This week's Music Monday will have you feeding your hat addiction with Jay Park's "Joah"
Ok we can undoubtedly say that we both love this song
Simon hasn't really been impressed with Jay Park's other stuff as of late
So this song really surprised him. While I enjoyed his last dick-eating song.
That's what it was called, right? I think. No way. "Appetizer"
That was close.
It's unpretentious. It's fun and light-hearted. It has just like a simple jazzy-horny beat.
Not like... Not like Horny~ But like horny.
Not that this looks any... You know what I mean, like... Just gonna stop.
And it's upbeat with a very simple but catchy chorus.
I'm totally diggin it.
I like how at the beginning Jay Park says "This song is out to... yeah, you know who you are"
Yes. We know Jay Park.
BORIS.
And you know how we're always torn about Jay Park's image.
I know some of you are ok with him waffling back and forth between being hard-core and being sweet
But it's not something that we are fully ok with.
We're not ok with it when B.A.P. does it either or with any other band that goes from cutie to not-cutie.
I like to expect different sounds from different bands so that I could say "Hey! I'm in a mood for Blank" and I can listen to an artist that fits my mood
Which is something that I can't really get with artists that jump around from different images.
If I already get this album, for example, and I was like "Yeah man! Haters gonna eat a dick"
And then I hear "Joah~". That would really kill the vibe.
It's not really criticism to the artists who is free to do as they please
It's just not what I want in music.
With outher bands it's clearly easy for us to say "Your cutie songs are awkward, so just stop it!"
With Jay Park, though, he handles both sides really well and it's difficult for us to say that want him to stick with just one image over the other
As for the video actually... I liked it a lot as well.
It's very unlike most K-pop videos what with its simple production value and freedom from box-sets
But that doesn't feel like a low-budget video.
Unlike some videos we know.
*cough* LeleleleEatyourkimchiCrew
Compared this video to "Star" where Jay Park is awkward in his turtle-neck.
And looking all sad and getting cappuccino foam all over his face.
Here Jay Park is cute but he retains his confidence and playfulness and it was So Much Less Awkward than him acting like a sissy
I said it!
And it made for a much better video.
Jay Park is having fun in a fun video and it totally matches the fun feel of the song.
I don't think I said the word "fun" enough.
Fun.
No. This video has a very natural feeling and Jay Park seems like he is part of the city and is trying to share with everyone
A opposed to him being a K-pop group trying to seem cool in a city that they have no right to claim to be a part of.
Remember our complaint for Batoost's "Beautiful night"?
How awkward and forced it felt with the strategically placed cool bikers and skateboarders.
That video reeked of insincerity and fakeness like soooo baaad
With this video though, we feel like Jay Park is doing it right.
The quick cut scene of inside the break-dancing studio looked to me like that probably was where he actually practices.
And his crew looked like real people, not hired back-up dancers that have no idea who the hell he is but are just in the video for a pay-check.
But... On that note I can also tell that they look super-duper uncomfortable with having to dance along to the song while sitting on the stairs.
Look at this. They're just flailing around in the background laughing at attempt to figure out what's going on
I wonder how Jay Park convinced them to be in this Music Video.
A-yo, Jay Paaark! Foshizzle my nizzle with raspberry drizzle comin out the pizzle
Whaddup Hip-Hop-Hitler
Listen, listen I got a bone to pick at you, son.
whaddup?
You told me that if I appeared in yo music videO you promised you would give me mad pusseh.
Ey what, you sayin' that Jay Park don't live up to his promises?
Here. Check this out. You ready for this?
Ok...
Mad pusseh, son. Ey ey ey, oh yeah, look how mad he is oh yeah. C'mon you don't. I'm gonna put. You can go get that yourself.
I think maybe there has been a miscommunication? About the concept of mad pusseh?
What? You... You callin' me a liar?
I... I'm not calling you a liar.
Hey, didn' I promise you mad bitches as well?
...Yeah.
Spudgy, c'mon here!
Get your friends. I got peanut butter!
come here, boy.
He's a dawg...
J.P: Come here! H.H.H:His friends are dawgs...
Ain't we dawgs?
you ma home dawg?
H.H.H.: I... I suppose... J.P.:What's yo problem then?
H.H.H.:Alright... J.P:Why why why are you brakin ma ballz?
J.P.: Brakin ma ballz. H.H.H.: Ok, give me a lift, employer. Let's get out of this. Come here, kitty Here, kitty.
Now although we love this song and video it just wouldn't be a Music Monday if we didn't go through the video frame-by-frame
And dig up awkward irrelevancies that you might not have noticed.
Let's get started.
Jay Park, I think we need to have a talk.
Come here, come on.
Grab a seat. i want you to admit something to me.
You're addicted to hats.
Don't try to deny it. We're concerned about you.
Yes. I know it's part of the hip-hop uniform
But wore... Seven different hats in this Music Video which translates to roughly a new hat every thirty seconds.
In fact, there's even a scene where you wear two hats.
A tuque and then a hat
No, no. Don't try to say it's some fashion thingy with double hats.
Soon you're gonna have triple hats and quadruple hats and next you're gonna be selling your cat to make money to buy more hats.
You should admit it and you should stop while you can.
Double hats- crazy talk.
Also, I'm not really sure what this girl does with her life.
It could just be me, but I don't really remember the last time I've seen someone walking in the streets without something on the shoulders or in their hands.
This girl has no purse, no bag filled with stuff to carry, no iPhone she's messaging all her friends on.
She's not walking like she's trying to get somewhere, she's just... walking.
As if she enjoys walking.
Do people do that nowadays?
I don't ever have any free time, so I don't know what walking like that is like.
Ain't she... I don't know... Got a job or some grocery shopping, walking a dog?
Something?
Or is this what pretty models do?
Oh My God, I'm so young and beautifuuul~
Well she does walk around with a coffee sometimes without any wallet with which to pay for the coffee.
But there she is. Just.. Enjoying being rich and bored.
And.. Jay Park, a bit of advice here.
Hey, you can do better.
How many girls can get to say that they had Jay Park dance for them?!
This girl, though, crosses her arms and gives him a stinky face when you dance for her?
You know, there's a line-up of girls behind her ready to cut her open for the chance that you dance with them?
AND she won't let you put your arm around her.
She ain't the one for you, Jay. She ain't the one.
There's not much of a dance here for the song.
Jay Park break dances for a bit, but I sure as hell ain't gonna talk about that.
Unless you want my fat-ass to knock down everything in the studio in attempt to recreate it. Screw that!
Jay Park also jumps around happily around the girl like a puppy going for a walk.
But that's not really much of a dance?
There is that one dance he does on the stairs where he moves his foot back and forth.
But that ain't dancing really...
That's more like what Simon does when he wants me to smell how bad his feet are.
S:Joah~ You like my feet now, Joah smell them, they're so sweet M:Dear God. Oh. Like Doritos!
M:STOP IT! Taste like rotten Hot Chocolate. S:Joah. Oh, you taste my feet?
M:It's like cool ranch doritos crushed and covered in Spudgy! STOP IT! STOP IT! S:Other foot. Joah~ M:*cries*
Yes. Six years on marriage would do that to you.
Jay Park's English is Fine!
Last week we asked you which Myungsoo video you preferred.
K.Will's "Love Blossom" or The Snuggly-one's in "60 seconds"
And you definitely preferred him in "Love Blossom"
As do we. I'd much rather see him killing people unjustifiably than hanging around restaurants creepily with his mouth dangling open.
Good choice, everyone.
For this week's showdown we ask you which "Hat obsession" video did you prefer?
Jay Park's in "Joah" or Super Junior M's in "Perfection"?
Both so overwhelmingly hatty.
Leave your votes in your comments and we'll announce the winners next week.
If there is a video you wanna see us to do for next week's KMM, head on over to eatyourkimchi.com/kpopcharts and get voting.
We'll pick one video out of the top 3 and do our Music Monday on it.
G-Dragon's video was in 1st place on Sunday, but not Saturday at midnight.
Jay Park just barely squeaked through.
Lastly, don't forget to like and favorite this video and to subscribe for more Music Mondays. Take it away Spudgy~
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And... Simon's voice sometimes fades when he tries it too my Joah
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I ran out of lyrics. Touch my tummy! C'mon!