This week’s music Monday is the aquatic animal edition with BoA’s “Disturbance”
For starters let’s just say how freakin happy we are to finally review a BoA song
BoA is Huge in the Korean music industry and she keeps on getting shafted on our Kpop Charts
But not this time NOT THIS TIME
BoA fans fought and they won
Boa attack!
Also we gotta say that we actually really like BoA
Not just for her songs and videos but also because we have crazy respect for what she has done in the K-pop industry
Along with how successful she is as a solo artist in an industry that’s heavily in favor of groups
And how talented she is as a singer and dancer
And the classiness of her image as a woman
And just for how much she stands out
She even wrote and composed this song. That’s fantastic. Mad props son.
Actually until I really started getting deeper into K-pop I had no freakin idea that BoA was a part of SM Entertainment.
There is nothing SMish about this.
If I look at like Super Junior, Girls Generations, EXO, f(x), TVXQ and even SHINee there is a kind of pattern I can see.
A flavor, if you will. That’s definitely like the flavor of SM. They’re like an ice cream cone.
There is so little of that present in this song and video that I had to remind myself that BoA is actually part of SM Entertainment.
Well… Except from when these happen. The unclosable adds. They very subtly send you that message that oh yeah, this is definitely an SM Ent video
Now for those of you that don’t know how freakin talented the Kwon family is…
BoA’s older brother was responsible for directing this video, which is probably why it’s so different from other SM videos.
I actually think it would be awesome if other kpop groups in SM could have videos like this.
But then again he might run into some problems getting across his vision.
Ah, Soon Wook
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you. I’m very excited to hear about what kind of ideas you have for Super Junior’s new video.
I’ve got a whole lot of great ideas. Ok so number one. First what we gonna do is we gonna start in a very old, Victorian looking house. It’s gonna be really nice and crisp.
Mhm. I see what you’re saying. Some kind of box-like house built on a set. We’ve got that. We can do that.
No, oh, ok, no I don’t mean like a box type house. I mean like a real house where real people live.
Yes, like a real house built on set. We have many to choose from. The brick wall and the other brick wall. Let’s continue. I like where you’re going.
Erm.. Ok. Uh… Oh next idea. Oh yes. Ok. So we need lots of really soft lighting. You know, preferably during the day. Really soft lighting by the face.
Mmm… I see what you’re saying. Fluorescent bulbs everywhere. Almost like a fluorescent bulb cave toiling people’s emotion. The more florescent bulbs the better. I like your style man.
That’s actually not what I mean. I know you’ve done that before, I’m looking for something like kind of opposite to that.
Florescent, yes.
Yeah, I thought we could do cats in space suits as well. That would be great.
Oh, that’s a great one. Another ____ and random English patches and clothing so mismatched that it looks like a fashion school exploded. You are brilliant.
Hm. Yes. And I think that we actually should film this on a potato.
Yes of course. The 360 degree camera pans are a must. It says flashy yet modern at the same time.
You sure are a keeper. We really see eye to eye with this, I think. Oh and there is one more thing I want you to include.
I found these trendy looking baseball caps. I’m hoping we can have all the members of Super Junior wear them. It will be really great.
Dear God, I wouldn’t even say this to a drug seller.
It was great to meet you. We’ll be working in the future together again
Do you know what this even says?
*mumbles* Do you know what this even says?
*mumbles*
This is like… cursing bls above.
So other things we loved about this video was that it was actually pretty normal looking.
The clothing they were wearing was something that we might actually see on the streets of Korea. And I can’t even remember the last that I saw Taemin in something that wasn’t either leather or extremely bizarre.
I kind of felt like the video was more like a Korean drama rather than a… Oh wait, didn’t Blankety Blank band just film their video in that exact same room last month? I thought it was great.
Also the lyrics actually match the video.
The lyrics are all about a couple drifting apart but not really realizing it.
And at the end of the video they have a really unique choice of the let time go by or go back to the past.
Where they show you two alternative endings. But in one of those endings I’m not actually sure if they are actually getting back together or if he is just reliving his memories.
And he is kind of trapped in the past.
Either way we’re totally impressed and think that maybe we here, at Eatyourkimchi too, should start having alternative endings in our videos.
And don’t forget to like and favorite this video and to subscribe for more Music Mondays, take it away stinky Martina.
Yeah, I guess that’s kind of lame.
Now the video wasn’t totally perfect. There were still some awkward parts in the video. Like the fact that both BoA and Taemin, as far as I know, are Korean and are wearing shoes in the house all the time.
Ok, maybe that’s normal for you, but how about when cuddling on the couch. Seriously?
Do you know how quickly we get scolded by people in Korea if we go into their houses with our shoes on? Crazy talk video! Crazy talk!
And well I’m no gonna certify art but try to appreciate some of it from time to time. I even like European painters more often than not. And it seems like BoA and Taemin do as well.
Since their art on their wall is called “European Paintings”.
Very classy. Stay classy guys.
As for the song itself, it’s ballady- yes and while we’re not necessarily super fans of ballads, I didn’t actually mind the song too much.
I’ve always thought of Boa as Korea’s Jenna Jackson in the sound and style of her songs. Just without the public boobage.
This song sounds a bit like JYP’s “You’re the one” with that piano at the beginning but the rest of the song has more of a 90’s RnBish kind of feel
Which I’m really ok with.
It doesn’t really fit the direction that kpop is going lately since there is not enough dubstep, random English lines and awkward rapping.
But I do like the song for its nostalgic feeling.
Also I’d like to call my turn to one what must be the most shocking parts of the video.
For everyone. I’m sure.
My personal favorite artist out of all the SM lineup has undergone a very drastic transformation.
From Taemin to TaeMAN.
TaeMAN, TaeMAN he can take a diamond and crush it inside his hand TaeMAN, TaeMAN
Inside your kitchen he will crush your cast-iron frying pan TaeMAN, TaeMAN
No longer just a boy, he’s legal age. He’s 20 and he’s TaeMAN TaeMAN
He looks completely different from before.
I didn’t even recognize him.
Whatever happened to the frail esthete?
The pretty dancing boy Taemin. With those pictures on the cover of his album that you’re too afraid to show your friends because you might be mistaken for looking at boy porn or something.
YOU KNOW THE PICTURE I’M TALKING ABOUT! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW DID TAEMAN COME ABOUT?
Soy un Dorito
Soy un Dorito, Baby.
Mantaes like panties. But for Man.
Delicious tasting Like yeah~
Manatee
Well either way I thought that Manatee, I mean Taemin and BoA acting as a couple would have been weird because of the age gap.
But with this newly found TaeMAN it wasn’t weird at all.
TaeMANLYNESS
I KNOW…
Last week Simon asked you which whiny sissy baby was the biggest group of whiny sissy babies. B.A.P. in “Rain Sound” or MBLAQ in”Cry”
And MBLAQ’s “Cry” rocked B.A.P.’s “Rain Sound” more than doubling them.
I guess you just can’t beat a good crying video, can you?
For this week’s Music Monday we ask you which sad love song you preferred JYJ’s “In Heaven” or BoA’s “Disturbance”.
Both turning back time. Both… Korean.
Leave your nostalgic votes in your nostalgic comments and we’ll announce the winner next week.
Ok. Before we end this Music Monday we have a short announcement to make here about a change in our Kpop Music Monday system.
Now, we announced last week how we felt like a lot of bands that we really wanna talk about don’t make it to the top spot on our Kpop Charts
And sometimes a band that we don’t really wanna talk about does make it to the top.
For example you know that we love BigBang but when next year they release four videos once a week in a row
We don’t really wanna make a BigBang month
Even though I know some of you would like that, we don’t necessarily wanna do that
And we wanna talk more about girls and girl groups on KMMs before it becomes too… Overwhelmingly sausagy.
Secret, After School, Dal Shabet, Orange Caramel, we’ve never reviewed them
So we’re gonna change it up a little bit now so that we will pick one video out of the top 3 videos on the Kpop Charts.
And make a KMM out of that.
We will still acknowledge whoever won first place that week but we might not always review that.
Now this doesn’t mean that every week we’ll be ignoring first place.
I think most of the time we’ll agree with the 1st place, but we want to be able to have the ability to pick videos that we’ll have more fun with and find more interesting.
Hopefully this will give us a chance to introduce you to some new bands and balance out the male to female ratio which right now is… very….Unbalanced
From henceforth the KMMs will have more balance and more Manatees and maybe a little Hot chocolate wending machine
You know, the kind you find at skating rings that are always too hot to drink
But they’re just so cheap that you can’t resist it.
You know what I mean?
You know what I mean? Nice~
And lastly don’t forget to like and favorite this video and to subscribe for more Music Mondays. Take it away nostalgic Spudgy.
TaeMAN, TaeMAN he can take a diamond and crush it inside his hand TaeMAN, TaeMAN
Inside your kitchen he will crush your cast-iron frying pan TaeMAN, TaeMAN
No longer just a boy, he’s legal age he’s 20 and he’s TaeMAN TaeMAN