I don't actually want to get sued by SM though I have had many a 12 year old tell
me that they have connections at SM and that a lawsuit is coming my way
bring it on! Hi, welcome today we're gonna be talking about red Velvets Irene and
Seulgi's sub-unit song monster why it's familiar, why it's not familiar, why it
really got delayed as well as my own thoughts on it so let's get started
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name or see videos earlier than everyone else first of all let's talk about why
it is familiar because personally to me this just screams red velvet this
screams SM but I've seen a lot of comments saying that this gives them yg
vibes like I know it was delayed but, I didn't think we had to go there....
but seriously I do not see it like I would never in a million years mistake this
for a YG song, I think the entirety of this song is
very SM like nature but I think what people might be referring to it's kind
of this style of singing kind of the feeling of their voices especially
within the verses of the song and this whole concept of a yg style of singing
something I only noticed after Somi pointed it out when she was doing
promotions for her song birthday on Idol room she basically explained how she
would have sang the song differently if she were still under JYP describing the
JYP style as half air while the yg style of singing has more feeling to it and
then gave some examples so here's an example of her singing the first line of
her song birthday in a more JYP style
and then here is how you know she originally sang it under YG
then the hosts have the audacity to bring 2NE1 into this so don't
@ me I don't care... and I know people are gonna be like "she's under the black
label" but she herself was saying yg before she corrected herself to being
under the black label which to me says it's the same stuff
in a different pile, I mean where is her comeback? probably in the dungeon with
blackpinks alleged full album but I digress, I definitely see how some of the
verses you might think have a kind of yg type feel because yg is associated to
having vocals that have a lot more feeling I mean, but I would
argue that it doesn't inherently rule out an SM feel equally in fact let's take a look at
example number one that was provided by Markly Spears, so she
says that the second verse in monster sang by Seulgi is very very similar to the
first verse in Mirotic by TVXQ, which goes to show that we have evidence that for a
really long time SM has had kind of a similar type of style and on top of that
paired with the super vocally based super melodic chorus this song to me
anyways just screams SM Entertainment like I just wouldn't picture groups like
2NE1 or BIGBANG singing this but I could easily envision you know EXO or Girls
Generation singing a song like this so I'm not saying you're wrong
but I'm kidding but let me know down in the comments below did you get more yg
vibes or do you maintain this is definitely an SM sound like classic SM
sound. okay so another example of its familiarity at least it in the music
video is definitely these recurring elements that we often consistently see
in red Velvets music videos so these two elements that I see are tables and
scissors which surprisingly are super consistent across their music videos so
in that respect I think there's definitely some odes to red velvet for
sure and in that sense I could also picture red velvet singing this song
obviously so I don't think that the subunit themselves have created a super
separate identity so if we compared maybe you know after school to Orange
Caramel Orange Caramel separated themselves so
far away from like the image that we had of after school right so it's more along
the lines of you know after school versus after school red or after school
blue so you have these sub units but they're not too far off from the group's
original image so let's now take a minute to talk
about the concept of the song which in my opinion is definitely girl crush
mixed with horror and I'm almost a hundred percent sure that they would
have gone a lot more hardcore with these horror vibes but I feel like SM kind
of cut it out of the music video but we'll get into that later okay so this
type of concept in my opinion kind of distances itself from a girl-crush
concept with more creepy elements right so we have girl crush elements of course
but you add in this element of feelings of uneasiness, for this subunit we see
that they have a lot more room to play around with creepy elements horror
elements or just elements that make you feel uneasy as we can see through the
actual sound of the song and even some of the effects are rather the one and
only a fact that I hated, I don't why was that necessary
that's another thing like you see the one kind of demon face but then like
that's it, I feel like there was a lot more and then SM just cut it out but
anyways, and I actually came across a super interesting threat on Twitter from
a music student of over a decade and this thread essentially goes into so
much detail about why the song is creepy and points to different references the
song has to other well-known creepy elements in pop culture for example this
user explains how "the hook was sampled from the famous Freddy Krueger's theme
which appears in The Nightmare on Elm Street" as well as how "the piano uses a
similar key - Annabelle's music box which explains why it's so ridiculously
creepy" so this among many other super
interesting and knowledgeable insights that they have presented, so I will
definitely leave this tweet linked in the description if you want to learn more
about it I thought it was very interesting but it's definitely a
testament to what extent they wanted to embed this creepy factor within the
concept within the song within the choreography within every single aspect
and I would say that it's not really done as much anymore this is kind of a
little bit reminiscent of you know Bbri Ri Bba Bba by Narsha or even midnight
circus by Sunny Hill but obviously Monster has a lot more color saturation
has a much more the 4th gen influence has a lot more
girl-crush influence as well because as we mentioned before it's kind of a
mash-up between girl crush and horror it never really strays completely into
the horror territory at least in my opinion but yeah let me know if you'd
like me to make a video of my own definitions of concepts within kpop I
think that could be really interesting ok let's move on to the choreography
because I feel like there is definitely a lot of creepiness embedded into the
choreography as well and it has to do with insects now I know this song is
called monster but I feel like it's more of a metaphor
I feel like this song is very insect centric and I'll tell you why even
within the lyrics so the first scene we see is Seulgi crawling towards Irene
which gives me these very spider like vibes and then we see the opening and
closing choreography where everyone is kind of intertwined and they create a
formation that kind of is reminiscent of a spider you know they use their bodies
and are connecting them to create a bigger picture and it is really stunning
it actually reminds me of a peacock spider and I'm not gonna show it because
I know a lot of people are afraid of spiders I used to be deathly afraid of
spiders until I actually saw a documentary about peacock spiders
they're so cute but they essentially have a flap that is reminiscent of
peacock feathers and they do a dance and it's it's it's adorable and I'll link it
below if you're interested in learning more about that but just you know the
swaying motion is very reminiscent of that very reminiscent of a spider
and since we're bringing animals into this I feel like the color palette for
this story is very reminiscent of a gang gang cockatoo so then we see the backup
dancers doing kind of this hand motion which is very reminiscent of someone
pretending that bugs are crawling on your body and there's also this last
move that I would describe as the praying mantis but I don't know did you
feel like the insect vibes am I completely off does anyone agree with me
let me know in the comments down below and if you notice any insect like other
choreography moves and let me know as well and then of course we have the kind
of killing part where they're kind of squatting and doing this side-to-side
motion as well and again just more insect like in my mind I don't know but
these motions, these movements, just the way the choreography is
made inherently adds to the creepiness factor which of course ties into the
lyrics so we see that they say "my move is unique not ordinary" which is depicted
of course in the choreography like very unique movements as well as "I'm a dancer
in the dark" which could refer to the fact that most spiders are nocturnal
that seems like a stretch but you know what I don't know maybe I don't
know and then "I'll crack every joint in my
body and come close to your bed" meaning that she would alter herself like an
insect because insects don't have any bones I don't know that I could very
well view stretched but then we have the chorus right "I am a little monster be
scared of me" what is generally quite little and feared by many...spid-chihuahuas
okay so let's move on to why the music video was actually delayed on this is
all speculation I don't actually want to get sued by SM although I have had many
a twelve-year-old tell me that they have connections out of some and that a
lawsuit is coming my way bring it on okay so as we all know the
music video was delayed twice that's a little fishy and for the second time
that it was supposed to be released everyone was waiting to the minute and
it just didn't come out and no one said anything SM never really said exactly
why they just said that it would be delayed until the next day a lot of
people are taking noted the fact that the music video doesn't really feature a
storyline one comment reading the music video contained a little too much
choreography though I assume that's sm's way of covering up some deleted scenes
hence the delay and my thoughts are honestly quite similar to this I kind of
expressed earlier that perhaps there were too many gory elements or creepy
elements or there was probably some type of thing within the music video that
could have gotten it banned which is very similar to a recent example of
nature's music video for girls that was too gory and got banned so they had to
alter it and re-upload it another comment pointing out how in the teaser
Irene was holding a knife and that shot was not in the final video and I
definitely agree it did seem like the music video was kind of switching from
the same scenes very frequently as if there could have been more to it but
they didn't really get into it there could have been like an actual storyline
right I mean with the knife and the gun but it never never got past any point so
I'm really curious about that okay so that is basically it for this video
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