Let's Talk: EXO M / K

This was supposed to be a second post but I'm too excited!


WHAT IS LOVE - Korean Ver.


WHAT IS LOVE - Chinese Ver.

So let's get the lowdown on who is EXO.
Technically EXO (K/M) is one the latest boyband to hit our Kpop markets.
Apparently SM Entertainment decided to do something different and debut 2 groups on the same day with nearly identical names.
Confusing?
Well there's more to come.

EXO-K (Korean) EXO-M (Mandarin) technically do not have the most imaginative names around, however it does stir up alot of interest from all general k-pop fans around.
For one, SME decided to cause some buzz by releasing a string of teasers (12 to be precise) which seemed to have featured various snippets of songs that the group will release in the future.
With it they also included several members in every teaser with Kai being the main attraction. No surprises who is the golden boy this time around huh?
The first teaser was released on the 21st of December 2011; Kai was the first to "debut" and garnered alot of attention for his hard to ignore resemblance with SHINee's maknae TaeMin.
He showcased some slick dance moves with a whole lot of mystery infused to the entire 1:49.

The second teaser was released 5 days later on the 26th that gave people more to look at.
Kai is showcased along with another member LuHan, they wear flashy clothes, dance around in some circular stage and there's shiny stuff to look at.
It was good when it was still fresh.

The third teaser will always be my favourite simply because it's a solo cut of another EXO member named Tao.
He does some kungfu with a tad bit of dance moves here and there but nontheless it's alittle more intense than the first two teasers.
Tao by first impression looks alot like Kangta / Zhoumi, which of course earns an instant seal of approval from me.

Teaser four and five is kinda like a rip off to me because one of it is just a one take of the orignal first teaser while the fifth is....surprise, surprise. ANOTHER KAI TEASER. Yes at this point I'm starting to believe EXO K is actually K(ai).
THEN SME decides to be EVEN MORE generous with releasing teaser six which has MORE KAI. Look SME we get that you feel the fans are smitten with him but you do know that too much of the same thing starts getting old right?

After some complaints here and there SME finally gets it right with teaser seven That has Kai (once again) with yet to be seen member SeHun. Finally we are making some progress. To start off by first impression I think SeHun is pretty good looking and the main thing I noticed about all the boys in EXO is the face their faces are so tiny. It's scary to even think how a human face can be that small but SME defies all logic with their trainee selection.

Teaser eight is a solo cut of SeHun, which allows you to have a good look of his face. Though somewhere in the mix there's a glimpse of all the 12 members who will be debuting. At this point fans start getting all restless once again. And people start to speculate who really are the members in EXO.

KAY more long winded crap ensues while later that year Kai, LuHan, SeHun and Chen perform at 2011 SBS Gayo Daejun and was seen once again in a photo shoot with "W Live" minus Chen.

Somewhere along the line SME released teaser nine that has SeHun and Luhan. I was happy because these two has somehow ended up being my temp biases but then again we're back to square one in terms of development progress.. Hmm.
Then came teaser ten SME thorws out another new member, this time it's Lay. Well technically nobody ever talks about him after the teasers were released and it does feel sad that Kai, Luhan and Sehun are the only people that seem to be shown generously on their facebook page.
I was actually looking forward to more Tao or Chen OR Lay if we're lucky cos apparently I can't even get a good look at his face.

Right after that we have a string of W Live Fashionistas photo shoot clips that has Kai, LuHan, SeHun with members Yoona and SeoHyun of Girl's Generation and TaeMin of SHINee.
This is also known as a useless distraction because clearly SME is trying to test my patience. maigod.

Later they release teaser eleven that has...KAI. AGAIN. SME WAE but at least they dumped in a new member XiuMin. Who by first impression looks like SudaMasa with his current shaved head look. Yep.
I'm just not sure what kind of image he's supposed to have cos it's decieving. He has a baby face, but he has this whole badboy hair going on. YES CONFUSING EVEN AFTER ELEVEN TEASERSSS.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST. WE HAVE TEASER TWELVE! Aights we've finally reached a point where we can see the light at the end of the tunnel. After so long! We get to see Lay once again! We are then given a feast of crotch grabbing goodness with. MORE KAI. YAY. Not sure why there's some sort of sexual tension going through this one, at least SME did something right.

So after all the paragraphs I wrote up there. Let's sum up all the information I have.

Announced members for Exo-K:
- Kim Joon Myun
- Baek Hyun
- Park Chan Yeol
- D.O. (Do Kyung Soo)
- Kai
- Se Hun

Announced members for Exo-M:
- Xiu Min
- Lu Han
- Lay
- Chen
- Tao

More information can be found at EXO's Wikipedia page :D

OKAY GUISE. Let's end this entire post with an honorary very ghei picta of my biases.