#of lc musical list

[saelterlude]

Gushing About Zhu Hanbin and Jing Yanqiao in The City of Musicals S2

The City of Musicals (S2, at least) is kinda like The Voice. 24 musical actors, 3 troupes, covering musical numbers, elimination every episode. Season 2 focuses on young/fresh talents.

I was on a Zhu Hanbin(LG musical actor) binge and got really into this show once I found out his frequent CXS counterpart, Jing Yanqiao, is there as well. Now seems like the right time to make this post since JYQ's birthday is soon (April 13th!) and everyone barely knows him so, to begin here's a cute interaction they had on weibo after what I can only assume is a Link Click rehearsal.

You can access the full episodes here. But I'm going to discuss and link each performances under the cut.

Oh yeah, before I start. I have notes of the context of some performances (not including them bcs I only researched some and not all), so if you like any of them and would like to dive deeper or just wants the context in general just ask and I'll share what I have. (That said, the 10th is Ied so I might be busy and took a while to answer)

Scouting stage (Ep.1-2)

They are sorted into groups of three and perform together as the same character.

For Forever from Dear Evan Hansen

Performed by Sun Tiecheng, Zhu Hanbin, and Wang Haoran. I love ZHB's expression in this performance, it's very innocent and hopeful but also with a hint of hurt? It fits the vibe of the song. It's a really nice, soft and hopeful performance. ZHB's expression really paid off since he got scouted into 2 troupes. Funfact, ZHB and Wang Haoran are classmates lol, they didn't know the other auditioned on this show before they got sorted together. Their third teammate felt very awkward lol.

Dans Le Noir Je Vois Rouge from Le Rouge et Le Noir

Roughly translated to "In the dark, I see red" performed by Alladin, Jing Yangqiao and Tian Ye. It's very good, dark and angry vibes. It's from a French rock musical so yea I really like it. I know I wanted to highlight JYQ but the original rap that Tian Ye (right) arranged is definitely the best part of this performance. The three of them worked really well together. Also, Jing Yanqiao was asked if he felt pressured performing with his seniors (he's still in school) and he answered yes, but most importantly he was intimidated by their heights. so cute lmao. Don't worry JYQ, you're still taller than ZHB. This is also 1 of the only 2 groups where all three performers get scouted.

Sidenote: I found the original song and I've been translating it to practice my French lol. In fact, I found a recording of the whole original musical.

Round 1 (Ep.3-4)

Each troupe prepares 2 Duo performance and 1 solo performance.

No Longer Human from No Longer Human

Performed by Sun Sankai and Zhu Hanbin. Yes, as in the Osamu Dazai novel. ZHB played Yezang (Oba Yozo) the protagonist of the novel and Sun Sankai played Osamu Dazai the author. So this is an existential conversation between author and his character. That's probably why this set design is creepy, but in a good way! An amazing duet, very powerful vocals from both of them, a very nice listen. But damn those hands are wobbly and every time I watch them climb up it, I worry if its gonna fall. Also, camerawork feels like something out of a 2nd Gen K-pop music show lol. And ZHB is barefoot for some reason... If I caught it properly it's bcs he's scared of falling off the hand? I need to double check but understandable.

Therapy from Tick, Tick..., Boom!

Performed by Jing Yangqiao and Feng Difei I couldn't find the cut version of this performance so you would have to do with the timestamped link of the full episode. This is such an adorable and fun performance. I love the cutee original phoneline choreography they have and how their voices work together. Also, JYQ and Feng Difei playing couples and going on a date bcs the coach tells them it would help their chemistry. Why are they lowkey kinda cute though. The post-performance interview of this reads like a blind date interview istg. The interview keep asking questions like what JYQ got her for her BDay and if they have made each other mad like the characters in the musical, etc.

Round 2 (Ep.5-6)

There are 2 troupe duo performances, and 2 cross-troupe trio performances.

The Other Side from The Greatest Showman

Performed by Sun Sankai and Zhu Hanbin. This one is so good, soooo good. I already liked the song before but their voices fit this song really well. Then you get to see, ZHB can dance y'all. I like how energetic this performance is, they really ran around the stage and walk across the table. Special mention to Sun Sankai who practiced that hat kicking trick to perfection, he got to a streak of 100 successes during practice. And to the bartender too, I love his expressions.

In A Crowd of Thousands from Anastasia

Performed by Jing Yangqiao and Feng Difei Yes, it's these two again, playing a couple again lol. Yes, they also went on a date again to prepare for this performance. (In fact, they're paired in a new musical "Love Myth" airing next month) Truly giving off a romantic, magical, and almost fairy tale-like feels. I love how sweet it is. The mini-them also did a good job with their performance. Fun fact about this one, JYQ played in Anastasia musical before this show and is still currently playing in Anastasia, both as Dmitri, just like he did in this performance.

It's Not Me It's You from uhh pretty sure it's an original rap based on disney villains. So it's from Disney, I guess.

Performed by Jing Yanqiao, Zhao Qianlong, and Zhou Mohan. I can't take this performance seriously, not with those outfits LMAO. JYQ as Gaston looking like Winnie the Pooh instead, I can't. That said, the rap is really good, I like the flow, I like the beat, it's great. I jusst, those outfits lmao. Even JYQ posted on his weibo how the outfit simply wasn't it. I can add the photo he took in the rb but pls just watch the performance.

Round 3 (Ep.7-8)

Each troupe prepares 2 duo performances again.

Disappear from Dear Evan Hansen

Performed by Jing Yanqiao and Zhu Hanbin. Yes, they both performed together in this one! I couldn't find the cut version again, sorry. IDK why, maybe it's copyright? For now, timestamped link. I can't explain why, I really like this performance and I really like their dynamic. Their voices also goes nice together but I know that already from watching them together in the LC musical. So yea, this is good. Though, ZHB being projected as JYQ/Evan's hallucination of Connor is kinda goofy looking. Also, so far ZHB has been kind of type-casted as the innocent boy or bright-eyed young man in need of guidance type so to see him playing a more aggressive/leading character (though not by much) is nice.

(JYQ doesn't have that problem, literally he was scouted by the troupe bcs they feel 'he's young and thus can be molded into anything'. ZHB did have to help him perfect the anxious boy act for this performance.)

Quarterfinals (Ep.9)

A trio performance from each troupe, along with a single cross-troupe performance.

Believe in Miracles from Ultraman (yes, the superhero show)

Performed by Sun Sankai, Zhu Hanbin, and Jing Yangqiao. Original skit. Both JYQ and ZHB act as students to Sun Sankai's teacher. The song sounds vaguely familiar to me, maybe that's why I like it so much. It's very fun, rock vibes. JYQ intentional voice crack in the beginning cracks me up. It's a very energetic song too, makes me want to pick up a guitar and jam along. (No, IDK how to play the guitar beyond the basics lol). It honestly looks like they were an idol group or something. (LC Idol AU anyone?)

Goodbye Cassini from Cassini

Performed by Zhao Qianlong, Zhu Hanbin, and Tian. I'll be honest, not a big fan of the skit, it is better enjoyed as just a goodbye song to a beloved space probe, but I am a huge fan of the song (Original ver. here with subbed lyrics, it a got more opera? vibe to it. both ver. are very good though.). I've been randomly humming 'Goodbye, my Cassini~' for days. I am so tempted to make a fic based on this song. Tian (the girl) really carried this performance with her angelic vocals, it's so great and heartbreaking. Her heartbreak at having to leave her friends behind and knowing full well they're never going to meet again. If you're watching this one, I highly recommend you wear your headphones. Trust me, it will cleanse your ears. And if you want to skip straight to the song? 5 minute mark.

Semifinals and Finals (Ep.10)

The semifinals are duo performances of an original musical number. The finals are a solo performance from the top 2. They are available on spotify and youtube music.

The Greatest Show from The Greatest Showman

Performed by the top 4 contestants: Zhu Hanbin, Miao Mengqing, Jing Yanqiao, and Zhou Mohan. I don't have a lot to say about this one. Really nice performance, a bonus to a great episode. Yeaay, both of our LC boys got into the top 4!

Assassin

Performed by Jing Yanqiao and Miao Mengqing To be honest, not the biggest fan but maybe that's just me not being a fan of historical drama in any form. JYQ used a fake facial hair, so that's something too I guess. That said, it's pretty nice to listen to and the dance/sword fight choreography is really cool. (Though as someone who used to do choreographed fights, I feel kinda dissapointed it's more sworddance rather than swordfight.) Miao Mengqing's voice is really powerful, just listen to her. Unfortunately JYQ was eliminated here, but he reached the top 4! I'm proud of him. He also learned the choreo and to play the uhhh (it's 1am, lookup instrument nme later) in only a week. So that's cool.

Don't Believe him

Performed by Zhu Hanbin and Zhou Mohan. This one I highly recommend. This song is an emotional banger and I've been listening to this on loop for days. The choreo and staging is good too, although there's one part that I think is a bit goofy (thankfully it's not too distracting). The fight/struggle choreo they did here have more power than Assassin so I really like it. Really cool, makes you wanna punch a bully, I love it. ZHB played a bullied kid and Zhou Mohan plays ZHB's 'perfect' dream self who wants to keep him in this dream world and away from the hurtful reality. This song (as well as Assassin) is available on spotify and yt music, but the live version is 10x better because it captures the emotion better. You can hear ZHB's desperation and sadness as well as Zhou Mohan's anger and frustration, it's great.

Lonely Mountaintop from The Devotion of Suspect X

Performed by Zhu Hanbin. It's good, I enjoy it. Though as a final song I do kinda wish he picked a song with more power? IDK. It's still good though, it's emotional, I love the build up, the set design is pretty, and the song fit his voice really well. ZHB won 2nd place with this song. Congrats on your hard work!

Miao Mengqing won first place and honestly? She deserved it, she's so good. But this post is focusing on our LC actors ZHB and JYQ so uhh. Please watch her final performance singing "I Have Nothing" here, it's so great, she's great, I love her voice so much.

Fun fact, JYQ did not vote for ZHB in the finals lol, he did it right in front of ZHB too and I'm pretty sure at that point they were already announced as cast in the LC musical. (Sorry ZHB, but I too would vote for Miao Mengqing there)

Last bonus (which I'm not gonna link) before we end this post. In the 3rd episode, around 20minutes in Zhu Hanbin and Jing Yanqiao did an advertisement for their water sponsor together and they're very awkward, it's funny to me.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

LC Musical supporting cast visuals update✨

Lu Hongbin/Chen Xiao

1) Gaoer Jinbaoyin, 2) Li Zexi, 3) Song Yuanming, 4) Xu Fangxing, 5) Zhang Jiahao, 6) Zhang Zhiwei, 7) Zhi Bowen, 8) Zhou Bobo

Lin Zhen/Chen Xiao's mom

1) En Yu, 2) Guo Zhenyan, 3) Hong Guo, 4) Liao Jingyuan, 5) Shen Tian, 6) Yu Mengying, 7) Zou Ziyue, 8) Zhu Jiayan, 8) Zhang Ruishu

Side note: I am so happy to finally have a reference post with side characters 🙇‍♂️ one of reasons why I never reposted first promo visuals for them was, because of heavy makeup, they were unrecogniseable >< Esp the girls, they had Lin Zhen's costume, that imo is even less characteristic... You know what, have a sample and judge yourselves:

(it's En Yu, Guo Zhenyan and Hong Guo, did you recognise them??)

So yippee for new photos I like them way better ^0^

Link Click Musical visuals update ✨

In LC Musical Update 171 I mentioned that Encore Musicals is going to update cast's makeup visuals to celebrate incoming 200th performance. Here they are 🥳 Photoshoot video in replies 🌟

Links to all actors' socials are in the Masterlist 🌟you can also compare these with the old promo photos in my post here ^^

Lu Guangs (aka the Lu Gang)

1) Du Guangyi, 2) Guo Hongxu, 3) Wang Minhui, 4) Wu Yihan, 5) Yang Haoran, 6) Yin Haolun, 7) Zhu Hanbin

Cheng Xiaoshis

1) Bai Zhuoming, 2) Cai Qi, 3) Cao Muzhi, 4) Ding Xingchen, 5) Guo Hongxu, 6) Ji Xiaokun, 7) Jing Yanqiao, 8) Shu Rongbo, 9) Teng Chunpeng, 10) Wang Yifei

Qiao Lings

1) Cai Lu, 2) Deng Xianling, 3) Feng Xinyao, 4) Qian Anqi, 5) Qiang Dongyue, 6) Wu Hanglu, 7) Yan Lehuang, 8) Zuo Yiping

Continuation with side characters in reblog (srry it's bc of pics limit)

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[5and3nevermind]

Yoonmin during Ch. 2:

So…I love lists. I can’t explain why, I just do. Maybe it’s because they help put things into perspective? Look at this for instance. As much as we got to see Yoongi and Jimin together in content during Ch. 2, what’s really crazy is how often they hung out in their free time. Seeing it written out and broken into categories drives home (to me) how much time they spend together.

Working together:

💛 Tourism ads

💛 Art for Indigo with Joon

💛 Ddeun Ddeun

💛 Like Crazy and Haegeum dance challenges

💛 Two episodes of Suchwita

💛 Suga | Agust D "road to army" video

💛 Tony Montana

💛 Jimin makes a brief appearance in D-Day Good Day

In their free time:

💙 Sushi dinner (according to the chef)

💙 Working out together

💙 Discussing Face Off and human relationships

💙 Getting a meal together after Ddeun Ddeun

💙 Jimin attending two D-Day concerts other than the one where he performed TM and LC

💙 Drinks the day after the second Seoul concert

💙 Drinks prior to Yoongi's enlistment

💙 Celebrating Jimin's birthday

💙 Jimin watching Yoongi's birthday live from home, taking a video of himself watching, and posting it on Weverse

💙 Yoongi attending Jimin's music show recording

💙 Yoongi peeking in on Jimin's dance practices for Vibe

💙 Jimin telling Jimmy Fallon the two members he sees most often are Hobi and Yoongi

💙 Yoongi saying during a d-day event that the member he spoke to most recently was Jimin

💙 Yoongi saying in a live that the member he’d seen that day was Jimin

💙 Jimin appearing in the doorway of Yoongi’s live and then posting on Weverse that he’d chosen his live title for him

💙 Yoongi using two vacation days to attend the enlistment ceremonies for the members.

l'll also add a third category, which seems to be a mixture of work and free-time:

💚 Jimin and Yoongi's live in Newark

💚 Yoongi joining Jimin's video call

💚 Jimin calling in for the 230407 Honey FM

[goatsludge]

Latest additions to the 11.5" Nightfighter:

- H3 buffer added - PRI 'Combat Latch' swapped for a Badger Ordnance Gen.2 Tactical Latch - Cloud Defensive LCS/Surefire ST07 swapped for Surefire SR07-D-IT

The only other major thing I'm going to be adding to it at this point is a Wolfpack Armory Night Howler (muzzle device), since I've decided I'm committing to the 'Plan B' suppressor ecosystem right out of the gate. That should be arriving this weekend.

Meanwhile, I will continue to pray for a YHM T3 Turbo or an Otter Creek Labs Polonium to come back in stock...

Other than that, the only thing I'd probably wanna change out in future is getting a CHF (or at least just chrome-lined) Barrel, but I need to stop playing musical barrels and just shoot the ones I have until they actually need replacement.

But overall, the form factor is exactly where I want it to be for right now. Once the new muzzle device is on, I'll do a full build breakdown/parts list.

[wegonbealright-09]

PJM2 IS COMING !!

So I've just been on twitter and someone recommended I check on Ayrastarr's IG and guess who's she following!!!

And 🤭🤭 there were rumours on twitter that she was one of the artists that jimin is going to collaborate with for pjm2. My afrobeat heart is so happy cause that means jimin listens to afrobeat cause otherwise how would he have heard about a Nigerian singer and jimin is all hands in his every project and song ❤️❤️

And he's rumoured to have a Collab with Normani, Ariana and Bruno Mars too and the Ariana one is highly possible besides the fact that jimin was recording in Ariana's producer's studio but Ariana was also in London during the same period as jimin and so was Normani.

And Ayo the producer admitted to have a song with jimin earlier this year and said it was going to be released but didn't say when he's worked with Chris Brown, Beyonce and Cardi B y'all so whatever it is that they cooked it's bomb

👀👀

I was depressed during the last few weeks because of school nobody told me law was this draining I was studying during recess and then the 🛴 saga and jk happened but now I'm seeing the light I'm so so fking happy!!!

And Universal music group followed jimin at the beginning of the year and now Universal music publishing is credited as a distributor under Like Crazy many guessed that it's because of Blvsh changing her agency and that they've been distributing BTS music blah blah, but I think not, UMG followed jimin at the begging of the year , the only member in BTS and now they are listed as a distributor for LC for me and my delulu mind that means jimin is going to get better advertising and marketing for his song and maybe pjm2 and scooter won't interfere anywhere UMGP is bigger than both Hybe and Geffen combined

I've been knew we're getting new music but I'm always happy and excited for news like this, something positive.

[solarwynd]

I looked at Spotify charts after months yesterday because of the PJM celebration and was happy to see LC being the queen that she is. That song deserves. I was also really fascinated to see JK was in the Spotify artist list above BTS, and I just casually looked into his profile and counted 54 songs. On paper he has released 7 standalone singles including his latest single + 11 track album. That’s what it should be, 18. He has 54 songs. 54!!! Sometimes I forget how many covers and remixes that dude has and also how easy it is to make someone look like a success. If you give JM (or even TH for that matter) a catalogue that size, they will never fall out of Spotify artists list. It’s baffling that people still keep comparing JM and that guy. He got so much my god.

If you checked the artist chart recently, he’s above BTS because he just dropped NLG so his profile streams are higher than the group’s. Still a bit crazy tho considering BTS has well over a hundred odd songs in their discography, and JK is out streaming with mainly the 3 he has charting rn. Then again they are inactive.

33% of your discography being remixes/versions is wild. Not gonna act like releasing them in general is questionable cause I’ve seen multiple other artists this year employ the same tactics he has for charting so it’s w/e to me, but at least the music that comes with it initially is good. Releasing shitty songs and just loading even crappier remixes/versions ontop of that purely for charting purposes is 👎🏾

But damn I hope one day Jimin can get to the point where he has a catalogue of 54 legitimate songs. (Still praying pjm2 is a full) Cause that’s like at least 4 albums worth of new music 😭 And as long as Jimin continues to perform at the level he did with FACE and LC, he and JK will always get compared. Cause he’s the only member who’s able to pull similar or better numbers.

[alivehouse]

i think my honest opinion of the new lc! songs is like. theyre fine. lol. the lyricism is very fun so glad to see that hasnt changed but the sound overall is feeling kind of i dont know safe i guess? the vocals definitely have a smoother more commercial quality than their usual sound imo and i am a little worried this is like. meant to appeal to newer fans by sanding down the rough edges so to speak since from what i understand a lot of the new fanbase was brought over via like much more acoustic-y covers for the most part. not to say that i think theyre selling out or anything bc i dont think that theyve always seemed pretty satisfied with their niche i guess i just definitely think the sound is going to be more in line with what they had going in sick scenes where ive personally always preferred the more manic experimental sort of energy romance is boring brought to the table. but well RiB dropped like 15 fucking years ago now so thats to be expected lmao. but anyway the song list sounds fun and im definitely looking forward to hearing the rest of the album (& this is only my opinion on 2 songs out of 15 lmao) definitely nice to have new music after seven years. jesus christ. preordered the cd which i never do like i always kind of want to hear the music before buying it but im still v excited to hear the rest of it in july 👍

[dearweirdme]

https://twitter.com/koreansales_twt/status/1695412455248150929?t=-TQY9SVoLfyiJF1YaG0EUw&s=19

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbNxXF4SkHj9F?si=bZhhdSIcRQK8E8u-WtJYsg

Jimin and Jungkook are definitely the most popular members in South Korea. Like look at the positions and streams. Seven is at #1 with over 110K streams and LC is at #2 with 85K, LC Eng Ver at #3, SMF2 at #4, LMA at #7 with 29K and Rainy Days at #10 with 22K streams. Tae's songs will never surpass JKK's streams on Spotify SK and Slow Dancing will definitely get blocked by Seven on its debut and probably even by LC. Like even on Spotify Global LC has surpassed both Tae's songs already when it's been out for 5 months compared to the two weeks Layover's tracks had.

Tae's Instagram popularity and airport crowds can't get him year-end awards and ARMYs will prioritize Jungkook in all award shows that he can win, unless his chances of winning are low (because of not enough data caused by the short tracking period, which Jimin has to his advantage) in which case Jimin will get the awards instead. It seems like Tae's solo stans are too busy arguing with ARMYs and PJMs over low streams instead of pushing harder for Tae. I even suspect a lot of his solo stans unstanned him after the Jennie scandal, especially in Korea, because he used to do so well on K-charts, but not anymore.

Hi anon!

I really don’t think Tae is doing bad. He’s got two songs in the top ten, that’s great imo. Why is he only compared to Jk and Jimin and not to everyone else in the list? With several members putting out music at the same time there’s always going to be one of them lower than the others. Tae has more music to come even (soon!) so I think he’s about to have another high ranking song.

[luckystarchild]

♫ what music do you have for Lucky Child?

You're in luck: I made a playlist for the story! Find it here, or click below.

I need to tinker with it a bit (I've found new songs that fit the story since I last spent time with the playlist), but it's a good starting point for sure.

Many of these songs are "cinematic backing tracks" to certain scenes from the fic. I'll need to make a list of songs and their corresponding scenes eventually. But the first song in the playlist ("Dream Dream Dream" by Madeon) I imagine playing in the background of Kei and Kurama falling into the pool that one time... a lovely, dreamy underwater ballet kind of moment. :)

It's not as obvious in LC as it is in other works from my writing past, but music is a huge part of my life, and I have a song for just about everything.

Thanks for the ask, and have a great day!

[saelterlude]

Happy first anniversary to the Link Click Musical!! To celebrate, here is a list of all the specials official recordings that they have given us!

Kay so starting with

Chinese Musical Promo Special Livestream: (I forgot the name of the event hehe)

Faith of Friendship by Wang Minhui and Cai Qi

Words Can't Convey My Love by Shu Rongbo and Wu Yihan (they play these two songs straight, but no worries its not the case for the other proper specials held by encore musical)

100th Performances Countdown Specials: (Yes, this week was a blessing)

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG-CXS swap (roles not character if that makes sense) by WMH, Bai Zhuoming and Wu Hanglu (dont you love seeing wmh cocky confidence slowly and surely crumbles lol, bzm got the rights to get mad at him in the end)

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG->CXS->the girl and QL-> LG by Du Guangyi, Wang Yifei, and Qian Anqi (lets be real wyf took us all by surprise with that entrance and the oh~. its also the source of shy lg in cxs jacket. dont forget the failed streamer disaster lmao)

Faith of Friendship with a push up bet for every ball missed by Teng Chunpeng and DGY (aksnsjks the stupid star formation is great, and the multiple failed shots plss. i love their goofy asses so much)

Forget About It with LG->CXS->QL->LG by WYH, Ding Xingchen and Deng Xialin (i love dxc's twin sister, shes pretty shes great. wyh being a hyper orange cat on stage is also great, dont forget the meme that came from it)

Forget About It with various dialects by Guo Hongxu, Ji Xiaokun and Cai Lu (its the closest thing we've got to how the actual performance goes! special mention go cl needing to read the lyrics off her phone)

As The Saying Goes with CXS as Chen Xiao and everyone else as CX's mom by CQ WMH, DXL, Zhang Jiahao and Zhu Jiayan (chickenchickenchicken, peak comedy, i love wmh going all asian mom lmaooo, yess scold cq into a chokehold!)

Valentine Special:

Words Cant Convey My Love with LG->the girl QL->LG and CXS as CX by DGY, TCP and WHL (dgy wjth the high pitched voice, the almost kiss, the fckin succulent, the fake retching, its perfect)

200th Performances Special:

Words Cant Convey My Love with CXS->Liu Meng, LG taking the confessing role and QL->LG by WMH, GHX and DXL (i love how cheeky ghx looks, and how everyone burst out laughing when he enters. ghx is just terrorizing wmh this whole performance)

300th Performances Special:

Trump Card with CXS and LG hanging by TCP, DGY, WHL, ZJY and Zhou Bo (dgy core strength took me by surprise, its a mess)

1 Year Anniversary Special:

This 15 minutes video contains: (watch me struggle to describe this loveable mess here)

Words Can't Convey My Love by ZJH, Guo Zheyan, and DXL with mahjong cameos (shiguang is in the walls. i promise, it makes sense, its chaos, i love it) by GHX, BZM, ZHB, YHL

Faith of Friendship (doubled! theres too many of them!! and zhb is so tiny wtf. none of them can shoot, wheres basketball god when you need him) by GHX, BZM, ZHB, YHL

Back to The Past by CQ and WMH with WMH belting it whilst a group of raincoat wearing menaces (GHX, ZHB, YHL, CQ) does some cult ritual nonsense. (i am not joking, wmh is singing this angsty song on the verge of tears and getting bullied)

Also, Dive Back in Time with everyone!! (its very cramped lmao)

Bonus! If you prefer it to Weibo, here is a YouTube playlist for the specials posted by niebo! Happy 1st anniversary Link Click Musical! I know I haven't keep up with the clip list but damn I gotta do something.

[sgdlr-asdfghjkl]

Link Click Musical content 121

(small update before tommorow's live)

First of all, check Encore Musicals bilibili, they posted 4th ep of Link Click Musical behind the scenes🌟 It's collection of cute clips with all the actors ^^

The Spring Festival livestream is tommorow, but since timezones are confusing, I'll try to add some info for clearance 💖

When you enter the broadcast link, there is a countdown (see? it reads 19h left). You can copy and translate the whole text to make sure, how long till the start ^^

Another thing is, if you're worried you won't make it right on time, here's how the set list looks like (I translated most important parts, don't panic ok ;) Based on it, we can't guess when exactly LC cast appears, but I think we can trust it will be in the second half, probably after some sort of break.

I have a day off tomorow & I hope I'll be able to watch it without any technical difficulties, so I can report on it. But like I mentioned earlier, chinese musical and lc fans have our back, dw abot missing it 💪

That concludes the live info, I also have pictures from the actors and then some backlog stuff o7

From Wu Hanglu:

From Ji Xiaokun, with new year's greetings:

also this cute dog, named LiuLiu (?) it's exactly like dog-xiaoshi from shorts, so I had to add this ;w;🧡

⬆Zhu Hanbin 🤓💙 I lowkey got invested in his lore, bc I went on his weibo profile and there's a video of his performence from an academy exam (I'll link it). And it's this insanely well sung opera song. In italian. And according to chocho-xiaoshi, he's still in school, final year. Like?? Sir, you're amazing 🧎‍♂️

Aand Teng Chunpeng, being himself 🧡

<3

[5and3nevermind]

I think this is an emotional time. We miss three of the members, and four more will be leaving soon. Even though we knew it was coming, it’s sad to think that very soon, all seven members will be gone and we’ll miss them all terribly.

This is also a quiet phase for yoonmin. Again, even though we knew it was coming, it doesn’t make it easier.

It’s just human nature that when things are quiet, we can fall victim to recency bias, meaning that we place more importance on recent events and tend to think less about the significance of previous events.

In the spirit of avoiding recency bias, I’d just like to offer a list. I find lists and facts really reassuring. Maybe you do too.

From Oct 2022-August 2023, Yoongi and Jimin worked together quite a bit!

💛 Tourism ads

💛 Art for Indigo with Joon

💛 Ddeun Ddeun

💛 Like Crazy and Haegeum dance challenges

💛 Two episodes of Suchwita

💛 Suga | Agust D “road to army” video

💛 Tony Montana

That’s a pretty nice list! We also know that they hung out in their free time:

💙 Sushi dinner

💙 Working out together

💙 Discussing Face Off and human relationships

💙 Getting a meal together after Ddeun Ddeun filming

💙 Jimin attending two D-Day concerts other than the one where he performed TM and LC.

💙 Drinks the day after the second Seoul concert

💙 Drinks prior to Yoongi’s enlistment

💙 Celebrating Jimin’s birthday

💙 Jimin watching Yoongi’s birthday live from home, taking a video of himself watching, and posting it on Weverse

💙 Yoongi attending Jimin’s music show recording

💙 Yoongi peeking in on Jimin’s dance practices at Hybe (this came up during Suchwita with Taeyang)

💙 Jimin telling Jimmy Fallon the two members he sees most often are Hobi and Yoongi

💙 Yoongi saying during a d-day event that the member he spoke to most recently was Jimin

I’ll also add a third category, which seems to be a mixture of work and free-time:

💚 Jimin and Yoongi’s live in Newark.

💚 Yoongi joining Jimin’s video call.

So…that’s a pretty good list right? Let’s not forget these things moving forward. It will be ok.

[aromantisk-fagforening]

cause of the Lovejoy being apparently an aromantic band I've been checking out my old "Lovejoy+" list (I've made these list for so many artists as I've been discovering their stuff) and it's really interesting. Cause it's totally not music I listen to anymore.

I feel kinda guilty about removing many of the songs, but not that guilty. Archival spirit my ass, it's just hindering my re-listening to keep old songs in playlists. I'll refurbish and maintain it

But anyway yeah, I listened the most to Lovejoy when they released Are you Alright and Pebble Brain (& the LC! cover), so basically I haven't really listened much to Wake up & it's over or any of the new singles.

So I'll probably try to actually listen to the new stuff now. I may post about it. We'll see.

the main thing with Wake up & it's over is that I didn't like, get it. Or I got irritated or confused or something. So I'll try to figure out 1) if I like it (and if so why) and 2) why I originally didn't like it (and if those are good reasons)

[mimikoolover]

There’s nothing wrong in acknowledging the difference in how the company managed jm’s comeback Vs jk’s. And there’s nothing wrong with admitting that jk got a huge push that helped him achieve all these numbers while other members didn’t. That’s not diminishing, that’s stating facts. Idk why army keep calling people “solos” “antis” whenever we point out that a lot of shady things have happened with jimin and face. Yes we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes but we are also not blind. We can see that face CDs are not restocked, we can see that hype did not acknowledge jimin’s number one, we can see that hype approved that shady article about jimin (the Weverse article ), we know that hype said no when jimin asked for a visual album (he literally told us) , we know that the fans were not informed about bbd new rule and that caused a free fall for LC. we also know that the promotion period was too short for a debut album. These things have happened and have affected LC’s potential and it’s ok to acknowledge that and question why they happened. If some fans want to ignore and focus on the happy things then that’s ok but please don’t accuse those who care about jimin as an artist of being akagaes or whatever you call them. Some of us want to the best for jimin and the rest of the group and we would be happy for all the members and their achievements as long as no one gets sabotaged on the way.

no.

to clarify: you're a solo/akgae because you harbour irrational hatred for other members. not because you care about jimin. caring about jimin doesn't involve hating on the people he's closest to and actively sabotaging them.

tell me your motivation behind comparing jimin and jk's solo debut. where are the comparisons involving the hyung line, if you think of yourself as so fair?

jimin's promo is not fans' job. how the members' promos are handled is not fans' job. you don't know what happens behind the scenes. stop pretending you do.

you list several things that you perceive as sabotage and for some reason you think this, which is business, is somehow your job to demand better for.

let me say this again: the members' careers are business.

hybe is not attacking jimin as a person if they say no to an idea he brings to the table. as a fan i want jimin to do everything that he wants to. at some stage that stops being realistic as a business decision and jimin knows that. it's still more than valid for him to be upset about the decision and to voice that. but when he tells you, he's not also saying to you that he wants you to burn the company building down.

it's baffling you expect fans to be informed about billboard rules by the company.

as a fan, you should enjoy the music and the content that your fave creates. at some stage in this fandom this will have to be said:

it's not fans' job to spend thousands of dollars in order to make their faves chart.

it's not fans' job to stream 24/7 from multiple devices in order to increase streams.

it's not fans' job to monitor the company, billboard, scooter, the entire industry.

it's not caring about your fave when you spread hate against other members. it's not caring about jimin when you team up with other fandoms to try to make a racist American man or two chart above jungkook. you're not justified hating, comparing, sabotaging jungkook because the company doesn't do for jimin what you want them to do.

it would be naive to claim that the fandom's frankly bonkers 'support' as they call it did not put bts and the members where they are today. it did.

but bts never ask you to do any of that. when they say they love army, it's not because of the monetary support or the endless streaming.

when jungkook tells people to care more about themselves than him, and that fans are the main characters' of their own lives, you can wonder why he says that.

(side-note: i seriously side-eye every single artist that has seen what bts fans do, and now encourage their fans to do the same and buy and stream endlessly. several tweets and posts asking fans if they're streaming. all of that. bts have never done that).

be honest with yourself and really think about how what you listed above in your ask makes you feel. then think about whether jimin would want you to feel that way.

people gotta understand that what fandom says isn't rooted in reality. the reality is bts do their job and we don't know what the company does, we don't know their personal lives, we don't know feelings they only share with the people closest to them or maybe with no one at all. the reality is you cannot take every move, act, breath, word of a member as gospel and base your entire experience around you and twitter's assumptions over what they mean. there's gotta be some grey space where people take things at face value and just enjoy the damn music.

[ottiliere]

I've been following your blog for a little while now, I love your art and your long form posts are amazing, i was scrolling through your art and a cone heads song came up in my auto play and now I'm wondering what kind of music you like, sorry if this is kind of silly lol

woah... you know, I don't think I've ever gotten a "personal" ask before, hahaha. thank you for asking & thank you for the compliment! i mean my music taste is pretty eclectic (like most people's, I feel like) but my favorite artists are definitely leonard cohen, iggy pop, mark lanegan, and die Prinzen. Though, too, I really like ELO... richard o'brien... brewer & shipley... the who... spoon... cake... john cale... ween... beck... harley poe... abba... the list goes on... in all honesty I will listen to the same song on repeat dozens if not hundreds of times in a row once I find one I really like, and it would probably be easier to give you a list of songs that i've played on repeat than artists I "like" hahahaha. this is my #1 (357 times the week of february 1st):

This song is off my favorite LC album and it's one of my favorites of his. It took me a while to come around to his voice (had to microdose him for a few years) but really everything about his music is unparalleled... I recommend listening to "Everybody Knows" since that's what did it for me. enjoy having your life changed forever