In Which I Fly My Rainbow Flag
Dear Kpop,
I am extremely concerned by this recent turn of events in which SNSD, Kara, AND T-ara will all be promoting within the same period with dark concepts and black outfits. Kpop, you seem to have this idea that all serious songs MUST be accompanied by absolutely COLORLESS execution, with MVs bleached of all discernable color and always always always black costumes.
By the time I finish wading through all of these leather stylings even the upbeat dance songs leave me melancholy, as I feel stranded in a destitute world with no color. Sure, you throw in splashes for dramatic effect, but they are fleeting, teasing me with how I am slowly becoming blind to this phenomenon of seeing something other than shades of gray.
Even worse are the cases in which you fool me into thinking that you aren't draining my spirit away by using all muted colors. MUTED! I am so deprived of my isolated wavelengths that these poor mutations of drab can be passed off as something else, when in reality they only serve to make me feel better about being herded into color-blindness.
Why such lack of creativity, Kpop? Are you afraid that your SRS BSNS won't be taken as seriously as you want it to if you give it any discernable character?
Don't think I'm not letting you off the hook either, single-color-with-black styling(especially blue or purple). You're even more devious than the muted colors for easing the transition into monotony, because I am then tricked into complacency by being led to think "at least there's one color". Except it's the lack of variety in the palette that's the problem, and shades of the the same color is not enough. And black looks good with any color, so I feel better about being drowned in it for matching so nicely with whatever scraps of the spectrum to you to toss me.
Will multiple colors distract from the message you are trying to get across? Is a rainbow coordination of outfits is too trivial for SRS stuff? Well, foolish Kpop, I am here to enlighten you. Songs with a serious tone can still have HELLO RAINBOW settings and be all the more kickass for it. And more important than the backgrounds, look at the people NOT wearing black!(Although Koda is still styled like a streetwalker...)
PROOF:
Now see Kpop, was that so hard?
But Jesusica Kryst, why are the boys so obsessed with avoiding all color for their serious songs? I couldn't find one example that fit my criterion exactly, even searching through Jpop boybands. Yeah, there was color in G-Dragon's MVs, but only in the "splashes" category, so that the parts bleached of color were brought out even more. D: And while GaraGaraGo!! may have color, the boys are still all in the usual black leather for half of the MV. Fuck you especially Don't Don, Wedding Dress, and Again&Again for being poster children for all-black, muted colors, and one-color-plus-black respectively.
That's right, turn up that color saturation and luxuriate in it. It's delicious. :d
I am extremely concerned by this recent turn of events in which SNSD, Kara, AND T-ara will all be promoting within the same period with dark concepts and black outfits. Kpop, you seem to have this idea that all serious songs MUST be accompanied by absolutely COLORLESS execution, with MVs bleached of all discernable color and always always always black costumes.
Click to viewBy the time I finish wading through all of these leather stylings even the upbeat dance songs leave me melancholy, as I feel stranded in a destitute world with no color. Sure, you throw in splashes for dramatic effect, but they are fleeting, teasing me with how I am slowly becoming blind to this phenomenon of seeing something other than shades of gray.
Even worse are the cases in which you fool me into thinking that you aren't draining my spirit away by using all muted colors. MUTED! I am so deprived of my isolated wavelengths that these poor mutations of drab can be passed off as something else, when in reality they only serve to make me feel better about being herded into color-blindness.
Why such lack of creativity, Kpop? Are you afraid that your SRS BSNS won't be taken as seriously as you want it to if you give it any discernable character?
Don't think I'm not letting you off the hook either, single-color-with-black styling(especially blue or purple). You're even more devious than the muted colors for easing the transition into monotony, because I am then tricked into complacency by being led to think "at least there's one color". Except it's the lack of variety in the palette that's the problem, and shades of the the same color is not enough. And black looks good with any color, so I feel better about being drowned in it for matching so nicely with whatever scraps of the spectrum to you to toss me.
Will multiple colors distract from the message you are trying to get across? Is a rainbow coordination of outfits is too trivial for SRS stuff? Well, foolish Kpop, I am here to enlighten you. Songs with a serious tone can still have HELLO RAINBOW settings and be all the more kickass for it. And more important than the backgrounds, look at the people NOT wearing black!(Although Koda is still styled like a streetwalker...)
PROOF:
Now see Kpop, was that so hard?
But Jesusica Kryst, why are the boys so obsessed with avoiding all color for their serious songs? I couldn't find one example that fit my criterion exactly, even searching through Jpop boybands. Yeah, there was color in G-Dragon's MVs, but only in the "splashes" category, so that the parts bleached of color were brought out even more. D: And while GaraGaraGo!! may have color, the boys are still all in the usual black leather for half of the MV. Fuck you especially Don't Don, Wedding Dress, and Again&Again for being poster children for all-black, muted colors, and one-color-plus-black respectively.
That's right, turn up that color saturation and luxuriate in it. It's delicious. :d