On tonight’s broadcast of KBS’s “Gayo Daechukje”, a special stage entitled “Ladies Night” will be presented by Girls’ Generation, Wonder Girls and T-Ara, in which the three groups will cover songs by Uhm Jung Hwa. With Girls’ Generation’s uplifting and refreshing harmony, fans can expect a positive rendition of Uhm Jung Hwa’s songs.
Since many talented groups will be making an appearance during this show, the levels of excitement and anticipation are definitely rising as the expected broadcast time inches closer. This will be one performance you don’t want to miss, so be sure to stay tuned for Soshified’s live stream of the KBS “Gayo Daechukje”. The show is set to air on December 30th at 8:55 KST on KBS2TV.
Hello and welcome to the third edition of “The Best of the Best”: a countdown of the best in Girls’ Generation music, CFs, and related media. While I’ll go over the Top 5 CFs this time, you guys can tell me what you want to see next by voting in the poll at the end of the article. More votes are always better, so please tell me what you want! As for this edition, read through my explanation for each choice then leave your own opinions of what you think the best shoots are in the comments section. Videos are posted along with each explanation, as well as a Soshified download link at the end of each choice. Let’s start shall we?
5. Dior
Jessica, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, and Sooyoung each lend their talents to the well-known Dior product line in this CF. Filmed with an elegant feel, the commercial created a sophisticated atmosphere. The high-class look comes from the fact that the commercials were completely filmed in black and white, giving a vintage feel to each CF. Whether it is traveling to Paris in Tiffany’s spot, playing the cello in Yuri’s, or wandering through a winter wonderland in Jessica’s, Dior surely emphasizes that these products are “out of this world,” and that Girls’ Generaton are the only people that could show that. It’s simple style works, but does not bring anything special to the table, such as a catchy jingle or wide appeal, which is why it is at #5 on this countdown.
When Daum, one of the biggest web portals in Korea, announced that Girls’ Generation was going to be one of their new spokespeople, SONEs definitely looked forward to what the collaboration would bring. The result was a series of CFs that were silly yet showed off the sleek new technology that the company was putting out. In stark contrast to other more serious CFs (such as the Dior one mentioned above) the girls seem to act more naturally, which made me enjoy the commercials even more. The banter between the girls in each CF is funny and makes them even more worthwhile to watch. Daum also helped make the music video for “Snowy Wish”, which perfectly complimented the holiday season when it was released. With the girls having fun and some cool products being shown off, this ad campaign was a clear success. These aspects let it shine over the Dior campaign but does not propel it ahead of any of the other CFs on the countdown.
When Goobne Chicken was first introduced to the public, it was relatively unknown, yet Girls’ Generation made it a nationally known brand, no doubt through their commercials for the product. While a few commercials were released in 2008, they really took off in 2009 when the girls’ popularity skyrocketed. These nine CFs from 2009 showcase the girls in a practice room dancing around, fooling around with the camera, and just being themselves. Of course, no Goobne commercial would be complete without the catchy jingle. You can’t help but feel happy while watching the girls have so much fun. The playful nature and fun atmosphere of the spot, combined with the jingle really made this ad campaign stand out from the rest, and made Goobne what it is today.
So imagine a big octopus taking over your city, and then imagine someone as lazy as Jessica knocking its lights out. Only the Dungeon Fighter CF could offer such entertainment. An advertisement for an online role-playing game, it shows the girls turning into super-powered fighters to defeat the monster that’s destroying the city. The crazy subject matter combined with the wacky special effects definitely make it stand out among the others. The unique premise of the CF propels it to a high place on the countdown. The commercials above on the countdown may be great, but they were ordinary, which was one thing this CF isn’t.
The Banana Milk commercial that the girls filmed in early 2009 has to be my favorite by far of all the ads that they have ever done. One does wonder what a commercial about banana milk contain…the answer is dramatic singing, cute faces, and a great time. The commercial showcases Taeyeon, Sunny, Yuri, Sooyoung and Seohyun singing an over-the-top rendition of “Volare”. When the milk is introduced to them, they become ecstatic at the sight of the beverage. The resulting dance and song are enjoyable to say the least. The spot ends with a refrigerator filled with banana milk sprawled out on the floor in front of the girls with a final playful goodbye. The over-the-top expressions create a playful atmosphere which lets this CF, more than any of the others mentioned today, appeal to everyone.
During the recording of JTBC’s ‘Girls’ Generation and Dangerous Boys’ recently, an art therapy session which reveals one’s emotions and psychological state through drawings was conducted. Not only the five dangerous boys, Girls’ Generation took part in the psychotherapy as well to evaluate their own emotional and psychological conditions.
The girls and the five boys were all very serious during the course of the therapy. Out of a sudden, Hyoyeon teared up while painting a picture,taking the other members of Girls’ Generation and the staff on set by surprise.
Hyoyeon left the shooting set to calm herself and resumed shooting after that but when the art therapy specialist analyzed and evaluated Hyoyeon’s painting, Hyoyeon could not hold back her tears once again.
Meanwhile, the art therapy session conducted on that day yielded some astounding results. Make sure to catch JTBC’s ‘Girls’ Generation and Dangerous Boys’ to find out the psychological states of the boys through their drawings as well as the reason for the ever-joyful Hyoyeon’s tears at 7.30pm KST on January 1st, 2012.
SM Entertainment’s artists provided special performances to their fans at the same concert.
On December 29, SM Entertainment’s artists performed at the 2011 SBS Music Festival, which took place at the second exhibition room of Ilsan KINTEX at 9 p.m. The main theme of their performances was Hallyu orchestra.
SNSD’s Taeyeon and TVXQ’s Changmin attracted attention by performing a rock version of “Devil's Cry” together.
SNSD’s members, including Taeyeon, Sunny, Jessica, and Sooyoung, showed a powerful performance of Shinhwa’s “T.O.P.” And Super Junior performed H.O.T’s “I Yah!”
Also, TVXQ, SNSD, Super Junior, The Grace, EXO, and f(x) created a perfect harmony together with song “The Sound of Hallyu.”
At the music festival, total 37 artists performed on the stage. SNSD’s Yoona, Lee Seung Gi, and actress Song Ji Hyo hosted the festival.
The end-of-year festivals are much-anticipated particulary for the many joint stages. SBS kicks things off in grand style.
Descending onto the stage in a fabulous diamond-shaped object the ladies of Girls’ Generation provided a sneak peak of things to come with a short routine to Daft Punk’s “Technologic”. They were then joined by Super Junior, who performed well despite their prerecording issues. The pair of superstar idol groups really got the crowd going in their ‘Moves Like Mick Jagger’ Stage.
After performances from K.Will (including a duet with Girls’ Generation’s TIffany), December, Jun.K/Davichi joint stage, it was the popular rookies’ turn to impress.
Usually end of the year shows focus on senior established artists, in addition to performing shortened versions of their hits, B1A4 and Dal Shabet danced a ‘Hollywood Stage’ and A-Pink and Boyfriend had a ‘Cupid Stage’.
Finally, it was time for girls to “Run the World” as G.NA, BEG’s Ga-in, HyunA, Sistar’s Hyorin, T-ARA’s Jihyun, Miss A’s Fei, and Secret’s Sunhwa took fierceness to a whole new level in their performance of Beyonce’s massive hit.
On December 29th, Girls’ Generation performed at SBS Gayo Daejun, with Yoona serving as MC alongside Lee Seunggi and Song Jihyo. They started off the whole show with “Technologic”, in which Taeyeon, Jessica, Sunny and Tiffany made their appearance via a diamond-shaped box in the center of the stage. They then danced to “Technologic” on center stage with sexy choreography to boot. After that, Girls’ Generation and Super Junior danced together to the song, “Moves Like a Jagger” for the opening stage. A few stages after the opening, K.Will and Tiffany performed a duet song, “A Whole New World”. Artists from SM Entertainment then performed together on stage like an orchestra with the song “The Sound of Hallyu”, with Seohyun playing the piano and Tiffany playing the flute.
Tiffany played “Swan Lake” with her flute during her solo, while Jessica, Sunny, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung and Yuri danced along to a remix of “Swan Lake”. The next stage was Taeyeon singing “Devil’s Cry”, which was performed during the 2nd Asia Tour, but this stage was different as Changmin from TVXQ joined in to sing it with Taeyeon. Then, it was Girls’ Generation’s turn to take the stage for the second part of “Hallyu Queens”. Girls’ Generation performed a remix of “The Boys”, with a different set of choreography for this remix which gave it a unique flavor. Yoona made a brief appearance during Lee Seunggi’s stage by conversing with Lee Seunggi on stage. All of the cuts of Girls’ Generation’s performances at SBS Gayo Daejun can be downloaded at the Soshified Video section. In response to the performances on SBS Gayo Daejun, “The Sound of Hallyu” ranked first on the trending topics worldwide on Twitter while “Swan Lake”, “S CRY” (Editor’s note: This was for “DEVIL’S CRY”, Twitter seems to have cut things off when automatically ranking the treding topics), “SM Family” and “Bring The Boys Out” also managed to get onto the list of worldwide trends.
The K-pop artists became extremely busy, as SBS Gayo Daejun and MBC Entertainment Awards were held at the same time.
On the 29th,The MBC Entertainment Awards were held at the MBC Dream Center, while SBS Gayo Daejun was held at the KINTEX in Ilsan. There are more and more artists that are being featured in entertainment programs, and therefore there are more awards to go around at these events, and the artists busily went back and forth between the two prestigious events.
The ladies of Girls’ Generation were especially busy this year, rushing back and forth between SBS and MBC as members Yuri and Tiffany were awarded for being MCs of ‘Show! Music Core‘.
Super Junior was also rushed, but managed to attend both events. Members Leeteuk and Kyuhyun received special awards under the ‘artist’ category at MBC, then headed over to SBS to attend Gayo Daejun. T-ara‘s Eunjung also ran back and forth. She was awarded an entertainment rookie award for being on MBC’s ‘We Got Married‘.
TVXQ was no exception. They received an award for ‘K-POP Concert’ at MBC, and also put on a special orchestra performance with the other SM Entertainment artists at SBS. The reason the artists were able to attend both events is that they were both held in Ilsan. The two buildings are about 10 minutes driving distance from one another, and it was fairly easy to get from one location to the other. Part of the SBS ‘Gayo Daejun’ performances were also pre-recorded, which was another reason the artists could easily run back and forth.
