LA Official SNSD Fanmeet; U JEALOUS?!

[gator-yoong.livejournal.com]

On the afternoon of the 8th in a theatre in Los Angeles. Caucasian female, Sarah (28), who was wearing a pink T-Shirt with “Soshified” written on it danced along to SNSD’s big hit “Gee”. Sarah is one of the 120,000 members of America’s SNSD fan community “Soshified”. She participated in the first planned Soshified meeting. 500 people from all over America came together to participate in this event. “Soshified” comes from SNSD’s abbreviation “Soshi” and the English world “Satisfied”.


— How do you sing the lyrics accurately?
“I really like K-POP and I’ve started to learn Korean. Right now, I memorize the lyrics by transcribing the Korean pronunciation into English.”


— Why is K-POP good?
“American pop is all over the world and it’s hard to enjoy it together, but anyone can easily enjoy K-POP, no matter what their age.”

Up until now, America is a place that Korean singers can’t overlook. American pop is just a “textbook” that Korean singers imitate. But, by the 2nd half of the 2000s, they began to challenge that. Rain (Bi), BoA, SE7EN have all stood on the American stage. Wonder Girls became the first ever Korean singers to appear on the Billboard Charts at 76.

Last September 15,000 American fans gathered in LA for the “SM Town Concert”. SNSD, Super Junior, SHINee and other SM Entertainment artists participated in the concert and the tickets to the performance were completely sold out one month before.

On this day at “Soshified”’s event location you could see people from various races. Black people, white people, Asian people, etc… were all present equally. SMUSA said, “Of those in attendance, more than half were Hispanic, white or some other non-Asian race”. At the event venue they played the Korean produced SNSD videos. The venue had cheers of joy as they watched the SNSD members dance and sing on the video. Uncle fans were also noticeable. In a lively voice they did the fan chants “SEO NYUH SHI DAE!”. With a moustache and long beard Grimmy (49) introduced himself, “I’m a long time SNSD uncle fan”.


— How did you come to know Korean girl groups?
“Through YouTube and other internet sites. But, not just SNSD, KARA and Secret too, I like mostly Korean girl groups.”


— Why do you like Korean girl groups?
“In American groups, it’s typical that only 1 member is noticed. In Korean girl groups, all of the members are charming. All 9 members are Beyonce in SNSD.”

They finished up the day by flying paper airplanes with what they would want to say to SNSD written on them. On Twitter they also expressed their wishes for SNSD in the “Tell me your wish” corner. The main way for K-POP to broaden and cross over from Asia into places like America and Europe is through YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other global networks. Even though SNSD hasn’t debuted officially in America, they still have a large-scale fanclub such as this.

On the 13th in America’s Wall Street Journal they had a special feature and reported, “SNSD was successful in their Japan debut thanks to the PR efforts on YouTube. Using YouTube for PR doesn’t cost much at all and you could see the response in the market before their debut. Korean entertainment companies are being proactive with their YouTube usage.”




Translated by: Kanki@Soshified.com
Source: Japanese Joins



TL NOTE: I believe Grimmy is actually the one who said some of these quotes (Beyonce one). Sarah's quotes never made it to the actual article, the reporter got her (the blonde) confused with the brunette girl. but, I believe Grimmy claimed on SSF that HE was the one that made the Beyonce comment.

I don't like this because Sarah is one of our OMTD members, and well, she talked to the reporter about subbing and charity projects, none of the quotes from the article are her's...just her skin-color, name and age are. The reporter even got her hair and what she was wearing mixed up with another white girl. (All look the same you know lolol)

Comments

[saintalecto.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to do a story on Omona. Won't Korea be shocked then.

XD

[gator-yoong.livejournal.com]

Haha indeed! XD

[imyoona.livejournal.com]

I heard it was boring tho.

[chromaticrose.livejournal.com]

It was all right *shrugs*

[laisseli.livejournal.com]

“Soshified” comes from SNSD’s abbreviation “Soshi” and the English world “Satisfied”.

Is it really? Because I was always under the impression that the suffix "fied" was the suffix for "to make" as in "liquefy" or "personify."

[anathema-switch.livejournal.com]

the whole article was kinda half-assed I wonder were they got their info from

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

i want that picture of gee behind those fans as a poster in my room

[chromaticrose.livejournal.com]

That's actually a screen; we were in a movie theater and they showed us music videos on that humongous screen. The Gee music video was playing during this picture.

[headswillroll88.livejournal.com]

With a moustache and long beard Grimmy (49) introduced himself, “I’m a long time SNSD uncle fan”.

Um ew.

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

LOL "Grimmy"

i like some of their older fans though, they're cute

[awashy.livejournal.com]

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[bumie.livejournal.com]

so cute :')

[faister.livejournal.com]

+1

[nyankee.livejournal.com]

American pop is all over the world and it’s hard to enjoy it together, but anyone can easily enjoy K-POP, no matter what their age.

That statement doesn't even make any fucking sense. They're both styles derived from the same older genres -- it's still pop music. Logically it should follow that they're either both equally hard to "enjoy together", or the opposite.

[queenhinata.livejournal.com]

IKR. The statement was just unnecessary -_-

[justhyuu.livejournal.com]

All 9 members are Beyonce in SNSD

Biggest lie of all times.

[meelisch.livejournal.com]

It is.

[baka-tenshi.livejournal.com]

[stopthedisco.livejournal.com]

ssf should work on making that new layout tbh /pressed

[notyourgeisha.livejournal.com]

the white is fug. it hurts my eyes to read and screams basic. I liked the airport layout ;_;

[wintersol.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're being compared to Beyonce, just her popularity. And, relative to American girl groups, the members do get a more balanced share of attention because they aren't Nicole Scherzawhatever and her backup dancers, Beyonce and the other two, etc.

[sballet06.livejournal.com]

Yeah I heard it sucked but at least SSF has been officially acknowledged by SM. Maybe it'll nudge them into adding a US concert date to Soshi's next concert tour. *crosses fingers*

I'm guessing Grimmy is the old white dude who's a Hyo fan?

[chromaticrose.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm pretty sure of it :] I talked to him, and he's really nice(:

[chromaticrose.livejournal.com]

The Soshified meetup was all right. We watched never before seen footage of the girls and wrote letters that are going to be delivered to them, according to Soy. That was pretty cool. My friend won an SNSD 2011 calendar. And my sister is in the picture (she's the girl in the pink skirt).

The giveaways were cool, but I wish we had more time to mingle and talk with each other. That would have made it more fun.

So yeah. Cool stuff.

[baka-tenshi.livejournal.com]

man i really want to attend a soshified meeting just to get the free shit and hang out with other sones.

but i'm glad you still had fun. (:

[debb0r.livejournal.com]

so now SNSD is Beyonce?


right..

[nandexdame.livejournal.com]

These answers are kind of embarrassing. Also, what exactly is there to be jealous of?

[dorawa.livejournal.com]

i want to attend a shinee fanmeet up... but only for the free shit + people i guess, you wouldn't catch me dancing like hello on stage in front of 120,000 other people, hell no

[miuratenshi.livejournal.com]

"All 9 members are Beyonce in SNSD."

LOL but they're not. Yoona, Taeyeon, Tiffany, Jessica, and Seohyun are like Beyonce. Sunny, Yuri, and Sooyoung are Kelly. And Hyoyeon is Michelle.

[gator-yoong.livejournal.com]

OMG. LOLING FOREVER.

[bluemaid86.livejournal.com]

Oops, I read the title and though SNSD were actually going to hold a fanmeeting in LA (in which case I'd be like SJ or SHINee next plz!)

[perfume.livejournal.com]

Me too, in which case I would be jelly, but it's just more flak on the past "fanmeet" and I could curr less.

[spandachi.livejournal.com]

Here we go again, people nit-picking every little detail in order to make the subject in the article appear as less significant than it is, simply because they believe he/she does not deserve said attention.

[baka-tenshi.livejournal.com]

because it's not their precious ~oppas.

[691979082.livejournal.com]

All the quotes on American pop vs Kpop pissed me off. Ugh.

"“American pop is all over the world and it’s hard to enjoy it together, but anyone can easily enjoy K-POP, no matter what their age.”

That doesn't even make sense.

>>

[gator-yoong.livejournal.com]

It was confusing in Japanese as well, so there's a possibility I translated it oddly...since that seems to be the main sentence everyone is getting their panties in a twist over

[baka-tenshi.livejournal.com]

if they go to LA, i am there! even if i have to ride in a car with guys for 6 hours. :(

[amina-yui.livejournal.com]

I don't get all the hate. This group of people came together and made this meeting happen. It takes a lot of work and effort to achieve something like that.

If more events like this happen maybe it'll be a great catalyst and more artist will realize their fanbase in the US. Let's support each other instead of downplaying successes!

[691979082.livejournal.com]

I don't see anyone hating on Soshified or the meet up? I see people hating on an article that's badly written. Sprinkled with a couple of "it was boring" comments.

[dilettantka.livejournal.com]

As an oldie, I like that they quoted a 28 year old and a 49 year old ;.;

[violetrosie.livejournal.com]

From Soshified's Twitter:

Just to clear things up.. Soshified is not Soshi + Satisfied .. We don't know where that came from...

Basically Soshified is the past tense of Soshify, with -ify meaning made. So in a sense we've been made into SNSD fans.

And if that meaning isn't deep enough for you, you can say Soshi + Unified...^^

Indeed~

[gator-yoong.livejournal.com]

Lol werd. I translated it and since it had all of that written out in english, I can't really translate as something else. And apparently they mentioned Sarah (28) [Also my friend], but the girl they're describing is the brunette in the picture (Sarah is blonde) and the comments there are not her's, but someone elses.

Just thought I'd share that too >

OMONA MEETUP!!!

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

Just kidding!

Re: OMONA MEETUP!!!

[691979082.livejournal.com]

LOL I can imagine that being so awkward.