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>fan meeting was a good treat, it’s not nearly as impressive as a fan signing, where fans get real one-on-one time with their favorite idols, not just photo ops. Let me explain how they work.
>An announcement will go up during the week leading up to the fan sign on a group’s official Daum fancafe as well as on the sponsoring venue’s events page. In the notice, you will find the time and place of the fan signing as well as where and when you can buy the artist’s album. Even if you already own the album, you must purchase it during this specified time period at the specified store in order to be eligible to enter for a chance to attend the fan signing. (See what they do there?) If a group has a large enough fanbase, your purchase of an album gets you a raffle ticket. Multiple album purchases means multiple raffle tickets and thus multiple chances to win. Then, the store will usually draw 150-200 people out of their magic black box and announce those lucky names on their website the night before the fan signing. On the other hand, if the group’s fandom is still small, stores will opt for the first come, first serve system, in which the first 100-200 people to purchase the album in the allotted time period are automatically granted a ticket into the fan sign. So, already, you can distinguish which groups have made it further in the industry than others based on which system the store implements, and perhaps already, you can see how much easier on your wallet and your happiness getting into a nugu group’s fan signing can be.
I guess Ill never meet my waifu so she could fall in love with me
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 I found that I was spending too much time focusing my energies on reasons to NOT like kpop, rather than just letting myself like it. It’s music! Doesn’t matter how it was made: it’s still music. Doesn’t matter if it was one person who wrote the song or a hundred. The song’s there to listen to, and oftentimes it’s ridiculously fun to dance to. Why deprive myself of the joy of liking something? So I can feel better about myself, think highly of myself for not liking a song? Why take pride in NOT liking something? That’s silly. I hear this a lot when I speak with 'patricians' who are not into kpop. They never speak of it like a “meh, it doesn’t really do it for me.” There’s a passion and a fervor in their eyes, and they speak angrily against kpop. I didn’t want to be one of those angry people any more…
It was really Brown Eyed Girls “Abracadabra” and 2NE1 and Big Bang’s “Lollipop” that got to me. I thought “hell, these are awesome, AWESOME songs. So freaking fun! Why am I trying to deny liking them?” I gave up my pretensions. Sure, I stopped thinking of music as this infallible art or something like that, and good riddance. Pretentious people in any field, be it music or literature or movies suck at parties. They’re condescending fartsuckers and live bitter lives of resentment. Spend your life enjoying more things rather than defining them.
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