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This week's Music Monday is the guns blazing edition
with 2NE1's "I Am the Best"
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I'm happy that 2NE1 finally has an uppity song,
"It Hurts" "Don't Cry" and "Lonely" were all so...sad,
and that's not what I want to hear from 2NE1, you know what I'm sayin?
I wanna hear songs from 2NE1 that make me wanna dance like UHHH
And shake my moneymaker like UHHH
And do my math homework like UHHHH
You know what I'm saying? No?
Nobody gets pumped up to do their math homework around here?
Just me, eh? Oh.
BOMBARATATATA BATATATATA BEET!
Ok, so I totally love these outfits:
they're super fierce and awesome.
YG definitely loves its latex, leather, and studs.
And, come on, only CL can make a straight jacket look pimpin!
But it seemed to me that they got crazier and crazier as the video went on.
I mean, seriously! Who puts horns in their hair!
Little, like, bun horns! That's totally ridiculous, right?!
Come on!
But, seriously though, I really love how fierce 2NE1 is.
They seem to be the only Kpop girl group
that's not playing into that aegyo cutie girl style thing.
and frankly, I think they're putting a really good message out there.
They're saying you don't need to be this cutie beautiful girl
you can be crazy fun and silly, and still be super popular and awesome!
Can you imagine an aegyo style cutie girl trying to be in this video?
CL! Don't poke your eye out! I know you're the crazy one.
Park Bom...more...enthusiasm!
Ok that's good OH!
Man ambiguously related to me
Yes!
Martina wants...
what does Martina want?
Martina wants a gun!
Oh God you're so cute! Here you go: take this.
Boyfriend/Older brother/WTF YAY!
Ok make sure you don't hurt anyone, ok?
Ok!
Ok you ready?
Yeah!
And action!
Bang bang! Bang bang bang!
BBBBBAAANG! BAAAANNNGGGGG DIIIIEEEE!!!
THOSE ARE MY SHOES!
THOSE ARE MY KITTIES!
BILASA!
OOH!
That was...scary.
Man whose relationship to me I can't quite pinpoint, thanks!
Yeah, it just wouldn't work, unless you're into that kind of thing.
Ok, but I gotta say something here:
2NE1, I think you are the best.
If Big Bang wasn't around, you'd be #1 in my heart.
But I think you should choose something different than a WWE belt.
Yes, you are the best, and that is a championship belt,
so I understand what you are going for,
But, like, wrestling's fake, so if you're holding that belt,
it's kind of like you're the fake champion.
WHAT? What did you just say about wrestling?
It's fake, I mean, you know that. It's staged, right?
Hey.
What?
Take that back.
There's nothing to take back. It's like, a fact.
Last warning, take that back.
That, what? Wrestling's fake?
THAT'S IT YOU'RE DONE FOR MISSY!
HE'S GOT THE MILLION DOLLAR DREAM!
SHE'S GOING DOWN! SHE'S GOING DOWN! SHE'S GOING DOWN!
THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S RIGHT
What's this? Hand down, and she's down.
WHUTCHA GONNA DO, BROTHER, WHEN HULKAMANIA, RUNS WILD ON YOU!
RRRRRR UHHH
I can rip this shirt but I like it too much.
So, as much as I love the video,
there's one concept in music videos that I don't really understand,
and that's singing in cars. I'm like
"yeah! That's a really cool car, that you probably don't own,
but, there you are, sitting and singing in it"
Yeah!
Why...why is she singing in it?
It's not like she's gonna drive anywhere,
cuz the doors, the doors are clearly open.
You can't drive a car with open doors like that.
Maybe she likes new car smell? It helps her sing better? I dunno.
But, then again, maybe we're just putting too much thought into this.
They like cars, so they put cars in their video.
They like Ice Cream, so they put Shiny metallic ice cream hats on.
Hey! It's their video.
Since this is my video, I know what kind of hat I'm gonna wear.
Ah yeah baby! I got the ranch hat up in this biznatch!
And since this is my video, too, I have my hat on!
I see you've made your very small top hat, into a very small Top hat
It's a very small TOP hat. HEEHEEHEEHEEHEE
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2NE1: we enjoy making up ridiculous names
for dances found in Kpop videos.
But you went ahead and included an actual train in the video,
for what we had so aptly named, the Train Hump Dance®
How could you do this to us 2NE1?
Do you know how long it took me to think up that name?
I spent the whole weekend thinking up the Train Hump Dance,
and then you put a train in the video!
SHSHSHSHSHS It's ok Sunshine it's ok!
It's ruined!
No it's not ruined! Hey!
I thought of another name! I thought of another name! I thought of another name!
You ready? It's...it's not the train hump dance,
It's the Ski Hump Dance®
See! You're humping and skiing at the same time!
Yeah!
They're not train humps! They're ski humps!
Yeah!
Trains don't hump!
It's the Ski Hump Dance®
Skiers hump!
Yeah!
See!
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As for the English of the song, we give this a
5 out of 5
It's YG. They don't mess around with English,
so it would be redundant for us to talk about it.
What we do want to talk about, though,
is this rising trend in an international nonsense language,
You know what I'm talking about
[lots of different 2NE1 weird lyrics]
Because it's not really English or Korean,
it's a really clever way to get your international audience involved,
so long as you don't go overboard with it,
like some bands that we're not going to name here
[But we'll name them here: T-ARA!!!!!!!!]
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Last week we asked you which song made you want to put your hands up more:
2PM with "Hands Up" or Far East Movement with "Like a G6"
And although G6 looked like it was winning,
in the end 2PM took it. Good for you guys.
For this week's Blazin Guns Edition we ask you which Blazin Guns you preferred:
2NE1's in "I Am The Best"
or Joo's Terrifying Bubble Gun in "Bad Guy"
Because that gun was pretty terrifying.
Leave your votes in the comments, or in our Facebook poll,
and we'll announce the winners next week.
Also, thanks to all the Blackjacks who voted for 2NE1 this week,
if there's a video you want to see for next week's Kpop Music Monday,
head on over to http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/requests
and tell us who we should do a video for.
Also, one more thing:
By Facebook Poll, I don't mean Facebook wall,
because we don't count the Facebook wall votes.
Poll. Wall. Two totally different things guise!
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