Change of plans and Kpop news

          Today was the day I was supposed to be announcing my surprise but alas, life got in the way and I am jot done putting it together yet so it will have to be shifted to next month...2020 is definitely a ride. Instead let us do something that we have not done for a while, Kpop News.

          Yesterday was a bitter sweet day. EXO’s Chen (Kim Jongdae) enlisted into the military. We as EXO-Ls were worried that we would not get a photo like we got with the other boys but finally finally we got some. I was so happy to see that picture because we got to see two things: Chen’s beautiful smile surrounded by his brothers and Suho. Suho being the good leader and brother was there to see his brother off. I was so proud of him. I was sad that Kai was not there but he probably had a schedule that he couldn’t cancel and said his goodbyes previously. 

          It will be a year and six months before Jongdae is free and I hope by that time the haters would have moved on or calmed down or whatever so that our boy can live in peace. 

          Before he announced his enlistment Chen released a single which was so heartfelt and so beautiful but felt like a goodbye for now kind of song. Our feelings were confirmed when the next day his enlistment was announced. He suffered so much for doing something that normal human beings do everyday. I hope he has time to heal and that he is safe and happy when he comes back. 

This is the single cover:

Here is the song he released before enlisting:

And here are the beautiful pictures we got as teasers for this song:

He is so handsome in these photos. Chen has one of these faces that grow on you the more you see him and learn about his personality. 

Finally here are the pictures dropped to bid him goodbye for now. 

See you later Soldier Kim Jongdae. Stay safe and happy and remember we will wait for you until you come back.

Happy Birthday to the Best Family in the World

Today is our family’s 6th birthday. And despite a limited small minded few we are the best fandom(family) in the world. 

꧁Happy Birthday EXO-Ls꧂

And just to show how much our boys love us we got messages from most of them. 

Even though he is serving his time in the military our leadernim still sent us a beautiful message.



I swear we stand dorks, but they are our dorks and we love them. 


I was so happy to hear from Chen. I was so worried that we wouldn’t hear from him today. He still got some hateful messages on his post but the majority were positive. EXOLACE-Cafe are not going to ruin this day for us.

Our healing Unicorn and the China sheep didn’t forget us today. But then we knew he wouldn’t.

I’m so looking forward to his solo debut, our cute bear!

I love that we got two messages from Chanyeol. We love him double too. 

Chanyeol’s message on Instagram

This baby is cuter than cute...what?! He is taller than me? You think I care? He is still the baby!

Xuimin and DO are in the military too but unlike Suho who is doing community service because of his eye sight, they are in actual camps so I was not expecting to hear from them.

Kpop Comeback EXO-SC

          I have to admit, even though I have Baekhyun’s albums I’ve been waiting on unboxing them until I have the full set but I couldn’t wait to talk about EXO-SC’s full album comeback. There are three different versions of the album and I got them all but of course, they have not arrived yet. So I’m going to talk about the MVs and the digital version which I do have.

          The album has 8 songs, 4 of them feature different artists alongside Chanyeol and Sehun. The songs are as follows:

1. 1 Billion Views (featuring MOON) 

2. Say it (featuring PENOMECO) 

3. Rodeo Station

4. Telephone (featuring 10cm)

5. Jet Lag

6. Fly Away (featuring Gaeko)

7. Nothin’

8. On Me

The digital album also has an instrumental version of 1 Billion Views and a Digital Booklet. 

         Of these eight songs, Nothin’ is a Chanyeol Solo and On Me is a Sehun Solo. We have MVs for 1 Billion Views, Telephone, Nothin’, and On Me. 

          What I love most about this album is that When it comes to lyrics Sehun and Chanyeol are credited on every song, except on Chanyeol’s solo where Sehun was not. Music-wise Studio 519 (Chanyeol’s studio) is credited on 3 songs: Telephone, Fly Away, and Sehun’s solo On Me. The whole album’s length is around 31 minutes. 

          Most of the songs are hip hop, trap hip hop, R&B hip hop, and R&B. The whole album Is no skip. Every song has an amazing beat and the lyrics are just...I have no words. I always knew that Chanyeol is a multitalented king but the surprise in this album is Sehun. Their debut album already showed just how much talent Sehun has vocal wise but this album REALLY showcased it so well. Our baby is all grown up y’all!!! His vocals are on point! Plus from the interviews, we know that both of them had put their foot down when SM tried to mess with their choices for the album. So our boys also flexed some muscles to give us this masterpiece. Now let me end this with the MVs. Watch these beauties and STREAM STREAM STREAM people!!!!

Telephone

On Me (Sehun Solo)

Nothin’ (Chanyeol Solo)

1 Billion Views (Title Songs)

Kpop News: Miscellaneous

          I'm going to start by bragging a little. I've always loved Lee Sunhee's songs, but then I found out that she herself sought out Chanyeol for a Collaboration, and my respect for her increased. She was able to see just how awesomely talented Chanyeol is and went for it. The result is stunning! Their voices compliment each other so well, I am so proud of our Chanyeol. Please check out this masterpiece!

And the lyrics for the song.

          Next, I want to brag about Sehun, our baby. He has been quite busy! Season 3 of Busted is confirmed for release sometime this November 2020. He is also now confirmed to be in Pirates 2 alongside Kang Ha Neul and Lee Kwang Soo. 

        Now both he and Chanyeol are also preparing for their comeback as EXO-SC sometime in July! I can’t wait!!!

        One of my favorite groups is TVXQ, I’m a Cassiopeian on top of being an EXO-L and proud of it. I was so happy to hear the news that Changmin was getting married in September.

I’m so proud of my fellow Cassiopeians in the way they handled the news. They were pretty mature about it and I’m glad for Changmin. And extremely happy for him.

I also found it a little ironic that the same Knetizens who are calling for Chen to exit EXO despite the wishes of the EXO members themselves are the same ones that are congratulating Changmin on his upcoming nuptials. Cognitive dissonance much??!! 

          I could have sworn that I talked about Lay’s new Album Lit but apparently, I have not so let me talk about it here. Just like its name the album is awesome in every way. I love the fusion he did between Chinese music and western music without either one losing its flavor. 

The album has 6 songs. The songs are:

1. Lit

2. Jade

3. Eagle

4. H2O

5. Fly

6. Soul

Also, this is only part one of the album apparently but we still don't know much about the second half. All the songs are fire and depending on my mood my favorite will change so I’m just going to leave you with the MV.

This is the MV for Lit.

While this is not an MV, it is still an amazing song and picture from Lay. This is Jade.

EXO Kpop Haul

          This post has been a long time coming. It is a mix of a lot of things that I pre-ordered and waited for to come in and then photographed. Life then became a little hectic and I just couldn’t sit down to put words to the pictures I took. But finally, here it is; the EXO kpop haul plus EXO news.

1. EXO Season Greetings

I pre-ordered this when they first opened the door to pre-orders (I’m not going to use dates because I kind of forgot when I pre-ordered stuff and when they came in, yes I’m old 😂)

This is what I saw when I opened the shipping box. I new that face was D.O. Before I read the writing on the sock and now I have a Kyungsoo sock that I love to look at and pet when ever I miss him which is nearly every day.

How cute is that face?! Anyway, now on to the actual season’s greetings. 

This is what the box looks like on the outside. I think it looks better than last year’s box. 

This is what you see when you open the box. A second layer of protection and it is made out of cardboard too. 

I loved what I saw the moment I opened the second layer. There were so many goodies in the box I didn’t know what to start with first so I closed my eyes and grabbed something.

This was what I first grabbed. It is a box of picture cards.

In total there were 24 cards with messages written on the back of each one from the members. I could make out some of the writing and some I couldn’t make out. I’m still learning and Korean handwriting is hard lol. Now let us look at the pretty pictures. There are six sets of four pictures. 

Suho leadernim. 

Byun Baekhyun 

Park Chanyeol, Mr. happy virus.

Kai, but I see a glimpse of Nini Bear in one of the pictures. (In case you are wondering nini bear is the cutesy Kim Jongin while Kai is the sexy Kim Jongin)

Our baby, Oh Sehun. It is so obvious he misses Kyungsoo. The picture on the top left is a typical Kyungsoo style of taking a picture.

Finally, Chen, or Kim Jongdae, or the man who will give me my first grandchild...I’m so excited! 

All the pictures are just so beautiful. I can’t even pick which one is my favorite. So I won’t.

Postcard sized calendar with each postcard being its own month. There are six members this time so we had two sets of pictures to have 12 months. 

Next up is a desk calendar. 

I love that the desk calendar has all their birthdays and all the important anniversaries for EXO and EXO-Ls. 

A booklet with pretty pretty boys in it so I chose my favorite pages of the lot. 

A diary. I’m not fond of the whole week at a glance thing so that part won’t get used much but the rest of it will get a good workout. Plus there are pictures at the beginning of the diary and the middle.

They also included stickers. These are actually better quality than last year’s and I am using them to mark pages in my journal as we speak 😬. 

Finally, we have almost A4 sized photocards of the members. 2 for each one of them. 

2. EXO Comeback

At the end of last year, EXO came back with their 6th Album Obsession. The concept sprouted a few hypotheses online. I felt like the concept was very interesting. For one it wasn’t your typical good vs. evil theme, one group EXO was badass and the other X-EXO is more badass? Or is it the other way around?  Either way, the concept was really interesting and the songs supported the idea well. I love the title song Obsession but I think my absolute favorite has to be Trouble. I especially love the lyrics that say “good feels bad, bad feels good...right feels wrong, wrong feels right...” it just fits. But then that is EXO for you 🔥. 

We didn’t get a winter album or a repackage but we did get thee different album covers and a Kihno album kit. So that makes four. 

As you can see from the picture above there is the EXO Obsession version, X-EXO Obsession version, an Obsession version and an Album kit. 

I’m going to start with the tiny Kihno album kit:

This is the sleeve of the album.

This is the album box. 

Inside it had a tiny booklet with some great pictures. I loved how the upright booklet shows the EXO version of the members but then you have to turn the booklet upside down to see the X-EXO version of the members. 

I got this X-EXO version of Chen photocard. I have to say he looks amazing in it...

And this is the Kihno kit. 

Next up is the Obsession Version:

This is the back and front of the Obsession album. 

The CD sleeve with a pullout photo of the group. 

As you can see one side has EXO and the Other has X-EXO but one is upside down while the other is right-side up. Here it happens to be EXO that is upside down. 

This beautiful postcard-sized photo of X-Kai

And this amazing photocard of Sehun.

The album also came with a poster:

I got Baekhyun.

X-EXO version of the Obsession album: 

The back and front of the album.

CD sleeve and the full member picture.

Look at Suho!

I got this hologram photo of Kāi 

And this photocard of Chen...LOVE!

Each member got a booklet of their own with amazing pictures. Their stylist and the photographers did an amazing job but then they had amazing models to work with...

Here is an example of one of the booklets. 

The album came with a poster also. I got this poster of Kāi.

Finally, the EXO version of the album:

The back and front of the album.

I got the Chanyeol hologram picture.

CD sleeve and full photo of the members.

And another one.

I got this sassy photocard of Chanyeol. 

Like the X-EXO version, each member got their own booklet.

An example of what is inside.

The album came with a poster. I got Kai.

I also have two more posters to show...not sure which albums they came with since they were just loose in the box 😬.

They didn’t photograph well I’m afraid. Chanyeol’s head is not that tiny on his body loool.

3.EXO News

I’m going to start with Chen, whom I’ve already talked about previously here and here.  I have to say the International EXO-Ls have done a great job of protecting Chen. Also, EXO themselves have protected Chen really well, enough that SM has issued a statement saying Chen stays BUT EXO-L ACE CAFE have yet to give up they are not just harassing Chen but also his parents. They are despicable. 

Suho has done a run as the Joker on stage and has a web series out. Soon he will also have a solo debut. I think he is going to the military some time at the end of the year or the beginning of next year. 

Baekhyun is promoting as part of SuperM currently as well as has a song that is part of an OST. 

Chanyeol has his NNG Studio work and he is promoting with Sehun as EXO-SC. 

Lay is off doing a lot of good things. He had a couple of songs out and did some concerts. He is also promoting some brands like Calvin Klein. 

Kai is promoting as part of SuperM currently as well as working on his solo debut.

Xuimin is coming out of the military in December 2020.

D.O. has recently made corporal and will be coming out of the military on January 2021.