Now, put
aside Kpop, I salute the fandom efforts in showing their loves and supports to
their favourite artistes make it solo singers, duets, trio or groups.
Any project
involving their favourite artiste, the admins of all active fanbases will, let
me say this proudly ---- UNITES, and they will lay out the strategy, whether it
is to push the votes in an online contest or a simple poll on various category,
for example on who is the fashion icon.
Some of the online contest /polling
are listed as below :
www.omusicawards.com/vote/fan-army-ftw/super-junior
There are
also fans who donates money to buy rice wreath, either to be send to filming
location, press conference or concerts. An excerpt from allkpop.com
“These days, Korean fandoms send ‘rice wreaths’ instead of customary flower bouquets to a celebrity’s event (concert, musical, or press conference) in order to show their support for their favorite stars, http://www.allkpop.com/2011/08/rice-wreaths-indicate-that-k-pop-fandoms-are-becoming-more-mature”
“These days, Korean fandoms send ‘rice wreaths’ instead of customary flower bouquets to a celebrity’s event (concert, musical, or press conference) in order to show their support for their favorite stars, http://www.allkpop.com/2011/08/rice-wreaths-indicate-that-k-pop-fandoms-are-becoming-more-mature”
It’s not only sending rice wreath but there
are the fans who supported charity/donation drive for example : an excerpt from
gokpop.com “Super Junior's Choi Siwon and
his fans manage to raise US$6,500 for West Africa. You
can read further here http://www.gokpop.com/news/siwon-raises-us6-500-for-3rd-waves-project-with-the-help-of-fans::11485.html
The latest
example of what this fans are willing to do is in conjuction with Kim Ryeowook
or Ryeowook of Super Junior upcoming birthday 21/06, Thai ELFs has donated a
baby giraffe to Dusit Zoo in Bangkok Thailand (source Ryeowook twitter
@ryeong9)
Now, I don’t
see that happening in that scale especially not in my own country, Malaysia.
You see there
is nothing this fandoms will not do for their favourite artistes / group The
sense of belonging this fans has to their fandom can beat those of political
parties, and they (the political party) should be ashamed as they are not able
to pull such act.
I am a proud
ELF, I may not be one from the beginning but I know one thing for sure, once a
fan will always remain a fan. ELF or Everlasting Friends, a beautiful name
indeed, everyone is Super Junior everlasting friends.
They even
wrote a song to ELFs and it is titled “Sapphire Blue – (Sowuhni Innayo)” this
is because the official colour for us ELF is Sapphire Blue and it was featured
in their second album “Don’t Don”.
There are
also fans who wrote song to their artistes/group to show gratitude, such in a
case of 2PM. Their fans had re-written one of 2PM song titled “Thank You” which
was originally written to say thanks to their legion of fans but it was
dedicated back to them by their fans.
Their fans
was singing the re-written version to them during one of their concerts in
Korea. Each and every one of the group members was in tears, fans included.
It was
posted in YOUTUBE which was a combination of fans cam and cuts from 2PM’s DSCS
DVD and for someone who is not in 2PM
fandom, I cried, yup !!, I did !!. It was beautifully written and again, I
would like to give my utmost respect to whoever was writing it. (I managed to
watch it back in March 2012 but the the vids are no longer available though)
As for other
fandoms, I don’t really know much about them, but, I believe we share the same
passion, same love to our favourite artistes/groups.
What is so
unique about this things called fandom is, the fans come from all over the
world.
Fans from
all over the world !! Let us be realistic here, these are people who are
connected to internet, they are working
adult, university / college students, secondary even primary school children.
Those who
happened to be online, will go to all possible web link related to their favourite
artistes and start to update each other and really, news travel faster especially
when we mentioned the magical word called TWITTER.
During my
teens years, those artistes from Hong Kong were the ones me and my friends go
crazy about. Names like Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, group like
Grasshopper, Beyond and few others. And during our times, there are no facebook, no
twitter, our source of info was an imported Chinese magazine, and we had to get our
classmate/schoolmate to translate to us on the articles.
Favourite
words, khau meng ahhh, toum chu, sek fan and others cantonese words, mind you,
I was in Sibu and “national” language there is Foochow.. But I did not take the
time to learn Foochow dialect as I was
so engrossed with all things Cantonese.. Ahaks…
Fast forward
to 2012, I am amazed at the amount of knowledge this new breed of teenagers had
in their “hands” on their favourite artistes /group. You can get an update as
soon as their favourite artistes arrived at the airport few days before
concerts or even before the drama or film starts shooting.
Even while
the artistes was having break, the fans manage to snap one or two photos and
update it in their twitter for other fans to see… And I mean, for fans all
around the world..
AMAZING,
AMAZING INDEED!!
But, even though
they are willing to share information, there are times, they will “fight”
especially when one claim it was originally their info and no proper credit was
given by the other fan base. BUT!! that doesn’t happened all the times as at
the end of day, their unconditional love to their favourite artistes / group will
stop the ‘fight” from continuing.
Fan base or
individuals fans, these are the people who make up the fandoms and they literally
eat, drink and breathe their favourites artistes / group.
Ohhh… before
I forget.
I have some
exciting info to share – my boys are preparing for their 6th full
studio album, and hopefully it will
be before Super Junior leader, Leeteuk serve in Military for 24 month, a must for all South Korean male.
No
confirmation on the actual date as most fan base are going back and forth with
both confirmed and unconfirmed info on the album release.
For the past
few days, esp today 19.06.2012,they are tweeting about the boys done with their
MV filming and there are also information on Kangin resuming his role as one of
Super Junior member after his release from his Military duty on 16.04.2012.
And..
There are
more… it is an ongoing process, so there are no END but AND..
So till next
posting…
