RANIA COMEBACK ON MCOUNTDOWN WITH ALL (YES, ALL) THEIR NEW MEMBERS!

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

SQUAD UP pic.twitter.com/1YcHtmvlyo

— Alexandra Reid (@thealexreid) November 5, 2015

I will upate the post when a better quality video comes in. What do you think Omona?

TYFYT OMONA

XOXO

SOURCES:
[Comeback Stage] 151105 RANIA (라니아) - DEMONSTRATE (데몬스트레이트) @ 엠카운트다운 M! Countdown [1080p 60fps]
"SQUAD UP"

Comments

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

OP, here's a higher quality video


also, i'm kinda angry she's not dancing with them for most of it?
other than that i really like the song

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I've just added it
Yeah it was really annoying that she's MIA for most of the song but when she was there it was so cool to see her there and I'm glad she at least knows some of the choreo
They need to release a dance practice that includes her, just to make up for how wack everything about this process has been

[lily-of-west.livejournal.com]

Am I supposed to be impressed with this? The dance is not even that difficult and they lipsync the entire thing. Hell even Alex lipsynced her rap parts????

The lyrics of her rap are messy too. Hopefully it gets better from here on....not impressed by this at all.

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

Am I supposed to be impressed with this?
Nop. They're just doing a comeback with a kpop song like all the other groups. They not trying to impress but to sell with a simple "catchy" song like 90% of kpop.

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

I was genuinely excited to see her but gotdamn this label is a MESS. This is so disorganized!
I hope they release a dance practice vid that includes all the members
Lawd I'm so worried about her like she's my little sister or something lol. Does she have a translator there? Are the other girls being nice to her? Who is doing her make up?! Did she talk to Bambam lol
I hope she's okay
Also I like the dancing, I think the girls seem fun and confident on stage, I had no issues with that. I just wish they were under better management.

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Lowkey tho, I think she'll be fine

Men want to do business with other men. I don't play that. Better check my resume and show some respect.

— Alexandra Reid (@thealexreid) September 10, 2015 (https://twitter.com/thealexreid/status/641821319022055424)

[fabulousdoll.livejournal.com]

I have so many questions.
With how much notice they knew they were having her in the group? Was it supposed to be only her featuring/doing the rap and end up being a member? There was no time for putting her in the MV and teach her a choreography? Are they planning to have her for more than a comeback? Are they testing the waters?
I hope there's some interviews explaining all this lol

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

she had visa issue so she couldn't be there when they filmed the video

[mlmello.livejournal.com]

this song could be a bop, but it's just boring.

[ironicmustache.livejournal.com]

i really want to see a video of her first time backstage at a music show. can you imagine the culture shock?? all the bowing and greeting of sunbaes and kissing the owners asses. all the waiting around and wasting the day. i bet it's wild for her. i wonder how deep into kpop she got ... did she just watch mvs on youtube or was she all up in it? did she know what she was getting into? so many questions that will probably never be answered cause kpop interviews never address anything honestly.


anyways. sucks that even when she's there she's treated as a feature.

[leopolitan.livejournal.com]

di is pm one of the most beautiful people in kpop i cant take my eyes away from her

i have no confidence theyll keep alex after this promotion cycle ends but im impressed they involved her in a bit of choreo at the end, tbh i was expecting her to just walk on and off stage like a typical rap feature, especially since her addition was on such short notice

[charlieu.livejournal.com]

I can't get over how hot Di is. She's naturally really sexy

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

well cool but not what I was expected and they should have waited to hype her until she was going to be present for the stage.

[e-bone (from livejournal.com)]

Why they got her in a sweatshirt and not dressed like everyone else though.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

lbh if she dressed like the other girls nobody would look at them. alex would steal all the shine.

[cxxl.livejournal.com]

This was a mess across the board.
Alex is more than likely a last minute decision; she was probably just a rapper the company could afford at the time and decided why not for the sake of publicity and media coverage.
I don't think she is going to last with a song like this. Tania themselves already hanging on by a weak ass thread so...
Other than that the choreography is trash, the song is trash. Performance was trash

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

Why was she missing for most of the song, though? And the camera work while she WAS on the stage. Okay.

The song isn't bad, it's pretty alright, just doesn't grab me. This is really awkward, I don't know anything about their company, but I got my side eye on them.

[simprov.livejournal.com]

yeah i noticed that too abt the camerawork
i kept waiting for them to focus on her during the dance but nah she didn't even get a solo shot

[mya13.livejournal.com]

omg everything about this is a shady mess. like did they add her so late that she didn't have enough time to learn choreo or something? #prayforalex

[jeit91.livejournal.com]

i don't foresee her lasting long in the group tbh. There's obviously going to be some level of culture clash to where she will get fed up with the kpop business and just leave.

How she was put in seems to strange, and I'm thinking they only added her as a gimmick and as some sort of deal to get her manager to do Rania's US promotions.

[maebyfunke.livejournal.com]

i'm in class so i can't watch but is any part of her rap in korean? i heard a bit of the song last night and her speaking part was in english

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

All English.

[kaninasan.livejournal.com]

This is such a mess, Alex starts the song with some lip synced rap and then is MIA for the rest of the stage?

And she's not even in the MV??

I know there were visa issues but why not delay the comeback until they could have her in the MV and she had time to learn the choreo.

IDK this is all really shady.

[dirrtypony.livejournal.com]

lol

[kwikimart.livejournal.com]

Some of y'all are being extra harsh, the song is not that bad, actually it reminds me of Jessi's song
And that knee to crouch transition plus the hair pulling they do in the dance doesn't look easy at all! It's not a tough dance but it's still interesting enough visually. It's not just posing.

[charlieu.livejournal.com]

I always liked Rania, but this is their worst song. :( I like Jessi's song, I hate this one.

[justkyhdding.livejournal.com]

I don't mind this song, but painkiller is still my #1 rania track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqR_-fghEMU

[bloodtaki2.livejournal.com]

This is the type of kickass visual and concept I like but it's not catchy enough for me.

[nana-the-dwarf.livejournal.com]

So many questions...everything about this seemed awkward. It seems to me that the whole song, choreo and performance were washed down to fit Alex in there and not actually took the time to make her fit in instead. I was actually surprised to see her dance along with them for a bit.

I wonder if she and the rest of Rania get along or even try to communicate? She's like a last minute addition, from a foreign country, doesn't speak the language and with apparently zero idol training. It would be enough to make my petty ass jelly tbh because it seems she's there for the sake of publicity and just that. She's better at rapping (debatable because she lipsynched) and with the English, obviously, but other than that, she doesn't really bring anything more or refreshing to the group, musically wise.

[yohan94.livejournal.com]

i like her but i'm not hopeful and other than the special teaser and this stage (which she was barely in) she's not in any of the other stuff with the group looks like she'll become expendable after this comeback? i'm not really getting the feeling she's a permanent member

the song is kinda good a bit catchy at parts. the dance isn't bad too.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

G I M M I C K - - -

until proven otherwise.

[lazmy.livejournal.com]

i rly like rania but ia

[violentiak.livejournal.com]

How can they do that move where they jump from kneeling postion to squat? It's driving me insane. I just tried it and I failed miserably. I'm impressed they are able to pull it off so smoothly. (and hope no one of them will fall down while performing this)

[kareymoop.livejournal.com]

lol that was my first reaction when I saw the mv too! I replayed that part of the choreo like 3 times and I was just thinking "damn they must have amazing thighs and legs and balance" and the fact that they're doing it in heels!!

[byeolbyeol.livejournal.com]

unrelated but: http://en.makestar.co/projects/singer_rania/ their company set up a kickstarter (or something like a kickstarter) to fund their new album. the only other time i remember this happening with a group was when nh media set one up for u-kiss in 2013-ish.

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

this is... depressing. they didn't even include alex on the roster either, so she's not really with the group?
but it looks like they are sporting it as basically buying the album/M&G which isn't too bad at least...

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

The choreo is insanity honestly and this is one of the first groups actually giving us fierce like the point of the comeback, Tae stays carrying the charisma tho.