at this point I'm pretty sure YG has like a copyright on my face, I don't
know! where the members essentially pretend lisa is a basketball,
hi welcome to my 87th scandal! there's a music video for this, I mean "Forever
Young" could never! Hi, welcome! my name is Angelina and today we are going to be discussing
blackpink's come back with "how you like that".... again but I've added a bunch of new
topics as well as a lot of your suggestions so make sure you keep on
watching, now the last video got a copyright claim and I said I would go
down with the ship and I meant it. I disputed the claim as an act of
resilience, even though disputing a claim just sends it right back to the
copyright claimant, and then sends it right back to me.
essentially YouTube's copyright system is... at this point I'm pretty sure
why YG has like a copyright on my face, I don't know, but I digress! I could
have very well just have left the video up, let it slide. you know, cut my losses
and just accept the reality for what it is... but I'm a petty b!tch so here we are!
fighting petty with petty, a never-ending saga between yg and
Angelina. I also, for whatever reason, just deleted the reupload of the video
without the copyright claim and you know, I just figured I cannot possibly
reupload the same video a third time, so I thought I would just give you
something new! so let's get started actually I'm gonna stop you right there
because you better subscribe so you can be part of the exclusive bunch of people
who are here before inevitably go down in flames! and then have my mom take over
my channel cuz she's not afraid of any of you... okay so as we all know blackpink
have recently made their comeback with "how you like that" now after my initial
upload of my reaction to the song and my thoughts and everything, I really
realized how polarizing the song really was for a lot of people, I personally
love it, but there were a lot of people claiming that the chorus was really
empty, also a lot of people calling it a kind of "ddu-du ddu-du/kill this love" 3.0
type of hybrid and many many people expressing a lot of disappointment
towards yg for making us wait over a year for this, now I can absolutely agree
that yg making us wait this long was really rude, but also look at how much
this comeback absolutely blew up! I mean YG know what they're doing.
we all complain and I love to complain too, but as much as we all complain, I
feel like this is actually a super incredibly genius marketing technique
like you create the sense of scarcity, scarcity? I don't care how you
pronounce it... but yet every single time they do come back they're constantly
breaking records and blowing up like it's smart, it's totally - it's genius
now if only YG didn't have a history of ruining everything they touch,
but that's the conversation you guys are not ready to have. welcome to my 87th
scandal! but I digress it's really interesting to note that this is a
pre-release song, now in some ways I kind of understand why they're calling it a
pre-release song but in other aspects I feel like this doesn't hold any weight
whatsoever, when you're making a comeback after over
a year of being gone I mean like people are going to treat this like a title
song, it doesn't matter if it's a pre-release or not like this
this is it, this is the comeback and they are treating it like a traditional
comeback, they're not treating it like a normal pre-release song right they will
be performing this, you know, on music shows, there's a music video for this, I
mean Forever Young could never! so just because it's you know called a
pre-release single doesn't mean that this song can't be able to stand on his
own and stand the criticism and here's the thing if you don't like the song....
that's okay! you're allowed to not like something, you don't have to love
everything that your idols put out, so yeah even though it's called a pre-release
single I feel like it just has more to do with the fact that they're setting us
up for more, so it is a song, it is a comeback, it is able to stand on its own
but it's called a pre-release single because they do want us to know that
there will be more to come, that this is not - this is not it, this isn't the only
thing they're going to be giving us AND IT BETTER NOT BE
okay so I have separated this video into a few different parts, oh my god is still
the intro? we're actually gonna start with a super deep analysis on the
choreography, then moving to all the parallels between "how you like that"
music video and all their other music videos and songs and then styling and
then my final thoughts on the song since I've been able to listen to it like 286
times. okay so let's start with the choreography now I am NOT a
choreographer, I like to dance but like not professionally, but I am very annoyingly
observant so if you're into that kind of thing, I mean hi let's get into it! so for
their previous songs I felt like to an extent their choreography kind of
maintained these kind of bubbly bouncy elements and they really establish their
own feel when it came to dances so you know they had a lot of butt trains,
spilling some Rosé on the floor and to a certain degree, we still can very
much see a lot of elements of familiarity with in their new
choreography with ''how you like that'' but I think it's really in kill this love
era that we start to see kind of a shift in choreography, like the feel of it was
admittedly a little bit different and then their b-side for don't know
what to do also featured kind of different choreography with different
feels, it felt a little bit less like blackpink while still again maintaining
elements of familiarity, however I do maintain that how you like that is kind
of the furthest away from blackpink choreography that they have done thus
far, so in terms of how the feel of the choreography has changed, like I said
before their previous choreography felt a little bit more bouncy like for
example Boombayah, right? but this feels a little bit
more structured if that makes sense so kind of like along the lines of ''don't
know what to do'' and what sticks out the most to me from this choreography is
hands down the chorus it does maintain some bouncy
elements but it also plays with these quirky elements which I feel like
blackpink haven't really experimented with much before you know it's something
that I feel that they've steered away from in the past you know we have a butt
dance, this swooshing motion that looks like tons of fun and of course as part
of the choreography that fans have titled the angry sim walk, which I
personally would have titled ''on my way to see some parrots'' but that's just me
but overall it really allows you to kind of recognize that this is a blackpink
choreography while also having these fresh new elements added to it, you know?
kind of a different direction that we've been seeing them go to since ''kill this
love'' but let's talk about similarities we all have similarities, I like to kind
of think of it as Easter eggs right? they put it in the choreography so you could
be like ''oh I saw that in this song and it's really cool to see it paralleled'' so
we see in both in ''as if it's your last'' and ''how you like that that'' they both
start off with the same information with them being in a single-file and Lisa at
the front then we also see this fanning motion that can be seen in ''ddu-du ddu du''
and also quite a few a lot of their other choreographies which kind of ties into
the fact that I said in my previous video but they tend to also feature the
element of fire quite consistently across a lot of their music videos then
we have quite a few similarities to ''Forever Young'' this leg motion this kind
of clapping motion then of course the kind of arm windmill and the sticking of
the leg out, ''how you like that'' choreography also features this super
iconic move from ''playing with fire'' where the members essentially pretend Lisa is
a basketball and then lastly this fancy hand movement from ''whistle'' now if you
notice any other similarities within their choreography for ''how you like that''
and their previous choreographies let me know in the comments down below and
though we do have some type of you know train, it is not a butt train so I'm
ruling it out! however even with these elements of familiarity there are
definitely a lot a lot of elements that we have never seen before, in their show
24/365 Jisoo had said that's you know for "how you like
that" they're really gonna show a stronger side to themselves whereas
previously they showed a more hip side and I feel like that was kind of the
perfect description of it because this choreography definitely packs a punch
it's definitely a lot stronger I'm for sure noticing a lot more power within
this choreography as compared to their other choreographies which may again
have been a little bit more hip, okay so now let's move on to parallels
and symbolisms to other music videos so the first thing we can notice with "how
you like that" is the headless statue now a lot of people thought that the head of
this headless statue and how you like that was in fact beheaded in "kill this
love" so in a lot of these scenes of course we see kind of this scene where
it blows up but then you know you see the head in the background so a lot of
people thought that the head in the background of "kill this love" was the
head for the headless statue in "how you like that" however there were a lot of
people pointing out that the statue in "kill this love" was Aphrodite, a
goddess of love and you know blowing up this goddess of love was very symbolic
for "Kill this love" because I mean like this song is about killing love but then
a lot of people said that the statue in "how you like that" is actually of
the god Nike, Nike? I don't know, I can't pronounce anything right, I don't know
why you guys even try... who was the god of victory so rather than thinking that you
know this head would fit on this statue I think it's just kind of a fun little
parallel but both music videos feature statue with different meanings so I
think it just kind of represents resilience especially as we see the
members each one of them stood in front of the statue which makes it look like
they themselves have wings, so another interesting thing to point out are the
words written on Jisoo's skin, so initially I was a little bit confused I think I
swore I read something completely different on her arm but a lot of people
have been pointing out that is in fact the seven deadly sins so we have lust
gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride but this scene is really quite
curious as well because her look is so similar to Jennie's look in Boombayah
though it is really unclear that there's actually any connection to the music
video in that sense, now from this scene we see a shining light and then it
transitions into Ghosé, oh sorry I meant to say Rosé :) so in her scene we
see this POV style shot that is definitely parallel to ''playing with fire''
you know she has her hands up against the light to kind of protect her eyes
but in ''playing with fire'' we see Jennie is covering her eyes and then it opens up
to a scene of Lisa, however we know that these are Rosé's
hands, Rosé... Rosie's hands because we saw in a behind
the scenes that it was actually her hands in front of the camera so lastly
in terms of paralleled scenes we also have the infamous purple umbrellas so in
''ddu-du ddu-du'' we see that Jisoo is holding a purple umbrella and it is kind
of protecting her from sparks in the background and then in ''how you like that''
we see Jennie is below a room full of umbrellas hanging from the ceiling and
there are also purple and so kind of contrasts in we also see Jisoo
embodying these devil vibes but now the umbrellas have completely burned and
there are sparks flying and she no longer needs the protection from the
umbrella that we saw in ''ddu-du ddu-du'' you can interpret that however you'd
like! now I know you guys all want me to mention 2NE1 but I'm not going to.... but
maybe yg really does kind of have a universe or at least a lot of
consistencies even throughout all of their artists not just 2NE1 but maybe just
maybe there's this universe in yg where you know umbrellas and cars are aplenty
because I feel like every single music video has some type of vehicle, they even
brought cars into the desert for Tablo's music video for tomorrow. okay
so now let's move on to some parallels within the lyrics so for ''how you like
that'' we have ''look at you now look at me'' which my mother has described as braggy
Wow you think you can trust someone and they just... which seems to be paralleled
to lyrics in ''Kill this love'' as well which goes ''look at me, look at you'' which then also
seems to be paralleled yet again in ''playing with fire'' with you know
''look at me look at me now'' and of course I had previously mentioned that I didn't
understand the parallel to ''boombayah'' because they had said you know bada bing
bada boom, like we would get it when we heard the song but then I
listened to with earphones and I was like ''oh my god I get it now'' so obviously
Lisa's part in the course of ''how you like'' that is parallel to Jennie's
part in Boombayah, their debut song where she goes
''click crack badabing, badaboom'' and then lastly of course we have the
''ddu-du ddu-du'' lyrics similarities at the end of ''how you like that'' they also make
reference to these lyrics though it does sound a little bit different but it's
written ''ddu-du ddu-du'' whatever okay so let's talk about fashion my favourite
thing, so in my last video I didn't mention their hanboks, so if you didn't
know, han- I'm not I'm not like a person to educate on this stuff but like if you
google it, they're gonna tell you but it's a traditional Korean attire but
it's kind of like a modernized version of this because they tend to be like a
lot longer so the modernization of the Hanbok is not new, but I've personally
never seen it done in this way and I think this is so stunning and I actually
saw a few people points you online that Lisa's skirt is actually inspired by a
traditional Thai skirt, so if that's true that is such like a perfect little touch
to her outfit but yeah I do think these outfits look absolutely stunning so
beautiful, it really wasn't what I was expecting
for ''how you like that'' but somehow it just fits and we've also recently seen
that you know YG's head stylist has left the company and that she left the
company before blackpink's come back so I asked you guys if you noticed a
styling change and a lot of people were saying that the group feels a lot more
like a group now, like there's a lot less favoritism maybe? I mean Lisa's cowboy
boots say hi, but that's besides the point. one of my favorite sets of outfits
are definitely these white winter-esque outfits and I don't know how to point my
finger- what? I don't know how to put my finger on it
but for some reason it kind of gives me these videogame vibes, like these
old-school video game by as if they're just gonna slide off into oblivion. I
feel like the only complaint that I have aside from you know the denim, and aside
from you know the cowboy boots, is black and pink hair yeah I know it's really ironic
that I like blackpink and I don't like the colors black and pink together and
yet it's the aesthetic of my background and my profile picture let's let's call
it all out while we're here... okay so now we're gonna end off with my
thoughts on this song now a lot of people saying that the chorus sounds
empty and that it's a ''kill this love'' 2.0 and how I'm a hypocrite if I don't think
that it sounds like ''kill this love'' 2.0 here's the thing
I didn't vibe with ''kill this love'', it wasn't really my cup of tea
personally feel that the chorus for ''kill this love'' was a lot more empty than ''how
you like that'' you know it had such a huge build-up and then when the beat
dropped it was kind of anticlimactic and a lot emptier but for ''how you like that''
I feel like it just flowed very well throughout the song I don't know maybe
it's because I haven't heard ''kill this love'' in like a year that's how long it's
been! okay I respect if you think it's a ''kill this love'' 3.0, I would say
maybe kill this love 2.5? right like it kind of I understand the similarities but
I don't feel like it goes there, do you know what I mean?
all the (G)i-dle fans are gonna come after me like ''you said oh my god was a lion 2.0
and you're being a hypocrite'' listen,... being a 2.0, being a 3.0 is
nothing inherently wrong, we see this all the time is absolutely nothing wrong
with having your own sound, like- I - why is it an insult? but you know what to
appease you let's play some of the parts side by side, so this is ''how you like
that'' okay and this is ''kill this love''
well I'll be damned, it's the same thing! so yeah that is basically it for this
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