The Shinhwa comeback happened...

On February 26th, after what felt like an eternity, Shinhwa made their comeback. Why did I wait so long to write about this? Was it to let the fact that my boys are back fully sink into my brain? To see how the album held up after a couple weeks? Because I was too lazy to sit and write down my thoughts? IDK, man, but anyway, let's now talk about the Shincomeback...

At least everyone looks good.

Even in turtlenecks...

When they dropped the MV teaser for "Sniper" a few days before it was actually released, things got serious. The teaser was very promising. And the MV definitely delivered.

The "Sniper" MV is probably Shinhwa's most polished and stylish music video. It looks so fucking good and is much more artsy than usual. As Shinhwa is a group of mature men, they pulled off a very mature music video. I'll even say this- it's, for sure, their best MV yet.

And I'll say it here, just as I did on Twitter and Tumblr, I want Andy to beat me to death with that goddamn cane.

The song, however, was not as immediately catchy as "This Love," but after listening to it for the last couple of weeks, it definitely grew on me. It's a certified jam~ The whistling really gets to you and is super memorable. It will haunt your dreams.

After all this time, however, I'm still unsure about the WE album as a whole. On the first listen, I felt like I liked it more than their last album The Classic, but to be honest, I don't think it's as good. And what I do know for certain is that it isn't even half as good as The Return.

Apart from "Sniper," there were some good tunes on the album. "Never Give Up" is definitely my favorite song out of the 10, and "Ice Moon" follows closely as my second fave. "Cat" is good solely for the line about bringing Eric some Coca Cola and a large pizza. Unfortunately, I feel a good chunk of the album is less than memorable.

Next, let's talk about performances...

Shinhwa came back on M! Countdown with "Alright" (which is just that, an alright song, TBH) and of course "Sniper."

The "Wild Eyes" chair-centric dance is probably one of Shinhwa's most known choreographies, and over a decade later, Shinhwa returned with a new performance that involves chairs~ It's not bad. They looked good doing it, and it matched their mature concept. But it does not reach the level of radness that is "Wild Eyes."

"Sniper" has a very cool dance to go along with it. It's nothing terribly complex or seemingly difficult looking, but it's not dull and Shinhwa does not come off as a bunch of old dudes who can't dance anymore. In every performance, they looked pretty hot. "Sniper" is just a really hot concept. Everything was really hot about this comeback.

Lastly, and most importantly, let's just talk about my ultimate fave Andy.

Hot damn.

Andy looked super fine this comeback... Of course he would, though- he always looks amazing. But as usual, there has not been enough Andy. There is never enough Andy. Shinhwa will never provide me with enough Andy to truly satiate me. However, I will keep coming back hoping for more DyDy.

And to sum up everything, I'm just super happy to have my Andy back in my life.

OMG: ToToGa Super Concert

Well, ToToGa fever still is not showing any signs of dying down any time soon. Last night, I was surprised to find out that at the end of April (April 25th) ToToGa Super Concert is going to happen!

A press conference was held on the 19th over in Korea for it, and now I am pumped.

Several of the artists who preformed on the Infinity Challenge special will be back for the concert. Kim Gunmo, Lee Junghyun, Kim Hyunjung, So Chanwhee, Jo Sungmo, Jinusean, Turbo, and Cool are all returning.

Hyunjung looked really good so I'm leaving this here.

In total 21 acts are scheduled to appear at the event. So who else is going to be there?

It's kind of awkward to mention it now, given what I had to say in my previous post, but guess who's going to perform? Yeah, my fave trio, Koyote~ I'm on a serious Koyote kick this year, so I won't lie, I am mainly paying attention to this for Koyote, lol.

But anyway...

On top of Koyote, we get even more sweet 90s peeps- Clon, DJ DOC, R.ef, and Roo'ra. Literally these are all like the best groups out of the 90s.

You can never have enough Clon in your life.

Also appearing are Goofy, Young Turks Club, Cho PD, Wax, Park Mikyeong, Kim Wonjoon, Chae Jungan, and flipping Chuli and Miae!

Solid 90s line-up.

Why can't I be in Korea for this?

Just some thoughts...

People are still going on about ToToGa.

As a turd nugget 90s fan I guess it's cool, but eh, it's getting old, LBR.

When Shinhwa came back, they got asked about it, like if they wanted to perform on it or whatever. And they were like we are still active and we don't want to live in the past or something like that.

Bbaek Ga was on Taxi not that long ago and got asked about Koyote not being on ToToGa. When it heard that I was like "WTF" because as with Shinhwa, Koyote is still an active group. Bbaek Ga explained how they couldn't because Jongmin is on Star King on Saturday nights on a different channel and it would have conflicted with that.

But as I said, Shinhwa and Koyote are active groups. They're still fresh and relevant. It's not like we haven't seen them perform in forever, and it's not like we will not see either group perform within like the new year (Shinhwa literally just came back). ToToGa was more about the 90s and artists you really haven't thought about since the 90s or whose careers were more prominent in the 90s.

It's getting tiring having members from even relevant groups (i.e. H.O.T and Sechskies) field questions about ToToGa and reuniting. Of course no one can give a precise yes or no answer. So everyone needs to stop. When people go on about reunions incessantly, it feels like they get pushed back more and more.

I saw an interview with Suwon in which he said that if there was another ToToGa-esque program he hoped Sechskies could do it. Maybe it could happen. Sunghoon is getting back out there, but who knows if Jaejin would want to do it or if Jiyong will ever be down. Jiyong left entertainment so I think it would be fine if they reunited as five. I mean you can't force him to do something that he doesn't want to do. It would be awkward if he was still a celebrity and just refused to do it, but he's not a celebrity anymore. So I would have no issue with just like Fünfkies (lol, I actually looked up what five is in German).

And another thing, I don't get why g.o.d gets called a 90s group. They really aren't. I don't get why they are lumped in with other 90s boybands, to be honest; they are part of the first generation of idols, but they're more a product of the new millennium. It's just something that irks me that I felt like mentioning, lol.

Perhaps I might finally finish that g.o.d post (that is like three months late) this week...