Official Wonder Girls thread -III-

[minna]

WONDER GIRLS: THE THIRD THREAD

DISCOGRAPHY
Singles:

01. Irony
02. Tell Me
03. Ibaboh (이바보; This Fool)
04. So Hot
05. This Time
05. Nobody
06. Nobody (english version)


Mini Albums:

1st Mini Album - The Wonder Begins - 2007.02.13
01. Irony
02. Bad Boy
03. Mianhan Maeum (미안한마음; A Sorry Heart)
04. Irony (Tae Kwon-Daybreak Remix)

2nd Mini Album - So Hot - 2008.06.03
01. So Hot
02. This Time
03. You\\\'re Out
04. Tell Me (Rap Version)

3rd Mini Album - The Wonder Years Trilogy - 2008.10.02
01. Intro
02. Nobody
03. I Tried
04. Saying \\\"I Love You\\\"
05. Nobody (Rainstone Remix)
06. Nobody (Instrumental)
07. I Tried (Instrumental)
08. Saying \\\"I Love You\\\" (Instrumental)
09. Nobody (Rainstone Remix) (Instrumental)

Albums:

1st Album - The Wonder Years - 2007.09.13
01. I Wanna
02. Ibaboh (이바보; This Fool)
03. Tell Me
04. Friend
05. Headache
06. Mwuh Uhttae (Ft. David Kim) (뭐어때; So What)
07. Wishing On A Star
08. Move (Ft. Lee Min Woo)
09. Gajyuga (가져가; Take It)
10. Good Bye
11. Bad Boy
12. Mianhan Maeum (미안한마음; A Sorry Heart)
13. Irony



LATEST NEWS
Hae Lim: the new member replacing Sun Mi (also in the album!)

Spoiler:

WONDERGIRLS has restructured itself as a result of newest member HaeLim coming aboard. After SunMi’s announced withdrawal last month, the preceding plan was to involve her in group activities until late-February, & then begin to mix in HaeLim from the month of March. But the transition period has been brought forward somewhat.

Beginning February 4 with CF activities in Sanya, China [the city is located on Hainan island], HaeLim will publicly appear as a WONDERGIRLS member for the first time. To this end, she had parted company with the others on January 27 & then joined the group to go overseas to China on February 2. After finishing China promotions, she will head to America to participate in recording sessions for WONDERGIRLS’s official debut album.

WONDERGIRLS had begun recording for the debut album in America since late last year. Because the plan was to publish it in late February, SunMi had participated in the recordings. However, her abrupt decision to exit resulted in an unavoidable change. After careful deliberations over whether to keep SunMi’s vocals in the album, the decision was made to enroll HaeLim & let her re-record the parts. The anticipated album release date is also delayed till April or so.

Separately, SunMi is not involved in the China CF activities & has remained behind in New York. The JYP camp said that she will have already left WONDERGIRLS when the CF is aired, & was thus not included in the China promotions. SunMi will join the ‘Pop-Con Concert’ on February 20 at the Nassau Coliseum in America, before biding farewell to WONDER GIRLS.

source: omonatheydidn't

US TOUR CANCELLED

Spoiler:

The Korean pop group Wonder Girls have cancelled their headlining tour of the United States, which was supposed to start at the end of February.

It seems all of these decisions were made after one of their members, the 18-year-old Sun Mi, called it quits last month to return to school. The CEO of the company that manages the group, JYP Entertainment’s Park Jin-young, first cancelled the U.S. tour and postponed their U.S. debut album release for April.

“The upcoming tour wasn’t going as planned and postponing their U.S. album release was an inevitable situation,” said a spokesman from JYP Entertainment.

Park’s decisions for the temporary break are seen as a way to give the 18-year-old Hye Rim, Sun Mi’s replacement, time to ease in to performing with the group. According to Park, they plan to resume their original plans after she’s completely adjusted.

After they finished a promotional tour in China, Hye Rim went to the U.S. on Feb. 2 with the rest of the Wonder Girls to begin working on their new album.

Sun Mi is currently getting ready to leave the U.S., and will head back to Korea after her final performance with the group on the 20th in Long Island, New York’s Nassau Coliseum for the Pop-Con Concert.

Nobody "Chinese Version"

Spoiler:

[AyUta]

I'm really mad about the cancellation of the US tour...

[minna]

yeah I think it sucks
and please....new releases?!!! 'cause as much as I love Nobody, I'm really getting tired of it...

they performed So Hot (english version) without hae lim
and then saying I love you with her







FAN MEETING

Girl group Wonder Girls members SunYe, YooBin, YeEun and SoHee talk about their feelings on SunMi’s leaving the group.

The 4 WonderGirls members had a meeting with their WonderGirls fan union on 8th February and the fan union released the details of the meeting through their fancafe at about 11pm.

According to the representative of the fan union, SunMi’s training was shorter as compared to the other members since her debut she had missed out a much of her schooling life. And the members constantly felt SunMi’s regrets about it after they had their American debut.

They told the fans, “But our responses were the same as fans when it was revealed that SunMi will be stopping her promotions as WonderGirls for the time being. At first we panicked, and said that she will regret this, but after awhile we calmed down and gave our support for her decision.”



They said, “And we know that SunMi is not one to make such decisions lightly, she has been thinking about this for a while, and discussed it with the members and company."

And the WonderGirls member also explained that rumours of the company pushing SunMi to leave the group is groundless. They said, “Debuting in the States was a dream which all the members have dreamed of. Even though we were afraid with all the saying that it is too early for our American debut, we really wanted to go to the States.”

They added, “The company also do not wish for its singers to be like puppet singers who just listen to whatever the company tells them to do.”

The members also talked about their feelings on SunMi temporarily stopping promotions as part of the WonderGirls. Especially for SoHee, who is of the same age as SunMi and stopped her high school education for her singer career together with SunMi. SoHee said, “It is true that it is hard to be away from the family as a young student, so I understand how SunMi feels. With that said, I believed that she has thought things out since it is her choice after all.”

The WonderGirls also emphasized, “Even though ‘WonderGirls SunMi’ is important, individual ‘SunMi’ is also very important. Since this is her decision on her own life, if us members are to hold on to her, later on when she regrets, we don’t know how we are going to be responsible for that.”

Also, “There are people who are criticising like ‘This is the decision you made in the beginning, why are you calling it ends now?’. We hope people don’t look at it this way since hardship means differently to every individual and they deal with them differently.” (Really well said. So, so true.)

The 4 members of the WonderGirls had the meeting with 5 fan union representative from about 2pm in the afternoon that day.

Meanwhile, on 23rd January it was announced that SunMi will leave WonderGirls for the time being. With that, SunMi will be with the WonderGirls till the end of the month. And from March, she will return to Korea to start preparations for her college life.

And JYP trainee HyeRim (Lim) will be taking over the empty position in the group. Already on 4th February, she had her first official performance as part of the WonderGirls in China for an event.

source: omonatheydidnt

[Fitst]

They tried to expand way to qucikly. I would have rather them stayed in korea making good music than trying to become famous wold wide on just one song- and getting no new music.

[minna]

I agree with that. They tried to do too many things at the same time.
I thought that releasing in the US was a nice idea and they succeded.
However, when they started annoucing that the girls where learning chinese and that they were planning a debut in china at the same time...
That, I found it a bit too much. I think they should have concentrated their efforts on Korea and the US rather than trying to make it everywhere.
I think they should have wait (for the debut in china).
If you look at the comments on omona, people are tired of hearing Nobody in different versions...can't blame them

[AyUta]

Well, I don't know too much about them because I haven't listened to their Korean material yet...I got into them because of nobody! xD I wonder when the album is set to come out now...

[y_nathz]

Yeah Nobody sounded boring now :\
I missed Sunmi but I can't hate Lim too..

[minna]

I don't know when the album is coming out
since they re-recored every song with Hae Lim...

[AyUta]

^ They did? That was unecessary, really.

[minna]

yep they did

NEWS!
The girls will be at the Milly Fashion Show (New York's fashion week)

Sunye left a touching message on fansite

"Jacob cried as he wrestled with the angel on the river Jabbok.

The bible said “the Lord God Almighty,he Lord is his name of renown!” (Hosea 12:5). Hanna prayed whilst she cried, and Moses spent 40 years in the prairie.
Peter shed tears when the rooster crowed, and Mary cried after witnessing the death of her son Jesus.

When Lazarus died, Jesus cried also. Max Lucado described this scene in a
short but impactful manner. “Jesus is shedding tears. He sobs while sitting between Mary and Martha with his arms around them". The phrase in the verse, “arms around them” touched me deeply.

Despite the fact that Jesus knew Lazarus would reincarnate, he shed tears.

Because Jesus cried, it is okay for us to cry in times of trouble. It’s okay to cry in times of trouble. But always remember not to cry like a person without hope.

The bible said “Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who fall asleep, or to grieve like rest of men, who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13)

People who do not hope are saddened because they do not have hope. But the Bible is clearly testifying for us. “For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently” (Romans 8:24-25)

We looked up to hope with our faith, and with faith, we earned salvation.We all possess a kind of hope that our naked eye cannot see. What we can see with our eyes is not hope. Therefore, those who keep hoping are waiting for what they cannot witness, and for this, we need patience.

Jesus Christ never told us we had to succeed, but to endure.

If we translate “but he who stands firm to the end will be saved" (Matthew 24:13)
in a more direct approach,it can translate into “when you hold on till the end” or “when you endure”. If we do so, Jesus Christ will guide us to the house of hope.

Min dot family..i give you my blessings and love..i give my love to you just as jesus christ had.. can you feel my sincerity ? All i can do is to pray..for everyone ^^"

source: omonatheydidn't

[y_nathz]

Sunye is so sweet..
Now I'm so proud being Christian lol

[minna]

Tell Me (chinese version)


So Hot (chinese version)

Korea's leading girl group the Wonder Girls recently released their single "Nobody" in the Chinese-speaking world.

The song ranked at the top of the J-Pop/K-Pop chart at music website KKBOX, a leading music portal for the greater Chinese market. It also topped Taiwan's mobile music charts including those of three major Taiwanese mobile operators -- Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan Mobile and FETnet.

Even before the group made its debut there, Chinese media created much hype, reporting that it would release a Chinese version of "Nobody" as well. In fact, the group had planned to release the version in February but postponed the plan indefinitely because of the departure of member Sunmi.

The Wonder Girls last week visited China to promote a Chinese commercial that they will appear in, and are scheduled to perform at the opening of Justin Bieber's concert at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Saturday. They are also planning to work on an album for the U.S. market.

source: omonatheydidnt

[hearted]

^sunmi and sunye looked gorgeous there!!

i feel sorry for the girls, they must be so tired of singing i want nobody nobody but you the whole time D:

[minna]

Pictures of the girls at the Fashion Week NYC

Spoiler:

COMEBACK IN APRIL (KOREA!!!)

WonderGirls who have been away from the Kpop scene for some time to promote in the States will be back on the Korean performing stage this year.
Coming April, WonderGirls will be releasing their first full-length album in the States, and will be doing a ‘Korea-America-Asian’ promotions for it.
A representative revealed on the 19th, “Currently the girls are working on the new album, and it will include their hit songs like ‘Nobody’ as well as 4~5 new song. In addition, the girls will be recording a Korean version to the title song for fans in Korea.”

And about whether the girls will be promoting the Korean version of the title song, the rep said, “Korea is included in part of the promotions for their new album. And we are seeing that they will be promoting in Korea for a longer time than in other countries for the song.”
Currently the WonderGirls are promoting their hit song ‘Nobody’ in the States, as well as in China.
Meanwhile, member SunMi will be leaving the team and heading back to Korea to prepare for her college life in March, while JYP trainee HyeRim will be joining as new member.

HOUSE BRAND COSMETICS - New pics with Hae Lim

The Wonder Girls are set to launch their own line of cosmetics “WG by Wonder Girls” on the 24th this month. With the addition of new member, Hye Lim, a series of photoshoot for her has to be conducted despite the removal of member Mimi, & was completed on the 18th this month, in the studio located at Seoul.

According to a representative, to commemorate the launch of this house brand cosmetics, part of sales’ proceeds will be donated to charitable organisations such as UNICEF. There were also plans to market the newly branded cosmetic line into China, South East Asia & US this coming may.

The photoshoot were taken last year’s December where members (Sun, Yenny, Yubin, Mimi & Sohee) headed back to Korea for CF activities, taking a break from their US activities.

Spoiler:

more:http://community.livejournal.com/omo...67.html#cutid1

SUNMI'S LAST PERFORMANCE ( )


source: omonatheydidnt (for everything)

AND FINALLY! IF YOU GUYS WATCHED THE VANCOUVER OLYMPICS YESTERDAY (FEMALE FIGURE SKATING), YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THAT BEFORE GIVING THE MEDALS THEY PLAYED NOBODY (original version)

[AyUta]

^ ?! Damnit! I didn't watch it yesterday !

[minna]

COMEBACK CONFIRMED / NEW ALBUM
when: May 15th
the album will be release in chinese, english and korean (yes on the same day!)

WORLD TOUR DATES (for now)
2010 Wonder Girls Tour Schedule

6/4, Friday, Warner Theater, Washington, D.C.
6/5, Saturday, Tabernacle, Atlanta
6/6, Sunday, Hammerstein, New York City
6/8, Tuesday, House of Blues, Chicago
6/9, Wednesday, House of Blues, Houston
6/10, Thursday, House of Blues, Dallas
6/11, Friday, Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles
6/12, Saturday (No 2PM), House of Blues, Anaheim
6/13, Sunday, The Fillmore, San Francisco

ABOUT THE ALBUM

Wonder Girls are currently hard at work with their EP album which will have their hit songs in English and new songs. The Wonder Girls will also hold an event for their album release on May 15th at 6PM (Western time) and the album launch event will be streamed live on Ustream. Perez Hilton has been penciled in as the event host, so get ready!

NEW MV FILMED (PRODUCED IN EACH LANGUAGE)

-pop princesses Wonder Girls have finished shooting the music videos for their U.S. debut album in Korea, according to their agency on Thursday.

"The girls shot their music videos for two days till yesterday in the Gyeonggi Province," a representative from JYP Entertainment explained, adding they will return to the U.S. next week to finish preparing for their album.

Their new album, to contain their title track recorded in three languages including English, Chinese and Korean, will be unveiled worldwide on May 16.

Their music videos were also produced in each language, the first time in the world for such an attempt to be made.

On the day of the album's release, the girls are set to hold a launching party which will air live on online service provider Ustream, followed by a live-chatting session with their fans from all over the world and a live performance by the girls.

source for everything: omonatheydidn't @ lj

[Lizzyboo]

Hey guys! i found something interesting about wonder girls today!

i am subscribed to Demi Lovato on Youtube and she posted a new video today and i was watching it and different celebrities were making random cameos and all of a sudden i hear "wonder girls!" and i was like huh? lol and i have never actually listened to them myself but knew they were a popular korean group and i didnt know if many wonder girl fans would be subscribed to Demi Lovato XD haha so i thought i would share my random find with you guys ^_^



if you dont want to watch the whole thing they appear at about 1:33! ^_^

[[kokoro♥]]

It was posted on allkpop xD

[Lizzyboo]

oh! lol im sorry i didnt know!

[miroro]

new on the girls return
new single on the 15th!!




Tracklist:

01. 2 Different Tears
02. So Hot
03. Tell Me
04. Nobody
05. 2 Different Tears Remix
06. Nobody Rainstone Remix
07. Nobody Jason Nevins Remix
08. 2 Different Tears (Korean)
09. 2 Different Tears (Chinese)
10. 2 Different Tears (Karaoke)
11. 2 Different Tears (Instrumental)

i love the cover! no more '20s outfits xD
but 2 different tears is gonna be the only new song