Jul. 19th, 2012

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The performer speaks easily, giving interviews in English, but careful, too. Not spilling her guts, or spilling the beans, either, should she have any in her big backpocket. She watches a dance rehearsal clip, along with the interviewer, confesses that she hates that it shows her without makeup. She continues speaking, a level tone, describes the effect of YouTube, "Even though music has no language and has the power to break any walls," she says, "YouTube and the Internet have definitely made it easier for people to check our music out and look at our videos." You notice that she's speaking not only in complete sentences, but that she's forming them fully, subordinate clauses and all. "More than I can do, on my feet," you say to yourself. The interview continues, the thoughts steady, though rarely rising above platitudes. She explains that for the fans these days it's not just about listening to and feeling the songs, but about expressing themselves just as the performers do. So the group makes sure that among the dance moves, there are some that are easy enough for the fans to copy.

You yourself track her on YouTube, see her on the reality show, in her own language talking faster but more pensively, posing and answering questions in soliloquy, you watching the subtitles, she wondering if in five years, when the contract is up, would she re-sign. What if the energy isn't there? Her words are fast but the thought comes slow. She doesn't know. Would she have the spirit to start over?

Then the real thing, onstage )

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Jul. 19th, 2012 09:24 am
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My emotional age has risen to higher than 7!

But actually, the number up-top is the rate on Spanish Government Generic Bonds, which once more is over 7.000.



Or as Taeyang might have put it (rather pessimistically):

Oh, that Europe wasn't meant to be no, nooo
I don't wanna be without you Europe (Got me slowly dying) hey, hey
Where did we go wrong my Europe (Why can't we keep on trying)?

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