Just a nice little vintage spanking photo to try and get myself posting again 🙂 Hopefully this will inspire me to get back in the swing of things.
On the old vanilla front, tickets go on sale tomorrow for the legendary South Korean artist who is performing her first world tour this year. The name of the artist is IU (also known by her real name as an actress, Lee Ji-eun). This woman has a staggering 31 number one singles in Korea and she is known as the nations little sister.
Her first USA stop is in Newark and I am very tempted to buy a ticket, even though I know they will cost a mint. The only issue is that 80% of her music likely won’t interest me too much, but she is one of the best ballad singers in the world, an astonishing voice. I’ll see how I feel in the morning, but this is likely to be her only US tour so I am tempted. It has taken her 16 years of performing to do her first world tour.
Because I hate bullying of any kind I will add a disclaimer here. In the video below, IU spotted this woman in the crowd who came dressed as a character IU played for an advertisement years ago. You see a younger IU on the candy the woman is holding.
After intermission IU invited the woman on stage and said she would love to give her something, but she had nothing to give her. So instead she would give her a piece of her heart. The song is called “Give you my heart”.
The reason people are laughing at the start of the video is because of this. IU is standing on the outer rotating ring and the woman is sat in the inner rotating ring. The ring the woman is sat on is going in the opposite direction to IU’s ring, therefore she spends the whole video scurrying her feet to keep up with IU, made funny because she has big red shoes on.
Give it a listen, maybe you will find a new artist to listen to. Her voice is incredible!!
The pic is great. The vid is even better. She is a real talent! Thanks for sharing both!
Fatherjim,
You know what is funny, the day that I posted this, IU had a new video up, but I didn’t watch it until I had posted this. Her most recent music video is in honor of her mom, and the video that she put up on Wednesday was her discussing why she wrote this song. The twist in the tail though is that it was actually her mother who was interviewing her. During the interview her mom talked about how many times she had to spank IU because of her smart mouth, lol.
Her mom is good stock though. At her big concert last year, IU’s mom bought a seat cushion for everyone in the cheap seats with a special message sewn into the cushion. It was a gift from her because people were parting with their hard earned money just for a chance to watch IU. At the same concert IU flew around the stadium in a hot air balloon so that the people in the upper tiers could get a close up view of her. I don’t want to gush but she is an incredibly humble person with a heart of gold, and pretty much every Korean celebrity looks up to her as a role model.
Rich
So often life is more incredible than fiction. Isn’t it ironic that her mom would mention her spankings? It’s like blending two of your worlds in one interview! You could not write it that well! I am so glad for you! She is a real cutie and a true talent. I don’t feel the emotional attachment you do, but, my exposure is but a few moments and videos! Music is like that. It hits you at one moment in your life and seems to grab your heart almost like a crush on a girl, but it’s for a performer and her sound. I know I felt that way about One of the original Celtic Women, when I listened, it was like she was singing directly to me, and me alone. Of course she wasn’t, but a man can dream, right? Lol!
Thanks for sharing her with us all! I’ll keep an ear out for her songs on you-tube!
What a lovely picture, you can just see that her face is alight with joy, as they both play together. Thank you, Rich.
Theo,
You often wonder just how many times a day this was a part of their lives 😉
Rich