Not Today

 So the Countdown release yesterday was Electric Kiss dance practice and first of all, yay hq FULL song so I can rip it, but the choreo was aahhhhhhsum.  I'm lowkey butthurt that we won't see much of it bc they don't promote the same in Japan.  They were so in sync.  Then I did finally watch the GDA perfs, albeit just from Baekhyun's focus, well that's what came up on my home page at Youtube lmao.  Some observations:

- the choreo made more sense to me than when I first saw parts of it, it's obviously Middle-Eastern inspired, makes sense with the vocal runs they do, that sliding scale

- Both B and Do pulled those off v.well btw

- Chen sounded amazing just in general and those three songs were INTENSE and it was apparently fully live

- Lol Suho's mic broke and he was laughing about it while trying to hide it in his shirt

B was super intense, but at the end of KKB, it looked like he was cramping or something, he couldn't straighten, so that made me sad. :(  I do recall seeing some stills where he was doubled over after the performance, so I guess that's why.  Hah, but I noticed, true to his own words when he said the person he goes to when he's feeling tired/bad is Chen, he literally leaned on Chen's back at a pause point in the choreo and that is not in the original, never seen before, etc..  Poor boy. :(

But also ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

i SHOUld really have a COuntdown tag lmao.  Next release thinger is the 15th.

 I lowkey feel like EXOL won't ever forgive THAT fandom for trying to put out our "light". Maybe I'm falling into it too, but i didn't even appreciate Soompi putting out that thing about BTS and EXO having contact or whatever.  Like, that's nice and all, that's not the fucking point. BTS fandom is VILE and they don't deserve anything.  And don't try to tell me it's just a minority, no it clearly is not.  It's both ifans AND Kfans.  If anything, they're calling down karma on their own group.  Which isn't fair to them as I bear them no ill will, but you know, as one of my mutuals put it, it's really hard to separate the two at this point.  It's sad that they've brought it to that.  But you made that bed.

In any case, some random Hyunseung news.  Yet again, one of his Japan things was canceled, same random vague reason.  Then it turns out he's dating some gymnast girl, which that's cool.  At least he has something to do lmao.  How did she find him in the dungeon though?  Also on the Cube front, Idk if I said it here, but Pentagon's Japan album appears to be almost all original this time, only one rehash with Violet.  Tempted to put it in with my EXO order. 

I'm soooooo pressed that there's like four weeks until that album comes out.  Because I already know it's awesome.  The remaining songs, I heard a preview and they all sound amazing.  No real ballads except Cosmic Railway, which is like the quintessential Jpop ballad, so not much of a ballad honestly.

Oh yeah, I watched all of EXO's eoy stuff.  Took me forever lmao. Yo nice skirt.  Anyway ahhh it was all good.  Camerawork, mostly bad, except for the last one, which might have been MBC Idek, the one in the bar, that was good.  Universe perf was good and I see they already got their first win on it too.

Ok, I know Baek has the edge in my stanning, but sometimes I'm seriously not sure because Chen is so fluffing hot and talented.  ALl I know is that SM better give them the duet they've been asking for for basically ever. :<  Even if it's just Chen guesting on Baek's solo (a few times).  SOMETHING.

 I'm not sure there's a more fucktarded shipping fandom that ChanBaek...ok no, I take that back, the Mark Jackson one.  But srssssly these people are so effing delusional I can't.  And just like Markson, they're always posting on every single video.  And just like Markson, it's becoming increasingly obvious that they're uncomfortable interacting publicly now so thanks a lot.  I mean, I've said, I appreciate a good bromance, but not based on a company's obvious planned ship and ermg they stood near each other or whatever.  At least with Chen and Baek it's super obvious that they have a REAL close relationship.

BUT I'M ALSO NOT DELUSIONAL ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THEY'RE ACTUALLY DATING.  I can't believe how many hyper defensive comments I see on posts about Baekhyun and girls.  Like, it's super obvious he's interested in girls ok. You're brain damaged if you can't see that.  And like, regardless if he's involved with any of the ones he flirts with, IF HE IS, that's way more realistic than him being involved with anyone in EXO you dipshits.  Wow why is this so hard to understand for these ppl Idgi.

A good example of this dumb though is I ran across a bunch of old articles of people being sus of Kai and Krystal before it broke that they were dating and oml the comments.  So many people being hyper defensive and saying there was no way they were dating and I was cackling, like wow I  bet you lot felt dumb when it turned out to be true lmao.

Speaking of that though, it seems like Kexols are trying to protect B bc he might be dating again and I can't help but wonder if it's that girl from Master Key.  Idk how long that show took to film, but dang, I felt some sparks lol.  Plus she just broke up with her bf earlier this year.  I know there's all these clips of him looking super interested in Irene, but I didn't really get the same vibe from her?  It would be hot if so, she's gorgeous.

You see though?  See how it's not hard to be a fan of a bromance and not take it seriously where you lose your grip on reality and don't understand that the vast majority of these guys are straight and more than likely dating on the down low.  It's super easy, y'all should try it sometime.

But so the Melon Awards, B was in fine form, totally not giving a fuck.  And he and Chen did the THING in the Ko Ko Bop choreo again.  What's hilarious is that this time it was all over BaekChen twitter, but like, two weeks ago, how did y'all miss it then?  There were several fancams and it was honestly ruder that time lmao.  It's really funny to me though bc like, lbr, that part in the choreo was begging for that kind of interaction and it TOOK THEM ALL YEAR asdlfjksdlfkjsdlf.