It's about time (April)
そろそろ出番だ（April）
Group April wins Rookie of the Year award at 'Korea Performing Arts Awards'
The group April was honored to receive the Rookie of the Year award at the "22nd Korean Performing Arts Awards" held at Seongnam Art Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do on the 18th.
On the morning of the 19th, the management office DSP Media released a photo taken by the members behind the scenes at the award ceremony to commemorate April's Rookie of the Year award. The photo shows the cute smiles of the members, conveying the joy of winning the Rookie of the Year Award.
April is a rookie idol group that appeared like a comet in the music industry with a pure image in August of last year. (Muah!)”, “Snowman”, etc., and the number of fans is rapidly increasing.
Immediately after his debut, he became a candidate for the first place in the music program ranking, and furthermore, on the comprehensive chart of Japan's largest CD shop chain "Tower Records", he surpassed the top Japanese and Korean artists and rose to the first place imposingly, signaling the birth of a major newcomer. .
(From K-POP News)
I don't know how much authority the "22nd Korean Performing Arts Awards" Newcomer Award has. However, I do know that April made her debut with a lot of attention as the youngest daughters of DSP Media, which has KARA.
I clearly remember being a candidate for No. 1 in music program rankings immediately after their debut, and rising to No. 1 on Japan's largest CD shop chain, "Tower Records", beating out top Japanese and Korean artists.
It was. That was in August of last year, right in the middle of the K-POP Girls' summer decisive battle...!
They released new songs one after another and their hard work continued for a while. However, the timing of the debut seems to have been bad. During the comeback period of all the influential girls, newcomers who debut will also attract a lot of attention.
The plan itself was not wrong. The more heated the supposed showdown between innocent and sexy girls heats up, the more likely it is that April will step in and grab the spotlight. Because the best weapon of innocence is freshness.
But there was another miscalculation.
When I opened the lid, there were no influential girls who had made a comeback with a full-fledged sexy concept. Groups that used to sell themselves as sexy have diluted their best and appeared with graceful performances (of course, there were unknown groups that tried to bet on one point of sexiness). It seems that until Girls' Generation, who had a lot of drawers, the experimental performance was put away in the closet, and it seems that she has returned with a very normal young lady style.
At this point, the enthusiasm of the Pure and Pure Troupe, who had been dragging their feet, was empty.
When the stage becomes a contest of gracefulness and cuteness, the group's performance, which is different from the conventional line, becomes lively. AOA was like that, Girls' Generation was like that too. Naturally, the reaction from the fans was also good.
For Apink, the representative of the Pure and Pure Group, in other words, it became a tough summer decisive battle, as if they were chasing out the enemies who came to their hunting grounds. Similar performances such as Lovelyz and April are chasing behind one after another, and a kind of saturation is being created in a capacity that is not so large.
However, Apink was barely able to overcome this crisis because they had made a comeback with songs and performances that stepped in from Kiyojun a little while ago. If the song and performance remained at the level of “LUV” (Apink), it seems likely that it would have sunk.
Despite being put under bad conditions, Apink barely survived the competition. But Apink's feet and hands, including Lovelyz and April, didn't break out in the end.
When the girls' battle took shape, Girls' Generation performed "Lion Heart" to conclude and culminate the summer girls' decisive battle.
As if to soothe the fierce battles of summer, the song balances innocence and sexiness, and adds humor to create a deeply flavorful song.
☆Lion Heart～♪
This song is a masterpiece that reminds me of that summer.
Now that KARA is gone, I have to have April work hard towards that goal.
Since she is chasing after Apink, I want her to chase Apink as soon as possible and fight hard for post-KARA.
"Of course, to Lovelyz as well..."
"For the time being, it's from the fanmi where Youngji is the moderator..."
"I'm looking forward to it!"
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Girl group April holds fan meeting for the first time in Japan hosted by KARA Youngji
The first Japanese fan meeting of the rookie girl group April will be held with a special moderator by KARA Heo Youngji, an artist affiliated with DSP Media.
The fan meeting will be held on March 6th at Toyosu PIT in Tokyo under the title of "April JAPAN FANMEETING 2016 ~The First Fairy tale~".
At this event, KARA's Heo Young Ji will be in charge of the special MC with her fluent Japanese skills as a senior in Japan activities, and will strongly support her junior group April.
April is the girl group produced by DSP Media after RAINBOW for the first time in 7 years, and debuted at a showcase on August 24, 2015. Just like its name, the girl group is like a sprout sprouting in spring. Also, unlike other groups, April uses a mascot called ``Sawol (April),'' which looks like a sprout growing from April's seed. Expectations are high for 2016.
☆ When they debuted, they were a girl with a transparency and innocence that I had never seen before, and I looked forward to the next few years. How did it end up like that...if the members were on good terms and continued their activities smoothly, what kind of wonderful girls would they have become...
"Even if you say you're on the same boat, you're a newcomer, so it shouldn't be a big boat all of a sudden." Each oar had to be rowed in unison. It was only natural that the boat would sway and capsize if each rowed separately.
Although they disbanded without being able to play a decent role, that's why the cute stage from the early days is burned into the corner of my mind and I still remember it from time to time.
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