But speaking with the musician, it became apparent that his bright smile and boyish charm belie an introspective personality as he questioned the career path he has pursued since he was a teenager. But it is that forward-thinking, experimental attitude that has kept SHINee , and SM acts in general , on top of the game for so long.
I want to make a good impact on the K-pop music world. I thought I could show the soft lines like the dance movements of a ballet dancer by adding subtlety to my choreography. I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.
It was more of a strategical decisions too, to make the choreography seem possible and impossible all at the same time. I posted it on Instagram and the fans really thought it was an old photo of me.
But I still think I look older. I think that I had a lot of greed when I was younger. Lee Soo Man came up to me one day and asked me to cover any pop song and send it to him. I wondered what that was about, but it turned out that it was for me to release a solo album. I think it was a test, now that I think about it. I was able to understand what she wanted me to express, which cannot be delivered just by learning the choreography.
But behind the glossy, high-achieving exterior of awards, record sales, world tours and countless interviews, TAEMIN was attempting to map out who he was more deeply, and experiencing issues of ambition and confusion familiar to everyone.
My head is filled with these thoughts nowadays. TAEMIN may already be contemplating his next step, but MOVE commands your attention in the now as an impressively complete body of work that augments the ideas, styles and emotions begun on his first solo album, Press It.
Obviously, fans—including myself, despite what this blog thus far would have you believe—are fully aware that year-old Lee Tae-min is, as the kids say, just some guy. He breaks things a lot. He has a cute cat. He eats a lot of cereal. COVID shut down live-music events and global K-pop tours but also spawned online concerts, spurred a constant stream of K-pop comebacks, and brought many fans more widely accessible content from their idols than ever before.
Instead of going to a SHINee or SuperM show in person, I found myself waking up at ungodly hours again and again over the past year to watch virtual K-pop concerts , coffee in one hand and group chat with friends all over the world in the other. Instead of meeting friends for karaoke or to go album shopping, we sent each other little unboxing videos or created alternate Twitter accounts just to geek out with the people who care just as embarrassingly much as us.
And the fans will get through this, too, gathering this time not for a concert but to wave our hats over the wide, limitless dock of the internet as another very special K-pop husband of ours ships off to war.
Dave and Chris welcome back chef Diep Tran to celebrate the treasured elixir that is Red Boat Fish Sauce before embarking on a whirlwind survey of their all-time favorite potluck play—Vietnamese summer rolls.
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