Review: B1A4′s “Baby I’m Sorry” MV

I really liked this song

The Lyrics

Korean

The lyrics are basically about a man who can’t let go of his ex-girlfriend.

That’s basically it.

English

There was bad English in this song, but majority of it was alright. There’s this one line though, that drove me insane:

“Baby I’m sorry, we got the better”

This is obviously the most important line in the song; it starts of the chorus, which is repeated thrice, and it contains the title of the song in it. Of all the places to screw up your grammar, it happens in the most important line of the song? Seriously.

The Image

There were two things that bothered me visually about this music video.

First of all, almost the entire thing is show in a drab, dark, dingy background. I understand he’s sad, and therefore while they’re standing there sobbing over their loss it makes sense for the camera to look  like that. However, even when there’s flashbacks of his girlfriend, they’re there in that drab, dark, dingy background. If you were just as miserable with her as you were without her, then why would you be with her in the first place? I thought they might have been trying to go for the whole “my memories of you” are tainted type of thing, but if they were they didn’t have enough actual plot scenes to set that sort of thing up properly. They do, however, have one backdrop where they don’t look abject: their nothing-but-dance backdrop. Seriously?! Way to just ruin it.

Second of all, I feel like their clothing was both hit and miss. When they’re in their “acting scenes” they’re dressed in casual clothing that’s neutral colored–it suits the mood perfectly. When they’re in their dance sequences however, they’re in these gimmicky suits, obnoxious accessories, and so many other things that just don’t suit the song they’re singing about. How am I supposed to take you seriously singing about how much the loss of your girlfriend hurt you when you have like a studded, gold, bull horn hat on your head and you’re dancing around? It just ruins the mood.

Miscellaneous

I don’t like B1A4 enough to have an actual bias, but the member I think is a) most attractive and b) with my favorite image is hands down CNU. I also have a thing for guys in glasses, so I just think he looks SO HOT  in this mv XD

 

Review: NU’EST’s “Face”

The Lyrics

This is a song chastising someone for living so frivolously. There’s a boy, apparently, and he’s trying to be strong. He goes around “throwing away friendship” and only wanting to be strong and successful. They’re saying his brain’s “too light” and “full of feathers” because he’s chasing shallow things, and that his shallow nature is “the difference between [him] and [NU'EST].” NU’EST, allegedly, goes after what’s really important in life. The boy “searches for the Himalayas” (meaning he just goes around looking for problems in life and ways to prove how strong he is), while NU’EST goes after what’s really important.

Their entire message is more or  less in Ren’s part, with

Hey, you’re gonna get hurt – move, you’re gonna get hurt
Sometimes being too courageous is a problem
Shout out, shout out to ask to save you
If not, from now on, watch closely

They’re saying the boy shouldn’t be afraid to be weak once in a while and lean on other people–he doesn’t need to go around proving his masculinity all the time.

The message is rather nice, but the entire rest of the music video just goes against that statement. The music video is full of their condescending glares (despite the fact they’re singing “If you look down on people, it’s bitter“), their dancing that showcases their strength, and every single solo-shot is them looking haughty with some “I know I’m sexy” gaze. Everything from the unnecessary dance sequence which is nothing but them trying to show off to the extremely aggressive dancing just disregards all the idealistic stuff they’re spewing out.

The Plotline

The plot-line confuses me so much. First you have a guy (named Dude for convenience) who is a victim of peer bullying and NU’EST’s incessant nagging. They shove him down in the hallway, and a NU’EST member (named Face for convenience) “defends him” by shoving the ringleader of the bully squad away. He and the bully circle each other, deciding whether not they should make out, and then you cut to a scene in a shady basement where Dude is getting bullied again. This time all of NU’EST is there, posing on some makeshift stage and looking away as Dude gets beat up.

So, basically it’s a shift from Face helping Dude to Face passively watching as Dude gets beat up, as if he’s given up on this frivolous boy. I just don’t understand what this to do with anything. It confuses me.

The Image

Their image… is that of a high-school gang. I don’t need to screencap everything, you know what I’m talking about. And once again, I don’t see how their image as frightening, aggressive, bullies relates to the plot or the lyrics.

Miscellaneous

Why is this song called Face . I don’t understand.

Overall

This debut just kind of seemed like a mess. There’s wholesome and idealistic lyrics, an irrelevant title, a demeaning plot line, an gang image, and aggressive choreography. Where is this all supposed to go?

Celebrity Justice and Stalkers with JYJ

Long story short, there’s been a scandal on JYJ as a video surfaced of JaeJoong and YooChun hitting their stalkers (they are not ssangti fans, they are stalkers people get it right) and cursing at them. The video has poor audio quality and the visuals aren’t much better, so nobody really knows what happened, but for the sake of this post I’m going to assume its true since I don’t want to type “maybe,” “under these circumstances,” and “so if it did happen” fifty times. I have two major takeaways/arguments with this event:

• People need to realize just how illegal it is to stalk someone
• People need to look at both sides of celebrity justice

First of all, I find that because the media portrays stalking someone as such a “cute” and “comical” thing, people have grown cold to just how scary it is to have someone following you everywhere. Two years ago a friend of mine began receiving anonymous texts from a guy at her school, and she was an emotional wreck. After it began getting worse and it wasn’t just texts anymore she ended up moving states and even now, if she gets a text from an unknown number you can see just how scared she is as she’s about to answer it. Knowing that somebody could be waiting for you as you go somewhere, having people constantly tailing you and hounding you for your attention, it’s not something to be taken lightly. It’s sexist, but true, that it is much easier for a girl to seduce a guy than it is for a guy to seduce a girl, and do you know just how bad it would be for JaeJoong if one of his fans were to succeed in that?

I remember watching a movie some time back where this insane lady snuck into her crush’s apartment, watched him shower for a few moments, and then stole his planner so she would know where to run into him. I was absolutely abhorred by all the comments of people laughing at her and calling her “ditzy” and “cute.” What if a guy had snuck into a girl’s apartment and done the same thing–would you have the same reaction? There’s really no difference, and having someone following you all the time isn’t something to just brush off.

As for point two, celebrity justice is an issue that people grow more passionate about over time. Everyone is always saying how celebrities can pay people off to keep their secrets and the law just lets them off easier because their public figures–and how that’s not fair. The general consensus is that celebrities should be, judicially, treated just like the average citizen. But they stop at the persecution of celebrities–if you’re arguing this, shouldn’t celebrities have the same basic rights as anybody else as well? If some random schoolboy had dozens of women stalking him and he swore at them to tell them off, nobody would even think for a second that he was in the wrong. Well, there are still people who think 9/11 was a government scam, so no, maybe not everybody, but anybody who matters. If celebrities can be arrested and tried for just the same laws that an average citizen can be arrested and tried for, why can’t they be protected by the same laws that an average citizen is protected by?

And many people, it seems, celebrities should passively go through life with dozens of fans assaulting them from location to location–it’s the price they have to pay for being successful and stealing all those hearts. I find that ridiculous. It would be one thing if all those fans were just joking about stalking YooChun on the internet; it’d be one thing if they were laughing about bearing JaeJoong’s children, but actually taking action on those words and executing them is a completely different story. Words are just words, people throw them carelessly over the internet because the worst anybody can do is call your argument moot because your grammar sucks or CAPS LOCK YOU TO DEATH AS IF THE LARGER LETTERS ARE SUPPOSED TO SCARE YOU. For celebrities to expect verbal abuse, verbal laud, stuff like that is “acceptable.” But they should not have to deal with fangirls who can’t keep it in their pants just because they decided they wanted to sing for the rest of their lives.

When words turn into slander is a completely different issue that I won’t be discussing.

Hitting those fans and people’s reactions to them hitting those fans were both out of line though. I haven’t gotten a clear enough view of the situation to say whether not hitting those fans was appropriate, but unless those fans were like feeling them up or assaulting them then I find it rather excessive. However, a lot of people have been calling them hitting the fans abuse, which is also excessive. Please, if cussing someone out is ‘abusive’ then slapping someone is murder. And though those hits might have been out of line, it’s nothing close to abuse. That’s where I think people are just gender stereotyping, I really don’t see why it’s so shameful for a guy to hit a girl. If I hit a guy friend, I expect him to do something in retaliation.

Side note, but since I mentioned it in the post already, don’t you hate it when people say your argument is invalid because your English is poor? Please, the correct response to that is that their argument is invalid as their logic is poor.

Another side note, I think I will turn all my rants into a series called “COME AT ME BRO!” The problem with that is, however, that the name is a little too long for my liking and ‘CAMB’ is just a really ugly acronym.

Poll OTD: JB and Henry Lau

JB is this character from Dream High 2; don’t ask me about him, because I’m not watching the drama and wikipedia will have more info than me. I’ve been hearing a few comparrisons between him and Henry Lau, and when watching the HyoRin/Ailee cover of Top Girl I spotted him. I will say, they really do look alike.

JB:

Henry:

and just for fun, SungGyu:

So, poll.

First Impression Set: U-Kiss in Japan

I’m still pissed at DongHo, but I like Kevin too much to let that keep me from this (I stopped being pissed enough to watch this only now though).

The red and black/gray suits look nice, though Kevin’s hair is a different story. I don’t like it when guys have bangs that curve like in a circle around half their face; it makes them look funny.

I’m currently reminiscing the days when Hoon first joined and everyone was talking about he couldn’t sing for crap and they might as well make Eli sing. And I’m laughing in all their faces. This is a freaking dance track and I can still tell his voice was made for ballads.

The man-heels were the second thing I noticed.

The song is attractive and upbeat, but I think it sounds better when you’re not watching the music video. The music video… is kind of bland.

All the red reminds me of Tohoshinki’s Break Out.

I have yet to find out whether this song makes sense or not, I will go look up a translation soon.

It looks like the starry night in gthe back of Toki wo Tomete.

I wish they would take those angels wings off KiSeop, he looks fine without them. It always  bothers me when people use angel wings because either a) they looks fake or b) they look convincing, but weigh so much they droop down and therefore don’t look convincing anymore.

The sound in the chorus really suits the astronomy-esque theme.

Okay, I understand cropped pants are a big thing for guys in south-east Asia right now, but when Kevin sits like that the pants look like capris on him.

They’ve really gotten better at that Kevin sings everything thing.