[MV REVIEW] SHINee's "VIEW" : VERY BEAUTIFUL VIEW

Hello, this time, I’ll be surprisingly writing about SHINee’s new MV “VIEW”. At first when I watched and listened to the MV, I just laughed it off, saying ‘It was a kidnapping, fuhuu, funny…!’ but then I realized something more than kidnapping pretty boys within the MV.

Firstly, I found that Onew is so handsome, hahahah. No kidding! 

Secondly, I believe many of us have already realized that there are changes of colors on the scenes. In the very first scene, the MV is shown in a monochrome one when SHINee is told to get out from the place where might they have their concert or anything like that. Then appeared a colorful scene where there is a girl in white holding a robber mask walking. The next that’s to get appeared is Minho (followed by the rest of SHINee) in a still-monochrome-scene. Next second, Minho appears again in a total colorful frame though it is dominated with the blue color one. After that, the boys are captured getting in the car in the monochrome scene (again) before Taemin appears to start the song –in an already-colored-scene. 

Minho appears again while sitting in the car when the girl with the robber mask gets close towards him. It is when we can see how blue his eyes color is actually. It has the vibe that the scene has been created to be so blue, as Minho also wears blue stripped suit. The girl whispers something towards his ear as the monochrome scene gets in the screen again unveiling the kidnapping scene that happens on the boys. 

Without knowing what happens, the boys have woken up in the middle of nowhere with the foreign girls guiding them. As the other boys know nothing at all, Minho has actually realized what happens towards them. Yes, as he is the one who has been informed by the pretty kidnapper leader. When they walk follow the girls towards the deep of the wood, and when one of the girl look around to see them, or maybe towards Minho, Minho has been captured on the camera having a clear vision and doesn’t look confused at all. He is as if following the girl, just curious with what will happen after this. That is not the wondering eyes of lost puppies, but just a normal curious expression. It is totally different expression that has been shown by the rest of the boys, wondering around in a total confusion, knowing nothing. 

The rest of the MV telling us, the spectators, how SHINee having fun of being kidnapped as they see, feel, experience, and meet new things and persons. They enjoy the free time offered by the strangers as they may have been so tired of being busy all the time and do not have time to do bizarre things.

Thirdly, just like how I elaborate I have shown you that the things which I found intriguing and interesting in this MV are the changing colors scenes. I don’t know why but I found them actually very pretty and simply harmonious. They have very significant function in the MV –the movement from monochrome ones to the colorful ones. 

In this MV, SHINee has gotten the roles of being a group of dull person, whose life does not have color. It is like they have hit their boredom despite of they are being showered with the spotlight. While, the foreign girls are a group of bright persons who do everything they want to do, for instance kidnapping the boys. Can you imagine a group of fan-girls kidnapping the boys? Isn’t that crazy? But, that’s how crazy life usually. Craziness is a common thing to happen, and so this is no weird at all. 

As the scene shows the colorful one, we can see Minho’s blue eyes. The color of these eyes has left deep impression in me that being one of the reasons why I decide to write this review. Why only Minho being shown in a specific scene with his eyes looking through the camera in a place like a wood? Then he is portrayed meeting with the girl who whispering on to him…?

Correct!

Minho in this MV is the male lead. Although SHINee members are all here, they are just the male lead’s friends. Male lead’s friends aren’t important? No way. They are important of course. They are the part of the male lead’s life, the same exact dull and sad persons. 

Thus, no wonder the camera has been focused more on Minho –with his blue color eyes. I feel intrigued by the color so I start to search the meaning of blue or blue eyes. And, I found some which I believe suitable to apply in the MV story. 

Blue eyes have been believed by many people as the “eternal youth” since when an infant was born in the world, s/he will sometimes has the blue eyes though will change to the other colors after two weeks or more. In addition, it has also been stated that the blue eyes owner will usually be calm and very peaceful, while it is also said to represent knowledge. 

With the way how Minho expresses himself within the MV I can see that he is portrayed as calm and peaceful person that holds an “eternal youth” inside him. If he does not have the eternal youth and the calm personality, he won’t ever let the girl to bring him and his friends to some foreign places. But, he has them within his nature so the venture towards the colorful world is possible. 

Blue is also said as the symbol of sadness or depression. So, it has dual meaning. It can represent Minho (and SHINee) as the sad persons and also as those who still keep their youth within them. 

People no matter how blue they are actually have urged enjoying the world the way they want. It’s just that they can’t do it. So, why can’t we be like the SHINee-kidnapping-girls who put colors towards others? Be your friends, families, strangers, or anyone you want to? No one ever wants to be dull, but let’s understand, as everyone has their own situations. 

Very ---- beautiful ---- view !!

[MV REVIEW] BEAST'S 12:30 'THE BROKEN CLOCK'

 

Hi, beauty, how are you doing recently? Must be doing good, right, since Beast having a comeback? This time around they release a ballad song with a tragic music video entitled ’12:30’. It’s an interesting tittle with an interesting music video too. I actually believe that all of us know already what the music video tries to reveal though. But, there are some friends who ask me a favor to review the ’12:30’ music video. So, here, I am trying my best to juice my state of mind to share it to you all.

Guys, this maybe the most complicated interpretation ever I would like to write, so please pardon me if you see me writing a bit-off one. There are so many scenes that should be captured one by one. And, I freaking hate this style of reviewing though, since I need to provide pictures. Urgh. The reason is this music video may seem ordinary and simple but it’s actually not. The director has put several things that are essentially important into something that can be fully neglected. 

Well, let’s talk about the story inside this music video. It’s a story which is narrated as a flash-back. In the very beginning of the music video, we see a man (Dujun) and a woman in a room. The man sits on the carpet with his hand grabs a watch and another hand holds the woman’s hand. However, the woman strangely opens her eyes in a laying position on the bed. It gives the vibe of something tragic just happened there. Though, I am supposed not as tragic as Romeo and Juliet happen to end their love story. But, still something doubtfully bad just happened between Dujun and the woman. Then, the next scene we can see the members of Beast appear one by one when Dujun starts to make a small move while the minutes hand on the face of big clock (literally its BIG loll) on the wall starts moving too. The minutes hand on the clock at first rest on number six, and then it moves a minute backward. So, it is a minute to the number six. Besides, the snow which surrounds each member is moving up, not falling down. It suggests that the story is going to be back-warded to reveal how this tragedy actually starts.  

Then, Dujun starts to wake up, put the clock on the carpet and walk to the other side of the bed which is apparently in the front of the big clock. He looks at the girl and then the minutes hand on the clock suddenly moves two and half minutes backward, or stops on the sixth line of the clock. Look there are lines that divided the clock into twelve parts right? However, it’s not like the normal clock which divides the clock per five minutes. Let's learn to count the total of the dots there. If it’s a normal clock the dots are supposed to be sixty in total, in order to show the total minutes of an hour. 

Mathematically, an hour is sixty minutes and 3,600 seconds, while, in this music video, the dots are 72 in total. It’s obviously an optically illusion. Well, who thinks that when the minutes hand moves, it actually moves five minutes backward? I guess some of us did think like that, well so the director is a success then. This is interesting (really) since if the clock is being divided, it is supposed to be divided per five minutes with the lines drawn on the hour numbers, so the lines must be drawn right on top of the twelve, one, three, etc. This is a normal clock on my desktop, look:

Okay, that’s it. So, the minutes hand rests on the 27,5^th minute. And, the hour hand is still at twelve. At that time suddenly like moving fast backward the both hour hand and minutes hand are on the number twelve just like Dujun and the woman themselves. They are hugging each other like those hands of twelve o’clock. Before even knowing the meaning of the lyric, I have thought that this song is an allegory of a couple which is going to drift apart just like the clock hands. This is true surprisingly. 

Then after hugging each other, the couple starts to sit on their own, the woman on the chair and Dujun on the bed. It happens at five minutes past twelve. However, they are still smiling to each other and seem still loving each other too. 

Then the clock shows ten minutes past twelve when Dujun stands in front of the big clock and the woman sits on the bed, not smiling into each other again. 

Later on, the clock shows a quarter past twelve when both of them are sitting on the bed, back facing each other, not smiling, and Dujun looks sad.

Then after this, like a climax that falls free to the denouement, the minutes hand moves or literally falls down towards the sixth line (12:27,5). Within the movement of the minutes hand from a quarter past twelve towards the sixth line, the couple has met their greatest problem, and starts to really be apart. In this case, the girl is the one who starts to end their love. 

 

The bickering goes and the girl throws her shoes to Dujun. He forcefully hugs her, but the girl walks away just in her socks, leaving Dujun alone in his misery.

Afterwards, the minutes hand rests finally on the 27,5^th minute or the sixth line when Dujun and the girl are back in the room. 

Then after this, just all of us know they have a quarrel that causes Dujun to push the girl towards the bed causing her to leave him forever. In this music video the twist is either Dujun kills the girl or … just, yeah. But, I have assumed that he literally kills her (in the story sense) and he regrets it. 

Hmm… okay. So, why the girl acts like that? Why does she seem want to so badly leave Dujun? There is a simple answer, because the girl does not love Dujun as much as he does. Dujun loves her more. It is proven by the fact that Dujun is always the one who cherishing the moments and times. Thus, this music video is actually from Dujun’s point of view, from the man’s point of view who thinks that he loves his lover more. Yes. It is because he looks at the clock all the time. He is the one who faces the clocks (there are so many clocks in the room). He is the one who obsesses with their relationship. As the minutes hand moves continuously, we can see Dujun and the girl start to drift apart too. It is strengthened by the lines that have been passed by the minutes hand. The more they are being apart, the more lines being passed by the minutes hand. It means they have faced more hurdles in front of them that cause them to slowly change. However, the hour hand is never even moving. This hour hand is actually the reflection of Dujun who never moves. He still there, loves his girlfriend. But, he knows no matter how much he holds on to his girl, she will still leave him. He actually knows that their relationship will be a broken one, just like the big clock which is actually not even moving. The seconds hand does not even move and it stops on the number six as if a deadline to end their relationship. 

Can you see the tiny line right on number six? That is the seconds hand that does not even move an inch since the beginning of the music video. The clock is actually broken. It’s a broken clock, everyone. It’s broken. B-R-O-K-E-N. How can when the clock shows 12:30, the hour hand does not even move at all? If the clock works, it is supposed to move, and stops on the first line, or in the middle of number twelve and one to make it a half past twelve. But, it’s not moving. 

Now, think from this new finding, Dujun can be suspected as the one who causes all of this happens. At first, it seems like the girl who has coldly neglected him, but it can be like Dujun is too possessive and makes the girl feels suffocated. Dujun knows that one day they will be separated, so he can’t help to count their relationship and to get close with his lover every second, minute, and hour. That is why they are in the room all the time. But, the girl dislikes this kind of relationship. Although at first, she is pure to love him (the white shoes), she eventually can’t keep up with him and wants to call their relationship off (throws her black shoes = saying goodbye/good luck), and gives up entirely with their relationship (a grey slipper). 

The grey slipper is interesting. It has a more meaning actually. After throwing her shoes which means she doesn’t want to continue her relationship with Dujun, she is back to the room which is actually the girl’s room. She wears slipper because she is in her own room. So, Dujun is the one who comes to her room. Dujun wears those black shoes all the time, doesn’t he? He is the guest. He is the one who interferes the girl’s individual life. He loves her, she loves him, but there are so many lines that have been crossed by Dujun to the point make the girl hate him more than love him. She even can’t cherish the moment when she is together with Dujun. She wants but she can’t eventually. That is why she throws the clock that always held by Dujun as the symbol of she wants to end their relationship right at the moment. Dujun who is never sane to begin with starts to cross another line, and he kills her. 

It’s like a short story. In a sense Dujun kills the girl is helped by the imagery of the bottle with red liquid inside it being tossed towards the wall and shattered on the floor. It portrays blood. But, it can be also a metaphor of the girl leaves him forever and won’t ever come back to his side. The burnt chair also suggests that everything has happened and can’t be reset. 

However, life is still moving and no matter how bad the thing that has happened, the minutes hand starts to move again. Then, with this idea, there is another finding too, that actually the girl is still there with him. And, although their relationship has failed to sail and broken, Dujun still wants to hold the girl’s hand. That is why, the minutes hand starts to move again and the red-liquid-bottle that shattered on the floor shows that the girl is actually dying inwardly by being with Dujun. 

On the other hand, for me, as a whole this music video has shown us how complex a relationship could be. We know that we love each other but we also know that the moment we start our relationship, that is also the moment we start to break it. By crossing the first line, we know that the thing does not work like how we want it. Then crossing the second line, can’t help to cross the third line, and you know that one day there should be a final line that should be crossed too. That final line is there waiting for you. You know it perfectly. That is why in a relationship we can’t blame just a side. If we fail to sail it, it’s us who should be blamed. However, forcing conditions to your lover is not great idea. Being possessive too is not good. Being too ignorant is not good too. The most important can be probably respect each other and makes each other breath fresh air every now and then. It’s not good to suffocate your partner. It’s for real no good. You can kill him/her inwardly. We love to make the other person feel alive, not caged. 

BEAST 12:30 MV:

 

[MV REVIEW] EPIK HIGH'S 'BORN HATER': I DO SHIT IN MY ROOM, WHY YOU CARE?

Hi, guys, it’s been a while (right?) I wrote random interpretations of music videos. Anyways, my favorite Hip-Hop group, Epik High has a comeback around this time. Yeay.

Well, they will have released the album ‘SHOEBOX’ on Oct 21/22, right? And last night they had given us a warming up MV, Born Hater, featuring Beenzino, Verbal Jint, Mino, B.I., and Bobby (Well, I love B.I. and Bobby o ma gad you don’t have any idea). The overall video is unique with the setting of public toilets. Call it public because Beenzino even says that ‘Blo Hyung is on the next room right now’. Besides, with the proof of Hanbin (B.I.) as the ‘cleaner’, the toilets aren’t private ones. So, from my first impression, oh uh, they are all doing ‘shit’ on the public toilets. Whatever they do, they leave ‘shit’ that should be cleaned by B.I. later, no matter whether it’s the money (Bobby) or the pizza (Mithra Jin). 

Now, let’s follow me to peel the deeper insights of this MV. Note that I won’t interpret any symbols of certain things or any kind of thing like seven deadly sins, etc. But, I will talk about the wholeness of the music video scenes suggest us. Just like I have been saying before that all the eight men are doing their ‘shits’ on the ‘public toilets’, I will start this talk from this point. So, please bear on your minds that they actually do the ‘shits’ in the ‘rooms’ where are actually ‘public’ possession. Well, if you can’t get what I mean, you do shit in toilet, don’t you? So do they. 

Are you wondering why the toilets? Why the toilets are full of their belongings, such as the shoebox, paintings, money, pizza, adult magazines, etc? I bet most of you are thinking about this. Or, do any of you even ask about why the video is just 1/3 of the whole size? Let me share my thoughts with y’all.

Firstly, toilet suggests a room, a very tiny one of course, where you can ‘shit’ freely up to your desire. However as the music video goes on, it reveals that it’s not a toilet, but toilets. In every toilet there is different kind of individual with their own ‘shit’. They do ‘shit’ on their own room. No one should care because that’s their right to shit as much as they want, as much as they need, as dirt as they can, as crazy as they imagine, true everyone? You can do everything in your own room, that’s a nature. That’s your room at the moment, so that’s up to you what you will do. Great idea, isn’t it?

Secondly, the belongings and abilities (money, magazines, etc) are their shits. Let’s take larger scale from the toilet metaphor, I can find that actually Epik High wants to speak about the industry they are in at the moment. It’s the industry where people are actually boxed by their own uniqueness and identities. So, there are various and diverse great people that can be good choices for the public to fulfill their thirst for enjoyment. If you dislike this kind of boxed person, you can choose the next box. It’s also explain why they decide to make the video just as large as 1/3 of the whole. As the other 2/3 are black. It can be meant that if you happen to bump or have an encounter (through TV mostly) with a certain someone (rapper, singer, idol, or just common people etc) and you dislike him; you still can look to the other places. No one force you to keep looking at him if you hate him so much. You can change it to the next room, or just simply stare at the black area. No one actually asks you to keep your interest on him, buddy, just change the channel. Do not like them rapping? Just don’t watch. Why? Because they are doing it in their own tiny room and not for your satisfaction, but their own satisfaction. So, don’t ridicule yourself by hating them. They are just part of the big world, you can find other persons that you can favorite and support, why bother to care then? 

As the whole, I can say, it’s not just about the music industry actually. But, we can see this kind of thing in our society. Yeah, haters are everywhere. They talk ill about us. They whisper bad things behind our back just like how they contaminate the air. They type harsh words on our site, on our SNS, etc. I actually believe some of them are really born haters. Damn, Epik High is so true.

BORN HATER MV: 

[MV REVIEW] AKMU'S MELTED: PEOPLE ARE COLD

I've been listening to AKMU's MELTED these days while working on my PC. I do really love this song, like really really really really and really. Just now I found out that AKMU has made an MV for this song. The MV is ... great. Sigh. Let me breath. It's been so deep made me crying an ocean now. For another reason, the MV is making me feel better, that one's life is supposed to be like mine, yours, or even ours. Life is cold. People are without exception cold. 

The MV is simply showing a boy with his camera and stuffs on the bang of the road waiting someone who can give him a ride.  Fortunately, a man is kind enough to let him in to his car. The boy sits on the back seat while taking picture of his surroundings but the man hates it. He throws the boy out from his car. After that the boy is told buying things in a shop. He thinks whether to buy two boxes of film roll or snacks. He decides to buy the roll one and a banana. He buys them with coins. The shop owner sighs as he doesn't like the coins. Then, the boy sits on the park where many people are actually working out their lives together. There is a clown who works all day, a balloon seller, an Asian mom and her child versus Black mom and her child, and many more. Basically all races in America are there. And, finally, the boy meets a woman in the car, and let him in. She even lets the boy to take photo of her. The boy follows the woman into a pub where she abandons him afterwards. He finds the woman runs with a man and doesn't pay for the drinks she buy. The pub owner slightly feels angry and ask for money from the boy. As this boy doesn't have any money and even his bags are with the woman which are left in the car, he has nothing at all in his hands, except a camera that he really loves. The pub owner beats him. Then he goes to the police station to report his missing belongings but the police rejects him. He then walks, walks, and walks until meet a van where a dog is tied in front of it. He sees the dog barking. As he sees himself in the dog, he starts to bark too (to the dog). At that time a man comes out from  the van. It comes out that the man offers him a dinner. 

It is such unique MV remembering the MV comes from Korean artists as the MV is trying to portray the distinctiveness in America. There are many people staring in this MV come from different races. Although I don't really want to talk about that point, but actually there is a reason why the MV is made especially in America. From my perspective, the purpose of making this MV in America is to capture the various kinds of people. While using America as a setting place, it can be easier for the director to portray the coldness within different people even if in the same nation. Imagine if he decides to make it in Korea, all we can see is Koreans -there won't be Whites, Blacks, Chinese, or Indians. By portraying people through this easily-identified-distinctiveness, he hopes spectators, like us, can understand more of how every individual is different, but having the similar trait within them, that is unexpectedly (they are) cold.

For the boy himself, as a spectator, I can see the camera as the thing he loves most. The camera in this MV is the symbolization of his life. His life is the camera itself. He carries it everywhere he goes. All the things that surround him fascinating him that make him want to capture everything. He is like that one person who really loves to see his society in the corner of his emptiness, of nothingness. For him, his life is within this society, but none can really relate to him. He is somehow different from the others. People mostly dislike him. He gets thrown over because of the thing he likes (the man throws him from the car), he isn't respected by others (the coins in the shop is the symbolization of poverty/doesn't have enough money and the shop owner is the society that dislike this fact), and can't get lucky enough (eventually he meets good woman but she leaves him). But, in one's life there always be that heartwarming moment. That moment is when the boy meets with the dog and the man who cares enough to let him in to his van. Inside a man there is also a warmness.

As for the man who stands on the window in the building while holding a glass of ice (which melts) I don't really know exactly who he is. But, to relate with the plot, I guess he is the adult of the boy. That is the day when he reminisces his past. I can think like that because somehow deep in my heart I always wonder how does it feel standing like that facing the world in my late fifty years old while thinking about this moment which is quiet difficult to deal with, or about how nice this moment is. This moment where everything seems so cold may one day be just a memory but this is what makes us being our true selves. This cold moment will eventually melt too and the warm song will come out. No worry, one day, these are going to be a beautiful memory we can tell to the world. 

[RANDOM THOUGHT] TROUBLEMAKER IS NOT PLAGIARIZING

Hi, good morning, peeps! 

This is actually a very nice morning until I read something that makes me go 'what? O_O duh, another close minded people and culture'. Well, first of all, my very own country fellows are also still trapped in this condition for saying like K-netizens that this video is plagiarizing that video from another country, etc. But, that kind of songs and videos have charted pretty well on their digital charts and YouTube. I see, all the same for us wherever your country is. 

Actually what I am talking about is referring to the case that Troublemaker's new MV 'Now' or 'There is no Tomorrow' being accused having similarities with Rihanna's 'We Found Love' by Korean netizens. Although, many people/fans internationally have recognized it, but they are precisely wiser. This is not plagiarism, this is just some kind of similar idea but not exactly the same -NOT THE WHOLE THING TO BE HONEST, YES? AND EVERYONE CAN FREELY USE THE FIREWORKS AND MAKING LOVE IN THE CAR SCENE IN THEIR MUSIC VIDEO BECAUSE THIS IS NOT SOMETHING NEW, OR NEW INVENTION IN THIS WORLD LIKE THOMAS ALFA FOUND LAMP BACK THEN. Sorry.

[MV REVIEW] TROUBLEMAKER'S 'NOW': THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

This is 19+ version MV and I shouldn't really spread it wider because there are still some underage Beauties around, right? But, I do really want to write this review/interpretation because there are some things really caught my attention. It has been such long time I haven't written a great interview of MV and I don't really know that it will be a good one or just a mere writing he-he-he. But, well let's move to my very state of minds. 

[RANDOM] AN OST FOR 'IDKL' FANFIC

Hi, guys, anyone who dropped by here must have somewhat read my IDKL fanfic? And here surprisingly, there is a song can be an ost for the fic because it so damn represents the story a lot ㅋㅋㅋ. The song is none other than BEAST's 'How to Love'. How I wish they had created the song was because really inspired by this fic. ㅋㅋㅋ. Anyway, they made a special MV for this song, catch it here:

'how to love, nan ajikdeo meoreugeusseo saranghan beon'

'how to love, I don't really know love'

I wanted to post it earlier, but I forgot easily. Hehe.

So, for those who love IDKL fanfic series, go check the song!!

^^;;; 비스트 짱!!!!!

[BEAST IS BACK] SHADOW (그림자) MV TEASER

Dujun's part 'because I'm shadow shadow shadow' me like it hehehe

The full MV and 2nd length album will be released online this July 19

Let's wait for their another hit coming!

[BEAST IS BACK] ALBUM COVER AND TRACK LIST

cr: cubeunited on twitter

Personally I like the album cover. But, I just lit bit disappointed because I have expected that the other members would have contributed to the album production such as writing lyric or composing. Yeah, all the songs after all are written, composed, and arranged by our rapper, Yong Junhyung, and his very well known friend, Kim Taejoo. Hope this second full length album gonna be great! Let's wait until July 19 haha!

[VIDEO] 120812 PERFO BEAST' BEAUTIFUL NIGHT AT INKIGAYO

I share this one because I feel that this performance is the best one being showed by the boys. Although actually at that time before going to Inkigayo pre-recording, they were running (and caught in the rain) from airport after their arrival from Macau (the Beast and B4uty concert). But still, I can't deny how good their spirit are. I can see their smiles and Yoseob looked having so much fun, although Hyun Seung lost some breath when singing, but he could handle it well. Dujun as usual playing around with Beauty by borrowing the rose light stick kkk - and for this one he didn't break it kyaaak lol (don't forget to look at the end of the video, look at Duj, he showed off to us that the light stick didn't break lol). Ahh, and look at maknae lol, he couldn't lose with his hyung, when Duj got rose light stick, he followed him and took a Beauty's ls. LOL. I love this couple, DOODONG~ haha... Ahh, and also K-Beauty are the best! The grey rose light stick filled the room made me feel like crying... thank you K-Beauty, you best!

Watch here:

cr: hong02ys at youtube.

take with proper credit.