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Rating: 4 out 5 stars

Tiffany is the usual loud girl in your class. Some girls actually look down on her but her kindness will melt your heart. She carries this bright aura around her, whenever she goes she never fail to make you smile. Tiffany inspired to be a singer since she was a kid. Just like what Christina Aguilera's song do to her, she also wants to inspire other people through her songs.
Finally she debuts as a solo singer through SM Entertainment after being active as a girl group member, SNSD (Girl's Generation). Being able to release her own album is beyond her wildest dream. Her fellow member group voices about Tiffany's worry that her song doesnt suit her. But in my opinion, her songs exceeds my expectation.
She calls I Just Wanna Dance as electro pop song, mind you, it's not mainstream genre on Kpop entertainment but she breaks through the limit. This Spring, Tiffany brings a light flowery image to you through her 1st mini album.
You can read my review about her songs below. I want to talk about the feels I get for every tracks. Hope you enjoy it.
TRACK 01 I Just Wanna Dance
A fan describes this track as the song you want to hear on the way to airport. It gives you certain feeling of excitement and laid back in the same time. If I were to put certain color for this track is: neon pink light color you can find in LA's bar.
TRACK 02 Talk
You can play this song after taking shower and waiting for sleep to come. Under the dim light, your thought might wander to the one you cant stop thinking of. Go wherever your heart leads to.
TRACK 03 Fool
Sometimes side track is not as great as the title track but not this one. It's the song that you listen from the radio and you immediately pull out your cellphone to check out what song and who sing the song. Because the song is worth to be put on your ipod playlist.
TRACK 04 What Do I Do
This track is rich of Pop American feels and Tiffany writes this song by herself. She's brilliant like that. She writes the lyric on English and Sooyoung (her fellow GG member) writes for the Korean lyric.
TRACK 05 Yellow Light
Stop your daydream on Monday afternoon and proceed to your playlist for this song. Dont tell me you are in the squad who love Monday because I dont buy it. Release the burden of your work by listening to this light track and refresh your mind.
TRACK 06 Once in A Lifetime
The upbeat ballad to color your day! Being active from teen age makes Tiffany greedy to color her days with hard work. She wants to thank her fellow members (GG) and fans (SONE) through this song. I love the melody and I can say she relay the message so well in this track.

If you dont like powerful beat songs, I think this album is perfect for you. For me, I like almost all the songs from SM Entertainment, so catchy and easy listening. Thanks for giving Tiffany chance to debut as solo singer!

Bonus pic:

*) courtesy of smtownengsub

Warm Monday morning, today is. The only song come to my mind is ‘Miracle of December’.

I’m struggling to find you who I cannot seeI’m struggling to find you who I cannot hearI see things that I couldn’t see beforeI hear things that I couldn’t hear beforeAfter you left me, I have grown a power that I didn’t have before
The selfish me who has only thought about myselfThe me who didn’t know your feelings and ignored itI couldn’t believe myself that I have changed this muchYour love can still move me like this
If I just think of you, I can fill this world with youBecause each snowdrop is one tear drop that belongs to youBut there’s just one thing that I can’t do and it’s to make you come to meI hope I don’t have this miserable power
The selfish me who has only thought about myselfThe me who didn’t know your feelings and ignored itI couldn’t believe myself that I have changed this muchYour love can still move me like this
Stopping the time, (I) go back to youI open this book of memories and I open up your pageAnd in the book I’m in there, in there with you
The small and weak person, because of your loveJust like this for everything (my whole existence)I changed the whole world
The me who didn’t know how to be thankful for loveThe me who thought that the end was the endTo the image of you who wanted me to be, I fixed myself everydayI think my love will continue on forever
Stopping the time, (I) go back to youI open this book of memories and I open up your pageAnd in the book I’m in there, in there with youThe things that I met that winter
I’m struggling to find you who I cannot seeI’m struggling to find you who I cannot hear

The song is actually in Korean and I think the translation will you interested more. It’s a title track from EXO in 2013, released to pay fans’ effort to make EXO rise as one of big hit in South Korea.
(I don’t actually get why people underestimate Kpop song, and the Kpop lover. Just because it’s mainstream and you can’t understand any of the lyric, doesn’t mean the song is bad) (plus the group anniversary is the same as my birth date, yeah, I don’t know if I should be proud or anything because the reason behind the date is pretty depressing for the group fans’)

I become a legit hardcore fans of SHINee on December 2011. I didn’t exactly remember how and why. Maybe after my pal gave me Hello Baby where SHINee members babysat a baby together? Or maybe after they came to Indonesia for Korean-Indonesia concert? I dont remember.
And then I listened to Hello (the 2nd album they released in 2010) voila I became addicted. At that time, December 2010 they’re busy having their first concert at Japan (my favorite stage is Quasimodo). I remember the night I stayed up late to download EVERY performance consisted of 11 different videos ( OMG CHOI MINHO SOLO STAGE BLEW ME AWAY )

I gathered every SHINee-related news about their activity (variety shows/daily schedule), performance (concerts), photoshoot, the members’ birthday (hey one of them shared same birthday as mine), their position in the band, their personality (through magazine interview), and also their amazing edited pictures from fans on tumblr. Literally everything.

And then... today (Apr 22), a local promoter made announcement through the official twitter account that they will have #SWC3INA on June 22 at MEIS Ancol.

I’m dead.
Hm.
Hahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Hm.

Eventhough it's World Tour Concert, SM usually holds concert for their artist in Asian countries (South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan Philippines). Once in a blue moon, SM held SM Town concert in Paris and NY. I think maybe it's because there's demand from local promotor to hold SMTown Concert there. Otherwise, they wont hold any concert outside Asia.
Back in 2011, SHINee was invited to London (UK) to have private concert. I was more than ecstatic because they didnt invite other artists but SHINee instead. This year SHINee spread their wings farther and held concert in South America. My babies' popularity is rocketing. I'm sure other idols have fervent fans all over the world too but the fact that local promotor from western country invited SHINee and a large amount of fans came to see 'em. Oh well. Awe-some.

However, the rumor, about SHINee having concert in Indonesia, was already revolving on twitter last February/March. But no official announcement’s been made /shrugs/. Just like the expert predicted the storm coming from weather change, I anticipated the worst. Then they decide to drop the bomb today, exactly 2 months away from the actual concert day.

Maybe I’m exaggerating but the feeling you can’t see your favorite artist concert on your country is like… devastating, crushing your bone, making you suffocated. Yeah. Hm. Hufft.

Last time we had SM Town Concert in Jakarta back in 2012, mother’s been monitoring me on the day of the concert. She said I looked really stress. HAHAHA STRESS WAS AN UNDERSTATEMENT, TBH. I almost lost my sanity that day because my favorite artists under the same agency was having concert in MY COUNTRY AND I COULDN’T ATTEND. I was friggin pressed, man. People on the twitter spread the news if we wanted to stream the concert we could click a certain link. But it turned out it was the streaming link for the press conference only not the actual concert. YOU’RE GIVING ME FALSE HOPE, PEOPLE!

Ugh the pressed feeling comes back.

SHINee has several concerts, consist of:

SHINee World Concert I on 2011; it was held in Seoul, Taipei, Nanjing, Singapore, Nagoya, Osaka (my favorite stage: Quasimodo, A-Yo, One)

SHINee World Concert II on 2012 in Seoul, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore (favorite stage: I Wont Give Up [Onew Solo stage])

SHINee World Concert III started this March in Seoul, then April in Mexico, Chile, and Argentina; the next stop will be Jakarta (I’M LOOKING FORWARD ‘EVIL’ STAGE)

Japan Arena Tour in 2012; SHINee visited several big cities in Japan; they debuted officially in Japan & released a few Japanese album too and did this JAT to promote their Japanese album

Japan Arena Tour in 2013; the concert promoted their new album, Boys Meet U; favorite stage is Colors of the Season

SM Town Week 2013, SHINee had one-day concert last Christmas 2013; favorite stage is Cry for Me (Taemin solo stage)

The setlist performance for the SWC III, for me, is great! The choreography is getting better and more appealing. I could ramble about the setlist for a whole day just because.

I admire their passion to be a serious stage performers instead of just mere idol. SHINee released 4 albums last year (2013) and Melon Awards 2013 gave Artist of the Year Award for them. SM didnt put them together into one group randomly but five of them are really talented and give unique charms to the group. SM's been monitoring the members and even eliminating a few trainees before they settled for Onew-Jonghyun-Key-Minho-Taemin to be in the group. This group tried to set new standard for idols and they've been doing amazing choreography. They keep getting better after every comeback (like the experts say). They might not stand out among the male K-Pop groups (the amount of male groups nowadays whew) but their music suits my ear and their personality (made or not) attracts me. Their personality might be staged/controlled by SM (especially in variety shows, it's scripted; every variety shows r scripted, ofc) but I didnt remember read horrible news/scandals involving the members. And that's enough for me.

Check out:
Dream Girl (except the tight colorful outfit, I like the dynamic choreography)
Why So Serious (Jonghyun couldnt be in the MV because he injured himself TT.TT ; the dance is really fun!)
Everybody (I like the dance practice better than the original MV hehe)
Sherlock (Clue+Note hybrid song)
Everybody + Dream Girl at SBS Gayo Daejun 2013
Selene 6.23 (Jonghyun made this one)
Sleepless Night (oh tearssss)

How I wish to watch their live performance some day..

*none of the pic is mine*

I went to a little concert this evening. One band show, it’s only 1,5 hour. One institution all about Dutch (in Semarang), Widya Mitra, held this show for free. No wonder the singers were also from Dutch. They said this group paralyzed people back at Dutch when they performed. Hihi, it must be great.

De Drie Baritons, is a group consist of 3 men from Dutch. They have voice like the singer in opera show (baritone, yes?). You know, the one with overwhelming velvet voice :P Despite of my blindness to the songs, I quite enjoy it. No, quite was an understatement. I did enjoy the show. Thumb up! I never watch any singer, opera singer, singing live. I was bulging my eyes when they sang the opening song. Hahaha, they’re all great. They also had funny stage act. Even the kid in front of me enjoyed the show. Children are likely not into opera song, right? From the beginning, she sat still. She even propped her chin up at first (like people who had no interest in certain show before her). But in the middle of the show she swayed along the song. Cool.

One of the men said that usually at formal concert, the audience was forbidden to use their phone. Otherwise, he encouraged us to use our mobile phone. ‘Just put it on, to make movies, make us famous!’ he joked. He’s indeed the joker. He made us laugh big time.

Out of 15 songs, I only knew Sway (Michael Buble) and To all the Girls (Julio Iglesias). And yet I grew to like Perhaps Love and one song about ‘try to do better’, I didn’t know the title. The rest? No, I couldn’t know a thing because the songs were in Dutch and Vienna’s language. But they could make me melt by their performance.

Thanks to Widya Mitra to make this event. And also Lawang Semu, it’s even more exotic at night (plus the nice lightings).

Hope they’ll make this event more often in the future.

Btw, talking about music concert, there’ll be SS4 in Indonesia last April. It’s Super Junior concert, it’s a group band from Korea who has conquered many fangirls in (almost) every country. I like them fine but I don’t make effort to get a chance watching their concert. Have fun for you who will be there!

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