Kpop Album Review: Max’s Chocolate

          I’ve had this album for a long while now but I wanted to listen to the songs enough to really pick a favorite. So now it is time to show them off. 

          This is Changmin’s, of TVXQ fame, first solo mini album. The album is called Chocolate and it has 6 songs. Let us look at the albums first then we can discuss the songs. 

          There are two versions of the album: Orange and Gold. And they were released on April 6.

I also got the posters that came with the albums. I can’t tell you for sure which poster came with which album because they were both put in a tube together. But based on the color scheme:

This one came with Orange, 

And this one came with Gold.

Each album came with a postcard picture in an envelope, a photocard, and a photobook. Everything looks really sleek and high quality but the box they each came in the s not my favorite as it kind of is already showing some wear and tear just from traveling here.

Gold Version: 

Gold version is actually black 😬

There is this beautiful introduction on the box lid from the inside which shows just how much of a beautiful soul Max is.

It is not very clear here but I’m hoping the orange version will be clearer.

This envelope had the postcard photo in it.

No there is nothing wrong with my camera or lighting this is how the card looks.

The pictures in the photobook are all gorgeous and chic.

And this is the photocard that I got.

Finally the CD.

Orange Version:

Pretty much exactly as the precious album. 

Now let's talk about the songs. As I said there are six songs in the album:

1. Chocolate (Title Song)

2. High Heels

3. Lie (featuring Chungha)

4. Piano

5. Me, Myself, & I

6. No Tomorrow

Each one has a unique sound and each one has its charm, but if you ask me which one is your favorite it would have to be "Lie".

This is the MV for Chocolate

This is the performance video for Chocolate.

This is my favorite song in the album

Finally, this is a special video for Me, Myself, & I

EXO news

This should have been up yesterday but I got side tracked so without further ado...here it is!

SUHO:

       I’m going to start with what makes me happy. What makes me happy is that finally SM Entertainment decided to recognize that our leader Suho, EXO’s guardian Kim Junmyeon deserves to be recognized as a solo artist too. I swear, a lot of people have slept on Suho. He is a great singer, a good drama actor and an amazing theater actor. He does it all while being the single mom to 8 crazy kids, three of which he has to keep track of from afar (Lay being in China and D.O. and Xuimin being in the military). He does an amazing job. He is a good mommy. 

       Now let us talk about his new mini album Self Portrait.  As usual, there is minimum promotion from SM but EXO-Ls are doing an amazing job of promoting him...like they do for everything EXO related. So here is what we know for sure about the album. There will be two versions of the album. The album has 6 tracks and Suho was involved in every step of the process. The album will be released on March 30. 

          A teaser was released as well as some portrait paintings of Suho. On March 18, the teasers and images for the album will be released starting with a “mood Sampler”. 

          There is also a rumor that his title song is called Saranghja, which is EXO’s motto that Suho came up with. May I just say we love you too Leadernim!!!!!

Baekhyun: 

          While our boy has been busy with SuperM lately, he didn’t forget to drop the fact that he is in the studio recording music. So a Baekhyun comeback is happening y’all!!

Now I’m going to talk about what really makes me angry...

Chen:

          Seriously, Chen has been going through a lot lately but SM has not being doing much to protect him. There is only so much that we, his fans and real EXO-Ls, can do. We’ve fund raised quite a bit to counter EXOLACECAFE nastiness and we’ve been doing our best to report accounts who bully Chen or spread hate about him. This is actually one of the only times I’m glad he doesn’t have a social media presence beaides his Youtube channel. The stuff that people who call themselves EXO-Ls, spew is disgusting. ALL THE MAN DID WAS FALL IN LOVE for heaven’s sake. Our baby is human after all! 

        Even after EXO members through an SM statement told them that they wanted Chen to stay in the group they still are spewing their hate. They really need to get a life and stop their bullying ways. You don’t own the man! You can read about it here: 

SM statement

As I said the statement has not stopped them. They still continued with their hate by protesting in front of SM, which was a failure, and renting a truck to sit in front of SM with their demand which also failed because the truck was parked illegally. But their latest shenanigan is their most horrifying. They leaked his information on line as well as his parents’ information and they organized advertisements to go up on buses in Chen’s own hometown where his parents can see. Thankfully, the adverts were stopped since they did not comply with city regulations...however, how could anyone have this much hate in their heart for someone who just fell in love??

You may read about the shenanigans here:

EXO-L ACE HAS FINALLY GONE TOO FAR

CHEN’S HOMETOWN SHUTS DOWN EXO-L ACE’ATTEMPT TO EMBARRASS CHEN