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This week's Music Monday is the playa edition
with JYJ's "Get Out"
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Hey! For once Simon and I agree on a song and music video!
We both like the song, but we don't looooove the song
We both like the music video, but we don't loooove the music video.
I still think that AYYYYYYYY GURL was their best single so far
but not so much with the music video
but they definitely recovered with In Heaven,
which was amazingly done.
Although it's a ballad, and I'm not that into them
that song really, really grew on me.
[Horrendous, unforgivably bad singing]
Now this is a pretty clean cut and traditional music video
We've got a clear and simple plot about a cheating girlfriend.
We have a dance scene on a random street
which is sprinkled with a bunch of English signs
Like, all visitors must stop and register
and the most impractical taxi sign I have ever seen.
Oh! And we can't forget that awesome dance scene location
which has a bunch of foreigners sprinkled throughout it
and a perfect name for a club...called..."Club"
AYY GURL WHERE YOU GOIN TONIGHT?
I'm going to club!
Which one!
CLUB CLUB!
Toss in a couple closeup shots of JYJ looking like they're in pain
and you have a simple, well-rounded music video.
It's not a super-duper impressive music video, but it's not bad!
Now even though the video is pretty simple,
the video did have us raising our eyebrows in disbelief
Wait: is that girl making out with a dude
with a cellphone in her hand?
I feel like a one-handed make-out session is just awkward
But if you look carefully at the video
it actually looks like she's holding him with two hands
Which means she's like making out
and rubbing her cellphone all over his body
Don't you have like a purse or a pocket or something
You're the best!
Oh I love you so much.
Oh you're great!
I love being with you.
Hadouken! Hadouken!
What?
I love you...ken
Oh so great!
Oooh my peanut butter cups are turning out nicely.
What?
Oh! I mean...I want you to be my wifey.
Hahahahaha.
Alright...I guess.
Maybe he's just into electronics being pressed up all over his body.
Ayy gurl can I buy you a drink
Lol.
Why are you laughing at me?
But I find it a bit hard to believe
that she didn't notice her boyfriend creeping up on her
In a Ferari, with the top down,
and the headlights blaring in her eyes.
Alright! So maybe she's blind,
but she's not deaf, right?
Bring bring!
Oh! Hang on a second
It's my boyfriend. Hello!
Hi!
Um, where are you?
Oh I'm just hanging out with my friends!
Your friends, eh?
Yeah!
Are you sure...about that?
Of course!
Um...I love you!
Yeah! Me too. Um, do you hear some bad reception,
Like, I hear something echo-ey.
Like, feedback or something
You can't...you can't hear anything else?
No I just hear some echo. Hello?
It's all weird and echoey.
Ok well I gotta go. I'm really busy.
KKK OH YOU'RE BREAKING UP. KKKKK
[more fake breaking up sounds (try it with your friends sometimes! It works!)]
Hahaha!
So maybe this is just us, but we're starting to notice
a big trend happening in a lot of Kpop music videos.
Where there's just one person secretly dating the entire Kpop band.
What's going on here? I just don't understand!
I think I need to call into a help-line
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Simonandmartina from Korea asks
What's up with k-pop videos having all the bandmates date one person?
Is this a normal thing in Korea?
Oooh! That's a juicy question eh?
Yeah, we've seen that in quite a few Kpop videos.
Now it's a little known fact that Kpop music video producers
are not allowed to go over the legal limit of, and I quote
"One hot love interest per video" or else they'll be slapped with a hefty fine.
You see, every time a Kpop video includes a love interest
Fanboys and fangirls hearts are severely damaged
and also...a fairy dies.
That's the worst part.
You can just imagine what a disaster it would be
if every member of a Kpop boy band had a love interest
Like...what about Super Junior? It'd be terrible!
They might just kill every fanboy and fangirl
and annihilate the fair population.
You don't want that, do you? No!
That's why in the music videos you'll see only one interest
to prevent all of these damages and to avoid the fine.
I think, like, in Big Bang "Tonight" you've got two people liking one girl
Or like, Miss A's "Baby Goodbye" they have like, the whole members
four of them against one guy
Infinite's "Paradise" has seven of them with one girl
they're really cutting costs there.
In fact, that's why sometimes you'll see the love interests
in the video are completely invisible.
Like in SM videos. That's right,
Like in Hello Hello, there's an invisible girlfriend, right.
Or like in SNSD's "The Boys" they bring out invisible boys.
In fact, because of examples like this,
SM has been widely acknowledged as the forerunners
in caring for the fairy community.
I know. Really great eh? Good people.
Hmm. I don't know about those two guise.
It doesn't seem like a genuine explanation.
They clearly don't have their facts straight.
Everyone knows that it's kittens that die.
Not fairies. Kittens.
Pssh!
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In my opinion, this wasn't one of their most memorable dances
But whenever I think back on the music video
I mostly just remember a lot of hand movements
Like, there's a lot of pointing and disco air chopping
and there's even some hand puppets!
But then at around 3:40 the song changes pace and slows down
It changes locations to this, like, black and white room.
and I was like "ahhh yeah there's gonna be a serious dance breakdown showdown happening"
Ah yeah! We got some serious hand pointing and finger discos
and look at that! Jaejoong's coming out
and doing some sexy head rolls. Look at that!
And then...and then it just ended. What happened?!
This is that point in a music video
where an epic breakdown occurs.
A couple of weeks ago we reviewed SNSD's "The Boys"
and they had the same breakdown sequence
at the same kind of end of the video
and the girls were like "GIRLS BRING THE BOYS OUT!"
and the ground slapping, and the sand/snow kicking begins
But for this video...it was a bit of a letdown.
JYJ are most excellent dancers
so we're hoping for their next single
we'll see a more impressive dance.
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As for the English of the song we give this a
LOOK A BIRDIE!
2 out of 5
There's a good hearty sprinkling of English in the song
and some of the sentences are great,
but the main chorus THE MAIN CHORUS
has a super Engrish line in it
To us, it sounds like they're saying
But Tonight I Don't Need a Damn Explain
This is a very traditional Engrish line
Akin to "If You Wanna Pretty, Every Wanna Pretty"
Where the nouns and the verbs and the adjectives
get switched up in place of each other.
But I gotta say, I'm really tempted to bring up their score a lot more
Because I'm pretty sure this is the first time I ever heard
the f-bomb being dropped in a Kpop song
This just brings JYJ to a whole new level of badass for me.
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Last week we asked you which Halloween video you preferred
TVXQ in "Balloons" or G-Dragon in "She's Gone"
And the winner was...
actually, we're declaring it a tie
Even though TVXQ won on Facebook with 2400,
GD was really close behind with 2200
and on YouTube it looks like GD took it,
So I think it's pretty...
I actually think on YouTube it was a tie as well,
so it should be TVXQ who won.
Really? Yeah? What's this? THIS IS YOUR FACE!
Whoa ho ho! Now that you put it that way...
I think that you're right and it should be considered a tie
GD didn't lose.
That's right. It was a tie.
And don't let anyone tell you differently.
For this week's showdown we ask you who got played the worst.
Miss A in "Baby Goodbye" or JYJ in "Get Out"
Leave your votes in the comments, or in our facebook poll
and we'll announce the winner next week.
Also, thanks to everyone who requested JYJ for the past four weeks
If there's a video you want to see us do for next week's Kpop Music Monday
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Take it away, Spudgy.
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