Returning home with an empty heart...
Jan. 7th, 2012 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotUnfootnoted text that I hope is never deleted from Wikipedia:
Soyeon fostered her dreams of becoming a star even before she could stand in front of a mirror. After getting into an arts high school, she became a trainee at a top name agency in her senior year. Every single day, she rehearsed to the point of sweating through three different t-shirts.
Six months before she was to debut with SNSD, she withdrew from the final line-up. After returning home with an empty heart, she spent the next year and a half in what she personally declared was the hardest moment of her life.
Her hardships didn't end there, though, as her grandmother and uncle — both avid supporters of her dream to become a star — met with a health crisis that eventually led to their deaths a year later.
Soyeon expressed, "Up until my life right now, the year and a half I spent after leaving Girls' Generation was the hardest point in my life. Not only my parents, but my entire family supported my dreams, especially my grandmother and uncle. But right after I had to give up my trainee life, they passed away in the same year. Both told me one thing: 'Become a singer.'"
She continued, "After the funerals, I dusted myself off and tried to find my determination to reach my dreams again. I clenched my jaw and said to myself, 'Let's try this one more time.'"
Coincidentally, Mnet Media released an article declaring that they were looking for one more member to complete their upcoming five member girl group. To Soyeon, it was a chance that she couldn't pass up. After overcoming her obstacles, she's not only shining in the music industry, but in broadcasting as well. She's headlined countless times for her witty remarks on variety shows like "100 Points out of 100".
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_So_Yeon
Soyeon is the one who starts singing at 0:28, and the song belongs to her more than to any other T-aran:
Two versions of this, the ballad (which they do on the embedded Music Bank performance for the first 1:12*) and the dance. The ballad far outshines the dance; the latter is neither fish nor fowl, not bright enough for the careless-Oops!-style Britney it goes for, not dark enough for the pain the ballad achieves. Which doesn't make the dance version bad, mind you. (Thought the Jukebox fumbled this terribly, but most of them were only hearing the dance version. Still, the Wonder Girls' "Be My Baby," which they loved, is for me the indifferent pastiche they think this is.)
T-ara did a much better job being slavishly Britney a couple years ago:
(In early December I wrote a post about the "Cry Cry" video but the computer ate it. Will redo one of these days.)
*Which is all that's here now: the vid I'd originally embedded was taken private and I can't find the whole performance anymore.
Soyeon fostered her dreams of becoming a star even before she could stand in front of a mirror. After getting into an arts high school, she became a trainee at a top name agency in her senior year. Every single day, she rehearsed to the point of sweating through three different t-shirts.
Six months before she was to debut with SNSD, she withdrew from the final line-up. After returning home with an empty heart, she spent the next year and a half in what she personally declared was the hardest moment of her life.
Her hardships didn't end there, though, as her grandmother and uncle — both avid supporters of her dream to become a star — met with a health crisis that eventually led to their deaths a year later.
Soyeon expressed, "Up until my life right now, the year and a half I spent after leaving Girls' Generation was the hardest point in my life. Not only my parents, but my entire family supported my dreams, especially my grandmother and uncle. But right after I had to give up my trainee life, they passed away in the same year. Both told me one thing: 'Become a singer.'"
She continued, "After the funerals, I dusted myself off and tried to find my determination to reach my dreams again. I clenched my jaw and said to myself, 'Let's try this one more time.'"
Coincidentally, Mnet Media released an article declaring that they were looking for one more member to complete their upcoming five member girl group. To Soyeon, it was a chance that she couldn't pass up. After overcoming her obstacles, she's not only shining in the music industry, but in broadcasting as well. She's headlined countless times for her witty remarks on variety shows like "100 Points out of 100".
--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_So_Yeon
Soyeon is the one who starts singing at 0:28, and the song belongs to her more than to any other T-aran:
Two versions of this, the ballad (which they do on the embedded Music Bank performance for the first 1:12*) and the dance. The ballad far outshines the dance; the latter is neither fish nor fowl, not bright enough for the careless-Oops!-style Britney it goes for, not dark enough for the pain the ballad achieves. Which doesn't make the dance version bad, mind you. (Thought the Jukebox fumbled this terribly, but most of them were only hearing the dance version. Still, the Wonder Girls' "Be My Baby," which they loved, is for me the indifferent pastiche they think this is.)
T-ara did a much better job being slavishly Britney a couple years ago:
(In early December I wrote a post about the "Cry Cry" video but the computer ate it. Will redo one of these days.)
*Which is all that's here now: the vid I'd originally embedded was taken private and I can't find the whole performance anymore.
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Date: 2022-03-06 03:41 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ31sMmytHU