birman

i put off listening to the album bc i still hadnt processed tempo (literally watched it once and instantly forgot everything i had just seen and heard) but omg its so good thus far? i cant tell if im just really really biased or if exo really do just keep outdoing themselves every year like every year their sound gets more sophisticated and they themselves vocal-wise just get more and more polished... i just finished ooh la la la (which was great thanks jongin can always trust your opinion tbh) and they sounded SO good i... will stop there otherwise ill be babbling about nothing for a few pages i need to listen to the full album whew also fingers crossed for melon i wasnt expecting to debut very high but... wow i may have been completely wrong

only a few minutes left omg im so nervous its been so LONG

im sure its already been mentioned but i just noticed the riderless bike on the allegro cover really is yixing's bike omg (ok im not a bike expert so maybe its just a really really similar bike but like... why would they do that) the bike in the dark room doesnt look like it though (though its most similar to his bike out of everyones so.... maybe) so theres that theory of mine gone. maybe its the red force chasing them (but then the headlight should be red. its the red force in disguise, then) also yixing or no yixing (though hed obviously make them so much better) im soooo looking forward to more comics i love that man's art style and baekhyun has been drowning to the tune of sweet lies for over a year now someone PLEASE save him...

from what i understood they just said he participated in the chinese music which is why i was like. maaaaybe the healing song is ot9 too so yixing can be on his own song so MAYBE its also in chinese... but it was a pretty wild guess to begin with personally, i meant more that i thought it might be (mostly) footage from a shoot for the photobooks or something, kind of like these from last year Click here to view the Tweet i dont think the mv would be markedly different, the biker thing is obviously the main concept for the album, it just reminded me (in parts) of those teasers from kkb. then again it might be all mv! who knows, i just like thinking about any possibilities youre right though, those uniform outfits have totally been forgotten lmao i wonder how thatll play into things?

yeah i thought the same actually! it really just looks like theyre posing for pics-- some of it might be mv but... idk doesnt look like it all is though then it makes me wonder about why yixing is there but not in the pics? unless his stuff is actual mv footage but... he looks like hes doing a photoshoot too tbh and YES at the superpower tracks i knew thats what that... first article? tweet? whatever it was that mentioned it? meant!! the order from the article matches my two guesses (sehun = bad dream and jm = oasis) so im just gonna go with that for now

this one! awful screenshots but its at 0:20 after baekhyun's (beautiful) hand and 0:22 after the closeup on ksoo in the helmet! am i hallucinating is exo making me lose my mind omg

kaixing wearing (almost) the same thing really threw me off first watch i thought it was the war all over again with mistaking jongin for yixing. the jackets and necklaces are different though (i wonder if its significant that jongin has an ankh and yixing has a cross or if they were simply like, the first necklaces the coordi grabbed) also maybe im just overlooking something really obvious but im curious as to who/what it is in that dark room? because i dont think that looks like any of the other bikes but like... im no bike expert and i havent really seen anyone say anything about it

im halfway through vroom vroom and im already declaring it soty i mean, its called vroom vroom so i was going to love it even if it was literally just an audio clip of baek pretending to be a motorbike but. its also good, so theres that. i just wanted to get that opinion out there somewhere thanks for reading

http://instagram.com/p/BhP93AJnvsj/ baekhyun is out here being a model (and designer ???) (gonna be honest i havent a clue what this is about but 'privé by bbh' sounds like a brand and also like its right out of an au. either way, iconic, legendary, etc)

if youve got an iphone, change your region to korea (or make a korean itunes acc); for most people it seems to be really easy, for the address just use a hotel or something and... thats it i think everything else is just like, name, age etc (disclaimer: this is the first time ive personally actually ever gotten lucky and had my account work from home so idk, you miiiight be unlucky and run into every error possible like i did but hopefully not) android idk but just look for tutorials on how to download ssmt, those should work for this game too!!

Click here to view the Tweet i cant believe im getting excited over a teaser thats literally been the same thing for every member and uses pics from 2013 but. its the first yixing teaser we've gotten in a while (i was kind of getting worried the articles were wrong and itd be individual + 1 group and still be ot8 but i shouldve known i could trust them and their cute hashtags!!!) also, not to make this a blog post but that new star garden game is adorable i only have chanbaeksoohun (of the exos) thus far because i just keep getting baekhyun over and over which isnt really helping the game but its so cute that i dont care

i havent been here in a while but i am here to say that i am SO nervous and excited im gonna cry i love exo

sorry to ask a possibly obvious question, but does anyone know if they sell lightsticks at the bangkok concerts? i vaguely remember hearing they dont in cities other than korea and japan but like... im not 100% sure about bkk so just ill try and join a go or something if they definitely dont sell them there also congrats to exo!! #universe2ndwin

agreed, like i hate that he apologised and people are like 'well that proves he did it then!' and i hate that it came to this and i hate hate HATE that he was scared of possible backlash to the apology, even (his words were touching, but the fact he even had to write them... im still so mad im gonna have to step away from kpop sites for a sec or ill keep ranting bc i still cant quite express how pissed off i am) but at the same time, it just goes to show how he is truly the better person here, how far above those pathetic antis he is, and hopefully people can see and understand that (obviously antis wont lmao but i mean like... randoms who come across this whole mess) on a brighter note! dont think its any new footage or anything but hey, anything to brighten the mood here a bit, right

i really really hate buying into negativity but this has honestly gone way too far. i am disgusted at the fact that people are using depression as a weapon for their harassment-- the irony is ridiculous. and like, the intentions are clear, most of these people dont give a shit about depression or mental health, they only want to cause harm. its just... evil ive forgotten the op's @ but i really really hope shes doing okay :( i love how people are happy to defend the translators and their own fandoms and play the victim but literally dont care about the actual victims of the situation-- even if they dont care about baek (which is bad enough), it says a lot about them that they dont care about the op, who is literally suffering from depression like. wow. spread a maliciously edited clip saying 'omg how insensitive he doesnt care about depression' and in the process actually hurt someone suffering from it... its sickening and now hes apologised, and people are taking it as an admission of guilt, when like... thats just what a responsible person does, which is more than i can say for most of these idiots .....sorry. just had to get that off my chest in a ~safe space~ i dont feel like tweeting or posting elsewhere and having ppl in my mentions whining about how innocent they are also baeks apology... he didnt need to apologise at all but it really solidifies what he meant and the pure, kind intentions behind it. when i first heard about it it seemed like he blurted that bit out at the end because he wanted to say something more to help one last time, not only for that fan, but also everyone at the fansign and his apology confirms that. super super upset that he is now afraid of speaking though (as if exo werent scared of speaking enough already? like a lot of them are shy to begin with, plus all the hate... its a wonder they say anything, nowadays) and #weloveyoubaekhyun has been trending no 1 worldwide so thats nice, i guess. we do love you baekhyun 💕 on a more positive note, sehuns insta live was nice, even if he barely said anything lmao. the perm though... i hope that means hes keeping that hair he had at the mbc gayo because that was a Look. entered 2018 in the most beautiful way possible

was my least fav on the album but all of a sudden... i like it. its a nice song to end the year with

chanyeol recommended erik satie's gymnopedie(s?) at the fansign Click here to view the Tweet love a man with taste (and now i want to go to a fansign to give him music recs even more tbh i dont care if he never asked for recommendations, one of these days ill show up with a list of albums) (also still shocked at how good universe is like i still cant get over the production and the whole mood of the album like im listening to my pretentious non-kpop songs and the production on them reminds my untrained ears of universe and im like wow. they really Did That i also realised that the song the drums in stay remind me of is can's vitamin c like krautrock influences??? wow. incredible)

i really want the shower curtain in this mv tbh

also YES touch it!! i am ready to sonjit sonjit baby (weird that theres a vcr for for life though? im guessing the vcr will play in the background while chanyeol plays piano, maybe?)

im just listening to the album now and ive only listened to been through and half of stay but i can already say that been through is a fav. that instrumental had me shook from the first second and i never use the word shook also thus far the album reminds me of something but i cant put my finger on what and im no expert but i also really like how the production sounds so far its really nice and not... cluttered?? ironically itunes keeps playing walk on memories while im trying to listen to universe, and thats a song i thought had weird production but this is like... the opposite. i think i really like everything thus far bc of how clear and like... expansive??? ok thats not the right word. like sometimes i think songs sound cramped but these are the opposite. i dont think im making sense lmao so ill stop there but universe is right. expansive like the universe

its so SO beautiful and like, atmospheric... also ive decided the mv is an artistic representation of the members trying to get jongin to enjoy coffee see: the shots of him tied up or running away, the one with him sitting at a table with a bunch of coffee cups (not drinking any of them), the shot of him pouring a whole lot of milk into an overflowing cup thank you for your time

finally, a new pose from do kyungsoo. variety is the spice of life (i am half glad that i joined a go to finally get jongins pc this time but also half sad that that means i will break my streak of ksoo pcs and not get this masterpiece)

i just realised that minseok was indeed filming sehun lmao i was playing around with making an mv for that fandom war thing (probably wont finish it now since it was mostly the countdown teasers and i always find it weird when a fanmade mv uses too much of a real one) and i edited it to look like that but like... thats actually what was happening also apparently electric kiss is trending on yt. cool, considering so many people didnt even realise the other jpn releases exist (i have seen so many people think that coming over was from countdown... )

CONGRATS EXO!!!!!! and their speeches were so nice Click here to view the Tweet this thread (also lmao baekhyun... did you or did you not also cry at mma last year) ... jongins words are so sweet i love him (and i love the aeris buying big issue i wish i was in seoul so i could buy 400) and jongdae mentioning yixing so precious i love them now go and get some rest!!

CONGRATS EXO ON BEST DANCE AND THE TOP 10 AWARD AND CONGRATS JONGDAE ON BEST COLLAB!!!!! im so glad they seem happier tonight though its such a change from last night Click here to view the Tweet i love them lmao