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twnstr · 2 months

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THE RISE OF TEENSTAR : TWINSTAR’S GIRL GROUP SUPERNOVA

ALTHOUGH ANNOUNCED TO THE WORLD IN 2018, TEENSTAR had been in the works for years prior. hwayeon and hwayoung had always been interested in the music industry, watching the rise and fall of idol groups since the humble beginnings of their own company. avid fans of GIRL’S GENERATION and BROWN EYED GIRLS, it wasn’t long until they expressed their wishes to their aging father—who was never one to disappoint his daughters.

auditions were held in secret in 2015 as the agency performed as usual, being able to coast under the cover of their models and actors’ fame. the goal was to search far and wide for four girls who fit the twins’ standards—from vocal abilities to performance and presence to even their personalities. the trainees all underwent strenuous singing and dancing exams, all to see who would tap out and who would push on for the chance at stardom. and by the time 2016 rolled around, they had their polished four ready.

debuting with a bang, TEENSTAR hit the idol scene with their hit debut song ‘달라달라 (DALLA DALLA)’. unashamed and loud, members HYEWON, CHAERI, LOUA, and JANELLE were introduced to the world in loud colors and an expressive anthem celebrating their differences and being proud of them. despite the debut’s commercial success, the song received mixed reviews from critics and new listeners. due to their growing popularity, it wasn’t long until TEENSTAR accumulated something akin to a diehard fanbase that gained a split reputation for either being some of the nicest people to rabid fans who would not stand any shred of negativity towards the girls.

it seemed that TEENSTAR had it down to a science when it came to their discography, each song amassing millions of streams by both their dedicated fans and strongest haters. from pop ear worm FANCY YOU to the vocal-led rnb hit WOWOW, you were tuned in to whatever the girls brought out whether you liked it or not.

the group disbanded not too long after the devastating loss of members CHAERI and LOUA, leaving a gaping hole in the hearts of fans and the company alike. after three years of silence, an album of unreleased tracks would be released on the anniversary of their deaths to celebrate the talented lives they had lost in that horrible crash. to this day, fans still block off the street where TWINSTAR is located in memoriam three times a year: on LOUA’s birthday, CHAERI’s birthday, and the anniversary.

★ ──── INFORMATION

⠀( 🜸 ) GROUP NAME : TEENSTAR

⠀( 🜸 ) COMPANY : TWIN STAR TALENT

⠀( 🜸 ) DEBUT DATE : MARCH 03 2018

⠀( 🜸 ) CONCEPT & THEME : a group of girls coming together to not only celebrate their differences but to conquer the world through empowering and fun music and colorful visuals.

⠀( 🜸 ) FANDOM NAME : COMETS

⠀( 🜸 ) GROUP GREETING : four stars with one dream! hello, this is teenstar!

⠀( 🜸 ) CREATIVE DIRECTOR : JANG YOOWON

⠀( 🜸 ) GROUP MANAGER : SHIN SOLMI

⠀( 🜸 ) FANDOM COLOR : DALLADALLA ( #ee0b6e )

★ ──── MEMBERS

⠀( 🜸 ) OH HYEWON, ‘98. LEADER, LEAD DANCER, SUB RAPPER

⠀( 🜸 ) CHOI ( CHAERI ) SORA, ‘99. MAIN VOCALIST, LEAD RAPPER

⠀( 🜸 ) PARK ( LOUA ) DOYUN, ‘00. MAIN RAPPER, LEAD VOCALIST

⠀( 🜸 ) CHOI ( JANELLE ) HAEUN, ‘01. MAKNAE, MAIN DANCER, SUB RAPPER, FOTG

★ ──── DISCOGRAPHY

⠀( 🜸 ) 달라달라 (DALLA DALLA) : DEBUT SINGLE, 2018

⠀( 🜸 ) WOWOW : SINGLE, 2018

⠀( 🜸 ) XOXO : MINI ALBUM, 2018

⠀( 🜸 ) Q&A : MINI ALBUM, 2019

⠀( 🜸 ) OUR Q&A : COLLAB EP, 2019

⠀( 🜸 ) BOTTLED LOVE : ALBUM, 2019

⠀( 🜸 ) YOU BETTER RUN : SINGLE, 2020

⠀( 🜸 ) REWIND : ALBUM, 2020

⠀( 🜸 ) REWIND ( UNRELEASED ) : ALBUM, 2023

#⠀( 🜸 ) teenstar.#fake idol community #fake idol company #fake kpop company #fake girl group #fake idol group #fictional idol company #fictional idol community #fictional kpop company #fictional girl group #fictional idol group

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lazycatie · 1 year

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teenstar magazine - october issue [1998]

#1st gen kpop #teenstar #1998 #kpop #music #kfashion #2000s #90s #nostalgia #magazine #y2k #girl groups #fashion #inspo #s.e.s #fin.k.l #h.o.t

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letsmakefingerfive · 1 year

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S.E.S., 1999.

S.E.S. featured in Teenstar magazine April 1999 Issue. Click here.

#90's fashion #90s kpop #1st generation kpop #1st gen kpop #90's icons #futurism #futuristic #s.e.s.#y2k fashion #y2k aesthetic #y2k vibes #cyber y2k #cybercore #cyberspace #old kpop #bada eugene shoo

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hjnxx · 2 months

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NEW! KQ’S HOUSE OF CARDS : THE BUDDING ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY TO DEBUT GIRL GROUP AFTER TEASING SURVIVAL SHOW SET TO AIR IN MARCH

WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED BY HWANG YEORI FOR ALLKPOP ON FEBRUARY 16TH 2021

WITH THE OFFICIAL DEBUT OF THEIR TRAINEE GROUP KQ FELLAZ UNDER THEIR BELT, rebranding fresh with the name ATEEZ—KQ has announced a new project with its female trainees. Here’s what we know.

A few years ago, we wrote an article on the mysterious trainees the new company had after a particular dance video went viral featuring the eight men you know and love today dressed in black with hats obscuring their faces. Curiosity getting the best of the public, it wasn’t long until the world was introduced to KQ’s FELLAZ. Fast forward to now, and ATEEZ is teasing a sixth mini album and is garnering budding fame in the western sphere for their loud and rambunctious sound. But ATEEZ is not the only one with news this month.

KQ Entertainment announced news of a survival show earlier this month, releasing a smattering of peculiar images showcasing the show’s theme. Based on fan perception and online digging, the show features eight unknown female trainees of their own as well as a whopping FOURTY FOUR external contestants from various other companies. Rumors of who the lineup would consist of were heavily debated online, from JANELLE of TWINSTAR’s TEENSTAR making waves due to her expressing a return to the entertainment industry to KANG DAROREUM, a rumored nepo baby born in the States and daughter of a producer at SM. Word on the eight that the public is now calling KQ LADIEZ has not been released to the public.

Are you excited for the new survival show? Let us know!

VIEW COMMENTS…

user lol who even are these people?? get my baby janelle out of there…

⤷ user srsly why is the article acting like she doesn’t already have a company 😭 if she leaves twnstr its over for her she’ll lose everything

⤷ user #FREEJANELLEFROMKQ!!!

user isn’t ateez only just now breaking into the west… they aren’t even that famous rn and you want to debut ANOTHER group? yeah have fun with debt holy shit lmao

user kq ladiez sounds lame if i’m being honest but i’m invested if nellie makes it in

⤷ user lets be so fr janelle is not making the cut without getting rigged for sympathy votes

⤷ user ik ur untalented ass is not speaking on the nation’s little sister like that? nellies are gonna release ur credit card info u better go into hiding with the swiftness 😭

user i give them a year. hope they all have insurance on therapy lmaooo fifty two contestants is kinda crazy

⤷ user it’s almost like no one learned from produce 48

user if they do get fame everyone thank ateez and most definitely hongjoong since he’s probably gonna be asked to make their music 💀 anyway STREAM INCEPTION ‼️‼️‼️

user ‘heavily debated’ girl who is talking about this lmao cause it’s crickets on twitter. 🤣

⤷ user NO RIGHT 😭😭😭 at least something interesting might air tho idrc abt the girls i’m here for the drama and horrible editing LMAOOO

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nanoa1foryou · 5 months

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Translation of this article from Helsingin Sanomat.

The third time

Robin Packalen had a secret plan. After military service he'd head abroad. Despite the attempts a breakthrough hasn't come. Now he reveals his biggest adversary, who surprisingly has a familiar name.

Universal Music Group -record lable's office was located in Merimiehenkatu in Punavuori, Helsinki, in the cable factory's old industrial estate. Behind it's square windows, at the end of the second floor, there was a meeting room, where in August of 2022 gathered a group of the heads of the record lable and one big popstar.

There was a dark table in the room. People sat on opposite sides of it.

There is no clear memory of who all were there, but at least the CEO of the lable Kimmo Valtanen and manager Juha Ruusunen. Producer Joonas Parkkonen participated remotely.

The popstar sat on the other side. He was Robin Packalen.

Outside the late summer sun was burning, but indoors they were looking already forward to the next spring. Or maybe it's more accurate to say listened, because around the table the thoughts were on what pop music on next spring's Eurovision could sound like.

In the previous yyear Parkkonen and Packalen had been polishing up three new English language songs. Now it was time to choose, which one of them would be sent to Yle's Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu.

And from there hopefully to Eurovision.

He had been preparing an international career in secresy. The decision had been made already in 2013.

The situation was peculiar, as Robin had refused from going to Eurovision publicly on multiple occasions, because it didn't fit the artist's image.

"As a concept it's not my style", he had said for example in a Helsingin Sanomat interview a few years earlier.

And Packalen wanted to be a man of his word. But the situation had changed. A career abroad had not gotten off the ground as they'd hoped and for that he was ready to do nearly whatever it takes, even go back on his word about the UMK-competition.

An international career, after all, he had been working on in secresy nearly since when he had pushed his way to the hearts of the Finnish people with this song:

*In the article they have a 23 second clip of the song Frontside Ollie here*

The video for Frontside Ollie was released on 16th of January, 2012. In two weeks the song rose to the top of the at the time Finland's official downloads list and as the most sold on the musicservice Itunes. To this day the musicvideo has been viewed on Youtube for over 20 million times.

During the first three years the teenstar's fame rose to a level, that is still in Finland without a match.

A few measurement of that succeess:

The debut album, Koodi, was the most sold record of the year 2012 in Finland.

The second album, Chillaa, rose immediately after it's release to number one of the official Finnish album chart.

The third, in 2013 released Boom Kah, sold double platinum on it's release day.

Packalen toured around Finland. But in the days between, when he had the time, he flew to "song sessions" abroad. In those he composed music in English and managed to even do it for years is secret from the public.

He, who had charmed teh Finn's with his sincerity.

As the decision had been actually made already in 2013. It was Packalen's own and it was supported by his team. After the matriculation examination and military service the performance language would change to English and the career would be directed towards international spotlights.

The song was called I'll Be With You and it was heard in the Emma-gala in February of 2019. In April another single, Suit That, was released.

*In the article they have a 21 second clip of the song I'll Be With You here*

Packalen had been silent for a year and a half. Then he hd revealed, that he would aim for an international career and was changing his performance language to English.

After the break the first show however was still in a familiar place, in his hometown Turku, on the Rantalava at Ruisrock-festival.

The show lasted for 23 minuter. In that time Packalen did one flip, performed the already released English language songs, two cover songs and a not yeat released Benefits-slow song. In the intermission speeches he spoke in Finnish, among other things called his show a "goofing around show" and promised in the end, that more English language music would be released soon.

But then came fall and winter and spring, and when 13 months had passed from the release of the first song in English oretty much exactly, the coronavirus pandemic closed the artist to isolation and stopped the exporting of music.

"Robin, come back and sing in Finnish"

Packalen's project for international success had first been worked on for three years by Comusic Management's CEO and artist manager Mikko Saukkonen. In 202 the project moved to Packalen's own backing company Robin Entertainment's care.

Both Saukkonen and Robin Entertainmens communications cordinator Susa Ruuhilahti told in an HS interview, that the reasoning for the hold on the international career attempts was the coronavirus pandemic.

The continuation wasn't looking much more promising either.

In December 2020 Packalen released his first English language ep, called Rest In Beat PM. It got a sequel in the next year's October, this ep was called Rest In Beat AM.

First placed on Finlan'd official chart in 46th place, the second in 27th.

HS's music critic voiced a wish: "Robin, come back and sing in Finnish".

In the spring of 2022 a familiar pattern repeated. Yle called. Packalen's manager since 2020, Juha Ruusunen answered the phone.

Would Robin be interested this time in participating in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu?

After that came a second phone call, this time from Ruusunen to Packalen.

Packalen doesn't remember, where he was when he answered Ruusunen, but he does remember, that the call was long and by it's tone it deviated from the previous calls.

"For the first time I thought immediately, that now I could maybe consider participating", Packalen says.

A year earlier Finland's UMK winner, metal band Blind Channel had managed to create an international fanbase with their song Dark Side.

The concept had started to tempt.

Packalen decided to join on one condition: he'd have to have a good enough song. For that he had to travel to Los Angeles for a song making trip.

He packed into his bag his laptop, microphone, preamplifier and a small keyboard. On the trip he was joined by producer Joonas Parkkonen. The same man, that had earlier participated in the production of Blind Channel's hit as well.

When the evening dimmed, from somewhere far away a shot echoed. Then another.

Packalen had reserved them a "good, cheap and spacious" rowhouse strip from Inglewood, southwest of the center of Los angeles.

When the first evening there dimmed, from somewhere far away a shot echoed. Then another. In the sky a helicopter was making noise.

Packalen and Parkkonen however were in an entirely different atmosphere. When you listen to the music made during the trip to California after the fact, mostly the buzz of the palm trees and a hot beach comes to mind.

During the spring Parkkonen and Packalen made together a total of six songs. By combining those and earlier songs Packalen put together an entire album's worth of music.

In Los Angeles the lightly swinging Girls Like You was born as well. In Punavuori it lit up the group gathered around the table at the Universal Music Group's office.

*In the article they have a 25 second clip of the song Girls Like You here*

The final decision was made by Packalen. He thought that Girls Like You was "super fucking good", as he put it later during UMK in a press conference.

With that he's join UMK, that he was to win, so his name would become familiar abroad. ANd when that moment would come, he'd have an album of new music in English in his back pocket ready to go.

The first time Packalen heard Käärijä's song in January 2023. Yle set up for the finalists a listening session, where the artists got to know, who their competition was and how their songs sounded.

Cha Cha Cha was played second. The situation was recorded on video. At first Packalen's eyes widened from shock and then staryed somewhere towards the floor from confusion.

"I was thinking that well, can't do much more than go to Logomo to jump around."

It quickly became apparent, that Jere Pöyhönen from Vantaa had managed to raise up a buzz, that would be tough to beat. Everything green from cucumbers to the new buds of willows turned into Käärijä juice.

Again manager Ruusunen called Packalen.

"We were so deep into the project. nearly every day there was something UMK to do, practice, finalizing wardrobe and building the staging. There was no opportunity to wallow", Ruusunen says.

The duo would pull up Packalen's much used slogan: it is what it is, se on, mitä on, and move onwards. The call ended.

At the UMK final Packalen performed a perfectly polished, flawless show. Despite, that he had been fairly certain even before the competition of his loss.

Careful steps flowed precicely to the beat of the song. Occasionally he'd fall on his back to the soft surface, but his voice didn't waver.

The viewers voted Girls Like You to the fourth place of the competition.

Without the buzz of Eurovision winner there was no cause to release the new, English language album.

A Finnish popstar's international breakthrough is a trick, that has always seemed nearly impossible.

It almost worked for Alma in 2016. Karma was an international hit, and after it in Finland it was expected, first with vigour and later in desperation, that Alma would become an international superstar.

The record lable supported Packalen's dreams of an international career. But at the same time, it kept reminding, that hits need to happen in the homeland as well.

After a year and half break in 2019 Packalen had said in an interview, that he wouldn't be making more music in Finnish. In the end he went back on his word almost "accidentally".

In October 2022 Packalen's and singer Viivi's joint single Ihana Kipu was released.

*In the article there is a 19 second clip of the song Ihana Kipu here*

According to packalen the song was born kind of on accident or at least he jumped in on accident.

"I went to the studio with the mentality, that let's wrote some more music to Viivi's album. Then somehow I got really excited about the song, and I started to want to join in on it."

The song broke in Finland on it's release day the record of most streams in a day for this decade and crosssed the gold limit in two weeks.

According to the record lable's Kimmo Valtanen Ihana Kipu showed that the early 2010's "Robin magic" that had charmed the Finns hadn't disappeared. But how would the achieve the same with songs in English?

"It's useless to dream, that someone abroad would understand, if they don't understand in Finland", Valtanen says.

"I don't want to rush the music. It has to be something really unique and different from here on out."

Last spring the record lable Universal Music Group moved from Punavuori to new spaces in Hakaniemi in Helsinki.

On the building's sixth floor there is a small negotiation room and in the room a table, on the edge of which amidst bags of peanuts and water bottles a phone and sunglasses have been carefully stacked.

The popstar is sitting at the table. He is wwearing a large t-shirt and green cargo pants, the shoes are mismatched.

What does he think of his international career? Does it feel like a failure?

"It's no breeze, and not like that I decide this and it happens", Packalen says.

"It's important for your head that you have a direction. Somewhere you want to take your life. For me that has been that, creating an international career."

In the interview it becomes apparent, that the record lable Universal has not lost it's hope of Packalen's international breakthrough. Neither has Packalen.

Quite the opposite.

Even in 2020 Packalen said in an Ilta-Sanomat interview that fans shouldn't get upset if "nothing much happens even in ten years".

He sstill seems to think this way.

"I don't want to rush the music. It has to be something reallu unique and really different from here on out."

According to Valtanen the project for internationality has alway had the tought from the record lable behind it, that Packalen is going to make a lifelong career. Internationality is only one part of that.

"And in that we aim to support him so that his career progresses in the best possible way."

In November Packalen will fly to southwest China's Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. From there starts a tour around China with the Norwegian dj Alan Walker. The tour is a seven show large scale production and walker needs soloistst along to sing his songs.

Before the tour they practice together in Oslo.

In trying to make it abroad Packalen thinks there is something educational. The mindset is, that you can't make many detailed plans. The things around you change and your mind changes with them.

"The fact that things don't always go as you want, you learn from that much more, than when you just say that this is what we're doing and people just kind of eat from the palm of your hand."

"Here I've gotten to hear a lot of those empowering experiences, that maybe someone has been feeling really bad and then has listened to my music and gotten power and energy from that."

He wants to create the same reaction abroad.

"Music is the only way I can have an effect. It's not like I know how to do anything else."

At the change of the year after the tour with Alan Walker Packalen will try to break out into the international arenas again, I guess you could dare to say about the future plans.

He yet again packs up his computer, microphone, preamplifier and small keyboard and travles to Soul in South Korea, this time alone. There he will spend the whole spring.

He would like to find a nice team from Korea, a songwriter or producer, with whom he could write music. Either for himself or someone else. Relations to Korea have been created beforehand.

It's not that there isn't enough talented musicians in Finland. There is. But in popmusic South Korea is currently at another level entirely.

"Everyone wants to work with the Koreans. Korans are kind of like kings at this point", Packalen says.

He has a weight on his shoulders too: that smiling and porcelain doll like beautiful boy.

Young postar Robin was in public a positive, innocent and even flawless. So pictureque, that the mismatched shoes stood out as the only fault in the character.

Almost too good?

Now Packalen, 25, tells, that even his shoulders bear a weight. It's that smiling and porcelain doll like boy, who once did everything so well in the domestic popworld.

"Whatever I do now, it's always experienced in a way, where it will never be anything as good as that earlier Robin."

#finnish music #robin packalen #umk #uuden musiikin kilpailu #translations

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pansyfemme · 6 months

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#songposting #SoundCloud

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newaprilia · 1 year

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Welcome to VIVARIUM (v1.0)

After weeks of hard work, it's finally ready.

VIVARIUM V1.0 - Official Release

Vivarium is my first attempt at sharing my weird stuff with the world, in the shape of an inhabited custom neighborhood for TS2.

It's inspiration comes from the movie of the same name, "Vivarium", as well as the popular TS4 100 Baby Challenge.

It was also born from my annoyance with Family Aspiration sims and their constant wants for MORE children. So, I did what any sane person would do, and pitted them against their own nature.

Essentially, the matriarch, Ms. Violet, plays the role of Birth Mother to an entire town of male baby daddies, except there's a twist! One of the baby daddies has alien ancestry. The player successfully wins the challenge if:

They reach the 100 baby mark, using whatever means necessary (except adoption, of course)

They have an alien baby and therefore find out who the alien baby daddy is.

It is meant to be played like it's TS4 counterpart, with minimal tweaks to the rules. Kinda like, 100 Baby Challenge meets a Find The Alien in Disguise Challenge. The baby mama is also not allowed to have any sort of income, asides from child support! 🥵

Includes:

50 lots that look exactly the same, for insanity purposes. All baby daddies have the privilege of owning one, as Mr. Jack here is keen to demonstrate.

One very neat birthing station mommy homestead home for Mrs. Violet.

Including a real neat tree house in the back for your kids! Clearly, the children aren't the prisoners of this hellish experiment.

There are a total of 50 baby daddies in this challenge, 37 of which are normal sims, 3 are warlocks, 3 are werewolves, 3 are plantsims and 3 are vampires. It's up to you now to find out who the alien is!

Rules of the Challenge:

Please refer to the spreadsheet!

Mods & CC:

There are a number of Necessary Mods for this neighborhood to work. You will run into errors if you don't have these in your downloads folder. These are:

Custom Skintone Selector - You just have to keep this in your Downloads folder. It keeps the alien in his disguise.

No Sim Loaded

Smarter EP Check

Anti Redundancy

No Stray Respawn

No Townie Regen (search for "notownieregen.zip" to find it in the list)

The Necessary Mods in order for the challenge to be played, unless you want to play the challenge your own way! These are:

Child Support Controller v3.A - So that your birth mother can have a source of income while popping out all those babies

TeenStar PC / PC Omega 3000 - A PC that allows teens to move out on their own

Last Name Chooser (Baby) - So that you can choose the children's last name to be their father's. Note: Last Name Chooser seems to conflict with two Mods by TwoJeffs: "No Smart Milk Drag" & "Same Sex Marriage"

The following mods are Optional / Recommended, as well as some buy-mode cc included in the lots.

Hereditary Supernaturalism

Autonomous Casual Romance / ACR

More Realistic Genetics

Lot Imposter Lights

Thirstiest Bath Mats + Recolors

Maxis Match Wall Cabinets

I've also taken the liberty of including a spreadsheet for easy note-keeping.

Without further ado, happy birthing!

SPREADSHEET & DOWNLOAD

Please feel free to approach me regarding any issues you may find, here on tumblr or through discord @ yanna.psd

And keep me posted on the happenings of your save file!