Teen Top released a solo concert poster titled 'Natural Born Teen Top Live in Seoul' on July 2 and caught the fans' attention.
In the black and gray toned poster, the members deeply gaze into the camera and create a mysterious atmosphere. Teen Top also shed their "boy" image and appealed their masculinity and sexiness with their looks.
Teen Top's last solo concert in Seoul was held in February 2014.The concert was held to signal the group's world tour. Teen Top then toured across 20 cities in the world and met with their global fans. As it has been 1 year and 6 months since their last solo concert in Seoul, the group is planning to fill the stage with even more powerful performances and deepened sensibility.
'Natural Born Teen Top Live in Seoul' will be held at Seoul Olympic Park from August 1 to August 2.
EXO discussed how they handle missing members during stage performances.
The currently nine member group appeared on the June 12 episode of Yoo Hee
Yeol's Sketchbook. Since EXO has so many members, Yoo Hee Yeol asked the group
what they do when members are not available to perform at concerts or music
shows. "There has to be times when one or two of you are unavailable," Yoo Hee
Yeol inquired according to Segye Ilbo. The group revealed that they prepare about twenty different version of
their performances just in case a member is absent.
With Lay managing schedules in both China and Korea, he has been unable to
attend many music show stages for EXO's recent "Call Me Baby" comeback, though
he has been around for "Love Me Right" promotions. Additionally, EXO has gone
through several group changes with former members Kris and Luhan leaving the
group back in 2014. Kris' departure hit the group exceptionally hard as he left
with only a week before EXO's first solo concert series "THE LOST PLANET."
Recently, member Tao is also believed to have left the group as well.
Although Tao has been quiet on the matter he recently announced the creation of
his own management agency in China. SM Entertainment maintains that the two
parties are still discussing Tao's situation. Still, many fans are viewing Tao's
new agency as a sign that he has permanently left the group.
Not only did EXO share their performance preparations on Yoo Hee Yeoul's
Sketchbook, but they also discussed their superpower concept and performed a
live band rendition of their hit song "Growl."
Their episode of Yoo Hee Yeol's Sketchbook aired on June 12 at 11:35PM
KST.
Girl group T-ARA attended China’s Yin Yui Tai V-Chart Awards and brought home
three awards including the Trending Artist Of The Year Award, Most Popular
Korean Artist Award and member Jiyeon won the Best Korean Female Artist
Award.
The award ceremony takes place in Beijing and is known to recognize the work
of artists from around the world. Other recipients at the show included JJ Lin,
Taylor Swift, Namie Amuro and Sam Smith.
From Korea, seven groups were invited to the award ceremonies, with four of
the acts winning trophies. The groups beside T-ARA included GOT7, Boyfriend and
Epik High.
Epik High won the Best Performance Artist Award while GOT7 received the Best
Korean Rookie Of The Year Award.
The groups revealed their happiness through messages through Twitter.
“We won a huge award!” wrote group Epik High on their instagram this past
Saturday.
“We won such a meaningful award in China! Thanks to all our fans and we will
see you all soon,” wrote Boyfriend on their Twitter this past Saturday.
Yin Yui Tai is one of the major music video sharing sites in China.
When Disney-owned
Pixar announced in November that a fourth Toy Story movie was in the works with
original director John Lasseter at the helm, most assumed that meant another
outing for colourful, much-loved characters such as Woody the Cowboy, Buzz
Lightyear and Mr Potato Head. But according to Pixar president Jim Morris, in
comments made during an interview with the Disney Latino blog (as translated by
the Telegraph), the latest instalment in the most successful animated film
series of all time could look very different indeed.
The epic love story
between Andy and his playthings introduced in 1995’s Toy Story pretty much came
to a close in 2010’s Toy Story 3, with the teenager heading off to college after
passing his childhood possessions on to neighbour Bonnie. We’re told that
Bonnie’s toys, including Trixie the Triceratops and Mr Pricklepants, the
enthusiastic thespian hedgehog, will feature in the new movie. But beyond that,
it sounds like Toy Story 4 will head into entirely new territory.
“It’s not a
continuation of the end of the story of Toy Story 3,” said Morris of the new
film. “In temperament it is, but it will be a love story. It will be a romantic
comedy. It will not put much focus on the interaction between the characters and
children. I think it will be a very good movie.”
These comments come as
something of a shock. Retiring Woody, Buzz and the original gang is one thing,
but removing the link between plaything and owner which always seemed to sit at
the heart of the multiple Oscar-winning saga is quite another.
Bye bye Woody?Photograph: PR
A simple shift to a
Bonnie-centred era had seemed the logical way forward following the events of
Toy Story 3. And Pixar has since released several bravura shorts focusing on the
little girl’s playthings and other characters introduced in the most recent
full-length outing. These have more than held their own against the old guard,
with the sartorially adaptable Ken (in Hawaiian Vacation) and Trixie the
Triceratops (in Christmas special Toy Story That Time Forgot) proving
particularly engaging.
There have also been
great moments featuring the original Toy Story crew: one of my favourite shorts
in the recent series is Partysaurus Rex, in which the timid dinosaur kicks off
an EDM megarave in a bathtub after Bonnie takes him to meet an entirely new gang
of water-based toys. But you can see why the film-makers might reckon it’s time
for Woody and Buzz to head up to the attic after two decades of keeping us
entertained.
What doesn’t make
sense is for Pixar boss Lasseter to jump the shark completely on the new outing,
which will be written by Celeste and Jesse Forever’s Rashida Jones and Will
McCormack. It strikes me that if you’re going to use the Toy Story brand for
your next movie, then that film should at least feel like a Toy Story
outing.
On the other hand,
this is a series that has taken more than $1.9bn worldwide, with Toy Story 3
breaking the $1bn barrier all by itself five years ago. So perhaps Pixar should
be praised for daring to radically reinvent its best-known creation rather than
simply taking the easy money.
Not a great track record with sequels...Photograph: PR
The studio ought to be
smarting from the failure of weak sequels such as Cars 2 and Monsters University
to win traction with critics, and indeed Morris seems keen to point out during
the Disney Latino interview that another film is not simply being made to
exploit the series for financial gain. Fingers crossed Toy Story 4 proves him
right.
Letting go of Woody,
Buzz and the team will be distressing for those who remember the series’ best
moments: the Toy Story scene in which a rocket-propelled Buzz rescues Woody from
Scud, the evil Sid’s wonderfully monickered bull terrier; the musical segue in
Toy Story 2 in which Jesse the cowgirl sings of her heartbreak; the sublimely
terrifying garbage incinerator scene in Toy Story 3. But if the new film
restores Pixar’s reputation for innovation and excellence, it will have been
well worth bidding our old friends a fond farewell.
What’s the difference between mutton chops and sideburns? We only ask because
Joaquin Phoenix is wearing the former in Inherent Vice, and what Phoenix does,
fashion follows (see Her and To Die For).
“Sideburns,” explains Mike Harding, a men’s hair expert at Radio hair salon
in Shoreditch, east London, “start at the hairline and run to the ear. Mutton
chops are a few inches longer.” The difference is key, he says, because “very,
very few men can pull off mutton chops and, as a result, they have come to
represent a sort of status or power thing.” Or masculinity? “If you like that
sort of look, sure”.
He cites Elvis, who started with sideburns but “progressed to mutton chops as
he got more famous” and Wolverine (“very masucline, very powerful”) . Sideburns,
however, are a decent variation. “I get a lot of men asking for a Chris Isaak or
a James Dean, especially now that serious facial hair is giving way to something
neater and more groomed,” says Harding.
Mutton chops and sideburns are a modern, alternative way to tackle facial
hair without committing to something fuller. Sadly, Harding doesn’t have the
capacity to grow either “and this is my burden”. Or blessing, depending on how
you look at it?
