Folks, Rain wants to be taken seriously. Ever since he left JYP on that fateful day in May of 2007, he’s had nothing but arguable success. He’s starred in the blockbuster meltdown “Speed Racer”, and the soon-to-be trainwreck “Ninja Assassin”. Let’s not forget about those horrendous interviews–and in English, no less! But hey, hand it to the guy for trying, even if it was an epic failure. Rain, I’d like to personally thank you for being an unwavering source of laughter for all Kpop watchers worldwide. We greatly appreciate your erm…talents.
As soon as he got his booty back into Korea, he redeemed himself a bit. “Rainism” is working its way up the music charts. At least his lovely Clouds are giving him some love. Thank God for loyal fandoms.
In addition to wagging his magic stick around, Rain is supposedly taking part in the production and debut of a new group under his company J.Tune Entertainment sometime next year. So far, he has one female soloist, 5 guys, and 3 hip-hop ladies. All his trainees have been under his management company for at least a year.
This begs the question, will Rain be the future Mr. JYP Jr.? Aside from the fact that Rain is more attractive than JYP ever was, he’s not far from being a good second. I mean, he’s pretty crazy, his wardrobe choices are interesting to say the least, and his performances are always enjoyable to watch.
But does Rain have what it takes to be JYP 2.0? Of course not. King Kong is one of a kind, and a musical production genius like him only comes around once every other generation. Still, I think it will be interesting to see what Rain plans on doing with his 3 groups of trainees. If Rain manages to make a solid boyband, I think I’ll start respecting him. But with the likes of Big Bang and DBSK, he better have a prodigious set of talent if he wants to keep up with them.
If Rain pulls through, I just might change my mind and respect him. It’s a stretch, but I’m ready to be pleasantly surprised.
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January 5th, 2009
30 Comments at "Op-Ed: Rain, the next JYP Jr.?"
true!!
cant be another dancing king kong
im sooo happy for Rain.. =D
anyone heard about what SBS did to rain?
that’s out of the line. i’d be pissed if i were rain.
dont take me wrong, im not a big fan of rain, but what sbs did to him was just too disrespectful.
i was watching sbs through tvants a few seconds away before rain got cut with commercial. i thought it was a commercial with rain dancing to his rainism. but nope! i just found out that he was invited by sbs to perform and almost at the end of the song, he got cut by commercial.
all he can do was bow, then went backstage.
i heard that his fanclub, cloud, was very angry and rain wrote on his website encouraging his fans to protest to SBS, so sbs would apolagize to rain.
what a story.haha.
-just wanna share-
well at least he’s better looking than JYP…
HAHAHAAHAH!
YOU WENT THROUGH WITH IT!!!
LEAVE MY OPPA ALONE!!! lol
He is still close to JYP, so his genius
is rubbing off on Rainy…
@dink
rain WANTED to get his fans to protest to SBS?… right…
uh…dont alot of artists get “cut”? its the timing of the program. And what joongie_luv said, He encouraging his fans to protest? O_o lmao
His performance wasn’t cut by commercials, it was cut at the studio. They stopped the music while he was still performing.
@ dink,
Rain did not ask his fans to protest.
Quit trying to make Rain look bad (as if there aren’t enough people doing that).
dink is stupid,that’s all i can say
Meh…*shrugs* I just wanna hear more about these trainees…wonder if they’re talented.
Good Op-Ed article btw =]
RAIN WILL DO A AWESOME JOB!
GO RAIN! I WANT TO BE ONE OF RAIN’S TRANIEE!
He really tries to do too many things at once.
I wish he’d focus on one thing at a time so that the quality will be better.
@ dink
From what source did you learn that Rain (personally, that is) asked his fans to protest..As far as I know, it was his agency (J-Tune) as his representative, who wanted to protest..But I never heard of him personally soliciting, unless you equate everything J-Tune does with Rain being behind it all..oh well, no one knows either..But thanks for sounding like you were so sure of that..*rollseyes*
Anyway, I personally think Rain cannot be at par with a genius like JYP..as of the moment, that is..But Rain is still young, he can still experience a lot, he can still learn a lot..Give him years, and people will look up to him..JYP will retire you know, and who knows, he might lose his genius touch one time..No one knows what’s gonna happen, lets just give Rain the benefit of the doubt..
*sigh* Why do so many people criticize him and count his failures??? Is it THIS hard to be his fan??? makes me want to cry..lol
And btw, what happened to that auto-correction thingy seoulbeats?? I badly need that..I’m typo queen..What happened??
Rain’s broken the market, and i believe that was his own self determination. If he applied that to his dream of being a producer, who knows what will happen in the future.
i dont know why everyone is suddenly bashing him
i happen to like him
HAHA! I’m so flattered =]
I wish him all the best. This year has been pretty rocky for him to say the least. But he works hard so I hope all that hard work pays off for him in the end.
Hate pretty much goes along with fame, plus hate is contagious, it’s almost like a fad, especially with the weak mentality of the teens nowadays. When you are on top, all your actions become magnified, all the little mistakes that you make are exaggerated, which is the case with Rain. People love to read that stuff over reading how one is doing so well and how everything’s going so smooth etc. Rain is still one of the most talented entertainers in Korea and still has a huge fan base around Asia, although I’m not a crazed fan, I still hope all goes well in the future for this guy.
i like Rain but not a fan,i know him because of his drama,and it is him bring me into kpop actually
i think Rain
Rain gotta learns from JYP how to be a great producer
shinta: if you used firefox, auto-correct is an option you enable.
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General (under Browsing headline)
people, please be open-minded, shall we?
has anyone really read and think through dink’s comment?
maybe english is not her/his first english. maybe she/he just wants to share the news. what i get from her/his comment is that she felt sorry for what sbs did to rain.
anyway, the correct news is that there was a message on rain’s website-basically saying that SBS has disrespected rain and his fans, and that sbs should apologize to rain and especially to clouds.
even though maybe rain did not PERSONALLY wrote the message, who would you think be the mastermind of the message?!?!?! duh..if i were rain, i wouldnt want anyone wrote anything about me on MY WEBSITE, without me knowing it.
so obviously, rain knows about it and AGREES about the message, which indirectly, he himself wrote the message. how bout that?!
anyway, you can follow up the news at coolsmurf’s blog.
just be nice and think positive, for once! people.
i totally adore RAIN, his performance always awesome.
RAIN ftw!!!
WOOOOOOOOO AKI!!!!! <33
LMAOOO
this article was hialrious xD
funny
does he write his own music like JYP?? i think Rain is a good dancer and actor, but i don’t know about the songs he sing. i don’t find them… interesting for me to sit and listen unless im watching him dance. i dunno.
rain already is the jyp jr. he learned from the best (jyp himself) and is out there creating his empire. dont hate. give respect
Just like the defunct Hong Kong band Beyond, Rain is more intelligent than Albert Einstein, John Lennon, Kurt Godel and Archimedes rolled into one. And to top it off he has a genital package larger than their combined dimensions. He rules the world right now, and you are all unawares! Fools!!!
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