Fangirls Anatomy

K-pop loaded iPod- check! Cameras-check! Albums-check! Tees, pins, light sticks andother

fan-phernalia

-check, check, check, check! Fangirl makeover-check! Fangirl yell-check!Fansigns-check! Fan club official
membership-check! Overall obsession to SHINee-super check!Whew, like what Spongebob always say
before going to

Krusty Krab

, I’m ready! (1000 timesuntil he arrives at

Krab’s

place). My fangirl syndrome started with

Replay

by

SHINee

. After a week of non-stop SHINeegiddiness, I knew I was hooked… on the crazy lyrics I cannot even
understand (Well at least nowI can relate a bit. Thanks to online English translations!), the irresistible
sexiness slash cutenessof their lead vocals (Sexiness is the word. You do not belong in the K-pop industry
if you’re notsexy) and the feel-good beats. It was only a matter of period before I found myself
swooningover K-pop and in the instant addictive high that each song brought. When I first enter this
kind of realm, I was totally lost. It’s like I was stuck in a maze andcannot find my way out. Because I
cannot understand their own language and expressions, Ifound myself scrunching my eyebrows every
time I try to socialize with ‘the community’. Wehave our own language and each fanclub has their bunch
of vocabularies, too. The mostcommonly used mumbo jumbos a fangirl should master are-selca(self-
cam), CF(commercialfilm), MV(Music videos), Netizen(online fangirls/ online K-pop critics), Goodbye
stage(it is asix month break of a group for the preparation of the next album concept), Comeback
stage(after six months of having a break, K-pop group goes back to perform on stage), fanfics(stories
usingthe K-pop idols as main characters). But of course my favourite part is I learned basic Korean!Like
oppa (meaning older bro the one talking is a girl) and hyung(meaning older brother if th