Shin Mina sings with Loveholics
by javabeans
Actress Shin Mina (Naked Kitchen, Devil) will be lending her vocals as guest singer with rock band Loveholic — or, as they’re known now, Loveholics.
Lead singer Jisun left the band to go solo two years ago, and the remaining two groupmates Lee Jae-hak and Kang Hyun-min have chosen to feature a rotating door of guest vocalists (Alex, Horan, Whale) rather than sticking with one fixed replacement. They’ve used the slightly altered moniker “Loveholics” for those collaborations, and released their first digital single “Butterfly” last December. For their second, they’re working with Shin Mina.
She isn’t wholly inexperienced as a singer, and last year recorded a song with Toy that was featured in the branded entertainment project Summer Days (listen below). That also starred Hyun Bin and Ryu Seung-beom and was touted as a “crossover film” — but you can just consider it an elaborate commercial. She also participated on the soundtracks to her films Go Go 70 and The Naked Kitchen.
Shin’s new single with Loveholics is titled “Miracle Blue” [미라클 블루], and she’ll appear in the music video as well. However, it’s not a straight music video — it sounds like more branded entertainment, as it also features Calvin Klein (for which she is brand model). Her management explains that this is a new project that “brings music together with fashion.”
I don’t think she’s particularly strong as a vocalist, but it seems like her voice really isn’t the focus of this venture, is it? (I miss Loveholic + Jisun.)
Via My Daily
SONG OF THE DAY
Toy & Shin Mina – “즐거운 나의 하루” (My Happy Day). This song is from the “crossover film” Summer Days. [ Download ]
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1 mishane
May 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM
She is my number 1 girlcrush.
That's all I came here to say.
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2 lotlot
May 15, 2009 at 2:05 PM
thanks for sharing the news. What an honor for MinAh to be collaborating with Loveholics. Lovely MinAh is just surprising her fans ^^ I cannot wait for the May 18th full song/MV release.
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3 fizzle
May 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Loveholic is probably my favorite band, ever. I really, really miss Jisun as the vocalist. Even though her solo album was decent and I liked Loveholics' single "Butterfly", it's just not the same without them together.
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4 MEIKO**** ^-^
May 15, 2009 at 3:04 PM
ooooooohhhh.... the song is nice! Shin Mina does has a nice, mellow voice.
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5 Biscuit
May 15, 2009 at 3:18 PM
I miss Jisun too. Dream of a Doll was my particular favorite~
I look forward to the mv.
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6 Samsooki
May 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM
I also miss Jisun + Loveholic a lot. This proves that I can agree 100% with JB.
Maybe a month ago, Jisun had a TV interview at Pops In Seoul with the uber-cutie VJ named I-sak, and I was all like, "ooooooooooh Jisun!!" but nobody else was around and so I just said it to myself.
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7 Sere
May 15, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Would it sound insensitive/mean if I said, "oh another one?!?"?. I mean, don't get me wrong, if actors can act *and* sing or dance and singers can sing *and* act, then I'm all for the crossing over, but...but when I read news like that, my first thought is always that one, "oh another one?". Surprise me every single time!
There, I said. I feel mean now!
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8 Eijay
May 15, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Shin Min-a is a very sweet looking actress. I love her in A Love to Kill. I want to listen to her song.
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9 marcel
May 16, 2009 at 12:14 AM
so with everyone on missing loveholic w/ jisun...it just doesn't seem right listening to them separately...it's like eating a donut w/o the donut hole...or a reese's peanut butter cup w/o the peanut butter...glad to have just revealed myself as a junk food junkie to you all...
shin mina's voice is very sweet...she may not be a vocal powerhouse for sure but sounds quite endearing and fresh on my happy day...i think she's so lucky to have the chance to sing w/ the loveholics...i caught an episode of a love to kill & was hooked right off the bat...of course anything with fabulous rain starring in it is going to appeal to me...but i actually found myself really wrapped up in her character...i'm intrigued to check out her other projects now...
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10 DaLi
May 16, 2009 at 3:08 AM
At least she makes smart choices of song, if you can judge by the clip. That song doesn't really require a good voice and a few false notes here and there could even be considered quaint, very childlike and innocent.
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11 anastassia
May 16, 2009 at 5:25 AM
Of course Loveholic wouldn't be the same without all of them working together!
But why did Jisun left Loveholic permanently. They have created so much masterpiece and real music together. I felt it will be much better if Jisun only left for a while to make solo projects like others bands. Huhu. I don't know. Loveholic is the most strongest and everything in K industry but why did appear to go this way.
On the other hand, I love Shin Mina and everything about her. Its not Loveholic fault its not the same. If only Jisun didn't left them.
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12 whoa
May 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM
wow, rotating guest singer? thank you for the info, very hard to read loveholic info in english. i dont dig the butterfly single, nor jisun's solo jib.
i prefer kang hyun min's voice, like the QSS ost
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13 birdscout
May 16, 2009 at 10:32 AM
@6 Samsooki
haha, that's funny. Isn't it so much more fun to watch these things when there's someone else to enjoy it with? someone who also gets all excited with kdramas and kpop? My husband does not, so I have to share it with my friends and fellow Javabeans enthusiasts.
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14 hmmm...
May 16, 2009 at 10:33 AM
i have to agree with #10. The song doesn't require a good singer, just a nice mellowy voice. It's almost soothing to listen to her, something i would i have as a background music while i read or something. But not something i would like to listen to while driving. hehe
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15 lotlot
May 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM
@ marcel post 9
you should check out MinAh's thread on soompi. Trying watching her movie with Ryu SeungBeom, The Beast and the Beauty (it's on YT).
MinAh sang pretty well when she was on Love Letter last year. As a fan, I was afraid that she would get stage fright, she is so shy, but her voice held up. She still needs to work on her interview skills.
I love, MinAh. I hope she does a great job with the song.
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16 bd
May 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Shin Mina doesn't have the strongest voice and yet, her voice seems right for this song.
As for Shin Mina in film, the one film where once can really see her charisma and effervescence is the movie "Madeleine" (it's a lot better than the "Beast and the Beauty") - which, btw, has a great soundtrack sung by Park Jeong-Ah who plays the rival love interest who is a singer in a rock band.
The other good film w/ Shin Mina is "Sad Movie" which has a large ensemble cast (yeah, it's sad, but it has a lot of cute/humorous parts and isn't your typical, sappy melodrama).
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17 lotlot
May 17, 2009 at 9:43 AM
@ bd post 16
I have enjoyed all the movies and dramas that MinAh has acted it. I would recommend watching them all, hehehe. I love that she chooses atypical characters to play, e.g. blind girl who plays piano for a jazz band, a deaf girl in a raggedy ann costume, a pyschic, etc.
I agree that MinAh does not have a strong singing voice, but she sounds great when the song is paired well with her singing style. Jung JaeHyung, who she collaborated with on Love Letter, described her singing style as bass.
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18 Samsooki
May 18, 2009 at 6:41 AM
@13, birdscout,
Yes, that's about right. My wife doesn't really get into k-pop, and it is a little confusing to me - her korean is better than mine, she was the one who was born and partially raised in Seoul, and yet she appears to care less about k-pop and k-dramas than I do..... i don't get it..
As to Jisun, I wonder why Jisun went her own way. The Pops In Seoul VJ, Isak, didn't ask her any really interesting questions (so far as I can remember), and so it was kind of a crappy interview. All the questions were kind of soft-ball questions (most from fans who emailed) like:
"are you single" "how do you prepare to sing" "what's your favorite color" or something like that, and nothing about Loveholic and what happened... I know Isak is more of a personality than a real journalist, but come on, you gotta ask the money questions when you are sitting there with the microphone...
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19 Pau
May 22, 2009 at 11:42 PM
@18 Samsooki
Hello, what is the date of that interview? I wanna see it too.. Thanks
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