Source : YGEXOfficial+Melon
Thursday, November 24, 2011
[NEWS] YG FAMILY CONCERT: BEST END-OF-YEAR BLOWOUT BASH
Giddy fans and Korean Wave tourists have been eagerly elbowing out commuters on Seoul's new DX subway line from Bundang to Gangnam Station.
The reason? Fancy wrapping paper. YG Entertainment has papered an entire DX train with images of its artists to publicize YG Family's 15 Anniversary Concert next month.
The "YG Train," as it is being called in the blogosphere, is one of the six new trains that runs from Bundang to Gangnam in 16 minutes. Young fans often wait the 40 minutes it takes for the train to loop around again just for the YG wall-papered photo-op.
"Riding the train just makes me even more excited about the concert," said Mi-jung Lee, 18, pointing to the YG Family Concert promotional videos playing on the train's 19-inch LCD screens.
CNNGo is giving away 16 tickets to the YG Family Concert -- check out the details here: www.cnngo.com/cnngo-YG-contest
Approximately 200,000 fans of YG Family's artists will be flocking to Seoul's Olympic Stadium for the company's end-of-year blowout concert.
Korea's hip-hop-meets-Jeremy Scott music powerhouse have a number of reasons to party it up -- following Big Bang's win for "Best Worldwide Act" at MTV Europe Music Awards earlier this month, YG Entertainment just listed its company shares on Korea's junior Kosdaq Index (KOSDAQ) this morning, following the successful steps of fellow entertainment companies S.M. Entertainment and JYP Entertainment Corp.
This year, the concert will feature not only its biggest acts Big Bang and 2NE1 but also Gummy, Se7en, Psy, Jinusean and rapper-songwriter Tablo, who is the latest addition to the company. So break out your high-tops and candy-colored skinny jeans and get ready to scream your head off come the first weekend of December.
YG Family Concert
December 3, 2011: 6 p.m.
December 4, 2011: 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Olympic Gymnastic Arena, Olympic Park, 88-2 Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul; +82 1566 5702; ticket.gmarket.co.kr; All seats are ₩88,000 including taxes.
All nationalities are welcome to enter CNNGo's contest to win YG Family Concert tickets.
Source: CNNGO
[INTERVIEW] G-DRAGON'S 1ST JAPANESE PICTORIAL INTERVIEW (1/4): HIS PASSION
G-dragon (GD), when was the first time you became interested in music?
When I was still in grade school. My friend’s father was a producer on a music show at the time, so when I went over to their house to play I saw a lot of foreign artists’ CDs. That was also the first time I listened to hip-hop and was moved by the music.
Do you believe there are other music in the world like that?
I only listened to music from Korean artists before that because I thought since I didn’t understand the lyrics nor the meaning, how good could it be? I had absolutely no understanding of the foreign music market so I had no interest in it. However, after I listened to a then famous American hip-hop group’s song called C.R.E.A.M, my opinion of music instantly expanded.
Language was no longer a problem then?
I still couldn’t understand the meaning of the lyrics nor how the words were pronounced in English, but I was completely mesmerized by the music. I listened to it repeatedly on the CDs and tapes and tried to imitate. I would sing along to the parts I learned. For the parts that I memorized, I wanted to show off to others so I joined something like a song competiton at school and sang it there. I originally thought people would praise me and say how good I was, but they said “What are you singing? We can’t even understand!” & was teased instead (bitter smile).
Ah, that must have been hard to deal, although you were probably the only boy in grade school to begin listening to foreign music.
Yes, but those friends that didn’t agree with my music back then phone me nowadays and say they wish they had listened with me (laughs).
So you must have been labeled as a weird person around that time too?
I’ve always liked to challenge myself with fresh things, the new things that people don’t know about yet. Actually the first thing I had interest in was dance. When I watched TV or listened to music when I was young, I always liked dancing along to the beat. When my mother saw me like that, she started helping me apply for all sorts of auditions and then I got through.
Which means that your mother was the first person to notice your talent.
I’m the type of person that can’t dance if there aren’t a lot of people around. At the same time, my mother realized that I liked bringing joy to others so she decided to let me try the entertainment industry. So…if you were to say that I’m awesome, you should say that my mother is awesome instead (laughs).
By the way, when was the first time you appeared on a TV show?
When I was 6. It was a show where they brought all the kids to play. Truthfully if you were to say that I participated in it myself, why not say my mother took me to the show instead. It’s not that I didn’t like appearing on TV but I wanted to play with my friends or go eat something (laughs). I was a shy child when I was young; I only knew to walk behind my mother but the only thing I could do with full confidence was to go on stage and dance. Ever since joining my current company (YGE) at the age of 12, I have become more extroverted.
You left your parents and started living by yourself at that age?
Ever since I decided to advance into the music industry, I’ve been doing things the way I want to. Even though at first my mother would tell me to prepare and study for high school exams, but when she saw my intense passion for music, she turned around and supported me instead!
But after that, it was a long time before you debuted.
I was a trainee for 6 years and I would participate in my senpai’s album or live performances. That was how my life was but now that I think about it, if it wasn’t for that time and to have those experiences, I wouldn’t be able to stand there and battle it out.
Source: jwalkervip
Translation: jwalkervip.tumblr.com
[CLIP] 2011 YG FAMILY CONCERT MEETING
2011 YG Family Concert
When : 2011.12.03 (SAT) 6PM ~ 12.04 (SUN) 2PM, 7PM
Where : Gymnastics Stadium at Olympic Park
Ticket : http://www.gmarket.co.kr
Official site : http://concert.ygfamily.com
Source: ygconcert
[NEWS+CLIP] BIGBANG REVEALS CF FOR SOUL BY LUDACRIS HEADPHONES
A few months ago, we reported that Big Bang and YG Entertainment had teamed up with Ludacris to endorse his headphones brand, ‘Soul by Ludacris‘. A new CF has just been revealed, which features G-Dragon, T.O.P., Taeyang, and Seungri commenting on the supreme quality of the headphones.
Their comments are meant to be understood as a single cohesive thought, and so when translated, the message goes:
G-Dragon: “It’s really clean…”
T.O.P: “Since the bass is a lot richer…“.
Seungri: “To the point where you think, ‘Can headphones (of this quality) even come out?”
Taeyang: “‘Soul by Ludacris’ is the real thing.”
Source: SOULAPPS+allkpop
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