K, about the song first! It's a bit slower than the songs I usually go crazy over, but there's so much English in it that it's easier to listen to over and over because it's so entertaining. Being able to sing along is one of the things I miss most about English music when I miss it at all. U-Kiss was very kind to throw in so many English words. It feels like I can interact with it, sing along for the most part.
I'm skipping ahead to the dance now because I think the dance is one of the big reasons I really like the song. There's so much energy in the shoulder-bump shuffle (see 1:02) and it's easy enough that I can try to do it while singing the English words (badly, alone, with window blinds drawn of course). My favourite bit though, is from 0:48 seconds to 0:55 seconds. That's when all the gratuitous body rubbing and patting is going on. Now, I don't like it for the reason you're probably thinking I do (well, ok, that too) but because if you watch it again, it looks like they're trying to be really cool while putting out their burning shirts. "Rub off the fire, rub off the fire! Not working, try patting it!" But because they are U-Kiss and filming a music video, they' 'I'm on film, can't look like I'm panicking, play it cool, play it cool!' A much sexier version of this guy:
Think that's what they were going for? Because that's all I can see. It's the 'Sexily Putting Out the Fire' move.
The only thing about the dancing that I was, 'eh' about, was all the reaching and lip rubbing that DongHo was doing. It seemed excessive to me. That's not his fault though. That's the video editor's bad. His image might be the 'hot, sexy' one, but give him SOME dimension, will you?
Ok, costumes and make-up! There is an exceptional amount of eye-liner, but this is normal for U-Kiss and is not done to the point of Panda, so yay. My personal theory is that they're wearing an inch thick make up but it's so well done that you don't notice. I think this because of how cold it looks in that warehouse they're dancing in. See their breath? When it's that cold, your face turns red, or at least mine does. Your nose gets red, your cheeks get rosy. It's just what happens. But none of U-Kiss resembled Rudolph or those rosy cheeked gnomes
so I'm assuming that they had make-up caked on their faces to keep them looking normal. You have to assume that they were on this freezing set for a couple hours, right? Naturally, they should have changed color at least a little! So good job to the make-up artists!
Their denim costumes had a lot of metal. A lot. I really liked their black costumes. Very chic and not overdone.
Oh, and I really liked the girl's contacts. Personally, I thought they made her look exotic and exciting. The only thing that detracted, and it was very slight indeed, was that she didn't blink. She drew too much attention to them, implying that they were new to her too. If she had made them seem just a little more common place, it would have made the effect better. I can't find a picture of her, but if you watched the video, I'm sure you saw it.
Ok, I'm going to take a stab at the meaning of the song. They're singing about burning while the girl is standing still and something about him being lost in the maze. So, I'm going to interpret that as, she is verbally or emotionally abusive, hurting him badly, but he's so lost in love with her that he can't leave her. Meanwhile, she's not changing and keeps hurting him. Yeah... that's what I'm going with. My boyfriend offers a different interpretation. He thinks that she's dumping him cruelly. That the maze is him being lost without her. Meh. Either way, it's not a happy situation for poor Ukiss!
Overall, like the song, like the video. It's not one I'm going to be passionate about, but it provides amusement with the Sexily putting out the fire dance and all the english words, and energy when I feel like dancing about like a dork.
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