I have created a masterpiece! A masterpiece I say! Look at that thing! Admire the headdress!
Now that I've got that out of my system.........
CL is the leader of the girl group 2NE1 and this is one of the MANY outfits from her solo debut "The Baddest Female" and while I didn't really like the song, that outfit was rather amazing.
I don't think that I can say that CL was harder to make than Hwon, because even though the headdress was no easy task, it's not structural like his crown, nor does CL have any embroidery. This was the first time I had ever used any kind of metal though and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. All I really did was cut a chain up, but it was still something new and I like trying new things.
The reason that I made this, along with a few others, was because I wanted to try to start an Etsy account or something similar and see if I could sell a few, except now something else has come up and I don't think starting an Etsy account would be the best thing to do now. What am I going to do with all these guys now?
Finally 2NE1 has helped me remember why I love them so much. With CL's "The Baddest Female" and "Falling in Love" I just kept getting disappointed, but with this song there was no awkward "Touch me over here, touch me over there" and no cheezy "Not 'bad' meaning bad, but 'bad' meaning good, you know." Just a great party anthem that you want to jump around and dance to just like they do in the video. Each of the girls had an opportunity to let their voice shine. I love how when you listen to it you can pick out who sings which part. You have CL with her awesome talk rap/singing, Sandara with her softer melodic voice, Park with her awesome wailing, and Minzy with her lower range and awesome harmonies. And even though they all do have a very different and distinct sound to their voices, the song still totally flows and all the pieces just seem to make it a whole lot of layered goodness. How's the video?
I love this music video. Like I was saying the song is such a good jump around and sing it with your friends song and that is exactly what's going on in this video. They're singing it in the car,
at a party with awesome cheezy dance moves,
at a slumber party with curlers in their hair
At a pool party
and one of my favorite parts, making their friends look awesomely silly by putting singing lips on them.
I really like how it feels like this whole video could have (and actually might have been) filmed on a cell phone camera. There are even different parts of the video where it really looks like they have an instagram filter turned on.
The process of making the video and why they make stylistic choices is always interesting to me (probably because I'm a photographer) and I thought it was really cool that this is the direction they took for a few reasons: #1 Their original concept fell through and to be able to make the deadline so they could keep rolling out a music video a month they decided to make it more homemade. #2 I guess people are really intimidated by the girls of 2NE1 and they wanted to show their personalities in more of a "look, see, I'm human. I can be silly and fun, don't you just want to be my friend" kind of light. And I for one think they did a great job in that aspect.
How's the styling? 2NE1 is of course always known for being some of the leaders in fashion, and although they are dressed in some of the brands their known for (*cough*adidas*cough*)
their look in this music video is a lot more casual than we usually see from these girls.
I know I already mentioned it before, but I so love Sandara for having curlers in her hair through half of the music video.
Park Bom had awesome amazing nails.
It seems to me, like the majority of the video the theme of the styling was comfortable fashion with CL's oversized sweatshirt
and Minzy's sweater dress
Was the dance super amazing? There was only one small part where it looked like they were doing a dance together:
If you are like me and love super fun cheezy dancing, then yes.
But most of the time it was just people being goofy and rocking out to the song.
Which member owned it?
I think Sandara Park did an amazing job showing how awesome her personality is. She was so funny and just seemed like someone I would actually want to know in real life. And no, it's not JUST so I can meet her adorable brother (although, I wouldn't say no if she offered)
No, but seriously, here are a few gifs to show you just why I thought Sandara was the best in the video.
You're just jealous of the fourth dimension CL.
She is so talented.
Okay, so Sandara isn't the only one in this gif, but I love her reaction the most :)
Did the English make you ears bleed? Of course not. CL's english is impecable and I'm sure she keeps the rest of the band's English in check.
What else is happening?
MBLAQ "No Love"- MBLAQ changed it up and put out a ballad. It is good, but it didn't knock my socks off. They are adorable though. Ze:A "The Ghost of Wind"- I almost chose to review this video. I really like the song, and thanks to Autumn pointing it out, I know that they can see unicorns. NC.A "My Student Teacher"- I love the original version of this music video because it is so simple, but so funny. I couldn't stop laughing. I also watched the drama version of this music video and I liked it, then it made me a little uncomfortable, and then a little confused. Anyway, make sure to turn on the captions when you watch, because half the fun is in the words. BAP "Badman"- Is following the post-apocalyptic trend that is going on now a days. For some reason I feel like a few of the lines from the chorus of the song are from other songs that I've heard, especially the "I've got a feelin'" and the "I'm a badman"... I can't put my finger on it, but I'm really not interested in researching it either. And probably a whole bunch of other stuff too, but Alora is way better at this than I am. ~Becca
Um......well I.......um......yeah....... Those were my thoughts after the first time I watched the video and after watching it a few more times, it hasn't really changed. You can't say that we didn't know what was coming though. YG told the masses that it was going to be a slow song, but even with that knowledge, I don't think that I was ready for what I got. I was hoping that there would be some singing in it and maybe a cool dance because CL is very good at those things as well.
I do think that this song fits her image though. She isn't wild and crazy like we see in G-Dragon's video's and she isn't solely a singer like we get from Bom and Daesung's videos. I think that she fits more in the TOP category how they both have that kind of swag going on.I can't believe I just said swag......
How's the video?
There wasn't a story line to the video and I don't even have anything to work with to make one up. The point of this video was basically to make CL look as cool as possible and I guess that is okay because it is her solo debut. Since this doesn't leave me with much to talk about, I'll talk about some of the people in the background of the video. There were three cameos in the video made by GD, Taeyang, and Teddy. I thought that it was weird that none of the 2NE1 girls were in the video, I think that it would have been cool to see them in the background supporting CL.
In the video there were three people that caught my eye, first was GD
GD, dude, where are your pants? He looks like a man back at home that we call Super Fly because he is always walking around in leather, gold chains, and sometimes a cane, no matter what the weather is like. He wears pants though......
Second were these two girls
The girl with the blue hair looks a little draggish and what the heck does that other girl have on her face?
Third, this little kid
It's so cute!
Was the dance super amazing?
There was one dance in this song and it was what I call the squat and sway. That's about all I got. Also, how does one go about doing "the unnie"?
This music video is really giving me nothing to work with.
How's the styling?
Holy crap how many outfits does one girl need? Seriously, she had more outfits than B1A4! Well, sort of. Since there are five of them they would have 35 outfits plus Baro's extra one, but she wins for individual outfits. Let's count them shall we?
Thirteen outfits later...... This video is only four minutes long! I can't imagine how long it took to shoot this thing with all of these changes. Her hair and makeup are different in almost all of them as well. I would go insane if it were me.
There is also a lot of "gangster style" clothes in the video as well and if there is nothing else that I have learned from Eat Your Kimchi, there is no such thing as the hood in Korea. Even in dramas, gangster are often very well dressed or just wear your average clothes that you would buy at a department store. Go home YG, you're drunk.
Does the English make your ears bleed?
The English is fine, as well it should be since CL speaks perfect English.
What else is happening?
Henry of Super Junior M is coming out with his solo album on June 7.....until SM delayed it! This better be good SM!
EXO Wolf - I like the song, but EXO was trying to be overly cool and it came out slightly comical and awkward, Nega Eurf AOOOO!!
Junsu is coming out with an album in July
MBLAQ Smokey Girl - It's got kind of a cool 20s vibe to it, but I don't know if I love it yet
Boys Republic Party Rock - This is their debut song. It is catchy, but someone was super heavy handed on the auto tune.
