I feel emotionally battered by the election, feeling simultaneously vulnerable and malicious, as if I'll be attacked for anything and nothing and I run constant fantasies of going back and settling old scores ( Read more... )

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. ( Read more... )

More wtf from Korea, Sunny Hill's "Darling Of All Hearts," which I described on Rolling Country as "sorta Irish folk-country flight-attendant pop" - though Mat points out on K-pop 2013 that "featuring" star Hareem plays the Swedish nyckelharpa (no doubt worth five times as much as the Irish pennywhistle he also plays*) and that the vocals in the " ( Read more... )

On the latest 4minute EP, four* different sets of producers/writers make the same decision (or follow the same instructions), which is to create songs that have lots of empty space, highlighting each singer and song segment without worrying too much about tying sections together musically or emotionally. These tracks belong to a strange and ( Read more... )

Writing has its own versions of Auto-tune and plastic surgery: they're called "rewriting" and "editing" (incl. in-the-head and unconscious editing, before your own or another person's hand even starts reworking the prose ( Read more... )

Reading Leonard Pierce on Gun Crazy, I recalled that, for reasons unknown, the video for Infinite's "Be Mine" includes inserts from that violent movie, as well as noir atmosphere that has little to do with the lyrics - Eng. Trans. gives us a song about a girl who's hurting and a narrator guy who promises to protect her, if she'll be his: "Be mine, ( Read more... )

When last I embedded Brown Eyed Girls' "Abracadabra" I asked for theories regarding the dog in the video, but got no response. I would like to ask again, not just regarding this video, but dogs in general in Korean music vids.

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My own commentary in full, regarding the dog in "Abracadabra," was: "The dog? Someone walks a dog down the hallway." What ( Read more... )

Complicated Korean Video Friday resumes today with Ga-In's "Irreversible."

I find the video profound, though the message - what the man's trying to convey to Ga-In - would be a platitude if reduced to a sentence or a maxim. In fact, the guy in the video tried to tell her, but she didn't take in the lesson 'til she'd lived through the consequences ( Read more... )

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Kara's "Step," Brown Eyed Girls' "Sixth Sense," and Jay Park's "Demon" were all reviewed recently on the Jukebox (here, here, and here). The big "Step" issue for Jukeboxers was how crowded the sound was, some liking it, some not. I'm definitely in the liking-it category, think producers SweeTune make it feel effortless, a full-throttle but easy ( Read more... )

Chipmunks: There are many chipmunks. Either that, or there is one quite active chipmunk whose range cuts across a lot of people's yards on a number of different streets.

Pedestrians: Pedestrians wear dark clothes at night and walk on the right-hand side of narrow two-way roads that have neither sidewalks nor shoulders, the pedestrians therefore ( Read more... )