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hi welcome in today's video I want to share my thoughts on EVERGLOW's recent
comeback which... I don't think any of us were expecting them to go that hard but
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with both second generation groups and third generation groups so if that is
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I was pretty impressed with Bon Bon Chocolat *sings: BON BON CHOCOLAT!* I didn't know they were
saying "bon bon chocolate" I was like oh it's interesting the song's called that but
they don't say that in the song and then it hit me one day... who speaks French? not me.
their come back with something so refreshing and something I've been
waiting for since 2012 but we'll get back to that later the first thing I
thought about when I saw the music video was Girls' Generation, not to be that
person who points out useless stuff but hi my name is Angelina welcome to my channel
but I'm not mad about the similarity to Genie outfits I'm actually really happy
because I think they did them justice I think it's so great to have such an
iconic look, in my opinion kpop fashion tends to stay on the safe side and it's
about time we bring back some iconic extra aspects from back in the day
recently red velvet's "Zimzalabim" outfits were honestly a breath of fresh
air I also think Everglow do a great job at mixing modern aspects with
aspects that seem more quote unquote traditionally kpop and honestly just
based off the outfits in the music video I'm so incredibly excited to see what
kind of stage outfits they will have, you'll definitely see a video of me
roasting their stage outfits once they're done promoting! there's something
about this song that reminds me of a group from second gen. a group called E-V-O-L,
Evol, they had this more hardcore style that was very different (haha!) if you get it,
you get it, but back then I don't think kpop was quite ready for that
ultimately we let them down! sometimes when girl
groups try out these darker concepts it can backfire so I'm really excited to
see that people are excited about this comeback, people are really happy with
the whole style with everything I'm so happy that people like the style the
only second-gen aspect of this comeback that I wish would have stayed in the
second generation is performing in high heels, I mean admittedly they look
stunning however I can only imagine how painful it is. I understand why they're
doing this though, so not every member is wearing high heels, some members are
wearing little kitten heels and that's because in my opinion from what I'm
seeing, they want to create a unified group. this was also something very
common in second gen kpop where each member pretty much wore the same outfit
or a variation of the same outfit this is something that isn't the most common
these days as k-pop tends to want to focus on members individuality. these
days when you see matching outfits they aren't like costumes anymore but rather
just regular outfits, so as we can see with these sailor outfits they're a
unified group and I think to contribute more to that uniformity they have some
members wearing higher heels than others so that the heights are more balanced
out, there are plenty of groups that might have like one really really tall
member and in some aspects that member can stick out sometimes
now obviously having a difference in height is nothing bad it's nothing
inherently wrong this is not something you can really control but it's just
something that I've noticed some groups trying to balance out a little bit by
having some members wear heels and having some members not wear heels I
remember seeing this photo of girls generation where some members were even
sending on different heights of planks of wood, it's not a new thing that
companies want to create an illusion of members having similar Heights as it
contributes to an aesthetically pleasing look, so I kind of get where they're
going with this, I kind of get the look they're trying to go for this uniform to
look however I do wish the heels would have stayed in the second generation and
it's not to say that heels don't exist currently in kpop but they definitely
were much more common back then SISTAR wore heels
in all of their dance practice videos their feet must be so messed up and it's
so sad to have you know a part of your body literally being tortured for art
for performance I know it's nitpicky but you clicked on
this video not me! as for the actual song the first part of the song that really
stood out to me was Aisha's rap, the intonation at the end of each word that
she says is lovely I don't even know if what I said just makes sense but I feel
like if you understand you feel it in your heart and if you feel it in your
heart leave down with the comments below the lyrics as well are super empowering
like "I should have been the main character in the first place" hell yeah
and probably the best part of the song was the whisper part before the beat
drop, the dichotomy if I could play it in this video without going to copyright
hell, I would do it for you but you know! let's move on to the choreography
I think the choreography is very well balanced there are definitely aspects of
the choreography that are quite soft but nevertheless very impactful but then it
definitely hits hard when it needs to it's actually quite strategic. if you hit
hard in your choreography the entire time you will likely be unable to
perform adequately and I think my favorite aspect of the choreography are
these badass elements, my favorite dance moves in particular are the crocodile
moves super iconic and there's this part where each member kind of alternates
going up and down and I think it just screams "I need to focus on my career
right now and you're a distraction" it just is overall so amazing let's move on
to the controversy. I've seen a lot of people compare this to BLACKPINK's "Kill This Love"
first of all I see there are some elements that are similar you know
the kind of anthem type song where all the members are singing in unison but
the thing is BLACKPINK didn't invent these, 2NE1 did... I'm totally kidding
2ne1 didn't even invent that I think AFTER SCHOOL were truly the pioneers in this style
you know the singing in unison the band uniforms the marching the
trumpets the drums *SINGS: T-R-Y do it now! Can you follow me yes uh uh!*
so if you're gonna do comparisons at least go to the source no but for real I
don't think there's anything terrible with comparisons as long as you're
respectful about it it also depends what you're comparing, there's never going to
be anything in this world that is original so I just want to touch a
little bit on their other song that they released as well called "you don't know
me" I don't know how I feel about it how to explain this the song is not bad the
dance is not bad the outfits are really cute there's nothing inherently bad
about the song but I feel that when you set people up with such a hardcore song
and then you switch to such a different style first of all that is such a second
gen thing to do but also I understand why third generation kpop is so similar
all the time why things rarely change in third generation kpop and that's because
the newer generation of people don't like change they need something concrete
to like sink their fangs into if that makes sense so when a group does a
similar song over and over again that creates their brand image that creates
who they are and it's easier to identify but back in the day groups let's say
like Girls Generation would do "oh" which was super super cute and then "run devil
run" which is super sexy and dark, groups would do this all the time and it was
okay back then but you see a lot of kpop now stays very very similar and I
understand that because now when I'm faced with they're cuter song I'm just
like "oh but who are you?" it makes me question "who are you because you know
you showed me this side of you and now this side is so drastically different"
that I'm a bit confused and I understand how this could be the case for a lot of
people as well and that's why I think a lot of new kpop is very very very
similar this happened to BAP as well my personal experience is that they have
this hardcore image and then when they switch to like a cuter image I didn't
know what to do with myself it was just a bit confusing so maybe at the end of
the day we're all just really dumb and we need things to be the same to
comprehend anything I don't know that's just the thought, from a marketing point
of view which I'm definitely not qualified to talk about but here we go
maybe it is beneficial for groups to do the same thing over and over again or
maybe just maybe it's my own personal vendetta against change! Everglow was
never really on my radar I thought Bon Bon Chocolat was a great song but they
weren't necessarily on my radar but with this comeback I'm hooked man I'm hooked
I'm in love I'm absolutely in love I think this is so refreshing I think this
is so cool and I have to say personally this is my favorite comeback of the
entire year so yeah that is all I have to say leave son in the comments below
what you thought of their comeback and what you thought of their second song as
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