could probably come up with a long list of t&o kpop mvs, probably none of them would be as outrageous as 'taxi's t&o garbage bags tho
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:48 (ten years ago) link
OMG is this why they're called Orange Caramel?
http://youtu.be/0Z9R57maGvc http://youtu.be/RjXXSsVNncQ http://youtu.be/jxxoq7uqnbU (think this one is supposed to mirror early two-tone photography as mentioned in the other thread)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 19 July 2014 19:58 (ten years ago) link
Actually this doesn't seem to be a big thing, Kpop MVs in general are more into the desaturated-->pastel-->FULL BLEEDING COLOR spectrum than any particular color palette.
Except for the MVs that are shot like Hollywood movies (Block B Nalina, Nalili Mambo) or in California (B2ST Midnight, Beautiful Night) or like an old two-tone film (5dolls This and That, AKMU 200%)- those are more teal and orangey.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 19 July 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
Petition for f(x) to always perform in fatigues http://youtu.be/nir_6Biz4iA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
While I'm on Inkigayo performances, Mamamoo were also a lot of fun this week http://youtu.be/u4ZuiTg38LY
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 15:10 (ten years ago) link
Re T&O: "Taxi" really stood out to me because it was so blatant - I mean, LMW has one backup dancer with blue hair and another with orange hair dancing on opposite sides of the screen! It's actually quite an inventive use of teal and orange - less digital manipulation and more an active choice of colour scheme. plus, you know, Shinhwa orange.
btw, the makers of that video, Digital Pedicure, did most of my favourite MVs of the year: "Catallena", Wings' "Hair Short", B1A4's "What's Happening?", and Kim Yeon Woo's "Move".
And many of last year's too: "Dream Girl", "Babay", "Hate You", "Goodbye 20" (Plus History's hilarious debut teasers XD)
― Roz, Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:40 (ten years ago) link
I remember being anti those debut teasers at the time... for the same reason I can't watch BTOB's 'Cool Guys' and feel nervous about the upcoming <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qL9XisVv2s">Block B</a> I think, XD.
Lee Michelle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD64ri3DL9E
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:49 (ten years ago) link
:(
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
Upcoming block b: http://youtu.be/2qL9XisVv2s
those History teasers are poking fun at rather than endorsing the whole PUA/NiceGuy thing - they're pretty great imo.
Block B though, jesus.
― Roz, Sunday, 20 July 2014 16:58 (ten years ago) link
I know, I hope the actual MV will be better :(
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Like maybe they're really after the ice cream or something
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
Infinite 'Back' is good but somehow not Infinite-like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiiqHq_kNnU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:44 (ten years ago) link
Maybe it's all the time L, Sunggong, Hoya and Dongwoo(!) spend singing on it that makes it not sound like Infinite
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:45 (ten years ago) link
Song starts at 1:38
And speaking of Infinite... http://youtu.be/Ndlz2S47jAk
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 02:49 (ten years ago) link
I dunno, that sounds pretty Infinite-like to me. Certainly looks Infinite, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 21 July 2014 03:31 (ten years ago) link
I like how it drops into a dance break -before- the chorus.
― Roz, Monday, 21 July 2014 10:34 (ten years ago) link
Infinite = Sunggyu to me, I guess
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 21 July 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33SoblaZbU
No comments on the jam of the summer???
I like it more than Girls Day "Darling", which I have seen compared to a Christmas jingle in various places around the web. I dunno how I feel about the theme, tho, knowing that Hyorin and company have said in interviews that they don't like doing 'the sexy concept' (but maybe they had to say that (and on the third hand they sell it like they're having fun for real)).
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
But - maybe misplaced - scruples aside, over I think this song is rly rly fun, like if Loving U had some of the pop of Bubble Pop
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
Sistar mini is good too! http://youtu.be/kQPCAJdhnIE?list=PL5X8SgiTKfg_XVs9OB4DY-M2b-CIPFHqU
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:18 (ten years ago) link
REALLY good, even - at this moment it's my favorite thing they've ever put out, and that's including last year's great Sistar19 mini and Hyolyn's solo CD too
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
like look at this awesome "But I Hate You" take on Loving U http://youtu.be/npge-CWwW2M
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 04:30 (ten years ago) link
Delight LIVE!
http://youtu.be/qCfdLXW7FFw
Four member changes since Mega Yak, apparently :( But it's nice to see they're still around.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 04:22 (ten years ago) link
Teasers v. misleading, no HER appears in Block B at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHRw7g7KuM
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 06:45 (ten years ago) link
I really like this, it's as hyperactive as all their releases but it hangs together a lot better
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 06:47 (ten years ago) link
Here's a live one with no gap in the middle (terrible sound but great performance):
http://youtu.be/KDXEqFzFlsk
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
the lovechild of Lipstick and Mamamoo: http://youtu.be/WK8zxO2vzaA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
that sistar song is great despite being atmospherically dissociated from my entire idea of them
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
you think? they've always done uncomfortable-looking supposedly sexy stuff, and summer jams though
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Not to mention, always been poaching stuff from 2NE1... in this case, their swimsuits from Falling in Love and the party scene w/ Haha from DYLM.
(Or less frivolously, there's OK GO which kinda sounds like Please Don't Go.)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
yeah sistar videos will never not give me secondhand embarrassment. They're the reverse of most K-pop groups I love - I always end up liking their songs more when I *don't* watch their MVs.
xpost never noticed the 2ne1 poaching though! really?
― Roz, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
they've always done uncomfortable-looking supposedly sexy stuff, and summer jams though
true, just revealing my own shallow engagement with them. the awkwardness is definitely always there yeah
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
I think it's a legacy opinion, cause when they first came out they were a 4-member group (like 2NE1) produced by Brave Brothers (who is associated with YG like 2NE1) with a strong-female image (like 2NE1). 4minute/HyunA are better known for stealing styling though - Sistar definitely have an image of their own.
Brad, you gotta listen to their mini! Without watching their unintentionally(?) tacky videos, like Roz said.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 24 July 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Are Sistar videos particularly tacky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZQ6ooOiWg
Her first music show performance in two years, and two years later this song is still one of my k-pop GOATs.
― abcfsk, Saturday, 26 July 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Sistar have this feeling of a group who are trying to be classy but completely missing the mark. And whoever is in charge of their choreography really REALLY likes look-at-my-butt dances:
http://youtu.be/DQ1hvB_L30o @ 0:25 and a warning of what's to come http://youtu.be/Pj3q0ZChgFE @ 1:01 http://youtu.be/E0ZHXVp_wUE @ 1:15 http://youtu.be/JtVhwsACgTw @ 0:25 and the first time the choreo might have actually ruined the video
The sexy choreography in Ma Boy, Loving U and Give it to Me is less awkward but is still a bit awkward, imo.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:41 (ten years ago) link
The uploader has not made the BoA video available in my country :(
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
Two things:
Boys Republic - Dress Up http://youtu.be/40WRiOb80cgThey're a group put together by Universal Music. All of their releases to date have been solid, but/and also had lyrics that made BR (who lack 'star power' anyway) seem like enemies to all women. This one's no exception.
Jolly V - Yes! Yes! Yo! http://youtu.be/-kPaWhuo8EAReally fun and summery and great :)
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 05:52 (ten years ago) link
Re: Sistar - I mean I guess the butt thing is endemic to Kpop but they throw it into even otherwise 'classy' songs like Alone and Gone Not Around Any Longer, so of course they're gonna throw it into a song called Touch My Body.
The Sistar contradiction is that this is usually a tactic of lesser-known and less well-funded groups, not something an established group with "talent" does. My friend thinks it's because Hyolyn is darker-skinned, therefore automatically considered 'sexy' not 'classy'.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 06:12 (ten years ago) link
Also... I know I post here too much, but here's Boyfriend B-side described by the group in question as having a "weird mood": http://youtu.be/FMhghKcfE2Q
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 07:29 (ten years ago) link
Also "Alarm" off the same mini: http://youtu.be/bXc5eBw7BiA
― hurricane weather (forapper), Sunday, 27 July 2014 07:38 (ten years ago) link
HyunA's latest branding exercise is pretty fun, y'all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXCgR93zC8
Song and video are based around a Korean nursery that goes Monkeys butts are red/red is apple/apple is delicious/delicious is banana/banana is long, except with "apple" replaced with "HyunA" and the song only going up to "HyunA is..." leaving listeners to fill in the rest
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 28 July 2014 07:05 (ten years ago) link
Considering HyunA has always had two images - sex symbol on stage and five y/o in interviews - I think this is a pretty smart way to glue them together. There's also a bit of "There's a Place in France" in RED, marked in the video by a scene werein HyunA is dressed as Cleopatra so you won't miss it. That song (and the dress up) is <i>also</i> super childish and tacky, so of course it fits.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 28 July 2014 07:11 (ten years ago) link
A friend is telling me that this is the same nursery rhyme Teddy quoted in The Leaders (fast are planes/planes fly/fly is Teddy), and also that this is ruining her childhood.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 28 July 2014 07:13 (ten years ago) link
Unfortunately those dumb lyrics make the chorus hard for me to swallow. The song is in some ways similar to f(x) Red Light except the (sing-y parts of the) chorus provide harmony and relief.
I like the full version of her and LE's Blacklist on the mini. They go a bit sweary, in Korean and English http://youtu.be/B0Y_TVmVkgA
― abcfsk, Monday, 28 July 2014 07:47 (ten years ago) link
I like the lyrics, but it's a good thing HyunA is good at branding because she's sounding more like Fran Drescher every day
― hurricane weather (forapper), Monday, 28 July 2014 13:58 (ten years ago) link
BTW new Kpop groups are reaching into the past and going all the way back to the origins of K-idol music (apparently a group Fire Engine - this is a remake of their hit song from the 80s): http://youtu.be/-UtpWl-3o9I
― hurricane weather (forapper), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
The new Yenny/HA:TFELT (pronounced like a mix between hot and heartfelt) mini is really refreshing. Can't even say I'm a huge fan of it but it feels so nice hearing a relatively diverse album from a major company. I'm assuming JYP waited to release this against Hyuna so I really, really hope that this encourages people to branch out in sound. Ditto for the mv. The album cover is laughably 90s, which I suppose is appropriate considering Iron Girl sounds like it could've been a release from a late 90s alt pop singer-songwriter. I think my favorite track is actually Nothing Lasts Forever, the ballad that closes the mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K24ScQn6lF4 // sounds like something that could've been released on Pastel
― misterjoshua, Thursday, 31 July 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link