Haven't been into Kpop that much lately (hence the lack of continuity for posting in this blog). The topic in the corner in my opinion is definitely SM's new found love group EXO. Whether K or M, both seemed to be doing wonderful job in both the Chinese and Korean markets. SM Entertainment is really known for the good looks of the artists/idols they produced, and when these boys start coming out one by one, my little fragile heart started to shattered into pieces (well, I mean the boys are fineeeeeeee.....) and the next thing you know is my daily consumption of anything EXO related on tumblr and such. I mean, where do they find these people?! I guess SM do really have the magic power to turn some random boy on the street of Seoul into a hot "the-boy-next-door". Since there are 12 of them (more options, right?), fans around the world can pick their favorites. I personally think that all of them are very good looking young men and I generally love gorgeous people, but THIS particualr guy caught my attention when I was browsing over some teaser photos:
I was like, "heyyyyyyyy there." O/////O b
(This is the right time be let out my inner reserved little asian fan girl side)
Something about this member just gives me the butterflies in the stomach (cliche, i know, but that was literally what it felt like). So I did a little googling, and found out more about him.
Name: Lay
Sub-Group: EXO-M
Nationality: Chinese (kinda a surprise there)
Training period: 3 years
Function in the group: dance
Symbol/sign: unicorn (SCORE!)
I then made up my mind that he will be my bias of EXO-M (this whole K and M thing is kind of confusing. Since they are technically separated, does it mean that I can have more than two biases from each group?). Anyways, let's not get into that topic for now. Back to Lay, personally love how Lay is really just the lay back figure of the group. He is not Kris who gets all these attention due to his leadership and foreign languages (and of course the good looks). He is not Lu-Han who is known for pretty much the cutesy-ass face. He doesn't get hype the two korean members in the group do. And he doesn't practice kiss-ass martial art shit like Tao does. He just chill and be there and that's what I like about him. He can remained quiet, talked when it's his turn, and occasionally showed off some dance moves when he got cued. I just LOOOVVVVEEEEE his role in the group! And yet then there is the little creation of FANtasy going on in the fandom known as "Krispy Lays" (gotta give some credit to whoever came up with this, it's really clever actually) which makes me giggle like a 11 years old. Not to mention later when I found out he's the "unicorn" of the group (supposedly symbolic of peace, quietness, and the ability to heal) I literally declared that I'm going to dedicated my next few months (summer possibly included) to his guy. I have a strange obsession with unicorns and everything about him just makes perfect sense to me. SM did a good job or shall I say Lay did a good job if he ever picked it to be his "symbol" in the first place.
Did I mention that EXO's fans are called "Exotics"? like how dopeee is that?! I wanna be "exotic"! As a side note, the rookie groups during recent years all have fairly interesting fan club names such as Infinite's Inspirit (I guess it makes sense), BAP's baby (totally convenient when they are on stage calling their fans), TeenTop's Andromeda (wah?), Boyfriend's bestfriend (well, yeah....) and BTOB's Melodies (go.....figure). Sometimes I just had to sit back to my chair, and stare in the wall for a good five minutes to let my amazment and awe at people's creativity sink in. Having creative fan club names is nothing new in the world of kpop (ex. ELF, blackjack, KissMe, Shawols, STAR1, Bea2ty to just name a few) but sometimes they just blows my mind like, HOW? Really?! really. I love kpop.
XOXO,
Joyce
