~EXO News Roundup~

[footballfina.livejournal.com]

Sehun Reached 1 Million Followers!!!!!

By the time this post goes through, Tao with also have 1 million followers!!!!
Congratulations :) And so So SO well deserved ;)

bei jing kao ya ^.^ lunch (holy shit... it looks so good)

Beijing bye~ shanghai let`s GO GO GO^.^

(What the fuck is this baby-making music Park Chanyeol??????)

#harrypotter If I have that, I can shout! Lumos! Lumosss!! (Baek goin' hard in the paint to try and win me back)

[Interview] EXO-M in LA: About to Overdose

By Tae Hong

EXO’s “Overdose” hit the markets on May 7.

It’s already broken records with a combined 658,710 pre-orders and, in less than two days, has hit a still-growing six million combined music video views on YouTube.

But before all of that, it’s a hot afternoon in downtown Los Angeles on May 1, and EXO-M has just arrived at the hotel.

They pile out of the black Cadillac Escalade, but there are little fanatic screams to be heard — there was plenty of that just a couple of hours prior inside LAX — as the six members, ushered by managers and security guards, enter the building and head toward the elevators.

EXO-M, the China-focused subgroup of EXO, is in the City of Angels for the first time in months to perform at The Korea Times’ Music Festival.

The fast-moving parade of colorful heads and shirts and very many bags finally comes to a stop inside the thankfully empty hallways that sit many floors above the lobby, away from noise.

There’s Xiumin, slight and blond; Luhan, definitively pretty; Kris, tall and imposing in sunglasses; Lay, dimpled and pale-skinned; Chen, bespectacled and lanky; and Tao, who is hours from turning 21 years old. (OP: this is perfect lol)

The band’s manager turns to me. “You said tomorrow?”

I nod. “Just about ten minutes.”

“See you then,” he says.

-

It’s around 8:30 p.m. the next day when the boys come into a spare backstage dressing room at the Hollywood Bowl minutes after wrapping up rehearsal for the show.

Chen enters first, a backwards cap on his head. The rest follow.

Two of the band’s members are Korean, one is Chinese Canadian and the rest are Chinese, which means that, between the six of them, only two — Chen and Xiumin — speak fluent Korean.

The main topic of buzz for the group is “Overdose,” their newest mini-album and the second since their explosive 2012 debut.

EXO comes from the word “exoplanet,” which refers to a planet outside the Solar System. Divided into two subgroups — one focused on activities in Korea and one on China — the 12-member team has taken over the Asian music industry with the kind of gusto that propelled their first studio album, “XOXO,” to become the first Korean record to pass one million album sales in 12 years.

After pushing back the album’s release due to a ferry boat tragedy that put a pause on most entertainment activities in Korea, EXO-M has only had the chance to perform the song in China.

American fans are just one day away from seeing “Overdose” live for the first time.

Six members means six personalities. EXO-M may be constantly scrutinized and idolized by millions, but in this dimly lit room filled with plastic chairs, they’re clearly people.

“This is our fourth time coming to the U.S. But every time we come, I feel the passionate support our foreign fans give us. I’m thankful for that and — ” Xiumin pauses, his blond hair sticking up from still-wet rehearsal sweat.

Seconds pass as his head tilts, searching for words.

“I’m sorry. My Korean is a bit clumsy,” he apologizes with a sheepish laugh but ends with a completed thought. “We want to come back each time with an upgrade. Sorry, it’s been a long time since I’ve spoken. I’m not very good at interviews.”

I throw him an encouraging smile, surprised at what sounds like fluent Korean. “You must be one of the Chinese members.”

The members laugh.

“He’s been living in Korea for 25 years,” Chen says, lips twitching.

The six members of EXO-M are on top of the K-pop world — that’s irrefutable — but sometimes it’s easy to forget that they’re also early twentysomethings.

Here in L.A., away from China and Korea, they still stick out on the street, and a few fangirls still follow their every move, but they can walk around and shop, grab Starbucks, look up at the sky.

“There’s a lot of things I want to do, and I just really like it here. I’m a fan of the Lakers, and the street fashion is great. It’s a good place for people who like fashion and for shopping,” Kris says. “It’s a good atmosphere.”

Everyone in the room lets out an “ahh” of agreement when Xiumin says he wants to experience college life in the United States.

“My Korean is clumsy, so I want to at least learn English correctly,” he jokes. “To learn English and to feel what college life is like — I really want to do it at least once.”

Next to him, Chen wants an opportunity to see the U.S. on vacation.

“We’ve been to a lot of countries because of our schedules, but we haven’t been able to comfortably have fun and enjoy rest in those places because of work,” Chen says. “We went to a beach in Malibu yesterday and it was beautiful. I want to go back there when I get vacation time in the future.”

Lay, who has directed three 90-degree bows at me over the course of two days, is one of the main dancers of the team.

He wants to take dance lessons from dancers he admires, among them Nick Bass, Lyle Beniga and Tony Testa — whom the band, he says, had dinner with the night before.

As for Luhan and Tao, time in the U.S. is best used as time spent resting.

“I just want to come here and relax,” Luhan says. “Have a cup of coffee at Rodeo Drive, sitting with my sunglasses on at a cafe.”

-

The band, now in their second year of activities, are still newbies by most standards, but nothing could have prepared Asia for the storm they brought on with “Growl” last year.

Lay speaks up in hesitant but wholly sincere Korean.

“I have a dream that I wish will come true,” he announces. “As EXO-M, EXO-K and just EXO, I want us to win all the awards at the end of the year.”

EXO picked up dozens of awards last year from countless sources, including 28 No. 1 wins on several broadcasting stations’ music programs, a time-honored measure of K-pop success.

“That’s why,” they tell me, “it’s more burdensome this time around.”

“We had good results last year because so many people gave us love, but our goal is to not lose sight of our original mindset, steer clear of vanity and try our best until the end,” Chen says.

140510 EXO-M "Overdose" CCTV performance

#OvedoseFirstWin



Meilishuo EXO-M CF

Sales Update!!!!!

OVERDOSE
140510
EXO-K: 6184
EXO-M: 3491
Combined: 9675
05/10 16:00 update

Week 1
YYMMDD | EXO-K | EXO-M | Total
140507 | 52367 | 43588 | 95955
140508 | 45005 | 39117 | 84122
140509 | 16727 | 12554 | 29281

Cumulative
EXO-K: 120283
EXO-M: 95750
Combined: 219,033
05/10 16:00 update

Xiumin trends in Daum, Nate, Naver

~trend of the trend~ FOR REAL O_O


Source: real__pcy + hztttao + baekhyunee_exo + xlkslb_ccdtks + Korea Times + namja124 + SuperMintIcecream + jenniline + Baidu

Comments

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Min and Kris' bit was the only good part of that boring as XOXO show




Xiumin needs to embrace his trend status

[cher-ex3.livejournal.com]

Clearly flawless.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

he woke up like this

[anconeous.livejournal.com]

I rarely ever get Xiumin feels but wow at him here. <3

[torontok.livejournal.com]

sexy Xiumin is the best Xiumin

[lucyownsjoaquin.livejournal.com]

i live for kris inserting his face into the interviews every chance he gets lmao

[torontok.livejournal.com]

lmao that was killing me the entire time. He needs to get his camera time

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

I've got to watch the show still...I think tomorrow

Kris and Minseok...my #1 and #2 in EXO (Jongdae is #3)

[torontok.livejournal.com]

flawless taste. they're my number 1 & 2 as well (King Dae is number 4)

It's really quite boring tbh. only worth it for the short mc kris cut

[klauses.livejournal.com]

wowow kris and xiumin are my #1 and #2 as well, i didn't know it was such a common rank

[torontok.livejournal.com]

All the xiuris stans need to band together

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

xiumin is literally the best thing exo has

I agree

[torontok.livejournal.com]

I am a terrible Kris stan lol

[localised.livejournal.com]

Kris was shockingly cute throughout this show omg

Xiumin ;_;

[torontok.livejournal.com]

shockingly

[pentrue.livejournal.com]

creying because he's just sooo gorgeous. it's crazy how he can look cute one minute and then do a 180 and turn into a boss ;_;

[xiuminz.livejournal.com]

His face on the last gif, I can't even. TT.

[blinkmyday.livejournal.com]

I died when he laughed after failing to interview Yixing. And yep, XiuKris' part >>>>>>>>>>

[xxhna.livejournal.com]

Chanyeol has good taste in music.

[missingmisnomer.livejournal.com]

It's my favourite thing about him

[cher-ex3.livejournal.com]

THAT FECKING GIF. NO, MINSEOK. STAAAHHP.

-ahem-

Anyway, I approve Chanyeol's (and EXO's, really) love for Soulchild.

And I propose a U.S. vacation for the boys. A real vacation.

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

xiumin is so cute.

[dramatised149.livejournal.com]

EXO-M may be constantly scrutinized and idolized by millions, but in this dimly lit room filled with plastic chairs, they’re clearly people.

Some kids need to have this sentence printed and stuck on their bedroom walls in Huge Bold Text.

[szhuns.livejournal.com]

this

[footballfina.livejournal.com]

this is getting impossible, both Kris and Sehun updated literally right after I submitted *facepalm*

other good news tho - EXO-M passed 100,000 albums in Hanteo after only 4 days!!!!! And that article is really insightful imo, not to mention the descriptions of the members are ON POINT.

sidenote: is anyone gonna post the fully subbed XOXO show???

[torontok.livejournal.com]

I'll do it

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

I was debating whether or not to make a post about the "naver/rythem" debacle that happened yesterday, then I fell asleep while making it lol

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

OP there is a subbed version of the CCTV interview

[utadaboba.livejournal.com]

I knew instagram would prove to show how sweet Sehun really is. People like to joke around about him being a maknae brat or whatever but the kid really knows what he's doing with his image.

I hope idol life doesn't burn him out in the long run.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

him, lay and kai
they are sweethearts and I hope they don't change

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

He's a snarky brat tho, but at the same time he's really sweet and endearing and pretty.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

sehun is adorable in every single way and I hope he stays always like that (and I hope his finger is better.) What annoys me is the so called fans that go to his friend's insta and call her whore, slut and every single name you can come up just because Sehun followed her back.
the poor boy can have no friends! as soon they saw him in his graduation talking to his classmate they started hating her, now that he followed her they are attacking her directly, going through her posts and say you're this, you're that not to mention they make threats if she touches Sehun. He stopped following her right away so she would stop receiving so much hate.
It annoys me that "fans" (because those people are no fans, they are complete psychos!) go after innocent people who's only mistake was to be friends with sweet oppa.
I fear that these boys will be completely shut down from their friends to the point they'll have no one to talk to because if they do, they'll fear those insane people will go after the people they love. I'm happy Kai and Taemin have each other, that they can rely on each other and now they understand each other's lives much better, but it's not fair for the others who just want to live life a little bit on a normal basis.
I'm ashamed to be in the same fandom as those children, as those people who make their lives a living hell. I'm ashamed that when people think of exo fans they think of psychos who will attack verbaly everyone around them. I wish I could apologize for all sane fans who are just happy to see them on stage smiling.

i'm sorry about the rant....I just had to let it out....sorry guys!

[princetabi.livejournal.com]

its a well intentioned rant so its okay lol i feel the same way. One of the first things I though of when the boys made their profiles public was how they probably had to delete stuff and unfollow people bc of the stupid fans.

[gardevoiir.livejournal.com]

the thirst is real
gatdamn

[pentrue.livejournal.com]

I've been staring at that gif for the past 30 mins and I'm still not tired of it.

[gray-fairy.livejournal.com]

Taostagram gives me life. He's so unbelievably adorable. I love Chanstagram too. He's so pretty and cute tbh. And I didn't know he could drive *__*.
Are those 219,033 from Hanteo? Holy shit, that's insane. Only EXO-M's album has sold more in 3~4 days than what SNSD has sold in 3 months o_O.
Edit: omg, that CF is soooooo damn cute and colourful. I didn't know they were doing CFs for the Chinese market.

[klauses.livejournal.com]

i wanna squish xiubb's little cheeks

[milafanway.livejournal.com]

prayer circle

[princetabi.livejournal.com]

my faves reached a million a while ago lol but i was scrolling through sehun's instagram and when I went back up, he had a million haha I like to think it was me who caused that. Someone make a psa that Yixing has an instagram bc he is the only who hasn't gotten or isn't close to a million followers :( was that suho instagram ever confirmed?

[jaerotic.livejournal.com]

well if he keeps on posting lee sooman pics idt many ppl will want to follow him tbqh (i love you xing but your first post was lsm's old album cover and i just dk abt that lmao)

[princetabi.livejournal.com]

lol this is true. He needs to take a cue from Sehun and take more selfies. DAMN IT YIXING.

[xiuminz.livejournal.com]

Minseok need to stop. My heart can't take it.

Loving the videos chanyeol posted on instagram, but he needs to talk, I want to hear the deep voice of his. Hahaha.

[belintuchiha.livejournal.com]

I think if he talks, then we would die even more lmao

[hyeena.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that if he had talked in that bed video (ur icon kills me) half of the exo fandom would've collapsed

[milafanway.livejournal.com]

Xiumin is cute as hell, I guess thirst is real in Korea for him
like he was only eating lol he's the trend of course
I think if he reaches 1 million he'll know that he has an IG and he'll upload a coffee pic LMAO

[hyeena.livejournal.com]

#stopchanyeol2k14

[engraved-16.livejournal.com]

Ugh just all my feels for xiumin this era, he's so presh ;~;