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“What’s My Name? L-A-L-I-S-A!”

15/12/2022

Lalisa is the main dancer, lead rapper and vocalist of K-pop super group Blackpink. She was born under the name Pranpriya Manobal on the 27th of March 1997 in Buriram, Thailand. However, upon seeking a fortune teller to know her “luck” in life, the star proceeded to change her name to “Lalisa ” which meant “the one who is praised”. She’s the only daughter of her mom and Swiss chef step-dad. Moreover, unlike the rumours, her family doesn’t own a hospital. She also happens to be a fur-mom of 5 cats named Leo, Luca, Lili, Louis, and Lego, as well as a pup named Love. Whether it be taking the stage like a storm or stealing the show at various runways and fashion events, “Lalisa” is the name to be reckoned with. Know her better through her 6 unique achievements that just make you go “L-A-L-I-S-A~”… Being a Thai idol at YGE Lalisa is the first non-Korean trainee and idol at YG Entertainment. She was the only one to pass the company’s Thailand audition in 2010, becoming an official YG trainee in 2011 at a young age of 14. Training for over five years, she finally debuted in Blackpink in August of 2016. Being a young girl of Thai descent in a big and competitive industry, she experienced a lot of racist remarks then until now. There were even reports of unfair treatment towards her because of her nationality. However, she persevered through everything and emerged a winner. Instagram following Aside from owning people’s hearts, it seems that she also owns Instagram. Queen Lisa is currently the most followed K-pop idol on IG, with a whopping 84.7M followers against a zero following. Her love for photography, along with her candid and photo-worthy poses, make her posts/updates a blessing to everyone’s feed. “Lilifilm” success Lilifilm Official is Blackpink Lisa’s solo YouTube channel which ranked 6th among the most subscribed channels of K-pop idols. It recently gained a Diamond Creator Award for hitting 10 million subscribers on May 11th of this year, thus making Lisa the first and only K-pop female soloist to achieve so. Lilifilm served as the star’s personal archive of vlogs she filmed herself and a number of performance videos or “film covers” she had done. Among her contents, the most viewed ones are the film covers Malamente (Lili’s film #1), City Girls (Lili’s film #4), Cravin (Lili’s film #2), Mushroom Chocolate (Lili’s film #3) and Tomboy (The Movie). K-pop’s “Dancing Queen” In a poll created by Choeaedol back in June 2021, Lisa was crowned as the “Dancing Queen of KPOP”, receiving approximately 64% of the votes of over 59K participants. This title, while not bearing much weight apart from being a small fan-voted competition, is considerably factual. In fact, according to Kiwi choreographer Parris Goebel, Lisa is a natural-born dancer, not someone who needs to be “made” and “moulded”. The idol justifies this claim through a continuous exhibition of her competency in dancing. For instance, she revealed in an interview with Billboard that she could learn an entire choreography within 2-3 hours. She also happened to prove her competency in various Korean reality shows by accurately performing another artist or group’s dance after a single look at the video guide. MTV VMA and EMA’s 2022 “Best K-Pop” Award Blackpink Lisa achieved a monumental feat when she won the “Best K-pop Award” in both MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) and MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs), beating big acts like BTS, Seventeen, Twice, ITZY, and her own group, Blackpink. Earlier in 2022, she made history as the first ever K-pop soloist to have a nomination in the “Best K-pop” category in the abovementioned awards shows. Months later, she became the first Korean soloist to win said award in both VMAs and EMAs. This achievement is a huge step towards the advancement of her solo career, following the success of her solo album “LALISA”. It also consequently brought huge honour to her own group, Blackpink, as well as towards K-pop, South Korea and her home country, Thailand. Ambassadorship Apart from being an idol and an Instagram star, Lisa is also an ambassador of various high-end and well-known brands. In August 2020, she became Bulgari’s Korean ambassador. In September 2020, she represented Celine as the brand’s global ambassador. Then, in October of the same year, she also became MAC Cosmetics’ global ambassador. All these “big names” specifically chose Lisa to carry their brand because they acknowledge the impact that she continuously brings. The contracts she signed with the abovementioned companies and with many others are testaments of her influence and global stardom. These are just a few of the many achievements which Lalisa Manoban earned throughout her career. You might hate her ‘cuz ‘ya ain’t her, but she’ll continue to outdo and outsell. Just check out her solo album “LALISA” and judge for yourself.

There is no One Else, Kim Seokjin of BTS

09/11/2022

It is another win for BTS and the BTS Army upon the release of BTS Jin’s solo song, ‘The Astronaut’. This is the second collaboration of BTS with Coldplay. The Astronaut was released on 28 October through Youtube and other digital platforms, at 1:00 PM KST. A single album with two versions is also being sold through Weverse and other affiliates. The album contains a CD and Jin’s photocards, among others. #theastronaut came home. It has a lot!! Let's give it all to Jin! #KimSeokjin pic.twitter.com/v8DK7U4B0E — Bangtan-gueña⁷ | JIN | TRUST BTS (@livelovedelight) November 4, 2022 The Astronaut is pop-rock with lyrics co-written by Coldplay and Jin. A cinematic music video made the BTS ARMY very emotional. Expressions of love to Kim Seokjin exploded on Twitter, telling him that they will be waiting for their return in 2025. sobs not only did chris give armys the emotional and beautifully worded reassurance during his intro for jin, he also gave jin what armys wanted to give jin: pure adoration, love, and reassurance as well, that we will wait 😭 — k s j g⁷ ♐️ (slow) (@kimseokjingifs) October 31, 2022 https://twitter.com/Hobisgirluvsbts/status/1586866103199875072 Collaboration with Coldplay Jin also performed the song in Coldplay’s concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina also on 28 October. Before introducing Jin, Chris Martin told his story about meeting and working with BTS. He further shared the amazing experience he had while producing My Universe them. Chris also shared how ‘The Astronaut’ came about. Jin reached out to him to produce a love song for the ARMY. This song would have to be released before his military enlistment because he will be gone for two years (just for a bit). Here is the official video of Jin’s performance with Coldplay: Jin and his own Voldemort After the release of the video, Jin appeared on Weverse Live while in Argentina. He admitted he had not seen the final music video, specifically the CG parts. Jin said live that he thought the album BE will be their last. However, they released Dynamite which had good results, and then Butter and Permission to Dance which also did great. Until all things followed through, like the PTD Concert, and then eventually the Busan Yet To Come concert. He planned to enter the military in June but postponed until the Busan Yet to Come concert. Shortly after the concert, Big Hit announced his plans for enlistment and then also to anticipate the release of his solo song. He also said that saying “enlistment” was a Voldermort-like word (he who shall not be named), but was glad that it is now out in the open. Jin had received criticisms from the public and media as to why he has not enlisted yet (Source: translations from Twitter: miiniyoongs) Milestones and records To date, The Astronaut reached the following milestones as of 09 November #1 in iTunes in 100 Countries so far (BTS Chart) Debuts at #51 on Billboard’s Top 100 (Billboard Chart) 38 million views (as of 09 Nov) since its release on YouTube; number 3 in Youtube Trending in Music in the Philippines According to Allkpop, The Astronaut “debuts at #17 on Spotify Global Chart with more than 4.1 million filtered streams. It now holds the biggest debut for a K-pop solo song on Spotify Korea. And it’s also the 5th biggest K-pop solo debut on the USA chart. Overall, it debuted on the Spotify charts of 55 different countries”. Here are the other achievements from Billboard as listed by Jin stans Kim Seokjin also is the fifth trending topic based from Blueprint.PH’s top topics for the second half of October How to be a superstar? BTS evolves overtime from the time of their debut until this second chapter where they seek and explore their individual projects. With the inevitability of enlisting for the military despite the unsurmountable contributions to Korean soft power and economy, Jin was able to convert this disruption to an opportunity to collaborate with Coldplay. And creating the most sincere love song dedicated to his home and family, BTS and the BTS ARMY. Along with this, his company, Big Hit, and he himself were the main source of information on the touchy subject of military enlistment, hence would not be subjected to any misinterpretation. The Astronaut is also Jin of BTS’s launch as a solo artist, together with world’s biggest rock band and 70,000 of their fans in Buenos Aires, Argentina. All things global and inclusive. Jin is truly a global superstar — Kim Seokjin of BTS.

Women Empowerment in the New Generation: Kpop Girl Groups Who Run the World!

02/11/2022

The Philippines had upheld patriarchal beliefs for so long. Times have changed, and women can now be seen in various fields like Music. To pay homage to women in the industry, know these top 5 rising fourth-generation girl groups who proved that, indeed, GIRLS RUN THE WORLD! Blueprint.PH compiled the engagement scores of the top 4th generation Kpop girl groups and came up with the top five. Top 5 Kpop Girl Groups AESPA AESPA is the most popular fourth-generation girl group. Songs like Black Mamba, Next Level, Savage, and Aenergy brought recognition to the group. However, “Life Too Short”, one of their latest singles from comeback EP “Girls” paved the way for their infiltration of the Western market, signing under Warner records. The group held their comeback stage at the GMA Summer Concert last July 8th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aespa 2. NEW JEANS New Jeans is the second most trending fourth-generation girl group. These ladies’ debut album, “NewJeans”, offers a fresh, youthful, yet powerfully engaging theme, perfect for their young yet competent members. The girls have successfully proved their capabilities by winning the “Next Leader” award at The Fact Music Awards in just 79 days after debuting. Their “Attention” MV also garnered 7.29 million views within a week after release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewJeans 3. LE SSERAFIM LE SSERAFIM is the third most talked about the girl group. These fourth-generation artists, whose group name is an anagram for “I’m fearless” defied the odds by persevering as a quintet, from a sextet, despite all the issues surrounding their debut and ex-member, Kim Garam. Debuting with the “Fearless” album, the girls became the first KPOP girl group to achieve 300,000 sales of a debut album during the first tracking week. Their comeback album, “ANTIFRAGILE” released on October 17th, and their performances at TFMA 2022 and KCON Japan 2022 are currently what the girls have in store for their fans and the world. https://www.allkpop.com/article/2022/05/netizens-say-le-sserafim-looks-good-as-a-five-member-group Pop Culture : Women Empowerment in the New Generation: Kpop Girl Groups Who Run the World! 4. ITZY ITZY is the fourth most trending girl group of the fourth generation. Their song “Dalla Dalla” earned a spot among the biggest Billboard debuts of new KPOP acts when it entered the World Digital Song Sales chart in third place and peaked second. The girls’ latest comeback is their “Checkmate” EP, which entered Billboard 200 in eighth place. It is also the name of their first world tour, announced in June. https://www.makestar.co/artists/899 5. (G)I-DLE (G)I-DLE is the fifth most famous girl group. The once sextet fourth generation group debuted last May 2018 with their EP “I Am” followed by the digital single “Hann (Alone)” which peaked at eighth place on the Gaon Digital Chart. In August 2021, the group continued as a quintet when rapper Seo Soo-jin left the line-up. “HWAA” remains their most-awarded single, with a total of 10 music show wins. In October, the group released various teasers of the upcoming MV of their title track, “Nxde.” The group also announced their “Just Me” world tour earlier this year. #GIDLE Announces Dates And Cities For 1st World Tour "#JUSTMEIDLE"https://t.co/l7ieYEFbIr pic.twitter.com/w5tUTIiC5Z — Soompi (@soompi) May 11, 2022 These are the five rising fourth-generation girl groups who rule the local music scene. Give them a listen and be empowered!