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Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Jiyeon’s 1 MIN 1 SEC box set is as much for her lovely large promotional photo cards as for the three songs and the photo cards are a very good reason to get this. As for the album’s three mid tempo songs they sound and feel gentle. But ‘Never Ever’ with its insightful and tender melody of sorrow is more about a girl’s love lost mental torture and split personality. The excellent ‘Never Ever’ music vid reflects this and predominantly a sensual one (Jiyeon’s outward pelvic dance motions reminded me of the Prince Regent’s acting poses in Black Adder III ‘Sense and Senility’ – ahhh, Jiyeon, my daft sense of humour) with dark Alice trapped in her looking glass nightmare theme and ominous male characters (of love?). I love Jiyeon. She’s a big soulful kid at heart and I admire Jiyeon’s ‘My Parents are my heart’ tattoo. Can’t help focusing on her tattoo after Jiyeon’s ‘Jungle Fish’ character and how difficult it was for ‘Bluepills’ Yul, but Jiyeon loves her loving folks so much.



I bought Jiyeon’s 1M1S in May and was about to review after I received the product, but this album had sold out quickly. It was available again so I typed this lately but...it’s gone again. Oh well might as well post in case another version is reissued. I rate 1M1S well. It is (well was) a lovely box set and would have made a nice present especially for Jiyeon’s card collection. The large photo cards are wonderful and include most of JY’s photo session snaps seen in the 1M1S et al promotions; you even get a black and white version of the box cover photo (with credits) and a collage of Jiyeon’s self camera pics. I love the box cover of Jiyeon and I think it’s great. But I thought definitely the mini album box cover art would have looked really good with the ‘Never Ever’ photo of where Jiyeon is sitting on the wooden chair looking at herself in the mirror (either 1st 03 SEXY III or 04 SEXY III photo card numbers included in this set) and filled out the whole cover without any border design. These photos (or similar) could make Jiyeon’s box art look more reflective, mature and cool. Girl-Mirror-Spellbound-Inside-Box sort of thing. So...if maybe on a future reissue it could be good for a new cover design + include the ‘Never Ever’ MV ;)



Anyway I love Jiyeon’s album and her look and love her gothic look on the photo sessions for T-ara’s And&End album. Certainly Jiyeon put all her heart and soul into this mini album’s songs, music video and TV promos and she’s done great considering.