This week's Music Monday will have you hating math even more
With VIXX's Voodoo Doll
It’s finally happened! This day has come!
We’ve talked about Vixx a couple of times before in our videos, but never for a full Music Monday.
And though we haven’t paid much attention to them before, your repeated efforts to bring them to our attention
has put them on our radar, and we’re growing quite fond of them now as a result.
We’re not going to say that they’re our favorite group out there
but Vixx are pretty damn solid the more that we watch their videos
This being our first time talking about VIXX we’ve gotta talk about their name for a bit.
Now, I know that Kpop band names are usually awkward acronyms for phrases,
like Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality, or Ubiquitous Korean International Super Star.
But what does VIXX stand for?
How many cool X words can they use?
My very first guess was that it stands for “Very Interesting Xia…Xia.”
If that was the case, they’d have a fan in me FOR LIFE.
But it actually stands for Voice, Visual, Value in Excelsis,
which confuses the blue Jesus out of me
I thought this was supposed to be an acronym?
Where are the two Xs?
That phrase should stand for VVVIE
Which would be lame...
And why have “Value” in your name?
Maybe it has different connotations here in Korea,
but when I see something labeled as “Value,”
I think of cheap no-name stuff at the supermarket that’s a good value
Or I think of second-hand clothing at value village.
It's not really the association I’d be looking for if I was a Kpop group.
Hey, I've got a potential group name for you, how about “Bargain Discount Simon & Martina.”
You can make an acronym out of that if you want.
Now this video is unlike anything we’ve seen before
It kind of reminded us a bit of TVXQ’s “Mirotic,” aka the greatest Kpop video of all time
Am I right? Am I right? You know you want it! You! Huh? Guize?
in the sense that this band is trapped in separate cells in a dungeon by a lady with mysterious mystical powers,
but this video takes it to a whole new level of gore.
There’s no happy ending to this video.
Nobody breaks free and gets justice.
They’re just tortured and bloodied, with their skin being pierced with needles
they’re getting sliced open and stapled together
it is seriously the goriest video I’ve ever seen in the Kpop world.
Much respect for VIXX for putting out such a different video
even though they knew it was going to be banned.
It kind of makes me feel like this video was put out for the internationally audience
in specific since they knew it wouldn’t be able to be played in Korea.
And if that’s the case…
YOOHOO~
Yet, at the same time, I feel like there was so much more potential for the music video.
When they’re free from the room, she can still control them with her Voodoo dolls,
so why not let them totally run free?
Then you could torture them in many fun ways.
HI! AND WELCOME BACK TO FANGURLING WITH FANGURILLA.
I’M YOUR HOST, SEUNGRINA.
HI GIRLS!
I've got something to say about VIXX's voodoo
That girl has power over all of the boys
But she wastes so much potential!
All she does is hurt them.
But if I had a chance... I'd have So much more fun!
But look what I have got here!
Two Vixx Voodoo Dolls
Ravi and Leo… You put them together and I'm going to make some Ravioli.
Get it?
And guess what's going to be the filling!
Me!
Fangurilla.
Let's get the desert, boys.
Oh yeah... this is getting Fangurilla... Is anyone getting this on camera?
Ah, come back here, I need you!
It's ok, Leo. It's just you and me.
what the hell? Come back! How did you get out of my hands?!
Although this video is filled with the images of gore and horror
there was something extremely terrifying to me in the video…
Did anyone else notice the glass wall one of the members is trapped behind?
It’s all FREAKING MATH EQUATIONS!
MATH?! MAAAATH?
What evil sorcery is binding him to this room!??
You can’t deny our R squared Pi, nor can you escape its shackles.
Ohohohohoho!
ANSWER THIS QUESTION AND YOU MAY ESCAPE!!!!
Good morning class.
If you can open your textbooks to page 23
We're going to go over the math homework from yesterday.
And if you don't get them correctly, you're not leaving. Don't you know.
Ok, let's start.
There are 23 guys in a room, three of them are kpop groups, seven is solo, and one group is made up of 7.
Who is in the room?
Question 2.
Teen Top are rubbing their lips at 34 swipes a minute.
They have been doing so for 8 minutes.
Nu’est are rubbing their lips at 41 swipes a minute
How many minutes will it take for Nu’est to overtake Teen Top in lip rubbing?
Question #3.
Taeyang and Jay Park are traveling in two different cars traveling opposite directions.
Taeyang is traveling 50km per hour and Jay Park is traveling 55km per hour.
Both Taeyang and Jay Park run a red light at the same intersection.
Both Taeyang and Jay Park have snapshots taken of their car by the red light camera
Which one of them was shirtless on camera first?
Solve and show your work.
I expect your answers in an hour or else you're never escaping this room, don't you know.
WHOAAA the choreography in this video was AMAZING!!!!
I watched VIXX’s dance practice for this and it was really great.
I’m loving how kpop is shifting away from everyone doing the exact same move at the same time all in a perfect row.
This video is a great example of how well it can work.
we've got Ken being thrown at the beginning and struggling against his groups hold on him
awesome
the choppy zombie dancing,
cool
the feral looking werewolf walking where different members on different beats all come together
to perfectly match the idea of being a controlled by a voodoo doll.
And the additional skull pin prop which gets stabbed through various members really brings something unique to this video
I think it was really well thought out, beautifully executed, and it really matched the video's concept. BOOM!!!
As for the English of the song I give this a...
Zero out of five.
I legitimately have no freaking idea what the hell Ravi is saying at the beginning of his songs.
He sounds like Kanye West…waking up from dental surgery
The mumbling in this song is too damn high.
He sounds like the love child of James Brown and the Tazmanian Devil doing their best impersonation of Scooby Doo
SUMUUUNUHHHH. SUBABADOOBABA. WANNA TOUCH MASEFF
What’s confusing is that if you listen to him speaking on Korean TV shows, he’s totally fine,
but then he puts on some kind of bizarre clipped on accent whenever he raps which, WHOA is not my style AT ALL.
Yet, it really reminded me of someone I…just can’t put my finger on it..
HEY! WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH HIS DEEP, GROWLY VOICE.
Let me show you how he did it now.
It's ok, Ravi. I understand you. I find your voice sexy. Ang~
A long time ago we put Troublemaker’s “Now” up against G-Dragon’s "Crooked" for the best drunken craziness
and G-Dragon won with 78% of the votes.
This week we’re putting up Vixx against DBSK for best trapped Kpop band by crazy magic lady video
Two very epic videos, but only one can be victorious.
Cast your votes in the comments, or in the poll on our site, and we’ll announce the winners next week.
Also, the EYK Kpop Awards voting is open until Friday Night, and Vixx is up for a couple of categories,
so head on over and show them your support.
Or... support someone else~
Who said that?
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Take it away Voodoo Spudgy
Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
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