My guess is MANY MORE TIMES.
F*CK.
GD's feeling some swag, and it's got me feelin' GD more than usual. Also I just want to hug him in his flowy flowy Brian Boitano shirt, is that so wrong?
Um, Yeah, Again.
I wonder how many times I will post a live performance of this song by the time the year is out.
My guess is MANY MORE TIMES.
F*CK.
GD's feeling some swag, and it's got me feelin' GD more than usual. Also I just want to hug him in his flowy flowy Brian Boitano shirt, is that so wrong?
My guess is MANY MORE TIMES.
F*CK.
GD's feeling some swag, and it's got me feelin' GD more than usual. Also I just want to hug him in his flowy flowy Brian Boitano shirt, is that so wrong?
BANG BANG BANG
UNF. So Amazing.
They are SO. AMAZING. LIVE.
I'm just sit here and grin and dance through this video and about shit my pants in excitement of the prospect of actually getting to see them LIVE this year! (AND because GD is releasing his 2nd solo album over the summer, which only promises to be every kind of awesome.)
TOP's rap in Bad Boy?!?
Everytime Daesung hits that ridiculous note in Fantastic Baby?!?
GD ALL THE TIME (but especially that very last bit in Lie when he goes off all crazy-awesome)??!?!?!!?
I. LOVE. THE. INTERNET.
Thank you for bringing me Big Bang, internets, thank you so so much.
New (K) Pops
B1A4,
I love you so much, despite your videos. Or rather, I'm waiting patiently for this one to suck me in. Because I hated Beautiful Target the first time I saw it, and now it's one of my favorite kpop videos ever. So perhaps "Baby I'm Sorry" will subconsciously make me love it in just a few days time. But for right now, it's a little overly-auto-tuned (especially when I know Sandeul doesn't need any auto-tuning to make him sound amazing).
It does take a pretty long journey - starting out all sad and moody, and ending in a dance party... hmmm. I do like the sentiment there. DANCE to fix your life. GodDAMMIT it's already working. I'm already starting to like it more. Bah. You ultimately win me, B1A4. (And you didn't have to fight me on any of your outfits, they're all amaaaaazing, and I'm sure Gongchan's blonde hair will make me love it pretty soon here.)
EXO,
I don't really understand if you're real yet. There've been SO MANY TEASERS and promo videos and "prelude" videos.... I'm not sure if I'm supposed to think of this as the real thing yet. Is this all of you? I know there are thousands of you, but maybe this is all of you in your EXO-K incarnation?
Anyway, regardless of my confusion, I have to continue to give props to SM Entertainment for really knowing their craft. Damn, ALL of you are unbelievably gorgeous (and I'm sure plenty of money was spent making you that gorgeous, silly koreans and your plastic surgery), and this is a spectacularly produced video. You also know that I don't give much of a shit about a plot... All I really want is the dancing and the pretty boys, and I appreciate that you don't distract from those things. And that ridiculous shake your hands in your pants dance is pretty fucking hysterical.
I was really planning on ignoring you, EXO, because there are just too many of you (the full group, with EXO-M and EXO-K is 20+ members, I think).... but.... but.... well. I won't purposefully ignore you anymore.
NU'EST
Expletive expletive expletive expletive. WHY IS KPOP SO AMAZING. I am CONSTANTLY impressed and continually falling in love. Seriously. I'm watching this video for the first as I write this... fuck it's SO GOOD and they're SO PRETTY. I knew that one of them was already getting shit for looking too much like a girl, and HOH MY GOD.... seriously. It's almost impossible to believe he's a dude. You'll know who I'm talking about as soon as you see him. Anyway, I really like the vibe and groove of this whole video - and i appreciate they've got a rapper who is perhaps a native English speaker... sounds good. Okay. This post was going to be longer, but I now have to go do some Nu'est research. ^_^
I love you so much, despite your videos. Or rather, I'm waiting patiently for this one to suck me in. Because I hated Beautiful Target the first time I saw it, and now it's one of my favorite kpop videos ever. So perhaps "Baby I'm Sorry" will subconsciously make me love it in just a few days time. But for right now, it's a little overly-auto-tuned (especially when I know Sandeul doesn't need any auto-tuning to make him sound amazing).
It does take a pretty long journey - starting out all sad and moody, and ending in a dance party... hmmm. I do like the sentiment there. DANCE to fix your life. GodDAMMIT it's already working. I'm already starting to like it more. Bah. You ultimately win me, B1A4. (And you didn't have to fight me on any of your outfits, they're all amaaaaazing, and I'm sure Gongchan's blonde hair will make me love it pretty soon here.)
EXO,
I don't really understand if you're real yet. There've been SO MANY TEASERS and promo videos and "prelude" videos.... I'm not sure if I'm supposed to think of this as the real thing yet. Is this all of you? I know there are thousands of you, but maybe this is all of you in your EXO-K incarnation?
Anyway, regardless of my confusion, I have to continue to give props to SM Entertainment for really knowing their craft. Damn, ALL of you are unbelievably gorgeous (and I'm sure plenty of money was spent making you that gorgeous, silly koreans and your plastic surgery), and this is a spectacularly produced video. You also know that I don't give much of a shit about a plot... All I really want is the dancing and the pretty boys, and I appreciate that you don't distract from those things. And that ridiculous shake your hands in your pants dance is pretty fucking hysterical.
I was really planning on ignoring you, EXO, because there are just too many of you (the full group, with EXO-M and EXO-K is 20+ members, I think).... but.... but.... well. I won't purposefully ignore you anymore.
NU'EST
Expletive expletive expletive expletive. WHY IS KPOP SO AMAZING. I am CONSTANTLY impressed and continually falling in love. Seriously. I'm watching this video for the first as I write this... fuck it's SO GOOD and they're SO PRETTY. I knew that one of them was already getting shit for looking too much like a girl, and HOH MY GOD.... seriously. It's almost impossible to believe he's a dude. You'll know who I'm talking about as soon as you see him. Anyway, I really like the vibe and groove of this whole video - and i appreciate they've got a rapper who is perhaps a native English speaker... sounds good. Okay. This post was going to be longer, but I now have to go do some Nu'est research. ^_^
Fantastic Baby
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.
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.
CRUSHING IT.
Big Bang, you've absolutely obliterated the Kpop tropes/boxes with a Groove SO SMOOTH it makes me all woogey inside.
I have no time to actually write this post today, but considering that my day has been made bearable, nay, enjoyable solely because of the release of this video, how could I neglect to post something (especially when I haven't posted here in so long)?
I Fucking Love This Song.
Out of all the teasers, I assumed that this would be my favorite from their new album, and they'll have to explode my brain with one of the other four songs to change that. (Update: it's still my favorite. By far.)
And while I put the video up there, it's more about the song for me- that underlying groove that just makes you sway your shoulders and bob your neck/chin. It's got this phenomenal jazzy mellow vibe that just puts me in an utterly pink cloud of happy. It's a song that makes me dance casually as I walk, whether there are people around or not. Which makes the video pretty goddamn apropos, right?!? How GD starts down the sidewalk in that first scene, that's ABSOLUTELY how I react to this song (although with admittedly less swag, and hopefully more tasteful jacket choices).
This song has the same kind of sick groove that Baby Goodnight has, but amped up just enough to really make you want to move. Preferably up against someone else. I am often awkward when it comes to sexy-partner-times-dancing, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have any problem if this song was playing. (And Hurrah! I will have an opportunity to test this theory on March 22 - JKPop night in Seattle.) Especially if a certain person would magically appear and deign to dance with me, but I don't think they're going to read this and grant that wish, but HEY MAYBE, RIGHT?
And since I'm obviously in a sexy mood, let's all groove to Baby Goodnight for a minute before I resume my spaz about Bad Boy. Mmm, yeah. I'm all over GD's hair in this one.
ANYWAY. Back to the awesome that is Bad Boy. Let's look at this video again for a second. They're very obviously prepping for a world-tour / introducing-themselves-to-America, complete with music videos shot in Brooklyn to prove it. (Blue was also shot in Brooklyn, and I'm curious if all their videos from this album will be from New York.)
Also, the style is WAY outside the Kpop standard (although Big Bang often is recently): very little choreographed dancing (although the way they do handle their synced dance scenes is MASTERFUL, no?), a real place for a set instead of a hyper-lit set, and most importantly, A DIFFERENT GIRL FOR EVERY MEMBER. (In the KPop world, this is completely shocking, and I have no doubt that Simon and Martina will devote a full minute and a half to this feature next Monday. Update: okay, so it was only 3 seconds...)
The only Kpop specific aspect still intact, and that which may be a little difficult for American audiences to swallow, is the clothing. GD pretty much looks like a freakshow. I'm sorry, that jacket is ridiculous. Even if it does make me want to pet him (like I didn't already). The others are all mostly passable, with only little accessories of WTF (really, did you need a life-size bedazzled skull to complete that outfit, T.O.P?), but for the most part they're not going to raise too many eyebrows.
Overall, the song is amazing, the video is beautifully choreographed (both dancing and camera-work), and they boys look like they're pretty fucking ready to blow the American pop charts. I'm almost positive they made an English version of the video, too - there are a couple of times where GD's mouth doesn't line up with the Korean, and I assume it's because they're using shots from the English version. Get ready Amercia, Big Bang is coming (seriously, they're doing a world tour with shows in the U.S.), and you're all going to fall in love with T.O.P. And that's fine with me - because you'll think GD is a weirdo little girly boy pretending to be Lady Gaga, and that means I can keep him all to myself. <3 <3 <3
I have no time to actually write this post today, but considering that my day has been made bearable, nay, enjoyable solely because of the release of this video, how could I neglect to post something (especially when I haven't posted here in so long)?
I Fucking Love This Song.
Out of all the teasers, I assumed that this would be my favorite from their new album, and they'll have to explode my brain with one of the other four songs to change that. (Update: it's still my favorite. By far.)
And while I put the video up there, it's more about the song for me- that underlying groove that just makes you sway your shoulders and bob your neck/chin. It's got this phenomenal jazzy mellow vibe that just puts me in an utterly pink cloud of happy. It's a song that makes me dance casually as I walk, whether there are people around or not. Which makes the video pretty goddamn apropos, right?!? How GD starts down the sidewalk in that first scene, that's ABSOLUTELY how I react to this song (although with admittedly less swag, and hopefully more tasteful jacket choices).
This song has the same kind of sick groove that Baby Goodnight has, but amped up just enough to really make you want to move. Preferably up against someone else. I am often awkward when it comes to sexy-partner-times-dancing, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have any problem if this song was playing. (And Hurrah! I will have an opportunity to test this theory on March 22 - JKPop night in Seattle.) Especially if a certain person would magically appear and deign to dance with me, but I don't think they're going to read this and grant that wish, but HEY MAYBE, RIGHT?
And since I'm obviously in a sexy mood, let's all groove to Baby Goodnight for a minute before I resume my spaz about Bad Boy. Mmm, yeah. I'm all over GD's hair in this one.
ANYWAY. Back to the awesome that is Bad Boy. Let's look at this video again for a second. They're very obviously prepping for a world-tour / introducing-themselves-to-America, complete with music videos shot in Brooklyn to prove it. (Blue was also shot in Brooklyn, and I'm curious if all their videos from this album will be from New York.)
Also, the style is WAY outside the Kpop standard (although Big Bang often is recently): very little choreographed dancing (although the way they do handle their synced dance scenes is MASTERFUL, no?), a real place for a set instead of a hyper-lit set, and most importantly, A DIFFERENT GIRL FOR EVERY MEMBER. (In the KPop world, this is completely shocking, and I have no doubt that Simon and Martina will devote a full minute and a half to this feature next Monday. Update: okay, so it was only 3 seconds...)
The only Kpop specific aspect still intact, and that which may be a little difficult for American audiences to swallow, is the clothing. GD pretty much looks like a freakshow. I'm sorry, that jacket is ridiculous. Even if it does make me want to pet him (like I didn't already). The others are all mostly passable, with only little accessories of WTF (really, did you need a life-size bedazzled skull to complete that outfit, T.O.P?), but for the most part they're not going to raise too many eyebrows.
Overall, the song is amazing, the video is beautifully choreographed (both dancing and camera-work), and they boys look like they're pretty fucking ready to blow the American pop charts. I'm almost positive they made an English version of the video, too - there are a couple of times where GD's mouth doesn't line up with the Korean, and I assume it's because they're using shots from the English version. Get ready Amercia, Big Bang is coming (seriously, they're doing a world tour with shows in the U.S.), and you're all going to fall in love with T.O.P. And that's fine with me - because you'll think GD is a weirdo little girly boy pretending to be Lady Gaga, and that means I can keep him all to myself. <3 <3 <3
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