hi welcome my name is angelina and today we are going to be reviewing (g)i-dle's comeback
with hwaa from why it's familiar to why it's not familiar and honestly everything in between
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i inevitably fall off the face of the earth and kevin has to take over this channel so
we're going to start off with a little bit of a disclaimer i do not accuse anyone of
plagiarism in these videos we merely talk about similarities and similarities aren't
inherently bad if i name a specific similarity you can be sure as hell that i could name
a similarity that came before that and then the similarity that came before that the series
is meant to be light-hearted and fun and just to discuss the comeback as a whole you are
absolutely more than welcome to fight me in the comments but just know that i probably
won't read it if it's not within the first few hours because that's something i like
to call self-care do people still call me fat and say terrible things about me i wouldn't
[ __ ] know ignorance is bliss my friends so what is part of (g)i-dle's album called
i burn and i have to say based on the teaser alone i was super excited for this comeback
just the instrumental paired with like the filmography of everything painted such a beautiful
picture it's honestly hands down such a beautiful music video from the colors to the styling
to the overall symbolism and i did actually wake up at 4 a.m to watch it and then stayed
in bed for the next four hours just so right off the bat i was going to accuse them of
adding an extra a to the title so that it's a little bit more distinguishable from cl's
hwa but a lot of people actually told me that it's a continuation of han and han has an
extra n so the extra a kind of makes sense aesthetically it feels like it's on theme
but it's definitely quite lucky that they have that extra a to kind of help with the
search results at least it's kind of like MMM by treasure and MMMH by Kai, both titles
are spelt the same in korean but at least in the romanized version and h could be added
it's really unlucky that they have basically the same title of a song released not too
far apart but at least there's one letter that comes and differentiates them but i digress
so we've previously discussed some similarities that people have brought up between black
pinks how you like that music video and (g)i-dle's teaser number two and i wanted to go over
them again by pointing out other similarities or other parallels that we could find with
other works of art within kpop now keep in mind similarities are not inherently bad you
know i said i would wait for the music video before giving you know my full thoughts on
everything so let's do that so the first thing people were bringing up is minnie's hair so
she has red hair with bangs very similar to lisa's hair and how you like that era red
hair with bangs and of course it's similar i mean it's it's red hair with bangs but you
know bum also had a similar hairstyle in can't nobody and you know i actually find it really
funny when kpop fans gatekeep specific hair colors i don't know if anyone remembers this
but youngjae from bap had orange hair once for that's my gem era and people were accusing
him of copying v's hairstyle and i've been trying for years now to find the source of
that because i remember it very vividly and like how it's just orange hair but i can't
find any sources for that but anyways it's not the first time that kpop fans are saying
that this specific hairstyle belongs to a specific idol and of course not all blinks
even care about this there are a bunch of people pointing out like the tie line of kpop
showing bam bam minnie and lisa all with red hair you know there are such similarities
such parallels that are actually fun to see but i'll be damned if i see another k-pop
idol do the same hair color as another k-pop idol and being accused of plagiarism as for
the snow scene i mean there's no denying the similarities right like similar color palettes
similar scenery and how you like that they're on an icy platform they are dancing in white
outfits with snow in the background and it's quite similar for g idols music video however
i do have to admit that they evoke very different feelings for how you like that it feels very
fun and quirky and that's kind of represented within the outfits that they're wearing whereas
in hwa it feels very dark and the styling is definitely a lot more elegant and i do
have to say that for hwa i definitely played a much bigger part with the music video compared
to how you'd like that so yes i do agree that aesthetically they look very similar but i
also acknowledge that they're used in quite different contexts and they feel quite different
now if the set designer were to come out and say this was plagiarized that's a completely
different story but with that i did want to talk about winter concepts in particular because
it seems that these fan accusations of plagiarism have brought up instances where winter themes
have been done before and we all know i'm an annoying second gentleman and i love talking
about the past because i can't let it go so let us take a trip down memory lane so of
course i have everglow who did a winter theme in dun dun they even have a similar ice platform
with the snow in the background then there's itzy's not shy who has kind of an icy theme
at the end which is surprising that they didn't do that in icy but you know not my circus
then we have mcnd who went really hard with the winter theme for their ice age debut then
of course red velvet's bad boy and even 2NE1's missing you i just had to throw that in there
so yes honestly aesthetically quite similar however i do have to point out that the only
person that was plagiarized throughout all of this is kevin so yes my lawyer will be
in contact but yeah the whole thing about like snow falling ever so dramatically onto
someone in a k-pop music video 100 has been done before is not a concept that is owned
by anyone in particular Ateez answer music video literally took the guy from the missing
new music video i take it back i can't afford to start beef with two of my three fandoms
but we also have this tree element that i've actually noticed in their oh my god japanese
version music video it also seems similar to the treat in dreamcatcher's music video
for scream however it also seems similar to a tree scene in exo's music video for mama
and going crazy's music video as well you know i've definitely seen a lot of people
complain that and it's not all blinks i'm gonna put that out right away but not everything
is plagiarism and in fact very few things happen to be plagiarism but i've definitely
heard a lot of people say that they're really annoyed when you know bigger fandoms accuse
every other group of plagiarizing them of copying them and so on i think of course there
are trendsetters there are people who are going to follow trends there are people who
set the trends and follow the trends you know but anyways when these similarities were brought
up a lot of people were telling me that hua is actually a continuation of han so i wanted
to look into it a bit i watched some of their previous music videos because people were
saying there are recurring elements and honestly watching the music videos there are very few
similarities that i could find you know there's this mirror scene that i found i did find
some similarities with oh my god japanese versions such as this nest scene and of course
the tree which i actually thought would be paralleled with this log that they sit on
in han but i don't think so but in terms of similarities with their other music videos
i think if anything it's quite subtle i noticed the outfit colors are quite similar to latata
but in terms of hang i feel like it's a perfect contradiction to it for han they're in ascend
like setting whereas for hwa it's more icy themed so i definitely think that they contradict
each other very very well but in my opinion i think the story is better told through the
sound of everything so hwa definitely sounds a lot like han sounds a lot like latata sounds
a lot like their previous songs so i found when i was listening to hwa and then i stopped
listening and did a few things i had latata in my head i had their other songs in my head
so i think there are definitely a lot of similarities and it is quite a take back but you know as
for like an entire story line within the music video in particular i'm not personally seeing
it there's for sure symbolisms of course i mean the whole nest thing it's like their
baby birds being hatched leave down in the comments below which g idle members correspond
to which parrots by the way i'm kidding most of my audience doesn't care about parrots
but if you found connections between particular storylines that you found within han and hwa
definitely let me know in the comments down below as for my thoughts on the song you're
gonna have to wait to my end of the month review i know that's so shitty i'll give a
little bit of a teaser i've seen a lot of people point out that it sounds a little bit
empty like it could have hit a little bit harder and it has to agree to an extent though
that chorus like the singing of hwa and the chorus i thought was very beautiful so i asked
you guys what you thought of this comeback in my community tab and the overall senses
is that it's a nice song but the chorus is a little bit empty it ends abruptly and that
shuhua doesn't have enough lines there's also a lot of people saying that the album is really
really good so if you're interested in me doing a listening party please let me know
so yeah that is basically it for this video thank you so much if you made it this far
i don't think this video is that long to say that this video is not separated into super
fancy segments i'm sure you can spare the 10 minutes as for me i'm gonna have to go
talk to the creative director of kevin's next single and change things up before nevi's
come after us for plagiarizing g idol when kevin obviously had the idea first his song
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