Trouble Maker Go Mobile (Gun Crazy In Korea 2)
Real good overinterpretation of the new Trouble Maker video "There Is No Tomorrow (Now)," comment posted by YouTube commenter hyunseungtwin 8 minutes ago:
The music video follows the story of the musical "Bonnie and Clyde". They're a couple, both who are criminals. Both try to forget each other but they can't because they still love each other. They spend their last night together kissing, setting walls on fire, all of these a memory of the past they shared. Near the end, two cars circle around them they symbolize their death. The MV portrays a sad romance between a couple that has no other way to love, than death.
I myself had only gotten as far as "hangovers, binge drinking, mobile home, Union Jack what?, the spector of physical dissolution, out to the nowhere, let's see if we can break the record for how quickly we can get Korean TV to ban our video." But yeah, the Bonnie And Clyde/Gun Crazy thing: Gun Crazy was a Bonnie And Clyde progenitor directed by Joseph H. Lewis in 1950; clips from it were actually used by Hwang Soo Ah in her video for Infinite's "Be Mine." But arguably, even though it lacks guns and b&w noir evocation, the Trouble Maker video* comes closer than "Be Mine" to the actual feel of Gun Crazy, the cars circling at the end recalling the Gun Crazy scene where the two protagonists each get in a different car to drive in a different direction (they're marked by police bulletins as a couple, doomed if they stay together), but the cars circle in on each other because the two can't bring themselves to separate - which honestly the cars in the Trouble Maker vid wouldn't have evoked for me had not the commenter brought up Bonnie And Clyde. Unlike John Dall and Peggy Cummins, our couple HyunA and JS aren't driving the cars but are merely encircled by them, the cars symbolizing a trap, not a rejected escape. But the feeling is there, of motion unable to break free. The incongruous Disney candy colors of "There Is No Tomorrow" make the video all the more touching for seeming to run opposite to the pro forma dissolution that washed-out colors or b&w would have evoked - K-pop smiley brightness in a ride to disintegration.
*Video is directed by Lee Gi-beak; haven't yet done a search, though Wikipedia also credits Lee with the video for Beast's "Caffeine."
Song is by Shinsadong Tiger, Rado, and LE, says Wikipedia.
The music video follows the story of the musical "Bonnie and Clyde". They're a couple, both who are criminals. Both try to forget each other but they can't because they still love each other. They spend their last night together kissing, setting walls on fire, all of these a memory of the past they shared. Near the end, two cars circle around them they symbolize their death. The MV portrays a sad romance between a couple that has no other way to love, than death.
I myself had only gotten as far as "hangovers, binge drinking, mobile home, Union Jack what?, the spector of physical dissolution, out to the nowhere, let's see if we can break the record for how quickly we can get Korean TV to ban our video." But yeah, the Bonnie And Clyde/Gun Crazy thing: Gun Crazy was a Bonnie And Clyde progenitor directed by Joseph H. Lewis in 1950; clips from it were actually used by Hwang Soo Ah in her video for Infinite's "Be Mine." But arguably, even though it lacks guns and b&w noir evocation, the Trouble Maker video* comes closer than "Be Mine" to the actual feel of Gun Crazy, the cars circling at the end recalling the Gun Crazy scene where the two protagonists each get in a different car to drive in a different direction (they're marked by police bulletins as a couple, doomed if they stay together), but the cars circle in on each other because the two can't bring themselves to separate - which honestly the cars in the Trouble Maker vid wouldn't have evoked for me had not the commenter brought up Bonnie And Clyde. Unlike John Dall and Peggy Cummins, our couple HyunA and JS aren't driving the cars but are merely encircled by them, the cars symbolizing a trap, not a rejected escape. But the feeling is there, of motion unable to break free. The incongruous Disney candy colors of "There Is No Tomorrow" make the video all the more touching for seeming to run opposite to the pro forma dissolution that washed-out colors or b&w would have evoked - K-pop smiley brightness in a ride to disintegration.
Click to view*Video is directed by Lee Gi-beak; haven't yet done a search, though Wikipedia also credits Lee with the video for Beast's "Caffeine."
Song is by Shinsadong Tiger, Rado, and LE, says Wikipedia.