Flower Rock.

God, I can’t bring myself to remember the last time I squeal like a giddy fan girl who has just survive through several seconds of hyperventilating moments. Come to think about it, it might be months ago. Since I am a crazy fan girl of a Korean band who seems underrated when they have almost all the talents a real boy band really needs, I have to understand that they are producing music not because they want the profits (thus releasing new singles and mini-albums almost the entire year throughout all the twelve damn months) so, real music in the making takes time. Who cares when you get to see five talented and handsome young men with their instruments in the end? You’ll find yourself hyperventilating like never before anyway.


So let’s cut to the real chase. FT Island has released a news about their major Japanese debut, the precise date to be May 19 after they signed under Warner Music Japan in January. The single is awkwardly titled, “Flower Rock”. And now, let us all Primadonna cherish the times when we can’t get enough of the boys through an eleven seconds teaser of their upcoming major debut’s single, “Flower Rock”.

As much as I know that I say this a lot, I have no complains about Hongki and his awesome Honglish. Even when I notice that there is absolutely no microphone and microphone stands anywhere near Seunghyun, I will try not to rant about it (Dammit FNC Music, that kid has an awesome vocal, just give him some lines and a microphone and let him sing already!). Clearly the only thing I am really satisfied about their whole Japanese major debut is their fashion sense (I don’t want to even remember how many times I cringe as I watch them in their horrible fashion sense while staying in Japan in 2008) although, likely, I would love to grab a scissor and just trim those boys’ hair short. Rock doesn’t always mean long, eye-poking hairs, stylists.

Eleven seconds is just to damn short. It wasn’t enough to make me scream. Now, I am very happy that when FT Island states that they are making rock music, the song does come out as a ROCK song. Even as a fan, when they say they are making rock music but end up making angst-ridden sad ballad with a slight guitar riffs that can’t even make it into the pop rock genre, it kind of gets to annoy. Although, “Flower Rock” sounds so great, I find myself not having enough satisfaction through the short eleven seconds. I am not ashamed to admit that, I am freaking loving “Flower Rock” already.

I read in SOOMPI that the music video might be released on May 3 since the date is stated on the teaser while the whole single album will be released on May 19, along with FT Island’s first appearance on a Japan music show. I have to say that I can’t wait, and I mean it. Since FT Island has signed under Warner Music, I have my fingers cross so that the single album will be distributed in Malaysia as well. The only Japanese single albums from FT Island I could find in Malaysia are The One and it cost a damn RM99 that is equivalent to the DVD of “You’re Beautiful”.

So, even with a drastic downfall in Fan Café for FT Island, I am going to be loyal and wait for their upcoming releases. Their Korean comeback is set whether in August or September (some news read August while Leader Choi himself states in his cyworld that it is going to be in September) so come on, if you could wait for a while, why not continue to wait for what FT Island has done best - awesome genuine music (I am sick of autotune already).