Posted by Vee | Eyecandy, Video | Saturday 28 August 2010 6:14 pm
1 – Sorry I didn’t approve comments or pay attention to my site for about a week. I could make excuses but it basically comes down to: I’m a lazy shit when I’m not at work.
2 – The only reason I’m not registering at nihongogo.com is because my online life is already fairly active, and how am I supposed to hang around a message board AND write filthy homoerotica at the same time? I can’t. I just can’t, and it pains me.
3 – ENUMERATED LISTS.
4 – I’m seeing a lot of vlogs popping up now. Side-eyein’ y’all for real.
I grab my own boobs at one point in here, talking about Yuko Oshima.
I just DO that, okay?
Two separate takes. The first was made of shakycam and dreadful hair. There are a couple of clips from that take at the end.
The whole Dom-beard thing is over now. He shaved. Thank god. I love how if he goes one day without looking impeccable the entire fanbase freaks out.
Possibly, Ayumi Hamasaki did something this week, but I’m taking a short break from her. :/
Life is really going down the shitter for me, again, through no fault of my own, and I made this yesterday before things got all shitty once more. So, I’m not feeling my best. Be gentle with my snark. My snark loves you. Most of all, keep in mind that none of this is aimed at you! :D I’d still very much like to go enjoy about four bottles of Asahi right now, if you’re paying! Let’s go get drunk, Pink Wota readers!
A-K-BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-48 EDITION!! (plus something about Socko’s Modern Life)
Whatchu want me to talk about on Wotas Gonna Wot, Pink Wota Readers? I know all twelve of you must have something that begs my commentary. I’ll try. I promise I’ll try to promise to try.
Since I’m absolutely horrible about writing lately, but I STILL HAVE THINGS TO SAY, I figured I’d throw them into a vlog which I hope will be weekly. It will probably, honestly, be “whenever I fucking feel like it”, which will hopefully be more than I feel like writing.
Then, after I have about five or six episodes of this under my belt,. I’ll suddenly decide I hate doing it and I’ll go back to writing. This is how I keep you on your toes. This blog is like a psych study. God.
This week: “VOICE” PV, Ayumi and her stupid shit, Maji Bomber!!, and BoA
Posted by Vee | K-Pop, Review, Video | Friday 9 July 2010 2:30 pm
OK EVERYBODY WATCH THIS TEASER FOR NARSHA’S MV:
DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE FULL VIDEO? OF COURSE YOU DO, HOMEGIRL IS LOOKIN’ LIKE A COMBINATION OF FLORENCE WELCH, LADY GAGA, AND RIHANNA, OF COURSE YOU WANT TO WATCH THAT!!! SHIT!!!!
Now, BEG is one K-Pop group I never really got into. I like “Abracadabra” and all, but never enough to let them rise to the status of, oh say, SNSD or After School or KARA in my mind. They’re like my Team B of K-Pop girl groups. Even so, I always knew I liked Narsha (well, that may also be because she’s the token Stan-Magnet of the group). But this video? This concept (THIS IS TOO HIGH CONCEPT TO BE JUST ANOTHER “CONCEPT”)? I never even. I even heard the SONG and still couldn’t even. How is this so awesome?
WHY ARE THESE MATT BELLAMY LYRICS, BUT IN KOREAN (the video is subbed, btw)?? Well mostly just the chorus, but that chorus is worth it. “LOL is this “Hysteria”?”
Who directed this shit, ChanWook Park!?!? The photography, set design, costume design, and art direction are AMAZING. But mostly the photography. I can’t get over some of the shots. In particular:
2:17-2:19 – OH MY GAWD it looks like a Dali painting.
The whole 2:39 – 2:53 montage – AAAHHHHH WHY IS IT SO GREAT.
3:16 – Sure other videos may have great dance shots, but do they have the singer being dragged away by dancers dressed like Freddy Krueger?!?! NO.
THE WHOLE “OMFG ANGEL WINGS” SEQUENCE – This had the potential to look SO cheesy, but it really doesn’t. It looks flawless. What the Hell. Amazing.
4:09 – 4:11 – Possibly my favorite shot in the whole video.
Watch it, okay. These videos will probably be taken down presently, but whatever. While you can, watch this.
You want me to be arsed to care, to look at this objectively and with a ~brave heart that still loves Morning Musume after all this time…I JUST CAN’T.
When I re-listen to this it occurs to me that maybe I’ve taken a few too many pages out of Luke’s guidebook. Except less skeevy. Maybe. I do end with AKB48 in bikinis.
Honestly, I’ve had this one up for a while on my YouTube channel, but decided to wait for a “dry spell” to post it. The reasoning? I don’t really think it’s my best. Well, honestly, if you wrenched my arm and got to the bottom of things, I honestly think everything I do is pretty shit, but I try not to let that detract from having others possibly enjoy things.
Here you go. Possibly enjoy it!
Why are these so hard to do for H!P? I don’t even know. Most of the time nothing HAPPENS in these PV’s, is the main problem. But the other day I re-watched this one and had to raise an eyebrow at the utter strangeness of the images.
Were there an extended version, I would explore the possibility of Miki herself being the balloon strangler, but the video is long enough on its own thank you very much.
THE LYRICS:
Wearing marching band uniforms
Holding balloons from the fair
Walking all alone outside at night
Running now these damned outfits
Attracted some pervert
Who might want to kill us
Oh WHY WHY
It’s okay girls I got away
From that guy
I’m sad that I lost my balloon
This room has way too many unused hangers
What’s my hotel room floor number?
Mirrored wall
Close up shot
Find my balloon
Hang something up
Unreasonably long earring
Ladies night at the gay bar
It’s obviously just our friends
There’s a balloon and marching band theme
Oh my god I’m so pissed at these hangers right now
You take that! Clear this room out or hang something up!
Check us out with our Europop
I just need to change my top
Guess I’ll sleep in the bathroom again
You think you’ve got it bad
My balloon was stolen that’s all I’ve really got
Watch my butt as I leave!
I think we’re in an Eli Roth movie now
I’ll do the pee dance by this wall
I just want to get my balloon back again?
Guess he stopped chasing me back there
Still in this bathroom stall
Fuck these hangers!
Where’s my balloon?
Kneeling, these boots hurt like hell
Robot dancing to hell out there while these hangers
Obscure my close-up shot and I’m SO not impressed
I’m just totally out of this concept, okay, what the hell,
I was crying but now I’m okay?
I got chased all around by some crazy guy I’ll catch my breath
Mother crap my balloon’s gone again!
Hey you guys I’m either running frightened alone or cooped up in a bathroom, how messed up is this?
You should know, there’s an actual storyline here, like that part where Ayaya got locked in that room
Looks like ‘Saw’, and that part before when were all running scared?
There’s a guy strangling girls with balloons!
I’m so desperate for company I’ll just wait here in my fetish ensemble and wait for this guy!
As for me, I just got to look scared and be part of this song when it’s obvious I don’t belong!
SHUT UP Rika you’re only in this cause Miki didn’t take the job, shut up and run for your life!
We have reached the end. I am finally able to delete the 10+ GB’s of renders and project files off of my computer, and what I am left with is the hope that maybe just one of you will walk away from this countdown more enlightened, more enlivened, more aware of the love that is Ayumi Hamasaki.
Or maybe I’m just glad that it’s over so I can move on to my End of 2009 Shit, which will not actually begin until I get a taste of Namie’s new album (GET HERE FASTER, PAST<FUTURE!!! FASTER!!), but there is much to say. One thing I will say in relation to Ayumi and the year of 2009 to preface this, my purely subjective Top 5 of her live performance catalog: I regained my abiding love for her this year. In 2008 I was wondering if it was all worth it. She was starting to bore me, to actually embarrass me, and nothing she did seemed different or innovative. In 2009 I took a very deep plunge in learning more about her and examining the way she seems to operate as an artist, and from that perspective the year in Ayumi won me back wholesale. Others may disagree. But that’s just how it is. Regardless, Namie already has an album that blows NEXT LEVEL out of the water (judging solely based on the six tracks we’ve heard thus far), but that’s Namie and she is a different sexy beast altogether.
I’m off to see if someone has posted a TV rip of the Arena Tour 2009 broascast from tbs.ch after this…I hope not to be disappointed, but even if I am, I can come back here an relive the golden age of Ayumi live.
