20090717 Time To Express Myself

This post is for me to express my hidden anger towards someone, or perhaps, a bunch of people out there who kept making me felt slightly irritated, and highly angry most of the time.

I read some comments, on some webpages, about FT Island. They kept saying that Hongki would better be a solo singer since the other four members only played instruments, and most of the time, they just hand-sync on stages, and that the four members didn't have any roles in FT Island.

I admitted, Hongki received most of the attention (and the love) because he debuted years earlier than Jonghoon, Minhwan, Wonbin, Jaejin and Seunghyun did. He was a child actor anyway. That is why his fanbase is bigger.

Another thing, don't ever say Jonghoon, Jaejin, Minhwan and Seunghyun (even including Wonbin) never do anything in FT Island except for hand-sync their guitars and drums. Korean music shows DON'T ALLOW them to play LIVE! They do want to play live (go and look for their shows from two years ago, you'll know how much they wanted to play live) but live music shows didn't have the time to place those amplifiers and speakers and those wires on stage. FT ISLAND DO PLAY LIVE, especially on showcases and their concerts, so stop saying that the other members except Hongki did nothing but being a backup band for Hongki. They sang too, go and listen to their albums (both Korean & Japanese singles), and you'll realized that the other members sang too!

I am so pissed off. Even my best friend questioned FT Island's real talent (she's a big fan of Big Bang), kept complaining about FT Island's typical ballad when I never even once complaint about Big Bang (seriously, I think Big Bang is a pure music genius!). Just wait until one day I got her to watch Rock Prince DVD or First Island DVD with me. Even my parents (who used to hate Korean Pop) loved FT Island, saying that they are different. That's the main point, they are a band, they are different. They DON'T dance!

FT ISLAND IS NOT A DANCING BOY GROUP.

They are a band. If they were ever born as artistes in Malaysia, they could seriously be successful because most Malaysian loved bands (look at Hujan, Meet Uncle Hussain, Sixth Sense, etc.) because our dancing boy groups' era had ended in late 90's (remembered KRU, 4U2C). But because they are artistes from Korea which is famous for their non-stop debuting dance groups, FT Island is always underrated.

Don't say Hongki should do solo or the other members didn't play any role in FT Island at all. Show the five members and the one member who had left your love. FT Island is a band, a group of young boys (two are a year younger than me while the other one is two weeks younger than me) who played their own music, you know it even when you can't see it.

I am done with my rant.