[120827] Kim DongRyul's praising BoA's rendition of "YeopSaram" Live on You&I

Kim DongRyul, composer of "YeopSaram (Stand By)", a song off BoA's 6th album "Hurricane Venus", praised BoA on his facebook.

"I saw BoA singing YeopSaram live on You&I.

She really did well as expected.

Apart from one mistake (keke), JaeHyung-hyung also played the piano well. If I say this, BoA might be disappointed but personally I enjoy this more than the album version.

[120813 DongA Interview] I want to stay an idol and also want to get married. Am I too greedy?

The Korean article is here. It's long so I'm gonna translate only some (funny/interesting) bits.

Q: After "KPOP STAR", people expect more from you musically.
"That's the exact reason why this album contains fewer songs. I didn't want to put in medium quality songs just to fill the album. There are many song I could have put in the album but I only selected high quality ones to record. This album is really 'Quality over Quantity'. My other albums have songs that you skip while playing but this album doesnt have even one song that I don't like."

Q: Yoo AhIn is your ideal type?
"Fashion King was on air during the time I was preparing for the MV. We needed a bad boy character and were looking for someone who could do it and Yoo AhIn came to mind. He is not an actor who films MV often but willingly accepted our offer so I'm grateful. That's why I said he was my ideal type but he really is not."

SMTown Live World Tour III (SMTown Live 2012-2013) : BoA's Set List

BoA in Taiwan concert

I cannot help myself. I love being organized so here is the place I'll compile BoA's Set List in all legs of the SMTown Live 2012 :)

BoA's fans who thought themselves lucky to be able to attend the LA and Taiwan concerts must have felt frustrated their concerts were held too early. They didn't get to enjoy BoA's new songs off her 7th album! Poor them.

SMTown Live World Tour III in LA 120520 & Taiwan 120609 : BoA Set List 

1.Look Who's Talking 

2.Energetic 

3.One Dream - featuring SHINee's Key, EXO's Kris 

4.I Did It for Love - featuring SHINee's Key 

5.Hurricane Venus

[120806] NAVER meet&greet fan account

The event was held at SMTOWN building on the night after BoA took a flight back from Japan where she joined the 2-day SMTOWN Live in Tokyo concerts.

Out of 20 lucky winners, 4 could not come so that left 16 fans to share ample time with BoA. >_< 

(the following fanaccount was written by hotdog372 at UriBoA and translated by me) 

Yunho vs. Eunhyuk vs. Taemin vs. Sehun vs. Luhan!

                                  BoA-Taemin

For some reason, I have been very obsessed at keeping scores of the 3 5 male idols that are good enough at dancing (No! It's not everyone who can dance with BoA. Sorry Donghae!) to have an oppotunity to do couple dances with BoA.

So here we go! Count with me!

[120814 MBC Show Champion] BoA won her first No.1 for "Only One"

 It's her first time on the show and she won the "Champion Song" award already! Yay!

BoA sang "Only One" live with a beautiful backdrop giving off the image that she was singing in a garden. :)

Fans were worried about her body condition because she was not feeling well during fansign event on Sunday and she had to travel to film MBC Music Core in Sokcho (far from Seoul) the day after. It was raining hard there too but BoA turned the bad situation into an opportunity to show her love to fans.. Fortunately her performance today was top-notch as always, assuring fans that there's nothing to worry about.

Apart from this being her 1st win, it is also the first time her couple dance partner is not an idol. One of her backup dancers did the couple dance this time around. :'(

Look for more pictures after the jump break. ^^

[Chronicle] 1st half of "Only One" promotion

Since "Only One" promotion will end around the end of August, I think it'd be nice to summarize what BoA and SM have done and results of their efforts. ^^


SM sure has tried (moderately) hard this time. They gave BoA 1 hour comeback show. Having NAPPYTABS choreographing "Only One" must have cost a lot since they're famous? But maybe BoA's personal connection might help a bit? :P Having 2 versions of the MV is nice too. SM must have spent quite a bit on them although having BoA's brother directing them for free might compensate a bit for hiring Yoo AhIn? LOL

Having 2 versions of the physical CDs is nice too. The Limited Version is so huge, it'll draw eyes in music stores. The pictures this time are super nice too, compared to the weird flower headdress thing she did in "Hurricane Venus". >_<