OMONA ORIGINAL: KPOP MUSIC VIDEO TROPES PT. 3 - A MOODY BATHTUB
There will be a sister post with the same theme over on ONTD.
Part 1: A Sandy Desert Locale
Part 2: Shipping Containers and/or Heavy Machinery & Tools
For whatever reason - the bathtub music video is so much more pervasive in Kpop than it is in western pop music. They differ slightly in that they're more likely to remove the bathtub from the bathroom. Kpop said - more bathtubs in the middle of outdoor fields! The Kpop videos also appear to be more gender-balanced with their bathroom brooding than in the west, where it's mostly women. There's a million of these and this list only contains a fraction of them, so go ahead and post your fave bathtub MVs in the comments!
Below I've compiled a short list of music videos featuring Kpop stars that, for some reason or another, love brooding on, in, or around a moody bathtub:
KNK - Knock
Am I starting with KNK because I stan them, think they're underrated, and am trying to get them more attention?! No, I would never do such a thing! It's because it's just a super moody bathtub video and nothing more.
BTS - I NEED U
See also Run. These boys are obsessed with the bathroom aesthetic.
Sunmi - Borderline
See also Siren.
See also Gashina.
It's starting to feel like Kpop is sponsored by Big Bathtub and Sunmi is their spokesmodel.
Monsta X - All In
Monsta X said, "All in...on this tub trope!"
See also Joohoen - Red Carpet
Teen Top - To You
Fully dressed in the tub to express the e-m-o-t-i-o-n!
Blackpink - Playing With Fire
Jennie in her clothes, lighting matches in the tub. Nothing weird about that.
9 Muses - Remember
Bathtubs galore! Some of them capable of teleportation!
2NE1 - Missing You
How many of you cry in the tub and think about how much you miss 2NE1?
BTOB - Remember That
A bathtub AND flower petals. BTOB knows their tropes.
Rosé - Gone
Rosé keeping the moody tub trope alive in 2021.
Other Kpop Videos Featuring A Bathtub:
Brown Eyed Girls - Cleansing Cream
Exo - Lightsaber
Exo - KoKoBop
T-Ara - Number Nine
4 Minute - Hate
Stellar - Marionette
NU'EST - Good Bye Bye (Also featured in Pt. 2!)
f(x) - 4Walls
Jessica - Fly
Winner - Sentimental
Jonghyun - Lonely
G-Dragon - That XX (Feat. Jennie which makes for Blackpink's THIRD tub video)
Poll Bath vs. Shower
Sources: 크나큰 KNK / HYBE LABELS / SUNMI / starshipTV / 1theK (원더케이) / BLACKPINK / GENIE MUSIC / 2NE1 / BTOB 비투비 (Official YouTube Channel) / BLACKPINK
Part 1: A Sandy Desert Locale
Part 2: Shipping Containers and/or Heavy Machinery & Tools
For whatever reason - the bathtub music video is so much more pervasive in Kpop than it is in western pop music. They differ slightly in that they're more likely to remove the bathtub from the bathroom. Kpop said - more bathtubs in the middle of outdoor fields! The Kpop videos also appear to be more gender-balanced with their bathroom brooding than in the west, where it's mostly women. There's a million of these and this list only contains a fraction of them, so go ahead and post your fave bathtub MVs in the comments!
Below I've compiled a short list of music videos featuring Kpop stars that, for some reason or another, love brooding on, in, or around a moody bathtub:
KNK - Knock
Click to viewAm I starting with KNK because I stan them, think they're underrated, and am trying to get them more attention?! No, I would never do such a thing! It's because it's just a super moody bathtub video and nothing more.
BTS - I NEED U
See also Run. These boys are obsessed with the bathroom aesthetic.
Sunmi - Borderline
See also Siren.
See also Gashina.
It's starting to feel like Kpop is sponsored by Big Bathtub and Sunmi is their spokesmodel.
Monsta X - All In
Monsta X said, "All in...on this tub trope!"
See also Joohoen - Red Carpet
Teen Top - To You
Fully dressed in the tub to express the e-m-o-t-i-o-n!
Blackpink - Playing With Fire
Jennie in her clothes, lighting matches in the tub. Nothing weird about that.
9 Muses - Remember
Bathtubs galore! Some of them capable of teleportation!
2NE1 - Missing You
How many of you cry in the tub and think about how much you miss 2NE1?
BTOB - Remember That
A bathtub AND flower petals. BTOB knows their tropes.
Rosé - Gone
Rosé keeping the moody tub trope alive in 2021.
Other Kpop Videos Featuring A Bathtub:
Brown Eyed Girls - Cleansing Cream
Exo - Lightsaber
Exo - KoKoBop
T-Ara - Number Nine
4 Minute - Hate
Stellar - Marionette
NU'EST - Good Bye Bye (Also featured in Pt. 2!)
f(x) - 4Walls
Jessica - Fly
Winner - Sentimental
Jonghyun - Lonely
G-Dragon - That XX (Feat. Jennie which makes for Blackpink's THIRD tub video)
Poll Bath vs. Shower
Sources: 크나큰 KNK / HYBE LABELS / SUNMI / starshipTV / 1theK (원더케이) / BLACKPINK / GENIE MUSIC / 2NE1 / BTOB 비투비 (Official YouTube Channel) / BLACKPINK