that is some "shape of water" type shit. it's like a more easily digestible
version of "Zimzalabim". Ddu-du ddu-du! Dun dun! Dum-du-rum! so today's video is super exciting
because we are going to be talking about aPink's come back with Dumhdurum!
because not only does this music video feature parrots but this music video
also features parrots, I had to! so let's get into it actually I'm gonna stop you
right there to remind you to subscribe to this channel like comment and share
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memberships just know that it's an option to help sustain this channel in a
different way, so before we get into the video I want to give a little history of
me and APink, back in 2011 APink released the hit "my my" what was that?
you want me to recite the love confession from it? ok if you insist. "dear
boy...." I'll see myself out. *singing "my my"* oh! I see the connection, why did I not
think of that, why was "ddu-du ddu-du" the first thing I thought of when they came
out with "Dumhdurum" and not "my my" mind blown! anyways after 2011 I have a
huge gap in my knowledge for APink until %% came out and actually really liked
the song I learned that dance, I actually didn't watch the music video
until like the end of last year I don't know why I do that, I did that with boy
with love boy, in love? and now we have "dumhdurum" and honestly this song
got me to thinking of you know songs with titles that have a D sound in them
ddu-du ddu-du, dun dun! Dumhdurum~! there's quite a bit and actually to make
this fun how about you leave in the comments down below
songs in kpop that have like a sound as the title. let's start with the music
videos so I thought it was very aesthetically pleasing I didn't really
notice much of a storyline but there were like a little bit of symbolism that
I could see here and there so to me the song is talking about how you know they
were broken up with but you know they're fine or at least they're pretending
to be fine and you can see a lot of them stuck in situations that are perhaps a
bit troubling to them, there's water filling up this girl's bathroom which is
probably troubling not only for her but her neighbor as well, that is some "shape
of water" type shit so you can really see that despite the lyrics saying that they
are fine they're actually in a way still trapped by their love. so for the scene
where the girl is with her dog you see at the end she is still in a prison, whoa! I
don't know all the members yet but I wanted to point something out there's
this one member and I noticed her a lot in the dance practice video for %% and just her
hair and her outfit reminds me a lot of pre-debut Bom and like I don't know I
just feel soft thinking about that like just watching back her audition videos
but aside from that I really loved the color story and I think this color story
is like a soft rainbow I mean we do see some colors that are very you know bold
and presumably you would think that it would be a lot more obnoxious but I feel
they add these softening filters to just give a softer vibe to the song and to
make it more fitting so I feel like we would see the same colors in this music
video that we would in let's say Zimzalabim but in Zimzalabim
they're more saturated whereas here they're softer, like I said before so it
just it's a lot more fitting while still maintaining a level of boldness, I just
like noticing how colors evoke certain emotions if that makes sense, but yeah
I'm in love with the pink scenes, I'm in love with you know the darker scenes
that are highlighted by literal rainbows my favorite scenes in the music video
are actually this bathroom scene, you know I think the water looks really pretty and
of course I do like the parrot scenes though I have to point out how
frightening, frightening- how scary- the cage for this African Grey is way too
fucking small. I don't get why you're caging up the African Grey the, the
medium sized parrot in the small cage when you have a whole last tiny conure
that you could have put in that cage and have the african grey free, logically
this still doesn't make any sense! why do you have one bird loose and the other
not? african greys by the way have the like intelligence ivy four year old
child by the way that is your parrot fact of the day I also
really like the train scene I wish we could have seen more of the fashion from
the train scene because the fashion was really eccentric but I feel like had
they shown more of those fashions in that way, I think it would have made the
music video go in a very different direction because that is eccentric, but
like I feel like it would have made this go in a completely different direction
but I liked them anyways and actually as I'm editing this they release their
first music show performance and that outfits really go in that direction
we're about to talk about styling a little bit later but right now I just
wanted to say that this seems like a more easily digestible version of Zimzalabim
like they really went in that direction and I wasn't expecting them to
really go there but I have to say I'm so excited about that I know a lot of
people don't like Zimzalabim styling and they think it's atrocious but quite
frankly that styling is just not for the weak-minded I'm sorry I don't make the
rules, the colors are bright, the puffiness is indeed quite poufy and I've
mentioned this before but these are very reminiscent of obnoxious second-gen
outfits but done in a more modern way and I think that's why I liked Zimzalabim
because it reminded me of second gen outfits and I really like these
outfits too because if we think back to you know Chocolat's syndrome or
afterschool's Diva we see these similar elements these elements of obnoxiousness
these elements of very weird colors placed together to create this entire
feel that I'm totally down for so I'm really excited to see where the rest of
these outfits go and I'm like even more excited now to roast their outfits
okay now let's move on to the styling usually I focused a lot on outfits but
for this music video I was really blown away by the makeup I thought it was
absolutely beautiful I loved kind of the yellow mixed with
pink blush and you know the pearls and the Diamonds on the face I thought that
was really stunning and the outfits as well are super extravagant at times and
then really cute at times and then really eccentric at times I think there
was a really good you know variety of different styling directions that they
could go in we're in this stage outfit and that is
what I'm most excited about because I did manage to see their showcase and
though I love the pink velvet dresses I think that's a very beautiful touch so
girly so elegant so cute I do have to disapprove of their choice in shoes and
I know you're gonna say, you're gonna say "but you said it was cute when Momoland
did it in thumbs up" yes but thumbs up was, I feel like you could expect that
level of obnoxiousness in thumbs up and it would work but I feel like "dumhdurum"
doesn't, it doesn't it doesn't quite cross into that obnoxious territory we
see hints of it we see hints of eccentricity but I don't think it quite
follows- the shoes are not it, that's all it was
either way I'm actually really excited that I get to live through this era
firsthand I actually missed entirely their %% era which is sad because
the stage outfits were actually really cute and I just again I've mentioned
this in a video I feel a lot of regret just missing out on really beautiful
eras in an artist's life like either you didn't know them or you didn't like care
enough to kind of follow through with their stage performance outfits and I do
maintain that outfits are so important to an era because it really helps that
era stick out and of course you can go back and look back on an artist entire
discography and you know live through the eras after but I feel like
it's not the same, I don't know but luckily I'm here now we're gonna look at
all the outfits and hopefully do an outfit roast so if you guys are interested
in that, moving on to the dance so I feel a little reluctant to talk about the
dance because in my Itzy "Wannabe" video I expressed that I felt there
wasn't really an iconic killing part and then the shoulder part blow up and
everyone was like, well two people were like "hey you were wrong" and I don't like
to be called out like that so I'm not gonna say that I don't think there's
really an iconic killing part because I feel like that comes with time also kpop
shake pointed out to me that the shoulder move in wannabe is actually
similar to the one in Girls Generation "Genie" and I actually feel comfortable
sharing this information with Cube since pays my bills now but what I think could
be the killing part is literally the "DUMHDURUM" part, I think it's simple I think it's cute and
think it's quite catchy so also "chum chum chum" I love that part for whatever reason okay so I
asked you guys on my community tab what were your thoughts on APink's "DUMHDURUM"
so let's read some of the top comments "contender for my 2020 song of
the year they served and no one else can tell me differently. Namjoo's hair
owned this era this is literally gonna be stuck in my head for the next many
years" "this is the kind of song that you don't really know what to think about
but then it grows on you this happened to me with also I'm so
sick and now I love all three songs" "I like the fact that it doesn't have a
beat drop in the chorus I can't really hear songs that smooth anymore
I don't stan the group but I definitely think this is fresh material
congratulations for the girls" I definitely agree with the fact that it
does sound fresh it does sound smooth I there were some parts in the song where
I would have liked it to be a little bit more upbeat but at the same time I do
think it's kind of perfect the way it is I don't know "song of the year best
comeback of the year literally APink never disappoints" "at this point we've
already known that APink has this kind soft poppy and like when you're in a
club in the 80s although they kind of have their sounds now but every song is
different from each other also the colours and retro vibes of the
video mix really well with the music I'm also reading a lot of comments saying
that it's Namjoo's era
so I don't know any of the members but I'm gonna tell
you who I think stood out and we can we can fact check who that is after, is the
blonde girl in the bathroom with the water Namjoo because I think- I think
this is her era! I'm gonna film two alternate responses in light of what I
will find out in the future so "Wow it was Namjoo, what oh -that's good"
I've read a lot of comments saying that APink have matured into such a wonderful
group and that they're really proud that there's some second gen representation
in this fourth gen world that we're living in and that really brings up a
lot of emotions I mean they were able to break the seven-year curse
so it definitely it like makes you wonder what if our other second gen
faves could have made it to you know it makes you think what would 2NE1 sound like
right now if they were still making music what would you know the
possibilities are endless you know just some little existential thoughts to
think about today why not okay that is basically it for this video thank you
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