This week's Music Monday will call your doctor with
E-E-Electric Shock
OK
This song
totally
ROCKS!
We love this song
The dragon base line
and the super catchy chorus
has pushed this music video to around
16 million views!
And I'm sure it will keep on going
Now we usually have something to complain about when we are reviewing a song
but it was really hard to find something to complain about with this song
Biggest complaint that we could thing of is that
this song kinda sounds like really similar to fx's other songs
But it doesn't really bother us that much
so we're not gonna put it up there in a complaint section
Hello, complaint section
NO.1 My parrot is dead
NO.2 fx's recent songs are so much to the last song
but it still rocks
Scratch that last one
Start to finish, we just love this song
and we think it perfectly fits to fx's style
and we are happy to see fx back in the game
Now, some people think that we are keep on ragging on SM
But really our favorite songs of the year comes from SM
SHINNEE, 'Sherlock' is still intensely awesome
and EXO's 'I lost my pants' song is just as flawless as ever
even though "RIPPITO FLIPPITO SIPPI slow motion"
SM makes some really awesome music
We just wish we could say the same thing about their music videos
which their tendency to trap their artists in oddly rooms
are really painfully boring
They are colorful that's for sure
but plotless and
super
duper
scooper uncreative
But honestly, Simon and I have discussed this really a lot ousted of our videos
and we have come to a kind of shocking conclusion
From SM's perspective,
Why would they wanna spend more money for a creative music video?
And we don't mean this as sarcastically
If the song sounds good,
people will listen to it and watch the music video
And if they don't like the music video, doesn't really matter
because fan groups will watch the music video on loop
regardless of how boring and repetitive the music video is
because they wanna show their support for their favorite group
So.. how making a creative music video
really will help out SM Entertainment?
They are getting tens and tons of views regardless
and so they think
It ain't broke don't fix it!!
Now for their new groups, like EXO
SM is still trying to impress people
and get new fans into the group
So of course they are going to make a bigger budget video
But for the stable groups who has got tons of support
I guess it's a waste of money to spend money on a big budget video
However, if they are interest in getting new people into Kpop
People who aren't into Korean culture
or aren't into Korean music
or have no association with Asian culture
then they've gotta need to change up their music video a bit
That's all I'm saying
Even though we super duper love this song
I'm personally getting really bored
with the really predictable music video machine
which is SM Entertainment
Oh look what a surprise
fx is wearing bizarre, mix-match, neon clothing
ooh.. cactus earring
one single Junsu banana earring
a single dinosaur earring
ooh Amber is wearing a fashionable gold pack
as a life vest
and she just have one sock
which is covered in random vegetables
And she pulled the whole look together with her army shorts
I mean I get it
fx is suppose to be SM's like
corky bizarre dressed group
But c'mon
Isn't it possible for them to grow a bit and
to change
and to wear that is actually fashionable and cool looking?
They always look like a dollar store exploded all over them
I mean what could possible have happened
fx to be stuck to this particular image?
Hey Joe
I'm punching out ok?
Oh good night buddy, i'll see you later
Good night~ / You too~
oh...crap!!!!
Argh!! I'm gonna get fired for this
Ah... which one goes where...
oh...god
Maybe this here
and.. this there
Ah...god I hope that's enough
Oh god.. they'll never know!
They'll never know!
Horrendously unfashionable decide
that flashy boxes that SM is consistently trapping their artist in their music videos
For once,
it's kind of relevant
The song is called the Electric Shock
and you can see the neon light kind of flowing
almost like an electrical current
So that sure SHOCKINGLY make sense
Get it? Shock
Shockingly..
Make sense....
(Martina) You cut off my joke in the beginning
OH because your joke wasn't funny
The song is about falling in love
but playing with the is kind of
like a heart bouncy kind of metaphor which make sense
Dancing with your friends and playing with catarrhous and taisors
is just a little bit unfair
In last, that kind of SM is your thing
SM Entertainment
Safety word for tonight is banana
And then there is a part of the song
where they are describing to a doctor
they symptoms that they are feeling
Hello, I'm a doctor
Doctor, I've got the weirdest symptoms and I'm really worried
Tell me about them
Well for starters, I think i'm going blind
I can see that
Please continue tacky lady
Also I'm out of breath
I have a fever
I can bearly speak
And my ears are ding dong ding dong
ding dong ding dong is not a clinical term
carry on
Also my head spinning and also my heart is beating very fast
Is that all?
Yes doctor, those are my symptoms
I...I think i'm in love
and I think your dying from super mega gita black plaid
with a side of leopard seat
please touch your armpits
ooh,.. tender
oh.. oh yah
We're gonna need a lock down and core 1 team on super tacky lady
WHAT? My name is Amber
okay? Not super tacky lady
Amber!!!
[the dance]
I thought the dance for this song was pretty cute
Not quite what I imagined for a song called Electric Shock
this dance looks kind of more like a bysap curl
Yah... you guise ready?
You ready to sweat??
You ready to do it? Let's do it
Alright! Let's go
One two~ Oh yeah~~~
OH...NO..
I'll take that back
I'm sorry I'll take that back
Because I expected more sharp and quick like more fierce
something like violent like electrical feel
like running through all different members
when they touch each other sets up like a domino effect dance moves
like someone is being electrocuted
That would have been really cool
But I did really like the members like criss cross around each other
and moved a lot around the stage
But it wasn't really intricate and catchy as their past dances
like NU-ABO and Danger
[the english ]
As for the English of this song we've gotta say
4 out of 5
It's gotta the typical amount of cool English words sprinkled throughout the song
and we are quite impressed with the word electric
Having the vast potential of disastrous mispronunciation
was actually pronounced just fine
But there is one word in this song that doesn't make no sense
Gazy?
Ge-ge gazy
I'm not sure if they are trying to say gaze
as with in your eyes
or gauge as in a tool for measuring stuff
But that doesn't make one drop of sense to me
Frankly I wanna give them a 3 out of 5 with that horrendous word
but Martina insisted on a 4 out of 5
but in my heart of heats
I give you 3 and that's the only thing that matters
I think it's a three
I've been noticing these kind of patterns from fx's
I know some of them speak English fluently
but the lyrics seem as if they have the vocabulary of a 2 year old
In Danger we had
dadadadadadada!!
In N we had
nanananananana!!
And here we have
Na na na na na na!!
Hey fx and 2NE1, I'm on to your nonsense language
My next guess, give it to 2 years from now
You're not even gonna sing a English or a Korean song
but a baby talk
[the showdown]
Last week asked which retro throw back song you preferred
Infinite with Paradise
or U-kiss in Believe
and the winner was...
Infinite
by like....
A LOT
sounded exactly like it, didn't it?
It was perfect
I know, it was like exact cover of the song
You are really accurate at this thing
YES!
For this week's childhood vocabulary edition we ask
which nonsense language do you prefer?
fx's "na na na na na" in Electric Shock
or 2NE1's "bam baratatata" in I'm the Best
WHOOH...this is going to be nasty battle, isn't it?
Leave your votes in the comments
or in our Facebook pole
and we'll announce the winner next week
Also next week's KPOP Music Monday is going to be really hard
because I'm sure that Super Junior will be coming out
so that means it's not going to be hard to decide at all
Super Junior is probably gonna win
But if you wanna give another band a chance
head on over to eatyourkimchi.com/kpopcharts
and leave your votes there
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Take it away Dr. Spudgy