(mouse clicks)
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
♪ (eerie tune) ♪
- Zombie-- OH, it's-- it's an Asian girl.
- Oh, I like zombies. - I do like zombies.
We play a lot of zombie-- - ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
- Oh, it's a K-pop video.
- Oh man, you guys are getting close to my weakness right now.
- Okay, I just saw zombies. Where did the zombies even go?
- So no zombies? No zombies? Okay!
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
♪ (beat picks up) ♪
- They're way too calm and collected for the disaster right outside.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
(all girls) ♪ I just wanna fall in love ♪
♪ (energetic pop music) ♪
- So this is like K-pop Spice Girls?
- ♪ (tempo slows down) ♪ - Ooh, yoga pose.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- She's the comic relief.
- (laughing breathlessly) Another stretching?
- See, look, they're in danger and they're just having a great time.
It's a metaphor for life.
♪ (hip-hop music) ♪
- K-pop is so cool.
- I don't get it.
There's zombies behind the dancing hot girls.
♪ (trance-like music) ♪
- Whelp, and now the zombies are dancing.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪ - (cracking up)
The power of dance transcends even to the undead.
- The colors, the fashion-- oh my god, I'm in love.
- ♪ (gentle music) ♪
- What is that? - What is that?
- She's not shaving, right?
- Is she exfoliating?
- ♪ (music starts) ♪
♪ Baby ♪
♪ (music starts) ♪
- Oh, she's got to get that house exorcised.
- ♪ Just ♪
♪ Just right ♪
- It's a new form of Polly Pocket!
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) - (snickering) Oh, they're everywhere!
- I don't like that he's just hanging out in her room.
- The V-effects are really good in these though.
- Okay, she should be screaming, personally,
unless she's used to this kind of thing.
- ♪ (singing in Korean) ♪
♪ (vocalizing in Korean) ♪ - I'm too sober for this right now.
♪ (catchy beat) ♪
- His sweater says "Puff! Puff! Pass!"
♪ (tempo slows down) ♪
- ♪ (singing soulfully in Korean) ♪
- This is very 'N Sync.
- What is wrong?
- Oh, it's getting deep.
- ♪ (tempo picks up) ♪
- You're right, I don't need my glasses.
Thank you, tiny, tiny, men.
- I can't tell how many people are in this Asian boy band.
It keeps multiplying.
- ♪ Oh ♪
- I could learn this dance.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- Don't do that!
- The attempts at eroticism are what's bothering me.
- What's happening now?
- ♪ I want you ♪
♪ (vocalizing in Korean) ♪
- I love how they always sprinkle in just a little bit of English.
- ♪ (vocalizing in Korean) ♪
- You shouldn't shrink yourself, go into an eight-year-old's room,
and lick your fingers.
(birds chirp)
(silence)
- The song is great! I mean, I'm in.
I'm on board. Are you kidding me?
I love that shit.
- ♪ (somber tone) ♪
- Oh, very dramatic.
- ♪ Liar, liar ♪-- - Liar.
- The girl ones are always so much darker, just right away.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪
- Hey, pretty bad ass.
- ♪ (hip-hop music) ♪
- Saranghae-- that means I love you. I know what that means!
- This has kind of got a Hot Topic feel to it.
I don't know if they have that over there, but they should get it.
- She was sad, and now she's... mad?
- They have so much energy.
- ♪ (energy builds) ♪
♪ (beat drops) ♪
- Oh man, I'm so in!
- Oh, this beat now.
- Oh, it's so gangster. This reminds me of, like--
- ♪ Hey ♪
- TLC?
♪ (upbeat pop music) ♪
- This is my favorite one. - I'm enjoying this one.
- ♪ (voice echoes) ♪
♪ (singing fiercely) ♪
♪ (beat drops) ♪ - Hm! Hm!
- ♪ Hey ♪
♪ No no ♪
- I kind of like that breakdown though. - Yeah, it's cool.
- ♪ (rapping softly) ♪ - Show that angst.
- The set design-- these guys are crushing it right now.
- Very hard, very ganster bad girl. Kind of Rihanna-like.
- (gasps) What? - ♪ I hate you ♪
- Hate? It just says hate?
- Target's next ad campaign is extremely edgy.
♪ I don't need you ♪ - I like it.
- Get it.
- ♪ (rapping in Korean) ♪ - I'm so down.
- But everything's so cute. They can't talk about hate.
- Oh, man, I'm sad it's over!
- All three of those were really good.
I'm excited.
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- (Finebros) Okay, so we just showed you a bunch of music videos
from K-pop. - Cool.
- K-pop, Korean pop stars.
- (Finebros) Are you a fan of K-pop? - No!
- I'm not familiar even a little bit.
- I appreciate and support it. I think it's cool.
But I don't listen to it a lot.
- I love K-pop.
Tae Yang-- I, in a very heterosexual male way,
will say this dude's body is on point, like goals
- I definitely enjoy K-pop.
The production's always dope, the choreography's dope,
the visuals are amazing.
- (Finebros) Okay, let's talk about these videos we showed you.
The first one was with the zombies, and that was a song
from a group called Twice. - Okay.
- (Finebros) And here they are. - Cute.
- It's quite an extensive girl band.
- Eight, nine-- there's nine members?
That's a lot!
Wow, which one of them's Beyoncé?
- (Finebros) They recently surpassed the K-pop group 2NE1
for the most YouTube views for a debut music video by a girl group.
- Really?
Wow, I've heard of 2NE1. I've never heard of them though.
- (Finebros) What did you think of their song and music video?
- I would call the song forgettable 'cause I don't remember it.
- I didn't understand it at all.
- I was let down that there wasn't more zombies.
- They know what people like, and they know how to mix it.
Like zombies-- come on.
If you do a music video about zombies, everyone's gonna love it.
- The video was awesome from top to bottom.
They looked good, and I'm sold.
- (Finebros) Next was the boy band.
They're called GOT7. - And there are seven of them?
- Are Korean boy bands usually this large?
- They all look like Rufio. - Yeah.
- In a good way.
- GOT7, I'm noticing a trend here.
- Why the numbers?
We got Twice, we got 2NE1, we got GOT7.
- (Finebros) What'd you think of them?
- I don't want to say it was weirdly sexual,
but it was extremely sexual in a weird way.
- I did not like what they did.
I don't know if, in the song, they were explaining
what they were doing in her room.
- Those were the creepiest.
You open your desk and there's a guy there, just chilling,
that sings to you in the morning.
- They seem to boost her self-esteem.
I think it's the classic, "Hey, girl. You don't need those glasses.
You're beautiful the way you are."
- It felt very '90s, early 2000's.
Being a child of the '90s and early 2000's, I was amused.
- (Finebros) And, lastly, was the song called "Hate"
by 4Minute. - Wow.
I would marry all of them.
- But there's five of them. Interesting.
- (Finebros) What'd you think of their song?
- That was a lot of aggression,
and there are a lot of girls who weren't loved by their dad.
- It rocked. I was kinda into it.
- They seemed more authentic. - They had more edge.
- It was dope, you know.
It was definitely a universal message-- the girl was hurt-- "I hate you!
I don't need you!"
- (Finebros) K-pop is just this massive genre and keeps on growing.
For example, Skrillex produced the 4Minute song that we showed you.
- Really?
- Wow.
- Oh wow, I didn't know that.
- (Finebros) What is it about K-pop that continues to attract
so much popularity? - It's fun and they go for it.
- It's catchy and they are not afraid to go there.
- Anything that's upbeat and just gets me invigorated and ready, I like it.
- It's just a very attractive genre.
I mean, you don't have to think much to appreciate it.
- There's so much going on, and there's so much--
everything's so clean in those videos, that it's just nice to watch.
- I've been to a K-pop event, and it's nuts.
It's like stadiums full of American girls, bugging out!
They have a lock on the correct formula, you know?
I don't know what it is.
- (Finebros) So just like the music industry here in the U.S.,
K-pop has a lot of scandals, and recently a member of the group Twice
became part of a controversy after she was depicted
with a Taiwanese flag during the broadcast of a Korean TV show.
- Oh, okay.
- (Finebros) Many in China were angered by this 'cause they saw this
as support of Taiwan's independence movement,
and some called for a ban on Twice for performing in the country,
and she ended up issuing an apology.
Other people were praising her
and felt her apology was issued under duress.
- Wow. People and their priorities.
Sometimes I think flags can do more harm than good.
- It was probably like, "Yo, apologize or we're gonna cut off all your money.
Think about your family.
Your family is gonna be broke and hungry.
Apologize."
- (Finebros) When you hear things like that, do you think K-pop
and other Eastern celebrities have different types of scrutiny,
than the celebrities here? - Yeah, absolutely.
Because we treat our celebrities like they're just gossip fodder.
- For us, as Americans, to say they're making
mounds of of molehills is kind of hypocritical
because we do that all the time here.
It's just in a different form.
- The scrutiny is not really different.
The repercussions and the consequences are.
- The cultures are different.
I think Americans are taught to be independent and speak their mind.
I grew up in an Asian family.
Things need to be said a certain way, or you need to be polite,
or certain things need to be said so that you save face
- Their whole careers have been this created formula,
and they are products of this huge company, right?
They probably have no say in anything that they get to do,
or say, or even wear.
The fact that she even went out there
and tried to make a statement is crazy.
- (Finebros) So last question that we always ask when we cover K-pop:
now that you've been exposed to more of the music,
do you think you're gonna be more interested in K-pop?
- No, I still wanna listen to sad white men on the guitar. (How dare you!)
- It's not our style of music, you know?
- We're old. - We're grumpy old men.
- Yeah, I listen to Hall and Oates, man.
- We listen to a lot of Hall and Oates.
- I should listen to more K-pop, especially since my fans ask me
to do a workout to K-pop all the time,
so thank you so much for exposing me to more K-pop.
I'm gonna go home and do that.
- I'm always searching for K-pop.
If you guys have some good K-pop please send it to me.
Tweet it to me right now.
I love it.
- Thank you guys so much for watching this episode of YouTubers React.
- Let us know down in the comments what we should react to next.
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- Bye! (blows kiss)
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