It took six years of extremely hard work.
Hardships from the usual lack of sleep, crap nutrition, ankles being injured and operated on, throat surgery awaiting Onew in the following year due to his current state when this award was won, multiple members with swine flu, a car accident and facial surgery to correct the nose injury received by Jonghyun, a dating scandal that wasn't really a scandal at all but made a horrendous impact on Jonghyun due to shitty people, sasaengs, wretched rumors, and much more, sprinkled with so many great things happening to the young men too.
And even after standing on stage through all those years of hard work and efforts, they still refused to believe they deserved it.
Here is to SHINee's
single Daesang - an achievement, in my mind, that means so much more than multiple Daesang wins and trophies under one's belt. Here is to the humble five men that, no matter the obstacles in their lives and careers, they push forward, together, forever as five.
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I made this post on my Tumblr back in 2016, so it's a few years old.
I should update it, but until then - enjoy the growth from debut SHINee to 2016 SHINee!
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I literally (as usual) forgot to include tags.