July 29, 2013
It's been quite a while since we've last seen Brown Eyed Girls promoting together as one group. Between their solo promotions, Narsha's acting, and participation with variety shows, fans were starting to wonder if they were ever going to come back together long enough to promote a full album. Of course, earlier in the year they did drop the digital single Recipe which managed to top the charts, but was meant to be more like a taste of what’s to come. Finally, they've returned in full and released the music video for their title song in their latest album, Kill Bill. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out below!
The Video: Kpop meets Quentin
Tarantino with the Brown Eyed Girls take on the popular movie Kill Bill. Normally, I would be highly
skeptical about something like this but the Brown Eyed Girls are possibly the
only group that I think can pull something like this off and maintains that
quirky zany feel of the original movie without going too far with it. On your
first watch, it might be slightly confusing, but don’t worry, Andi’s here to
take you by the hand and lead you through this to help make sense of it all. Ga-In takes the roll of “The Bride”,
the main character of the movie who swears revenge on all of the members of the
Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Miryo too
seems to be portraying the roll of The Bride but in a different form. However,
her death is similar to that of Vernita Green’s in the movie. JeA has the role of Elle Driver, the
most vengeful member of the squad who tries to poison The Bride while she’s
comatose but fails. Narsha seems to
be the female version of Budd, Bill’s brother. Since the whole video is just
the four girls, there were a few changes here and there to make up for the lack
of a whole cast to fill out the whole movie. It works because they manage to
actually combine a few scenes together as one while adding their own little
spin to it and you can still tell that they are acting out scenes from the
actual movie.
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| Say goodbye to that eye of yours, JeA |
The video starts
off with Narsha who is with Bill
(who is presumably already dead) while in bed, painting his name on his back. Now
because Bill was a player, we can safely assume that they were all in love with
him in one way or another. Combine that with Narsha having already killed him,
the girls are all filled with anger and jealousy and are looking to exact their
revenge on each other. Right off the bat, the four duke it out and kill each
other. Ga In shooting JeA in the face, Narsha stabbing Ga In in the head, and JeA’s
failed attempt at killing Narsha with a poisonous spider managing to kill Miryo
off after she shoots Narsha with her shotgun. We then get an overhead shot of
them all laying on the ground dead. Or are they? If they were dead already, how
could they continue on with the rest of the scenes in the video? That, my
friends, is because they aren’t dead. Ga In’s in a coma because Narsha got her
in the head with her hair ornament and JeA lost an eye when Ga In shot her in
the face. The other two must have come close to death but managed to survive.
Thus they have fanned the flames of eternal revenge.
The rest follows
the movie pretty closely with the exception of what might be the most confusing
part of it all for me: Miryo and Ga In both depicting scenes that are supposed
to be of The Bride. My guess is that they had to incorporate the feeling of
being wronged with her having the scene of Miryo
being buried alive instead of Ga In because an attempt at Ga In’s life was
already made when JeA tried to poison her earlier. In the end, their thirst for
revenge gets them all killed by each other.
The Visuals and Dance: I spent so
much time dissecting the story behind the video that I had to make a separate section
for the visuals and dance which I usually just include in the video section.
The dance is simple and easy yet brimming with sexy confidence as per Brown
Eyed Girls tradition. We got a little crotch thrusting here and a little booty
shaking there but without the blatant ass shots we’ve seen so often in today’s
Kpop. As for the visuals, we usually see Miryo
with her hair pulled up in one way or another. It was nice to see her with
her hair down for once and it looked really
good. Ga In sports the short brunette
look again, which in my opinion is much better than the blonde she wore for her
Bloom promotions. Narsha always looks bombastic with
bangs and JeA looks as cute as ever.
The plain hair styles work well with the cowgirl type concept of the outfits
they wear in the dance segments.
The Song: There is so much whistling in this video. Too much, even. I was okay with it at first but it quickly becomes
grating to the ears after the excessive repetition. Now that’s not to say the actual
song itself has too much whistling. If I were to listen to just the song alone,
I probably wouldn’t be as annoyed with it. However, I was almost turned off by
the song by the time it rolled around because it started off with that same annoying,
whistling tune. Kill Bill has more of an upbeat Abracadabra feel to it rather than the powerful and explosive Sixth Sense or the subtle yet emotional Cleansing Cream. Their vocals aren’t showcased as strongly as they
could be but Miryo’s rapping is as
powerful and captivating as ever. The song is pretty catchy but again, that
whistling just gets in the way. I know it’s supposed to accentuate that cowgirl
feel of the song and it does its job well but it’s not my cup of tea.
Overall opinion: Brown Eyed
Girls never cease to amaze and captivate me and despite the few flaws in this
video and song, it’s still something that I would recommend to my friends. I
would have talked about the lyrics too, which were pretty interesting but that
would have made this article a little longer than it needed to be. It’s nice to
see that BEG are still going strong and I have high expectations for their
album Black Box.
I loved it. Probably the best comeback of the year.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Most other girl groups seemed to be trying too hard to pull off new concepts or push the whole sexy girl/bad girl concept when it wasn't working for them. BEG has the confidence to pull it off without resorting to ass shots. I listened to the song by itself a few times and the whistling isn't as annoying to me anymore. I liked the song as a whole regardless, though.
ReplyDeleteAgreeing with this. As a side note, I can't get enough of that whistle but then again I love Troublemaker so I could just have a thing for whistling in pop music.
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