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MINZY’s Instagram posts throughout their 2021 World Tour (ft. her most liked featured post on the band instagram)

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Permafrost are the main characters in Interview Magazine’s 2020 Winter issue! After making a five-year-late explosive comeback with their album ‘Hell Above’ in September, the group are proving how much of a power house they are in a hip-hop and r&b centric modern music scene. Read exclusive interviews from the group on their hiatus, adding new member Dinesh, new romance, maturing in sound & self, solo projects, and future activities (or just buy all four variant covers for the gorgeous members)!

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a number of responses to tristan publicly confirming his relationship status with minzy during his best country album grammy award acceptance speech

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The B*tch’s Take: Our Ranking and (Extensive) Reviews for Every 2020 Grammy’s Performance  |  Bubblegum Bitch

Though the Grammy’s had it’s fair share of big winners and losers (nothing out of the usual, right?) there was a certain level of extremity when it came to the performances this year. 

Some performance finally lived up to that of a ‘Grammy moment’ (and beyond) while other’s failed to show anything worth even a performance at the local bar. It only seemed ironically fitting as a welcome into the new decade - a true show of the balance of life. A yin and yang showing fit for music’s biggest night. 

So of course we had to rank it all. Here’s the best and worst of the 2020 Grammy performances!

4. MINZY

Who knew everyone’s favorite Asian Ice Guitarist would be rocking the Grammy stage so soon? After her Hotter Than Hell VEVO session blew up on social media and Blow Your Mind (Mwah) became the hit of the summer (End of summer? Fall?) We had nothing short of high expectations for Miss MNZY here. And thankfully, she didn’t disappoint.

Maybe, she even went beyond what was expected. While a simple dance-focused performance ala those viral videos would’ve sufficed, she began a little more dramatically. 

Centre stage, baby pink electric guitar in hand (a guitar Permafrost fans recognized as her favorite one, even donning the bands name by the strings), spotlight on her. She plays the chords to the chorus of Hotter Than Hell in between acapella bouts of her singing the lyrics. 

And then after just one chorus, a little pause for her to go down the steps, hand over her guitar before she started a guitar-heavy rendition of BYM (Mwah)! She only has about four backup dancers with her as bright pink and purple lights wash over her while she dances. 

The sparkly purple mini dress she has on is underwhelming at best, and the Doc Martens were an unfortunate choice for something like the Grammy’s (but were there to help make the dancing easier probably). But it’s a small price to pay for the way she explosively takes up all the stage - there’s no shits and giggles here. Just a popstar taking over the stage with stage presence alone. She didn’t need bells and whistles to catch people’s attentions. It’s definitely a direct “fuck you” to the people who vehemently claimed she was a rampant lip-syncher/she only got big by a fluke.  Not only that, but the beginning with her Permafrost guitar? It was a gentle reminder that: this pop thing? Just a side gig for her. 

It was satisfying to see how people in the room responded like we thought they should’ve. Entranced, and by the end of it all, dancing along with her. We even got a couple of shots of Tristan Falkenrath hollering his support from where he sat, which at the time just seemed like #JustBestFriendThings seeing as he’s grown much closer to Minzy in particular over the hiatus. But just about an hour later, the bomb was dropped that #MinTan was very real and apparently has been for awhile now so that’s just an extra cuteness bonus for us.

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♡  tristan falkenrath + minji farell  ♡

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MINJI + recent instagrams!

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closed starter for tristan @wnterstcrms

The arrival of a mortal named Tristan in the Autumn Court had not gone unnoticed by Soliana, but she had been keen deep in war maps and troop formations when he'd first appeared. It meant that she'd only seen him from afar for a few fleeting moments, her sharp gaze instantly landing on the strange and smoothed curve of his ears. The High Lady had only seen a handful of mortals before the bard had decided to make his home amongst them, and she was a naturally curious being.

Her curiosity was not the reason for today's visit, and she'd sent notice that she would be arriving at his dwellings ahead of her departure. Perhaps it was uncouth for a High Lady to travel for her appointments, but she had no desire to hold her meetings in what had previously been her father's office. Not when the room was stained with the stench of every hateful memory of the man. Her guards shifted behind her while she raised a hand to knock on Tristan's door, and she stopped herself from glancing over her shoulder. Their near constant presence was another thing she wasn't used to— not when she'd been utterly expendable before her anointing.

Finally the door swung open, and she forced herself not to let her gaze flicker once more to those peculiar ears. Instead she offered a polite nod along with the very beginnings of a smile, already trying to set the man at ease. "I'm glad to finally meet you, Tristan."

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Fans freak out over Tristan Falkenrath’s super cute Instagram stories of MINZY! ( + Comeback Speculation? )

by Sarah Lou   /    August 15, 2020    1:09PM     @officialbubblegumb-tch​

Lovebirds alert! Fans of everyone’s favorite rockband, Permafrost, went ham over a number of Instagram stories posted by the frontman, Tristan Falkenrath yesterday. In particular, three that featured bandmate and girlfriend, Minji Farell.

The first one, posted in the morning, showed the back of Minji’s head picking out snacks with the second one posted not too long after that, with her pushing the cart full of things in what can be assumed to be the carpark. (A grocery date, how cute!) The last one came in the evening, the guitarist looking off into the distance in a lowlit romantic setting.

One fan on Twitter, @/temporaryburning, noted: “gUYS THEY’RE SO DOMESTIC OH MY GOD HOW SOFT ARE THESE PICTURES 😭🥺” with the images attached, gaining over 80,000 likes.

Another fan, @/rockyjmsns, gained a hefty 10,000 retweets when they jokingly tweeted: “ok this isn’t fair when are we getting the levi & dinesh date pictures @/permafrost wHEN!!”

One other tweet that became popular was from @/wheremonochadsbeen who said: “i can’t decide who i wanna be more: tristan, in love and getting to see his gf pick up stroop waffles, or minji, picking up the stroop waffles and also in love”

Since Tristan’s famously emotional acceptance speech at the GRAMMY’s where he announced their rumored relationship to be true, their fans have been adamantly supportive of the couple with every little breadcrumb they get of them.

While not particularly open with their displays of affection (and unsurprisingly so), there have been glimpses of the sweet couple especially on social media, whether it be their own accounts or family & friend’s ones. 

The last time an uproar like this sparked was sparked was when fans noticed the couple cuddled up on a couch in the background of a couple of Instagram stories from band mates Levi Zapata and Dinesh Malik while in the studio in March, and then before that, a rare birthday post for Tristan’s 29th birthday on Minzy’s account in February. 

It was said by sources in July that they had been living together for at least a couple of months, Tristan reportedly moving in to Minzy’s home, but keen observers noted that Tristan seemed to have stuck around in the MNZY residence as early as late 2019.

This all only served to strengthen the #MinTan ship movement within and outside the fandom. 

HOWEVER, that’s not the only cause of the uproar from Permafrost fans when these pictures went up! 

The recent hair switch up from Minzy’s classic black to strawberry blonde have  many speculating profusely that the band’s comeback may be closer than it was ever before!

While they didn’t have much else to go off of, it can be noted that changing up hairstyles is a big indicator for a new era of music for any artists.

Nothing has been confirmed from the band or the label despite Dinesh Malik joining the band officially as their drummer late in 2019, but fans are desperately waiting for a new record since their last one  -  Darker Now  -  was released 5 years ago in 2015. 

Unfortunately, according to Levi Zapata when asked by paparazzi in June about a new album, all he replied with was “I have no idea what you’re talking about”.