2NE1 is saying "I Love You" to the World in their 7th Thread!

[inthezone]

Did Bom get more work done? Her face is even more plastic than before

[ayu_ready?]

Originally Posted by inthezone

Did Bom get more work done? Her face is even more plastic than before

Bom's face really changes, even it's shape, from time to time because of that ilness she has, I don't remember the correct name

[ExodusUK]

Bom looks good for 50 years old

[ayurocks20]

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Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Bom looks good for 50 years old

If you were attempting some form of 'humor' with that post, you've failed. Making fun of someone's physical appearance is a little shallow.


ANYWAY: I think the footage from the concerts look amazing. I hope they release a DVD of their concert in America. That would be great.

[koumori]

^ Her photoshoots need to come with that reminder in large, bold lettering. Poor Bom.

Anyway, photos look good of them. Nice to hear their concerts are going well. Will.I.Am looked so out of place in that video though

[ILoveGeniuses]

Originally Posted by ayurocks20

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Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.




If you were attempting some form of 'humor' with that post, you've failed. Making fun of someone's physical appearance is a little shallow.


ANYWAY: I think the footage from the concerts look amazing. I hope they release a DVD of their concert in America. That would be great.

I highly doubt they'll release the Tour DVD being of one of their US Tour stops since it'll be released in South Korea. However, I am hoping that some of the extra footage on the bonus DVD will have footage from the other world stops outside of Korea. Not just the concerts, but also behind-the-scenes, some of the other stuff they did like the stuff for the billboard interviews etc. Also, some footage from the international blackjacks.

[Minttulatte]

Originally Posted by ayurocks20

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Actually she suffers from "lymph node inflammation" which causes various muscles under her skin to swell up. This happens in her face, and occasionally in her wrists and feet.

Aw, poor Bommie. I hope her illness won't get worse over time. That would be so sad because she's my favorite member of the group. It will be a sad day if she left because of this thing. :<

[jewelbox]

Originally Posted by ExodusUK

Bom looks good for 50 years old

poor, poor troll attempt

Anyway, the girls are doing great! But I still hope that they come to Europe..

[bondingo]

That English interview was cute. I'd like to hear Dara and Minzy speak more though, but obviously their English isn't as good as CL and Bom's.

And congrats on selling out their LA concert! That's so amazing. I just hope they hurry up and debut in America. It's been how many years now since they announced they would?

As for Bom's face: I always thought it was just a lot of plastic surgery. I still do, but maybe it's combined with that illness? She does look rather odd sometimes. That's too bad she has that though. Poor thing

[everlastingRAINBOW]

^ obsessive plastic surgery disorder?

[Leaf King]

Is there any proof of that? I'm no expert, so I'm not going to say it's untrue, but from the pictures I've seen, those diagnosed with the disease seem to have a bulge somewhere on their body rather than a somewhat round swelling around one particular part, like the face in Bom's case. I've always thought her face was strange. Sometimes her features seem more defined, so it looks as though it's either due to an unbalanced diet or an allergy that causes her face to swell up. Or surgery, which they could be trying to keep away from the public's eye by passing it off as a disease. I might be wrong, but I'm not in the wrong to be sceptical about it.

[ayurocks20]

Originally Posted by Leaf King

Is there any proof of that? I'm no expert, so I'm not going to say it's untrue, but from the pictures I've seen, those diagnosed with the disease seem to have a bulge somewhere on their body rather than a somewhat round swelling around one particular part, like the face in Bom's case. I've always thought her face was strange. Sometimes her features seem more defined, so it looks as though it's either due to an unbalanced diet or an allergy that causes her face to swell up. Or surgery, which they could be trying to keep away from the public's eye by passing it off as a disease. I might be wrong, but I'm not in the wrong to be sceptical about it.

It's on an episode of 2NE1TV (Season 2 or 3), Bom had to take a break during the filming of an MV (I think it was CLAP YOUR HANDS) because her face was swelling up. I'm pretty sure its the area under her chin and around her cheeks.

She's also spoken on it before, I'm not sure where but I do remember reading an interview about the topic.

[Not Fade Away]

It's true that Bom does have that disease, but I honestly think this is a case where they over-did Bom's lip make-up in the VIBE photos. As we all know, this frequently happens to Ayu as well, and both women can end up having fish-lips in photos thanks to their stylists.

Actually, overall, imo, I think they just over-did Bom's make-up in general for VIBE, which made her look somewhat plastic-y. In the FAULT magazine photos she looks waaay more natural.

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Anyway.....

Here is a review by the LA Times of 2NE1's LA Concert:

Spoiler:

Pity the hapless dude who thought he was getting a lap-dance from Dara of the South Korean pop group 2NE1 on Friday.

The singer dragged him up from the audience onto the Nokia Theatre stage during the single “Kiss,” and plonked this twentysomething white guy — who looked as if he might actually crumple from petrified delight — in a chair facing the stage. Dara, with her Skrillex-inspired haircut and pixie-thug getup, leaned come-hither close, surely about to crib a classic R&B stage-seduction move.

That is, until she promptly shooed him offstage with nary an actual kiss for his trouble. 2NE1 had subverted another American dance-rap cliché with feminine swagger – a sly move from maybe the most exciting new pop group since Lady Gaga first donned hotpants.

The quartet – Dara, CL, Minzy and Bom, leads a tide of South Korean pop groups who currently dominate Asian charts and are beginning to make major inroads with American audiences – Korean American and otherwise.

But of the dozens of groups grappling for the brass ring of hallyu – a catchall term for contemporary South Korean pop – 2NE1 might have the best chance to capture mainstream American audiences. That’s not just because they’re reportedly working with the unerring hitmaker will.i.am on a forthcoming U.S. album.

It’s because 2NE1 represents every direction that pop culture is going – female, global, digital and danceable.

In that respect, their L.A. debut performance to a packed 7,100-capacity Nokia Theatre proved that K-Pop today looks a lot like the future of music everywhere. There were shirtless male dancers with pink mohawks trapped inside giant kick drums; there were huge inflatable slides shaped like lipstick tubes; there were Jeremy Scott-designed dresses made to look like the girls were trapped in the jaws of fluffy space monsters.

Why anyone would ever settle for a white guy emoting on an acoustic guitar again is beyond baffling (and there’s some free advice, “American Idol”). But more importantly, 2NE1’s chemistry made the spectacle click. They have an appealing way of subverting their roles in the band – the doe-eyed, 18-year-old Minzy turns out to have dance moves to make Snoop Lion renounce Jah and come back to hip-hop; the brash Dara builds coy steam, but proves unattainably fierce.

This show was a test case of how K-Pop can play for a mixed American crowd. While heavily Korean American, the audience was also a fascinating mix of gay couples on date night and swag-happy hip-hop aesthetes.

Western audiences can sometimes lose the plot of hallyu, because to be frank, the music is sometimes sort of beside the point. 2NE1 has laser-efficient singles like the techno-saturated “Fire” and the blippy house hit “Go Away.” K-Pop’s ballads are often treacly, but 2NE1’s are workable – the weeper “Lonely” is self-aware enough to avoid camp.

But sometimes they succumbed to the Gaga Problem – the size of their stardom and aesthetic vision can outweigh the actual songs. When zipping over mobile phones in four-minute video bursts, this isn’t a big deal. But at a major two-hour L.A. headlining show, filler like a 10-minute DJ break and a Dodger Stadium-style “Kiss Cam” montage felt like a sugar crash.

But 2NE1 is pop is the best ways – the music, the charisma and the gun-noir pyrotechnics all complement each other to create a bigger essence. When will.i.am and apl.de.ap of Black Eyed Peascame out for the closer – the barnburner dance single, “I Am The Best” – anyone who didn’t know better would have assumed they were there to fix a microphone outage.

2NE1 were the stars Friday, and they’re about to become much, much bigger ones.

Source: LA TIMES, YG Ladies

[ILoveGeniuses]

I thought that review from LA Times was overall rather positive. I'm quite happy with it.

[ILoveGeniuses]

I was never even aware of this disease thing she has. Can it become life threatening? I really hope not.

[panda♥]

yay!
another english interview.

[Not Fade Away]

^Ahhhhh! Thanks for posting! I loveeed watching this XD!!

I love our girls!

[ILoveGeniuses]

^^Great interview and Minzy sounds so cute attempting the little English she knows. You can tell she's trying to think of how to say things best before she speaks. They're all so sweet.

Only thing I find is Bom is so quiet when she speaks off-stage. Seems so sweetly shy. I had to turn my speakers up a little to be sure I heard her properly.

[JackieRos]

I never knew that about bommie

[jewelbox]

All the plastic surgery is pretty obvious, but hey, she looks beautiful.. She does not need it anymore though.. I never knew about the illnes either,but I though that sometimes her face does look swollen.
Poor Bommie, she's always beautiful, no matter what! But no more surgery, she's perfect now