Monday, June 15, 2015

CNBLUE's Jung Yong Hwa Makes An Appearance On Promotional Video For iQIYI Entertainment 5th Anniversary Special

K-pop boy band CNBLUE member and actor Jung Yong Hwa has become a sensation in China.
On June 11, Jung Yong Hwa made an appearance on a promotional video for iQIYI Entertainment's 5th Anniversary Special. During the video, Jung Yong Hwa held conversations and exchanged jokes in Chinese with China's most popular host He Jiong and even sang a birthday song to celebrate iQIYI's anniversary.


Jung Yong Hwa became the first foreign artist to feature in iQIYI's promotional video, and the video received more views than those that featured China's top celebrities such as Fan Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, and Angelababy.
In April, Jung Young Hwa won the Foreign Artist and The Most Popular Foreign Group awards at China's biggest music award ceremony Yin Yue Feng Yun Bang (音乐风云榜), and he also became the first Korean artist to make an appearance on a Chinese entertainment show Diors Man and became one of the most loved foreign artists in China. 

Monday, April 13, 2015

Park Jin Young Comically Apologizes to miss A After Members Berate Him For Beating Them On Music Charts


miss A
JYP Entertainment is dominating Korean music charts, creating a humorous situation for girl group miss A.
The girl group, which made its comeback in March with "Only You," dominated Korean music charts for nearly two weeks with their comeback song until Park Jin Young's "Who's Your Mama" took over the number one spot. Park is the CEO of JYP Entertainment, the company that miss A is signed with.
Suzy and Fei, members of miss A, took to Instagram to express mock anger towards their CEO for beating them on Korean music charts.
The two members shared screen shots of music charts, showing Park Jin Young's song featuring rapper Jessi "Who's Your Mama" in the number one spot, with miss A's own song, "Only You," appearing in second.
Suzy used hashtags to express her faux anger and express her opinion by saying, "CEO. Bad. Who's Your Mama. Jessi is great."
Fei used cute animal emoticons and commented in both Korean and her native Chinese. "Ugh... This, this, do I cry? Do I laugh?"
She expressed the same sentiment in both languages on Instagram, and on Twitter she asked Park to buy miss A food for beating them.
Park Jin Young, also known as JYP, responded to both Fei and Suzy, and also apologized to miss A's Jia, who had shared the song on Twitter.
To Fei, JYP said, "Ah this... Well... Uhm... It'll go down again."
To Suzy, Park revealed that it was Suzy who had sent Jessi to JYP and he thanked her for recommending Jessi to him.
To Jia, the CEO's message was very simple: "Jia thank you and um... Sorry."

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Paloma Faith ‘not cool enough’ to sing Bond theme

Paloma Faith picks up her first ever Brit award.
Paloma Faith says she has “messed up” the opportunity to sing the next James Bond theme tune. Speaking at a march to mark International Women’s Day, she told reporters that she was being punished for openly admitting she wanted the gig.
“In the industry that I’m in, if you ask for something or you seem like you want something you don’t get it,” she said. “You’re supposed to pretend that you’re really cool as a cucumber and stuff just comes to you, but I’m not really that type of person. But now I’ve messed it for myself because I’ve told everyone that I would like to do it.”
The 33-year-old singer songwriter has made no secret in the past about her dream to follow in the footsteps of Adele, Shirley Bassey and Tina Turner by singing a Bond theme. Spectre, the latest movie in the 007 series, is due to open worldwide on 6 November, although the artist performing the theme tune has yet to be announced. Rumours suggest it could be Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran or Lana Del Rey.
Faith also found time at the march to talk about her mother’s influence on her feminist beliefs. She said: “My mum was a child of the 60s and was one of the people who burned their bra and made a pact to herself never to be oppressed by a man in her life, and so wasn’t. She has brought me up with those beliefs, so this is way more important to her than anything.”