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I just thought I'd share this song that is from one of my favorite singers, Maaya Sakamoto.  This is one of the songs that kind of makes me think of the whole JYJ, HoMin, SM, JYJ stans, HoMin stans, OT5 situation.  I also have lyrics that I found on Anime Lyrics dot Com.  Enjoy~!

Video credit: tarentis1

Here, people look for heaven
Livin' in a fear of God
Losing themselves, hiding forever
Afraid of what they're not
She spent her whole life
Chasing stardust
And then when she could taste it
A million dollars of pride
And still unhappy

So sad, she couldn't feel, she couldn't feel
I know the story
So sad, she couldn't feel, she couldn't feel
I know the score

Here I am, I've walked a promise
But it can take so long
Here I am, I've walked the shadows
It's time that I move on
With myself, I share the silence
I jus' walk along
Walk along

Here, people hide in darkness
Watchin' their shadows grow
Tears of gold or nothing matters
Selling themselves out short
Take diamonds for hope and fame for caring
The things she couldn't give up
She blows out the candle of love
And loses her way out

So mad, she couldn't see, she couldn't see
I know the story
So mad, she couldn't see, she couldn't see
I know the score

Here I am, I've walked a promise
But it can take so long
Here I am, I've walked the shadows
It's time that I move on
With myself, I share the silence
I jus' walk along
I walk along

People here choose not to listen
Afraid of what they might hear
Believing in lies and contradiction
Can be so safe and warm
And so many people tried to tell her
You know she wouldn't listen
A million voices called out
She jus' walked away

So loud, she couldn't hear, she couldn't hear
I know the story
So loud, she couldn't hear, she wouldn't hear
I know the score

Here I am, I've walked a promise
But it can take so long
Here I am, I've walked the shadows
It's time that I move on
With myself, I share the silence
I jus' walk along
I walk along

Words by Tim Jensen
Composed and arranged by Kanno Yoko

Transliterated by Orihara Kaoru

JYJ and HoMin Stans Make Me Feel...Bleh :/

There is a Twitter trend going about saying '#wecanttalk'.  So, I came up with a sentence using that topic: 

"If you are strictly a JYJ or Homin stan, then I'm afraid #wecanttalk very well"

I tell the truth in this sentence since I've been reading comments between both sets of fans when this whole division began and since recently.  Some might be nice, but majority of the comments I see (especially when it pertains to the other side) tend to be really horrible!  >:/  The funny thing is most of the fans for both sides are newbies so the may not know (or care) about the history behind the members.  But the fans that make me really upset are ones that used to be a fan for all five, but decided to side with one.  I believe these fans are ones that are really only following their bias.  I too love my bias, Changmin, very much and I tend to follow him much more than the other members.  However, I may look more like I support JYJ.  My reason:  because I feel that there should be a sense of justice for them.  Actually, I'm unable to really support all five of them because I have no money to buy either CD, but it's cool.  :3 

What set me off to write this post happens to be because a certain I came across a certain commenter's posts in Omonatheydidn't's post about HoMin's new single "I Think U Know".  It wasn't much that would lead me to think bad about her.  Heck, she had a Changmin icon (and I tend to become interested in fans who like Changmin).  But upon looking at her page for LiveJournal...I became a bit aggravated.  She seemed to be an obvious HoMin stan but I felt disappointed that she was a Changmin bias as well. 

It reminded me of why I don't go to ContinueTVXQ.  The clip when Yunho heard JYJ's "Be My Girl remix"...a fan had posted saying that she demanded to know who all heard the song and why it was even played in the first place.  But JYJ stans are just as bad.  I used to think that they weren't, but they're just as bad.  When HoMin came on 'TAXI', I read some comments on JYJ3 bashing Yunho and Changmin.

I guess my final note is that it is hard for me to even talk to a stan of either side.  It is really disappointing to see how messed up Cassiopeia has become.  The only fans I find that are really tolerable are OT5 fans, but we tend to be the ones that get shut up the most.  But in the future...hopefully TVXQ will come back as five...and selfishly I shall wish that OT5s can say to the others:  "I told you so." 

Well, that is all for this post.  Hopefully some people could see what I was trying to express here.  Until next time, peace out~!

A Huge *Sigh* for the Korean Entertainment

When I first got into Kpop, I was really bedazzled by how cool they look.  They danced a bit more than the Jpop groups I was following, and they looked very pretty (not that Jpop groups aren't pretty either).  I still have trouble singing along to their songs as it is difficult to pronounce words than it is with Japanese. 

The group that I followed the most was, of course, TVXQ.  It was something about them that drew me to them and kept me there.  I do remember reading an article about S.M. Entertainment's '5 Year Curse' on any group they harbor, so one time I thought: "What would happen if they disbanded?"  I had hoped that it wouldn't happen, but it did.  After the three members left, things sort of changed for me and Kpop.  It was like I was seeing things rather differently when it came to these companies and their artists.  The biggest thing--and what the bulk of my post is about--is the ostracism of former members in a group from anything in the entertainment industry.  My question is "Why?"  Why do companies try their hardest to make it difficult for an artist who left to get on television or promote anywhere?  Just today, I read some articles about the cast of "Ripley" not going on any television programs because of one problem or another.  However, one of the cast members is Park Yoochun...  =.=;;  And if you've been following this whole lawsuit, you may have noticed that the three members haven't been able to do a proper performance on televison.  And when they are promised to go on a television show, it somehow always gets cancelled.  It's even to the point where C-Jes, their current agency, is a little weary of offers made my television stations because they wonder if they're going to cancel on them too.  It reminds me of S.M. Entertaiment trying to gain signatures for a petition to keep JYJ off of any show. They stated that if the three members get back on television, it would "damage the Hallyu Wave".  I can't see how their appearance on television would do something like that.  I'd watch them regardless if it damaged the wave or not.  I know most fans think that S.M. Entertainment is not behind every little fault the three members are experiencing simply because they aren't supposed to be messing with them, but if that were so...why couldn't they just let the members see how much they were making in the beginning?  That is what this was originally all about.  That and to give more leeway on their contracts.  And it would've saved everyone the trouble.