[MOD POST] Who Want's This?

HEY NOW!

We are the artist formerly known as, Asian Pop Addict.

Yes, we suck! We know it!!! We haven't done a show in over a year and a half!!!! Crazy!

The hiatus lasted longer than expected for numerous reasons. But we'll get into that later on.

For now...we need your help!

We're looking into revamping the show a little bit. The girls and I have been thinking, "How do we make the shows shorter?", #1 answer on the board is....stop yammering so damn much! Well....that's impossible. Once we start talking we can't stop! Lol. But we have been thinking about cutting the music out of the shows. With youtube and every other portal on the interwebs for you to access music, there's really no need for us to have music breaks. We'll play snippets of songs that caught our attention for whatever reason and talk about them but I think a good chunk of the load of our shows tend to be the music breaks.

Since you all will be the ones listening, what do you think? Good idea or naw?

Feel free to express what items you would like for us to keep and get rid of when we re-launch APOPA.

Yes....i said re-launch....for real this time.

Drop a comment below!

See you sooooooooon!

-Cyn City

[WTF K-Pop & J-Pop?!?!:] Cyn City Reacts to MBLAQ's "Smokey Girl"

2 videos in one week? SHOCKING!! Here's my react to MBLAQ's new video. I took this on my phone so it may look a bit wonky.

[WTF K-Pop & J-Pop?!?!:] Cyn City Reacts to CL's "The Baddest Female"

Cyn took a few minutes and recorded her reaction to seeing CL's new video.

[Mod Post] How Many Times Can We Say Thank You? + Survey!

First off, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We're so taken aback by the response we received from our donation campaign that no lie, I want to cry tears of joy. Never did we think we would reach our goal, let alone surpass it! We've been on this journey for almost 3 years now and even though we've had a few bumps in the road, I'm proud that we have such awesome listeners who have shown such generosity towards us in our time of "need." lol

We promise to not let you guys down!!!

All the people who have "perks", such as Music Segments, Host a segment etc. We will start fulfilling on those perks as soon as we get our set up. Which should be soon. *crosses fingers*

As of 4/18/12, 10:35am EST, we have raised $1,075!!!! The fund will still be up and running thru this Sunday the 22nd at 12 midnight PST. So even though we reached our initial goal, you can still donate up until Sunday. Whatever money we've raised will go straight to the studio equipment and/or APOPA related bills. http://www.indiegogo.com/APOPAStudio

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALSO!!!!

We want to pick ya'lls brain for just a second. I've noticed that it takes some people a good couple days or over a week to listen to the latest episodes. We understand that because are shows are hella long. We get it. So we got to thinking, would it be better if we do shows every two weeks instead of every week so that everyone has a chance to listen to the new shows and not feel rushed and/or not listen at all or fall severely behind on new episodes?

We looked into our stats & heard everyone's concern on this issue so we just want to finally get a resolution to this issue. We love you guys & don't want to lose you. SO! Vote below on either, a show every week or every two weeks. 

[Vlog] WTF J-Pop?!?!: Dear Jin, That's Not What I Said

I'm back! New vlog in da house!! what! what! Anyhoo, this vlog touches on Mr. Jin Akanishi and his "brilliant" song titled "That's What She Said". 

 Find out if that's really what "she" said. Enjoy! 

Drop a comment! Hate it or love. Don't currrrr.

My HD cam broke so I had to rely on my web cam, so excuse the crappy quality. I also forgot the intro.Ohhhh well.

-Cyn

[Blog] Taeyang Wants To Vogue Battle You!

OKAY! Impromptu blog all thanks to shorty a.k.a Taeyang from Big Bang.

Exhibit A, ladies & gentleman... 

HE'S BEEN WATCHING VOGUE BATTLE VIDEOS!!!!!

If you don't know what voguing is please, click here and then come back.

As a person who's attended many "Balls" in my day I can tell you first hand that vogue battles are serious business. If you want to vogue battle you better be ready to bring it all out!

Now Taeyang's "drop" is a good newbie drop. Not bad, but not fantastic either.

He needs to add more pzazz and of course he needs to add more hands!

Shorty also needs to master the "duck walk."

But in the end it's all about the "drop." The more dramatic the better!

All of this got me thinking of, what if voguing became a concept in K or J-pop & who would be the voguers??

I want a vogue FEM battle.

This is who we got so far in the vogue fem battle....

Taeyang, Key from SHINee, Heechul from Super Junior, JoKwon from 2AM, Brian Joo, Sungjong from INFINITE, Matsumoto Jun from Arashi, & The Nine Muses back up dancer at 1:50.

Who else can we throw into this vogue battle?? Drop a comment below. Remember it's a FEM battle so they have to fit the bill of a fem vogue battler. 

Until my fantasy becomes reality, I'll keep watching my all time vogue fem battle.

Can you imagine that on Inkigayo or a Music Station???

While we wait for that to happen, make sure to help APOPA get their own studio!!! Click here!!!!

[Vlog] WTF K-Pop & J-Pop?!?!: PV's, Pressed Fans, & Jin Akanishi

The latest "WTF..." vlog will touch on PV's, insane, pressed fans of KAT-TUN and lastly the one, the only, Jin Akanishi. The music in this video are not owned by me. If you take my video down youtube, I'll be sad. :'( 

Shades are by North Skull

[Vlog] WTF K-Pop & J-Pop?!?!: Japan vs Korea

So lately there's been a lot of K-pop invasion into the Japanese market and even though some people might be excited about the whole Hallyu movement, there are others who beg to disagree on how great it is. This came from our 8/24/11 show.

[Mod] NYC Meet Up!

I will be heading to New York, from September 2nd thru the 12th and she wants to meet all of you! Drop a comment below if you're down for a meet up and any ideas on what we should do.

See you guys there!

-Cyn

[Vlog] WTF K-Pop?!?: Kidnapping, Dropkicks, Makeup, & MJ

[Vlog] WTF K-Pop?!?: Allkpop.com Hate

Here's our very 1st vlog!! We start things off we talking about all the hate that allkpop.com gets. What's up with that?!?

Song instrumental: Far East Movement "Rocketeer"

[Blog] Atlanta Trip, Day 1 by: Cyn City

I will start off this blog by saying this, DO NOT DRIVE FROM MIAMI TO ATLANTA. IT TAKES TOO LONG!!

I am utterly exhausted from today's drive. The girls and I got on the highway around 630am. We tried not to make too many stops because we didn't want to hit Atlanta afternoon traffic, from what I hear is hell. The first couple of hours went by smoothly but by hour 6 when we left Gainsville, the drive itself turned into pure hell! I love driving and I've even driven to cities like Orlando and Tampa on my own but this....this was no fun drive.

Thank the shisus for Betty because she stayed up to keep me talking because I really felt like falling asleep a few time. We saw a lot of interesting things like this...

[Blog] One Year Ago Today.... by: Cyn City

I'm going to make this blog short and sweet.

One year ago today we lost two legends,  #1 Micheal Jackson, #2 Farrah Fawcett.

One year gone but never forgotten. Bust out your favorite MJ records today.

Here's my fav MJ song of all time.

 

Essential Michael Jackson

[Blog] What About Us Old People? by: Cyn City

So let’s talk about something that bugs me, entertainment companies that put an age restriction on those who audition. I’m sure you’ve heard about the YG audition that’s going on in Korea, New York, & LA. While I was reading the flyer I noticed that for singers the age qualification is 11-19 years old….WTF? I mean I’m pretty damn sure there are plenty of talented singers over the age of 19.

Now, I can understand that being a trainee can take a few years depending on the person and how rough around the edges they are. I also understand that “idol age” is pretty young because they have to cater to a certain demographic but still, that’s discrimination. To be honest not all the idols are THAT talented. I could think of other people who might be better singers or actors.

[Blog] TVXQ Is Not Dead... by: Cyn City

Dear TVXQ Fans,

This is your fellow "Cassie" Cyn City speaking. So, I woke up today and find out that TVXQ group activities in Japan are on a "pause". At first I was like "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" but then I thought about it and said "Why am I so surprised?"

 (obligatory "Keep The Faith" banner")

[Blog] Help The People of Haiti! by: Cyn City

On January 12^th a 7.0 earthquake hit the island nation of Haiti. The death toll is expected to surpass 100,000 people. There are still many people trapped under the rumble as we speak.

When the earthquake hit I was at work and I didn’t realize how bad it was until I got home late that night and saw the presidential palace in ruins. I thought to myself “If the palace looks like that I can’t imagine what the rest might look like?” it didn’t take long for my question to be answered. In the minutes, hours and days after the earthquake, I was flooded with still images and video from Haiti, of the death and destruction that was left behind. I can’t recall a moment where I didn’t cry from seeing the images. The one that always sticks out in my mind is a photo that was of small babies and toddlers who were dead and people had to stack them on back of a pick up truck in order to clear the roads. That image will never leave my mind, never.

Being Dominican this tragedy hit too close to home for me. My parents were born and raised there and I still have family and friends still there on the island. For those who don’t know, Haiti & Dominican Republic share one big island called “Hispaniola” which was later on divided into two countries. After the earthquake struck I called family in Dominican Republic and was told that the earthquake was so strong that they even felt it thousands of miles away.

We’ve been told that our show helps people escape their daily lives for a few hours and tune in to get some laughs but from time to time we need to make people aware of certain situations like this one. We always come together to help trend our fav artist birthday on twitter or to help each other promote our own sites but this time we in the J-Pop & K-pop communities need to come together and help raise not only awareness but also funds, clothing, food, & supplies for the people of Haiti.

There’s many ways you can help. If you text the word “YELE” to 501501, you automatically donate $5, which will be billed on your next cell phone bill for the Yele foundation which is run by world superstar Wyclef Jean. If you can’t do it by phone than you can visit their site http://www.yele.org/

You can also text the word “HAITI” to 909909, you automatically donate $10, which will be billed on your next cell phone bill for the Red Cross. If you can’t do it by phone than you can visit their site http://www.redcross.org/

Another foundation that I support is “Doctors without Borders” which sends doctors from all over to different parts of the world to help assist those who don’t have much in the way of medical assistants. You can visit them at http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

I’m sure if you google you will find many other ways to help or donate.

Any little bit helps. I’m sorry for the long rant but this is something that hit too close to home for me and I see friends whom I went to high school with who have lost a lot of family and friends. Some still don’t know where they’re families are.

For those of you who do donate, if you send us the proof via email we will shout out out on the show or even play a song request for you. You can send all proof to asianpopaddict@gmail.com

Thanks

Cyn City

Asian Pop Addict

[Mod] APOPA Radio Announcement

HOLA!!!!

We're ending the show...NOT! lol

I'm still in NY and will be heading back to crappy Miami on Monday...BOOOOO!!!

Asian Pop Addict Radio show will be uploaded on Tuesday and not Monday of this upcoming week because of me leaving here on Monday...sorry. I promise, I'll try and make this show extra lulz for you for having to wait an extra day.

I've done so much crap while here in NY, seen tons of family and friends. AND! I went into K-town and omg I never want to leave that one stretch of block, lmao.

I saw this while at a book store...

I stared at it for dayzzzzz...ol


Well I have to head out with some fam now but I feel so damn lost, I haven't been able to keep up with ANYTHING really. So leave me a comment and tell me what have I missed in the week or so I've been here.

Much Love
Cyn

[Mod] We've been pimped and it feels so good

Ohhh what’s that I see?? *looks far and deep* oh that’s just us being pimped out by the most awesomest (ya I made up a word and WHAT!) blogger on this side of jpop & kpop.

Icecapades has a site that we always love to pimp out on the show Floating Stars and she has a series going on about other bloggers that are known on the nets. It’s where you can get to know them better. Well your ho’s, (yes us ho’s at APOPA) have been pimped out by her in her lastest “Come To Play” series on her website.

She made us fill out this questionnaire a few weeks back and the questions were hilarious. I think our answers came out great as well. She gave us much, much, love and we wuv her for that.

So if you want to get to know the APOPA girls just a little bit better go hit up Floatings Stars and read it and of course comment on it. You BETTER also bookmark her page because she’s an awesome blogger who comments on all things kpop & jpop. I will hunt u down if you don’t bookmark her!!!

Oh btw to all the haters…

Tis all from NY/NJ,

Cyn City

[Mod] Birthday Shout Outs & Stuff

Well one of the APOPA girls is celebrating a birthday today soooo,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANA PANA!!!

Today she turns......(insert random age here).

All the girls went on a little weekend getaway for her birthday and we captured some stuff on tape. You can go to youtube.com/asianpopaddict and subscribe to us there.

Check out the video...

Also shout out to Tablo today is he's birthday as well. GO PICK UP REMIXING OF THE HUMAN SOUL OUT NOW!!!

We want to thank all of YOU who have listened to our first two shows and spreading the APOPA word. Much Love 2 ya'll!

Pce

Cyn City

[About] Cyn City

Name: Cyn

Birthday: January 24th, 10 BC

Sign: Aquarius

Birthplace: Bronx, NY

Languages: English, Spanish, Ghetto

Hobbies: Music, Internet, Music, Breathing, Music, Movies, Music, Sleeping, Music, Relaxing, Music, Everything, Music.

Favorite Korean artists: TVXQ, JYJ, MBLAQ, Tiger JK, Yoon Mi Rae, Big Bang, 2NE1, 2PM, SNSD, T-ara, Rain, SHINee, Block B, W & Whale, Wheesung, J.ae, Miss A, Clazziquai, Aziatix, e.via, Infinite, DJ DOC, BoA, and the list goes on and on and on.  

Favorite Japanese artists: Daichi Miura, Yuya Matsushita, KAT-TUN, Utada Hikaru, Koda Kumi, B'z, ONE OK ROCK, Alice Nine, Crystal Kay, Miyavi, Sakanaciton, M-Flo, Teriyaki Boyz, Minmi AND a bunch of other artist I can't think of right now. 

About Me: I was born in Bronx, NY to two great Dominican parents. I have two brothers, one older & one younger. I'm the only girl & stuck in the middle. No fun! I have a beautiful niece & nephew whom I love to pieces! I moved to hell a.k.a Miami when I was about 7 or 8 years old.

Growing up when teachers asked, "What do you want to be when you grow up?", I always answered the following way, "Singer, radio DJ, or weather person"...the radio DJ won this fight. Music is in my soul so I knew that no matter what career I got into, it had to have music involved someway, somehow. Shoutout to all my hip hop heads!

I met Ana & Dori-chan during our middle school days and of course Betty is my cousin. We've been close friends for close to 15 years now. WOW...that made me feel old just typing that. 

I first got into Asian music thru Ana & Dori. They had this secret life they kept from me because they thought that I wouldn't understand, and they were right at first. I gave them side eyes for liking Japanese music or for watching dramas that they couldn't understand but then, I saw Jin Akanishi & KAT-TUN & my life changed. I got over that "wtf is this" phase pretty quickly after that. I first got into Japanese music like, KAT-TUN, NewS, Utada, M-Flo etc. but then I got into TVXQ thru their Japanese releases & I came to find out that they were really Korean. So into Korean music I went. I started off with Big Bang, 2NE1, Tiger JK, TVXQ etc. 

Around the early part of 2009 I started getting these ideas of doing a radio show that covered news, gossip, music & things of that nature. With my career in radio I kind of knew what I needed in order to make it happen but first I had to convince Ana & Betty to come along for the ride with me. Ana was pretty into it but I had to make a deal with the devil in order to get Betty to come on the show. After about 2 months of creating logos, making a website, getting segment ideas together, on July 13th 2009, Asian Pop Addict was born! 

In just 3 short years, we've accomplished so much thus far, & we have all of you to thank. Your love, support, hate, shade, etc has made us what we are today. You better stay tuned to us because this is only the beginning. 

If you ever have any questions or comments, feel free to hit me up! 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cyncityonair