2NE1 is saying "I Love You" to the World in their 7th Thread!

[ayu_ready?]

me too, I love her, she doesn't need to be strained,it'll hurt her voice

[ILoveGeniuses]

Will.i.am was a special guest performing I Am The Best with 2NE1 @ The Nokia Theatre in LA, California last night!! FANCAM

[Not Fade Away]

^Haha will.i.am ruined the song (even though I love him), but it was fun to see them being so energetic. I thought Bom was going to hurt herself, she was jumping so much!<3

2NE1 For FAULT Magazine:

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2NE1 at VIBE's Headquarters:

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MINZYxJEREMYSCOTT:

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DARA'S ME2DAY:



LA concert has ended!!!^.^ Saw lots of familar faces today~ Will oppa & apl.de.ap oppa’s suprprise! Cool freestyle rap!+.+ Thank you so much to everyone! This is a gift that came directly from the Nokia Theatre! It’s only given to artists that sold out their concerts (at the Nokia theatre) and we’re the first (to receive it) from Asia! It’s all because of you guys! I’m so happy^.^

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Sources: Eromaknae, YGLadies, Dara's Me2Day

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This is amazing news. They have managed to sell out their LA concert and their NJ concert (well I'm actually not sure about this one, but if they didn't, the NJ concert was pretty packed, none-the-less).

I actually think this is excellent news in terms of seeing how well they would do in the American music market. To be able to sell out two major concert halls is pretty impressive.

[ILoveGeniuses]

^awesome!!

Is Fault magazine Korean or American?

[emi♡]

Originally Posted by SoldierofSilence

Will.i.am was a special guest performing I Am The Best with 2NE1 @ The Nokia Theatre in LA, California last night!! FANCAM

my friend went to that show and said it was totally ****ing awesome lol

I don't really listen to them...but I was so jealous anyway. I'd love to go to one of their shows.

[inthezone]

Did Bom get more work done? Her face is even more plastic than before

[Not Fade Away]

^Haha are you talking about the pictures from Vibe's headquarters? Because, sadly, I was thinking the same thing.

Originally Posted by SoldierofSilence

^awesome!!

Is Fault magazine Korean or American?

American .

[ExodusUK]

Bom looks good for 50 years old

[ILoveGeniuses]

Originally Posted by Not Fade Away

^Haha are you talking about the pictures from Vibe's headquarters? Because, sadly, I was thinking the same thing.



American .

So does that mean they'll be in an issue?

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Did Bom get more work done? Her face is even more plastic than before

Bom's face really changes, even it's shape, from time to time because of that ilness she has, I don't remember the correct name

[everlastingRAINBOW]

^ obsessive plastic surgery disorder?

[ayurocks20]

^
Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Bom looks good for 50 years old

If you were attempting some form of 'humor' with that post, you've failed. Making fun of someone's physical appearance is a little shallow.


ANYWAY: I think the footage from the concerts look amazing. I hope they release a DVD of their concert in America. That would be great.

[koumori]

^ Her photoshoots need to come with that reminder in large, bold lettering. Poor Bom.

Anyway, photos look good of them. Nice to hear their concerts are going well. Will.I.Am looked so out of place in that video though

[ILoveGeniuses]

Originally Posted by ayurocks20

^
Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.




If you were attempting some form of 'humor' with that post, you've failed. Making fun of someone's physical appearance is a little shallow.


ANYWAY: I think the footage from the concerts look amazing. I hope they release a DVD of their concert in America. That would be great.

I highly doubt they'll release the Tour DVD being of one of their US Tour stops since it'll be released in South Korea. However, I am hoping that some of the extra footage on the bonus DVD will have footage from the other world stops outside of Korea. Not just the concerts, but also behind-the-scenes, some of the other stuff they did like the stuff for the billboard interviews etc. Also, some footage from the international blackjacks.

[Leaf King]

Is there any proof of that? I'm no expert, so I'm not going to say it's untrue, but from the pictures I've seen, those diagnosed with the disease seem to have a bulge somewhere on their body rather than a somewhat round swelling around one particular part, like the face in Bom's case. I've always thought her face was strange. Sometimes her features seem more defined, so it looks as though it's either due to an unbalanced diet or an allergy that causes her face to swell up. Or surgery, which they could be trying to keep away from the public's eye by passing it off as a disease. I might be wrong, but I'm not in the wrong to be sceptical about it.

[Not Fade Away]

It's true that Bom does have that disease, but I honestly think this is a case where they over-did Bom's lip make-up in the VIBE photos. As we all know, this frequently happens to Ayu as well, and both women can end up having fish-lips in photos thanks to their stylists.

Actually, overall, imo, I think they just over-did Bom's make-up in general for VIBE, which made her look somewhat plastic-y. In the FAULT magazine photos she looks waaay more natural.

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Anyway.....

Here is a review by the LA Times of 2NE1's LA Concert:

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Pity the hapless dude who thought he was getting a lap-dance from Dara of the South Korean pop group 2NE1 on Friday.

The singer dragged him up from the audience onto the Nokia Theatre stage during the single “Kiss,” and plonked this twentysomething white guy — who looked as if he might actually crumple from petrified delight — in a chair facing the stage. Dara, with her Skrillex-inspired haircut and pixie-thug getup, leaned come-hither close, surely about to crib a classic R&B stage-seduction move.

That is, until she promptly shooed him offstage with nary an actual kiss for his trouble. 2NE1 had subverted another American dance-rap cliché with feminine swagger – a sly move from maybe the most exciting new pop group since Lady Gaga first donned hotpants.

The quartet – Dara, CL, Minzy and Bom, leads a tide of South Korean pop groups who currently dominate Asian charts and are beginning to make major inroads with American audiences – Korean American and otherwise.

But of the dozens of groups grappling for the brass ring of hallyu – a catchall term for contemporary South Korean pop – 2NE1 might have the best chance to capture mainstream American audiences. That’s not just because they’re reportedly working with the unerring hitmaker will.i.am on a forthcoming U.S. album.

It’s because 2NE1 represents every direction that pop culture is going – female, global, digital and danceable.

In that respect, their L.A. debut performance to a packed 7,100-capacity Nokia Theatre proved that K-Pop today looks a lot like the future of music everywhere. There were shirtless male dancers with pink mohawks trapped inside giant kick drums; there were huge inflatable slides shaped like lipstick tubes; there were Jeremy Scott-designed dresses made to look like the girls were trapped in the jaws of fluffy space monsters.

Why anyone would ever settle for a white guy emoting on an acoustic guitar again is beyond baffling (and there’s some free advice, “American Idol”). But more importantly, 2NE1’s chemistry made the spectacle click. They have an appealing way of subverting their roles in the band – the doe-eyed, 18-year-old Minzy turns out to have dance moves to make Snoop Lion renounce Jah and come back to hip-hop; the brash Dara builds coy steam, but proves unattainably fierce.

This show was a test case of how K-Pop can play for a mixed American crowd. While heavily Korean American, the audience was also a fascinating mix of gay couples on date night and swag-happy hip-hop aesthetes.

Western audiences can sometimes lose the plot of hallyu, because to be frank, the music is sometimes sort of beside the point. 2NE1 has laser-efficient singles like the techno-saturated “Fire” and the blippy house hit “Go Away.” K-Pop’s ballads are often treacly, but 2NE1’s are workable – the weeper “Lonely” is self-aware enough to avoid camp.

But sometimes they succumbed to the Gaga Problem – the size of their stardom and aesthetic vision can outweigh the actual songs. When zipping over mobile phones in four-minute video bursts, this isn’t a big deal. But at a major two-hour L.A. headlining show, filler like a 10-minute DJ break and a Dodger Stadium-style “Kiss Cam” montage felt like a sugar crash.

But 2NE1 is pop is the best ways – the music, the charisma and the gun-noir pyrotechnics all complement each other to create a bigger essence. When will.i.am and apl.de.ap of Black Eyed Peascame out for the closer – the barnburner dance single, “I Am The Best” – anyone who didn’t know better would have assumed they were there to fix a microphone outage.

2NE1 were the stars Friday, and they’re about to become much, much bigger ones.

Source: LA TIMES, YG Ladies

[ayurocks20]

Originally Posted by Leaf King

Is there any proof of that? I'm no expert, so I'm not going to say it's untrue, but from the pictures I've seen, those diagnosed with the disease seem to have a bulge somewhere on their body rather than a somewhat round swelling around one particular part, like the face in Bom's case. I've always thought her face was strange. Sometimes her features seem more defined, so it looks as though it's either due to an unbalanced diet or an allergy that causes her face to swell up. Or surgery, which they could be trying to keep away from the public's eye by passing it off as a disease. I might be wrong, but I'm not in the wrong to be sceptical about it.

It's on an episode of 2NE1TV (Season 2 or 3), Bom had to take a break during the filming of an MV (I think it was CLAP YOUR HANDS) because her face was swelling up. I'm pretty sure its the area under her chin and around her cheeks.

She's also spoken on it before, I'm not sure where but I do remember reading an interview about the topic.

[ILoveGeniuses]

I thought that review from LA Times was overall rather positive. I'm quite happy with it.

[Minttulatte]

Originally Posted by ayurocks20

^
Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.

Aw, poor Bommie. I hope her illness won't get worse over time. That would be so sad because she's my favorite member of the group. It will be a sad day if she left because of this thing. :<

[ILoveGeniuses]

I was never even aware of this disease thing she has. Can it become life threatening? I really hope not.