[news] The Brain Outlines of Onew, Jonghyun and Minho

What’s on Onew, Jonghyun and Minho Brain?

ONEW: 닭 Chicken
JONGHYUN: 샤이니 월~드 SHINee Worl~d
MINHO: 드림팀ㅎ Dream Team hehe



Onew’s Brain

사후세계 After life
주봉이 Highest peak
운전면허 Driver’s license
애기 안아주다가 떨어뜨리면 안돼 If I hold the baby I can’t drop him
성대모사 찾기 To find an impersonator
CF가 좋아 I like CFs
닭 Chicken
빨간색 맘에 든다 The color red appeals to me
원조 꿀벅지 Support honey thighs
이상형 좀 찾아줘 Please find a strange hyung
그림 잘 그리고 싶다 I want to draw well
친구들 다 군인 All my friends in the military
덜덜덜덜덜 춥다 덜덜덜덜덜 Shivershivershiver It’s cold shivershivershiver
한국이 좋다 I like Korea
작사 Words
유근? Yoogeun?
저질체력 Darn fitness
양치질 오래하는거 좋아함 I like brushing my teeth/gargling for a long time
노래하자 Let’s sing
난 배불러도 밥을 먹어 I eat even when I’m full
사냥 해 보고 싶다 I want to try hunting
여행 Traveling


Jonghyun’s Brain

난 웃겨 I’m funny
하찮은 최민호 Choi Minho is unimportant
유근이는 귀엽다 Yoogeun is adorable
이상하게 가사 바꾸기 Strangely to change lyrics
엄마 생일 Mom’s birthday
이민정 신세경 Lee Min Jung, Shin Se Kyung
스킨쉽은 내가 1등 I’m 1st place in skinship*
리얼리티가 이런거임? Real reality is like this?
누나 보고 싶다 I miss noona
내 이름 좀 외워 유근아 Yoogeun-ah, please learn my name
성장판 닫기 전에 유근이 키 키우기 To raise Yoogeun and Key before I stop growing
샤이니 월~드 SHINee Worl~d
운동하고 싶다. I want to work out.

translator note*’skinship’ considered a close friendship


Minho’s Brain
언제쯤 유근이가 이름을 외워줄까? When will Yoogeun learn my name?
버라이어티에 대한 부담감…….. (예전보다는 많이 좋아짐) The pressure from variety shows……(To like it more than the older generation)
내 아들 유근이~ My son Yoogeun-ee~
파워레인저 Power Ranger
너무 귀여운 유근이 때문에… 평소에도 계속 떠오름… Because of super cute Yoogeun…I always get up even on a normal day
유근이에게 더 좋은 아빠가 되기 위한 방법???? How to become Yoogeun’s most likeable dad????
드림팀ㅎ Dream Team hehe
유근이에게 운동을 가르쳐서 스포츠맨으로 거듭 날 수 있도록~ 도와주기~! To teach Yoogeun how to exercise so he can move like an athlete~ To help him~!


translation Joodit @ weareshining
credit weareshining

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[Interview] Jonghyun sleeps with his eyes open?

It’s all about SHINee’s shining appearance Singapore here.

Dressed in their gothic punk “Ring Ding Dong” outfits, SHINee made their debut appearance to the Singapore media on a sunny Saturday morning, at Esplanade’s Theatre Main Foyer.

As journalists from various media platforms shot their questions to the “man” band wannabe – SHINee, and to other prominent Korean figures present (which includes Bobby Kim and Oh Joonsung), SHINee stands out at the shyest bunch. Most of the time, it was Onew and Minho speaking up, while the rest of the members sat there quietly with their heads hung low.

However, these pretty boys seemed to be a different group of people all together when teens snagged a short 10-minute “closed-door “interview with them after the media conference. They are actually a fun-loving boy band that loves to poke fun of each other in front of the media!

teens: What kind of shiny objects does SHINee like?
SHINee: Spotlight!

teens: It’s impressive that Onew ranks in the second place in his whole school during one of his high school year! You guys have to juggle with both your schoolwork and your career. How did you guys manage to do that? Care to share some study tips for our readers so that they could excel like Onew?
Onew : (giggles) Study tips? Eh…
Taemin, Minho, Jonghyun : (laughing in Onew’s face) Study tips!!!
Key : Due to our hectic schedule, we only could study during the wee hours of the night. Therefore, we make use of that time wisely and focus really hard while studying! Focusing is very important.

teens: I understand that SHINee has been living under the same roof for quite some time. Is there any member with interesting living habits?
Taemin : (points frantically to Jonghyun) Jonghyun, Jonghyun! He sleeps with his eyes open! He also puts his blanket all the way up to cover his face while sleeping!

teens: …and who’s the one who wakes up the earliest?
Jonghyun : (raises hand shyly)
Taemin, Key, Minho, Onew: Jonghyun!!!

teens: We heard that SHINee has to adhere to a strict diet whereby you guys can’t eat after 7PM. Is that true? Is that why you all are so skinny?
SHINee : Not true!
Key : It’s actually a personal rule I set to myself. But well, we are naturally skinny. Our body type is just like that.

teens: Will SHINee ever come back to Singapore for a full-fledged solo concert?
Onew : We can see that an opportunity may be coming, but so far, we have no specific dates yet.

teens: Any messages for your Singapore fans?
SHINee : We are so excited by the warm welcome we received at the airport, and if there’s any chance for us to comeback for a solo concert, we will make a point to come to Singapore. We really appreciate all the attention.

Cr: highlights re-written by NOLEM@soompi

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[News] 5 Kpop Artist Chosen By 5 Columnist Featured In Nylon Magazine February 2010 Edition

Idol Voices

Today's idols are perfect examples of what kind of music can be performed when one wholeheartedly embraces pop. If there is an idol in our nation that can pull off the neo-soul genre, who would it be? Who is the idol with the most suitable voice for pop music? Five columnists for the pop music scene picked the following.


Big Bang - Taeyang

Is it overkill to say that Taeyang has the brightest future out of all of today's idols? I don't think so. Taeyang, through the [HOT] EP, has displayed that 'bright future' on his own. More than anything, I hold the greatest expectation for him because of the image he's held that he knows what he wants to do and he knows what he's best at, and has continued to work under that knowledge. That he qualified (as an idol singer) should come as no big surprise.

'Only Look At Me (나만바라봐)' and 'Prayer (기도)' both had a level that could only been attained by someone that knew his future. His vocals don't stop at imitating black music. He has the vibrations and technique that note R&B or Soul and doesn't overdo his voice and feelings while coating his music with a black tint. He doesn't just 'sing.' I think he can joke about himself as a 'semi-R&B vocalist.'

On a global (or American) level, he's another trend, but in Korea, he's almost unique. However, his music is made of embellished hip-hop beats. Because of this, critics say that his vocals are somewhat plain and get overwhelmed by the beats, but I think this point has become his individuality. Of course, when we start to talk about a global level, then things are different. He'll be seen as someone who is just following the trends on all levels, including vocal style. However, as a late starter, this is only normal. With time and his effort, things will naturally solve themselves.

Kim Haksun (Editor of Bo-Da)

Girls' Generation - Jessica

When I listen to recent girl groups, they're so plain vanilla that I get tired of them pretty quickly. One or two R&B main vocals who've taken up cow herding as their song style, a subvocal of karaoke level that obviously isn't considering the person who has to hear her, and if that doesn't work, then make them rap, and if it's time to give up, then wrap it all up in autotune.

But Girls' Generation's Jessica is different. When she sings so finely with her pretty enunciation, I felt a pleasure reminiscent of the high times of popular music. Jessica's vocal style has always received a lot of love from the times. It was popular, not only from the chanson dolls of 1960's Euro scene to the muses of swinging London, but the 80's Virginia Astro Sounds who received attention for their splendid beats and soft melodies, and the 70's underground's renowned composers' mainstream efforts with the 80's idols of Japan - Yukiko Okada, Iijima Mari, and so on.

Jessica's vocal style is what the Western engineers call 'shine.' Or so to say, don't have that squeaky tone but rather a beautiful, sophicated 'shining' feeling. I think her vocals are best suited for a Western-style tune. I've found that, at time, girl groups's vocals tend to just rush to throw voices around without any roots for them in the song. Sometimes, their upshot green voices just vibrate and they feel shallow. But Jessica's voice is relaxed and dignified. It reminds me of silk dyed with a classy color. Sleek and soft and every once in a while, it revives a brilliant moment. This is the pop feeling that the talented have loved.

Park Joohyuk (Columnist, Representative of Bandiaeri Music)

SHINee - Jonghyun

When fans discuss Jonghyun's vocal skills, they frequently bring up 'Hyeya (혜야)' - Alejandro Sanz's 'Y Si Fuera Ela' rearranged. In this song, Jonghyun's vocals make him sound like a Korean-speaking Julio Iglesias, but that only means his feelings are that tangible and that, despite going up and down like a rollercoaster, it still flows smoothly.

Personally, the stability isn't the only reason I like Jonghyun's vocals. His vocals are appropriately rumored as dynamic. In 'Ring Ding Dong,' his voice jumps from husky to clear, but because the autotune fills in here and there like a compound, the odd feeling can be belayed. In what I think is the most impressive SHINee song, 'JOJO,' he oozes 'roller rink synth pop' - popular in 80s' London.

In mainstream music, which has become an arena where idol groups' songs reflect Western pop trends or reinterpret it, it's true that boy idol vocals follow the American mainstream pop style but from time-to-time, Jonghyun's vocals jump that limit. Depending on preferences, the evaluation may change, but the fact that his vocals have taken the most unique place is obvious. For these reasons, I have chosen Jonghyun's voice.

Cha Woojin (Pop Columnist)


2NE1 - Park Bom

If you had to choose between an amazing voice that you find hard to like and a voice that draws your love rather than awe, which would you choose? If you choose the latter, then you are ready to listen to Park Bom's voice. As the 'vocals' of 2NE1, Park Bom has vocals that are unique from even her idol peers. If I had to add to that, I would say that instead of being a 'trained' vocal, should I say she gives me more of a 'ready to fly' feeling?

I remember that the producer, Teddy, pointed out Park Bom's voice and said, 'Nowhere will you find a voice like this,' with a half-proud half-awed tone. There's no need to underestimate it as lip-service from the sponsor. It's well-known that her role model is less the Celine Dion-type 'white' diva and more the Whitney Houston 'black' diva. This is a personal preference, but her choice emphasizes the 'expression' or 'appeal' of vocals. This is something that's hard to find in even the best trained vocals. Maybe this is why Park Bom's voice shines in urban R&B, with its electronic background music. 'New British Neo-Soul' artists, like Adele and Duffy, human vocals in the vintage electronics. The songs by artists like them.

If you describe listening to Park Bom's solo hit song 'You and I' as eating 72% cacao chocolate to your ears, you wouldn't be very wrong at all. One thing I would like to point out is that in her enunciation and song style, she tends to mumble, but if she can just kick that habit, then it won't be a hopeless goal to sound like real espresso - a 'New British Neo-Soul' artist.

Choi Minwoo (Editor of Weiv)


2PM - Junsu

Public opinion about 2PM is that while their performance is strong enough to be associated with a circus, their vocals pale in comparison. But because of Kim Junsu's tone leaving an aftertaste at the end of the vocals, their music is good enough to listen to through an earphone. Compared to the other dazzling members, Junsu's image is very tempered. But not in terms of music.

That Junsu's voice is still gorgeous without a vocoder or any acrobatic dancing can be verified through his cover of his favorite song, 'Half the Time' by Calvin Richardson. His soulful voice, in this song at least, is almost perfect, but to enslave him like an ordinary screen for an idol group irritates me to no end. Of course, because music ranges are often limited and so insecurities tend to be exposed, you can't deny that his tone has a quality that makes you take a second look. Reverberations on such a short hook aren't things you can learn through uniform training.

On top of having a naturally beautiful voice, after taking so many songs and singing them into his own, that nasal quality that could have materialized in his voice instead developed to the point that he can pull off both the old school's ardent feeling and the new school's refreshing feeling. And so there's no way that, as the audience, I can't help but feel regret that it's impossible to feel his allure in 2PM's songs, divided into N parts. Ah, it's well-known that he's considered to have a huge black music craze, but does he know that sometimes, when he sings traditional Korean ballads, he conveys a sense of great self-pride and confidence? And that his sponsor, JYP, also has a talent for that?

Song Jihae (Pop Columnist)


Source: Nylon Magazine & DC Inside
Translation: hypocritical @ omona_prection

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[News] Sungmin, Jonghyun and Jokwon form handsome boy group ‘Christmas Boys’

The Christmas Special episode of saw the making of a project male group ‘Christmas Boys’. Sungmin, Jonghyun and Jokwon make up the four-member handsome boy group which includes Kim Jiho. Despite being blind, Kim Jiho has previously managed to touch the hearts of the audience on through his beautiful voice and singing ability. Standing on a special stairway set in matching white suits, ‘Christmas Boys’ performed Irish boyband Westlife’s with their captivating voices. This special episode will air on 19 December at 6.30pm.

Source: Mydaily
Translated by yurim_sj♥ @ SJ-WORLD.NET
Please do not remove or add in your own credits, thanks!

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[Pictures] Netizens spot similiarities between Micky YooChun and Amber

Some netizens have spotted some similarities between Dong Bang Shin Ki Micky YooChun and f(x) Amber.

We all know that Amber is known to be lookalike to many male idols. Add one more to the list?

Netizens points out the similarities. Do they lookalike?

c: mickybaidu, sharingyoochun

Cr:kbites

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[news] SHINee’s Onew gets Swine Flu

The curse of the swine flu seems to have struck SHINee. Having only just reported hours earlier that Jonghyun had recovered fully from swine flu, it was reported now that SHINee's leader, Onew has also been hit by it.

The announcement came at around 6pm on 7th November as it was reported that Onew had developed a gentle, mild fever last night. He was sent to the hospital today and tests have shown that he has contracted swine flu.

Onew has been prescribed Tamiflu and is now back home resting.

The other three SHINee members, Key, Minho and Taemin were also tested for precaution, and neither of them have shown any symptoms of the illness fortunately.

So despite welcoming Jonghyun back from illness, SHINee will perform as a 4-member group in Onew's absence on the 8th November episode of Inkigayo.

cr: allkpop

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[news] SHINee JongHyun confirmed to have recovered fully from swine flu

Group SHINee member JongHyun has been known to be given the green light that he has fully recovered from swine flu.

According to SM Ent, JongHyun has gone to the hospital on 6th November and has been said to have fully recovered from swine flu.

The SM Ent representative said, “Even though he has been given the confirmation from the hospital that he has fully recovered of the flu, he is currently resting at home to monitor his health condition. And as for when he will be returning to SHINee’s promotional schedules, we are still in discussion over it.”

JongHyun was not present at SHINee’s performance on KBS Music Bank on the 6th. He was found to have contracted the flu on 3rd November.

Meanwhile, SHINee also won their 2nd consecutive #1 on Music Bank with their current hit ‘Ring Ding Dong’

source: sookyeong

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[news] Yesung joins SHINee?

NOT Permanently, but just for one performance of Ring Ding Dong on the November 6th episode of KBS Music Bank!

The reason? Because Jonghyun is currently recovering from swine flu and Super Junior Yesung wanted to support his little dongsengs.

Yesung will sing all of Jonghyun's parts live, which we are highly anticipating.

Source; Allkpop

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[news] SHINee's Jonghyun confirmed with Swine Flu

Last night, it was confirmed that SHINee member Jonghyun is diagnosed with Swine Flu,
however is was said that his body condition is not that bad.

It was an Outbreak. In the last 2 days, Jonghyun was said to have symptoms of cold flu and therefore he went to the hospital to be examined. However the results revealed that the member is diagnosed with Swine Flu and is currently resting at home.

SM Manager revealed: In the meantime, since there are alot of activities going through for the group, they will now participate and now perform as 4 members until Jonghyun gets all cured.

Currently Jonghyun is not staying in the same house with his members.

Shinee members are currently performing their latest song 'Ring Ding Dong' since having a comeback last 2 weeks. This is an outbreak especially for the Shinee fans and SHinee members after winning an award on SBS Inkigayo and KBS Music Bank.

Source: [Daum TV]
Translated by: K♡PanDA @ http://asianfanatics.net/news/

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