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Hello Lovely Clouds,

Stephe has been super duper busy for the past few days, and it hasn’t slowed down for her yet. It will be a few more hours before she will be able to get back to her computer.  So, I thought I would help her out by posting this week’s Rainy Day episode.

I know her running commentary is always to die for, and I know I can’t possibly match her wit and grace.  But I wanted to try anyway, because she’s a little overwhelmed these days. So…here goes nuthin’…

Presenting Rain’s Rainy Day, Season 2, Episode 51: Asian Broadcast 1/29.

Awwww…the Zepping in Osaka continues as we’re treated to a soft and sexy performance of one of my favorite songs, September 12.  So sweet.  Just like Rain.  :-}  He put his hand over his heart at 52 seconds in and I was melting…exactly like he knew I would, darn him! Ha ha. I loved everything about this performance. So sincere, so special. So Rain.

Next we revisit Sangdoo, Let’s Go to School with the sweet Because I Know (or You Know). I LOVE it when he steps down off the main stage. Watch that crowd go WILD! Heh heh. But that ain’t all, folks. It’s like he suddenly decides: Heck, I need to get closer. So, he starts waving to and shaking hands with as many of his Clouds as he can…all the while performing the song flawlessly. Amazing.

And then the song ends and he’s ducking behind the scrim, where the now infamous “silhouetted costume change” takes place. *Chuckle* Just look at him. He banters with his Clouds as he slowly pulls off his shirt and then s-l-i-d-e-s those pants lower…and then even l-o-w-e-r. LOL. What a tease! Little did we know back then that Rain would top this moment with a “backstage-change-cam” at his Adieu Concert. Heavenly days ahead! :-}

After the final moments of the costume change, Part 2 begins with Sad Tango in high-military fashion. It’s a cool look for some of my favorite choreography. Unfortunately, much of the cool dancing is edited out, but that’s okay, because it isn’t long before we move right into a hothotHOT performance of Touch Ya.

Oh, oh, oh! Baby, you got my permission. To touch me, that is. Anytime. No need to sing about it. (Yeah, I said it. So there.) You know? When I saw this, I thought this was one of the hottest performances of this song I’d ever seen. And I think I was right…at least until I saw his performance of Touch Ya on his Adieu Concert stage. What do you ladies think?

Still, this has got to be a very close second. When he snatches those sunglasses off of his face, I’m a goner. Gah. And then I’m grinning from ear to ear with his: “All my FELLAS! Come ON! UH UH! All my FELLAS! HEY! HEY!” *Chuckle.* Go, Baby, GO! (By the way, can anyone tell me what he’s saying at the very end there? I can’t hear it clearly enough and it’s driving me friggin’ crazy…)

And finally, we have Don’t Stop, which is spectacular…well, except for the weird disembodied faces and hands thingy going on around Rain.  I know some of you will feel differently about that, and that’s cool.  To each his own.  But I gotta tell you, it doesn’t do much for me.  Why?  Well, mostly because this song is sexy as hell, and the lyrics, some of which I have provided in directly translated English below…

“Touch my body; my heart feeling like it’s going to explode
I can’t leave you anymore, so just
Watch me lose it; I’m at a loss for words at the way you move
I crumble at your touch, yeah.”

…have nothing to do with dancing men in black, or disembodied glowing faces and hands (although I gotta admit those hands were doing some really nice things right there…yes, they were…). Yeah, I KNOW the men dancing and creeping around in black are doing something incredibly difficult.  I KNOW it takes a lot of talent to be creeping and glowing and dancing all at the same time. It really does. I’m TOTALLY aware of that.  But it still sort of freaks me out anyway, okay? I can’t help it. I just can’t.

And yet, what does that really matter at the end of such a spectacular Rainy Day? Let me answer that question for you.  It doesn’t.  Not one bit.  Because frankly, Rain’s hot.  REALLY hot.  In fact, he’s hotter than a noon sun on an August afternoon in Georgia. And, like I said, that’s REALLY hot. So, after awhile, I forgot all about the creeping, glowing, disembodied faces and hands, because I was focusing on Rain. You see? Ha ha.  :-}

And with that, the episode ends until next week. At least we HOPE there’s an episode 52. There was an episode 52 last season. So, we’re being optimistic over here in Cloud USA land and praying like hell for one more Rainy Day.

Come on, MNet. Just one more. That’s all we ask.

Pretty, pretty please?

Terri :-}

(video credit: Mnet / video source: happyyyrain / courtesy of ratoka @YT)
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~ by Cloud USA on January 30, 2011.

Posted in Asian pop, Bi Rain on television, Korean Entertainment, Korean pop, RAINY DAY, Zepp Tour
Tags: Korean pop, Rain on TV, RAINY DAY, Zepp Tour