Individual photos of HIT-5‘s Duan Huangwei, Dong Yufeng and Yang Fan were released as a part of their new EP Afraid of You. They’ll also be releasing a Valentine’s Day single soon.
The anticipated “Afraid of You” MV by HIT-5, guest starring Girl’s Day’s Min-ah and directed by BoA’s brother, has finally been released. Like their first album’s single, Wu Suo Bu Ai, leader Guo Ziyu wrote the rap.
HIT-5′s CD has been doing well, with 3552 sold at their first signing in Beijing alone. They will be going to other cities Guangzhou, Guangxi, Zhu Hai, and Sanya for their fanmeet tour, hoping to meet their fans, called Diamonds.
The song Running was composed and written by ‘post-80s generation’ golden songwriter Liu Jia, and the MV was directed by BoA’s brother, Kwon Soonuk. HIT-5 will next appear in the Feng Yun Bang/Music Radio New Artists Awards this weekend.
Subbed HD version of the MV uploaded by jaeurazn2010.
Translation by cpoplover21@youtube/2100549@Cfensi.
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HIT-5 has hit the ground Running with their newest EP, with a steady of press releases, fan meet and even an appearance at the Korea-China Friendship Concert in Seoul all before having released their single. Unfortunately for them was that the friendly exchange concept of the concert was lost on Korean broadcaster, KBS, and much of their performance was cut. The good news was that they were one of the few who were aired out of the many Cpop acts, despite being one of the least famous. Fellow boyband Top Combine, got cut out completely. This led fans of both groups to lament with each other and vent their frustrations at KBS, questioning their motives. Not only were the idol acts cut out, but even famous veterans like Han Hong, Li Jian, Wang Feng and Yang Kun were not shown.
However, HIT-5 has the New Artists Feng Yun Bang awards to look forward to where they are nominated for best new group (since they only first released an album this summer).
HIT-5 “Running” Teaser
Videos of what didn’t get cut out at the Korea-China Friendship concert below.
HIT-5 filmed two MVs in Korea recently, one for their upcoming dance single Running and Afraid of You (怕了你) . Running has an environmental protection theme, while their other has a romantic one. Member Yang Fan takes on the role of male lead in it, while Minah from Korean group Girl’s Day guests as his love interest. They share a kiss scene in the MV. Their director for the MV was BoA’s brother Kwon Soonuk. Next, while still in Seoul, they will be performing at the Korea-China friendship concert being held there this year. They hope to release the EP, also titled Running in late December. Their new EP comes only half a year after their first album, a quick release for Cpop. They seem to be making up for the time they lost when they switched companies early on. Hopefully they can gain success now that they have a solid foundation to push forward from.
A/N: I can’t tell whether BoA’s brother is the director for both MVs, or just ‘Afraid of You”.
Tian Hao Family recently did a Christmas shot with their artists Hou Xian, HIT-5, Sara and upcoming girlband S.P.Y. Watch S.P.Y. perform their new song here. Hou Xian’s EP “Baby Face” will be released at the end of the month. Listen to the cute song, a la urasiansourceCpop2 below and see the individual Christmas shots under the cut.
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P.S. HIT-Studio released new bloopers of the eeMedia New Year MV on their tudou page.
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Kimi in the MV for Window of Dreams on his upcoming album
Releases from mainland female Chinese artists were spread out throughout this year, but a considerable portion of the male side seem to have waited until the last minute to release, causing an massive pileup of both albums from the soloists to the boybands, ranging from pop to grunge. Despite the spectrum in musical styles, this still can’t be good for the artists, nor the companies involved which I listed alongside the artists, and as you can see, there’s a lot.
Late November
Yu Haoming – eeMedia
KeNT – ? (EP)
December Releases:
Jacky Xue Zhiqian – Universal/SMG
Anson Hu Yanbin- Gold Typhoon
Kimi Qiao Renliang – Chengtian (Orange Sky Entertainment)
Chen Kun – ?
Peng Tan (four new songs/acoustic album)- Tai Rye Music
Xie Tian Xiao – Thirteen Month Records
Li Jian - ?
Sha Baoliang -
Top Combine – eeMedia
..Super Girls?
Pan Hongyue may seem pompous, but she has our respect for not hiding her disgust at the judges after the 15to10 competition.
Meteor Shower seems to have already lost the dramatic category before it even started. Super Girls’ scriptwriters are probably way better. What other drama has the music, the dancing, the pretty girls, the tears, the triumphs, the unsung heroes, the evil henchmen, and of course, the righteous Judge Bao (somebody on baidu tried to link his heritage to Judge Bao Qingtian) like Super Girls?
Friday’s Super Girls’s defining moment was Bao Xiaobo’s comments after Li Xiaoyun played the guitar for her song:
Li Xiaoyun, you know, on this stage, playing the guitar on this stage is very dangerous. But I want to thank you for reminding me of someone. Her name is Wang Zhixin, and she once sung a song called Match Heaven. I once said her music striked straight into the heart. I want to thank her and thank you.
I cried the moment he mentioned Wang Zhixin. But wow, if last week’s comment about “protective forces” wasn’t direct enough, this week’s comment about the guitar is way too obvious. (He’s hinting at the fact that Wang Zhixin got kicked out so she wouldn’t compete with Zeng Yike as the guitars).
The person who took the heat of the blame for making anyone but Zeng Yike playing the guitar being in danger is the outspoken Gao Xiaosong, who we first became familiar with after he told HIT-5 their song was “outdated” and that “mainland music wasn’t pure because they don’t have enough coastal lines.” It turns out that MT-muzik, the songwriters behind HIT-5′s “Say U love me again” and “I want you to know” actually wrote a song in response to him, titled “Hello, Gao Xiaosong.” It’s well-written, if unpolished.
Nihao Gao Xiaosong – MT muzik (translations of selected parts below the cut)
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