okay, wow. hi ! there are suddenly…a lot of you !
thank you for all the lovely messages I’ve been getting; my inbox has been getting so much action (haha) that’s just so enthusiastic and sweet; I’m blown away! gosh! ^^
I’ve been getting many repeats of the same questions so instead of sending out ‘yes I saw xyz no i’m not from sm’ 27 times, I figured I’d compile the repeats in one spot sooo here we go ~
- do you work for sm (/jyp/woollim/star empire/ccm/etc/etc)?
nope! (but bonus fun fact about kpop backup dancers: a lot of them are independent freelancers. managers and broadcast companies usually have a list of crews/dancers and a crew will just sort of be on-call - if a planner is like ‘oh shoot, ailee needs backup dancers for the gayo daejun!’ they’ll call their contacts and be like ‘yo do you guys have three ladies who can show up these days?’ and the dancers come for some rehearsals and performances and then go back to their daily lives until the next call comes in)
- are you a professional dancer?
nope!
- how do you know what goes on back stage?
because I was…backstage…
- what do you mean by “if you are famous and male you get good food”?
ah. I probably could have phrased this better - by ‘if you are famous’ I meant that many of these groups haven’t even paid off their debut-debt costs yet, and/or aren’t yet or currently profitable for their companies. this means if the event is providing free food, they’re eating the free food, whatever it is. shinee and beast (for example) are superstars and make enough money that they can afford to eat whatever the heck they want, which, unsurprisingly, is not mass produced cafeteria fish roll. I said ‘male’ only because I never saw any of the female idols eating, ever, so I can’t comment on their situations. They could have smuggled in tacos or eaten only tictacs, I have no idea.
- did you see xyz/what is xyz like?
I saw almost every performer there, so probably, but to different degrees - like, I only saw SNSD at rehearsals vs spent way too much time with various exo dudes. specific people Qs i’ll try to respond to privately, otherwise see this stuff
I also really want to add a HUGE DISCLAIMER WARNING HERE that this is just my ~whee fun fandom blog~ and mostly just full of me wailing about taemin’s hair and my giant crush on kim sungkyu and how much i love drag and just fandom flailing . I definitely do not normally spent my weekends hanging out with your oppas !! just a chick who lives in seoul and likes kpop and sometimes gets super lucky soooo if you want to stick around, that’s great! welcome! just don’t get too excited about all the cool dirt I’ll be spilling cos that’s not a thing that’ll be happening, haha (but reallllly strongly protective feels about these people will definitely be a thing that’ll be happening so if you’re into Socially Respectful Responsible Fandom come to my campfire lol)