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This week's Music Monday is the T-ara vs. T-ara edition with Lovey Dovey
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Ok, I have to start by saying that both Simon and I unanimously agree that this song is totally funky awesome!
With its amazing disco awesomeness, this is soooo much better than Cry Cry.
It's so funky, and it’s got this amazing
COWBELL! It has cowbell. Do you know how much I love cowbell?
It is totally amazing: every Kpop song with Cowbell is awesome. That is all.
And that WOOOOHOOOHOOOOOOOOOOO is so catchy.
We’ve just been singing this all day long for every possible situation.
I'm prepared to say that T-ara is my new favorite band.
It used to be 4Minute, but I was really disappointed with their last two songs.
And I would say Brown Eyed Girls, but they don’t release music often enough.
But T-ara, are constantly pumping out awesome song after awesome song.
Bo Peep, I go Crazy Because of You, Yayaya, ROLY FREAKING POLY, and now this.
T-ara: I'm your new fanboy. What's your fangroup called? The T-artards?
I'm not sure, but sign me up! I'm suffering from a severe case of T-araria!
The quality of the filming of this video is awesome,
and the acting is much better than the acting we saw in, say, last week's video.
We’re also happy to see that T-ara’s record label is putting so much effort put into the making of these very looooonnng but very original music videos,
so all in all we are not disappointed with the song and music video.
But, and there is a but, even though we love T-ara’s music,
we feel like this music video didn’t match the song AT ALL
and the awesomeness of the song just can’t cover up all the silly plot holes that pop up in this video.
OHHHHHHH MY GODDDD. The very first time we watched this video,
we found ourselves cracking up at inappropriate moments and saying “WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!!??”
If we were to talk about every issue in this video, it would probably take us well over an hour.
So we're gonna jump into the main action sequences in the end,
and we’ll talk about the video as a whole in our blog post, so click on the link here if you want the full review.
Okay, let’s fast forward. Bounty Hunter girl and friend steal a bag
from the same Bad guy from the cry cry video that PWNED them before.
Bounty hunter’s friend gets captured by them, and so she goes to rescue her.
But not before she reveals to her old partner
who is now working as the swaggest food stand guy I’ve ever scene,
her true secret identity.
She then tries to save her friend.
Hey, bad guys, here’s your drugs, now give me my friend.
Ok, friend. You should go. I’ll be ok.
Um, wait, why exactly did you not leave with your friend.
You know, walk away slowly with the gun facing outwards
or - now this is crazy talk, I know - maybe you should try busting some caps in some people’s asses?
But no, she actually stands there for SO long
that a guy sneaks up on her and bashes here with a piece of wood and she gets captured.
Why she didn’t shoot anybody is completely beyond us,
and why nobody shot her is beyond us as well.
It seems like the only person in this area who owns a gun is her.
Really, we think the scene should have gone this way.
Here’s your bag of drugs. Now: give me back my friend!
HEH HEH HEH! I don’t think so!
Seriously? That’s all you have? Wooden sticks? All of you?
HEH HEH! HEH! Heh. ohhh.
I didn’t think this through.
In that case. BOMBARATATATA BATATATATA Murder!
Meanwhile, her old partner decides to call the phone number
and he gets the girl screaming into the phone for help.
I’m really glad those bad guys were so thoughtful to let her keep her cell phone
and to ignore her while she screams into the phone down the hallway.
He rushes over to the bad guys' nest
Now, why she doesn't call the police is beyond us, or - even more -
why she thinks that this street food guy could possibly do ANYTHING to save her and her friend
with what? His maaaad dokbokki skills?
The good guy, then beats up the goonies with a pipe. The bad guys attack him with pipes.
Ok seriously we need to take a break here:
do none of the bad guys own any guns or any other weapons
apart from a stock of hardware store supplies?
[DANGEROUS GANGSTER MUSIC]
YES! Vhat can I do for you?
I want a hundred guns!
They are sold out!
How about some knives?
Also sold out.
Harpoons?
Ah sold out.
Angry birds?
Sold out.
Dogs?
Oh...ah no this is sold out.
Dogs that shoot bees from their mouths when they bark?
Ohh...mmm. Sold out.
Poison darts.
Sold out.
Regular darts?
ALSO SOLD OUT!
Dart boards?
AHHH It’s sold out.
A HOARD of DOTHRAKI MAN WARRIORS!
Let me think. Ahh sold out.
Devil fruits!
Ah let me think. Oh we have this no it’s sold out.
Well what do you have, then?
Well...can I interest you in some super Salmiaki?
Oh god! I’m not looking to torture, I’m looking to kill!
Well, then how about this nice piece of wood?
Ohhh!
Ohh! You can swing and you can beat!
Oh! Give it a try.
I will take all of the wood that you have.
Ok.
Anyhow, after he beats up the lumberjack and plumbers association of Korea
He sees his old partner tied up
and this is where we yelled at the screen.
He throws down his pipe. Of course! The coast must be clear.
If you can’t see anyone, that clearly means that they can’t be hiding anywhere.
like say, in that perfect black spot there for bad guise.
And why, a trained bounty hunter would think that she would be left there unattended is beyond me.
But he walks into a trap and takes two caps to the chest.
Then, the saved girl comes back, and hits the bad guy in the back with
- you guessed it - some wood that she grabbed from the corpse of a dead lumberjack.
So let’s pause here to review two very blaring plotholes:
She had facial reconstruction surgery, so the bad guy doesn't know her real identity,
and so he wouldn't know that anyone, let alone the good guy would come to make an attempt to save her.
So why tie her up and wait? Just kill her and go. Nope, I’m going to wait all night for someone to rescue to her.
Is anyone here yet?
No. You want to keep waiting? I don’t see anything.
We should order delivery
Well, can we shoot the delivery guy?
Let’s order some dokbokki.
Also, the bounty hunter girl wasn’t blindfolded,
so she clearly knows that this is a trap, set up for somebody,
so when she sees him why wouldn’t she be like
AJUSSHI! STOP! IT'S A TRAP! DUDE IS HIDING HERE WAITING FOR YOU
WITH THE ONLY GUN IN THE WHOLE ROOM
Did the bad guy tie her up and say to her
be vewy vewy qwiet! I’m hunting waskally street food bounty hunter rabbits.
Anyhow, the two men then wrestle with the gun vigorously,
Almost as if one of them hasn't been shot twice in the chest with a gun.
The bad guy then clearly forgets how to use the gun,
because he’s clearly pointing it at the good guy’s face,
but he must be thinking that stabbing him with the gun is much more effective than shooting him with it.
The good guy, dying from blood loss, manages to overpower the bad guy
and shoot him in some organ which is somehow more fatal than being shot twice in the lungs
because the bad guy dies instantly.
The bounty hunter girl, then, takes her dying partner into the car,
but instead of driving him to a hospital, decides to go on a very long tour of Korea
because when they were fighting it was dark
but when they’re driving it is broad daylight.
How long was he there dying in the car with two bullets in the lungs?
Where is her friend, and why isn’t she performing first aid on the dying guy in the car?
I don’t know.
AJUSSHI! AJUSSHI! YAAHHH!
I’m I’m dying......
WAHHHH
......for some sausage McMuffins.
Did you want hashbrowns?
No, I’m trying to watch my weight.
Ok no combo just the sausage.
Actually, actually wait. Get the hashbrowns. After all...I’m dying.
WAHH!! AJUSSHI! WAHHH MAKE A COMBO!
That was a great last meal......because after all I’m dying wahhh
AJUSSHI! WAHHH!
I’m dying.
Shockingly, he doesn’t make it through the seven hour joyride, and dies in the car,
but we think they should have both died in a horrific car accident earlier
because she barely keeps her eyes on the road.
As he stares at her while before dies, he starts to remember her as she was before her surgery,
but, unfortunately for us watching this, the makeup artist forgot to match the blood on her face.
As the blood jumps from side to side of her face,
the girl, heartbroken at his death, decides to launch the car off a cliff,
so she can die, too, and they can come back together as zombies and completely destroy Korea together.
The end. Wait...I don’t know if that last part was true...OR WAS IT?!
I don’t like zombies.
Now, even though the story did have a lot of holes in it
that doesn’t change the fact that this is still a totally awesome song.
Great song, great filming, great acting, but reallllllllly bad storywriting.
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This music video doesn’t have a lot of dancing in it, but the live dance version of it is super fun.
Just like Roly Poly, this makes for an awesome club song.
And this dance is also fun for the dance floor.
Just remember: you shuffle, you freeze, and then you wash your hair in freezing cold water. Oh yeah!
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As for the English of the song, we give this a 2 out of 5.
Now, there’s no English in the song apart from Lovey Dovey,
which makes sense as an English phrase, but is pronounced so terribly in this song
it sounds more like lubby dubby dubby.
It’s super cute, but if it’s the name of your song and the main chorus, and you can’t pronounce it,
then we gotta dock you marks. But, let’s be honest:
T-ara, even though you do make some rocking songs, you have been on the forefront of some of the worst Engrish in music as well.
So, sorry fellow T-artards, but we gotta give them a 2 out of 5.
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Last week we asked you who did the better MAEGYO
G-Dragon in Breathe, or Jay Park in Star,
and the winner was undoubtedly G Dragon.
He, like, crushed Jay Park.
But a lot of people said that they didn’t like Jay Park’s Maegyo as well
So, no more maegyo Jay Park. Stick to the B Boy man.
For this week’s T-ara vs T-ara edition we ask you which really long T-ara video you prefer.
T-ara’s “Cry Cry” or T-ara’s “Lubby Dubby”
Leave your votes in the comments, or in the Facebook poll,
and we’ll announce the winners next week.
Also, thanks to everybody who requested T-ara for this week’s Music Monday.
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Take it away Spudgy
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