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Review: Lee Hyori (이효리) - Bad Girls (배드 걸스) MV
The queen of kpop, Lee Hyori, has finally returned with her 5th studio album, Monochrome, with the title track "Bad Girls". As part of her comeback into the kpop scene, she has released 3 music videos for this album, namely Miss Korea, Amor Mio (previously reviewed here) and the aforementioned song. Do check out the music video of "Bad Girls" below:
Contrary to the teaser image of Bad Girls (above) which boasts of Lee Hyori's bold sexy charisma (a killer glare + bold accessories + a vintage style jacket, as per www.kpopstarz.com), the music video was unexpectedly entirely hilarious and entertaining. Incorporating clever animation elements, it was generally really fun and quirky, though somewhat wavering towards eccentricity.
Apart from the handful of scenes where Lee Hyori lip-syncs the music video was all about a storyline tracking several significant events in the life of a Bad Girl, specifically a revengeful, manipulative, scheming and violent one. Many scenes which could have been otherwise unsightly, controversial or rated were all presented in a much more light-hearted and comedic manner (though KBS has still decided to ban it on the premise of disrespect and sexual malice shown). Check out some of the scenes that were part of the MV below:
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| 'Throwing a grenade' at a group of students who made fun of her, one of which pevertedly flipped up her skirt |
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| Bringing great pains to her birth mother during childbearing, who eventually passed away when she was conceived |
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| Skillfully pulling down the pants of her teacher who had leaned perhaps too closely to her during class |
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| Charming this invigilator during examinations with a grenade and getting him to take her place |
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| come here you bad girl |
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| hah hah catch me if you can |
Since she is Lee Hyori after all, sexual appeal was still present in the video. The infamous scene of Sharon Stone's interrogation from the 1992 film 'Basic Instinct', was parodied, which involved the spreading of her legs in front of a panel of interviewers.
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| Turning men into wolves with her 'strange charm' |
It is fortunate that Bad Girls has such a fantastic music video, because this made up for the audio aspect of the song which fell short. Yes, the song is certainly amazingly catchy with its systematic structure and easy to sing-along to tune. But Lee Hyori's vocals was really quite flat and very much lacking in colour or variation. It didn't help that the instrumentals were relatively toned down too. On a whole, the song wasn't that impressive.
Dance Version
The dance for Bad Girls was on a whole really powerful, and 'sexy with a touch of class' (quoted from a comment in the video). While there wasn't really many impressionable dance moves (the only one for me being the finger twirling during the "Bad bad bad bad girls" part), she exuded an extremely strong charisma throughout.
To sum it all up, both videos are really worth checking out, even though Bad Girls is really not too great in terms of musicality.
Did you enjoy the music video of Lee Hyori's Bad Girl? Do type your comments in the section below!
Photo Credit: www.kpopstarz.com for teaser image
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Review: 이효리 (Lee Hyori) - Amor Mio (Duet 박지용 of Honey-G) MV
On May 28th, the 'Queen of K-Pop' Lee Hyori released her third and final music video for her Monochrome album comeback entitled 'Amor Mio', featuring the slow and soft voice of Honey-G's Park Jiyong. If you haven't watched the beautiful music video, watch it below!
After watching both the somewhat tolerable song and indeed monochrome video, Miss Korea, as well as the disappointing song yet not-half-bad video, Bad Girls, the second I heard that the video for Amor Mio came out, I was quick to check out the outcome of the third and final video of Hyori's Monochrome comeback. Finally, after giving the video a go, my assumptions, that the song would be average and the video would be sub-par, turned out to be more than true true.
The song
The song itself was average, the slowness of the composition being quite a noticeable change from the second comeback video, Bad Girls, and the first, Miss Korea. Though her being in the industry for an elongated 15 years and is more than just a bit late to just have started improving her vocals, to give Lee Hyori some props, her voice fit with Park Jiyong's to a T. Likewise, I was surprised to hear the small bit of Spanish in the song, the title 'Amor Mio' roughly translating to 'Love of Mine' adding a bit of spice to the song overall.
The only thing that I want to say is that this song is one that will honestly get old after a while, the song being not that attention-grabbing.
The video
The video was more or less disappointing. Yes, I understand it's a ballad and the meaning of the song revolves around a woman who wants her lost love back yadda yadda however, did it really have to be a bunch of shots of Hyori running, singing and Jiyong playing piano? I have watched numerous other ballad videos such as Brown Eyed Girls' Cleaning Cream and Sunny Hill's Pray which have videos with more "pizzazz" in them... so why must I spare Hyori even after her 2 years hiatus? The video with no doubt could have been much better, the numerous close-up shots and continuous running unneeded and quite boring.
To Sum It All Up
After her 2 year hiatus, the queen, Lee Hyori, returned with an album accompanied with 3 music videos. Though the previous two had better visuals than songs, Amor Mio certainly was a bit of a change the song being much better than the video as well as the slow and soft ballad sound. Though I'm not going to let her off the hook for her lack of vocal skills and the lameness of the music video, I am going to say that this ballad actually at least worth one listen.
What did you think of Amor Mio? Comment below!
