Confessions on HyunA's Ice Cream MV

[PLEASE NOTE THIS ONLY REFLECTS THE OPINION OF ADMIN K. I can be a bit over the top cynical when I have lots of feels.]

I thought I would start off this “little rant” with a transcript of briefly what was going through my mind when I was watching this video. Be free to watch the MV simultaneously while I go through this.

Promo from Psy? She was in his and now he is in hers? Marketing stunt?

Report to the dance floor?  Does this how all dance songs need to start? In that case, where is this dance floor?

This song makes me cringe… not in a good way.

1:16- “It’s too small for me.” What is too small?

1:18- “SALE: My little brother with big shout” Is this endorsing selling your siblings? “Tell me! Who am I” *facepalm*

 

1:23- “Shell we drive? On your UFO” Shell? No spell-check Cube?

“Santa please forget my crying”

“Do not hurry you have 4 minute” – PLURAL! I don’t care if it’s HyunA’s group name!

Why!? You make me want to cry.

1:30- You just potentially killed someone!? Call a freaking ambulance! 

1:34- Oh here we go, the real sexy is starting.

1:46- You can’t do that with real ice-cream…. It would fall right off the cone.

1:51- “Batman he is gone” How is this relevant?

Oh the chorus dance… HyunA getting her sexy on.

Oh God… HyunA with soap suds… Nice work Cube.

2:11- Was that a boob squeeze?

2:27- 2:33- I’m sorry. There is no other way to describe this. This is HyunA sitting on a guy and going up and down on him. NO!

 

3:08- NOOOO!! It just keeps getting worse! Now she’s molesting some guy with her name and ice-cream tattooed on his back. EUGHHHH!

3:21- Is this guy a statue? He’s not moving or reacting at all. Of course he was paid to stand still so HyunA can do her thing.

3:28- Obligatory “bite on something sexily” scene

3:44- She’s spraying water from a hose now!?

3:45- Oh wait it’s not water... It's white…  well that’s not much better… Yes I just went there. Don't deny it, you went there too.

Generally speaking, wrong season and wrong timing for this video. It’s Autumn in Korea at the moment and it’s getting cold. I think a song supposedly about ice-cream should be released in Summer? It seemed like the logical thought. After watching that video, I feel like I need to scratch my eyes out. To me, it looked like glorified stripping, without obviously the clothes removal. I’m not surprised especially after Change, Bubble Pop and Troublemaker. It’s HyunA I get it, it’s the way she’s marketed and promoted. I just didn’t expect it to get worse. I’m not hating on HyunA. It’s just that try-hard sexy is a big turn off in my books. It makes me feel like this video is directed at catching the attention of pubescent hormonal boys and perverted old men. That just takes away from the value of the song. 

Admittedly, I didn’t like the song all that much prior to the music video. That was purely because it didn’t fit my music tastes. I’m not particularly fond of sweet, high-pitched songs. I also found the idea of a song about ice-cream to be a little bit ridiculous. Despite knowing this, curiosity got the better of me. 

There are some redeeming qualities. It's a very colourful and bright MV. Also, even though Psy’s appearance may have been a marketing stunt, I still liked his addition. Psy brought some humour to the MV. It’s what Psy is good at and I think it adds a light air to start a (when you're ignoring the sexyness) fun MV. When HyunA isn’t trying to be sexy, she’s actually very pretty and kind of cute in my opinion. I have to admit that. She also doesn’t look bad in anything despite my complaints that are directed at how revealing most clothes are. 

The dance itself, quite suggestive but also I think she’s a good dancer. No doubt. The teaser was rated 15+ and Cube is predicting that the infamous MOGEF will slap a 19+ on the full MV. Not surprised really. At least they acknowledge it?

I won’t get too much into the song since there might be an album review on this. I don’t know.

Now I need to go cleanse my eyes. I feel violated.

Cr: Screenshots done by Admin K (excluding the GIF)

+Admin K

Listening to: Epik High- Kill This Love

Confessions on My K-Pop Life Episode 34

 

Admit it, you got a nose bleed when this happened right?

 

 

 

 

and this bit..

 

 

and for like the whole damn MV...

 

 

 

Listening to: Hyuna - Ice Cream

 

Song Battle: 4minute's Volume Up vs SISTAR's Alone

vs

PUMP UP THE VOLUME UP UP vs WITHOUT YOU I'M FALLING DOWN

4minute - Volume Up Tracklist:

1. Get On The Floor
2. Volume Up
3. I’m OK
4. Say My Name
5. Femme Fatale
6. Dream Racer
7. Black Cat

SISTAR - Alone Tracklist:
1. Come Close
2. Alone
3. No Mercy
4. Lead Me
5. Girls on Top
6. I choose to Love You
7. Alone (ins.)

Wow, the k-pop stage is seriously awesome at the moment! I mean, we have EXO, Sistar, Shinhwa, SHINee, B1A4, BtoB, CNBLUE, NU'EST, 4minute, Nell and so many more; what a great time to go to Korea!

Okay to begin with, let me just say that I seriously loved Volume Up a billion times more than Alone. It was just visually amazing, giving similar vibes to Miss A's Touch. I love the wardrobe department and the whole vampiric-goddess-angel-demon concept of it all. Although 90% of it was Hyuna and there are substantial amounts of high ear-piercing screaming (gratitude to Jiyoon), it is seriously adictive and something haunting about it all; I just freaking love it!

  

There isn't really any distinctive choreo in htis besides this lesbian moment:



I can't even put my feelings of this into words..

Anywho, I felt that Jihyun really stood out to me for the first time. She is so pretty in this!
And Sohyun's long hair was UH-mazing!

 

The only bits which I didn't like was Hyuna's fast-talking / rapping sections. It just deflated the whole gist of the song. But Jiyoon really deserves a medal for all her screaming; really commendable!

Okay let's talk about Alone. All honest truth, I instantly hated it. It was all Hyorin which made me think why does Dasom bother carrying a mic??  But in saying that, after the first 5 seconds, I felt like was watching porn or something really inappropriate. My first thoughts was that their concept were 'hookers', which would have been incredibly awkward, but would explain the choreo. Get the picture?

 
 

I bet the sexy leg lifts are going to be a popular K-pop move now =.="



This song is slowly growing on me, but the biased me prefers 4minute. Mind you, I cringe at every live performances of Alone, solely because I fear one of them will break their leg or something whilst doing that move up there ^

Very wobbly..

Listening to: JYJ - Empty

4Minute "Volume Up" Concept Photos

Confessions on English words in Korean songs

Also known as Engrish:

Time is sober,Yakisoba

Knock things over, Lightning sofa

~Infinite

Lipstick Chicken Butter Roll...
~G.NA

I wanna come to me, Girl! ~B2ST

Ma Donut Donut Donut,
ma Donut Donut Donut ~Secret

She Got that Soup I Lub uh uh uh uh ~ Teen Top

HURT TO HURT ~ 4Minute

4Minutes slap, 4Minutes slap UH UH ~ 4Minute

PUSH PUSH BABY, JUST LIKE SISTAR ~Sistar

Latin girl, Mexican girl, American girl, Japan girl, Korean girl ~ ZE:A




Fikshen/ Infliction/ Eviction ~ B2ST


Imma so gay... SAY NOO! ~B2ST

Sushi Sea, Red Ocean ~TVXQ

I DAA NAAAAAAAAA!! ~B2ST


 
Ijen Kupai Kupai Kupai... ~FT Island




POP POP POP MA COLLAR ~Hyuna

CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK ~Seungri




Hell No, Hello No ~SHINee


PANTS. PANTS. PANTS. PANTS.
Stick it in the hole, stick it in the hole, stick it in the hole
oh OH OH ~Super Junior

Give it to my wife, Listen to my wife ~MBLAQ



SHAKE THE ROCK ~U-Kiss

CN Blue`s English Version of "I Don`t Know Why". I swear, it's literally cut and paste from Google Translator. The weirdest thing I`ve ever heard that makes zero sense whatsoever. Thank Christ for Yonghwa's voice...

Don't be scared, baby. Atom bomb is coming!

PAHAHAHA Junhyungie, your Engrish is commendable...

 

Urban Dictionary: Supersonic - a 'cool' english word part of the 'ic' family that is easy to rhyme added to nonsensical Kpop songs written by SM Entertainment

SM's attempts to ryhme:
"Loverholic, Robotronic"
"Fantasic, Elastic"
"Mysteric, Hysteric,"
"Electronic, Matic, Supersonic, Bionic, ENERGY"

"Supersonic" and "Hypertonic"

The infamous "Just Gimme Yo Chicken" at 0:27
Priceless.

I still can't forgot Shock of B2ST.
Seriously, the chorus was grammatically messed up.

"I'll break yo shit tonight"
"Every day I shop SHOP Every night I shop SHOP"

Haha, funny thing is that would make more sense than "Shock". I mean what are they shocking every night?

Overall winner is of coarse: B2ST!



Congrats Cube, perhaps you should polish up your English :)

Listening to: Super Junior - Opera