[PHOTOS] G-Dragon @ Yohji Yamamoto Fashion Show!

"Lunettes rondes, Crucifix, cheveux roses, chapeau cloche. La Star de la K-Pop, G-Dragon du groupe Big Bang était à Paris aujourd’hui et s’est rendue au show de Yohji Yamamoto." -Blog HommeUrbain.

Translation: Round glasses, cross, rosy hair, bucket hat. Leader of Bigbang which is K-Pop star, G-Dragon is at Yohji Yamamoto’s show in Paris today.

G-Dragon Update his Me2day: 

G-Dragon: Today just you and me at the party~ PARIS!...

[PHOTOS] Daesung & Taeyang @ Gimpo Airport leaving for Japan!

Look at taeyang, he still stick with his skateboard.. no matter where he goes.

[PHOTOS] Big Bang on Choa Magazine!

I'll be update more photos soon!! ^^

[NEWS] Big Bang's Interview on Oricon June Issue!

Q: Your new album ‘Alive’ has received good comments, it is said that G-Dragon has participated in melody and lyrics writing of all the songs?
GD: Yes, I am so glad that I have participated in this album from the perspective of producer; however, objectively speaking,I want to show you our new sides…I was very troubled to think of it when it came to this part. I want to show you the message that ‘Big Bang is still alive; and convey you the ‘pains’ and ‘internal struggles’ that we have been going through this year so we have created ‘Blue’.

Q: Based on this idea, you have created ‘BLUE’ and it reminds us that Big Bang is back and it seemed to have suddenly shortened the period that you have not been doing any promotion. It is really meaningful and has become one of the classics songs of Big Bang.
GD: This is the effect that I want to achieve (laugh), ‘Winter is nearly over and we are going to enter Spring’. Although it describes the bitter love that one has to experience in their romantic relationship and it can be interpreted as the description of the situation of Big Bang too. We want to convey our feelings to the fans who have been supporting us for a long time and at the same time, we want to convey the feeling of ‘hope’ to you, too.

Q: Reading the lyrics written by G-Dragon, we can feel the ‘pain’ and ‘internal struggles’ that you have just said, they are the gentle feelings that only men can express.
GD: No matter they are romantic songs or songs I want to express other feelings, I will not add any fake feelings to them. I think that if we put into our true feelings in the songs, not only can we convey our feelings to others but we can also shorten the distance between us and others. In this way, we can ‘echo’ with each other.

Q: Perhaps because the five members of BigBang has different extraordinary talents and charms so the first-time listeners might not be used to it and therefore they feel distant from them. But here is where the magic of Big Bang lies!When you are listening to them as a whole , then you will feel enchanted. Moreoever, talking about Big Bang, we noticed that there is a sharp contrast between the low vocal range of GD and the top range of TOP’s range, did you deliberately make the difference?
TOP: The characteristics of composing songs is we have to emphasize the features of the voices so our songs will not be monotones and the most important is I have good collaboration with G-dragon.

Q: So, please talk about the favourite tracks of the album.
VI: I still love ‘Blue’. Although it is a sad song but I still love the plain and calm feeling that it conveys to us. Why I say so? Because of my part (laugh). “The winter is passing and Spring is coming” (suddenly he bursted out singing). It is just like what the lyrics has been written, we had been experiencing so much hardships last year, it was really a period of hard time. I was hoping that it would be better if Winter could be ended at this very moment and the warm Spring could be started. I recorded this song when I was feeling this way.

Q: You can handle ‘Blue’ only after you have overcome so many difficulties.
VI: I think many fans were worried about BigBang and they must have felt as painful as us and had the same sad memory as we did too. Because of this, if we can warm your hearts by this song, turning your cold heart to warm just like how Spring can warm up the coldness, it is fine.
GD: I have really deep impression about ‘Fantastic Baby’ because originally I was good at writing poetic lyrics and match it with romatic melody. However, when I was producing this kind of dance song, I had to put in my emotion, too. It is really difficult for me. After 2-3 months of making this song, I had to make ‘Blue’, it was really hard for me to change the mood so suddenly.To transit from the dancing mode of ‘Fantastic Baby’ to ‘Blue’, I had watched a lot of sad movies and listened to sad songs. In order to make this song, I had to make myself sad in the reality and forgot myself when I was singing the song.
SOL: I love ‘Bad Boy’ most. Because I personally love Hip Hop. This song is not only a hip hop song but the melody is also good too.
TOP: I like ‘Feeling’ most. This song is limited to be promoted in Japan because it was collaborated with BOYS NOIZE(German, The World Top DJ and producer),the rap is perfectly matched with the melody, too.

Q: In the lyrics of ‘Fantastic Baby’, there is a line,’I am perfect and if you want to grab my weaknesses, It is still 100 years later’. What weaknesses do you think you have?
VI: I have really serious dark circles; however, because it is something that I cannot change so I will emphasize my other charming points.
Dlite: My weakness is I am always worried about others.
SOL: I have too many… (shortcomings)…all are weaknesses.
TOP: Sometimes I think that I don’t have anyone rely on,especially before i need to work,I will be very sensitive and I will be very emotional,too. And sometimes I do give up because of this.

Q: Really? I think that you are someone that will not give up what you want to do easily. To be frank,Ii am a bit surprised.
TOP: My weakness is if I give up once, I will not try the second time.
GD: For me… (a period of silence).

Q: ~eH~ So GD has no weaknesses at all?
GD: Totally not (laugh). I am oversensitive some times too.

Q: So that means you have rich emotions!
GD: If they are used properly, it is good but I don’t quite like it. Since I am like TOP, my emotions are not very stable. There is great difference when I have good mood and bad mood.

Q: On the stage, G-Dragon gives us a very strong masculine feeling.
GD: I am not strong at all, I am always emotional. I think I am a fragile person.

Q: Dunno why this time we can unveil some sides of you which have not been discovered before.
GD: The process of changing of my mood…you can also find that in the album.

Q: Talking about Big Bang, their styles are really attractive. Please talk about your own styles and the theme of Spring.
TOP: Recently, I like colorful vintage style.
SOL: What I like is hip hop style and I have collected a lot baseball caps and bandanna. I love bandannas on which different patterns are printed on and the traditional ones. Even when you are wearing clothes, if you wear one, then your style will be eye catching,too. I recommend it.
Dlite: In Spring, I love knitted clothes because no matter the ones who are wearing it or those who are watching, they will feel warm. My hair has been dyed gold, it is really an outstanding image.

Q: The big change has left us a really deep impression.
DLITE: Because I have undergone a lot of things and my feelings are still not so good so I turned my hair color brighter.

Q: It is especially true for G-Dragon, everytime when you release new songs, you will have a completely new style. (hair and clothing)
GD: I like to arouse the curiosity of people very much. For example the seaweed hair style in Bad Boy and the short hair in Blue. Changing new styles do not only enables us to enjoy it but also we can let our fans to have their imagination runs wild.

Q: You even think like this!
GD: There are so many people who imitates our styles. It has been our interest in watching how the fans imitate our styles. When we came to have eye contact with the fans, we discover that there are XX styles everywhere, it is really cute. Please also think from our side sometimes. (when we are doing live)

Q: It is really interesting. Thinking from the perspective of Big Bang, there are so many girls imitating Big Bang, too!
TOP: Those who imitate my styles are my women.
VI: My brides.

Q: How about male fans?
TOP: My women (laugh) Or put it in this way, there are all walks of people who are my fans, I love you all the same.
VI: It is real. TOP hyung is really popular among men and women all said, ‘ah, so handsome!’ He is really popular among people. 
TOP: But I am greedy… (laugh)

Q: By the way, what is the theme of G-Dragon’s recent style?
GD: There are no particular styles. As an actor, I want to try the styles which can arouse the curiosity of the public.

Q: How about VI?
VI: I have been carrying a young style of the maknae (laugh)… Recently I want to give you a mature masculine feeling. I have cut my hair short…and my earrings… this is painful… (laugh)

Q: In order to become a man, you have to endure the pain.
VI: Instead of being a man, I change to this style because of this album and because I want to show you my determination, I endure the pain.

Q: Not only in this album,we can feel the passion of the fans and their unusual love towards Big Bang.
GD: ‘Big Show’ was produced by ourselves but ‘Alive Tour’ is collaborated between Big Bang and Laurieann Gibson (The creative executive of Lady Gaga’s concert), we want to produce concerts which integrate both oriental and western elements in them. We do not only want to produce a stage that fans would enjoy but we also want to produce a stage which we have distinctive edge. Because there is an improvement in the music quality and the stage, please anticipate it.

Q: Are there any special content that only Japanese concerts have but other concerts don’t?
VI: We still have been discussing it.
SOL: Of course we will sing Japanese songs in Japanese and there are not much changes in the contents. Because we have been preparing for our world tour until now so Japanese fans have to consider the overall situation and enjoy every moment.
VI: I think it is of course important to show Japanese fans charming stage but they also want to see our sides as an ordinary person. Therefore, I want to tell them some jokes in order to make them happy and at the same time, they can accept the friendly side of Big Bang,too.

Q: This is the mission of VI?
VI: Because I am the maknae.

Q: You have been working hard on Japanese and learn Japanese gags because of this?
VI: I have not been doing some very profound things, I only want more people can know Big Bang and make them fall for Big Bang. I am only doing this because I think it is the most suitable thing that I need to do.
SOL: VI really has been working really hard!
VI: No no, I have not (smiling very brightly). This compliment can be applied to other members, too because everyone has been working hard on Japanese, too. I think in the concerts we are going to have in May, everyone of us is going to be able to speak fluent Japanese. (laugh)
TOP: I will work hard.

Q: On the stage, from the positive side, TOP has a sense of existence that others cannot be compared to.
TOP: (laugh very brightly) Thank you but I have not carried out my performance after deep laid consideration, I just devoted myself to the stage. I only show you my real feeling and emotion. But I will think about how to be fashionable repeatedly.
VI: Every member of Big Bang loves Big Bang and we are willing to sacrify our sleeping time for the team.
GD: Especially in this year, the love among the members and between Big Bang and the fans have also been deepened.

DLITE: We really anticipate Japan Alive concerts since it seems to going to be a very enjoying and interesting stage.
VI: In these concerts,the band is of our age so it will be very exciting. I think our collaboration will be better than our imagination. This will not be a feast for the ears but the audience can enjoy visual entertainment. Therefore, I hope more of you can come!
TOP: I love you! I want to see you! See you in the concerts!

[NEWS] Big Bang is one of the Most Viewed, Shared, Discussed Photos on Grammy.com!

NOTE: This is the second time Big Bang appeared on Grammy.com for their 'Hyundai Card event' in Seoul.

Source:grammy.com via Akp

[NEWS] Big Bang mentioned on MTV's Buzzworthy Blog!

"Add another boy band to your crush list, y'all. K-pop quintet BIGBANG is making a, um, big bang on the Billboard Hot 100 with their No.1 single "Monster".(Billboard)"

[NEWS] T.O.P Voted as One of the Celebrities People want to Spend Summer Vacation With!

Handsome actor Gong Yoo and solo artist G.NA have been voted as the #1 male/female celebrity netizens want to spend the summer vacation with.

Between June 4th and the 18th, media portal site, Mediatong, conducted a poll asking 548 of its members which male and female celebrity they would like to spend their summer vacation with this year.

Among the male stars, Gong Yoo, who’s capturing the hearts’ of many female viewers with his role in KBS‘s ‘Big‘, topped the list with a total of 40.1% votes. Second place went to actor Joo Won, who’s simultaneously appearing in KBS’s ‘1 Night 2 Days‘ and drama ‘Bridal Mask‘, with 21.5% votes.

Trailing behind those two were So Ji Sub with 14.6%, Kim Soo Hyun with 10.7%, and Big Bang‘s T.O.P with 7.4% votes.

As for the female celebrities, G.NA took the lead with a total of 32.7% votes. Girls’ Generation‘s Yuricame in second with 17.8% votes, followed by ‘Gentlemen’s Dignity‘ lead female character Kim Ha Neul with 14.4%, 4minute‘s HyunA with 10.4%, and miss A‘s Suzy with 6.7%.

Yay I also want to spend my summer vacation with T.O.P. How about you guys? ^^

BIGBANG - 2012 BIGSHOW ALIVE TOUR.

[PHOTOS] Big Bang x Grafik Plastic for Extra Ordinary 20's Photo book!

>More Big Bang photos in this Slideshow:~

Get this now at: ygeshop + YesAsia. They looks really cool!

[NEWS] Big Bang’s latest hit poses a question, “Is TV promotion really necessary?”

Group Big Bang has dominated online, album, and music video market without any TV promotions, adding some momentum to the question that has surfaced the first half of the year on whether TV promotions are necessary for success.

Back in April, Busker Busker had a mega hit without any appearances on the network music programs and IU has also had success on the online charts in May with her ‘End of the Day’ off her fan service CD single ‘Spring of a Twenty Year Old’, thus as a result, the relationship between TV promotions and hit songs started to shift. Now Big Bang has garnered much attention not only in Korea but worldwide without any TV appearances at all, adding momentum to the theory that after all, TV promotion may not be a must as it has been in the past.

Big Bang’s new song ‘Monster’ is still topping the main online charts such as Melon as of June 9th. It has been a week since the song was released on June 3rd but it is showing much staying power.

The album and music video are doing well also. According to Hanteo Chart, Big Bang released ‘STILL ALIVE’ on June 5th and sold 15,000 in just a day. The music video that was revealed 3 days prior to that truly broke the records with 2.5 million views in just 24 hours. Without any TV appearances, Big Bang truly had a huge hit on their hands. Even without a comeback stage, the comments keep pouring in from all over the world in English.

If the popularity of the songs continues without any comeback stages or any variety appearances, the expectations are that the shape and form of promotions may change quite a bit in the future.

Many explain that this is possible when you are at the level that Big Bang is. A CEO of a mid-size management company commented, “When you are at a level that Big Bang is, the public seeks them out so the TV promotions don’t appear a must. I think it’s a state that all the artists want to achieve. But for most artists, there are not many methods of promotions other than increasing exposure to step closer to the fans first.”

Big Bang Hwaiting !!!

 Source: Osen//Via nate + kpopfever.com

BIGBANG release first official photobook after 6 years since debut

On the 6th of June, Big Bang has released their special album "Still alive" and also released their first official Photo Book since their debut 6 years ago. Their photo book "Extraordinary 20's" is not any regular photo book as it is also a way for Big Bang to get closer to their fans.

The photo book will show the natural Big Bang, the members of Big Bang behind the scenes showing their whole personality through the photo's. The photo book shows a pictorial of the boys having fun and being comfortable in their own selves and also polaroid shots of the members. For the photo book, they worked with famous photographer Hong Jang Hyun and for this photo book, not only the local fans can enjoy but also oversea's fans.

BIG BANG'S SCHEDULE

JUNE 16 - JUNE 17
[CONCERT] Alive in Saitama, Japan

JUNE 20
[RELEASE] Alive Monster Edition (JP)

JUNE 23 - JUNE 24
[CONCERT] Alive in Fukuoka, Japan

JULY 1 & JULY 3
[EVENT] VIP Japan Fanclub Event

AUGUST 26
[EVENT] A-Nation Stadium Fes 

SEPTEMBER 28
[CONCERT] Alive in Singapore

October 6 & 7
[CONCERT] Alive in Bangkok, Thailand

OCTOBER 13
[CONCERT] Alive in Jakarta, Indonesia

OCTOBER 20 & 21
[CONCERT] Alive in Taipei, Taiwan 

OCTOBER 24
[CONCERT] Alive in Manila, Philippines

OCTOBER 27
[CONCERT] Alive in KL, Malaysia

Read more: http://www.bigbangupdates.com/2012/06/more-monster-concept-photos-photos.html#ixzz1x4hA9k00

[NEWS] Vote for Big Bang in Hangul Smart Domain Organization's Popularity Poll!

Hangul Smart Domain Organization's popularity poll for male K-pop groups is now open. The winners in this poll will be part of the first groups to have special website URLs or domains in Hangul (Korean characters). 

Last May, they held a poll for girl groups and the top 3 that were awarded with Hangul domains are SNSD (http://소녀시대.홈), Kara (http://카라.홈) and the Wonder Girls (http://원더걸스.홈). Aside from .홈 (.home) URLs, their fanclub pages were also given .팬 (.fan) domains. 

If BIGBANG wins, they'll get the same .home and .fan domains (Ex: 빅뱅.홈 and 빅뱅.팬) like the girl groups listed above. 

How to vote for BIGBANG:

http://www.cocif.org/event/event_man/main.html

*You can only vote once per day per IP address. If your internet connection has a dynamic IP address, meaning you get a new IP address each time you disconnect/connect to the internet, you can vote more than once a day.

**If you're in South Korea, you can log in an additional vote by going tohttp://판타스틱베이비뮤비.음악 using Internet Explorer. This should to lead to Fantastic Baby MV's page on Youtube.

Voting ends on June 8 (KST), Lets vote!!!

[NEWS] Big Bang “MONSTER” MV expected to record over 25 million views on YouTube!

Will Big Bang‘s “Monster” MV be able to record over 25,000,000 views?

In just this year alone, Big Bang has released two MVs that have each received over 20 million views on YouTube. “Fantastic Baby” received approximately 25,000,000 views, while “Blue” received over 22,000,000 views. Additionally, their MV for “Bad Boy” is at the 15 million view mark.

Their new MV for “Monster” which was just released on June 3rd received 3,400,000 views in just a single day, and considering “Fantastic Baby” and “Blue” were released around 2 to 3 months ago, it would not be an exaggeration to say that at this rate “Monster” will be able to easily exceed 25million views in that same amount of time.

The explosive response from fans is credited to the boys’ unconventional appearance and the quality of the MV that’s on par with a Hollywood Blockbuster. The “Monster” MV is a collaboration project between both YG Entertainment and Hyundai Card, and the post-production alone reportedly took an entire month to complete.

Both fans and those in the industry alike are sitting on the edge of their seats, wondering if Big Bang will be able to break their own records.

Lets make this MV reached to billion viewers soon!

[PHOTOS] Big Bang on Tokyo Walker Magazine + Interview!

Tokyo Walker: During the time you were singing BLUE, was there a some sort of surprise from the fans?

GD: Yes. We (BIGBANG) didn’t know about it but it seemed like the fans were preparing a surprise for us. We’re absolutely touched by their gesture.

TOP: It made me really happy too. I thought then, I wanted to do the next concerts right away because I saw the scene first in Nagoya and I wanted to see it again soon.

NOTE: Big Bang on Tokyo Walker Magazine, Vol 11, 2012. On sale from 5th June 2012. 

[NEWS] Big Bang to perform at A-nation Stadium fes. Charge!

Sun, August 26, 3:30pm, Ajinomoto Stadium (Ajisuta), Chofu, Tokyo
■OPEN/START: 13:30/15:30 JST
■Ticket：9,800 JPY Available at http://a-nation.net/ticket_sf.html

【Official HP】http://a-nation.net/
【Ticket】　http://a-nation.net/ticket.html
【Twitter】 https://twitter.com/anation_navi
【Facebook】 https://www.facebook.com/anation.official

[PHOTOS] Big Bang @ Alive Tour in Osaka D-4 + Fan Account!

>More photos in this slideshow:~

Fan Account

• Osaka last day concert just ended. Exactly 3 hours! Was awesome!!!! ヽ(；▽；)ノ 
• Encore for today is Bad Boy, Fantastic Baby and lastly Hands Up. 
• The fanservices..... TT_____TT OMG!!!! Super extreme. Lemme cry~~~~!!!!! ah. Cried hard alr. 
• I think fans at the most front line in VIP seats, all got to touch GD, YB and TOP n all three of them!!! TT___TT 
• During MY HEAVEN, GD came down frm stage running here n there while banging his head, n let fans touch his face. 
• At the end of MY HEAVEN GD got back to stage, TOP came to a group of the fans that just touched GD's face, n TOP pull them into his big hug! 
• Then came topless YB running from this side to another side let fans touch his bare body! 
• during encore Hands Up Seungri climbed up to Bigbang Band stage, and played drum. 
• GD, TOP, and YB came down frm stage at last 4th song, My Heaven. DAE didn't came down at all. 
• Cz my eyes was on GD (luckily im at right side, n GD came to my side alot) n suddenly saw stage no RI. Thought he came down frm stage.
• I was searching RI among the fans, if he finally came down, look up, LoL! He's the one who plays drum!! 
• At final encore RI finally came down tho.. But just running, not extreme as the 3 hyungs, just splashing water to fans from water bottle. 
• After playing drum during encore Fantastic Baby, Seungri (at Bigbang Band place up there) thanks Osaka, n said the show is over. Seungri went in behind the curtain, TOP, DAE, and GD on the main stage looked hesitated to go in too.. 
• GD who was laying on the floor shook his head (didn't want it to be ended) DAE near GD was like 'another one?' and said 'Hands Up!Hands Up' 
• Hands Up music is on, RI came back and played guitar of Bigbang Band. 
• GD had long crocodile toy around his neck during Fantastic Baby encore.
• At the last of the show, music on, Bigbang sang 'Ari Ari gatooo gatooo! Ari Ari gato gatooo!' together, (quite long) TOP was beatboxing, YB at the most front of sub-stage, doing crazy dance,topless as usual while singing ari ari gatoo gatoo~ everyone were so hyped!! ヽ(；▽；)ノ
• Tabi was really funny!!!! He said something, but many didn't really get it, he jumped like an angry baby n pouted his mouth!(he did it alot)
• For MC corner in Osaka shows, unlike Nagoya concerts (which everyone doing solo dance) this time they did solo 'enka' or trot style songs.

# What a luCkY Fan who beeN there...