T-ara Day By Day Mini Album

[cagallisakura.livejournal.com]

TheAustin916
pretty solid mini, I enjoyed it. Favourites are Day By Day and Don't Leave.

Comments

[thebluemonk.livejournal.com]

T-ARA? more like T-LOLra.

im sorry i love t-ara ill go buy the album 3 times now.

[siha.livejournal.com]

best kpop mini of 2012 tbh~

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

I like them all except for love game

[liferule91.livejournal.com]

stop right there thats the best song in the mini.

how can you like Hue over it?

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

Holiday is the best song though.

[mangomuffins.livejournal.com]

i actually really like don't leave

[my-car-is-prada.livejournal.com]

ikr?! It's sooo passionate and dramatic. I feel like Hwayoung is cussing me out in Korean with full force!

[active3minutes.livejournal.com]

how long will it be until that song near the end of the mv is released?? i need that song!!! O 0 O

[threebits.livejournal.com]

august 15 apparently...

[my-car-is-prada.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty solid mini tbh. I like almost all the tracks, which is rare for T-ara.

[kerplunk.livejournal.com]

I will never understand why T-ARA isn't a dominating girl group in the ranks of snsd and 2ne1. They releasegGreat songs, the members are pretty, great MV's (except for the dance ver. of t-ara cuz i know T-ara haters will come at me with that one)

but yeah.

[threebits.livejournal.com]

cos their company sucks.

but srsly, i want to know why too

[kerplunk.livejournal.com]

pretty much. You think SM is bad then CCM pulls stunts like adding new members and shit.

[noneko.livejournal.com]

I don't know either. I mean, they do lack stage presence, though I'm not sure how that would affect things - their live performances are kind of hard to watch compared to some of the other girl groups.

[kerplunk.livejournal.com]

IA with this, they do lack stage presence but not ALL the time, sometimes they do good sometimes they're sloppy but they make up for it with good albums and looking amazing almost all the time tbh.

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

They sell more than both of those groups digitally and they're closing in on 2NE1 when it comes to physical sales

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say they might not be beating them but they're right behind them.

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

They've worked really hard for years so I wouldn't say their company has exactly steered them wrong in that sense even if it's possibly exploitative. >.> But they did manage to have a few consecutive hits like last year that were really popular with the Korean public, so I don't know why you don't think they're reasonably popular? I'm not sure they've really gone head-to-head with 2ne1 or snsd, though.

I dislike the line distribution (boram and qri have had next to nothing since igcboy, I think), but I'm not sure that's something the korean public generally cares about, since the three (or four?) most recognizable/popular members always get a decent amount of lines/exposure.

I personally dislike 1) the song production, particularly how they are (I assume) directed to sing, 2) a lot of the songs themselves, imo they're bland/repetitive and don't do anything for me, and 3) how rarely their lives are worth watching (I think the cry cry and, what, lovey dovey promotions were some kind of exception for them). 1&2 are my personal opinion but I think a significant number of kpop fans dislike that you can barely tell the girls' voices apart in the studio recordings. 3 is pretty widely acknowledged as far as I know, though. But I think this is more the international opinion than the korean opinion... unless Day By Day hasn't been doing well? It's only been out a week.

(One other thing, I guess, is that their debut was poorly received, from wiki: Their debut was looked upon negatively by webpostings, where people stated that it was lipsynched and commented that it seemed like an "elementary school" performance. This was in spite of a lot of anticipation for this group... in contrast, I believe that WG, SNSD, and Kara all debuted v strongly (back in 2007), as well as 2ne1. Even so, to my understanding, SNSD wasn't an overnight success either... until WG cleared the stage for them by going to the USA lololol. And of course, Kara's first album did not do well, and they reshuffled their members and changed their sound/image.)

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

tl;dr

I thought they were supposed to be doing quite well in korea, actually, with the general public, they're just somewhat less well-regarded internationally and they may or may not have a smaller dedicated fanbase because of reasons.

[forevrseptember.livejournal.com]

i actually don't dislike a single song on the mini, day by day is my favorite though, good job on them for picking it to be the single