Fantastic Baby

Why, hey there, BigBang.  You've decided to throw some fierce style swag into your comeback, neh?
I approve.  I whole-heartedly approve. And I am all kinds of behind the concept - I keep on thinking of it as an uber-fierce version of Safety Dance...  BigBang leading the revolution against those who want to stop the music, those who want to stop the breathing, those who want to stop the DANCING.
DANCE, DANCE, DANCE, DANCE, DANCE. Fantastic, Baby.

However, I do feel like y'all left Seungri out a bit.  I mean, he still got his little say in, and his first outfit was dope. But then I think you all felt a little sorry for not making is part bigger, so you appeased his ego by letting him take his shirt off and surrounding him by sexy ladies in cat suits who can't keep their hands off him.

 

 

Taeyang got decent face time, and I feel like he was the motion in this video (despite the buddha/monk shot). Without him it would have been a bit static for the first half. Also, he should always wear that metal arm thing.  Amazing.  Maybe not the neck tattoo, though.

 

 Daesung. Also gets less outfits, but that's okay, because he gets to be half naked. And chained.  And then they ask him to flex, just to make sure we all got the point.  I'm also loving the futuristic plastic-face sheilds, but I'll spaz more on that later. I also think Daesung's outfits are the biggest juxtaposition - naked in chains, then super spiffed up and suited?  Also, true-to-form, he's got a smile while he wears that suit, even though it doesn't really fit the shot or the scene :P

 

 Moving on.

WTF.  Seriously.  How amazing is this picture. How do they come UP with this shit?  And how do they convince TOP to wear it?  I literally laughed out loud in glee when that shot came on.  Anyway, I totally dig the blue hair.  And I like that if they know they're going to have to layer the clothes on him anyway, why not use the kind of outfits that already do that?  Mostly this just made me REALLY want someone to come up with a ridiculous K-drama rom-com where TOP has either come from or is going to georgian England/Europe... ... OH MY GOD.  Someone PLEASE make T.O.P the first asian Mr. Darcy.  Dear god.  He would be PERFECT.

 

And now, for the main event.  It's as if the conversation in the planning room for the video went something like:

"Yeah, I think Fantastic Baby will be our high-concept, fashion video. What do you think?"

GD: "ME. ME ME ME. I will be ALL the fierceness. I will have ALL the hair colors. I will wear ALL the outfits."

I'm so glad he spoke up. Pretty much every new shot of GD had me gasping in awe. Sometimes from he concept shit as much as the swag - even if the ego is a little ridiculous. That Tim-Burton-esque opening shot?  With the suit? And the cane? And the POWER cords, feeding the music, FLOWING FROM GD's HEAD.  Because he's the brains behind all this shit.  GAH.  I <3 him so much.

 

 

And then there was GD's plastic face mask thing.  Complete with hoop necklaces.  

I usually think GD walks the impossible line between being the cutest boy on the planet and the sexiest person I've ever seen, but GEEEZ.  Something about the metal and the neck and the back of his neck and the fact that I can't see his eyes...  for the entirety of the video he's planted firmly on the sexy side of that line, but these shots just KILL ME.

And thus ends my rant.  Go watch the video, it's the shit.