I've also seen this song called "How to Get Girls." Having watched the music video, I thought, 'Wow, that's kinda creepy.' And then I looked up the lyrics and thought, 'Huh, that's really repetitive and Extremely creepy!' The first lines of the song (besides 'This is the time, the time, this is the time, the time) is "I'll sell my soul to the moonlight, and I'll trap you alone in my crimson heart." A few things hit me about this, first is that it could be really sweet, depending on what words follow and what images the singer is going to present us with. The next thing was a faintly nostalgic connection to LeAnn Rimes' Can't Fight the Moonlight, for possibly tenuous reasons. And lastly, HOLY CRAP, STALKER!
The song gets worse with lines like 'If you reject me, I'll hit on you and hit on you again. I don't give up.' and ' it's all your fault for being so pretty,' and 'that's the problem. Being pretty is the problem,' (anyone else remembering those movies where a psycho takes a knife to their obsession's face to make them ugly so that no one else will want them? Just me?) I'll concede that maybe, just maybe, if you're in a really healthy relationship, or in the clutches of typhoon of teenage hormones, this song might seem sweet if you sing it to your significant other. But no one else could get away with it and would be, in face, inviting a restraining order.
Um, did anyone else think that the acting was... well, bad? It was a bit over the top, in my humble opinion. He was trying much, much too hard to look cute. Fail. It did occur to me that this might have been on purpose; the product of the girl's distorted mind, which can't distinguish 'cute' from 'creepy,' kinda like not being able to distinguish a baby doll from Chucky. Maybe his bad acting was on purpose. But then I thought, nah! This guy is one of the singers from SS501. Bad acting seems to run in the group. (Oh! Ow! Burn! [Please don't hate me]) The reason I couldn't make myself believe that the over-acting was intentional was the scene at about 2:20, where he looks like he's trying to hide how scared he is. It was much more obvious than the being overly cute. Yep, subtlety is not a strong point of Heo Young Saeng's acting. The fear though, that was good. He acts fear well.
As for the dance... um, I'm going to have to assume that this guy was chosen for his singing ability, not his dancing. Now, I'm uncoordinated. When I try to do kpop dances, I've been asked if I'm alright. But this dance, I think I could do. And do just as well. A lot of arm waving.
There wasn't very much english in the song. "Crazy baby" a couple times. Meh. Not a lot to sing a long to. The song is semi-entertaining but won't be making my play list.
Minor notes, where did they get the shiny rope? That looks pretty cool. And anyone else get a little de ja vu of Kan Mi Youn's Going Crazy?
But this is not the first, nor the last time that kpop will share plots! And if that girl wasn't so nuts, I'd love to hire her to paint my room! Having murals on my walls of my fav kpop idols would be amazing!!
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