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I dont listen to them. I really dont really get into girl bands and the two that actually resonate with me, 2NE1 and 4MInute pretty much disbanded this year lol I know, I feel like I have the cursed touch with girl groups given that two of my faves have essentially been sidelined. Here is the Wonder Girls' Why So Lonely, Cheap. It's pretty catchy and the mv is more fun and tongue-in-cheek than the average gg video. Although the 'rapping' section is atrocious! I prefer Sistar's I Like That. (Also in gg news, Red Velvet are expected to have a comeback in August, while YG is making way for their new -- and imo under-talented -- gg, BlackPink): And speaking of 4Minute... HYUNA. Her summer album is out. I haven't listened to the album yet although some are saying there are good songs on there. Here is her title mv, though "Eottae?" (How's This?). I don't know... the song is catchy and yet boring? I keep waiting for a hook. The video is ok, though -- and Hyuna gets to make out with a guy in it, lol.

Thanks NBA! IA with Cheap. I like Eileen a lot but last season she looked bitter and angry and like she was doing YolErika's handywork. FOH is probably best for her. Maybe she and Faye could switch places. Carole looks contrived af. Proof money can't buy you cla-asss. She looks like a down-and-out wicked witch. Everybody else looks spectacular, especially Bethenny, Ramona and Jules. Finally watched last week's episode, Carole and Bethenny are such mean girls. I can't. I can understand Bethenny's fear of getting to close to somebody with an eating disorder, but the way she dismissed Jules' very genuine defense of herself was mean. I still say B and Carole are lowkey gunning for another Jules relapse, for some morbid amusement of their own. The Countess stays boss, as usual. I loved her scene with Ramona at the end, as they strolled through the Upper East Side arm in arm. Bethenny was so mad that Lu got engaged in Vail -- I bet she was hoping for LuAnn would do it in front of the cameras, so that she could accuse her of opportunism and making it 'all about her.' As opposed to, you know, All About Bethenny.

Get that prime NY real estate next to Andy, LuAnn! Also: Dorinda hopefully backing up Lu. Dorinda is love. I hope Bethenny and Carole are thoroughly called out on their mean antics at Reunion. I haven't watched the latest episode yet but apparently they also went after Jules in the epi and forced her to admit that she purged recently. It sounded ugly on their part.

I know! It made me really mad the way she reached out to say hi to Meghan on the beach -- Meghan who was basically driving the train last season to railroad Vicki! BTW, I still can't believe Meghan was given another season. Not only is she hugely unpopular, but watching her inject herself for 3 minutes and bitch about her phobia of needles is also deeply boring. Jim looks as checked out of that marriage as David did two years ago. Shannon just will not let go of her resentment of Vicki, she basically treats her just like her husband. IA that David is incredibly relaxed and happy-looking at the moment. I don't know whether it is because he is about to leave his wife or whether he is now cool with being hen-pecked. But sometimes I worry that Shannon will wake up in the middle of the night with David standing over her with a pillow. Tamra's transparent Jesus talk makes me think that she must be desperate to stay on the show and ingratiate herself with church-going Middle America. In the past three seasons, people have really been gunning for her to be fired.

100% agreed. I have a love/hate relationship with New Jersey and their entire story arcs they've had since season three, and these two heifers irk me the most. Jacqueline and Chris are downsizing and sell off their jewelry, furniture, etc. yet she still could afford cosmetic surgery on her donkey head. Meanwhile, it seems the show is trying to pick up on Season Seven where Season Five left off: Teresa vs Melissa. Wasn't that squashed last season? Overall, I was intrigued the most by Teresa's homecoming. The new girls look like they have potential and the season preview looks juicy. But other than the homecoming, the first episode felt like a bad reminder of the toxicity of Seasons 3-5. That's probably what made me most uncomfortable about the episode -- the hint of S5-7. I still get hives from those seasons. You best believe that Jaq is going to play victim and seek out a feud with Tre in order to stay relevant on this show (how else is she going to pay for the face lift??). 'On Display' also knows that victim-playing with Teresa is the way to go now that her music career is dead and buried. Lord knows Melissa has some kind of saint complex, so best believe we will be seeing her suffering nobly and keepin it tugethuh for the sake of da fambly.

RHoNJ: Dolores and Siggy seem to be a good fit so far. Siggy especially is too fabulous. The two people I can't stand are Jaqueline and Melissa. Jaq must be the most self-absorbed woman in NJ -- everything is about HER HER HER. She and Chris (still hot btw) are in dodgy financial straits but she's planning her next face-lift? Ok. The way she belittled Teresa's note makes her still seem emotionally stuck in high school. And Melissa is fake as usual. Totally unconvinced by her 'heartwarming' family scenes, especially with Gorga Senior who looks like he can barely stand to look at her. Also I don't really need to see that much of Joe Gorga. Ever. I cried when Tre came home, walked into the kitchen and gave Juicy a hug. Then her girls came running and jumped on her. It felt truly real compared with the Gorga stuff and all the contrived sh*t from season's past. As crim as the Giudices are, I will always love watching their family the best. I have a fondness for Juicy. I think he loves his daughters a lot even when shouting at them or snarking with Gia. Meanwhile, Gia is amazing and as young as she is, I admire the way she became another mother for her sisters while Tre was in jail.

LuAnn is so spectacular this season, I can't even. I love that she called them out, and the way she called them out was so genuine. She was clearly hurt, but at the same time has enough belief in herself that she can walk away and say 'I don't need people like you poisoning my life.' I really love her this season. The past few seasons in fact. Yes, even during the Pirates of the Caribbean mess. London, I would LOVE it if Cynthia and Leon reconnected. I remember a few seasons back, Leon was invited to some fashion show she was doing in NY Fashion Week; the way he looked at her walk the runaway, it was like there were stars in his eyes. He was appreciating this womanly Cynthia doing her thing while Peter was busy whining about her fibroids and 'weight gain' being a dampener on their sex life. All I could think was 'Run, Cynthia! Go hang out with this guy who seems to take you seriously and loves spending time with Noelle!' Btw, I don't know if you read Tamara Tattles but a few months back she posted the following Blind Item which sounds a lot like it was about Cynthia and Leon. One can only hope! http://tamaratattles.com/2016/03/26/blind-item-saint-martin-de-porres/

I like Curious too with the guitar as main musical instrument! Lives have started. This is today's from Music Bank. I like Ribbon better live (though the Little Lord Faunteleroy shirt Yoseob and others were wearing.... ): http://youtu.be/bujf2ad3OtE

Wow! This song gives me definite 12.30 vibes, like it was written by the same songwriters and producers. The end part was unexpected. Just when I thought it was about to finish, they come back with that little... segment, lol. In some ways, I don't blame them for going back to the style and sound of one of their bigger hits. 12.30 was a great song, and this def sounds like BEAST. I also get that Beast want this cb to be a success, especially after Hyunseung left and Cube dismantled 4Minute. My only concern is that the audience may view this kind of song as outdated. That is a shame because I am already exhausted by the 1,001 girl groups dressed as cutesy schoolgirls. I am also exhausted by SM's embrace of EDM as the only musical genre in the world. Apart from Monster and Sistar's I Like That, kpop is releasing some boring songs right now. When is Beast's first live stage? I hope they win some of the music shows. I also want to see what the choreography looks like in a live setting.

RHoOC: Tamra is a nasty piece of work (as we all know). And Ryan is cut from the same cloth. He hasn't changed since he was a teen. Always playing Tamra against her husband du jour. The only difference with Tamra is, he is chronically lazy. Fatal combination. What a boo boo Terry and Heather made about Terry operating on 3 hours' sleep. That's like asking for a lawsuit in an industry where medical malpractice suits are career-killing. Jury's still out on Kelly. Obviously she's watched the show and knows Vicki is the person to ally yourself with. I'm not sure how genuine an image she is presenting. Shannon has made a grave error and that is (1) buying into her own popularity hype, and (2) taking everything personally to the nth degree on a quasi-scripted show like RH. She will be left out in the cold when Tamra and Heather pull the rug from under her and get back with Vicki. Meghan who? What is this giraffe nobody doing on my screen?

This is the first time I've been excited about RHONJ in, like, 5 years. It is giving me old school vibes. I'm so glad those awful twins and that other one with the thug husband were sent packing. LOL as soon as they launched into the blood chat, I swear I could FEEL every male, gay or straight, (and a couple of females) switch channels. I thought the way Bethenny and Carole treated Jules was disgusting. Look, it's clear something is going on. Jules's marriage is self-destructing, she probably has zero appetite and is super stressed. She is also very, very intimidated by Bethenny. I feel that these Two Bitches prodding Jules about her food issues might trigger a falling off of the wagon for Jules. A mean part of me thinks B&C would love that, just so they could be 'proved right' about her anorexia. Another mean part of me thinks that B&C are extremely competitive with Jules about her thinness and food issues in a weird way. Both are pretty twiglike themselves. Dorinda makes me love her so much this episode. She was such a good friend to both Jules and Sonja (not to mention Bethenny last episode). This is why Dorinda is such a good addition to the franchise. Messiness aside (and who isn't messy on RHoNY?), Dorinda has lived a great life and she is kind. She is a mother hen to these women, and that warmth is very much needed on a show where the relationships can be very sharp and caustic. Luann is so boss in another great suit and her statement necklace. I can't wait for next week when she shades them all. Honestly, do B&C have any fans left? They are coming across awfully this season. Oh, and Bethenny handing her blood-stained pillow to her sweet chauffeur for 'cleaning' was BARF INDUCING. I would rather burn the damn thing than ever show a period-stained pillow to anybody! She's rich enough to just get rid of the thing!

@Cheap21 Those charts make me sad because it feels like SM are trying to push Lay further away from being important to EXO and more on his individual commitments. He deserves to have as many lines as Chen in the M version of the album -- after all, he is the only native Mandarin speaker left in the group! BTW @Cheap21 BEAST dropped their new mv Butterfly! It's a ballad like I've heard them sing before, but the whole group looks so pretty. I feel like it's almost acknowledging the loss of Hyunseung to fans, but that it is also time of moving on in terms of the sad feel of the ballad. It also ends a bit suddenly for me lol. Still, it is only the pre-release and may not be the main single released to promote the album. And hey, they even gave the pretty one some lines to sing.

I lost 42 minutes of my life watching a fake-ass doggy wedding promoted by Cawole?? And why wasn't ugly-ass Adam there to serve vegan treats to the doggies?

I saw. Those blind items were giving me LIFE last night (although I believe Bubbles = Sonja, not LuAnn, and the Girardis may be offering her legal advice!). I swear, don't trifle with Erika Jayne , bitches. She does not play. Bethenny has been so mean and arrogant lately that it is kind of fun to see somebody about as rich as her putting her in her place, because God knows nobody on RHoNY is.

Holy sh!t Nene! She looks like a completely different person! If you squint she looks like Lil Kim @ 5 surgeries ago. One thing I will say, her eyes look really pretty in those screen shots. I don't know if that is due to surgery or great make-up.

@Cheap21 Same, I thought they were solid too but it looks like Cube just wanted Hyuna to stay and the others to go. The rumor is that CEO Hong of Cube who put together Beast and 4Minute among other groups (and who wanted 4minute to always have a strong girl group concept) got sick two years ago and stepped down from their duties. A management company stepped in and cut costs and basically tried to run Cube like it was a low-cost, high-profit organisation. It's basically why Beast took it upon themselves to record and produce their own stuff because the copmpany wasn't offering them any help for promotions. 4Minute killed their Crazy comeback in 2015, but Act 3/Hate underperformed in 2016. So, because of one disappointing comeback, the management company decided 4minute was unprofitable. They decided to kill the group and only offer Hyuna a solo contract because she still makes them money, not just in terms of selling albums but also with her endorsements. The other 4 members were pushed out, basically. they have also unfollowed Hyuna on their respective Instagrams. It makes me so sad because apparently if CEO Hong was still there, he would never have let 4minute disband and would probably have promoted Hate differently too (i.e. made it a summer release). I also wish Hyuna would have gone with the rest of the members and maybe 4minute could have joined another entertainment company like JYP (even though that company has a ton of girl groups already). IMO 4minute were one of the better gg out there vocally, visually, dance-wise and I always liked their strong bond and concepts which were never cutesy or boring.

Yes, that was Brian Dowling of BB fame. Usually I like him and he can be a good host, but last night it was like he'd been watching too much Andy Cohen and was trying too hard to imitate him -- especially with the 'hellos' at the beginning. Ampika seems a pretty tough cookie, though personally I suspect Dawn is the OG of Cheshire. She looks amazing this season, clothing and hair-wise. Apart from these two, all the other HWs are pretty much sheep and I wouldn't miss them if they left.

I cant decide which i like more, Lucky One or Monster. Both are good tracks. Off the album though, I enjoy Cloud 9, One and Only and Heaven I like Kai's blonde hair here and it seems as if they are finally giving him more lines. The biggest surprise from this release is that Lay is still int he group. I thought he left earlier this year Ill beleive it when i see it. YG has been trying to make Jennie happen for YEARS. It never materializes into anything. Im surprised she hasnt gotten fed up nad left by now BTW, iKon dropped a new single and video last week Its pretty boring I love Monster both as a bop and in terms of the choreography. It gets the adrenaline going! However Lucky Ones has grown on me (it is v Shinee-like) and like you I love Cloud 9 as well. White Noise still has to grow on me. I also like Stronger just because it is kind of experimental in sound for a ballad. Kai has impressed me in that he is getting steadily less nasal vocally. Ofc I ALWAYS love his dancing and often have to watch a mv twice because the first time around he distracts me so much lol. Nope, Lay is still there. I'm glad. I hope he gets more face-time tho, but he is busy because he has so many individual activities in China. As for Taemin's album, I like Drip Drop and Sexuality best. YG is a mess. That is a dull sound for iKon! LOL, I only learned who was who by watching EXO Showtime (a TV show they did back in end 2013). Sehun is like the tallest member of the group, Chen is small and looks a bit like a dinosaur (in a handsome way), Suho looks like a kdrama actor with his dewy skin, Lay has dimples. lol don't know if that helps. Ahhhh the head bop! http://vine.co/v/iLOKlJIX3eF Blonde Kai gives me life. Pink-haired Kai gives me life. Dark-haired Kai gives me life. I am an unconditional fan of his extra self! In fact, I would consider him my 'bias' in k-pop as a whole. I love a talented dancer. Sad news in kpop world. My favourite girl group, 4minute have officially disbanded. Hyuna has resigned with Cube as a solo artist, the others will be looking at other agencies. I am gutted about this. I only discovered them in the last two years or so and always preferred the group over Hyuna's solo stuff (although I do like her, don't get me wrong). Anyway, here is an article about it: http://www.soompi.com/2016/06/13/cube-entertainment-reps-say-4minute-members-have-decided-to-disband/

I guess it was a bit much Jill and Kelly were psychotic in their pursuit of 'getting' Bethenny. However, just because the Countess was a big ole fake does not excuse the bullying, mean girl tactics of Bethenny and Carole in the last episode. I get that this attack was a LONG time in coming for Bethenny, I do. This is years of pent-up resentment for being looked down upon by LuAnn, Jill and Ramona back in the first few seasons of the show. Having said that, Bethenny should have done this earlier. Attacking LuAnn now for something she already admits to and OWNS -- and for the very thing Bethenny has just been caught out doing herself! -- makes Bethenny look bad all around. I can relate more to why Bethenny might be so resentful of LKuAnn after all this time... I cannot relate to Carole's underhand nastiness at all. Carole fucked LuAnn's niece's boyfriend and got called out on it and she couldn't stand that people might not think she farts rainbows and witty bons-mots. Her need to 'get back' at LuAnn almost two years later is really pathetic. Her strategy of getting others to fight her battles is obvious af, sadly. Yasss Lizzie put that try-hard sh*t-starter in her PLACE

Mene (typo and it stays) has a new nose! It;s really obvious. Has anybody seen her on fashion police? Her lines are pretty lame. Bethenny and Carole are the Jill and Kelly of NY this season. Not a good look. Luann is no saint but the way they treated her and indeed their host Dorinda was really bullying and rude. They think they are so much better than everybody else, and it reeks of favoratism because they are best buds with Andy Cohen. Carole is especially despicable in a lot of ways just because she married a Radzewill back in the early 90s. Now she's a lazy stoner who can;t even do her day job -- or even confront her enemies directly, it seems. She always has to have somebody else do her dirty work, namely Heather and now Skinnygirl.

@Matt: IMO, YG would do better on establishing the solid acts it already has tbh. The company sends Big Bang to tour for some easy $$$ and everybody else is locked in the YG dungeon until they are needed for filler purposes. Like where TF is Winner? It's like they've been put on indefinite hiatus! YG's favorite new baby iKON is nowhere to be seen despite a cb coming up (apparently). And if you are female, forget about it. Lee Hi got a solo album (two years after debuting!) but the promotions were pretty weak. 2NE1 were promised a cb, then Minzy left, then they were promised a cb as a 3-piece ensemble and NOTHING. CL has doing literally zero sh*t in the US for the past two years, despite getting some promotion in US Vogue a few months ago. That was the moment to release a single but, no, YG and Scooter Braun hemmed and hawed and we got some BS about CL wanting to "perfect" her tracks. This new girl group is going to get two weeks of promo and then they too will be hidden away. The way YG treats its talent (excluding Big Bang) is criminal. It is literally wasting the youth and potential of these kids. And it is not assuring its future by promoting them for when BB finally go to military service. I have no idea how YG remains the #2 ent company in SK with its mismanagement.

@Cheap21 EXO have dropped, girl! I am screaming and crying at the same time!! Lucky Ones sounds like a bop SHINee would do, I think you will really like that one. But for me, the real winner is Monster. I loved the song right away and couldn't get the beat out of my head as soon as I heard it. I also love the mv because it is so choreo-based and imo the choreography rocks so hard. It is up there with Overdose for me. Everything about the performance in that mv gives me chills (in a good way). These are my two favourite bits from the mv: KaiLay dance partnership FTW! P.S.: Sorry for spazzing but today has been my Exo Day lol.

I love how LuAnn owns her whorish ways. That's why I don't get this argument. I give Bethenny props for the "snake" comment, a direct pickup from season three, and mad props to The Countess for her Chic C'est La Vie mention (I actually like that song a lot, haha), but who is LuAnn really trying to fool at this point? She's open with the girls and open with the audience. I don't understand either. For over three seasons now the Countess has been shouting from the rooftops that she likes sex, she likes men and she likes to party. Bethenny jumped on this slut-shaming nonsense because Carole and Heather did this to LuAnn last season in St. Barts and she thought it would be a good tactic. What she fails to realize is that LuAnn's "Don't be all uncool" response last season actually endeared the audience to her. Bethenny likes to be alpha dog and she thinks Sonja and LuAnn are a joke, which is why she attacks them again and again. She doesn't attack Ramona or Dorinda nearly as much. The irony is that she underestimated LuAnn's ability to come back at her and stand up for herself. It is clear from the VTs that she realizes she did not eviscerate LuAnn with her put-downs *cough* sorry, I mean TROOF-TELLING. Another irony: as sloppy as she paints them, and as 'poor' (in relative terms) as they are, LuAnn and even Sonja seem 100 x happier than either Bethenny or her trusty steed Carole.

Bethenny: I've told you this, LuAnn. Our friendship hasn't really evolved. This summer it had a moment and no I'm not the judge and jury on who you bang and whatever, but you act like you were not like that... You're not a girl's girl, you said it, you are not a girl's girl. LuAnn: No, you're not a girl's girl, how's that? For your cookie jar. How's that? Bethenny: Give me some evidence. What man have I ever rolled up on anybody? What married man have I ever slept with? What young 25 year-old have I ever fucked and then given my friends sh*t about it? You are a hypocrite! You f*ck EVERYONE! And you pretend that you don't. I don't care if you are the biggest whore in Macy's window, but you pretend like you're appropriate, I am calling you out on your sh*t because no one besides me has the balls to do it. You are a SLUT, a liar, a hypocrite and a snake. That's the truth! I can't believe the slut-shaming that went on. Then everybody went to Bethenny's room to comfort her? WTF? LuAnn had the best VT moment tho: "Bethenny's relentless. It got to me at first, I was going to leave, but why am I going to let her ruin my good time? Like I say in my song Chic C'est La Vie, 'the little things can take you down but it's best to brush them off.' " Nice plug Countess.

Thank god for Jonghyun bc KPOP was getting boring. I LOVE Cocktail. I also really enjoy White T-Shirt and Dress-Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdKhJ2Ns7ag I hate that he colored his hair pink for this comeback. Not feeling it Speaking of solo albums, Im just now getting into Taemin's and its so good. Definitely and improvement. Sexuality and Guess Who are my faves. They sound like the same song but I dont care bc its really good As for Shinee, they recently released an album from their tour last year. You should check out Excuse Me Miss. I love this rendition and Jonghyun's bridge towards the end. The rendition of Sherlock is also my fave. This album pulls in alot of their earlier songs they havent touched in a while and I like it. I need them to release the DVD of it already so I can see Minho strip They also put out that song in Japan. LOL at the Cats Beast Beast stepping out as a 5 member group. They will reportedly have a comeback this summerHyuensung's first verse in Yey was given to Dongwoon which makes me happy bc he is underused in their songs. The second verse went to Kikwang which I was less pleased with bc he cant sing. It should have went to Dujun Also worth noting: SHINee are coming to the US this summer! I believe they are headlining KCON in LA. I like Dress Up as well -- haven't listened to White Shirt yet. I also agree on Jonghyun's pink hair. It looks like candy floss but doesn't suit him at all. I haven't listened to Taemin's latest album but I will now! I did like his performance video for Drip Drop though. He is one of the best kpop dancers I have ever seen. lol omg I CANNOT at the cats! Glad to see Beast keeping i touch with their fans as a 5-person ensemble. LOL @ your comment about Kikwang. Well, they had to give the visual something to do, lol.