The 10th Mnet KM Music Festival was held at the Jamsil Olympic Stadium in central Seoul last Saturday.
The gold prize went to Dongbangsingi, Big Bang and Wonder Girls.
Big Bang’s performance melted many a teenage girl’s heart. The group staged “Lies,” “Last Farewell” and “Day by Day” with singer Lee Hyo-ri.
The festival was aired live on local cable channels, Mnet, KM and tvN as well as Mnet Japan.
source: asianbite
credit: Joongang Daily
Big Bang TaeYang was voted #1 for ‘the male idol member who will best succeed going solo’.
DCInside (www.dcinside.com) did the survey 11th-18th November and with a total of 10,084 votes, Taeyang emerged #1 with 2335 votes (23.2%).
Taeyang released his first solo album “HOT” with the title song “Look at Only Me” this May. He also did a first-ever solo concert in July.
Here are the rest of the results. SeungRi received 1,553 votes (15.4%) at 2nd place, SS501 leader Kim Hyun Joong at 3rd position with 1,130 votes (11.2%). Others on the chart are Big Bang GDragon, Kim Hyung Joon and Kim Kyu Jong from SS501.
source: kbites
First of all, TOP (sshi) your kiss scene has become one of the headlines in the news. How have you come to doing that?
- TOP: Well… when we were organizing the performance, we coincidently came up with that idea… just coincidently. This is sort of a topic that is difficult to talk about (laughs)
There are five members in Big Bang, but is there a special reason for TOP to be involved in this scene?
- SR: Because of the fact that the person who is involved in this scene had to have an excellent acting skills, we thought that TOP was suitable for this scene.
Whose idea was it to perform Seung Ri’s “U go Girl”?
- SR: Hyo Ri noona made a suggestion on making a guy version of U Go Girl, and apparently she chose me. I don’t know the reason she chose me though…. (laughs)
To get into the main topic, we were curious of something. Is ‘sunset glow’ a remake or a sampling? (I don’t know the difference between two)
- SR: It’s sampling of course. You can see it the same way as to what Se7en (hyung) has sampled Seo Tae Ji’s “I know (Nan Al A yo).” We just copied the chorus, and everything else was different than the original song.
We know that Big Bang is very well known for their creativity. Weren’t there some contrast in opinions, to make the title song of the album to be a new song?
- TY: In our first album, the title song “Dirty Cash” was focusing on money and gold. But this album we wanted to talk a lot more of society and the community.
When CEO Yang Hyun Suk, suggested Sunset glow as the title song, we were not really supportive of the idea. However, the song itself came out to be good, and as it is a whole album, we wanted to have the adults listen to our song as well. We have recorded this song when our 3rd mini album came out, but we have saved it for it to become the title song of a full album.
Since it is a full album, you guys will work on it for a long period of time. Am I right?
- TY: We are going to have our concert of this album next year on January. Until then, we will be working a lot and after that, we are planning to go to the states.
But, G-dragon, you seem to look sick.
- GD: No, it’s just that yesterday (17th) I have been sleeping a lot in a while, and my eyes started to sore. We didn’t have a schedule for the whole day, so I just slept a lot.
- TOP: Everyone only slept. Because we seem to be stressed out and we are not nervous anymore
Knowing the way to fight against your sleep was improved. Am I right?
- TY: Sleep doesn’t seem to be the opponent we should fight against. When you are sleepy, you should sleep. (laughs) For a while, whenever we had spare time left, we would hang around, but nowadays, whenever we have time we always seem to be sleeping.
It shows that you are busier. The position Big Bang is in now, aren’t you happy for this factor?
- TY: Well… we haven’t really thought about it. But we still have a long way to go. It has only been our third year. We know that we are getting a lot of love from many people, but as much as they love us, I think that we should try our best every time. The position we are in now is not very important, but how we will improve day by day is much more important to us.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Big Bang?
- GD: The strengths are that all of us have different styles, and as a team we have different colours in music. All of us seem to have different talents. And we have our own colour as a group. And the weaknesses… there are none (laughs)
- TOP: We are not sure about the weaknesses or our limit. But if we think about it, our limit seems to be that we can’t show more things to the audience on stage.
- GD: hmm… Because of the fact that we don’t have much time meaning we don’t have as much time to practice, there are details we can’t practice precisely. There are some improvements we can do during performance
‘Sunset Glow’ seems to be a song with a really cute atmosphere. TOP (sshi) you seemed to be a bit awkward. (laughes)
- TOP: No. Or maybe for the audience it is. But I think I am cute enough for this song (laughs)
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