Hi guys! It’s been a looong time since my last post, I know. Really big apologies for that, I won’t make any excuses for it but life has really been eating me alive, and I’m having so much trouble balancing everything and finding time for all my obligations and other things. These past two weeks have been especially crazy; I’m still studying so I live with my parents at the moment, and they’ve just adopted two little girls. So two weeks ago they moved in here, and it’s really sucked up a lot of our time and energy getting them settled in and adjusting ourselves to the change. I feel exhausted from it all! But things are settling now, and it’s not so crazy anymore, so my fingers are crossed when I say that hopefully I’ll be able to resume posting regularly here again.

Since the last few posts of mine were about male artists, I decided that today I’d bring you a female one 😀 And who better than the sexy 이효리 (Lee Hyori)~?

이효리 began her career in 1998 as part of Fin.K.L, one of the most successful Korean girlgroups (and groups in general). When 이효리 began to release solo works in 2003, she enjoyed much of the same success. Her debut album, Stylish…E won several of the 2003 Daesung awards, which was a pretty huge achievement for the singer.

Her music is mostly pop and dance, although later releases have had an R&B edge to them. She’s worked a pretty sexy image in her solo career, which has gained her plenty of attention and of course not all of that attention has been good. In 2007 though, she made a slight move away from her sexy image with the release of Toc Toc Toc, an R&B digital single that let her show a different side of herself.

Some of you may know of the Talk, Play, Love song that was pretty much all the hype a few months back, with BoA, Junsu, Tablo and Jin Bora; it was one of the latest commercials for Samsung’s Anycall cellphone. In 2005, 이효리 was part of a similiar Anycall advertising campaign. The first part was Anymotion, featuring 신화’s Eric in both the song and MV. In 2006, the next part was released, Anyclub. The Anyclub MV featured Eric and 권상우 (Kwon Sang Woo), and the song featured 1TYM’s Teddy. Later that same year, the final MV and song, Anystar, was released and it featured 박봄 (Park Bom) and actor 이준기 (Lee Junki).

이효리 has also delved into acting, like many Korean artists do, co-starring in Three Leaf Clover and a 4 episode mini-drama with actor/singer 이동건 (Lee Dong Gun), If In Love… Like Them.

I personally am not a big fan of female vocalists. I’m pretty picky, and I don’t like voices that are super sweet or that grate on my ears – but 이효리 has a really nice voice, smooth and rounded, it’s definitely nice to listen to (and she’s definitely nice to look at XD;).

Here are some of her MVs for you to enjoy:
Hey Girl This was the second single from her debut album
Anymotion The first of her Anycall commercials
Anyclub The second of her Anycall commercials
Get Ya This was the first single of her second album
Shall We Dance The final single of her second album
Anystar The third of her Anycall commercials
잔소리 From the If In Love… Like Them drama
그녀를 사랑하지마 Also from the If In Love… Like Them drama