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This week's Music Monday is the time travel edition
with IU's "You and I"
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Ah yes! IU's long awaited comeback!
Hey! Hey! Is her last name "Gross?"
What?
And her middle name "You're"
I'm, I'm sorry, I don't follow.
Cuz then that would make her name "IU, You're Gross!"
Get it? IU!
Her name is IU
Um.
IU You're Gross.
Is that the sound of a cookie in the bedroom?
Oh my god I love cookies!
Is that the sound of a cookie?
Is this Oatmeal? IU!
The video for You and I is actually really magical.
It has a kind of steampunk-meets-Disney feel to it.
The set is really detailed. You can see lots of brass gears and magnifying glasses.
They've got clocks, they've got, like, a toy train. It's really well done.
Most Kpop videos take place in a room that is clearly a set.
And while the set might set the room, everyone can tell that this is not a real location.
For IU's video, even though - yes - it is a set, it has a really believable feel to it.
I thought it was really convincing! It had some kind of magical feel
in a magically old steampunky building. I liked it!
One thing Martina forgot to mention in talking about the set
is clearly the most important part of the set. The goose. Goose! I love the goose!
GOOOOOOOOOOSE!
I couldn't focus on anything else in the video apart from the goosey and his little wiggle bum!
I'm deeply jealous that IU got to hold a goosey.
I think it was probably very soft and wonderful
and felt like a very nice oversized pillow, with more honking.
But there is one very upsetting part of the video.
At the very end of the video it lists the actors: IU, Ee Hyunoo, and Goose!
Does Mr. Goose not have a name?
That's a little bit insensitive to goosies all around the world, don't you think?
I don't say "hay you human get back on set"
I say "hay you IU! Get back on set!"
Big difference! A little bit more respect there.
Poor Mr. Goose! They give him such a vital role in the video and they don't even give him a name!
Well I'll give you a name, Mr. Goose,
and I'll continue to defend the rights of goosies worldwide.
From henceforth you will be called Lord Pennington Wigglebottom the 3rd.
Ok this is enough about the Goose. Can we move on?
You will acknowledge him by his proper name! You peasant!
Goose! Lord Pennington Wigglebottom the 3rd!
Moving on: I was a little bit confused
and weirded out by that part where the guy was in a coma.
I'm pretty sure he's not sleeping, and I'm pretty sure he's not blacked out trashed from drinking
So why is IU drawing on him and tickling him with a goose feather?
This isn't a frat party IU. Dude's in a magical coma.
You should treat him with a little bit more decency.
Not cool, IU. Not cool.
PSSH! But who knows? Maybe that's what always occurs to people who sleep in magical comas?
[Ding dong ding ding ding ding dong dong]
It is I! The fair prince, here to rescue the fair princess who is in a deep and magical coma.
Only I can wake her up with my kiss.
And so I shall…but first!
The deed is done, and the princess has been saved!
Oh brave prince! Thank you so much for rescuing me!
We can live together forever now!
Yes indeed we can, Princess Penis Face
What?
Oh nothing! You're beautiful.
As for the plot of the video, I'm sure everyone gets the same feel that we do.
We get the fact that IU's in love with this guy and he's in some magical coma,
But then the rest of it is kind of like a blur of confusion.
And yes, I know that you guise might have read the explanation
that was released by the entertainment company,
that's supposed to explain the video's meaning based on stuff that isn't evident in the video itself
But we just absolutely do not agree with that. Hogwash!
Loen Entertainment said supposedly that IU's grandfather made the shop
and made the boy for IU to fall in love with when she's 20.
Where do you see any evidence supporting this theory in the video?
A random picture of an old dude is not proof that he made the shop or the sleeping boy.
Do you see that picture right there? That's a cupcake!
Does that mean that this is a cupcake shop?
Does that mean that everything here has been brought to you courtesy of cupcakes?
That would be wonderful! That would be ridiculous!
If it doesn't make sense when we watch it,
your explanations afterwards mean nothing to us, even if you are the one who made it.
And oh! Did you know that this Kpop Music Monday
is actually about smelly cheese and frightful dragons?
Sure! I have nothing to back it up, but
I'm the one who made the video, so I guess that means that I'm right.
No! That's just silly. The video should make sense as you watch it.
If the video doesn't make sense then we, and all of you,
have all the right to artistic freedom of analyzation.
And so, we are going to analyze this very unclear video as we see fit,
Not based on some company's explanation afterwards,
but based on cold hard facts in the video itself.
Since this is a very Disney and fantasy-esque type video
and the guy is in some magical coma, we can only assume that there was a witch behind it!
You see, the witch was super-duper jealous of their love
so she cast a spell which took the guy's soul
and sucked it out and put it into the body of a goose
and left his real body in a magical coma
And so OH LORD PENNINGTON HOW THEY'VE WRONGED YOU!
And that's why IU keeps a goosey in her house that doesn't have a diaper on.
Anyways, after plenty of research into spellbreaking,
IU learns that the spell with automatically break after 100 years
But, if they were to wait that long, they'd both be dead
so IU decides to make a time machine to travel to the future
That way they can break the spell AND still be young together.
So, IU and her goose boyfriend LORD PENNINGTON WIGGLEBOTTOM THE 3RD!
IU and Lord Pennington Wigglebottom the 3rd
get into the time machine and travel forward in time
Just before the point where the spell would be broken
why else would she travel in a time machine with her goosey?
Now, flash forward in time. IU is in her shop,
she's got Lord Pennington Wigglebottom the 3rd with her
and just when the time changes, poof! The spell is broken!
But, her new boyfriend lover doesn't realize that he was trapped in a goosebody for so long.
That would be kind of difficult to get your mind around.
And then, he looks lovingly into the eyes of IU
And remembers "You once cleaned my poop! You once fed me delicious bread crusts!"
And then they remember everything and live happily ever after.
Well, almost.
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Ok for your birthday I got you a really special gift! You're gonna love it!
Ok I'm so excited!
Ready? Open your eyes!
Bread?!?!?! I Love bread!
Now…remember what we talked about.
Ok. You're gonna eat it…like a human.
Just bite it. That's a good job.
You're just gonna eat it…no! No! You're not a goosey anymore!
You're not a goosey anymore! No! No get back here wiggle bottom!
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I thought the dance for this video was really, really cute
and it matched the theme perfectly
For a song and video about time travel, and they have a lot of clocks around
Using your fingers as hands on a clock is really appropriate
And there's also lots of arm movements and lots of clock action
It was really cool, but, this...this may just be me,
was anyone else intensely distracted by the male backup dancers?
They were like, super enthusiastic, and they had double dream hands
and, like, spirit fingers out the wazoo.
The focus was supposed to be on IU,
but I spent the entire time looking at the guy who looks like Harry Potter.
Easy on the Jo Kwon there, ok? You're kinda pulling the spotlight away.
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Last week we asked you which really, really, really long
super epic cop mini movie edition you preferred.
T-ara's "Cry Cry" or TVXQ's "Before You Go"
And the winner, by a lot, was TVXQ.
Now, some people said that the TVXQ plot was also predictable,
but I have no idea what you're talking about.
It's not like I watched that video and I was like
Wait a second! That guy has a wife who's dying and being framed by the mafia
to be a betrayer inside the cops! I knew it.
Ok so...so no. But TVXQ won.
For this week's Time Traveling edition, we ask you which time traveling video you preferred.
IU's in "You and I" or F.T. Island's in "I Hope"
Leave your votes in the comments, or in our Facebook poll
and we'll announce the winners next week.
Also, thanks to everyone who requested IU's video for this week.
If there's a video you want to see us do for next week's Music Monday
head on over to http://www.eatyourkimchi.com/requests
and tell us who we should do a video for.
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