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GFSquad.com's Happy Yuju Day Highlight! In preparation for Yuju Day birthday project, GFSquad held another special event for every Buddy fan artists. Our main goal is to feature Buddy's artistic skills wherein every fan artist will be on spotlight! It is important for us to share every Buddy's precious talent for them to get a recognition from everyone especially to GFriend. Now, GFSquad will be looking for Buddy fan artist who has potential and can able to make an artistic banner for GFriend! GFSquad members or Buddies who have participated and for those who sent their fan arts in the previous birthday projects or within this year will be an entry and will have a chance to get on spotlight too! We will also look for Buddies who are actively supporting GFriend as well. Buddies are always welcome to join this project! This time, get to know one of the best fan artist in Buddy community! Under Yuju Birthday Project highlight is one of great fan artist, @shinshin who designed the charity wreath banner for Yuju! Check our full review project for Yuju! @shinshin who is from Brazil, a hardworking Buddy and very passionate in her works! Check some of her great masterpiece and GFriend fanarts on her GFSquad profile. https://twitter.com/shi_nya04?s=09 Q. GFSquad community are very glad to know you. We are thankful you accepted our offer to feature your masterpiece that is dedicated for GFriend Yuju. You really impressed us as well with Buddies. How do you feel about it? I’m feeling a burst of emotions haha really happy~ Thank you very much for the opportunity! I'll be forever thankful. Q. You’re a very professional artist! What do you do in personal or other interests besides GFriend? Tell us more about yourself! I love games, manga and biking! I live in a rural area so I like to spend most of my time free time alone in the nature. Oh, and I love to watch documentaries if you want to know random things I’m the right person. Q. By doing artworks of GFriend and as a professional artist, first of all how did you became fan of GFriend? When it was all started? Firstly, I feel in love with Yuju voice! I watched a kdrama that had her OST 'Spring is Gone by Chance', I used to listen to this song 24/7. I wanted to know more about the owner of that angelic voice then I found GFRIEND and it was love at first sight. They were so good that I couldn't help but to become a Buddy. Q. As a Buddy, are there other things like hobbies or interests that you passionately do (or wanted to do in the future) in supporting GFriend? Other than art, I spent a lot of time translating GFRIEND's videos on V LIVE and helping a Brazilian fanbase, I want to help building a stronger fanbase here. Q. Being a Buddy has an unconditional love to all members but if you will choose one/pair favourite member that you loved the most, who and why? Yuju! Everything about her is perfect to me. She is so dedicated and hardworking, she inspires me to be a better person everyday. Q. Doing fanarts are worked in a lot of time. Giving all the efforts and preparations to be done. Where do you get inspirations in doing GFriend fan arts? What are the things that keeps you motivated to do it? My inspiration comes when I’m watching GFRIEND’s videos or listening to some good music. My biggest motivation is seeing others people having fun! When people seems to like my work and when my fellows buddies post new art works, I always get excited! Q. Is there a Buddy fan artist or other graphic Illustrators outside the fandom that you impressed with? Can you name some of them! I really love 깽! Actually, every single one Buddy fan artist that I follow, check them out! Outside the fandom there is even more artists but especially picolo, his arts always amazes me. Q. If you will choose an era (From all the comeback album concept) that you like the most from GFriend, certainly what era and songs from that album that is your favorite? That’s so difficult to answer. Hmm… I think I like PARALLEL the most. Red Umbrella is my favorite song it's just so refreshing and pretty, always put a smile on my face. Q. Is there any memorable moment you experienced or unforgettable happenings from GFriend that make you happy as a Buddy? When FINGERTIP MV was revealed at the showcase. It's was my first comeback as a buddy, I was watching together with my sister and I got so emotional that I cried for the entire MV, I couldn't see anything because I cried too much haha it's was at that time that I realized how much I love GFRIEND. Q. Lastly, do you have message to aspiring Buddies, to all beginners or wanted to pursue being a Buddy fanartist in the future The emotion that you want to put into your work is what really matter. Skill is something that will come with time so don’t worry, keep drawing! Your hard work will be worthy. Be positive! Drawing is just about having fun! Give a shout out to every Buddy!!! Thank you for being a buddy! Let's keep growing together, always aiming to be a better person. I love you! We are happy to know you @shinshin Buddy! Indeed, your talent is really amazing and proud as Buddy! Thank you for having here in GFSquad community and in this fandom. Buddy Jjang! To all aspiring Buddy fan artist! You can join and share your arts to us! Feel free to posts and make a lot of fan arts about GFriend! Keep supporting GFriend and anticipate more of our upcoming birthday projects!😄

Composed by Karen Poole, Anne Judith Stokke Wik, Sonny J Mason | Lyrics by Cho Yoonkyung, Soyeon Seulgi | SinB | Chungha | Soyeon | All Woo yeah yeah woo Even if I try my best all day, all I do is go around and around It only gets more frustrating So dizzy, dizzy, every step is more dangerous, close your eyes tightly I just woke up from a deep sleep, and spread my wings for the first time like a Butterfly The only stage for me, under this bright shining light, Oh I’m flying Follow my heart that explodes, Boom boom boom The whole world is following me, Zoom zoom zoom It’s starting, where I meet my dream of the Wow Thing It made me into something I wasn’t before, the Wow Thing I’m cooler than anyone else, Wow Wow Thing Ba dam bo bomb Ba dada da dada da da da Ba dam bo bomb Ba dada da dada da da da Ba dam bo bomb Ba dada da dada da da da Things that are so cool, so cool will happen, I guess You’ll start to see my name everywhere now I guess it’s like when I saw it as a childhood dream Adding more skills, one at a time to my dream that was once at 0 points That’s right, those Young Thoughts have now become a reality, and it’ll be everlasting Hey hey, everyone will be surprised by that Wow Thing Finally it’s come to life, my Wow Thing I opened my eyes, waiting late at night like a white Butterfly I spread my wings that were once soaked, I’m flying now Follow my heart that explodes, Boom boom boom The whole world is following me, Zoom zoom zoom (Okay) It’s starting, where I meet my dream of, the Wow Thing It made me into something I wasn’t before, the Wow Thing I’m cooler than anyone else, Wow Wow Thing More cooler than anyone, anyone, anyone else (Yeah yeah Woo) Shining brighter than anyone, anyone else (Umm) More higher than anyone, anyone, anyone else (Woo) Flying higher than anyone, anyone else (Uhh) After being blocked by a wall all day, I can fly now at the day’s end I see the time, it’s 0:00* Get drawn into my pounding heart The shining Wow Wow Thing Follow my heart that explodes, Boom boom boom (Oh yeah) The whole world is following me, Zoom zoom zoom (Hoo Zoom zoom zoom zoom) It’s starting, where I meet my dream of the Wow Thing (Wow Thing) It’ll be like something you’ve never seen before, the Wow Thing (Wow Thing) I’m cooler than anyone else, Wow Wow Thing More cooler than anyone, anyone, anyone else (Than anyone, than anyone) Shining brighter than anyone, anyone else (Than anyone, than anyone) More higher than anyone, anyone, anyone else (It’s starting, where I meet my dream of the Wow Thing) Flying higher than anyone, anyone else (It made me into something I wasn’t before, the Wow Thing) We got the Wow Wow Thing *0 in Korean is pronounced "yong" which also sounds like 'Young' and can be interpreted as "Young O'Clock" Korean source: (1)

Source Music's way of promoting SinB: leads her to be part of SM Station X 0 collaboration Source music promotes GFriend in unique ways. Using a keyword to generalise them of what concept they will show. One of example was during fingertip era that they wanted to show girl crush concept in their interviews. Speaking of girl crush concept, it was the first time they did a big transition from that era. From power innocence into power chic, therefore its like Source music opened the door for them to go through the new style of chic and mature side. By using the new style, it will be marked as reference in the world of kpop. Reference? For example. Eunha brings mature and sexiness in Taxi. Eunha was chosen as one of main vocal in the group collaboration Sunny Girls during year end of 2016. So Eunha became reference of using chic style in GFriend. Second one was SinB performed Infinite's Chaser in year end 2016. Power and chic again! Reference is really important for group to be introduced to the new concept so audience will get to know and feel the new side of them. So in year 2017, Fingertip was released so those activities of SinB and Eunha are their reference of being power and chic style. But how it happened.. The chic style was applied again in some choreo of their Bside songs such as Crush, Ave maria, Rainbow Contrail and Please Save My Earth. So the season of gfriend concert which a big event became a reference. And that introduced Time for the moon night. The choreo has mix of graceful moves with chic style Source music way of promoting is unique. Step by step, we Buddies able to know new side of GFriend from time to time. So how SinB got the opportunity to be part of SM Station X 0? Simply It's her own style that leads to call them. SinB always mentioned in radio shows, interviews that she often change her hair style and Source Music supports it. SinB's hair transitions It was started from year end of 2017 to 2018. Now. Let's take a look in her fashion style. This was SinB during 2016 2017 2018 You can see the big changes in her outfit styles especially in 2018 Time for the moon night era. So.. is Source music having a new plan again? Seems like SinB chic styles was used as reference again. These days, stylist and SinB worked together to show her chic elegant style. And that introduced her to the new project, Wow Thing by SM Station X 0. SinB's performance of Infinite Chaser with Seulgi and Chungha is also one of the best reference to consider so SinB became part of new collaboration. With her new changes of outfits that was seen in public and medias, the audience will have an idea that SinB can pull off any style. Let's support SinB in her new collaboration project!

KPOP industry is becoming more brutal in the next few years. As a fan, I just want to give a feedback in this thread. Hopefully Source Music will read my concern. It is important for the company to take feedback not only just from the internal staffs but also from the fans (international and Korean). Based on the majority of people, the release of Sunny Summer, Fingertip, Love Whisper has told GFRIEND not to resort to a song that is just simply catchy song without any interesting aspect going on that could easily be replaced by big 3 companies or something else that is more trendier, interesting and catchier relative speaking. After observing KPOP community for a while, the following is my thought: 1. GFRIEND need to release the song added with cultural impact such as SNSD Gee, PSY Gangnam Style, Wonder Girl's Nobody, GFRIEND's Me Gustatu. This is super hard to achieve but if they can, the result will be equally super. 2. If cultural impact is very hard to obtain, GFRIEND just need to release outstanding high-quality song with rich instrumental such as ROUGH and TFTMN + with beautiful choreography + interesting lyrics. This means that the song should be a grower, isn't it? In my opinion, grower song is better because that means you never heard that kind of song before so that means the song is something new, fresh, and original. The first time you listen, it feels weird. But the more you listen to it, the better the song. Once you get used to the grower song, you will replay the song over and over again without getting bored. This is quite hard to achieve but since Source Music has pulled-out TFTMN and ROUGH before, I trust SouMu can pull-out another grower song that is more perfect in 2019. I believe this kind of thing will lead to digital robustness for GFRIEND in the future.

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Hello Buddies! GFSquad is back again and will be doing a Birthday support project for Sowon 24th Birthday this year! As we have been for our past projects, we will celebrate again by collecting funds to purchase a wreath to donate under Sowon's name as well as give her a message book with message from Buddies! We will also be purchasing gifts for the Sowon! Like our previous Birthday supports, we will have member and donor involvement as well! See "GFSquad Member Project Involvement" below for more details. For those who haven't seen the types of projects we do, please visit here to see reviews of all our previous projects! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DONATIONS Donation Goal:$350 USD This donation goal will be to cover the cost of purchasing a wreath and message book for Sowon. All extra donations will then be allocated to purchase gifts for Sowon. Minimum Donation Amount: $5.00 USD Donation Period: October 9, 2018 - November 9, 2018 (Ends at 11:59PM KST) Benefits for Donors: A Forum Donation Award added to your profile. Example of previous awards: Your forum status will also be changed from "Bud" or "Buddies" to "Donors" A free forum title change. (Post your title change requests here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GFS MEMBERS PROJECT INVOLVEMENT To make Buddies feel more involved in our projects, Buddies can help make decisions on the outcome of the project! Donors of the project will be invited to join a project team group chat, on the instant messaging app LINE, to brainstorm and work together on project tasks like: Decide on what wreath to purchase The wording on the ribbons on the wreath Type of gifts Wrapping of gifts etc. For all Buddies who have donated to the project, please visit the below Donor thread (Only accessible to donors) to find the link to the chat. (link) Our initial donation goal will be to cover the cost of the Wreath and message book as that is the core of the project. The donation goal will be decided once the type of wreath is decided. If we exceed our donation goal, the excess donations will be used to purchase a gift for Sowon! This will be decided jointly with members. The process for deciding what gifts we will buy will be something like this: Take suggestions from Buddies and compile them together Create a poll for Buddies to decide on what to purchase The winner of the poll will be the gift chosen to be purchased. *We will try to make this as interactive as possible. However, if we run into unforeseen obstacles that may hinder the project timeline, GFSquad will make the executive decision on what will be done" CURRENT INVOLVEMENT: Please help us decide on what type of wreath to purchase for the Sowon! You may vote for the type of wreath in the polls above. (Deadline: TBA) Please submit your messages and fanarts for our Message Books for Sowon! (Google Form link and Email can be found in GFSquad main page!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROJECT TIMELINE To ensure that we are able to compile the wreath and gifts by Sowon's birthday, there will be a schedule that we will follow: Donation Period: October 9, 2018 -November 4, 2018 Message Compilation for Message Book Process: October 9, 2018 - November 4, 2018 Gift Decision Process (if applicable): TBA Ordering and Compiling of Gifts: TBA **Timeline subject to change** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [TUTORIAL] HOW TO DONATE: 1. Click link: http://www.gfsquad.com/forums/donate/ 2. Click 'Donate Here' button located on the right side of the page. *Please use only the Donate button. 3. Select 'Amount' (Minimum $5.00 USD), 'Goal', and 'Payment Method' (only Paypal for now) 4. Confirm details, with options to stay 'Anonymous' 5. You will then be prompted by Paypal to login and confirm payment. Don't have a PayPal account? You can use your debit card (where available), credit card or bank account (where available). The PayPal interface may vary. We hope you can donate whatever you can to support the Yuju, GFRIEND, our cause, and GFSquad! -GFS Staff

The identity of 'Hand Fan Dancing Girl' on 'King of Masked Singer' turns out to be GFRIEND's SinB. [MK Sports News Team] Source: https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=410&aid=0000515827 On the 30th, 'Hand Fan Dancing Girl' competed in round 1 with 'Samul Nori Boy'. The result was that 'Samul Nori Boy' won and advanced to the 2nd round. When the mask was taken off, 'Hand Fan Dancing Girl' was revealed to be GFRIEND member SinB. SinB said, "People think I'm GFRIEND's leader but I'm actually the maknae." She also introduced herself as the main dancer.

I agree with this. Gfriend can’t keep doing power innocence and sentimental concepts for the rest of their career. It’s always good to experiment many different concepts because what if they find another concept they do well in. Sent from my iPhone using GFSquad.com mobile app

My beloved Buddies, good morning? afternoon? It's good morning~~❤️ Have a fun and meaningful holiday Buddies Have a good Thanksgiving Day. This picture was taken last night at my old school. Hihi Thank you Buddies for always being by my side like the shining moon. Shining Buddies bubu, Yuju likes them a lot❣️

yes.. this song was officially released on October 10th Sent from my Redmi 4X using GFSquad.com mobile app

wooow soooo lucky !! I haven't bought the albums yet...

OMG! A Brazilian buddy artist!!! So proud to see that Brazilians buddies are participating in GFSquad projects. Loved this!! [emoji170] [emoji169] [emoji172] Sent from my SM-A530F using GFSquad.com mobile app

oh my god digimon evolution bgm reminds me with the past lol. But i guess it would be nice if they can pull out that kind of vibe since their title song always have anime vibe in it. It would be unique too for a girl band with that kind of song LOL

Thanks for the example. For me, I prefer the song like Seo Taji&Boys (Come Back Home) because it has more dark or mysterious/street-alley ambient in the song. It's more unique and stand-out for me. A mafia song. But I like the outfits on SNSD "I Got a Boy"...very urban and bright color. Reggae. Nice! Maybe they can combine Ethiopian vibe to it if they try Reggae song in the future.

I was thinking somewhere along of SNSD's "I Got a Boy" concept as well. White and Summer Rain both have a hip hop feel with the "scratching" within the song. There's no actual DJ but it's there but White's beat is a straight up hip hop beat from the 80s. They could expand on that. Their power innocence is what makes them GFriend but their music should evolve. They're growing up. Their music needs to too and As fans we need to let grow up too. They've pulled off their version of "dubstep" really well with Gone with the Wind. It's an awesome song. Dubstep is also "street wise/urban". So we know that they can adapt to any genre. It's just the matter of the song writers and composers. L.O.L. featured many genres. Maybe if it was part of another full length it'd be easier to accept for another comeback with the concept alone. Also, they don't have to do everything exactly the same as every other group. L.O.L. did feature their ability to take different genres and do it their way. I grew up with a lot of reggae. I played in a reggae bands. Distance was their version of reggae. It was very different but it had that "reggae" feeling to it. They pulled it off.

Regarding your point on streetwise/urban concept, can you give me the example of the song? Are you talking about the song similar to G(I)-DLE LATATA or BLACKPINK As If It's Your Last? The point is that GFRIEND shouldn't try to jump around randomly with the song, and hoping to hit big. It's too risky to try different song that is outside of the molds (rough, TFTMN, navilera, MGT). It will confuse the public. GFRIEND doesn't have rabid fandom that can back-up the song. GFRIEND doesn't have a luxury and support from big 3 companies. That's also why Red Velvet posses a freedom to try the experimental concept like quirky, summer, and girl crush without any difficulties. I mean they can venture to different type of song but no need to make such a drastic and fast change. Fingertip and Sunny Summer told GFRIEND for that. In 2018, public's memory and perception for GFRIEND is still strongly related to TFTMN concept (power innocent and sentimental) because Source Music heavily promoted (3 weeks promotion cycle heavily) for that type of song during TFTMN era. In my opinion, the higher the promotion done by Source Music, the stronger the public perception regarding the type of song that GFRIEND wanted. Sunny Summer is good song but it seems that it's too early to change the song genre (they comeback 3 months after TFTMN which is too fast) because public perception is still lingering too strong. If they want to try very new type of song, GFRIEND should wait at least 6-8 months to relax the public perception. It's better if they dissapear from the public eyes (not doing any public and musical activities) at all in order to neutralize the perception even further. After GFRIEND finished their hiatus in order to try very different song, then it's necessary to heavily promote the song to embed the new perception and shift the perception to the public regarding GFRIEND. That's my view and opinion after observing KPOP for a while. Maybe others can give their view? ============ For a long time, people has been brainwashed by big KPOP companies by their bubblegum-pop/hip-hop/pop dance songs. If there is a potential to make a paradigm shift in KPOP landscape, I will rely my hope on GFRIEND because of its unique pop-orchestra, anime-ish, and Japanese-ish sound.

The girls made a subunit to do this concept lol jk Kidding aside, they are versatile that they can pull off any concept that they want to try. Unfortunately, it's a matter of Koreean fans accepting it.

Wouldn't this change be too rapid for the fans and casual listeners ? So far, Gfriend has not released a title track that dealt with social issues. The sudden change of course may have a negative impact on their artistry. Instead of seeing it as experimenting, people may see it as them not knowing what kind of artist they want to be. I hope that GFRIEND explore their passionate sentimental concept more. To me, this is a good way of showing a more mature side of GFRIEND, and just like the powerful innocent concept, it's a concept that suits them, because it was tailor made for them. (correct me if I'm wrong, but these two concept were made by GFRIEND and source music, right?)

maybe gfriend can deliver another sentimental (which is the concept they always do the best in) but it’s set in a dystopia with a hidden message about things going on in society that aren’t controversial Sent from my iPhone using GFSquad.com mobile app

Yes! Same for me. I watched and listen to OST, J-underground, J-experimental, Godzila, Anime, Ultraman, and other weird J-stuffs (old and new ones) also. Anyways, I trust Source Music can blend that J-stuffs and KPOP perfectly without sounding too much like Japanese. I'm afraid that Korean may still not accept Japanese culture (not sure about this??). But more importantly, I really want the song not be too mechanical or monotone. This is the problem of the song as compared to indie and underground music scene. For example, Melomance - GIFT is very simple in terms of its instrumental yet it's widely loved by Korean because the flow and the mood of that song trying to deliver is so perfect. You can feel the soul of the song. The song shouldn't be treated as object. The song need to touch your heart.

Okay, I gotcha. I like it. They do having driving beats and having a "heavier sound", anime/tokusatsu sound would not hurt. "Rough" and "Rainbow" have that driving beat, guitar and instrumentation. CEO So Sung Jin mentioned in an article that he had that anime feel in mind when "Rough" was written. That definitely could be expanded upon. "Memoria" has that feel too and since it is their first Japanese single the door is already open, yeah. It'a very dynamic and that's why it moves you...and it'd still be "pop" music. Lyrically, I see where you're going it. You can fought for love, since their songs are love songs. They can make it work. CEO is brilliant. Kamen Rider, alright!!! I grew up with all that tokusatsu, henshin and kaiju culture. I am not new to it. It has been a major part of Hawaiian local culture since the 60's and 70's. So, I can see what your concept. There are others Buddies that be into too. I've seen "rock" versions of "Rough". I like mentioned, I wasn't challenging, I just wanted to know your what your idea was because I'd like to see them grow musically. I'd like to see them take on a concept that I don't see many girl groups aren't doing. They already stand out, might as well take it to another level. it is interesting thought that you brought this up. Yerin mentions that she listens to rock and when they went to Europe the first time, Yuju's first vinyl LP was this group Slade, an old English rock band. I'm just curious to see what direction they're heading after Memoria. - Aloha

Hwang Eunbi and Jung Eunbi ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ So cute! It's really true Eunha is the tallest before.. but now..what happenedㅋㅋㅋㅋ

I'm talking about the song and the lyric for the concept. ANARCHISM=FIGHTING SPIRIT=BE BRAVE=FIRE that by its nature to be violent or aggressive. If you listen closely to that Mommy Son, without reading the lyrics, you can feel it's so Japanese vibe with the guitar, the back vocal, and the drum beat that are targeted toward fighting vibe. If you watch Kamen Rider, this kind of song will be played during the fighting scene between the hero and the villain. Now in order to be more interesting, Source Music can add more instrumental such as piano, violin, wind ensemble to this concept as a whole to increase the artistic value of the song. But please be careful because it might sound weird if you put the instrumental on the wrong song. This is where Source Music's artistic value will be tested. Here I will give other example but this example is without any hip-hop vibe: As for the lyric, since GFRIEND is a girl group, they should try a more softer approach. Make the lyrics to be less violent or something but still retaining the fighting spirit. Now this is important: I know this kind of song will be so loud. Korean people usually try to prefer more softer or calmer song. So again Source Music will be tested on its creativity of how to make the fighting song without going too loud. What do you think?

I purchased during the original recruitment period, but the overall process was similar to this tutorial: The difference was that they had an English site up now that could be easier to navigate. You should be able to register for an account using the site that Galaxy1004 posted (English version of yes24 ticket). After that, you just need to wait for the purchasing period. The details of the actual purchasing process are similar to the tutorial I linked.

New song?

i own all the korena and japanese things from Gfriend

Hello I recently finished the album set for time for the moon night and to my surprise in the moon ver of the album I got yerin's signed Polaroid. I was so surprised and did not think I would be able to get one 2 months after the release but somehow I got super lucky ;u; Sent from my SM-G965U using GFSquad.com mobile app

I'm so grateful 💕