Girl's Day Has Arrived!!

  YESSS! Looks like the DAI5Y Gods are looking down on me, for when I came home today after shopping, lo and behold, my very FIRST Girl’s Day Purchase arrived!!!! I'd ordered their latest album DARLING along with their earlier release EXPECTATION- Both Albums are so, so beautiful (Both of them photobooks, Darling a softcover with a transparent slipcover, and the girls’ Expectation a hardcover.

    Since I ordered my Girl’s Day CDs from CD Japan (I know you’re thinking, why order K-POP through a JAPAN site, but I had lots of points saved which I put to good use here!) I wasn’t sure if it was going to come with any goodies since it was an “import”, WOW was I STOKED to see that Darling came with a POSTER!!! So nice, and if that wasn’t enough, the bonus trading card that came with it was none other than…HYERI!!!!!!!! YES! My Girl’s Day BIAS!!!! Every Day IS Girl’s Day!!!!!

 As you may have guessed reading my blog here for the past three weeks or so, I have been REALLY getting into this group! Thanks to the plethora of English subtitled variety shows Girl's Day have been a part of, I'm getting to know these girls better and better....

Their most recent appearance on Weekly Idol (the show that, more than any other, does a great job of introducing you to the members of Idol Groups)from early this year has FINALLY been re-uploaded with English Subtitles (it had been taken down some time before), and I couldn't be loving them more! I had seen the episode before unsubbed, but while I was able to enjoy their epic tug-of-war battle with the two hosts Defconn and Hyungdon, the show is really based on playful insults and witty banter, so having it translated makes ALL the difference!

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In Lieu of APink News Season Four, There’s “APink Showtime”!

MBC has a running variety show called SHOWTIME featuring a different idol Group as its hosts, Season One had EXO, Season Two had BEAST, and for Season Three, Showtime introduced its very first Female hosts with Apink!

The Girls Ready for Adventure

Apink fans have been clamoring for a fourth Season to their beloved Reality Series APink News, and with Showtime, we get the next best thing, featuring the same kind of fun, interesting and personable stories we’ve come to expect from those zany Apink Ladies!

Panic for some when the Bungee Jump Challenge Comes Up!

Just checked out the first episode and it's already so GOOD! The girls go to a Activity Center where they are asked to show their bravery by BUNGEE JUMPING! Tuff tomboy Eunji couldn't WAIT to try it and once she was harnessed up, she took a HUGE leap into the fray (followed by the always-game and equally aggressive Namjoo), but it’s when Nauen is up for her turn that it gets hilarious, as Naeun is simply PETRIFIED to jump!

Eunji Jumps

 Naeun had done Bungee Jumping before, but it was in tandem with another person, and this time doing it alone, she finds she has no nerve at all! When the Ride Atttendant reaches for her back harness to stabilize her, Naeun flinches away, pleading “Please Don’t Push Me!!”, LOL! 

A Scared Naeun on the platform

The man assures her he has no intention of shoving her off and was only there to hold her in place. Thinking that Naeun is prepared to jump, the man counts her off, “1, 2, 3…Bunjeeeeeeeeeee!”…But instead of jumping, she turns around and says, "Hold on, hold on, not yet" HAHAHA!
   The attendant lets Naeun compose herself and says, “Okay, let’s try it again, 1, 2, 3, Goooooo!”  But once again Naeun can’t bring herself to jump off of the launch platform. She chides herself for being chicken, hitting herself on the head and hopping around in frustration, so freaking CUTE! The girls tell her not to feel pressure even though Eunji and Namjoo jumped, because they are the “Weird kids” with no common sense, LOLOL! But Naeun knows if she doesn’t jump she will regret it.

"Weird Kids" Namjoo and Eunji waiting at the bottom

  They try one more time, “1, 2, 3…Jumpppppp…” where Nauen becomes completely immobile, LOLOL! Bomi: “She’s Frozen.” Chorong: “She turned into a statue”. Bomi: “At least say you’re scared or something” LOL, Poor Naeun! Finally, the man lets Naeun off the hook, telling her to come off the platform!

A Completely Frozen Naeun

  Next up is wide eyed and innocent maknae Hayoung, who readily walks out and without hesitation, does a spectacular jump off!  This girl is really becoming a strong personality in APink with her  “I can do it” attitude, (reminds me so much of Goo Hara in Invincible Youth, where they called her the "Goo-ssian Bolt” because she would always do whatever they asked!) watching her giggling with nerves as she hung off the Bungee Line waiting for the boat to retrieve her, I knew that with this series, her popularity is going to go through the roof!

All Smiles Hayoung ready to Jump

   Next up was Bomi who did a fine (if very tearful) jump, but in the end, Naeun didn’t have to take the elevator ride of shame back down alone, as even Leader Chorong chickened out and couldn’t jump, HAHA! Much, of course, to Naeun’s relief! Eunji had to ease their guilty feelings by saying it was a win always since they at least TRIED to jump.

  The second half of the show had the girls sitting around chatting about various topics the staff brought up, including questions sent in by fellow celebrities.

Apink Roundtable

 One rather fun question was “Who looks best in Red Lipstick?”, one by one each girl applied the risque color to their lips and seductively posed, for my money, Bomi looked good in it, and MY GOD Naeun was SMOULDERING! Eunji chided her for pouting and doing all the trappings of cliché selfie poses, but Naeun couldn’t be stopped! YUMMY!

This is gonna be such a great ride, and I can’t wait for the NEXT episode to be subbed and posted!

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My Girl's Day Love Continues with a Terrific Performance of "Darling"!

  Ever since falling in love with Girls Day’s new single “Darling”, I’ve gotten about six different live performances of the girls performing the song, and I’ve loved every one so far, but WOW, their performance of Darling that the girls did on this past Sunday’s “Inkigayo” has to be the BEST one yet!!!
 For one thing, when the rapper introducing the song, instead of the girls emerging from behind a curtain, the song begins with the girls’ lovely backsides where they’re already on stage and simply turn around as the song gets going! And speaking of turning, another thing that this perf gets right is the camera focusing on all the spins and twirling the girls do during the song…you really get the “light and breezy” feel of the tune!
 The camerawork also gets some really nice captures of the girl’s solo screentime shots, all of them look great, (and might I add how freaking damn GORGEOUS Hyeri is here, ARRRGH!)

...but perhaps MOST important of all, this is the FIRST performance that really focuses on what I consider the “hook” of the performance- that alluring, sexy and CUTE Hip-Shaking Butt-Dance Move during the chorus!!! MAN, to me, THIS is the seller of the song, I can’t believe the other shows only show a few seconds of it, thankfully this show captures it every time, so perfect! 

 Besides all that, they look so HAPPY singing and dancing up there (I love how the performance ends with Minah cutely mugging at the camera before it goes to group shot pose) MAN, does this performance make me smile!!! Check It Out! 

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