i dremt i dremt (T-ara compared to cats)

[koganbot]

I dremt there are Websites devoted to pictures of cats who look like members of T-ara.* Maybe even an animated TV show where T-ara (and all other people) are cats. I'm donating items to Goodwill, and I see, in a bag next to mine, decorative eggs that are painted as T-ara cats. As my friend Mary is driving me back, I proudly tell her, "This is where I got the idea." I'm chosen to direct the movie. It is originally to be lighthearted, but I say to myself, "I'm gonna do this right." In the movie, things are going well in Catworld, T-ara performing, sometimes as a band, playing all the instruments themselves. Then an evil sorceress transforms them into new creatures: human beings. There are worries that I'm going overbudget. We run a saturation ad campaign, in the U.S. as well as Korea, playing one clip over and over:

Jiyeon: When I move my arms, they seem as if they're not my arms but someone else's. When I move my legs, they seem as if they're not my legs but someone else's.

Psychiatrist: How long have you felt this way?

Jiyeon: Always.

Strangely, this dream makes almost no reference to the recent controversy, though there is the flicker of a thought that we have to mention it in the movie: I make the quick decision to write it briefly into an early cat scene, but not as a major event.

*This idea is not far-fetched, though when I do a Google image search for "cats that look like T-ara," I only get T-ara looking like cats. Now that I think of it, the mv for the Japanese version of "Bo Peep Bo Peep" has them as cats and (briefly) cats as them:

And T-ara have endorsed the Tony Moly Cats Wink Crazy Tint Stick (cat-shaped lip balm sticks, "hybrid lip product that's lip balm and tint that changes to a color that best suits your skin tone").

Comments

[askbask.livejournal.com]

This could definitely come true. Maybe not with you as the director, unless KKS spotted you on the street and found you captivating.

[davidfrazer.livejournal.com]

In other T-ara-related news, it seems that Hwayoung has put a short snippet of rapping up on Soundcloud. The lyrics are provided on the Soundcloud page and, according to Google Translate, they include the line "fall down, get up again", which sounds like it might be an allusion to recent events...

Black Ocean

[koganbot]

Today is the first I'd heard the term "black ocean." It is poetic, even if in this instance, aimed at T-ara, it's reprehensible.* Except we don't even know to what extent it happened, or if it even did.

But I'll admit that one of the first things that got me interested in K-pop was this very thing: my third paragraph on the first thread I ever posted about K-pop was about a black ocean, though the term used was "silent protest" (withholding applause; but this was accompanied by the turning off of glowsticks, SNSD being the victims).

And petronia commented in response that "K-pop has the most insane and deeply frightening fanclub culture ever." I quoted this in late July when reporting to my fellow Jukeboxers that all hell had broken loose with T-ara.

*Most likely was reprehensible in the other instances too, though of course that would depend on the instance, and I don't even know if it's happened to anyone but SNSD.