G-Dragon in "The Hollywood Reporter 10 Global Pop Icons"

[suxaholic.livejournal.com]

Imagine Justin Timberlake's boy bander-turned-credible musician pedigree and Kanye West's genre-bending artistic daredevilry, and you'll get an idea of G-Dragon's standing in K-pop -- though his reach is expanding rapidly beyond Asia.






Juggling equally successful careers as a solo artist and frontman of the group Big Bang, whose 2012 world tour drew 800,000 fans to sold-out shows on four continents, the rapper, songwriter and producer says, "Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn't really realize how famous I was."





The 25-year-old, name Kwon Ji Yong, also has attracted peer admirers, working with Diplo, Baauer, Boys Noize, Sky Ferreira and Missy Elliott on his 2013 solo album Coup d'Etat, a bold mashup of hip-hop, EDM, punk rock and Korean folk that charted on the Billboard 200.





G-Dragon, who has recorded a yet-unreleased song with Justin Bieber, says there is only one artist on his wish list: "Pharrell [Williams]! Ever since I got into writing hip-hop music, he's been my only living idol."





For his part, the newly minted Oscar nominee Pharrell Williams has tweeted that GD is an "amazing talent."




Source bigbangupdates, the hollywood reporter

Comments

[miwa201.livejournal.com]

he looks so nice here.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

I really like the styling in this phootoshoot.
Is that smiley face tattoo real?
"Pharrell [Williams]! Ever since I got into writing hip-hop music, he's been my only living idol."
Now JiJi, how are you not gonna mention the light of your life, fire of your loins, Michigo Muse?

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

Yes, the tattoo is real. I've lost count of the total number, but (for some reason?) he has two smiley tattoos now in any case: also the x.x one around his navel.

[babyonions.livejournal.com]

I only see your family member Zayn in this gif tbh

[seroquels.livejournal.com]

this gif has so many lulz.

I normally only notice Ri and her friend, and now I'm finally noticing the 1D guys behind them, and the other audience members. LOL Oh Miley.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Or how about those times he styled his hair like Lil Wayne, Skrillex and Pete Wentz? Were they just hairspirations?

[sjtaazrz.livejournal.com]

When has he styled his hair like pete wentz?

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

This one's kind of hard to prove because PW doesn't have an obvious signature hairstyle like the other two do... but when GD was in a unit with TOP he had "natural" frizzy hair just at the same time that Wentz was his letting his natural hair show without reaching for the straighteners all the time. There's also the updo/small pompador that GD has most of the time backstage, which is also PW's current hair.

To be honest this is mostly just a personal theory of mine... other factors are BB's "drive a van to the rock show" MV with No Brain and TOP's emo-hair phase. (In fact if I had to guess who the bigger FOB in Big Bang was likely to be, I'd guess TOP.) I think it makes sense in a way because PW is - or was - a kind of a spokesperson for celebs with bipolar disorder, and FOB were rly rly popular when Big Bang were touring America with Se7en back in '06.

[unicornios.livejournal.com]

Harry chewing his orange kills me everytime lol
Not even going to mention my queen Riri

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

"Imagine Justin Timberlake's boy bander-turned-credible musician pedigree and Kanye West's genre-bending artistic daredevilry, and you'll get an idea of G-Dragon's standing in K-pop"

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

he looks great in the photos except his hair color looks like a dead animal.

nice writeup too.

[snoaz.livejournal.com]

This seems like a pretty big thing. His name gets dropped a lot recently in articles and these kind of lists and idk, I'm just proud of him. Who to stan in k-pop if you don't stan him, basically.

Also, loving these pics!

[camouflagecat.livejournal.com]

Mte to all

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

I so adore him in his little suits. So handsome.

[adlyeith.livejournal.com]

I hate his hair, but otherwise nice styling in the shoot.
I'm seeing his name literally everywhere these days, so I'm proud of him for really succeeding.
Unfortunately, people might look at him and think that YG knows what they're doing, though..

[kaninasan.livejournal.com]

he looks great

[seroquels.livejournal.com]

I'm appreciating suit wearing GD sfm.
Pls keep this kind of style. Pls leave swag~ in 2013.

[maishi-obuki.livejournal.com]

never going to happen.
He has always worn street fashion, suits, and high fashion.


the revived popularity of the word swag did not change his style.

[seroquels.livejournal.com]

I can wish for no more gold chains, grills and white T's if I want.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

Great styling.

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

i'm so happy for him, but at the same time i feel so bad because just when he's finally made it he has to go to the army for two years and all the (international) press and connections will die ㅠㅠ

[ah-mui.livejournal.com]

He still has a good couple of years left though, considering a lot of the '86 line haven't gone off yet.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

Please don't ever let that Bieber collab see the light of day.

[21banged.livejournal.com]

Ji is looking gooooood

I guess now that RiRi's finally followed him he's gonna need to suck up to Pharrell :P

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

I like the styling here

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

Imagine Justin Timberlake

I stopped reading right there & just looked at the pics.

[pimpmysneaks.livejournal.com]

He looks so good here. I'm a sucker for black watch plaid. My personal feelings aside it's nice to see him getting so much recognition. It's well deserved.

[dewi-matahari.livejournal.com]

I like that he hasn't bothered to tone down the crazy poses for international publications. This kind of coverage doesn't happen to everyone so might as well go big, right?

[unicornios.livejournal.com]

He looks so qt here.

[changod.livejournal.com]

lol NO.