-door series of daily guest hosts. For those who caught it, the segment offered up one of television’s rare magic moments — not during the musical performance itself, but in the brief interview immediately afterwards.

The Girls had just pulled off a crowd-pumping rendition of their first U.S. single, “The Boys,” complete with their signature precision choreography, and stood posed and slightly breathless onstage to receive Ripa and her cohost du jour, Howie Mandel. Ripa and Mandel congratulated the girls on their Stateside appearance in full-on talking-to-foreigners mode, speaking loud and slow, and making big, evocative gestures with their hands.

Then Mandel decided to pay the girls a compliment. “Your English is very good!” he said to one member — bubbly, effusive Tiffany. Without missing a beat, Tiffany responded in a perfect NorCal accent, “Well — I was born in America.” “I was too!” chimed Jessica, the brown-haired pixie next to her. Startled, Mandel could only repeat, “And…your English is very good!” The other girls burst into laughter as Tiffany defused the awkward situation: “I know, I know, thank you so much, I studied so hard!”

You can’t really fault Mandel. After all, Girls’ Generation is the face of young Korea — the nation’s hottest and biggest-selling female music group. To him, Tiffany and her bandmate Jessica speaking fluent Americanese must have been like hearing Katy Perry suddenly bust out in Khmer.

But Tiffany and Jessica — and the growing ranks of other Korean American performers recruited by management companies like SM Entertainment and JYPE in U.S.-based talent searches — aren’t just a random act of globalization. They’re the secret weapon in Korea’s next push for worldwide youth-culture domination.

Tiffany, who still breaks out in giggles at the Mandel Moment — “His expression was totally funny” — was born in San Francisco and raised in L.A. “I went to an SM audition when I was 15, and ended up getting invited to move to Korea for training. My parents were completely against it, but I convinced them to let me do it. I didn’t know what I was in for, but I knew I wanted to do music for the rest of my life. And it was really tough: Three years of hard work, learning what it’s like to be an idol.”

Korea’s pop training programs are rigorous and all-encompassing: Would-be idols live together in dormitories, going to school during the day and then learning singing, dancing and acting late into the evening. For some, like Tiffany’s fellow transplant Jessica, the process begins as early as age 10.

The management firms pay for everything; leading talent house SM Entertainment has pegged the cost of rearing a single idol at around $3 million, which for Girls’ Generation would be multiplied by nine. Most candidates end up quitting or failing to catch on, but the potential payoff for those who make it is enormous: The Girls are multimedia superstars and blockbuster branding engines with deals to endorse everything from LG phones to Intel processors to Goobne Chicken (a leading South Korean oven-roasted chicken chain). Collectively, they generate a revenue stream well north of $50 million a year — which makes them a pretty fantastic investment for parent company SM.

“Girls’ Generation are easily the biggest girl group in all of Asia,” says Susan Kang, founder and CEO of *.com, the largest English-language K-pop site. “That’s been the case ever since they had their breakout hit “Gee“  in 2009. The video for that song alone has over 64 million views on YouTube, and has been viewed in every country in the world except for a few nations in Africa. Take the Spice Girls in their prime plus Britney in her prime and combine them, and you might get close to how big they are today.”

In Asia, that is: The Girls have topped the charts in Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan and especially Japan, the world’s second largest music market. And in Europe, where the “SM Town” concert they headlined in Paris sold out within 15 minutes of it being announced.

But Asia and Europe have a long history of embracing media in non-native languages. English is a mandatory part of elementary school education in many Asian countries, including Japan, China and Korea; over half of Europeans can hold conversations in languages other than their native tongue. Here in the States, meanwhile, fewer than one in five Americans are conversationally fluent in a language other than English, and while the occasional non-Anglophone song has cracked the pop charts — six non-English songs have even taken Billboard’s number one slot, the most recent being Los del Rio’s Spanglish hit “Macarena“  — the reality is that those are the exceptions that prove out the rule: If you want to rock in America, you have to roll in English.

That’s why Tiffany and Jessica play such a critical role in Girls’ Generation’s quest to crack the U.S. market. According to *’s Kang, “In my opinion, if anyone is going to make it here, it’s going to be Girls’ Generation or 2NE1” — a high-energy quartet currently being mentored by Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am, three of whom speak fluent English.

“Having native English speakers is a huge difference maker in reaching the American audience,” says Kang. “It makes it feel less ‘foreign’ to them. And the upside is that big-name producers like Teddy Riley are writing their songs, they’re backed by Korea’s number-one agency, and frankly, the Girls are nine hot ladies. With nine girls, there’s at least one of them you want to date if you’re a guy, or want to be, if you’re a girl.”

So will the nine-lady army of Girls’ Generation succeed in winning American hearts and minds? Absolutely, says Adam Ware, chief of Mnet America — the new U.S.-based sister channel launched by powerhouse Korean music network Mnet.

“There’s a tipping point going on right now, and the Girls are poised to take advantage of it,” he says. “From an industry point of view, you have the brightest minds in the music biz looking around and saying, what is it that Will.i.am and Jimmy Iovane” — the head of Interscope, the Girls’ U.S. label — “know about K-Pop that I don’t? And the answer is, these are talented performers who are attractive in a way that’s sexy but wholesome, who know how to make use of social media. You have young people graduating out of the Disney Channel and looking for something to listen to that’s catchy, positive, fun, and they go to YouTube and they see the Girls. They watch the videos. They learn the dances. It’s amazing: I’ve never seen anything like this, where you have huge crowds of people knowing exactly the hand gestures to do to songs that aren’t even in English.”

That’s the vibe Mnet America is counting on. They’ve expanded from four million to 12 million households in the past year, and can now be seen in nine of the nation’s top ten markets. They, and their parent company, are spending heavily behind the notion that K-Pop isn’t just a fad or niche, but the next breakout pop subgenre.

“Our parent company has really been pushing the concert biz — they’ve packaged some of the top K-Pop groups together in a global tour they call M-Live,” says Ware. “And they’ve really been investing in Mnet America, looking to put us into the role that MTV used to play — the champion of a new and exciting musical genre. MTV was where hiphop really went mainstream, and they’re the ones who made it possible for a lot of the big European artists to cross over. They don’t do that anymore. But when it comes to Asian pop artists, and K-Pop in particular, we will.”

Ware has a good point. It was MTV that made the Scandi-Pop wave of the late-’80s / early ’90s happen: A-ha, Ace of Base, Roxette, The Cardigans, Aqua, and, on the avant-garde side of the musical spectrum, Bjork. Those acts were visually appealing and vocally talented, but frequently language-challenged. If they could make it in America, why not the Girls — who, with two native-born speakers and several other members fluent in English as a second language, are well ahead of their Scandinavian forerunners, many of whom depended on phonetic transliterations for their American releases?

“I don’t think language is a barrier at all,” says GG’s Tiffany. “We have fans from all over the world, who love our music even if they can’t understand it. If there’s one thing that our experience has taught us, it’s that music is really a universal language. It’s something you don’t just hear — it’s something you feel.”

source: http://blogs.wsj.com...ough-in-america

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[Guest mglsts]

New here, hoping to make these forums a second home. Keep up the good work.

[Guest des99]

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[Guest CQ23]

I can see them being invited to the AMA or Grammys to perform if they do well enough.

The biggest stage is probably half time during the Superbowl though. I would not mind watching 9 hot females performing instead of Madonna's corpse stumbling around.

[Guest B_Hundreds]

Heres my fancam from INSIDE 'Live with Kelly' 

Even with only 15 SSF Sones we managed to make the best of it and it showed on broadcast.

Love our Girls and Love our fellow Sones

MANchant Fancam

K Sones were very proud of us when they heard us on the broadcast

[theletterV]

Heres my fancam from INSIDE 'Live with Kelly' 

Even with only 15 SSF Sones we managed to make the best of it and it showed on broadcast.

Love our Girls and Love our fellow Sones

MANchant Fancam

K Sones were very proud of us when they heard us on the broadcast

I just want to say thank you so much for being there for the girls. You guys were awesome, and I'm sure the girls were grateful for the support.

The girls should be on their way over to Paris by now, right?

[Guest LittlePinky82]

Heres my fancam from INSIDE 'Live with Kelly' 

Even with only 15 SSF Sones we managed to make the best of it and it showed on broadcast.

Love our Girls and Love our fellow Sones

MANchant Fancam

K Sones were very proud of us when they heard us on the broadcast 

I was wondering the night before if fans would do fan chants. It's not something that is done in the US with music haha. I don't ever remember it when I liked NSync, Hanson, Britney Spears.  When I heard the fan chants on Kelly's show I was such a proud fan girl! Aw I love how KSones were proud too. I love how Kelly was like "oh my gosh" lol. I wasn't sure what they said at the beginning though but now I know it's their names. Everyone was great with the fan chants keke. I noticed Kelly kept looking back with the fan chants haha. 

I don't know you so hi I'm Pinky. *waves* Welcome to the thread to anyone new I haven't said hi yet. 

Some cute Taeyeon-

[Guest HyperionZ]

Heres my fancam from INSIDE 'Live with Kelly' 

Even with only 15 SSF Sones we managed to make the best of it and it showed on broadcast.

Love our Girls and Love our fellow Sones

MANchant Fancam

K Sones were very proud of us when they heard us on the broadcast

great job in showing the love for SNSD with your fanchants even though there were only 15 SONEs in there. Still, you were able to make the crowd and especially Kelly notice you guys and be interested. Shows the US public that fans are dedicated to these girls and are worth a look at.

[Guest HyperionZ]

I just want to say thank you so much for being there for the girls. You guys were awesome, and I'm sure the girls were grateful for the support.

The girls should be on their way over to Paris by now, right?

Yes, Yoona left in the afternoon, so I assume the rest of the girls will be leaving soon for Paris. My friends saw Yoona at SFO, but they got rejected by the manager and stylist

Sucks that SM will only let you get close to the girls when they want to use the fans to hype up something, but otherwise, they are completely strict in regards to SNSD and for the most part all their artists.

[Guest des99]

[Guest HyperionZ]

Oh wow, Jessica looks so beautiful as a bride! I can imagine fans thinking they could marry Sica, hehe.

I'm glad that Sica got a chance to get into acting, she's doing pretty well from what I have seen, although I really wish SM could choose better dramas. Still, other people enjoy her acting so its not all for nothing.

[Guest des99]

Girls' Generation 4th Birthday Wish to Soshified

Bangkok Post

Yes, I am a Sone

Published: 7/02/2012 at 12:00 AM 

Have you ever heard of a concert where tickets were sold out in 20 minutes? Not only that, the most expensive tickets were gone in the first five. This incredible feat occurred in Thailand and it was set by a K-pop girl group called Girls' Generation, who will be in town to wow their Thai fans on Sunday evening.

In case you're not familiar with Korean pop culture, here are a few tidbits to get you started.

The K-Pop music genre rules the charts; it has created its own separate YouTube channel and caused the Taiwanese government to set limits on its exposure on national television. Even Brazilians know how to "cover dance" to K-pop songs.

As you may know, I am one of the hardcore fans who had struggled for a Girls' Generation ticket. The band is known as SNSD (acronym of Korean name So Nyuh Shi Dae). SNSD fans are called Sone and, yes, I am a Sone.

The night before the tickets went on sale, I didn't get much sleep, and dragged myself out of bed as early as 7am to get in line three hours before the opening of ticket booth. Looking back, I am proud that I did all that. There was no other way to get a ticket _ my first time queuing for a concert ticket.

"Why did you do that?," asked a colleague, who could not hide his curiosity. "For that sum of money, you can see Madonna or U2."

True. Well, think about it. How much are you willing pay for a concert?

It depends, right? Is the band global or local? How famous is the band? Are you a groupie?

Being a groupie matters most. If you really are a groupie you can be there at 5am waiting in the line.

Even if you are not, you may still have to do it for your daughter or girlfriend. In this case, there is no other choice but to queue up.

One of my colleagues is in this group. He was to queue up for his daughter. With my help, he has secured a ticket for his girl.

In Thailand, we started to fully wake up to K-Pop with the Wonder Girls' Nobody: 'I want nobody nobody but you, I want nobody nobody but you...'.

At that time, I believe almost everyone could sing it (at least the chorus) and dance _ or cover dance on stage _ to it.

I certainly can. I can do a pretty cool version of the Nobody dance, though I prefer the cuter and more cheerful Girls' Generation.

Girls' Generation _ SNSD _ comprises nine girls and they are a global phenomenon with their looks and dancing prowess. Just how popular are they? They just did a sold-out concert in Singapore where tickets were gone in four hours and that prompted them to add a second show. Paris, Los Angeles, New York and the David Letterman Show _ they have been everywhere.

After the Nobody breakthrough in 2009, K-pop groups have occupied the pop scene, but for me, SNSD is among my top three.

Other bands or groups have their own unique style with dance routines (seen in local teen homes or at parties). Here are some of the song titles: Gee, Genie, The Boys, Sorry Sorry, Heartbeat, Bo Peep Bo Peep and Ma Boy.

They are all on YouTube, so to find out what your friends or your kids are up to, just type in the songs' name and add the word Korea.

Back to the concert. Okay, you've got your ticket, but you're still not ready for the concert.

Wherever the girls travel, die-hard Sone fans have something special for them. Organised by a fan club webmaster, a meeting was held to decide on what to do for the concert and how to make the atmosphere of the concert even more electric.

A friend of mine, a true Sone, was at the meeting and told me to YouTube the idea for the concert. (www. youtube.com/watch?v=tu7cDAbNYvc)

Pink Ocean (everyone waving a pink light), Fanchants (repeating lyrics), Birthday signs (sending special message by light stick) and Paper Planes are just some of the things that fans have prepared. And they do this everywhere the girls go _ international fan culture.

As I bought a ticket in a special seat, I have secured a position that requires the audience to hold a yellow light stick with a special message.

Now can you guess how much I paid to watch my favourite K-pop girl group?

I paid 4,500 baht, which amounts to 500 baht for each of them, because I will be watching a performance of nine girls. Well, worth it.

source: http://www.bangkokpo...yes-i-am-a-sone

[Guest hazee]

Wedding theme, anyone?

Is this where we start imagining ourselves in these pictures

Heres my fancam from INSIDE 'Live with Kelly' 

Even with only 15 SSF Sones we managed to make the best of it and it showed on broadcast.

Love our Girls and Love our fellow Sones

MANchant Fancam

K Sones were very proud of us when they heard us on the broadcast

Wow, thanks for being there for the girls! We're also proud of you all, along with the KSONEs~

[Guest des99]

[ENG/HD] 120207 YoonA, Sunny (SNSD) - 'I will push you down the staircase!'

[ENG/HD] 120207 TaeYeon, Sunny - 'I request to present a piece of evidence'

SNSD (Girls' Generation) Yoona SFO 120206

SNSD's gonna have an official release of the same US special release (idk if it's the maxi/full album) in Europe through Polydor on the 13th

cr: ch0sshi

Polydor is a subsidiary of Universal, which is what Interscope is under. The Europe album will be the same as the US album.

cr: moonsoshi