Heechul chopping off his locks is so important that an Arabic news site picked up on it.

Since I don't speak Korean, or Japanese, or Chinese fluently I'm basically useless at translating anything kpop related . The languages I do speak fluently are Arabic and English so you can expect when I saw it I was like "Hell yeah! Finally I can be useful in something language related!".

Last week this crime was committed:

And this was so important that an Arabic news site picked up on it.

This is the article: http://www.mbc.net/ar/programs/mbc-news/articles/لماذا-انشغل-السعوديين-بالشاب-الكوري--كيم-هي-تشول-.html

The title translates to: "Why are Saudis so hung up on the Korean male Kim Heechul". From this solely, you can assume it's about Heechul's recent haircut which has kpop fans in an uproar. This is only to be expected after dumb netizens told him to cut it and Heechul replied with a no. Jonghyun also told him to cut it but I forgive him because he's Jonghyun.

After many years he finally decided (or gave in) and cut his "ahjumma" hair *sniffs* *sobs*.

 Super Junior is absolutely huge among Arab fangirls. Ask any Arab into kpop today (sans moi) who were their "gateway group" to kpop and most will reply "Super Junior". So why Super Junior? First of all, Suju's "Sorry Sorry" went viral over here (along with "Gee") a while back. So from that, many people were introduced to this whole new concept called kpop. Another reason why is the fact that Super Junior participated in MANY variety shows and are good at it in the process. Those fangirls totally dig variety shows (here's a reason why iKon and Winner are popular over here as well). Many girls are into Super Junior because they're "funny" on variety shows, often not for their actual music (honestly who can blame them).

I've explained why Suju is so huge here now let's get onto the actual translation:

Why are Saudis so hung up on the Korean male Kim Heechul

The effect of the spread of a recent photo of the South Korean singer and actor Kim Heechul comes out after his recent haircut garnered attention with twitter users in Saudi Arabia. The hashtag created "your thoughts after Heechul cut his hair" became one of the most used hashtags in the country and had different tweets between those who like this Korean star's new look and those surprised by his sudden change in appearance but many tweets were from those who didn't know this TV star and were baffled by the amount of importance given to something seen as the norm, such as cutting your hair. 

While many young females have tweeted about the importance of the Korean star Kim Heechul, young males seemed to show less attention and knowing to this star (Heechul) and focused their tweets on making fun of young females for their attention towards this subject (of cutting hair) and this sudden change of those young females from loving Turkish stars to Korean stars. Korean TV shows have started to become as popular as Turkish TV shows and the stars of those (Korean series) have also started to become popular with those who like that type of series in the Arab world. 

It should be reminded that Kim Heechul is a member of the musical group Super Junior that is described to be the largest boy group in the world and consists of 13 members. In general, they are also described to be the best idol group in Korea.

That's the end of this article! (pretty short one it was)

As a side note: Heechul regrets chopping of his locks. Good. Don't chop it off next time.
If anyone has any other interesting Arabic articles on kpop please link it here :) 

Plz don't kill me - Times rabid fangirls aimed their knives at me.

I have a few friends. Friends who are into kpop and are a teeny weeny bit insane. Ok fine they're really crazy. It's not just them though. I'm guilty as well for being an insane (fan)girl when I want to. At least they have enough decency not to run around the school telling classmates that they would lick their oppa's abs (hehe).

*nosebleed*

They don't do that, but I can assure you that they're crazier than me because:

A) When my favourite boy group releases a crap song, I can admit that it's crappy.

B) I don't feel a "special connection" to my oppas. I just think they're hot.

So here are the times that rabid fangirls (whether friends, sisters or random people on the internet) sharpened their knives and aimed them at me:

When BTS's I Need U was released and just my relationship with ARMY in general:

BTS's fandom ARMY is one that's rapidly growing, bringing in herds of devoted and dedicated fangirls who will go through everything with their oppas and defend them to their graves. They are really (and I mean really) defensive towards BTS. Just try insulting ANY member of BTS in front of an ARMY and watch as hell unleashes on Earth. The reason why ARMY are defensive about this is because most of them feel as if they share a "special bond" with BTS. They also are really friendly with each other in the fandom (strength in numbers in nothing without teamwork and love~) and will kill you if you insult their fellow ARMY. I've had numerous 2000 word essays sent to me because I was a bit careless.

My first experience with this was when BTS's I Need U came out. Everybody loved it for some reason. I even caught a few non-kpop friends singing along to it. At that time, I was majorly depressed, because IT WASN'T WAR OF HORMONE 2.0. As expected, ARMY loved it because of the logic prevalent in many fandoms "If thy oppa releases a song, whether thou thinks is crappy or not, thou shall love ~ ♥  it". Of course being my usual obnoxious self, I complained about it, out loud. It was a mistake to complain about it around my ARMY friends because all they would do is obsess about it then I would complain and get dagger eyes. Looks CAN KILL, that's what I've learnt. 

When I almost biased Lee Sungyeol and why you shouldn't steal/ tear posters:

This is Lee Sungyeol

I likey likey dis long hair yeah!

Me: Wow he looks great with long hair, totally bias list worthy. 

Sis: Um you do know he's MY no.1 bias?

Me: Yeah, so? Other Inspirits bias him too.

Sis: I don't mind. I just don't want YOU to bias him.

Me: Too bad

Sis: *sharpens knife*

Me:.......

Sis:

Here's another incident with my dear sister! I once stole her posters (just because I can) and hung them up on my side of the room. She went ballistic and tore off some of my own posters. 

  I don't like cats but I think they're cute

When I state my opinion on Chanyeol and Eunhyukkie:

It's no secret I think that Chanyeol and Eunhyuk aren't good looking. Unfortunately their fans~ don't understand why. It's simply preference. Preference. Done. That's why, now can you please stop biting my arm thx. 

Guys I find attractive

Extra: Telling Ed Sheeran fans that Ed's music makes me sleep

Their reactions: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT HOW CAN YOU. HE IS ART. PURE ART. OMG I TOTALLY RELATE. OMG DONT TALK TO ME. DONT. TALK. TO. ME. IM NOT FRIENDS WITH YOU ANYMORE. NO JUST NOPE. OMG. 

Me:

Can you please just shut up.

This shows that some western fan(girl)s can be just as bad as EXO-Ls (and ARMY)

May you guys never have to deal with this insanity ~☆

Wow, nice abs.

Why Hyuna is a feminist (so is Gain, as well as the lovely ladies of Stellar and AOA)

First of all, what is feminism? 

Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve equal political, economic, cultural, personal, and social rights for women. 

It's important to know the actual definition and do some research before starting out on your 2000 word essay about how Hyuna is such an example of an oppressed female *ahem* slut. 

This little blog post will be separated into two sub-headings. A) Why Hyuna is a feminist (in theory) and B) Why you still shouldn't slut shame her.

To start with A! Why Hyuna is a feminist (in theory). 

What most people do nowadays, especially rabid, insane, jealous netizens, is hide behind the covers of a feminist and slut-shame these women. I would call that oppression. Isn't feminism about achieving social rights for women? One of these social rights is being able to have the freedom of wearing whatever the heck I want to wear without having a hoard of oppressive sexist beings attack me for my choices in life. 

Let's take a look at a current example in the western world, Miley Cyrus. 

It's obvious that many people call her a slut for her explicit behaviour.

But go ahead and ask any radical feminist out there about what they think about her behaviour and they'll reply back with "it's her body, she should be able to do whatever she wants with it".

Take this and put it with every girl group/female solo singer doing sexy concepts nowadays. They're encouraging people to fight back against dumb stereotypes and teaching girls to embrace who they are regardless of how much clothing they have on. 

I don't see you netizens complaining when your oppas take off their shirts (and change on stage, ehm EXO) but the moment some girl shows some skin you all go all "feminist bonkers" on her.

The girls are actually hardass feminists in a sense that "I'm going to do whatever I want with my body, this is my body and I'm proud of it, nothing you say can crush me, in fact I'll just come back stronger" which is just what Stellar did after Marionette's criticisms.

Look, they're all radical feminists. 

Unfortunately this theory applies to about 1% of female idols. This is when my argument breaks down due to the fact that, unlike Miley Cyrus, they don't get to decide, about anything. This leads on nicely to my next section...

B) Why you still shouldn't slut shame them.

Slut shaming is very unfortunate. Women will always judge one another (men will also continue to judge women).  Someone may as well be wearing the so called "slutty clothes" but on the inside they could be the sweetest person imaginable, so different to your expectations.

Netizens always point fingers at the female idols themselves for behaving in a "slutty" manner but if you disagree so much with her sexy concept you should point fingers at the CEO, the guy in charge. Who decides on which concept the group is going to do? Who has complete control over the members lives? None other than the CEO of course. Instead of blaming Hyuna (or whoever else you've decided to pick on today) remember that, if anything, the CEO was behind all of it, he is to blame. Hyuna was simply obeying her orders, otherwise she'll be kicked out of the company left to fend for herself. I reckon she doesn't want that to happen. 

Many female idols are not actually doing what they want with their bodies (ditto here with male idols) so slut shaming them is like blaming them for something they haven't actually done. Just because you don't like a certain race doesn't mean that it's seen as acceptable to post a whole blog post about it. It's the same here. Sure do whatever you want but that doesn't mean that I agree with it, nor do I accept it. 

(I could've added a paragraph here stating why the CEOs are the true feminists behind it all but I decided not to, no)

Curly Hair Appreciation Post

This is my first post, and why not make it an appreciation post. You see, I have curly hair and I often feel left out due to the fact that straight hair is everywhere in k-pop, so I decided to dedicate this little post just to the naturals.

K-pop dudes are killing it with their ramen-style hair that guarantees swarms of swooning fangirls and who other than the infamous ugly hairstyle G-Dragon to rock this type of hairstyle! (this was before he had that nasty jawshave and became a swag prince and he actually looked pretty cute)

Ugh he looked cute in the other picture. Please don't dye it blond GD. EVER.

B.A.P's cutie Zelo also sported this nasty-ready-to-eat-yummy-instant-noodles type of hair as well!

I'm starting to crave some instant noodles.

Yammy aba indoooomieeeeee.

Because GD's bff Taeyang usually has nasty hair (Monster era blegh), I also expected him to try out curly hair. The results aren't as bad as GD's but it's still disastrous. This basically looks like my hair, on a bad hair day, when it's brushed. And the no.1 rule with curly hair is to never brush it, or else it will explode into a frizzy piece of mess. Taeyang has just broke this golden rule.

Here's another photo, for your entertainment. 

To cleanse your eyes from all the previous photos, I decided to skip directly onto the ladies despite having one last male to cover.

This is Hyuna, and we all know that this isn't an accurate representation of curly hair. For one thing, it's too perfect. Curly hair has many imperfections, for example; that bunch of hair that's straight just because. This is an example of beachy waves, a term created for people with straight hair who are so jealous of our god given curly hair that have found their own way to get it. So instead of sitting all day with the minuscule curler trying to get our fabulous curls, they oh so lazily put their hair in a braid and straighten it or use some other lazy method. This isn't fair because WHEN I WANT STRAIGHT HAIR I HAVE TO SLAVE AWAY WITH AN IRON OR GET MY HAIR TORN OFF WITH A BLOW DRYER. They should suffer too.

Here's another example of some beachy waves. It's more natural looking because you can see the random straight hairs sticking out along with the curls. 

I applaud you Fei. 

Here's the last one, our dear Myungsoo. Most Infinite fangirls are rabid Myungsoo fans. It's a known fact. Away from that, L is considered to have curly hair. I wouldn't really call that curly hair, its more frizzy than curly. But curly hair is usually very frizzy so I'll let this pass.

This sums up the post! Tell me if I've missed out some idols (which I probably had due to low determination levels).