july the battle between veteran singers?

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

Seo Taiji, SNSD and other important stars' album release dates were postponed, which will make the music scene look like a battlefield at the beginning of July.

Still working on the completion of his album, Seo Taiji has already postponed the release date twice, and So Nyuh Shi Dae surprisingly had to push back their album release due to the "Japanese controversy".

First, Seo Taiji announced through his official homepage on the 23rd that his 8th album "Seo Taiji 8th Atomos" will be out for purchase on July 1st.

Previously, Seo Taiji Company had announced "We'll reveal the 8th full album before we go on a nationwide tour in the middle of June", but following its postponement to the end of June, the album release date was once again postponed to July 1st.

A representative for Seo Taiji Company explained why this decision had to be made: "We finished recordings for the album but perfectionist Seo Taiji wanted to give older songs a new mixing and mastering."

On the same day (23rd), So Nyuh Shi Dae announced that they'll postpone their album release date and adjust their regular broadcasting activities to the beginning of July.

On the 23rd, company SM Entertainment said "The release date for So Nyuh Shi Dae's second mini album "Tell Me Your Wish (Genie)" was postponed by four days from the 25th to the 29th. We'll start with lively activities in July."

On the 22nd, So Nyuh Shi Dae revealed their jacket photos with a military concept, but people said that the plane on the photo resembled a Japanese plane from World War II and thus caused a "Japanese controversy" due to a misunderstanding.

The company chose a safe way to improvise and replaced the Japanese plane with a Korean supersonic jet and made some other corrections so that these things won't affect SNSD's promotional activities.

The prelude is over. If June was a month of "Debut Clash" with 2NE1 and 4Minute, then July is expected to be a fierce battle of the "veteran" singers.

Seo Taiji, who has a lot of "Mania"-fans, So Nyuh Shi Dae's comeback, and with news even of Brown Eyed Girls' comeback in July, the music scene in early July will literally feel the beginning of the "hot summer".

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translated by Xeth @ soshified

Intense. Korea is good at noticing trends and patterns, lol.

Comments

[yuseo.livejournal.com]

BOO I WON'T BE HERE FOR TAIJI RELEASE!

[iheartdarkblue.livejournal.com]

Aww, don't worry about it, a lot of terms are translated awkwardly.

[xshinebrighterx.livejournal.com]

how on earth are seo taiji and snsd at the same level?

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

if you mean musically, i don't think anyone's claiming that

it's just that they're both not-new and releasing their music around the same time, so it'll be interesting to see how they hold up in sales

[aprettyeternity.livejournal.com]

Seo Taiji.
YES.
<333333333333333

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

anyone knows at what time will the Genie MV be released?

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

no :(

i need it now though

[xcherryblossomx.livejournal.com]

Im going to start checking in korean websites... because I think its already thursday morning in korea

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

it is - but isn't it a bit early?

[qvinx.livejournal.com]

seo taiji and snsd even mentioned in the same article is......

they're SO different, on SO many different levels, hah.

[igit012.livejournal.com]

i wonder if DJ DOC is still releasing their album in July.
i really really hope so.

[mrs-newsman.livejournal.com]

seo taiji, veteran, yes.
snsd, veteran, not so much :/ maybe "seasoned" would be a better term? because compared to them ol' taiji is pretty much ancient. (the good kind of ancient though! <3)

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

i think they're using the term very broadly to mean not-new lol

[mrs-newsman.livejournal.com]

yeah. it's just using the same word for 2 years vs. 20 years (active) that's making me go bwuh? maybe it's just translation fail, though.

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

could be - some concepts are difficult to translate

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

seo taiji >>>>> snsd.

just sayin.

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

xD don't think anyone can really disagree, if we're talking music

[treasurewindow.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

OF COURSE BB

[cookie-nut.livejournal.com]

Seo Taiji YAY! :D

[jjoongie.livejournal.com]

Please let this be the last time Seo Taiji postpones his album. T___T

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

Taiji~~~~~♥. The guy is amazing. Representing orginality and musicality in Korea, which is like so hard to find in KPop.

[sojufever.livejournal.com]

THIS

I love SNSD, but my Taiji bias wins out :x

It's unrealistic, but I wish he would compose a dance song for them. It would be so epic.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

Taiji is rock, true and honest. The guy is amazing. I never imagined KPop would have someone as amazing as him. He's my Korean Hyde. >_>; I wish Korea would take more examples from him and do more good rock.

[sojufever.livejournal.com]

I love Hyde. He and Taiji should meet up. They both keep original music coming no matter how long they've been in the industry and that's amzing.

And ia about the good rock. I can count on my hands the amount of good rock artists there are in Korea and that's sad. :/

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

please reccommend me some, i need some korean music that isn't dance pop. tyia~

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

buzz are a nice rock ballad group

alas it's the little rock i know, aside from the trax

[cinis.livejournal.com]

Try Nell(Let it rain is one of the best albums I've ever heard in my life srsly), Guckkasten, Jaurim, My aunt mary, Huckleberry finn

http://www.youtube.com/user/orienkorean
and korean_rock are good links :)

[sojufever.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply. I agree with cinis on all the bands, esp. Nell and Jaurim.

And the links cinis gives are great, too.

Sorry for my uselessness lol. I'd have so many bands to list, but tastes can be different so it's better that you look around yourself. Plus I'm lazy, but I do really really recommend Nell.

Buzz, like Hoyah said, is good, too.

[schizofragile.livejournal.com]

UNF TAIJI. But I think I know already who'll get the highest rank by the time theyre performing in TV. KOREA, I'M WATCHING YOU.

[yukizdarkangel.livejournal.com]

i really dont think snsd counts as veterans.....esp compared to the legendary seo taiji. i like both artists. im just saying. the comparison is a little iffy.