and there are just some other random scenes as well that are very reminiscent
of their other music videos!
hi welcome to the last music video review of the
year good thing time isn't real anyways! so today we are going to be talking
about red Velvets recent comeback with a psycho but I thought it'd be super
interesting to take a look at so why this comeback is so familiar while
simultaneously being so different for red velvet in my opinion because on one
hand the music video itself feels like a mix of all different aspects or similar
aspects shall we say of red velvet music videos but then there's also the
stereotypical red velvet elements that I feel are lacking as well but let's do it
actually I'm gonna stop you right there because I'm gonna need you to subscribe
and help the algorithm by commenting on this video or maybe sharing it with some
friends you don't have so the first thing we're gonna talk about is the
music video itself so fun fact all sm music videos are the same except for red
Velvets music videos but in and of themselves they are the same in their
own category it seems that throughout most red velvet
music videos there are very consistent themes though we don't have a table
scene in psycho that is seen in the vast majority of their music videos but we do
have a car scene which is actually pretty common among their music videos
but I've also noticed that it's also pretty common among black Pink's music
videos as well then of course we have the string cutting scene that we've seen
as well oh my god scene scene scene that we that we've also seen in Russian
roulette and there are just some other random scenes as well that are very
reminiscent of their other music videos and of course there are some dance moves
as well all red velvet dances of the same part 3 anyone did I even do a part
2 I didn't I'm full of shit and then there's even this part at the end with
floating dresses and that just really reminded me of zimzalabim, it
evoked the feeling you know so to me this is really just red Velvets way of
evoking a sense of familiarity among their fans so when you're watching this
music video you feel this sense of like I've kind of seen this before but it's
also quite different as well and I really like that cuz it kind of feels
like a treasure hunt because after watching this I wouldn't
watch all their other music videos like ooh I recognize this and
recognize that maybe this is like intentional or maybe it's not again this
not again I didn't say this the first time everything I'm going to say in this
video is my own personal interpretation of things it doesn't mean that it
necessarily reflects reality or what red-velvet or SM Entertainment intended
to do but now I want to talk to you guys a little bit about why it's not actually
that familiar and why it is quite different for red velvet so my history
with red velvet is that I knew them back in the day with happiness as a
four-member girl group and they had two-toned hair it was pretty you know
different for the time that's what I knew red velvet as and as time went on
I didn't really follow them so I've been doing a lot of catching up this year
notably because of my dance compilations a lot of people have requested red
velvet so I did red velvet and then zimzalabim came out and I really liked
the fashion it was really reminiscent of second gen kpop and I kind of started
getting into them a little bit more than so admittedly I'm not a super fan and I
don't know every detail of every one of their music videos or their style to a
tee but I'm gonna give you my own interpretation of why I think it's very
different for red velvet number one the music video itself is quite dark and I
like that but it lacks a bit of eccentricity that I feel like I'm a bit
used to in red velvet's music videos that's one of the things that I think
stands out the most for red velvet is the eccentricity the colors you know the
weirdness the you know the oddities that you find within their music videos
parrots apparently, scarlet macaw anyone? but for this music video there is you
know that tint of eccentricity but it's done in a more subtle way and it
definitely fits the music video don't get me wrong it they did it in a way
that really fits the whole style of it all so in that sense it does feel like a
little bit different for me personally because I just you know have kind of
come to expect but even if it is a darker concept we can find really weird
elements I don't know so I found that there was a lack of weirdness and it's
not a bad thing it's just an observation red velvet does have like a specific
sound I feel like it's very like vice centric compared to a lot of other k-pop
groups so I really appreciated that about the song I okay
an honesty thing I never really appreciated red Velvets vocals until
this song like not that I thought they were bad or anything I just never like
stopped and thought about it or stopped and appreciated like their vocals but
then when Wendy first did like the falsetto voice I think that's what it's
called don't at me I was blown away I thought it was so stunning and so
beautiful but I have a question for you guys because I feel like especially on
Instagram a few people have said that it sounds so familiar like it sounds like
something we've heard before and I can't quite put my finger on it other than
cyclone by T-Pain and when I tell people this they're like um no but like hear me out
you know you got me feeling like a psycho psycho if you replace the word
with she move her body like a cyclone cyclone I'm not saying they sound
exactly the same but I feel like psycho and cyclone kind of it fits whatever if
you get it leave it down in the comments below don't let me feel like an idiot
all by myself but yeah I feel like they have very technically good voices and I
tend to be more into emotional voices but for some reason with this song I
feel like it's put on display in a way that is just very pleasing to me anyways
but it's also a song that I would listen to so in my opinion Zimzalabim and
umpah umpah were very we're songs that were more of an experience
zimzalabim for sure was an experience in and of itself you know you
had the music video the outfits this song was the epitome of eccentric that's
why I liked it so much but like I liked the experience of it it wouldn't
necessarily be a song that I would just listen to you for fun if that makes
sense but this song I've been listening to it every day I think it's really
pretty but yeah the dark lipstick the green
streaks in her youth hair these sparkly clothing I think it was quite you know
simple in nature but yet still quite effective much like the choreography
actually um by the way I think I have chosen my bias and red velvet and I
think it's Seulgi or Sergei as everyone keeps thinking I pronounced it
Sergei, here's another like really random
parallel and I I feel like I need to like always prepare people for the
random parallels that I bring up because sometimes there are very much a stretch
and I under send that is just like the part where
they're saying psycho and they're kind of you know making their legs go in and
out like this it really reminds me of beasts fiction it doesn't look anything
the same at all but it's more like the feeling that it evokes like it's the
feeling of such a simple move that has such a very high impact so really I love
that move I think it's it's it's amazing also I'm really in love with Wendy's
blonde hair which by the way I learned this morning but she was injured at the
SPS Gayo Daejeon Music Awards so originally I wanted to do kind of like a performance
ranking video and talk all about these performances then I found out that it
was really unsafe and there was just like a lot of like there were some
injuries and everything so I was like okay I mean I was watching red velvet
psycho performance this morning and everyone was like get get well soon
Wendy and I thought maybe she caught a cold I don't know but then I found out
that she actually like fell off of something like two meters high and that
she injured her pelvis wrist and has facial injuries and I was like oh my
goodness that that that's not okay so according to all kpop the label stated
during the rehearsal for a 2019 SBS Gayo touch on today Wendy suffered an injury
Wendy was immediately taken to the hospital where she is currently being
treated as a result red-velvet are not able to attend to the pre recording and
live show of the 2019 SBS Gayo Daejun so i think understandably a lot of
people are angry at the award show like I wasn't there I don't know you know the
details of everything that happened but obviously SBS should have been better
prepared safety wise because honestly something like this can be very
terrifying and traumatic so I definitely understand why people are angry and
upset and especially since the show did go on after this and then I also saw a
video where solar was walking off to somewhere and then you hear her
literally screech and she apparently fell as well and then there's a bunch of
like fan cams and little you know clips of idols just slipping everywhere it's
almost as if they're on an ice rink right some of them are just standing and
then you see them kind of slipping Kevin it's like this baster SBS Gayo Daejun
yeah so stage-wise I don't think they were I don't think was good at all I
mean in fact there are some artists right you see them holding back you see
like they're not jumping us hi they're really reserving themselves because it's
fucking dangerous and I don't blame them that's it that's another reason why I'm
like should I really be like critiquing these performances because like they're
not safe and if they're not feeling safe how are you gonna really even give a
good performance with all that being said everyone did amazing for being
literally on like a deathtrap so that's basically all I had to say for
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