#EDIT: ADDED SOME MORE YESEOS

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*smiles a bit too widely*... :)

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Chuang Asia Thailand Episode 1!

It’s been too long since I got into a survival show lol. I mean my last one was Girls Planet 999 and that was 2 years ago! So anyway I’ll be taking you all with me on this journey by posting the notes I took while watching the episode plus my current top 9. Spoilers ahead!!

•First off before you ask where I’m watching: it’s on the Tencent Video app and it’s free. Ooh and if you’re also watching pls let me know so we can talk about it together!

•I’m happy to see Nene as a mentor! I loved her when I watched Chuang 2020

•This is produced by Jackson Wang? They’ve got TEN??? Okay Chuang Asia I’m interested.

•Looking at the contestant list and of course there are 14 year olds. Don’t vote for the 14 year olds you guys. My personal age minimum for voting is gonna be 17 so I won’t consider anyone younger than that. Contestants that are over 18 get my preference though. The idol industry is bad enough for adults, I’d prefer if we didn’t debut minors as well. I know ironic coming from someone who ults Yeseo lol. (She was the youngest active kpop idol when she debuted in Busters.)

•Also they're really going hard with this being international. This makes Mnet look pathetic for what they did in Girls Planet lol.

•Oh the flirting part with Jasmine was so akwarrrrrrd. 100% secondhand embarrassment.

•I felt bad for Elyn when she was crying and said “No Filming!” But they proceeded to just zoom in on her crying face :( TURN THE CAMERA AWAY FROM HER!

•The trip.com ads are so funny to me because these survival show ads where they pretend to use a product are usually for stuff like snacks or beverages or makeup. But they’ve got these girls pretending to casually book a flight lmao

•The barbie group having only one member thats older than 16 and then proceeding to perform Barbie World where they say stuff like “that pussy so cold” and “he spank me when I get bad” -_- Someone should have made them pick another song.

•OOOH the Avex group’s performance of Left Right was great. Maybe the best of the episode although Mindy was really impressive too.

•Ilene’s little fan moment with Jackson was adorable!

•They announced the first top 9 but I feel like we’re still missing some performances?? Is that an editing thing to get that ranking in the first episode and we ares still going to get more next episode or did they just skip some people? Like I don’t think we saw Ruan and I was waiting for her. I could have sworn there were some CSR members too and I haven’t seen them perform either. I guess we’ll see.

• I watched the theme song on YouTube and it’s so cute!! Weird that it’s all about summer when this is airing in winter though. Is it summer in Thailand?? I thought they were above the equator. Okay yeah they are so idk why they’re singing a song about it being summer. Also I got spoiled for Ruan center! Now I know they wouldn’t just skip her. There’s got to be more intro round performances next episode.

•Okay so my Top 9 picks will be based on who performed in this first episode only so I’m sure it’ll change a lot after ep. 2.

1. R-Jing - She blew me away in the extra performance. Her singing was so pretty! She’s so cute too and apparently trained at SM?? I always latch onto a girl first episode and this is my girl!

2. Akina - Maybe it’s bc of her experience in her past group but she seems really comfortable on stage. I like her vibe and she’s clearly very talented. She seems really nice and down to earth.

3. Rinka - I looked back at her gp999 performances and I can see why I didn’t remember her. She seems to have improved so much though! Her voice stood out positively and she’s got some star power I didn’t see in her old performances. I’m excited to see more of this new Rinka!

4. Lissa - I don’t know how to feel about her strange vibe but I liked her performance. Lots of energy and a nice voice. I’m very intrigued by her at this point.

5. MingMing- such a clear and pretty voice!!! Her and Pangjang together were both the vocal highlights of their team’s performance but MingMing is the only one of the two thats over my voting age limit.

6. Mamcú - Really interesting and beautiful voice. Apparently she competed on the Voice?? We’ll need to wait and see how she does with dancing but she seems really earnest about her desire to he an idol not just a singer so I’ll put my faith in her!

7. Shye - We barely got to see her performance but I was intrigued by what we saw. I don’t know if she can dance yet but I’ll find out soon enough. And lets be real, I have a lil crush on her and thats enough to get you in the top 9 at this point in the game. I mean look at her in her leather jacket!

8. Emma - Her dancing was great and she choreographs her own stuff too! I was really impressed by her dance skills both in her extra performance and the dance battle!

9. Tegan - gorgeous gorgeous deep voice! She’s so pretty too! I really liked her but I have no idea if she can dance. I feel like if she could she would have shown it since she got two performances so I’m hesitant.

Honorable Mentions:

Krista Shim - I’m not voting for Krista because she’s under the age I decided on being my voting limit but honestly I’d put money on her making it to the final group. You can just tell with these shows. It's in the way they edit it.

Mao Xiu Ling & Mao Xiu Ting - Of course we have a pair of twins! I’ve always loved this survival show gimmick. I love their look and their dance together was really cool! 

Kaylen - The other half of the Hawaiian Duo! Kaylen pulling Jackson Wang up to the stage with her was such a power move. I didn’t like her solo performance as much as her partner Tegan’s though

Praew- I liked her energy when she introduced herself and then her dancing was insane! I will not be voting for her because she’s 15. She's just a baby.

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1. PICK

Pick the pictures you want to use and download them. I often pick a picture of a person and then a background that already fits or I'll edit to fit (change colours with polarr). I only use stickers from picsart or ones I downloaded from tumblr.

2. CUT

In picsart I tend to start with a blank canvas (scroll all the way down to see) and then add the bg after adding the pic of the idol. That way I can erase the background around the idol. For me, it always looks better that way. If you want to do it the other way around that's fine too!

After the background is added you can start adding your stickers. This edit is quite simple. I only added one sticker.

3. EFFECTS

If you've seen my previous post you might notice lots of effects recently. That's because I've started using prequel for almost every single one of my edits. For some people prequel might be a pain in the ass to work with since the app keeps crashing when you try to save your edit. That doesn't keep me from using it, though. You can even screenshot what you made instead of saving.

For this edit I used this one 'print' effect I discovered a while ago. It basically gives it this paper printed look. Sometimes it'll just make the pic look lq but i think it looks fun. I turn down the colour filter, switch off the text, get rid of the blur, etc. until only the print texture is left.

The I go into 'adjust' and add vibrance, skin colour, make the image colder and add abberation which gives it that 3D-ish look.

4. ADJUST

The last step! Here I just play with the brightness, saturation, colours, etc.

There's no real recipe for this one. Every picture will look different even if you follow the same steps.

For this pic i lowered the brightness and highlights and made the shadows and blacks brighter. I made the image even colder and gave it a green tint to cancel out yeseo looking literally red and purple. I made the purple hue more blue and the magenta hue more pink and added saturation and brightness for both of them. And that was it!

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Songs I Wanna F*ck Overhaul to

Just One Yesterday // Fall Out Boy

Stripper // Soho Dolls

Loftcries // Purity Ring

Let it All Go // Yeseo

Special Affair // The Internet

Smooth Operator // Sade

Do I Wanna Know? // Arctic Monkeys

Florida Kilos // Lana Del Rey

Cherry // Lana Del Rey

Eternal Youth // Rude

Like You // Hoody

Labyrinth // Oomph!

Hit me Like a Man // The Pretty Reckless

Love Lockdown (Kanye WestCover) // Glass Animals

Pazi Sta Radis // Sky Wikluh

Red Lips // Sky Ferreira

Fineshrine // Purity Ring

Rev 22:20 (Dry Martini Mix) // Puscifer 

Living Dead Girl // Rob Zombie

*EDIT* I added more songs to this playlist. He had less than some of the others, so I felt obligated.

Overhaul got the most votes! Popular boi. Next is Dabi!