Saturday, July 26, 2014

I want to fix your English lyrics

This post is for all those foreign lyricists out there that want to use English in their lyrics.
Many of you do NOT know how to write it correctly or in a way that makes sense.
I get it, you aren't a native English speaker, but trust me when I say that it doesn't stop those that are from commenting on the bad English. So, this is for you.
안녕하세요. こんにちは. 您好.
I want to help you all. Oh yes, I just went there. I want to help you guys correct your English lyrics. The reason for that is that I hate listening to a song I really love, and then have the experience interrupted by a nagging thought of "This doesn't make sense". So, to prevent that, I wish to help you.
Feel free to send me your lyrics to my secondary email: cherylc1004@gmail.com. (Please also comment if you've sent something, so I know to look for it. Thanks!)
I will read them over, attempt to explain why it doesn't make sense if it doesn't, and try to help you fix it. I promise not to post them anywhere or share them with anyone. The only person who will see it is me and if you don't know who I am yet, I recommend reading the first post of this blog. I promise to keep it completely confidential and please believe me when I say that I will keep this promise.
This might sound like a stupid post and to be honest, I have no credentials or credibility for doing something like this, but I will do this for free, so is there really something to lose?
Point is, please just take a chance on me. You have nothing to lose at all. You can create a new email address to send it to me, for all I care. I just want to help fix your lyrics. That's it.
Well, that's all I wanted to say. Bye for now and I hope that I will see those lyrics soon :).

Sunday, July 20, 2014

To Baekhyun (백현)

Okay, so by now, if any of you out there are EXOtics, you've probably heard that Baekhyun has a girlfriend. SNSD's Taeyeon. Yup, EXO's Baekhyun has a girlfriend. ... Okay, well, great. I was angry before, but not so much now. I've just gotten a bit more healed than before I guess.
Anyway, so I just wanted to say something to him, just in case he didn't read my comment before on Instagram. It's kinda pointless and stupid to do this, but I want to and it's my blog, so let me be stupid, childish, and maybe even selfish for once. So... here goes. (It was so long that I actually saved it on Google Drive, so yeah, I still have it even though he deleted the Instagram post.)

백현. Look, 1) You shouldn't have to apologize for this. You love her. She loves you. It is perfectly fine for you two to be together, so after this apology, please just stop apologizing. Let's be real. You didn't do anything wrong. If I had to say one thing you did wrong, I would just say lying to your fans about it instead of coming out and telling us. For me, that hurts more than you being with her. 2) It will be hard for a lot of us to accept it. I know that some of us need to just take a break from EXO to heal from it, but I'm sure we'll bounce back and support you guys just as much as before. So, please don’t worry about it. For now, those that have already accepted it will support you all until we come back from being hurt. (Btw, those that say that we aren’t true fans because we don’t accept it, please just stop. It’s those that do something about it by hurting them that are not real fans. Also, could we all agree to stop talking about it? People need to heal and if you all keep bringing the damn subject up and talking about it, how are they to get away from it and heal properly? Please guys.) 3) I guess the reason why we’re so hurt is because you guys seemed so close to us and in a way, by being an idol, you almost promised not to do this. Obviously, we need to realize that we’re all human. We all fall in love and we are all allowed to fall in love. So, I apologize for thinking that way myself. 4) Are you okay from all the stupid things people have done to you after the news of this? It’s ridiculous that they’ve done that to you and being part of the fandom, I apologize to you for this as well. 5) Bottom line is, you didn’t really do anything wrong. We realize that you have reflected on it, so stop apologizing. Continue doing your best in EXO and if EXO does suffer or has suffered a blow from this news, then you’ll just have to work harder to get past it. I believe in you; we believe in you, so fighting! :)