The Diary Game 26/06/2020 - Watched The Newest BLACKPINK MV

Hi Steemians!

I just watched the newest BLACKPINK's music video 'How You Like That'. It was AWESOME. I really enjoyed the song. It is so catchy, I can't let it out of my head. They looked all very gorgeous and energetic. It gained MILLIONS of views already on YouTube in the matter of hours. I love how they kind of goes for fierce yet so fun and swaggy. So sorry for my ratchet nails by the way.

Like the most of Indonesian teenagers back then, I was too also very keen of K-Pop. Now I still sometimes listen to the popular ones of course plus it's EVERYWHERE. I stumbled upon this boy band called SHINee (the song was called 'Replay') on the internet. It was just came out, the newest music video of theirs. I was amazed by them, me and my friend Tanti (Hi girl!!) starting to sing and dance to the song. It was really fun! That was basically the start of me LOVING KPop. I was hooked, in fact I'm listening to the song right now for the time's sake (I'm giggling and remembering stuff). Then I started to follow A LOT of KPop artists from A LOT of agencies. I was obsessed, I even trying to learned Korean!! I kind of stopped following KPop religiously because I was starting to dig in more into Hollywood rappers and singers towards the end of my college year.

If you're up for a little bit of story about me, little to known fact, I did an audition to be a trainee for SM Entertainment in Jakarta. I was in college at the time, February 2014. I came to Jakarta from my little town and stayed at my friend's house (Hi Julia!). Although I didn't get accepted (obviously) otherwise I wouldn't be where I am, doing what I do. It was a fun experience however so many young people were there looking all talented and awesome. I was just being a dorky me and most definitely were less confident than I am right now.

So let me tell you the back story, I actually started to sing since I was in the fifth grade. I was doing my thing. I was extremely happy at that period of my life because I was doing what I genuinely love. My parents bought me a keyboard for my birthday that year. I was so proud of it and being super productive. Having all these vocal lessons, guitar, piano and even a little bit of drums. I used to have a band called SNADA that my vocal coach assembled together, I was the vocalist. We jumped around doing rehearsals and sound checks. Given we were still too young, by the time we have our first gig at our little town square, we claimed that we were a little bit older than we are! The crowd loved us!! That was one of the best day of my life but alas I was moving out of town soon after.

From there I kind of lost everything. New school, new friends, new environment, new everything. I was kind of lose my confidence because of puberty insecurities. The last thing I knew, I stopped singing and doing music ENTIRELY. I became a really reserved and shy person. Then fast forward to college I gained confidence by dancing. I joined a club for dancing and it was a really good decision on my end! I always feel alive around artsy people. Any kind of arts they do, I always appreciate and respect them. People in the dancing club were very close to the ones who did theater in my college so we sometimes made collaborations. So that was around the time when I actually decided to go to Jakarta for the K-Pop trainee audition. I felt that I could sing and dance so I went for it. Nevertheless it was an interesting experience!

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