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So I don't exactly come on here anymore but HI I HAVE THINGS TO TELL YOU A LOT HAS HAPPENED basically GWSN have noticed me like 6/7 members and here is the proof 😎
IT IS A LONG STORY and I shall tell said story, get comfy, grab some scran, let us get into it, I AM going to put this under read more cos IT IS A LOOOOONG STORY.
So you may have heard of the app Stan World, if not, it is a K-pop based app where they do votes and competitions in order for fans to win things like ads for their favourite K-pop artists. GROOS ARE AMAZING AT THIS we've been part of 3 Stan World competitions and won 2 of them, the second time we won't talk about basically it was completely unfair but the first time and the third time we won and got top ad prizes 😎 this was obviously for the third competition, I believe it was for all female artists so there was A LOT of other artists involved but huh we won by a landslide even against much more popular groups WE KNOW HOW TO STAN WORLD IT'S ALL WE HAVE IN THE PARK.
So we won first place ✌️ and the prize was a SHIT TONNE of train station ads and big screen billboard ads, not like MASSIVE ones obviously but they weren't small 😂 the first time we won these ads was around the comeback announcement, so LOADS of ads were submitted and there was votes for the best ones that would be used we were spoilt for choice. This time, NOBODY SENT ADS. Like... the deadline was so small and every day the main groo accounts were rt-ing asking for more submissions like where did all the designer groos go 🙃 now idk if anyone here is from my old Sera Myu blog or remembers my old photo edits... they were DIRE. HOWEVER times were desperate, I had so many things to do at this time but I thought I could at least make SOMETHING so we would have something. So I chose to do a set of poster board ads (they're screens but not moving ones), picked a row of 7 that were next to the exit stairs of one of the stations and made these ads.
Won't include all of them but here's my bias line lol. They're super basic cos I genuinely didn't have time, I got these pretty pics, popped the text on, put them in GWSN's official colours and emailed them to the groo that was associating with Stan World to submit the ads. Then... I waited.
NEW YEAR HAPPENED and after a week or so the ads were put up and Korean groos began to share pics of them when they went to see them. One day one of them goes to the station where I submitted my ads to and LOW AND BEHOLD MY ADS WERE THERE ON THE STAIRS.
(original post look at the other ads they're SO GOOD)
SO I KNEW MY ADS WERE UP that was honestly enough for me, I was so happy that I'd done something for GWSN and people were getting to see it, and they were possibly advertising the group to people and GWSN would get more fans WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING.
Now I like to joke a bit on Twitter, so for a laugh I tweeted this:
I tagged GWSN's account in it cos they never respond to anything so like it wouldn't do anything, and I used a silly gif of Minju cos I was happy my ads were up I was flexing 😂 .
Anyway, a couple of days later, another K-groo goes to see all the ads we won for GWSN. They actually forgot to take pics of my ads but I didn't care I knew they were there 😂. After tweeting all these pics, this groo THEN tweeted that they were in shock because they had just seen GWSN (OT6 Soso is still on unofficial hiatus 😭) with their manager taking pics with the ads.
NOW I WAS JUST IN SHOCK AT THE FACT GWSN WENT OUTSIDE their sns has been EMPTY for MONTHS it's painful, so knowing that they were all together taking pics with these ads I was just happy about that 😂. Then it hit me, that GWSN may have ACTUALLY gone to see my ads and taken pics with my ads. Thing is, the groo didn't specify which station they saw GWSN at, and we didn't know if they had only gone to see one station of ads or all of them. SO FOR FOUR ENTIRE DAYS we sat waiting for GWSN to post pics of them with these ads, cos we knew it had happened we had to get the post soon 😭.
Like I said, four days later, which is today, I come back home (if you got the 2NE1 reference nice) and see that GWSN have posted, like, just as I walked through the door about 1pm. I literally clicked on the notif like "omg who is it who is it who posted" just expecting it to be one of the members "daily" selfies (I say "daily" cos they keep skipping days it used to be daily), instead seeing a pic of two of the members in front of two of the big ad screens (specifically this one, I could barely see who it was because they're stood so far back and wearing masks but it's Miya and Anne)
The way Instagram works (where I saw them, I usually get a Twitter notif on my laptop but I'd been out so just had my phone) is you have to swipe through to see more pics, so realisation hit that these were the pics of GWSN with the ads we'd won and made for them and I SWIPED looking at all the pics obviously but, like, in desperation of seeing if they took pics with my ones. THE SECOND TO LAST ONE I SAW THIS:
MINJU STOOD WITH MY ADS. I SCREECHED.
THEN I SWIPED AGAIN AND SAW THIS:
OT6 WITH MY ADS. I NEARLY CRIED.
I expressed all my EMOTIONS on Twitter, I screamed to all my friends, and now I'm coming to you to tell the story. The story of how this dumb annoying star competition app got me noticed by GWSN 😭. They don't know the ads were made specifically by me, but I don't care, they saw them and that's all that matters to me.
Also really not to flex but THAT WAS THE ONLY OT6 PIC all the other pics were either one or two of the members, this was the final one, THE GROUP ONE, and it was with my ads I mean I'm 😭. I'm just very happy rn 😁.
Anyway I might start posting on this blog again idk ✌️.
Absolutely agree like when Miya didn't say she was gay on fucking Vlive and people unstanned GWSN saying she was queerbaiting and had let them down
You presumed she was gay by her appearance then backed her into a corner somewhere she couldn't say she was gay even if she was and when she didn't give the answer you wanted you decided it was her fault I genuinely hate people so much that fake groo cleanse was so good.
Seoryoung's Dracula dress during GWSN BAZOOKA! Promotions
I return with another lq gif set this time of Miss Lee Seoryoung's Dracula dress from Bazooka because I'm obsessed with it it is ALL I THINK ABOUT I want it there's a reason my choice of Miya/Seoryoung pfp was that one it's the dress 😭. And yes my music choices while making this were f(x) Dracula and blood/vampire based metal songs.
CHANGES ON THIS BLOG I've changed the handle to sailor-freak as that's my main username on most socials and I consider this my main blog now even if it is not my primary blog (cos Tumblr is mean), and I've changed pfp and header to... GWSN lol I spent ages on that old header but it became outdated as I became a fan of more artists and it had the old name on so I just used a pretty pic of GWSN but I might make a new GWSN based one 😂. This will still be a full multi music blog (Halestorm might have just cryptically announced a new single or even the album I'm screaming) but I just love GWSN so much so they're how this blog looks now 😂.
This blog is just becoming me screaming about things I'm screaming about on Twitter okay but MIYA SINGING MIYA SINGING MIYA SINGING NOT AS A JOKE NOT HALF HEARTEDLY NOT A TINY LINE A WHOLE MINUTE LONG MIYA SINGING HER LITTLE HEART OUT
I made a video for this about a year ago but since then groups have been added and opinions have changed but I don’t want to make another video so here we are 😂.
Even tho I'm basically never on here anymore (oops) I thought I'd update this cos I stanned Everglow recently (after pretty much a year of meaning to when I listened to Dun Dun) but it took me even longer to pick a bias 😂. Anyway that's it I'll go disappear again ✌️.
I made a video for this about a year ago but since then groups have been added and opinions have changed but I don’t want to make another video so here we are 😂.
Before I get into this, I just want to say that I overall find it more difficult to keep up with artists that don't use the same language as me. If they have social media like Twitter I can translate easy, but if they're difficult for me to access updates on I usually just end up waiting on YouTube videos to be uploaded with teasers or album information.
So for the last few months, I've been wondering why AWS haven't been releasing any new music or content. The only site linked on their YouTube page is difficult for me to access and completely in Hungarian, so for their last album I relied on the release of songs and videos on their channel for updates. Considering how active they were, I felt it was weird that there was absolutely nothing for almost a year, but I kept waiting. This is the reason why I've only just heard the news about Örs Siklósi.
I'll explain for anyone who might not know, he was diagnosed with leukaemia in June 2020, and unfortunately died on 5th February 2021 at the age of 29. The article posted by Eurovision.tv is linked here.
I just don't know how to process it. In 2018 after their Eurovision appearance I became a huge fan of AWS, loving both their music and the band members. Örs had such a character about him, he would be genuinely entertaining and funny, then go on stage with absolute energy and power. His voice was amazing, it wasn't sweet and soft and melodic, it was deep harsh rock and roll, and that's what I loved about their music. To think about how engaging his performances were, how much his voice resonated with me and how genuinely funny and energetic he was, then to know how harshly he suffered from this fucking bullshit disease is too much to think about. Fuck leukaemia and fuck cancer.
I'll leave you with AWS's performance of Viszlát nyár in the Eurovision 2018 grand final (a song about Örs' late father), and another song of theirs, Hol Voltál, the first song they released after Eurovision and the first song I got to experience the release of. Thank you for everything, Örs.
Girls in the Park (GWSN): THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON - Album Review
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Alright then, let's get into this... IT'S A LOT.
(I've actually had to put triggers in the tags... I only mention them by name and don't go in depth but yeah I'll play it safe)
Burn - A VERY SOLID START this was a unit song between Miya, Seoryoung, Anne and Lena (they chose Miya and Seoryoung my 2 biases hhh), but was the shortest song so it works really well as a start to this album. It was kinda slow, intense, had an almost haunting sound? Definitely some sparky fiery vibes in the sound, and the use of autotune and vocal effects getting into it REALLY lifted it up. It was a sudden end after the second chorus, but it serves as an intro song to this album so I think it works. Again, very solid start.
I Can't Breathe - I'll start of by saying, with the teasers and concept a lot of us were expecting this album to be a little dark... WE DID NOT EXPECT THIS DARK. I'll get into the lyrics soon, but musically this again has a haunting sound and is now paired with lower toned vocals and even more intense backing vocals, and the way they have sudden silence and words like "wake" and "daytime" AND THE FUCKING BREATH AT THE END OF THE CHORUS ohhhh it hits. And the actual lyrics, looking at a piss poor google translation of the Korean parts they seem to be singing about a loss of self identity and made even self worth? And then the English lyrics, "sacrificial lamb", "death by drowning"?? KBS DIDN'T BAN THIS I'M NOT MAD I JUST WANNA KNOW WHY 😂. I think this is my favourite song on the album, there's another that comes close second and that one's also unbelievably dark 😂.
Like It Hot - THE TITLE TRACK I haven't done a post on the MV but I did give thoughts on Twitter when it came out, this song I guess is the one for the non-GWSN stans? It's not generic, at least not in my opinion, I think it does something with a bad style and makes it good. It starts with that kind of slower vibey sound, it builds slightly but stays pretty consistent, until the chorus hits and it is QUITE A CHANGE, it becomes more up tempo, the vibey sounds leave and it's more of a funky bass guitar sound, however unlike a lot of songs that use this trend the two sounds still fit together? They're different but they're both funky and dancey, the sounds will stick in your head. Considering they're nearly at 3 years without a huge fandom, a song like this could be really good for them, using modern trends but not completely changing and losing themselves to try and be popular. Also Miya singing in the bridge my heart 😭.
e i e i o - Okay this is another one with a lot to unload... uhh so this is a song about torture? Just as a song, it's fucking TERRIFYING if you think about it, they're using this twisted blend of children's songs and death threats, Lena legit sings head shoulders knees and toes it's REALLY twisted. Lyrically there's mentions of nightmares, chasing, and there's musical elements of childish melodies and dark intense electronic sounds. At the beginning and end there's literally an "e i e i o" chime sound like the nursery rhyme, it's used in a playful way which paired with the lyrics is truly CHILLING dark GWSN is here and we should all be scared, full on this song was banned by KBS FOR REAL.
Starry Night - I think this is more of a sad song than a dark song, it's not super slow and super somber but lyrically it's more about loneliness in general rather than the dark breeding of I Can't Breathe. Musically it's just kinda nice? It stands out to me more cos it really reminds me of Actually this is a secret by ZN of LABOUM, and while the vocals are really nice if it wasn't for the fact it sounds a lot like that song (they had the same producer it's okay I can say it lol) it wouldn't be as memorable to me. It's great, I LOVE it, but in an album that has sacrificial lambs and e i e i fucking o it's not gonna hold up as high to me unfortunately.
I Sing (lalala) - Honestly this song is kind of what I expected it to be, a mid tempo slightly jazzy song, it's a common type of song at least in the groups I stan (SNSD Love Is Bitter, Nine Muses Hate Me, Dreamcatcher Jazz Bar), so I guess along with Starry Night it doesn't stand out as much to me, but it's still such a sweet song 😂. I have to talk about Miya tho, first of all SHE SINGS AND IT'S GORGEOUS, and then ofc you get her rap WHICH HAS A LINE IN JAPANESE I'm so happy for her 😭. This song was also banned by KBS for the Japanese line (which ffs e i e i o I understood that shit is dark but a line in Japanese warranting the whole song being banned not okay) which is a shame cos I think this would have been a nicely promoted song with Like It Hot, but oh well.
Okay, overall thoughts, GOOD SWEET LORD THIS WAS DARK. I would say dark for GWSN, but... they sang about drowning and torture legit I don't even think Dreamcatcher could ever and they're VERY dark 😂. So this is an interesting album, I am liking this darker direction and if they continued with songs like this in the future I would be rather content 😂. But GWSN could release anything and I'd love it all their songs are so good 😭. Favourites, I Can't Breathe and e i e i o, least favourites Starry Night and maaaaaaybe Burn, but they're all such good songs 😭. Music show promotions start tomorrow and I am absolutely not prepared I'm gonna be getting up 8am every day for as long as these promotions go on 😂. Doesn't sound bad, recently my wake up time has ranged from half 9 to half 11 😂.
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