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fivil linked me to pics from a Shinhwa naked photobook (for those who are, like me, ignorant of matters of pop, Shinhwa is a very popular Korean boyband. I cannot speak as to their musical merits as I haven't heard a note, but the eye candy factor is very much present).
And by naked, I mean naked. Nekkid, nekkid, nekkid. But not just that! Those pics are not just solo shoots. In fact, a large number of them are so incredibly, explicitly homoerotic that in order to get any further on that scale, it would either become: a. outright groping or b. go off the edge and end up completely straight again :)
The thing that amuses and bemuses me, however, is that if an American band (let alone boyband) had pictures like that, they would be done. Finished. Kaput. But this is from an official book, a publication to promote them, get them more notice etc i.e. looking for a positive reaction! And from what I can tell, Shinhwa is quite mainstream and popular, not a niche band just for gay audiences. I don't know, I am sort of intrigued by the concept difference.
Also, that leaves me with two final notes:
a. If you think your job requires you to get close to your coworkers, think again AND
b. Every time I now see Eric Mun in Que Sera Sera, I experience a brief sense of mingled relief and disappointment that he seems to be dressed. Surely that is abnormal for any Shinhwa member.
On an unrelated note, the Edison Chen sex scandal. Apparently, the rumor now is that those pics of Cecilia Cheung with Edison? Were taken either shortly before her marriage to Nic Tse or even after (!!!!) There are, also, of course, rumors of divorce.
OK, what I want to know, is what sane woman would cheat on Nicholas Tse, surely one of the most gorgeous guys in Chinese pop/cinema/dramaworld with Edison Chen? Seriously. WTF? When Nic Tse looks like this. Also, I don't know anything about Nic Tse's personality but unless he is a complete mental case, he's got to be better than someone so sleazy who takes explicit pics of himself with his conquests, shows them off to his buddies, and then is so dimwitted as to take his computer to the shop without bothering to get the pics off. I mean, whatever else, Nicholas Tse has got to be brighter because surely no one could be dumber than that.
fivil linked me to pics from a Shinhwa naked photobook (for those who are, like me, ignorant of matters of pop, Shinhwa is a very popular Korean boyband. I cannot speak as to their musical merits as I haven't heard a note, but the eye candy factor is very much present).And by naked, I mean naked. Nekkid, nekkid, nekkid. But not just that! Those pics are not just solo shoots. In fact, a large number of them are so incredibly, explicitly homoerotic that in order to get any further on that scale, it would either become: a. outright groping or b. go off the edge and end up completely straight again :)
The thing that amuses and bemuses me, however, is that if an American band (let alone boyband) had pictures like that, they would be done. Finished. Kaput. But this is from an official book, a publication to promote them, get them more notice etc i.e. looking for a positive reaction! And from what I can tell, Shinhwa is quite mainstream and popular, not a niche band just for gay audiences. I don't know, I am sort of intrigued by the concept difference.
Also, that leaves me with two final notes:
a. If you think your job requires you to get close to your coworkers, think again AND
b. Every time I now see Eric Mun in Que Sera Sera, I experience a brief sense of mingled relief and disappointment that he seems to be dressed. Surely that is abnormal for any Shinhwa member.
On an unrelated note, the Edison Chen sex scandal. Apparently, the rumor now is that those pics of Cecilia Cheung with Edison? Were taken either shortly before her marriage to Nic Tse or even after (!!!!) There are, also, of course, rumors of divorce.
OK, what I want to know, is what sane woman would cheat on Nicholas Tse, surely one of the most gorgeous guys in Chinese pop/cinema/dramaworld with Edison Chen? Seriously. WTF? When Nic Tse looks like this. Also, I don't know anything about Nic Tse's personality but unless he is a complete mental case, he's got to be better than someone so sleazy who takes explicit pics of himself with his conquests, shows them off to his buddies, and then is so dimwitted as to take his computer to the shop without bothering to get the pics off. I mean, whatever else, Nicholas Tse has got to be brighter because surely no one could be dumber than that.
