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

[koganbot]

Here are some examples:

Performed in front of an audience but the whole performance is pre-taped. Presumably this is one take and the audience you're hearing is the one that you're seeing, at the time of recording. I know this was pre-taped because by the time of broadcast — July 28, 2012, on Music Core — the rapper who's dancing and rapping onstage here had injured her leg and wouldn't have been dancing.



Performed in front of an audience, all in one take, with cue cards and glitches, and the group either couldn't (because the performance was at the time of broadcast), or didn't ask to, or weren't allowed to, re-do. This was broadcast on July 27, 2012, and obviously was performed later than the previous clip, though that one was broadcast later. Two of the regular performers are missing, the decision regarding one of them having reportedly been made at the last minute. It has been conjectured that this performance and the circumstances surrounding it had repercussions.



Pre-recorded, seemingly without an audience (but I don't know), with several takes and costume changes; but we're definitely hearing an audience, doing fan chants, cheers, and screams, I'm guessing from the time of the broadcast (Thursday on M! Countdown). And some or all of the leads are sung rather than lipsynched.



Entirely prerecorded, multiple takes and costume changes, seemingly all lipsynched, no audience; and at broadcast (yesterday on Music Core) you only hear audience before and after clip.



Music entirely prerecorded, performance lipsynched, but two of the performers decide to wear the other's clothes and hold the other's instrument, to see if anyone will notice.

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Performance supposed to be prerecorded and lipsynched but performers deliberately go off script, especially on second song (starting 5:33), especially w/ percussion.

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Anyway, we've had Hyomin's falling down and Hwayoung's wardrobe malfunction without second takes, so obviously this is not settled, and second takes may not always be possible.

T-ara wasn't on Music Bank on Friday, owing to the show and the agency (or whoever) being unable to agree on something or other (says Daum, translated by allkpop). I can speculate all sorts of potential reasons, but I don't know what they actually are.

[koganbot]

Since YouTube killed a couple of those vids, here again is the July 27 Music Bank performance. "Performed in front of an audience, all in one take, with cue cards and glitches, and the group either couldn't (because the performance was at the time of broadcast), or didn't ask to, or weren't allowed to, re-do. This was broadcast on July 27, 2012, and obviously was performed later than the previous clip, though that one was broadcast later. Two of the regular performers are missing, the decision regarding one of them having reportedly been made at the last minute. It has been conjectured that this performance and the circumstances surrounding it had repercussions."



And here again is the September Music Core clip. "Entirely prerecorded, multiple takes and costume changes, seemingly all lipsynched, no audience; and at broadcast (yesterday on Music Core) you only hear audience before and after clip."

[koganbot]

YouTube killed July 27 again. It's over on Dailymotion, which I can't embed because YouTube won't let me embed Dailymotion in the comments:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xsgtg2_120727-t-ara-day-by-day_music#.URD46qVEHU8