oh my god, it's not "Mia and friends"!... this floating move is totally copying
exo's 2012 music video for mama... i'm kidding please! please don't tell the
Exo-l's, i still haven't recovered from my incident in 2019
hi, welcome! my name is angelina and this is an episode
of... i don't really know but someone's probably gonna get mad!
this is basically a series where i review kpop comebacks or debuts!
you might have noticed this wonderful lighting, i'm so sorry,
it's 5 a.m, it's the best i could do! but essentially we talk about
why this comeback is familiar, why it's not familiar, my thoughts on choreography,
the song, the styling, everything in between and for this comeback in
particular we're even going to talk about line distribution because it's
something that has been complained about so much in the
past. so if you're interested in this type of content,
don't forget to subscribe, like, comment and share this video with friends you
don't have because frankly i heard a rumor that i hated everglow
and we need to change that! i also heard a rumor that i have two parrots and that
i hate every male artist at YG entertainment... how about you guess in the
comments down below which one of those are true!
okay so this comeback is one of my most anticipated comebacks of
the year and honestly i think i say this every single time,
it feels like everglow just kind of came out of nowhere
and stole my heart just like Itzy, they are kind of really getting onto my ult list
even though i'm a confirmed midzy now.... allegedly! don't want to encourage these
groups to freaking disband now, do we? but I digress! when i first saw the teaser
for this i was so excited because i mean first of all, they give
off 2nd gen vibes but just like the whole aesthetic of it all,
the whole 80s retro theme that you could hear within the teaser,
it just touched my heart. so yeah this is everglow's second comeback of the year
after "dun dun" which was honestly one of my favorite songs of the year
and this title track whose lyrics were in part composed by
EU is called "La Di Da", not to be confused with Cross Gene's 2012 smash hit a "La Di Da Di"
and yes you're right annoying hours are
officially open, what do you want me to do about it? not
take advantage? you must be new here
okay so this music video starts off with these
black and white scenes of these buildings and it's
raining then we cut to these stunning shots of each
member and the rain is seen in slow motion and i think it creates this
really cool aesthetic, okay so why is this familiar?
let's get into that! i do need to point out that if something is familiar, it
doesn't mean that it's inherently bad. art is allowed to reference other
things, you're allowed to find parallels within art, it doesn't mean anyone is
copying anything or plagiarizing anything, it just means maybe i'm an
annoying person and i like to find parallels i don't
know! so right off the bat i got these Sin City
vibes, i don't know if you remember the movie with, like, i think it's Jessica Alba,
Bruce Willis, from what i remember it was mostly in black and white with like
these little pops of colors and that's definitely what we see within this music
video as well, but we also just have like these dark
vibes, these leather vibes there's also this scene in particular
where Mia is driving and Aisha (pronounced "ah-shya") is in the seat next to her and
yes that is how she herself pronounces it, so please don't @ me
her name is inspired by the korean word for "Asia" so that is how she pronounces
it herself, i know i mispronounce things all the time, i know culturally a lot of
people pronounce the name that is spelt like this "ah-ye-sha"
or "AI-SHA" i'm just saying that, like this is
how she pronounces it so like don't come at me, come at her! but
I digress, everything is in black and white
except for Mia's hood, Aisha's shirt and of course their lips,
i just definitely think that it's a vibe which pretty much brings us to the
styling aspect of it all
because the styling definitely is something that stood out the most to me
for this era among other things you know like the
styling was nice for "Dun Dun" we definitely had the most beautiful stunning blue velvet
outfits for "Dun Dun" but like overall you know the outfits were nice but they
really stepped it up for "La Di Da" i mean can we just agree that these
leather outfits are just,... i don't know, i don't know how
to explain it they're just so stunning and i was a little bit concerned about
them performing in these outfits but they did in their showcase which i also
watched this morning! and like it seemed fine i mean i can
imagine it's probably really uncomfortable,
but i mean so is denim! for "Dun Dun" they definitely played around a little
bit with like these chaotic chic outfits but for this i would definitely
describe it as like these second gen gothic chic outfits, i don't know how
would you describe them? leave in the comments down below! as for the red
outfits i think they're nice, they're definitely not my favourite, i definitely
prefer the more colorful outfits a lot more
either way i'm really loving the styling thus far and if you
would like me to do an outfit roasting for this era let me know in the comments
down below! even though a lot of you guys requested
Itzy "Not Shy" outfit roast, and then you guys let that video flop...
like like did you guys want it or not? were you lying to me....?
otherwise i don't know if you guys notice the backup dancers have like
these super shiny masks which is i guess 2020 pandemic chic
i don't know, okay now let's take a minute to talk about choreography
they did feature a lot of the choreography in the music video, I think...
i'd like to think they did... i don't know why i said it like that?
it's 5am maybe get off my d- so they featured you know a lot of
perhaps we would call them the "killing points" within the music video
but i did watch their showcase as well as i mentioned before and i would
describe this choreography as very leg-centric
you know the very beginning moves we see they're kind of
placed in these weird positions that you will see, but to be really honest
with you to see Sihyeon's ankle bent like this
as someone who has sprained their ankles so much in their life,
it just hurts like i don't i don't see the allure to this move personally with
the ankle bent like that, that's just me though! and i mentioned
this before but when there's excessive use of wrist motions
like it.... just looking at it gives me carpal tunnel
then again after the chorus they're doing another leg move
which is very reminiscent of maybe like these workout moves and i think it kind
of fits like i don't know how i really feel about it yet,
at first i thought it was awkward but i tend to....
little tidbit! when Sistar released "Touch my body" i was like "that butt
move is so awkward and i don't get it" and someone was like "it's meant to be
fun like get over yourself" and I was like, "you're... you're right"
so sometimes i see things in an awkward
light when they're they're meant to be seen in a different light,
anyways so right now i think it looks awkward but i'm
totally willing to change my mind under different circumstances
like i can kind of see how it fits this 80s theme, right? you know 80s workout
music videos where like your leg is kind of....
it- it- it fits! i admit but as of right now at 5am i think it looks weird
and then near the end again we have another leg move
so in that sense like these moves are a little bit odd, they're a little bit
eccentric but they definitely distinguish themselves i think that's
what i appreciate most about this choreography
as for the line distribution so i asked you guys on my community tab what
you thought of the song, and i feel like a lot of people were
surprised because before, until now, everglow had really been
following kind of the same structure, you know? kind of centering Mia a lot
and i don't personally have an issue with that, i just know that
it tends to give idols a lot of hate and i don't think it should! like you know
line distribution.......meh
but this time i was like watching it like super intensely like
"oh my god is it going to be Mia and friends again, is this going to be like
another instance where she's gonna receive a lot of hate because of
people's perception of her favoritism" but i barely noticed
her! but she was not always in the center a lot of the other members got to have
their center parts, and you know sing their parts and
everything so i feel like people should be happy with that and
reading a few of your comments it seems that you guys are happy
with the line distribution thus far and you guys are also happy that it's not
just an empty chorus you know just like a random
beat drop, i love songs like that so like i don't
care but it seems that everglow might have taken a lot of the criticism into
consideration and came out with the type of song like
this, i don't know either way i would have loved it even with like a random
beat drop, that's just me though... am I uncultured? i
don't know, i feel like everyone's like "i hate beat drops" and i'm over here like *singing HYLT: "bada bing bada boom boom boom"*
insert clip of me singing this to my dogs, 2NE2's looking a little bit different
these days
as for my thoughts on the song i usually like to keep that a little bit of a
secret, until my end of the month review which
you guys seem to really love but we're going to talk about it a
little bit because i was so excited from the teasers to have
these 80 vibes... Ateez.... no 80s vibe and i think this is kind of
becoming a trend you know we had Dua Lipa featuring Hwasa with
"Physical" which evoked very strong retro vibes
and then we had "When we disco" by JYP and Sunmi and then we had "Dynamite" by BTS
and now we have "La Di Da" by Everglow so i feel like this is definitely becoming a
trend and i'm not mad at it because i really love this,
and it's just it's interesting because oddly enough even though this evokes
feelings from the past, i feel like regardless it feels timeless
if that makes sense, and this song definitely feels like an
anthem you know you have Yiren singing "everglow forever let's go"
*Yiren's Part* even just the whole you know "got no time for haters" part like i just
feel like it's very repeatable if that makes sense *Sihyeon's Part*
i do have to admit however when they shout "LA DI DA"
the "LA DI" part i thought like to me it sounded like
"BLACKPINK" it turns out it was really wrong and now that i'm listening to the
full song not just the teaser i definitely hear "La Di Da" i do not hear
"BLACKPINK" anymore but yeah as for whether i would
categorize this as song of the year, second gen vibes, not my cup of tea, cup
of milk or put it into yg's dungeon, you'll have to
wait to the end of the month but i definitely would love to know what
you think i would categorize this so leave it down in the comments below!
i think it might be surprising, i don't know! so yeah that is basically
it for this video thank you so much if you made it this
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you guys next time, bye! should we change the color for
choreography, let's try red there are some colors that
have these lines going across the screen like pink, do you see that? you can kind
of see it with the blue but it's a lot more
evident with pink, but i think red was fine... now i just look
bad let's go back to blue. *singing "La Di Da Di" by Cross Gene*
"I'm a crazy, I'm a crazy for your dancing tonight!"
*Singing HYLT* Ha, How you like that? Bada bing bada boom boom boom!