#kim fucking jaejoong

[emeraldbabygirl]

GURL

YUTA NAKAMOTO

GURL

HE WAS MY FIRST BIAS IN NCT I WAS LIKE “THAT MAN RIGHT THERE” but then I stopped listening to nct and when I came back to their music I had other favs but OH MY GOD IT’S GIVING KIM JAEJOONG IT’S GIVING GAZETTE?? IT’S GIVING J ROCK IT’S GIVING 90’s/2000’s J ROCK AND IDEK WHAT THAT MEANS BUT SOMETHING ABOUT YUTA AND ROCK FEELS SO RIGHT? Just like Woodz those two were def born to rock tf like oh my god YUTA THE MAN YOU ARE IT’S GIVING FIERCE CUNTY DIVA MY WIG FLEW TO JAPAN TO JOIN HIS ROCK BAND TYPE OF SHIT. I love them kpop men trying out the rock genre

[symeraid-s]

This is not a drill!

Jaejoong is going to be appearing on Inkigayo!

[jaejoongs-nipple-piercing]

Smash or pass jaejoong or uhhh …uhhhh FUKA WAIT …add Abe-Chan and change it to fuck marry or kill <3

CONGRATULATIONS! You’ve just opened a can of worms!

Oh boy. Let’s see…

SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH KIM JAEJOONG

Marry Abe-kun Sensei

And sorry but I’m gonna have to kill Fooking Fuka

[a9saga]

I started typing this whole thing on mobile and couldn't figure out how to put a break in and I refuse to update the app. Fuck it. You are scrolling past this whole damn thing. Unfollow me. This is all I'm gonna be talking about for the next two weeks.

Exo needs to break up. They have needed to break up. That was my hot take I had been saying I'd eventually share but I never got around to it, and now it's a lot more apparent. Not that I thought this was going to happen. I thought that when I finally posted this, someone might be mad about it, but in wake of CBX's lawsuit I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear it.

I was sure exo members were done suing SM entertainment a long time ago. It's been 9 years since Kris and Luhan filed their lawsuits, both of whom won. It's been 8 years since Tao's hiatus, and almost 8 since he filed his lawsuit months later, which he ended up losing despite never rejoining exo. I became a fan of exo during Call Me Baby promotions when Tao was still dancing with a broken leg. I was 15 at the time, about to turn 16. EXO scandals were extremely fresh and ongoing. But those three are so far in the past now. Lay quietly decided not to renew recently, but he hadn't been able to appear with the group for 5 years so, yeah. No surprise. But I really thought it was all done when EXO-M was done for.

Well, I can tell you why I'd been thinking for a while EXO should break up. It's because they're really a thing of the past, and essentially after Love Shot, it felt like there was nowhere to go from there.

That felt like the last breath of their 5 year long prime. Don't get me wrong, it was awesome. EXO have hit after hit after hit, think of the absolute best most addictive song by your favorite pop artist, and EXO have a discography of mostly those. But they haven't grown and changed artistically or commercially as a group. They've been around 11 years, they're in their 30s now, and I don't even think most of them have the heart to revitalize their prime like Super Junior did after their military hiatus was over. Maybe a couple of them have it in them to do the pop star thing for their entire careers, but I didn't think that like, Sehun or Chanyeol were necessarily passionate about creating new music for the rest of their career. Chen has a family now and that's also something I'd like the rest of exo to afford without their huge commercial group getting in the way of that. The only one I felt for sure would not be done anytime soon was Baekhyun. I thought he'd be the new Kangta of the group, sticking around when EXO were dormant and fizzled out. I never thought SM would actually let them break up, like H.O.T did when I was a baby. But yeah, Baekhyun leaving shocks me the most. Not that I blame him. I do fully believe the allegations made in the lawsuit as SM have had such a shady reputation.

Looking at SM's pre-EXO boy groups, one might say EXO were the main successor to Super Junior, because, obviously, both groups debuted with 12 people. Large groups like that weren't really a thing in kpop before Super Junior debuted. Additionally, Han Geng of Suju was one of the first Chinese kpop idols. In 2008, two more Chinese members were added to the sub unit Super Junior-M, which released Mandarin versions of pre-existing and original Korean Super Junior songs. Hm, this sounds familiar. I only just built up a better case for the EXO/SJ argument. Diana and I talk about this sometimes though; I once made an argument that I think EXO was more a successor to TVXQ/DBSK (Tong Vfang Xien Qi/Dong Bang Shin Ki), which I would have forgotten saying if she never brought up that one time i said it ever again.

In July of 2009, JYJ threw the first brick at SM Entertainment I mean TVXQ's members Kim "Hero" Jaejoong, Park "Micky" Yoochun and Kim "Xiah" Junsu filed a lawsuit against SM for contract termination, claiming they had been coerced into slave contracts as minors. They were 22-23 at the time, TVXQ having debuted on December 26th, 2003. The three of them won the lawsuit, signed to C-Jes Entertainment and formed the new group, JYJ, of just the three of them. It was assumed the original five piece was dead by that point, but surprisingly, in 2010, Jung "U-Know" Yunho and Shim "Max" Changmin chose to stay at SM and continue TVXQ as a duo.

This whole thing is arguably the most significant scandal in the 30-year history of SM. TVXQ had been SM's biggest success to date and some argue they and Boa still are. Your faves wouldn't have cracked Japan without the efforts of those two, and if kpop didn't reach Japan in the early 2000s, the entertainment industry in a small East Asian country wouldn't have become huge across the entire planet---and frankly, if TVXQ hadn't been big internationally, they'd have been done for because SM had them blacklisted from Korean television for a decade.

Han Geng of Super Junior actually did file for contract termination shortly after JYJ did, also for mistreatment. As did Luhan, Tao and Kris as we've already acknowledged. But all four of them could move to the entertainment industry in China. Sure, you're always going to lose something by leaving as big a group as EXO, Super Junior or TVXQ, but SM hasn't been sued by its Korean idols since JYJ. Baekhyun, Xiumin and Chen know that they're putting at least as much on the line. And now, like TVXQ, more than half of EXO are no longer in the group, and the majority of the run for the both of them has had this cloud of mistreatment over their reputations. They were also both so unstoppably huge and popular.

I was in elementary school for DB5K's prime, and there were fans of kpop in the west but I can't tell you what their success across Asia looked like as someone who wasn't there. But I can tell you, between 2015-2016 when kpop gradually started to become very big, EXO for a time were bringing in more people to kpop than A Particularly Famous Group in the West I Have No Interest in Naming Because I Don't Want Their Fucking Fans Derailing My Post With Unrelated Discourse While I'm Not Even Talking About Them. Just believe me there was a time when EXO were way more popular in the west than Said Band I Decline to Specify, the eclipse that happened was gradual, and to my understanding EXO continued to be the biggest thing in Asia despite that another one eventually cracked America more and I'm not denying that they did. Point is, EXO coming first was important to all of that, because I and several others wouldnt have heard of the one kpop group if EXO didnt get us all into kpop first from 2013-15/16.

That all said now, this was all very much not how I'd wanted EXO to actually end. This is crashing and burning. Much like TVXQ, EXO is not going to be able to have a reunion after this, because they'll never receive SM's blessing to work together. I mean, EXO-M never would. 12 member EXO hardly lasted for two years though and their prime was very new when people started leaving, so to be honest, I don't know if the kids getting into EXO in the 2020s would really care to see Luhan, Tao, and Someone Sitting In Prison Whose Name I've Uttered More Than I'd Like To.

But in a similar vain, while DB5K originally split into two, JYJ are all off in different directions now. Yoochun was fired. Junsu left C-Jes and made his own label. Jaejoong did the same recently. Could you tell I listen TVXQ? But yeah, now that there are more than 3-4 people departed from EXO, they've got former members going in a lot of different directions. Someone already said it but I hope Xiumin follows Luhan back now. Back in my day Xiuhan were so cute.

Also, since I managed not to slip this into the post anywhere.... these guys have been showing up to work. Every damn day they've been showing up to work, that's another reason why it's so shocking. Chen dropped a song days ago and Baekhyun has been doing shows, posting dance practices, EXO have been appearing together for their 11th anniversary and supposed upcoming comeback. Whaaat a slap in the face. I support CBX 100% though and you should too.

[dongbangskies]

Re: INKODE, Jaejoong, DBSK, and all of the Cassies who still hold AKTF.

Before we start: I just want to point everyone to the "bio" and handle and be very clear that DBSK was the thing that caused this blog to exist in the first place. Back in the late 2000s. DongBangSkies? DongBangShinKi.

I was there when the announcement of the JYJ lawsuit and the end of DBSK hit Allkpop.com. I remember running home from school ready to watch another live performance on YouTube and seeing that article instead. And I remember hoping and praying they just settle it normally, knowing full well it was the end. Because thats just the nature of boybands rights? They make it big and split. And either they all fizzle out or only one person gets really famous.

Even back then, the DB5K Cassies all said the only way they would come back is if someone needs to have their own label, buy back everything they ever released and come back in 10 years after they all establish solo careers.

And even in 2009, I said Jaejoong was going to be the only one that could do it. Make enough money as a solo to make a company or be able to buy back what he spent 9 years working on.

Its been well over 10 years. and he has fought and clawed his way back despite getting blacklisted at the height of his career and spending his remaining hot-topic youth years without broadcasts. And he fucking did it. He has his own label.

Is it still a pipeline dream that Yunho and Changmin will leave SM or do a partnership with Jaejoong after all these years estranged? Is it kind of impossible for a DB5K comeback with Yoochun cancelled for drugs? Yes. 100% yes.

But I've kept the faith for this long. And I won't be stopping any time soon.

To my Cassiopeia community, regardless of where you are now: Hi. I miss you. I want you to know how important you were to my teenage self and hope to meet you under the Red Sea again someday.

[sanstropfremir]

in an alternate universe where they didn't split, what subunits do you think sm would've given tvxq? i wonder if homin / jyj units would've still happened or if they'd do something like suju kry with the main vocals. or maybe they just go "damn here" and give yunjae a duet

sm doesn't seem to like giving actual 'subunits' to their <five member groups, so i don't think jyj would have happened, but we'd probably still have gotten solo careers (eventually) from the four that have them, and probably i think a couple of duets, but they wouldn't have extensive promo periods/albums attached to them. probably yunjae and maybe changmin jaejoong? they might have also done a yunho junsu dance type one as well. but to be honest i do actually think the split was for the best, bc had they all had continued under sm we would not have gotten all that excellent angry music out of 2011-2014, AND we probably would not have gotten any of junsu's iconic songs either.

[berestweys]

fine. FINE >:(

@nothingatallnice @queenofattolia​

nothing will ever top healthy, well-fed, and glowing. this was the worst two years of his life and probably mine too and yet. never more handsome.

[soft-not-subtle]

Anyone in love with Kim Jaejoong’s Beautiful Woman? Cause this song is

  t o  d i e  f o r 

[pendraegon]

the fact i can’t find an audio file of dbsk’s purple line on here. i think everyone has to hear the lines “just wanna touch myself” i think that’s what we all need tonight.

[britneyshakespeare]

Was anyone going to tell me that Kim Jaejoong, world-renowned catboy and Coldplay fan who sometimes makes music on the side, has a TikTok, or was I supposed to read that in National Geographic myself

[cherrysakuchan]

I NEED him to strangle me...with love of course. 🤤

[burnedichor]

you guys will get tired of my ooc posts quick but lady gaga at the 2009 mtv music awards performing paparazzi will never be beat. sorry.

[symeraid-s]

Can't deny my man has impeccable timing

[samuyed]

🧁

[anythinglovekimjaejae]

“Hi Mr. President.” He stole my breath only with his gaze. © antalo

[incorrectskzquotes]

For the song rec's! I'm gonna go for older songs I'm still obsessed with. :) Psycho by History, Big Man by MisterMister; DoraDora by U-Kiss; Mine by Kim Jaejoong; Not Alone by Park Jungmin. and for some newer songs: Mayday by Victon; Come Back Home by Oneus (I know you seem to be a big fan of them but this and Luna are probably my faves); and Too Late by ATEEZ (not sure if this has a MV) (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

Psycho - History

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

I love History's songs and i honestly wish there were more! Psycho is a vibe and a half and i bop to it! I just wish History had more songs!! They were so good!!!

Big Man - Mr. Mr.

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

This is so of its time! groups like Mr.Mr. were releasing bops between 2011 and 2015 and i miss it so much! I hadn't actually heard much of Mr.Mr but oh damn this song is good (quietly adds it to my early kpop playlist)

DoraDora - U-Kiss

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

This is once again so of its time and i adore it! 2012 kpop just hits different!

Mine - Kim Jaejoong

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

Holy fucking shit, im adding this to my monthly playlist! How have i not heard this before? Its exactly the ftisland vibe i fuck so hard with! Damn Jaejoong!! the guitar??? fuck man

Not Alone - Park Jungmin

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

You really are just sending me nothing but bangers huh? This is excellent!

Mayday - Victon

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

This is pretty good! I quite like it! not gonna lie after listening to the older kpop it was a little lackluster but still a bop!

Come Back Home - Oneus

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

Yes I'm a massive oneus fan! Toomoon til i fucking die! I've been a big fan of oneus since debut and imo they have no bad songs and come back home is no exception! its phenomenal

Too Late - Ateez

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library

I adore Too Late, its the softer kinda song that I love when Ateez do! I only became an Atiny during I'm The One and Kingdom era but I've been hooked ever since. ngl too late can make me very emotional depending on my mood!