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It's the first day of Guest Blogger Week on Oddness/Weirdness and, like last time, I want to start out with a bang.  This post is from Moni , writer and owner of the blog Frock Yeah , and it's about something near and dear to my heart: Kpop fashion.  Enjoy! Swag Check, Mic Check: How Fashion Keeps Your Oppas and Unnies at the Top I’ve heard lots of stories about how people got into k-pop: learning about Korean music through Gangnam Style , flipping through the international TV channels at 4 am, even *cough* someone forwarding a video of Taeyang humping the stage in all white *cough* Full disclosure: that last one is definitely what happened to me, but it’s not why I jumped feet first into the fandom and stayed. Actually, it was the styling that got me. After drooling over Taeyang, I happened to see Girls’ Generation ’s video for “ Gee ”. I’m not usually a fan of music that leans on the cutesier side, but I could not stop watching this music vide...

It has come to my attention that people are confused as hell about EXO 's " Wolf " and " Growl " drama version MVs, and have been since they came out.  Well, it's your lucky day, because I'm here to explain the shit out of them for you, in the way I know best: I'm going to tell you a little story.  Fyi, this will be done in two parts, so bear with me.

Here's part 2 and 3 of Leaf 's  M! Countdown: What's Up L.A. concert fan account.   Check out part 1 here .  This fan account has been cross posted from Leaf's blog,  My Kpop Obsession .  Please be sure to take out with full credit. Internet, Let us continue... Teen Top 

I'm doing 2 videos at the same time again, because why not?  This time I'm honing in on EXO 's new " Growl " video and Henry Lau 's just released mv for " 1-4-3 (I Love You) featuring f(x)'s Amber Liu .

Henry Lau has teamed up with EXO's Chanyeol for a preview of his new song " 1-4-3 (I Love You) " and it's so sweet and cute that it makes me want to run out and hug someone.  :fangirl flail:

SM Entertainment has released EXO 's " Growl " dance practice videos, which means I had to sit there and watch them over and over a few times, even though I've watched the ganked dance practice version a ton of times.  I'm going to need for you guys to watch them with me because I can't be the only one having issues over these 12 boys.

I've been planning to do a weekly recap on the blog for awhile now but never got around to it.  Welp, here I am finally doing one!  I know this is last week's news but I've gotta start somewhere, so here goes. Check out my inaugural "News Of The Week" post.  These posts will consist of a recap of things I found to be really interesting that happened during the week, but didn't neccessarily blog about.  Let me know whether you'd like to see more of these in the comments below.

Whattt?   EXO sang " Growl " live on MBC's   Music Core today?   Already ??  What is this world coming to?   I'm shocked, guys.  I'm really, really shocked because I'd come to the conclusion that EXO couldn't really sing live .  I was even starting to think that their voices are just auto-tuned to perfection and that D.O. , Bacon Baekhyun , Luhan and Chen couldn't really hold a diva sing out like " What Is Love " has led me to believe.  Seems as if I was wrong, which I'm really happy about.

EXO made their first " Growl " comeback performance today on M! Countdown and I think it was good, and by good I mean f#@king awesome.  They had me wiping sweat off my brow with all those sexy faces they were making, and they've managed to hip thrust and twerk their way onto my bias list with this one.  Yeah, I never thought I'd be saying that about EXO either, but there's always room for one more.

I've been doing a lot of Video of the Day posts on this blog recently, but that's because a lot of really good videos came out in the past month or two.  Case in point is this EXO mv for their newest song, " Growl ".  I can't even with this mv and song, and I mean that in the best possible way.

Those EXO boys are winding down their "Wolf" promotions and are getting ready to release another single.  This new single is aptly titled  "Growl " and will be released on the repackaged version of their " XOXO(Kiss&Hug) " album.  EXO fans get your money straight because this one is going to be a doozy!

So EXO won for the 2nd time with " Wolf " on Music Core today... yayyyy!  I'm extra happy for them because they are some hard working dongsaengs.  However I have to admit that my favorite part of this whole thing was when SHINee 's Jonghyun  appeared out of nowhere with a gigantic bouquet of flowers for them and ended up kind of taking over.

EXO has won their first comeback stage win ever with " Wolf " on KBS's Music Bank today and I'm so proud of them!  You can tell these boys have practiced their singing and dancing so hard and it has finally paid off.  Watch their full interview, performance and ending stage below:

It's true.... The members of EXO-K and EXO-M are ALWAYS at the airport.  I'm never sure where they're going or what they're going to be doing when they get there, but I'm forever seeing the pics.  There's often some major fashion moments taking place in these pics; some good, some bad but always notable.  Enjoy: This post is image heavy

EXO released their mv for their much anticipated new song, " Wolf " this morning and, even though it seems that so many people dislike it, I think I'm going to have to (as a reader called it) "pull an Erika".  "Pulling an Erika" is apparently what happens when I talk shit about the teasers to a new song, mv or album leading up to it's release, and then backpedal and say that I like it afterwards. :Deep sigh: This happens so often.  When will I learn?

On May 28 SMent dropped EXO 's newest teaser for their not yet released new single, " Wolf " .  I watched it last night and I was thinking I'd be able to be nice and just mention the facts but I really can't.  I have to admit it.  I think this is so.... damned... FUNNY and you know you do too.

Last week SM Entertainment shocked the Kpop world with their announcement that EXO would at long last be releasing a full length album.  The album will be called " XOXO (Kiss&Hug) " and tons of image teasers and their first video preview have been unleashed on us unsuspecting EXO fans.

It has just been announced that SM Entertainment 's wannabe supergroup EXO is finally making a comeback.  This will be their first full length album, which will be called " XOXO (Kiss & Hug) ". Boy was I surprised when I saw this on my Twitter stream:

We're back with another Top 10, and by "we" I mean Stormy and myself.  This time we're talking about the top 10 videos of 2012 and as mentioned in the title, it's strictly for the visuals.  We won't be bringing you our thoughts on the bestest Kpop songs of the year, as we already did that, or even the best songs/videos.  This post is just about the videos released in 2012 that wowed  us visually. Yes, some of the songs on this list are the same as on our Top 10 songs list but that's because it just so happens that, in our opinions, both the song and the mv are perfection. Don't agree with us?  No problem!  Scroll on down to the comments section and let your fingers fly.

As I'm sure all you Kpop lovers were aware, the 2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards, or MAMAs, finally happened earlier this morning (or last night depending on where you live), Check out the performances I thought were genius PLUS the ones that were full of fail below, and then make sure to let me know which were the ones you loved and hated in the comments. Edited to add:  After reading the comments I received, I felt compelled to add that I'm not just a YG and SM stan.  I did like other performances, like Block B's and Gain's, I'm just waiting to make another post when I find more HD videos. cr. kpopstarz