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[13.05.12] Video HD - T-ara N4 Hyomin/Jiyeon @ Gag Concert http://youtu.be/n1cK8NVdyIo ** credit: 뚜 껑 @ youtube.

[PICS] T-ara N4 @ Incheon Airport to Los Angeles (05/12) For the rest of the pics: http://www.tiaradiadem.com/forums/gallery/album/2014-t-ara-n4-incheon-airport-052013/ CREDIT: Nate.com + craZy + tiaradiadem.com Please mention here if you'll be at the airport to welcome them! http://www.tiaradiadem.com/topic/24608-high-priority-2013-official-t-ara-n4-lax-airport-support-project/

[TWITTER] Qri's twitter update (05/12) NEW HAIRRR!!~ CANT WAIT TO SEE U WITH RAMBO AND PARK SSO XD~ CR: Qri's twitter + candy_floss + tiaradiadem

[EVENT] T-ara N4' performance at Dream Concert (05/11) For the rest of the images: http://www.tiaradiadem.com/forums/gallery/album/2012-dream-concert-2013-052013/ Credit: joynews + sportsseoul + interview365 + newsen + Dognybba + tiaradiadem.com

[13.05.12] Video HD - T-ara N4 Countryside Diary @ Open Concert http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqnYYK2RXBQ CR: 뚜 껑 @yt

[13.05.12] Video HD - T-ara N4 Countryside Diary @ Inkigayo Special in Chungju http://youtu.be/6avwb1u2usI ***** Credit: 뚜 껑 @ youtube

[13.05.11] Chris Brown sends a love call to T-ara N4, T-ara N4 to travel to LA to meet with him T-ara N4 received a surprising love call from pop star Chris Brown after he watched their hip-hop title song "Rural Life". T-ara N4's agency Core Contents Media said on the 11th, "We surprisingly received a love call from Chris Brown. On the 12th, they will depart for the United States to discuss music." The meeting is happening because of T-ara's Dani. On the 9th, Dani attended Chris Brown's concert where she is acquaintances with him. She showed her T-ara N4's new music video. Along with Chris Brown, famous pop singers Ryan Lewis & Macklemore and Trey Songz also watched the video. Chris Brown is reportedly interesting in their style, music and choreography and the fresh hip-hop style. Chris Brown invited them to his video shoot, but they were unable to make it due to Dream Concert scheduling. Chris Brown has suggested that they make music together in the future and they will meet with him after his concert in San Jose. T-ara N4 make emergency schedule readjustments and will travel to LA on the 12th at 3:15 KST to meet with Brown and talk music. *** Source: http://news.nate.com/view/20130511n04082 / http://news.nate.com/view/20130511n03887 Translated by: Nathaniel @ Diadem

[13.05.10] T-ara N4 to thank their fans by giving autographed hats T-ara N4 will give a special gift to their fans. T-ara N4 will perform at the KBS 2TV "Osong Music Bank Special" on the 10th and on the 11th at "Dream Concert". At the end of their performances of "Rural Life", they will send their autographed hip-hop hats into the audience. T-ara N4 has a unique title song, "Rural Life", that follows a hip-hop style and with similar outfits. Each stage, they will give these hats away. This will be a gift for the fans who have shown interest in "Rural Life" and the crossover genre of hip-hop and traditional music. T-ara will perform at "Music Bank", "Dream Concert", and "Inkigayo" with a Samulnori quartet and a 35-member back-up dancer team, expecting to show off a powerful, exciting and unique stage. *** Source: http://news.nate.com/view/20130510n14118 Translated by: Nathaniel @ Diadem

Chris Brown was arrested on March 5, 2009, which is much longer than T-ara's incident last year, so there's a difference beside the level of severity and consequences that was taken between both parties here. I do not believe you're correct about Kim Kwang Soo only keeping Hyomin, Eunjung, Jiyeon, because Areum is right there with them as a sub-unit, and Jiyeon informing everybody about the Soyeon-Boram-Qri sub-unit later on. I was told that Girls' Generation will be releasing an English Album this year. 2NE1 is rumored to release one as well, including the Wonder Girls, although that seems like it'll happen next year for them. I remember reading about Rania making a push into the U.S. sometime this month and rumors about talks with signing with a label company. Not sure which one, but I do recall someone mentioning one of Chris Brown's labels. I'm not going to jump to conclusions about any of their works, because I haven't heard and/or seen any of the works to make an accurate assessment. In fact, none of us can make such conclusions until we've seen officially released promotional materials for them. Best to wait for their releases and watch the results unfold. Psy is helping to pave K-Pop a way more accessible into the U.S. market, thanks to previous K-Pop artists before in their attempts to get in as well, even though it didn't yield as much, but in the larger picture, it is progressing better than before. We're not sure how good their level of English is right now, but Dani is from the U.S., and if I can recall, Tiffany from Girls' Generation did most of the interviews while in our nation. Again, K-Pop since the late 1990s has vastly improved presently. Even though the measure of success is not on par with the local prominent U.S. artists, that doesn't mean that they're failures, because without such attempts, Psy, Girls' Generation, Wonder Girls, and 2NE1 won't have gotten that much opportunities to perform here. Given how other K-Pop artists are getting into the U.S., like f(x), Rania, and Sistar, K-Pop has been working progressively over the years, because there are fans here. There are way more K-Pop artists getting into the U.S. since the early 2000s, and that alone speaks just how much the genre has improved and still improving. Please remember that T-ara incident is actually the biggest farce by antis ever in K-Pop history. His fourth album did top the Billboard 200 upon its release and sold around 270,000 copies during its first week, in early 2011. His "Yeah 3x" single did well too, even internationally, which was rather surprising, but did signify that we've moved on from his wrongful ordeal with Rihanna, even though this incident is already permanent on his life record. Given the positive feedbacks that was received on his comeback, I still believe there's redemption for him to achieve, but still open for debate because of the potential backlash for an alleged accusation that he violated his court sentencing term, and his second break up Rihanna by classically cheating on her with another woman recently. I'll give Chris Brown the benefit to improve himself. As for T-ara working with him, I still do believe it'll be more in favor of T-ara. But, we'll just have to wait and see, because it's still in the negotiation phase and nothing has been finalized on this collaboration. Well, he did complete his domestic violence courses and was psychologically approved to deal with his own anger management by court order, so I won't overly exaggerate, but will be cautious to be safe when working with him and keep things professional as singers and co-workers, that is, should they complete their negotiations and decide on working together, and have him assist T-ara debuting in the U.S. Please keep in mind, we still don't know when T-ara's U.S. debut will happen. It could next year, or the year after, and there's lots of things that could change during that amount of time. I don't believe any of those options are viable given the circumstances Chris Brown is currently facing from both the court and the public. He knows if he screws up this opportunity, an international one, he'll be struggling much worse than before in terms of his career and public image. He won't be able to make the level of comeback like his fourth album, should he screw up this one with T-ara. When his fourth album was released back in 2011, to much of everybody's surprise here in the U.S., international communities sprang forth in support of his single. European countries more notably. But his single with Justin Bieber, "Next To You" peaked at 95 on the GAON Chart, and his "Strip" song reached 43 later on during that year. Suffice to say, South Korea is aware of Chris Brown. As for the reactions here, everybody is reliving the events that happened back in 2009, despite efforts to remind others what has changed since then and what's happening right now. There's a possibility that it could work out for T-ara more than Chris Brown, should this become officially agreed that both him and T-ara will be working together in the U.S., which would be T-ara's debut in our country. We'll just have to wait and see what happens next. All of us are not sure just how successful this possible T-ara and Chris Brown collaboration is going to be, given the positive results from their comebacks. Image wise, and reputation, aside, it is possible to create a workable collaborative music together. Everybody in the entertainment industry faces that possibility of falling short in their works. The K-Pop industry are actually making more better progression into the U.S. market gradually, seeing how successful BoA, Wonder Girls, 2NE1, Girls' Generation were able to perform way more than previous K-Pop artists. When searching Chris Brown's earlier days it wasn't this bad, at least he's striving to redeem himself now than never, which is a good thing. As for T-ara, some of the antis still can't handle the truth from the members themselves, which still makes them rather pathetic. Some of other antis have changed for the better, which is good. They are still in the negotiating phase in light of these media reports on it. Nothing is finalized yet. I don't think it would tarnish T-ara's image, considering Chris Brown has his own to worry about. Since lots people don't believe in the antis against T-ara, and some antis becoming fans again, thanks to N4, T-ara is in a much better position to gain from this. Lots of things that could happen in the future for everybody, but considering the positive feedbacks for both T-ara N4's and Chris Brown's comebacks there might be a possible workable collaboration that could be beneficial for T-ara. In the actual scope of the K-Pop genre in the U.S., it has been gradually getting better and better, seeing how successful Psy has become recently. Other K-Pop artists before Girls' Generation, Wonder Girls, and 2NE1 helped open the possibilities for the genre's future prospects to become even more co-existent in the U.S. than previously. T-ara does study other languages, including English, because there are significant amount of U.S. fans of K-Pop artists. Chris Rock? That would be quite an surprising and interesting collaboration right here. Considering that T-ara has improved their image and reputation recently since N4's interview, and antis still running amok with their insanity, while their numbers are decreasing and T-ara support increased, and still increasing, T-ara is in a far better position than Chris Brown, who has a criminal record. Everybody knows that the bullying scandal was a sham and fabricated by antis. Compare that to the irrefutable proof of Rihanna's 911 call and facial injury photos, and his plead of guilty in a court of law, there's a huge, and quite massive difference between our T-ara and Chris Brown. There's no mistake about that. Common sense right now is that they are discussing the possibilities of working together. Nothing is finalized on this. But it does signify that T-ara does have possibilities to work with other artists and promote here in the U.S., which is very good to hear. Common sense will always remind all of us that human dignity of forgiveness and redemption will prevail so long as the person(s) actions, beliefs, and understanding is unwavering in the face of such life challenges ahead of them. Please remember, humans have the ability to learn from their own mistakes, and by encouraging this, will aide a better possibility for our future. Kim Kwang Soo knows what he's doing by talking things out with Chris Brown first, before making a decision on this. T-ara probably has a mutual respect and understanding on how well Chris Brown is trying to improve himself, and learning from his mistakes, which could help them out. There's also that possibility that Chris Brown could help T-ara in working with other artists too, like Rihanna. We all just have to wait and see what will happen next. If this collaboration does happen, I believe it'll work more in favor of T-ara and possibly improve a little bit on Chris Brown. Please note that Psychology and Physics are 2 different fields of study. If both were one in the same field and were true, there will be way more wars throughout our history and justify any unwarranted hatred as a just cause to murder someone, even if that person was simply ugly or made an idiotic comment.

[13.05.10] Video - Daily T-ara In Seoul - Day 1 ** originally from: http://ch.nicovideo.jp/t-ara uploaded by: chesskidgaf@youtube

[13.05.11] Video - Daily T-ara In Seoul - Day 2 ** originally from: http://ch.nicovideo.jp/t-ara uploaded by: chesskidgaf@youtube

More likely than not it's an exaggeration by CCM (we all know KKS loves to inflate his sales, fans and attendance numbers to the point of hilarity). Maybe someone from Brown's management knew Dani was part of this Kpop act, gave her a backstage pass to meet and take photos with Brown, and then Dani showed him the MV when they were having the short meet and greet.

Oh goodness, someone please tell me what KKS is thinking. The girls have a horrible image in their country as it is, and Chris Brown (regardless of how well his songs may fare on the charts) has a legitimately bad reputation as well. Clearly putting the two together isn't in PR's best interests.