♥ Right Now, Tomorrow, Forever, 소녀시대 ♥ The Official Girls' Generation (SNSD) Thread

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Congrats to baby Seo!  I'm so proud of her  She really is admirable 

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Whisper  Can't wait for the full mini album 

 

Also, The Boys hit 99 mil  but its seems the views are rather slow 

 

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is it out? 

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Tbh I was a little underwhelmed by Holler at first but it really is growing on me 

Is the MV going to be release at noon or? 

Edited September 17, 2014 by silentmoon

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Billboard interview

 

 

The trio get deep on their new video, how they differ from their band mates and why the 'Rihanna, Ciara-type' record is them at their most raw.

In early 2012, Girls' Generation-TTS made Billboard chart history when their Twinkle EP became the highest-charting K-pop album ever. The splinter trio of K-pop phenoms Girls' Generation held that record for nearly two years and today returns with their new EP Holler.

Holding their first interview about the project with Billboard, the girls say the stakes for this album are higher not only from their successful chart run, but because, this time, it's personal. In a hotel cafe in New York's meatpacking district the day after hitting the Polo Ralph Lauren show for Fashion Week, Taeyeon, Tiffany and Seohyun speak excitedly, and candidly, about their new effort focusing on how they made a "vocally entertaining" record that showcases "a much more raw side of our music."

One listen to the EP's title track certainly encompasses the former aspect, a brassy, sassy track centered around a chorus of high notes that most mortals can't hit. "It's a more mature version of [2012 single] "Twinkle," says Los Angeles-native Tiffany, who also translated for her bandmates. But as the EP moves on, it's clear the entire record is the result of a group maturation, most notably in the sensual, synthy R&B jam "Whisper," Taeyeon's favorite track (but more on that later).

BILLBOARD: How does Holler differ from your past albums?

TIFFANY: This album was really fun to put together because the songs were handpicked by all the members. So, we have the A&R sit down, give us a bunch songs and we go, 'No...no...we want this one! We want this!' From the video to the styling to the tracks, this album was really personal for us and it was fun for us to put out a much more raw side of our music. Rather than saying something, everything sounds cooler in a song, so it's finally time to say, "Hey, we've done that. We've been there." We hope that we can kind of express that.

All the other Girls' Generation songs were more, I think, cutesy and more energetic....Whereas the music we put together has so much more layers, so much more depth to it in terms of sound, choruses or harmonizing together.

Can you tell us more about some of the tracks? Which are your favorites?

SEOHYUN: ["Only U"] is a ballad piece with a lot of piano [that I wrote]. The lyrics are about the sincerity of love, about a true love. That you fall in love many times, but there's always going to be that special someone you won't forget. And that I want to find that special someone, out of all those people you have to meet through, and keep them in my life forever.

TIFFANY: Personally, I found "Only U" to be very romantic, very hopeful and very inspirational song. The cool part about the lyrics is about that she went on a trip to the Swiss Alps and was writing on the Alps. She told me, "It was so inspiring and the scenery was so beautiful and I was so relaxed." It's weird that she gets to go on trips alone.

SEOHYUN: I was listening to the music as I was going up on the lift and I thought, "I know what I'm going to write."

TAEYEON: My favorite song is 'Whisper' because it's a type of song we've never done before. It's really laid-back, but it still has that strong beat. It's a lot more sensual than our original music. That is the new side of Girls' Generation/TTS. It can actually be a trademark track to the TTS album. It's a lot more mature, it's very sexy. The first time we heard it, we were like, "Ooh, this one's going on!"

TIFFANY: I get a lot of Rihanna, Ciara-type of vibes from the song. We were careful [in song selection]. Literally, we said, "If it sounds too cutesy, we don't want it."

What can you tell us about your music videos? Is more than one planned?

TIFFANY: One for now, hopefully we'll get the chance to put new song material together too. We've been prepping this song together, especially "Holler," since late March/early April. We had so many different inspirations and seasonal looks to this song -- we have the spring version, the summer version -- and then it finally got decided for the fall season. So, we went for the S/W colors. There were a lot of ups and downs throughout the project, but we got it perfectly done. We're very satisfied.

The video has 10 different outfits -- we wanted to beat "Twinkle," that was two-and-a-half years ago, so we wanted it to be a lot more sophisticated. It was very J.Lo-inspired.

And I finally have my name on an album: I was visual director. I'm proud to say that it wasn't about me, or any specific member, being happy with the looks. It was like, 'So, do you like it?' and they'd go, "Eh..." or "Yeah!" So it was really exciting. And the girls got to choose what kind of patterns and what kind of cutouts they wanted to use in their outfits. I threw out the theme, but it was pretty much all them too.

Twinkle held the Billboard 200 record for nearly two years. Do you feel pressure to follow up with something bigger?

SEOHYUN: I just got goose bumps...of course there's a kind of worry. All those high expectations are kind of what motivated me and grounded me to making better music. Instead of being perfectly dolled up, I was happy I could choose the music wisely. I'll be thankful for people wanting to listen instead of just watching.

What's the ultimate takeaway you'd like fans and listeners to leave with?

TIFFANY: I think Girls' Generation was so much more visually entertaining. It had a lot of theatrical themes to it, we had a lot of conceptual outfits and the songs were very seasonal. This will be for all the seasons, for all the looks. Our main goal was to not be visually entertaining, but be vocally entertaining. You can listen to it and still be so entertained, so energized and so inspired. With Girls' Generation, you need to see the costumes, the shoes, everything put together. Whereas you can just listen to the [Holler] material and go 'Wow, this is so fun.' So, a vocally-entertaining, vocally-empowering album.

Compared to Girls' Generation, is there a different mindset between the three of you?

TIFFANY: We're the perfectionists towards music and practicing, I'd have to say....we want to get it down perfectly. With putting the album together, planning out the promotions like what magazines, what interviews, what performances we want to stage together, I'd have to say the focus level is way higher. Girls' Generation together, there's the whole teamwork and energy going on.

TAEYEON: Throughout the seven to eight years, we've been doing Girls' Generation and that type of performance visual and sound. It's finally time for us to the let the fans to trust us with what we've decided to put out in terms of music or looks. It doesn't have to be super-staged, I'm happy that it can be very raw. We can finally say, "Hey, this is what we want to show you. We know you'll like it, so trust us, have a listen and look at what we've brought for you."

And are you having fun filming your reality show, The TaeTiSeo?

SEOHYUN: Throughout the years, everybody's only seen the perfectly staged Girls' Generation performances. This time we get to show you step-by-step how we put a recording, choreography, album art or music video together. We get to show our professorial side, but we get to show our silly, normal side; the normal Taeyeon, what she would do at a candy store. When she gets tired, she can say that. The fact that we can be so free in terms of expressing ourselves is what I'm looking forward to our fans seeing most.

TIFFANY: We're actually putting together a behind-the-scenes video for this comeback. We were luckily partnered up with [Korean beauty and lifestyle] channel OnStyle [for the show] and I wanted it to kind of make this into an MTV Diary throwback and that's exactly what this is going to be: the MTV Diary throwback, plus the Korean fashion and beauty introduction and everyday life.

Any last words about this album or to your fans?

TAEYEON: Even though fans are around the world and we don't necessarily see or hear them because they come from different languages or cultures, I want to be able to reach you with music. I want you to share the feeling we get from making the music and share that experience.

SEOHYUN: It's been over two and a half years since the last album, we've experienced not only a lot of growth musically, but personally. We want to convey that maturation and experience to fans and give them that story.

TIFFANY: This album is just the mind, body and soul of all three of us. Not that I haven't been proud of past albums, but this album is something we are so proud of and so satisfied with. It's so right now. The fashion is very now, the music is very now. But it also captured [our ages] 25 and 23. I'm excited to be able to leave this down as kind of like a memoir or yearbook. I just hope the fans will be just as excited and open towards us growing up.

 

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Happy birthday to the true goddess of the word Kim Hyoyeon    Dancing queen, fashion icon and IG master   I love you baby  

 

 

 

 

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Congrats to the girls for their first Holler win! Khunfany are so cute 

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Oh god... who was responsible for this?   

 

and I thought those pink outfits was the worst thing they wore  

 

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WHAT.IS.GOING.ON?

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Well if its true, this might be kind of an official statement of her part, which would explain the formal language 

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From Netizen9

 

Jessica is leaving SNSD?

 

Jessica “I was kicked out of snsdâ€

1. [+2,833, -108] Any chance she was hacked?

2. [+2,215, -86] Jessica… she was hacked right? There’s no way this is true

3. [+1,620. -51] It’s too early for this kind of news…

4. [+1,407, -51] ã„·ã„·ã„·ã„·ã„· What the?

5. [+1,310, -71] Please tell us the truth, journalists. ã… ã… ã… ã…œ I won’t talk bad about you ever again if you just reveal the truth ã… ã… ã… ã… ã… ã… 

6. [+326, -15] It was posted on her weibo. She was probably hacked 

7. [+318, -26] But they just re-signed.. she must have been hacked

8. [+299, -23] They have a Chinese fan meeting today. This doesn’t make any sense 

9. [+275, -19] She must have been hacked. She was promoting just fine without any problems. It’s weird that this is so sudden. it can’t be true ã… ã… 

10. [+257, -18] But she just re signed.. does the hacker have nothing better to do?

 

SNSD departs for China without Jessica

 

"No Jessica" SNSD, 8 members only leaving

1. [+1,330, -24] So she wasn’t hacked? It’s real?

2. [+1,099, -51] I… guess it was true. Why else would they leave with only 8 members?.. Soshi is over too

3. [+982, -23] This is crazy.. what is going on

4. [+973, -46] It must be true that Jessica is getting married and how SM said she couldn’t

5. [+741, -25] There were rumors that Jessica wanted to get married and the company was making a fuss about it. I guess it was true 

6. [+671, -36] Heol, it’s true? Nooo ã… ã… 

7. [+527, -13] What the heck.. please explain, Dispatch

8. [+538, -38] Soshi please don’t keep things hidden from us

9. [+503, -16] ã…¡ã…¡??? If that’s true, are they disbanding soon?

10. [+418, -71] How unfortunate.. Soshi hwaiitng 

Edited September 30, 2014 by silentmoon

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What? this is crazy... I don't understand why she can't promote from now on, it Jess wants to work on her portfolio can't they allow her a few months to do that? They can promote as 8 until she's done wtf?

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This is BS, I don't see how the situation can't be resolved. If they actually wanted to make it work, they could... 

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I wish SNSD as 9 could have ended more gracefully than this. Everyone deserved better. It might have been easier to stomach if it hadn't come out of nowhere. After so many years, the end of 9, just like that? This entire situation is just.. difficult to understand and accept. 

 

Yeah, this is what really bothers me. I wish the situation was different 

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I'm disappointed at how all this has been handled tbh   Didn't onion said a member was leaving to get married but that she was ending it nicely for the fans? What happpened? 

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What I don't get is if SM knew about her plan and didn't like it, why renew her contract? why make her leave now? They could have told her, we don't want to renew with you because we don't think you can commit. If they renew it is because they were willing to work around her decision, then why the sudden dispute? Did something happened? Someone has to have said something to Jess for her to put that on weibo. She was in the airport after all, its not like she was planning to make this announcement just to ruin the fanmeet.

 

 

It also bothers me that she said the other 8 as well. Is not like they had a meeting to tell her, she was in the US at the time, so why get them involved? Did the representative that talked to her inform her that it was the other 8 decision too? Shouldn't she have talked to them first?   

 

I think this is more a problem of communication between the parties involved, which is why I don't see why can't they resolved this, especially in private   

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This sounds like a conflict of interest, I don't think anybody is at fault. Jessica wants her business and life and that's great, she deserves it. 

 

I think the girls just wanted to release the album, the one that was scheduled for THIS YEAR and do the promo RIGHT, after the disaster that was Mr Mr they wanted to make it perfect this time, and for that, they needed Jess full commitment. 

 

Of course, when she didn't gave SNSD enough importance the girls felt disappointed. I think what they meant by choosing, was choosing what do to IN THE NEAR FUTURE, not forever. Meaning what is it that you want to do this next months, do you want to be part of SNSD last comeback or not? Remember this means rehearsals, events, fansigns, tours, FULL SCHEDUALE. Can you commit to that? Can you halt blanc this one last time for SNSD? I think that is what they were asking. Which made sense, they couldn't do this right, not their LAST album without Jess commitment.

 

I understand how Jess feels, I really do but dragging this in public is wrong, and its ruins everybody's image and its destroying the fandom and Sone's heart. I think they all should STOP and resolve this IN PRIVATE.

Edited October 1, 2014 by silentmoon

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what thats 40 million in DOLLARS not won????

i doubt some A lister from hollywood even have that kind of money

 

What?  Damn Jess, I hope everything works out 

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That Jessica is leaving is no doubt because of her fashion business. She’s going to be spending so much time on individual activities related to this that there is almost no room at all in the calendar for group activities.

 

Jessica wants to stay as a member for a while more but only do very few group activities.

SNSD/SM want to do more group activities now and plan for the next SNSD tour in 2015 etc which Jessica says she won’t be part of.

If Jessica can’t accept the schedule SNSD wants and SNSD can’t accept the schedule Jessica wants, then Jessica leaving SNSD is a mutual decision.

 

This is what've been trying to say but I guess he's more eloquent than I am 

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Dmn elaborated why SNSD/sm want Jessica out but I still don't get why they chose such a bad timing to break the news to Jessica, right before a fan meeting. And it seemed like they themselves didn't prepare for that at all? If it was a mutual agreement like he said, shouldn't they prepare for it? Unless they had different affected date in their mutual agreements, and that was where this mess started.

 

Yeah I think what we are missing the "trigger" so to speak. What lead SM or the girls to say something to Jess? and what is that they told her that lead her to make all this public?   I highly doubt any of them wanted this to play out the way it did.

Edited October 1, 2014 by silentmoon

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Has this been posted? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gH5nBLIarU

Edited October 2, 2014 by silentmoon

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I got into SNSD at the end of 2011. I was going through spin magazine best songs of the year and saw Hyuna's Bubble Pop. I thought it was really fun so I search for more of her and found about 4minute. I found it really strange that somewhere around asia girl groups were still popular  I wanted to know more about kpop and thats when I saw Gee.

 

The songs was so fun and there were so many pretty girls dancing in sync. Then I searched for more on SNSD and found The Boys in english and really liked it After watching GGTS and their christmas special I was sold and became a fan. 

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Is anyone else here excited for Taetiseo's appearance on Sketchbook in a few hours? I'm really hoping it's going to be similar to the one from two years ago when they performed those three flawless covers

 

its today? what time does it air? 

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http://www.seehearparty.com/

 

Basically type in what you want to see and hear. I entered snsd, Taeyeon, Seohyun and snsd Sunny to drum and bass. This is keeping me entertained on the bus. 

 

LOL this is fun  I have no life

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Can u guys recommand me more snsd's ballad?

I freaking love this song and i think im gonna repeat it until i wanna throw up lol

 

There are so many good ones   I don't know which ones you've already listen to 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aWrfwIN2js

 

 

Edited October 12, 2014 by silentmoon