Today's MV: Red Velvet Automatic 레드벨벳

I'm back people!! So, I was waiting for new teaser of Red Velvet come back passionately to the point I checked their official website (facebook, youtube, well, actually SM Town official website) every 30 minutes. But nothing new added. Then days ago I almost dropped my smart phone after seeing news on their facebook account. It was the teaser! But my imperious internet connection wouldn't let me peek the video, so I went to sleep with curiousity. 

Thanks God, I was able to connect to internet and another happiness come. A music video of their pre-release single! I never heard them singing another song except Happiness and Be Natural so I was super excited!

Well, actually I planned to make review about their previous music video, but this one really can't be ignored! So I just forced my laptop to playing the video again and again until I could hardly memorized it :X

Well, no more unimportant chit chat, just check this gorgeous video!!!!

The video was opened by a dark room in which there was a girl stand inside. Guess who is she??? U can hear a girl speaks in English on the background (I bet it is Wendy's!). I dunno why but seeing that image and hearing the voice remind me of a scene from film about mentally disorder person. Or is it only me ><?

She is Seulgi! The most veteran among red Velvet in term of training period. She holds a plate of mmmmmm....spaghetti? The camera follows her, from the moment she stands like brood until she sits in a brown sofa. 

Feast!!!! Yum!!! I love and hate this scene at once, since it makes me drooling like a fool XD

Turned out that Red Velvet members sit together on a set, looked like they having a dinner. U can't watch all of the faces, but from the back u can feel that they have serious expression.

 Irene!!! Omona........since her predebut video on SMRookies, this is the very first time I agree with most people's comments about her: She is pretty!!!! I'm not trying to say that she is ugly or what, but I didn't find her meet my own criterias for "pretty", I couldn't feel her charm back then. She looked unearthly beauty on teaser image though and after seeing her in the music video I left dumbfounded. She looks like a noble from western country with that blonde hair and blue eyes, (well, the eyes can't be seen clearly here but on the image teaser u will know what I mean) jinjja yeoppo!!! <3 <3

The lamp above can spin actually, adding a "live" feeling for the video (since the girls only sit like statue there with empty gaze)

Wendy!! Another western princess!!! Look how nice her blonde hair curled, and her light blue eyes!! I never expect how good she is in west style since her face is so 'korean'

Seulgi walks into wastafel, leaves her members in red creepy light behind.

SM is so detailed about everything! That old mirror! Wuuaaahhhhh!!!

That kind of wastafel! The one with rust on the bottom rather than the clean one gives u old, classy feeling. I can't help but remember abandoned house that leaved by the owner for very long times.

Wendy joins inSeulgi to pose in front of the mirror. See? How nice her wavy-curly and mess fringe?

Greet the new member, Yeri!!!!! She is 99' liner, so this year she will be turn 16 (17 for korean age), damn! So young!!! I still set my opinion zero about her when they released her image teasers. So many feelings mixed, like: Can she do well in RV? Does she really fit in an already established group rather than a new group? I prefer Joy as the maknae and blah blah blah. And to tell the truth many fans felt annoyed with this addition.

But hey!! Take a closer look at this MV and u will know that Yeri isn't interference at all!! She suits RV!!! By the way,,,anybody beside me who realize that she is the only one didn't wear blue lens??? I guess they want fans to see her 'real face' before any make up intergrue. Oh, and, her lacy dress above remind me so much with what TTS wore on "Whisper" song :D

I really think that there are people who looked dashing when they close their lips, and one of them is Irene. Really,,,she better in serious expression rather than cheerful so much smile like in Happiness (this is only my opinion, regardless she is pretty of course). I wonder where this girls will go with that expression.

Wendy really can pass as western people!!! Her face doesn't look that oriental in this blonde. Her hair accessory (dunno what to called it) reminds me of Velma from Scooby Do, don't u think so??

Out of the 5, I think Joy is the one who less suit the blonde hair, though hers isn't that blonde (I see  much red color in her hair), and natural eyeliner look best on her than thicker black liner like this one. Actually when I saw her first on broadcast I was really surprised since her aura so much different with any teaser released back then. On the teasers she looked serious without smile at all where all of her unnies smiled brightly. But in real stages she smiled widely and had a lot of aegyo too!! So, when I gor surprised again by her gaze in this video I just recalled her gaze on debut teaser.

 U can really feel the breeze from this scene, plus, I see a loneliness from Seulgi's eyes (or only me?)

I really like this black and white scenes!!! Wendy and Joy (I don't really sure about who is on the third pict though, anybody know? She looks like Joy, but I think the costume isn't hers) move their body freely and happily. It's like showing new side of them, SM really did great job with only 'changing' the lighting.

Nah, I dunno why there are so many picts of Wend whereas my bias in RV is Joy, I think unconsciously I screened shot her picts due to her drastic yet great change in style.

Seulgi is lost! She loss her own direction under the dim red light (yeah! Let's singing f (x) Red Light!!!!)

Soon after seulgi lost, everything in the MV turns back into the beginning. Start from Yeri, when she peek into a book shelves and find a mysterious light behind.

Such dreamy beautifully image of Irene!!! Now I wouldn't mind if she is the face of the group (I find different information about this group's face. Some say it is Seulgi while other say it's Irene on that position), nevertheless all of the girls are pretty to begin ><

Out of the turn back scene, I love this the most, when the water drops back into the tap. I find it very good, though so many movie or mv has done this technique.

She reminds ve so much to Snow White. Alright alright, I know Snow White has brownie hair instead of the blonde one, but her expression, her mighty hair radiates'princessy' feel for me, and she hold apple, so it's Snow White.

Unlike Irene who gives out cold vibe, I find Joy is more warmth though her gaze doesn't say so. Maybe it's her darker blonde color than her unnies, or maybe it's her dark thick-like simple outfit, or maybe it's the yellow fruit that manipulate my mind to think so.

And finally it's back to when Seulgi standing alone in front of the window.

Closed with "Red Velvet" written on the black background scene.

Yep, we've been peek the scenes of the MV, now let's discuss it!

The Lighting

I really love the way they changing the lighting. It is the same room, but by playing with the light they able to present vary moods, like the pict above. I felt a mysterious yet unspeakable feeling right after watch it, I also get a scent of depression here :o

Bam! The scene revolved, Seulgi goes around, leaving her members in darker atmosphere on the dining table.

Then everything turns black and white, strangely this changes switch ur mood higher than another set, let u dancing freely and without any pressure.

Out of Joy's cut I like these the best! Her reddish blonde hair shows up its pink color here. 

And this red light!!!! Since They named "Red Velvet" which shows Red as sexy mature side of the girls, hence they use red monochrome to pull their grown up side rather than using velvet color or any other color.

It's dark dark dark! No matter what the girls always seen with black background that doesn't even deter their radiance.

The Hair Color

As this far, everytive Red Velvet make their come back they also change their hair color. So far they've had 3 different colors since Happiness first introduced to world: dark brown ombre with 4 different bright colors (pink, tangerine, green and blue), darker brown tto balck color for Be Natural and now, blondes girls with different shade that at first could be confuse u who still have difficulty to distinguish them. I myself didn't really happy with the last color since I found Joy didn't really suit this. Later I have to acknowledge this step as very smart move to let KPop fans to pay their attention to not only their musical concept but also to their newest style, and I now find these colors very pretty!! Really, everything need to be grow first before u can start judge it >_< Plus this blonde color and the way their stylist did to them really does well. They look much more classic!

The Dance

We only bale to see the glimpse about the dance. The way this video directed is quite same like their previous video (Be Natural), some even can't distinguish Automatic with Be Natural since the scenes keep moving and in Automaticthere is even verse "Natural", which is nowhere to be found in Be Natural. But man...I love their outfit here, where they have frilly girly outfit that match very well with the dance.

They also love to tangle their hands each other. I always love to see dance in which the members keep body contact, it shows that they have stronger relationship, ah, and I can feel the warm from seeing such scene >< I feel similarity with Be Natural of their dance, except here they don't use any chair as properties.

Overall I really like this MV, I appreciate how Red Velvet able to combine a creepy scene with such love song and turn it into some eye catching video without I need to fold my eyebrow when watching it (like I have with Vixx' VoDoo). The camera smartly evolving around each member in which whenever they focus to one member, the next scene will change. They also able to have on and off for the lighting, changing its brightness intensity and u get different fell from the same set. Automatic is still like typically other of SM' MV set: inside a box, but this time the company takes step ahead addition of kitchen, dining room and mini library (well it's still inside a box so....). I don't know how to evaluate the quality since I have no idea about that stuff, but I always referred to the video size when I need to download video then asses it to have good enough quality or not. In term of music video, sometime u can get very high definition video with word "1080p" on it, but usually that type of file does really have nice image but the sound quality is too low, means I need earphone to listen the song better. That's why I prefer "720p" video more than "1080p" since it also has nice image (not as good as "1080p" though but the sound is indeed louder than the highest one. Nah,,,,,this music video of Red Velvet, with "720p" downloading, I only get around 30 mb size of the video. Should we say that SM provided us a lower video? But after I watch it, I didn't find any low quality in the video. The low size can be due to the domination of black, dark background of the video and some blurry image inside it.

Some people maybe saying this Automatic is the sexy side of Red Velvet that just showing their "Velvet" side (just like Be Natural) instead of the "Red" side. But for me, I prefer calling this track and this video as more mature side of the girls instead of sexy, since in my mind, when somebody saying that a girl group make a comeback with sexy side, I instantly imagine any revealing outfit with some hot dance infatuated their bodies. No, I'm not a pervert, but thanks to watching K-Pop for years now I develop that mind >3<

Nah, it won't be good if u haven't watch the video, my lousy explanation about the video won't let ur imagination about it as good as if u watch the video, so here the link for u.Currently this video has hit 2.026.280 views on SMTOWN Youtube Channel within 4 days of the release (daeeeebakkkkk)

credit to: SMTown Youtube Channel

 And! Don't forget to singing along Red Velvet, u could get the subbed video here:

Ahhhhh....I can't upload the video!!!!!! But no worry.......u can find it here 

How? How? How? How???? Do u like it??????? Yeeaaapppppppssss we're in sync!!! Wait, what...some don't feel the same????? Well, it's okay, we could always diverse in taste. No problem at all.

Well, I need to back to my own world. Let me know ur opinion about this mv....and thanks for visiting my blog!!! See u on my next post!

XOXO!

Today's MV: Xia Junsu 준수 ft. Tablo 타블로 of 에픽하이 Flower 꽃

Annyeong people!!!! Can't believe this post is going to be my third post for this week!! Well, actually I have new rhythm since I moved to Wonosari: having nap every day. That simple activity was very rare for me, so I amazed myself. Since today is Friday, we're back earlier than usual, I have nice lunch with my friends and came home full. I planned to watch Running man firstly then take a nap, but suddenly my wifi detector activated, uups, my next door room friend is using her hot spot! Hurriedly I went to internet and write this. So practically I steal her internet (gotta get her permission later ;P). Hehehehehehehe

This noon we will talk about none other our cute duck butt: Xia Junsu. Personally I prefer call him Junsu, but since I have error on "J" word on my keyboard, so I'll call him Xia instead.

News about his newest album and teaser for his new MV had been flying around weeks ago. But I didn't really like the image cut from the teaser so I didn't even watch it. Finally on 02 March they released the MV and I had nothing to say. Speechless. Really amazing and great video!!!! No more chin chong, let's take a closer look for our Xia!!!!

Bam baaam........What u feel after seeing those gloomy highlands? I never expected that this video would be having dark concept where the title itself was "Flower". The video was opened with "Xia" and the title "Flower" written with dark mysterious mountain behind. There was a vague image that there was something on the top of the mountain. The intro of the song was begun with "eerie" sound that had mystic aura.

Golden sculptures also seen in the form of bird and lion. Dunno why, from these two  I sensed a kingdom feel right away.

A door opened. Some men hid behind their mask came with scary aura. I could confidently say that the man in the middle need cataract operation very soon before his lens melt :D They broke through a castle or kingdom which Xia was the king inside. Telling from their expression, we knew that they didn't come with warm heart. A group of protest? Or even rebellion?

They threw something to the throne. See the man in red with blue hair? He was Xia who sat on his own chair calmly. They pictured a small people, who actually had a great number on this world, but only little of them whose brave enough to come to the higher people.

The object thrown turned out to be a head of broken gold robot. another "eerie" but strong visual from this music video appeared. I never had any good feeling whenever I saw something "unusual", and this creepy robot definitely listed on those "unsual" for me. First, why the color was gold instead of silver like any other metal made object? I came to deduct that those gold color represent the value of treasure highly praised by human. The broken human robot head showed how people nowdays valued gold (prosperity) as high as (or even higher) than humanity. The men threw it to Xia to said that they gave him what he loved most.

Xia let 'his' men showed their temper. Let the group shouted their voice, showing their disrespect, anger and wrath in front of him. He put his calm face, to the point he looked indifferent toward them.

He began to move with his small yet powerful troops, he showed arrogant gesture to tell the rebel group who was the real one with power. What's caught my attention was the troops. They dressed differently, as if they had  no concept to match. That was purposed to tell the world that they had enormous types of power that's why they were the one with control. And on the top of them there was Xia, the men with the highest influence who completely had control over these powerful people. These people was the only one lived in the castle or palace and the one who ruled out the world.

The robot began to blaze

Xia put his cold yet strong gaze. Did u see his silver nail? He had both beauty and cold nail to make everything worked his way. He only needed his deadly strong eyes to silence everything.

The robot continued blazing, it even moved its mouth as if it had something to say, as if it had its own thought.

Xia finally walked down from the throne. The freeze troops didn't even moved their finger when King Xia didn't command them, that's how much they had his words on theirs. He stored the act of the rebel on a box called "bad memories" and offered the rebel his hand and asked them to hold it till the end. Sadly, the way he asked the rebel was more like challenge them, asking would they brave enough to hold it.

Xia had given his royal command. New decision had been made. One more words, and the troops came to freezing position again. This time after gave the rebel his answer he saw something that looked like only Xia could see it.

It was a girl, watching from far everything that Xiah had done. Could it be his offer to take his hand was for this girl?

Turned out it was a little girl. The one with angelic face that could calm u down from any negative thought u had. She smiled and showed us her soft yet care gaze. I was thinking, could it be Xia was trying to portray the highest among the highest? Like God or Goddes or something as in his belief. It figured as a child to show a pure and innocence. Could it be Xia seek her approval toward his last command? Or he beg silently, asking for her help? It still puzzled me at this rate.

No more tive, the command had been made, the robot head was dissolved into a thick unknown fluid. At this moment I couldn't believe my own brain that told me this robot was going to turn into a drink! Should it be that far??????

The answer was yes! There was a machine that easily turned the robot into a tea or coffee or anything like that. 

Say good bye to the eerie yet misfortune robot, it now changed the shape into a cup of  luxurious drink. Judging from the appearance, well, it looked extravagant and had it own class. But if u asked me to taste it, I would say thank u very much, even if it didn't came from a unlucky robot.

King Xia took a sip of it. The way he drank it showed us how much the higher people loved the glory gold. Even if it came as a damage human robot's head, as long as it made from gold they would find a way to enjoy it. This scene showered me with a lot of thought, about how far people would do to have pleasure (I didn't say that we couldn't get any pleasure, but this kind of pleasure, I would say NO) They wouldn't know the word "disgusting" if it was related to gold. But, Xia, I bet the taste wouldn't feel great ><

I didn't disturbed with his silver nail, thick eyeliner or his blue hair. Things that I even wondered why since I couldn't stand look that out of normal. And this style definitely wasn't categorized as normal

 

The scene with this costume shocked me. Before watching the HD video, i downloaded the subbed video with lower quality. And I thought the dancers behind were in apes costume! Seriously I couldn't hid my wonder, why apes out of sudden? After such futuristic looks on the early scenes??? But after I got the HD ver, I laughed over myself really hard. They  just had black ash make up on their face! LOL

From this scene I could feel the power of Xia's dance. Oh, he was always one of our dancing machine that we could proud of. In this scene I also could feel his mature emotion and begin to understand why he was such popular with his musical.

Next after drink was a supper. King Xia got ready to had his meal.

 

Another shocked scene would appear. This time, even Xia himself got surprised over what he saw. U would soon know why.

Yep, the one on the top of the plate would disgust u more than gold robot that turned into a drink. Take scroll down

 

Yep, this one ladies and gents! The highlight of this video. I was uuuuurrrggghhhhhhhh when seeing this fish. What's with the head? Was it a dog head???? Yikkksssssss. This scenetold us that what we ate everyday actually came from disgusted things like this without even realized it. Our greedy turned our normal meal into a horrible pieces.

The little girl from earlier showed herself again. She was actually observing Xia from far.

Look into her smile, it seemed she knew some secret and watched overwith anticipation.

Finally came to his sense, Xia realized what was going on. he finally open his heart and nauseated over what he brought to his stomach. Couldn't stand it any longer, he vomited it, a blue electric fluid. Xia had been poisoned by his own greedy.

The little girl wasn't Goddess or something holy like that. She was onlyan incarnation of Xia's greedy. She showed support when Xia was about making mistakes and laughed over him after successfully fooled him

World is evolved. It's natural that u can't be always on top. The fallen Xia became a normal person and had to workd from the earliest point to survive again. he lost to his greedy, his own desire to take all gold to be his. 

 

I had to cracked my head to be able to write this review. No, I had no problem after watched it for the first, but to construct it into a word s was something else. As far as I remember, I couldn't find why this track was tittled "Flower"

Let's talk about the music video itself!!!

The Visual

This MV has the strongest visual ever!!!! No, it's not that kind of beauty images of pretty people, instead they display many shocked scene, pushes the boundaries on K-Pop world. This kind of MV is the one that I've never seen before. Xia dares to show his unique style of music that tell the world how far his perception about music differ with others. He brings the concept that actually is not new (post apocalypse as the background setting) but takes it to highest level of understanding.

The Plot

The storyline of Flower is one of the kind. It's going smooth but hard enough to hit ur head and brain. Twisted plot about the little girl still left me in awe, such a dazzling and puzzling plot, let the audience to fall into deep thinking about this MV. I could feel Xia's great acting skill, thanks to his musical career, he can display such dramatic acting in this video. Ck ck ck ck. i couldn't tell, how far our Xia would grow? 

 The Dance

Unexpectedly, the dance for Flower is much more simply than my imagination. We know Xia is the owner of heavenly voice and one of best dancer in the world (yeah, I said WORLD, not K-Pop) so we unconsciously always hope watching his hard, difficult level of dance. But, no matter how simple the dance is, we still can see the power of Xia, the emotion he shows during dance was remarkable. I have no words to describe my feelings about it.

Well guys, this music video really really really really really really really deserve ur time to watch. It give u different vibe, not like u watch any other K-Pop video. This is the power of one of the most powerful, best idol--wait, he is more than an idol--in the world. He is DB5K's member afterall (don't laugh me, I sincerely hope they five can become one again, and I believe it).

Althogh I thought that I've been think hard, there was another review that I think more make sense than mine, u could check hers/his here

No more words, just watch the MV urself >_<. I give u link for the video, subbed video and dance ver of Flower. Enjoy ^_^

credit to: CJESJYJ Youtube Channel

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credit to: CJESJYJ youtube Channel

XOXO