I wouldn't have expected it a few years back, but I have become a fan of Lay (from EXO).
I first heard of him through Adeline who's a crazy K-pop fan... she was a big fan of EXO. After Luhan left the group, she said that her favourite member was Lay.
And then I saw him on Go Fighting!. He was such a fool at that time... so I didn't like him very much. As WW put it, in Go Fighting! there were five cunning people and one idiot. :P (and that idiot was Lay, in case you haven't figured it out)
But in the most recent season of Go Fighting! (Season 5), I felt that Lay had improved a lot. So I liked him better than before.
They had this awesome concert at the end of the season. I really liked the performances of Jia NaiLiang and Dilraba. They aren't singers, but since they are actors, I think that's why they exuded extreme confidence when performing on stage. Here is that episode, starting from the beginning of the concert.
I also really like Huang Bo's performance at the end, where he pulls in all the other members at different parts of his performance. (the subtitles help...otherwise I wouldn't appreciate it as much)
Lay performed his song Honey, but he changed it a bit with some classical music. So I searched up the actual song to see what the original was like. And the video left me mesmerized...
The innocent sheep Lay has grown up :O
There is another song, NAMANANA, which is also very good. The music is really catchy and upbeat.
While reading up on these, I found that he had English and Chinese versions for all the songs in his album NAMANANA :O And that he composed all his solo songs himself! :O And that he had composed songs (or was it lyrics) even for EXO's songs earlier! :O
And here I thought he was just an idiot who knew how to sing and dance :P My respect for him has gone up a lot with these discoveries.
What's more, some time ago there was an episode in Go Fighting! (season 2, maybe? Which means it was 3 years ago) where the members had to speak English for some reason. I remember that his English was pretty awful. So several months back (or was it last year?) I was already a bit surprised when I came across a Youtube video of him answering questions (he was going into the US market at the time) in English. (the highlight of that video, to me, was when he said his first pet was a cat, and then when they asked him what was the cat's name, he stops short, looks blank for a while, and then says, "I just called it cat." The cat didn't have a name!) Anyway all that to say that I realized at that time that he had been working on his English to break into the US market.
On a separate note, there is this video where he receives a proposal live on stage.
Hahahaha his reaction is really priceless! I feel kinda sorry for him, because he was put on the spot and he couldn't just say no, it would be bad for his image, but he couldn't say yes, since everyone was watching... luckily the MC helped him out quite a bit. He was going to take the ring and I'm quite glad the MC helped take the ring away...otherwise it would be awkward to keep the ring and also awkward NOT to keep it!
I did feel that the moment was staged, and a comment of the video more or less confirmed that. The commenter said that the girl was a friend's sister, and she had been setting that up.
But it was still great to see the shocked (and rather panicked) look on Lay's face. Hahaha I keep wanting to laugh when I think of that. *rotfl*
I first heard of him through Adeline who's a crazy K-pop fan... she was a big fan of EXO. After Luhan left the group, she said that her favourite member was Lay.
And then I saw him on Go Fighting!. He was such a fool at that time... so I didn't like him very much. As WW put it, in Go Fighting! there were five cunning people and one idiot. :P (and that idiot was Lay, in case you haven't figured it out)
But in the most recent season of Go Fighting! (Season 5), I felt that Lay had improved a lot. So I liked him better than before.
They had this awesome concert at the end of the season. I really liked the performances of Jia NaiLiang and Dilraba. They aren't singers, but since they are actors, I think that's why they exuded extreme confidence when performing on stage. Here is that episode, starting from the beginning of the concert.
I also really like Huang Bo's performance at the end, where he pulls in all the other members at different parts of his performance. (the subtitles help...otherwise I wouldn't appreciate it as much)
Lay performed his song Honey, but he changed it a bit with some classical music. So I searched up the actual song to see what the original was like. And the video left me mesmerized...
The innocent sheep Lay has grown up :O
There is another song, NAMANANA, which is also very good. The music is really catchy and upbeat.
While reading up on these, I found that he had English and Chinese versions for all the songs in his album NAMANANA :O And that he composed all his solo songs himself! :O And that he had composed songs (or was it lyrics) even for EXO's songs earlier! :O
And here I thought he was just an idiot who knew how to sing and dance :P My respect for him has gone up a lot with these discoveries.
What's more, some time ago there was an episode in Go Fighting! (season 2, maybe? Which means it was 3 years ago) where the members had to speak English for some reason. I remember that his English was pretty awful. So several months back (or was it last year?) I was already a bit surprised when I came across a Youtube video of him answering questions (he was going into the US market at the time) in English. (the highlight of that video, to me, was when he said his first pet was a cat, and then when they asked him what was the cat's name, he stops short, looks blank for a while, and then says, "I just called it cat." The cat didn't have a name!) Anyway all that to say that I realized at that time that he had been working on his English to break into the US market.
On a separate note, there is this video where he receives a proposal live on stage.
Hahahaha his reaction is really priceless! I feel kinda sorry for him, because he was put on the spot and he couldn't just say no, it would be bad for his image, but he couldn't say yes, since everyone was watching... luckily the MC helped him out quite a bit. He was going to take the ring and I'm quite glad the MC helped take the ring away...otherwise it would be awkward to keep the ring and also awkward NOT to keep it!
I did feel that the moment was staged, and a comment of the video more or less confirmed that. The commenter said that the girl was a friend's sister, and she had been setting that up.
But it was still great to see the shocked (and rather panicked) look on Lay's face. Hahaha I keep wanting to laugh when I think of that. *rotfl*
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