Chinese news article on post 90’s generation and their idols (EXO predominate)
[Before the interview, our post 80’s reporter already researched extensively on baidu and weibo on current idols, but when he went to interview these students, he still found himself stranded in a totally unfamiliar world.
11 year old Zhang is a 6th grade student: “Everybody likes to talk about EXO, especially girls, we like to compare who’s the most handsome, who sings best, who dances the best. But my favorite idol group is Timez, because they have really good songs”
"How do you write the group name?" The reporter is confused
The young girl quickly wrote “TIMEZ” on a sheet of paper. This is an idol group composed of 4 Chinese members and 2 Korean members, their EP is called “Hooray for Idols”
16 year old Yang is a high school sophomore, she said the group that is most frequently discussed between her classmates is EXO. Her favorite is Luhan, “He has such a resilient personality, I’m really impressed by his ability to live by himself in a foreign country.” Luhan is one of the members in EXO. This 1990 born Chinese boy is currently promoting his career in Korea. Not too long ago, he made a legendary headlines: his weibo username is M鹿M, he only made 5 posts, but he got more than 100,000 likes, there was even a post without any content, and that one made the record of a single post receiving more than 1,250,000 comments.
Among the 50 students who were interviewed, 45 told reporter that in between classes, all they talked about were Korean idols, they all can sing a few songs by their idols as well. Despite the fact that they don’t speak Korean at all, it did not deter them from learning the ways of the repeating parrot. The most commonly mentioned idol is EXO, the main factor that attracts these students is the “visual” factor: handsome, cool, stylish, dance well. Among the remaining 5 students, 3rd grader Z is still infatuated with cartoons, her favorite is the queen from a popular anime, the other 4 students like American, European, and Japanese stars, such as Justin Bieber and Mao Inoue. The most unique one is middle schooler Lou who said “these idols are all too immature, I like Green Bay Packer’s Brett Favre, he got so many MVPs, he’s the real hero.”]
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Wew~~ so who has a weibo account here?? :D
Exo Saranghaja!
March 24, 2014, Monday
