T-ARA hired by son of billionaire to perform for bday party (also a POOL PIX POST!!!)

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

Chinese media is abuzz about Wang Sicong‘s 27th birthday party after photos were posted to Weibo of K-Pop girl group, T-ARA performing at the heir’s lavish celebratory bash.

The 27-year old booked a hotel in Sanya, Hainan for his party complete with a professional full-size performance stage, professional cameramen, and a gorgeous patio full of standing tables decorated with sophisticated centerpieces. Party favors were stacked on the tables including Macbook Pros, iPads, and iPhones. No expense was spared for the Wang’s birthday party, held on January 3rd.

Photos on Weibo depicted T-ARA performing on the stage with professional cameramen taping the entire performance and even capturing the audience reactions during the group’s performance.

Other released photos revealed that in addition to T-ARA’s appearance, other Chinese celebrities including star of Hurry Up, Brother Angelababy, were in attendance and seen taking selcas with party guests.

After the party, Wang updated his weibo with six Chinese Characters and a photo of T-ARA’s performance stating simply “With money, do as you will. Hehe ~” (holy shit)

Wang Sicong is the only son of Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin who is currently the Chairman of Dalian Wanda Group, one of the largest real estate developers in China and recently became the largest movie theater operator after their acquisition of AMC Entertainment Holdings in 2013.

now onto the good stuff... they took a tooon of pics during their mini vacation so here's t-ara's sns updates from their swanky lodgings in Sanya!

QRI:

BORAM:

(this one's from Euna their stylist's instagram)

바람.바람.바람 pic.twitter.com/TmRoQAYWFw

— Jeon Bo Ram (@BoRam_0322) January 3, 2015

EUNJUNG:

HYOMIN:

SOYEON:

credits: article: koreaboo / photos of venue: yichuangqingshu / sns accounts: qtfreet, euna3579, BoRam_0322, sweetgirlej, hyominnn, melodysoyani

edit: fixed broken images

Comments

[rosetta16.livejournal.com]

“Party favors were stacked on the tables including Macbook Pros, iPads, and iPhones.”
I hate being poor

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

naw turn that into something productive

hate the rich instead

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

apologies for the fucked up instagram embeds, fixing it now

edit: fixed

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

Yasssss

[odd-fish-stick.livejournal.com]

i always thought all these companies refused performing at private events like these. At least that's what I've always read

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

ive read that too and actually t-ara fans were pissed at wang sicong for inviting them bc he has a bad image and it kind of comes off as v sleazy? here (http://english.sina.com/entertainment/2015/0104/769536.html) is the relevant news article. they prob accepted bc their reputation cant possibly get any worse and i heard they were paid 250k (couldnt find a reliable source for this tho)

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

yeah some t-ara fans seem to be proud of this and im just like... really?

[slashedsilver.livejournal.com]

Yeah when I first read it, I didn't know to be more horrified that this guy was willing to pay enough money to have them perform or that their company actually AGREED to it. Isn't there something demeaning in this? Or is the company already immune to that.

[girlsday.livejournal.com]

No there's nothing demeaning in it. Even stars like Beyonce and Kanye West get paid to perform at private events like this. a job is a job.

[hibaalhadid.livejournal.com]

here in our region (middle east) private events (wedding ,birthday parties) are the major money maker for artists, it's so common and natural, ppl and fans don't get upset, they get happy, because it's a measurement of their success, the more popular you are the more offers you get

[mya13.livejournal.com]

OT but is your name hiba? we share the same name then...although mines is spelled with two e's.

[hibaalhadid.livejournal.com]

yes it is

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that Weibo post in response to T-ara's fans scolding him for hiring them and preventing them from being able to see them perform at his party...which was some totally WTF logic and I loved when he responded that way because entitlement can go both ways

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

lol yeah, he made a post that said something like "you cant afford to invite them but i can so basically im giving them promo" it was amazing

[xxmannequin.livejournal.com]

Ugh I hate rich people. ;~;

Surely, netizens will have a lot to say about this.

[waves-of-light.livejournal.com]

Shoes on the sand? Whyyyyyy?

[4minutesluts.livejournal.com]

safety first, never know when youre gonna run across a used hypodermic

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

get them coins tho

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

I was expecting bikini pics idk why

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

not from these vestal virgins

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

he sounds like a rich asshole but if they're getting that money and a free vacation i can't hate.

[bamboolover.livejournal.com]

Goddesses getting big coins. Amazing.

[hitthoselightz.livejournal.com]

getting ur own stage and money just for some bday party
plus u get a holiday
amazing

[tha-x.livejournal.com]

Why are rich people so rich

[hibaalhadid.livejournal.com]

as I said above I'll repeat it

here in our region (middle east) private events (wedding ,birthday parties) are the major money maker for artists, it's so common and natural, ppl and fans don't get upset, they get happy, because it's a measurement of their success, the more popular you are the more offers you get

and artists show off how much they get paid for an event to show how much they're popular, and media will talk about it too

[http://users.livejournal.com/___sasuka/]

So long as it's not a dictator or something performing for a billionaire must be kinda surreal fun. I remember my girl Christina Aguilera getting $4 mil for singing 20 minutes at some Spanish rich guy's party a while ago. Like, get it, man! I sure know that if I was wealthy as fuq I'd hire all my faves to sing for me~~