it literally was Lion 2.0 and Soyeon and friends, just like I predicted!
*funky intro*
so today's video is super exciting because I'm going to be sharing with you my honest
thoughts on (G)I-dle's comeback with "oh my god" and yes I will be vehemently
pronouncing the "G" and I'm also gonna be telling you why this comeback is so
familiar. I know, such a controversial series, basically where I address
accusations of one group copying another while adding my own accusations, I'm
kidding. what did I actually title this video? I don't even know! you will before
me because time isn't real. so let's get into it, actually I'm gonna stop you
right there to remind you to subscribe, like, comment, share with friends you
don't have! and join my channel memberships! so if you guys didn't know, I
actually made a video a few days ago titled (G)I-dle comeback predictions and
in that video I predicted that this would be a lion 2.0, but I predicted it
would be more like a sequel to lion, I was wrong. it's just a lion 2.0 and I
feel like a lot of people can agree with that. I've read a lot of comments on the
music video, I've read a lot of comments in my community tab, I've had people DMing
me it is definitely a lion 2.0 and there are definitely a lot of
similarities between the two songs so let's discuss them! it's almost as if
they took Lion and added these beautiful g*y dark undertones and I'm not mad at
it, can I say that word on this platform? I did really love that "oh my god" part, I
think Soyeon's intonation really made it sound very extravagant, however I do have
to admit that as she says "oh my god" you almost feel like you're gonna start
hearing "BA BA BA!" I'm so sorry to my neighbor, we can hear everything between each
other. however I did predict that the song would sound a little bit more like
volume up, we will get into that a little bit later but I have to say for some
reason it was getting troublemaker vibes so leave time in the comments below if
you got those vibes as well. also Soyeon's initial verse to me seemed very similar
to Lion, I placed them side by side and they're really different but I feel like
the vibe is very similar and different at the same time, let me explain so in Lion,
there's almost an animalistic, quite fittingly, vibe to it
you know but then in "oh my god" you do have this animalistic vibe but it's
almost as if she's possessed, again quite fittingly, so we have these similar
vibes that something is like overtaking her body, but I feel like they're done in
slightly different ways. I kind of like that, I kind of like you know, that slight
distinction between the two songs and another homage to lion shall we say is
the gold theme. Lion had a very red and gold color palette and "oh my god" tends
to go towards more black and white however they do have sprinkles of color
and neutrality... gold is neutral right? you didn't come here for color theory. but we
do have sprinkles of purple and gold and I think the gold is very reminiscent of
Lion notably in Miyeon's scene which is absolutely stunning by the way but also
a little bit reminiscent of red velvet "psycho" which we will get into later so
the last similarity between "oh my god" and Lion that we're gonna touch on is
Shuha's lines, I feel like the "Hua" has to be intonated like that, right? I could be
wrong. I was only a Koreaboo, don't at me. so when people are pointing this out
I thought to myself what lines? I'm sorry that was a bad joke, but really I forgot
what her lines were. but for real they are quite similar. so the next topic
we're gonna touch on is Soyeon and friends this is something I get in trouble for
talking about but you know we're gonna go there. I read a lot of comments saying
you know, "I didn't know (G)I-dle became Soyeon, Minnie, Soojin and Friends" now I've actually
made a video on this subject if you want to check it out after you're done with
this one, you wouldn't want to mess with my watch time now would you? but
regardless there are a lot of people still saying that, still saying that it's
Soyeon and friends, still saying that it's Soyeon, Minnie, Soojin and friends. I mean
truthfully, they do have the most significant parts in the song and I
haven't you know scientifically calculated it, but I feel like they also
have the most lines and the most screen time at least that's what stands out to
me the most, they were the ones that I noticed the most in the song but I mean
I have my thoughts on k-pop and favoritism I've already explained in the
past that you know companies tend to pick one or maybe a few members who
able to engage you know the most with an audience and they do this you know for
marketing purposes, which I elaborate on more in this video which you can check
out after you're done this one, my point is this isn't something that I'm
particularly upset about or that I'm particularly mad about but I do
understand how some fans can be upset with this but the one thing I do want to
mention because I have been guilty of this as well of you know calling (G)I-dle
Soyeon and friends and I said this because I felt there was a lot of
imbalance within their performances because Soyeon was really the only one
who you could hear right, she's the only one who's live voice was powerful enough
to overpower the backup track however in the showcase performance which are
usually notorious for being like a hundred percent lip singed, lips sang?
I'm not even gonna try to conjugate that verb but I digress I was actually very
pleasantly surprised with Miyeon's voice and actually you could kind of feel a
bit more of a balance within the performance as a whole because there
were definitely other members that you could hear other than Soyeon and
actually you couldn't always hear Soyeon as clearly as you usually do but on the
other hand you could you know kind of hear other members as well particularly
Miyeon, there's one point where she just sang really really loud it was probably
just like for like one or two seconds and it's probably really nitpicking of
me but I thought that was like the most beautiful moment in a (G)I-dle performance
I loved it so much it just felt very raw and authentic and almost like you could
just uh, you could just picture the breath struggling to get out and again
struggle isn't a bad thing if you hear someone you know slightly struggling
during a performance it just shows that the performance is real, it just shows
authenticity and I live for that and I love that and I was actually very
pleasantly surprised with her particularly, because admittedly she's a
member that I don't quite hear all that often. so now let's move on to the
similarities with red Velvets "psycho" now I personally don't go on Twitter anymore
because that's a little thing I like to call self care, however I do know the
most annoying Reveluv in the entire world and she assured me that there were
people going crazy over the similarities between (G)I-dle's "oh my god" teaser photos
red velvet's "psycho" teaser photos to which i will say yeah they're very
similar, eerily really similar at times and even this part in the music video with
Miyeon and her tears, and Seulgi's tears or Sergei as people think i pronounce
it, how do you get Sergei out of Seulgi? Sergei. Seulgi. I don't ****** know and
maybe this is the thumbnail for the video? I don't even know this is so
unpredictable I hate uh, I hate feeling like there's a
time limit, it's like 9 a.m. I've been up for a while
getting ready getting all my shit together, writing a script doing research
to get this out at like 3 p.m. am I gonna succeed? I don't know! so the
next thing we're gonna talk about for the sense of familiarity that you might
feel for "oh my god"... we're gonna talk about "volume up" so I did predict that
it's going to sound a lot like "volume up" and that we're gonna get a similar vibe
from "volume up", the darkness maybe is a little bit similar but "volume up" I feel
was more vampire-esque in nature whereas "oh my god" is more demonic in nature and
maybe maybe that's the same thing but maybe there's a little bit of a
difference? however there's literally a scene that is exactly the same and that
is Hyuna and Yuqi literally walking down this victorian-esque hallway, it is the
same thing. same thing. f*** cube! I'm kidding like no actually F*** CUBE but like not because of
this. however much like "lion", "oh my god" featured you know a lot of scenes with
the pitch white background which was can you guess very reminiscent of "crazy" BY
4Minute, I don't know why but I feel like cube has a thing with using just
completely white backgrounds across all of their artists music videos and also
copywriting 8 seconds of a video I uploaded 8 months ago! not that I'm
trying to be shady or anything but also there's this danse similarity with "hate"
ok so now let's take a little minute to talk about the religious symbolism
because I predicted that there would be some religious symbolism because of the
title "oh my god" which was the most basic of connections
to ever make but I digress I said that there would be some symbolism but it
wouldn't make us as uncomfortable as some people felt for BTS "on" if you
didn't know in the music video for "on" there was like
some religious symbolism like Noah's Ark and like thorns and shit I don't know
I'm not good with that stuff so the religious symbolism to me was a lot more
easily digestible in this because it wasn't so explicit, it was almost like
blasphemous in nature if that makes sense and then in that sense you
wouldn't take it so seriously? I don't know but also the whispering
creeped me the f**k out, like I feel like I couldn't listen to the song past 8PM
for the lyrics okay let's take two seconds to talk about the
lyrics it's like after schools "because of you" music video but in a lyric for it
but also I don't know how to get more into that without getting d*monetized
okay moving on to the music video I loved the colors in the music video and
I think they did make really great use of different color stories like vastly
different color stories that were still cohesive together I mean we had gold we
had purple we had black we had white and some red themes mixed into that so
they're quite different but at the end of the day it didn't feel too
overwhelming and we also see that their use of borders was not as obnoxious as
it was in Lion a lot of people told me about the borders in line had symbolism
sure sure but at the same time borders bothered me and I feel like Cube is
really terrible with borders even in their thumbnails like what the fuck is
this but I mean on that wavelength if there
was symbolism within the borders in line I do still think there were symbolism
within the borders in oh my god because we see many at the end and the borders
are closing in on her and I feel like there's some type of symbolism but she's
being trapped by something but also on that note there was no note to follow up
on, this is a different note I would have loved to see more scenes of the
underwater sparkly water like did you not notice that at the beginning and
think it was the coolest thing in the universe
it gave me MBLAQ cry vibes but like sparkly, I'm kidding
kind of. okay final thoughts I love how they went this creepy route I feel like
we need more k-pop songs like this I feel like the kpop scene is very
saturated with girl crush I wouldn't say oversaturated because that implies that
we don't like girl crush I stand girl-crush but I do think there
is not enough creepy concepts I love that they went there I love that it's
creepy it's sensual it's it's odd as for the song itself much like Lion I didn't
know how I really felt about it on the first listen but after listening to five
times it's grown on me and I love it now and I think it's one of my favourite
comebacks and I'll name you all my favorite comebacks since you're so
curious, Ateez answer, Everglow Dun dun, (G)I-dle oh my god,
Oh! oh my god, how could I forget awesome screen awesome camera long-lasting
battery life! did that come out in 2019? I have no concept of time. so yeah that is
basically all I had to say make sure you leave down in the comments below what
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