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guys, do you have any intention of changing the badges?

the award change season is coming soon and the girls badges are all from 2014 lol and we got some potential in newer photoshoots too

 

 

We can, I saw the post yesterday but I'll have to look into more on exactly how it's done, I've never been on the OP end of it. I know the pic requirements are pretty strict so it may not even be possible for the group pic and even some of the members. 

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The voting is gonna be awkward though. There's only 4 of us.

 

LOL!!!

 

Yay! Entropy can OP and Laamaa can help make the badges. I guess we really only need 4 people here to do stuff. haha

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Jiwon's Voice and Performance on Vlive, she did Baek Ye Rin's "Across the Universe" (same song Bbo did (ft Flowsik) on Girl Spirit):

 

http://vlive.tv/video/47773

 

 

Bbo!!!

 

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Edited November 14, 2017 by Hoku

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The preview for the next "the Unit" episode came out and it looks like Jiwon's gonna struggle with the choreography a bit.

 

 http://www.vlive.tv/video/48319/

 

I know SPICA as a whole was never great at dancing but I always figured Jiwon was one of the better ones, especially considering the amount of training she had before debuting. Boa's the worst, and I guess Sihyun is the best? Maybe Bbo? I know when Narae did that variety show where she was a cheerleader did picked it up pretty fast (she always surprises me at how good she ends up being at things),

 

 

 

So I watched the subbed episode of the last weeks the Unit and I like the approach PDs have taken with the show. It isn't all about heavy drama, but there obviously is/will be some. They are showing some of the kinder moments too, like the Jiwon-Hyunjoo thing and the MAS-MadTown thing. 

 

I was kinda disappointed that Jiwon didn't take a more active role in forming the team she's on. Not that there are any complaints from me as far as the people on it. But her coming on this show was kind of a breakthrough for her and her confidence in herself. She had stated in the pre-audition interview that she was really doubting herself and her abilities and it was keeping her from trying out for parts and taking risks with her career. But it seemed like she had a breakthrough and was going all in with this show. I know forming their own teams was a shock, and Serri seems to have a really strong personality, but I am hoping Jiwon doesn't just revert herself to being a follower.

 

Like I had posted before, I'm not overly concerned with her "ranking" in the show. I just want her to give it her best and let the cards fall where they may. I think even at this point, barring any major scandal. she's done a lot for her career, at least as far as getting acting and musical gigs. I do think this is probably her only chance at having a full on singing career though. I think if she doesn't make the final 9, she'll never be able to have a chance at a solo singing career in the future

Edited November 14, 2017 by Hoku

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I was thinking about putting these in a spoiler but then I figured the results of the mission was revealed when the MV came out and the standings don't mean much at this point since it's just the beginning (but it's still nice to see). 

 

Team Black - Jiwon is the leader for this mission and she struggles with the choreo.

 

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Standings for this week in the public voting on the Unit:

 

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^^^Yah Jiwon!!! I still haven't watched this week's show but I saw comments on Twitter. Seems she's getting flak now which is kinda expected since she's been in top for that last 2 weeks. But some fans are even commenting on her being leader. I know last week's episode she was shaky but I'm actually ok with it. She needs that experience to get better so even of she makes mistakes, I'm glad she's stepping up. In the long run, well after this show has ended, that experience will serve her well.

 

 

WTH is going on with Bbo!!! She going to Taiwan, I think for a film festival, on what appears to be 1st Class or maybe even a private plane!?! Damn, she really moved up! But I want MUSIC from her!

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb9MHu8hYqY/

Edited November 26, 2017 by Hoku

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I wanted to share tweets about Sihyun's birthday party but they're all linked together and I didn't want to have a massive post like that. Party looked great and Boa was there too. Sihyun is pretty much the only member who seems like her life barely changed after they went on hiatus. She's always had an active social life and continues to have one now. 

 

Bbo will be doing a launch party for Vivlas lipstick and she'll be singing the theme song.

 

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re:Jiwon/the Unit. So I watched the full episode and I don't see where she stumbled as a leader. In fact considering her group won the mission, you could say she did a great job. I think they blamed her zoning out and missing her line in the practice on her being leader but she used to do that anyway (but she really needs to stop that). My only thing is she has to put herself in the performances more. I know it's tricky being the leader and trying to get all 9 members to share the spotlight but she can't be in background all the time either. I was surprised that she got such a high vote but then I remembered that they shot this mission shortly after Ep1 was aired on TV so I think she was still riding that hype. But I'm not gonna be bothered by people complaining about her getting that score because: 1) I'm not overly obsessed about the scoring or ranking and 2) after listening to 5 years of kpop fans saying "it's not about the vocals, it's about popularity",salty viewers can suck on the fact that a SPICA member has actually gotten some popularity. But she needs to concentrate on her own singing/performing more.

Edited November 30, 2017 by Hoku

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I made a thread for Bohyung about the Vivlas launch party in Times Square so please check it out:  https://onehallyu.com/topic/616280-spicas-kim-bohyung-performs-in-ny-times-square-for-vivlas-cosmetics/

 

I'll share this part of that thread here since it's sweet. Bbo ran into Jiwon at the hair salon! 

 

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Edited December 4, 2017 by Hoku

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Do you know if she's still in NY? ;w; I want to go and support her. Idols come here all the time but it's rare for people I care about. T-T

 

 

I'm not even sure that she even was in NY. The tweets said that is was but when I took another look at the first video it look like a mall and all the people are Asian. Not that it couldn't be that way, but I found it odd.

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Jiwon finished this voting cycle still at #1. But the hate is building against her so we'll have to see what happens the next cycle now that the voting has reset. It looks like she's with a pretty good team this mission, Euna Kim is team leader and they didn't lose anyone in the elimination.

 

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Orange Team's "Who's Your Mama"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhKqN9hHr2c&t=

 

 

 

Jiwon dropped from #1 to #4 and I'm actually glad that she's not #1 because the hate against her should drop too. But she needs to do more to shine on stage, she pretty much a sub vocal now. In the team scoring for this mission she was 5th out of 9

 

Edited December 16, 2017 by Hoku

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Bbo's in Russia!

 

This is the translation of her IG post "Oh my God...It's so cold #russia"   haha

 

 

Edited December 20, 2017 by Hoku

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Awwww, love seeing this post from Bbo.

 

 

 

 

And if you think that Mercuries are all gone, this post got 1500+ likes in the 5 hours since she posted it.

Edited December 28, 2017 by Hoku

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No problem, I'm ok with the current badges. 

 

 

 

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I can't remember who it was exactly, but one of the members of Big Mama was the music coordinator (or some title like that) for the YDLM mv.

Edited January 4, 2018 by Hoku

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tbh, I haven't really been keeping up with this show but I'll post this up.

 

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Jiwon's hanging in there but the strong fandoms are making a difference so I'm not sure how the final 9 will look. Her group for the next mission lost a lot of it's strong vocalists so Jiwon will either have to step up or she'll get lost in the background.

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At this point, minus Semmi and Euna, I don't even want Jiwon to make the top 9 because the group doesn't seem like a match to me. I like NC.A but I'm still not sure about her as an idol vocalist. She's top notch at slow songs like ballads and she did well with the mid tempo Gfriend song but I haven't heard her have to go hard at a quick tempo song yet. The rest are just beauty queens and aegyo specialists so that has no appeal to me. If fandoms go nuts then then final 9 probably won't be a group I'll like at all.

 

For this next mission Jiwon's group has a aegyo pop song. So while I think she'll be a little out of place because of her age, the song style should be right up her alley vocally.

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TBH I don't care how the group will be much since it's temporary. I just need Jiwon to get that fame from being a winner.

 

 

I kinda get that but like I said after her boot performance, I think she's done enough that she got her name back out there so she should have an easier time getting acting and musical parts, and I don't think that's changed. As far as a singing career, I don't think that has changed much either but that has more to do with her age then anything else. 

 

To me the final group, as it stands now, it mostly a cute concept group (minus Semmi and Euna) so if it stays that way I think Jiwon will be very out of place and I can see her getting slammed by haters in the long run (even if it's just a temp group) and possibly doing more damage than good for her career. She doesn't need a group like SPICA per se, but to me she needs a group that is going to do more mature concepts not aegyo ones that much younger groups are already doing.. 

Edited January 12, 2018 by Hoku

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Jiwon actually moved up one spot, back to #4. I still think there are too many visuals/dancers and aegyo people in there. But then again the last elimination got rid of a lot of the vocalists. 

 

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Happy Birthday Boa!

 

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I think Boa is back in the US?!?!  

 

 

 

check out the third pic in that instagram post.

Edited January 14, 2018 by Hoku

[Hoku]

A lot of the subbed SPICA stuff and even the unsubbed stuff is disappearing, I wish I had downloaded all that stuff.

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You think it might be people cleaning out stuff because it's a "disbanded" group? /:

 

 

Maybe, but I think because the site that used to do the subbing things aren't inactive anymore or the problem when we share direct link of the video (banning stuff, copyright stuff etc) . Like X-Unnie, the one who subbed was Hyori's fan, not Spica's. And Spica was already known has a few subber. The one that still active is turnup speaker but they aren't active like they used to be as latest Spica's stuff is not much.

 

 

Yeah, it's sad. Although videos in youtube are still available but on the other sit

 

 

I think those are the main reasons and I'll also add in that some have been restricted or straight up deleted because people were re-uploading them under their own name pissing subbers off. 

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Boa's was JBJ's vocal coach for their current album release "True Colors"

 

 

 

Yesterday JBJ won their first music show.

 

 

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Edited February 8, 2018 by Hoku