Ever so often I do post on soompi forums. Some of those posts could actually fit in my blog area.  So I'll just report them here.  Here's my 2nd one from Jan 6 2011:

I can't help but to think that this is exactly what SM wants: people at each other's throats and to get rid of the people who don't support what SM wants them to support.

Love Min and Yunho. However, "TVXQ" will never be a 2 member group (or a 3 member group). That's just the way it is to a lot of people and they shouldn't feel bad about feeling that way either. Trying to interfere with Cassiopeia or marketing TVXQ as a 2 member group (if that's what SM is doing) and taking advantage of Yunho's and Changmin's hard work is totally unacceptable.

SM wants to take control of the community of fans and the one surefire way to do so is to split the community. DIVIDE AND CONQUER. Did I not read numerous posts all over the internet about this very thing when this situation first happened? SM seems to be banking on the hope that most fans will drop support for JYJ when forced to choose, or be too excited about Yun and Min to care about anything else. Or maybe SM just doesn't care and wants to push out the fans who they see as traitors who supported JYJ.

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I don't feel pity for anything or anybody that tries to obstruct these 5 young men being together.  A million things had to go right for them to initially find each other; to take each others' hand and walk forward together. 

They may be cutting different paths from one goal to the next, but this, too, may be for a reason.  While missing pieces of themselves, they can still love.  They can love each other no matter where in the world they exist. And because of this, all of the independent situations which had to occur for them to exist as TVXQ seem all the more remarkable.

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"Ayyy Girl" now has a VIDEO! The Kanye West laced song by JYJ from their "The Beginning" album is certainly growing on me.  The video hit like a bolt of lightning (pun intended) online and my twitter lit up with people posting links to it. I give it a look, and as soon as I got over how sexy "little SuSu" (Junsu) is in the video, I began to see something deeper.

However, it has come to my attention that certain people, including fans, are criticizing the video either because they don't like it or because they don't understand what seems perfectly obvious to me.  The video is full of metaphor and messages.

When an artist changes from being heavily managed to being able to express their own creative freedom, you have to think more than a couple of seconds about what they're trying to convey.

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Avex, Avex, Avex. Haven't they learned anything from the fight between JJY (Junsu, Jejung and Yuchun) and their Korean agency SM Entertainment?  According to translated reports, the answer is no. (And my commentary below will be based on the translated reports. If something changes, I'll let ya know.)

The news flying all over the internet is that AVEX -- the agency many fans including myself thought they could trust to at least give the three members a fair shake -- apparently wanted more than the trio could give when they sought to change the terms of their contract with the three members.

Junsu, Jejung and Yuchun are (were?) riding a massive wave of success in the Japanese market with their latest mini-album titled "The..." debuting at #1 on the Oricon WEEKLY charts and moving almost 140,000 copies in the midst of slump in the Japanese market.  Jejung was chosen as the costar in a high profile video for one of the most popular and well known Japanese artists in Japan, Ayumi.  And their LIVE DVD from their 'Thanksgiving' concerts in DOME also shot to #1 on the DVD sales chart in Japan.

Through all of this, they never publicly complained about anything. But in actuality, the trio apparently were going through a rough time with AVEX in Japan comparable to the terrible time they are having with SM in Korea.

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