Trouble Maker Go Mobile (Gun Crazy In Korea 2)

[koganbot]

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.

Comments

[warthoginrome]

Honestly, even though I liked the previous song, I didn't dedicated much time to this new release from Troblemaker. The song is forgettable and the MV boring. They are not bad at acting their roles, it's the concept that is really worn out. I can appreciate the effort of pushing a bit the korean audience with some action, but it feels pretentious, like if they are trying too much to get some feedback. Beside that, I read that they basically duplicated a Rihanna's MV, and that's even worse. I hope they don't plan to take the same road of western popstars. Many people have gone there, trying hard and harder to shock somebody, but they failed. From Disney to Hustler, we already saw Madonna, Britney, Christina, Miley, Selena, Rihanna, and counting. We don't need it. Not that I'm disappointed if Hyuna shows some skin, but I want her to do it her way, K-Pop style.

[koganbot]

Here's the Rihanna vid, which vastly improves the mediocre "We Found Love" for me:

Yeah, I see similarities and lifts, the candy-colored shimmer of "There Is No Tomorrow"'s alcohol echoing the candy-colored pills in "We Found Love," a brief car scene in WFL possibly inspiring the extended circling-car motif in "No Tomorrow," flames in each vid, shots out in the fields. WFL is explicit that the relationship is doomed by its own dynamic, while "No Tomorrow" adds to this the idea of a world closing in on our couple (or is this me being overinfluenced by hyunseungtwin's blurb

[petronia]

Really into this song.

I was in Toronto earlier this month for TO's Nuit Blanche contemporary art event. One large installation involved two driver-less sports cars, which had been programmed (you can do that nowadays, apparently) to slowly circle around a concrete-paved public square. Their wandering paths were designed to take them within a hair of crashing into each other, repeatedly, without ever doing so.

Long way to go before this is Western-popstar shocking! I mean, basically there are a few guns and beer bottles, and Hyuna flashes some cleavage, and it is implied some people have sex.

[koganbot]

In the context of Korean TV it's automatically provocative (you can get your video banned from prime time for simply showing alcohol, much less flaunting it like neon as this video does). Whereas I doubt the Rihanna vid was particularly trying to be provocative; was just telling its story - which may also be true of the videomaker's intentions for "There Is No Tomorrow," but the latter nonetheless is encircled by the Korean context.

[koganbot]

There's an Uncut version; gives more of an explicit plot, the circling cars being part of the video but not part of that plot and therefore being more officially metaphoric, which actually weakens the idea, I think.