yeh same
It's kinda what stops me from buying albums because they almost never release just a plain cd version
yeh same
It's kinda what stops me from buying albums because they almost never release just a plain cd version
you should be proud! my country has taste after all; televote gave you 10 and juries 8
just chenged our detailed results. our juries gave 10 to finland and televote gave them 7 but juries didn't give any point for ukraine televote said, screw you, he's a 8.
My personal fav was malta
I'm glad they managed to remain in the top 10
With the whole drug drama from iItaly
Who knows, France might actually win(?)
Although I doubt we will ever hear the true drug test results because damn, that was a national embarressement if he truly sniffed live
Actually my brittish friend was looking at eurovision live and she told me she saw it and was sure they were drugged, even just by the way they acted (so italians just accusing french of the rumour is clearly not true lol)
I feel like we will remember this eurovision for a while xD
Btw where are you guys from
france! Proud second place xD
i personally wouldn't want kpop intruding eurovision
We all know fans would boycott the show by preparing in advance to vote etc
When the essence of eurovision is to vote what you like during the show
Kpop fans (even c fans) would make the show just a fanwar voting contest just for the sake of making their group n°1
This fan preparation mentality does have no place whastoever in eurovision imo
I was actually listening to it yesterday
I was looking through eurovision songs and saw that one recommended and felt nostalgic af (it was truly a great song, pretty memorable even after so long)
I know my mum still loves that song nowadays (and we are french even if we don't live in the country, so i guess we are not alone lol)
so probably people felt extra nostalgic XD
france might have come second but i'm still proud lol
Didn't like the italian song, doesn't come any close to the quality of soldi last time which I loved
My fav was malta, and at least it was able to remain in the top 10 so congrats
We've been a bit preoccupied lol
Just finished my finals
Slowly getting up to date lol
How crappy for your housemate.
Yeah, my town really is basically like living in a Waitrose advert... if I want to go to an Asian food shop even, I have to get on the train.
It was, as most were actually stuck for months without finantial aid as the chinese government wouldn't allow them to go back, and the only few plane tickets available were in the thousands of pounds (which most couldn't afford)
My roomate got stuck here until almost the end of her room contract and would have been kicked out (our landlord lady was a jerk) but at the same time she couldn't really sign another contract
Thankfully she finally managed to get a ticket back
I think things have calmed down
But tbh i don't really see that many asian anymore, guess we can only wait until the new year begins as this tome we are supposed to have face to face classes again
People better behave tho, as what happened last year was really shocking and truly embarrassing (both eu and international students started feeling pretty uneasy in general)
We have an asian shop, and quite a few chinese restaurants all around town xD the shop even started selling bobba teas bought from a shop in manchester once a week
We are quite lucky (although personally not really a fan of asian food)
i learned to just ignore people like that
As someone with a brf and who rarely shows any emotions unless it is stuff i really like (and that usually doesn't involve people so they even feel jealous of that lol) it is the best clack back xD
Do what you feel it is right to you and to you alone
Go reach for your dreams
People are just temporal, be it family, friends or love relationship
Only 'you' is permanent as long as you live
So work in being happy and satisfied in yourself
Wow!!
I literally skipped all round my shop when I realised Dyna had been added to the playlist. They think I am at best ‘quirky’ and more likely straight weird for listening to Kpop and I got to have a moment of ‘See, told you it wasn’t just me!’
imo it helps in my case it's mostly a university town (over half of the population are students) and because our uni had a partner scheme with a chinese uni we had A LOT of asian here as well (and yeah, due to covid there was a a lot of issues going on and uni even ended up sending a few emails notice to stop the descrimination and threatening of sanctions. One of my old housemates was a chinese master student and we were pretty close, even together she had some issue from locals. It was pretty sad)
So age range, popularity of certain groups, plus quite big asian student population must have played a big part of it
But like I said, I almost never hear the radio here so it is hard to tell exactly (as I don't really eat out and such)
Edit: I remember back in Spain at a post office i was waiting for my mum to do her stuff and I heard dynamite, it took me a few seconds until it clicked to me what song it was and I said out loud 'MUM! BTS! IT'S BTS' (my parents know them because I went to a concert back in 2019 in Paris and it was the first concert I ever went to xD)
the growth !!!
on one hand, i'm happy army grow in big number but the tickets war once tour resume is going to be hell.. especially for their asia leg
ffs please don't remind me of that
At least i managed to see them (from a very shitty seat) in Paris back in 2019....
i'm so out of the loop i forgot about festa altogether until I saw this thread xD
It’s just about overall situations I see often here. Calling a song a hit and other with higher numbers somehow is not big.
I feel like at this point it is just trolling depending on certain groups
Like a tradition
For new groups though it could be some non-fans trying to gatekeep the top when feeling threatened a new 'potential rival' appears
Edit: not only a kpop thing, but you see that with top artist in general, just look at twitter fans trashing and downplaying each other constantly
It is a harsh industry after all, fans/consumers can be pretty vicious (especially with an oversaturated market/industry)
I personally stopped looking at archievements, goals etc
I took a step back from fandom engagement (even more so than I was already) so didn't had expectations and was just waiting for the reason while I was mostly concentranting on my finals)
But I am happy it is doing well and seems like people are pretty chill and it has been well received (haven't seen the first hours/day release threads/posts so can only judge from what I am seeing rn)
is this about people still dissing bts and their newly released song?
How come we are still dealing with that after so many years and releases lol
Nowhere yet. *sadface*
That said, it took nine months for Dynamite to make it onto my shop’s company playlist! I only just celebrated that in the last week or two! 😂
And, tbh, you don’t generally expect to hear much like BTS playing while walking around my very little, middle-class, mostly white, suburban English town.
I'm in a tiny town in Wales and our local Asda had some BP and other kpop songs xD
Too bad i almost never went there (now even less)
There probably was some BTS at some point (and I was probably just unlucky timing wise)
I don't leave home
Mood
Especially as I had finals lol
I remember hearing dynamite on the radio while I was waiting for my mum at a post office 'correos' back in Spain tho
But here in the UK/my uni town unless I go to our local Asda supermarket I usually don't hear the radio at all (and since I moved to another student room half an hour away from the center, I don't go to that shop anymore)
So I doubt I will hear it anytime soon unless I select it on my spotify
i listen to a lot of american songs but don't care about americans
Does that make me a bad person?