DBSK and BSB

What does DBSK have to do with BSB?

Honestly, I don’t know. I guess except for the fact that they are both famous boy bands…..

A few days, I saw an article about BSB and DBSK. Sometime in 2007, BSB met with DBSK at Music Fair 21, a Japanese show. Honestly, this is old news. But I wasn’t a fan of DBSK back then (2007) so this is the first time I’ve heard about it. At an interview after the show, BSB praised DBSK’s singing ability and said that DBSK reminded them of their former selves. When I first saw the article, I thought it’s something recent, so I was surprised that BSB, or DBSK, is actually active. A lot of old news are being dug back up because there has been very little news about DBSK. Anyways it’s still kinda cool that top boy bands get to meet like that.

What’s new?

The most recent DBSK news is actually from the United States!!!!

On Feb. 18^th, Elvis Duran & the Morning Zoo, some radio show in NY, played DBSK’s Break Out (DBSK’s newest single). In “Top Songs from Around the World” segment of the show, Elvis Duran introcued DBSK’s Break Out as the most popular song in Japan. He also expressed that he wants DBSK to come to the US (following the Wonder Girls). Break Out ranked first on the Oricon chart as expected; it is the 7^th DBSK single in a roll that made first on the Oricon chart.

I want DBSK to come to the US as well. But I know that even without the split, the chances are very small. Anyways, if I pick one Kpop group to represent the pride of Korea popular music, then I would definitely pick DBSK!!!

The last piece of news for Feb 20th is an interview with one of SM’s voice teachers. Not sure if it’s actually recent news.He has taught more than 200 SM trainees. All of them had been physically punished for not practicing enough. For example, he would hit them with a ski stick untio the stick breaks. He also said that his best students are DBSK’s Junsu and Jaejoong and SNSD’s Taeyeon. In Asia, physically punishing students is a fairly common thing, at least 10 years back. Now not as much. My piano even hit my hands when I didn’t practice enough or used the wrong figuring when I was little. I don’t think it’s a particularly bad thing. Excuse my analogy, but it’s kind of like training animals. Of course, hitting a student until the ski stick breaks is a little much. But I guess that’s what made Jaejoong’s and Junsu’s great voices!