Hey guys!
I haven't blogged in awhile, something close to two years, so I've decided to start it up again. I've tried to start up this blog a couple other times, failing miserably, but I do believe it's high time for everyone's favourite sarcastic blogger to make his way back into the spotlight. Why, you might ask? Well, the main reason is because I've kinda-sorta-definitely-for sure decided on my plans for the rest of the year. *drumroll*
I'm going to Korea!
It's not too much of a surprise for a lot of you, at least those of you I've talked to in the past year or so, but apparently even when I'm not active people check my blog (for the astounding wit, facetious commentary, and excessive use of commas), so I thought I'd announce it to the community at large. Yes, near the end of the summer (or whenever the job I get needs me), I'll be shipped off to Korea to spend my days teaching small children the glorious virtues of English.
Now this doesn't necessarily correlate to an increased amount of blogging, but in my case I plan to blog/vlog about my experiences in Korea, so I figure getting back into the swing of things wouldn't be too bad. I don't know whether I'll blog on this blog in Korea or create a new more Korea-centric blog, but I might as well start getting the practice in now. Besides, there's so many fancy new buttons and editing software on the website, it'd be a shame not to utilize it to it's full extent.
So that brings me to my topic for today (albeit it's probably gonna be short): the ridiculous flamboyancy of K-pop videos.
As everyone knows, I love K-pop. Even if you didn't know me personally, you knew that I loved K-pop, it's a universal truth. But instead of linking you guys a bunch of amazing K-pop songs, I instead have decided to analyze them a bit. Or at least analyze how ridiculous some of them are.
Let's start with 100% more recent comeback, 심장이 뛴다. For those of you who haven't watched it yet (I mean I gave you the link, put a little effort into it) let me summarize the basic plotline of the song. As far as I can tell, it's the story of one boy's girlfriend who, instead of burying him like a normal person, decides to incubate his dead body in some new age preservation chamber. She then proceeds to gather up a rather large number of ominous tubes and chases down his friends to remove parts of them which she then grafts onto his body. Then, instead of disposing of the bodies, she leaves them at the foot of his chamber, so that the first thing he can see when he's reanimated is the lifeless bodies of his friends. The grief of seeing all of this causes him to rip his own heart out, ruining all her hard work.
I mean, come on. I know music videos are all about cool concepts and all that, but it could be better to shy away from the mass murder of an entire band. Don't get me wrong, I love 100% so much. Like so much. But when I watched it again today, it just struck me as such a ridiculous concept. And know that we've gotten ridiculousness out of the way, maybe we should look at some of the flamboyancy.
I love flamboyancy. I love fabulousness. But what I'm not the hugest fan of is repetitive flamboyancy. Almost every K-pop video has a scene in it where all the band members dance in white on a white background. There's just so much white. I'll spam some more 100% here, but it's just so prevalent in every music video. It'd be nice if there was some new colours at least. You can be even more flamboyant in pink, so my dream is one day to see a huge pink scene is some music video.
Now that I'm getting tired and incoherent, it seems like a good time to wrap up my coming back blog. Plus, I've run out of good 100% music videos (their 2nd and 3rd music videos weren't that great). So until next time, adios!
-AFR
