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They have finally reached the top on a public broadcast music program. Although they won 1st for 2 straight weeks on the cable program, Mnet ‘M! Countdown!’ with the title song, ‘Be Mine’, from their first official album, ‘Over the Top’, they were only content with being candidates for 1st place on publicly broadcasted music programs. However, 2 weeks after releasing their new album, they’ve captured even public broadcast programs and have been picked as the main role in this music industry sensation.
On the October 9th episode of SBS ‘Inkigayo’, Infinite were the winners of the Mutizen song, which is 1st place, with the title song, ‘Paradise’, off their first official album’s repackage album.
“We were so happy that tears started forming. We also thought about the rough times we’ve had.”
Although it hasn’t been long since they cried on M! Countdown after winning 1st place, it seems like they were touched again after winning 1st on a public broadcast. It’s no wonder why they’re like this because cable channels are mainly targeted towards manias while public broadcast programs may have a target audience, but are mainly towards the majority of the public. They’ve become certain that the variety in their fandom has increased.
This happened exactly 1 year and 4 months after they set off into the music industry last year with their debut mini album, ‘First Invasion’, on June 9th. During these 2 or so years, male idol groups haven’t been able to be secure a position in the Korean music industry like they used to. The 7 members of Infinite have been acting like one and showed perfect dances, securing mania fans with their ‘angled choreography’. Although they attracted attention after revealing ‘BTD’ in January and showing the scorpion dance, their overall popularity was low.
To this,the Infinite members blamed themselves and said, “We were lacking. Even though they say luck is needed in order to reach the top, our skills were lacking as well.” However, they showed proud feelings by adding, “But we feel we’ve grown a lot while continuously doing promotions.”
Although they’ve gone through troubles, Infinite has run here without any time to think that they were tired. While there are many groups who promote after revealing 1 digital single, Infinite have been promoting with ‘albums’ since their debut, with 6 songs on mini albums and 3 songs on single albums. And they filled the first official album completely with new songs. Infinite has repeated the process of not resting, working on songs, practicing, and standing in front of the public.
They have also continuously given new colors to their music. While they enunciated the fierce and tough men image through ‘Be Mine’, ‘Paradise’ is strong in its lyrical melody and has a dance that enunciates the sexy charms of the members. Even though their angled choreography still remains, they added in 30% of freestyle dancing in the middle for each of the members. There’s also a frightening feeling you get from ‘Paradise’, as the story’s about a man who can’t forget a woman even if he dies and will continue to watch her.
After revealing their repackage on September 26th, they started promotions and their goal is to get more love than they did during ‘Be Mine’ promotions. And because Infinite has a major debut ahead of them in the middle of November for Japan, they want to make this promotion leave that much more of an impact. A good amount of Infinite’s goal was covered after they won the Mutizen song in 2 weeks.
However, Infinite doesn’t plan on stopping.
“Where could the limit be for music. Since the genres are infinite, we need to continuously show new upgraded sides to ourselves. If we don’t overcome these things ourselves, we feel there’s no improvement. Infinite’s rival is Infinite.”
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Date: 2011-10-12 01:40 am (UTC)crying-dols
need-to-sleep-dols
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Date: 2011-10-12 03:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-12 01:41 am (UTC)I hope Japan treats them just as good or better than Korea. ^___^
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Date: 2011-10-12 01:41 am (UTC)can't wait to see Japan's reaction to the boys...
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Date: 2011-10-12 01:43 am (UTC)I love the last quote sfm.
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Date: 2011-10-12 01:56 am (UTC)WHY WHY
WHY WHYYYY
WHY WHYYYYY WHY
imo Be Mine was better, but it's sad that they blame themselves for not winning. They were promoting against a lot of popular groups.
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Date: 2011-10-12 02:11 am (UTC)They are so much better than a lot of the other nugus over the last 2 years.
All of their singles so far have been fantastic! I'm still sad they didnt win for BTD because it was an AWESOME song but they were promoting against DBSK and a bunch of other huge artists with already well established fanbases.
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Date: 2011-10-12 02:34 am (UTC)Happy to see my boys moving to the top ♥
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Date: 2011-10-12 02:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-12 03:14 pm (UTC)unlike paradise where seeing them perform it once in their black suits is good enough for me
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Date: 2011-10-12 02:50 am (UTC)I beg to differ. They definitely had performance skills back then and up to now. It was mostly bad luck, really. Or maybe the fact that they don't go to variety shows. But if it were based on dancing/singing/rapping, they definitely had skills.
“Where could the limit be for music. Since the genres are infinite, we need to continuously show new upgraded sides to ourselves. If we don’t overcome these things ourselves, we feel there’s no improvement. Infinite’s rival is Infinite."
Flawless quote. I've always thought that they considered themselves as their biggest rivals <3 Definitely rivals that are hard to beat, TBH.
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Date: 2011-10-12 03:00 am (UTC)“Where could the limit be for music. Since the genres are infinite, we need to continuously show new upgraded sides to ourselves. If we don’t overcome these things ourselves, we feel there’s no improvement. Infinite’s rival is Infinite.”
And that's why you're awesome, my dear boys.
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Date: 2011-10-12 03:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-12 03:19 am (UTC)/coolstorybro
They also have a lot of talent which separates them in the sea of idols right now. No wonder they are gaining popularity so fast. They kinda remind me of BEAST.
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Date: 2011-10-12 07:09 am (UTC)I thought I was the only one who felt like they were similar to B2ST but I must say INFINITE seems to do better with variety shows. I mean I love B2ST but INFINITE just kills it with their random-ness & they have Sungyeol. lol.
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Date: 2011-10-12 10:53 am (UTC)Haha yeah. B2ST has Yoseob though. Less random, but he is Thomas the tank engine, can't beat that!
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Date: 2011-10-12 03:21 am (UTC)cries they are so humble ;o; cuddles them ;o;
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Date: 2011-10-12 05:17 am (UTC)Oh, please. These boys have always been flawless~
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Date: 2011-10-12 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-12 07:41 am (UTC)and i think what i love best about infinite is that they really don't ever let up and that they actually truly think nothing is ever the top. ♥♥♥
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Date: 2011-10-12 10:54 am (UTC)I think they have one of the best group names. INFINITE possibilities and interpretations and everything.
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Date: 2011-10-12 04:03 pm (UTC)Omg I'm so incredibly excited for japanese BTD!XD Ofcourse u know they'll kill it over there too!
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Date: 2011-10-14 06:57 am (UTC)it makes me happy to know that i've followed all their progress since day one ^-^ i mean i absolutely loved come back again, it was the perfect debut song.
i love these boys~ ♥
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Date: 2011-10-15 11:53 am (UTC)i feel lucky to get to know them since they were featured in Epik High's Run MV