Ten Music Video Highlights of 2012
6. It’s Kpop Crack!
Big Bang – Fantastic Baby
We’ve grown accustomed to it. Set designs, colors, and the budgets to hire stylists and a team of designers to make style whores drool. Kpop music video standards seem to defy a music industry that shrinks music video budgets year after year [1] — remember? Big Bang spent like $200k USD on their music video for Love Song [MV], one of the few defying that is Ayumi Hamasaki who spent $1M USD on her 2010 music video for Virgin Road [YinYueTai] [YouTube].
But sometimes Kpop music videos defy westernized logic, and all we’re left to thinking is… WTF have we just seen?
With colored hair — and G-Dargon wearing that long grassy orange hair extension in a look that has GOT TO be Burton’s The Joker and The Penguin inspired, chains and multi-colored post-apocalyptic pop grunge. The best of Kpop is just that. [Original Post]
Runner-up: G-Dragon – Crayon [MV]
2nd Runner-up: SunnyHill – The Grasshopper Song [MV]
5. Rudimental – Not Giving In
Music videos, storytelling… and a social message?
The lives of two boys begin drifting apart by the choices they make. [Original Post]
Yeah… I’ve only watched the M.I.A. video before XDDDDD My current musical culture is sorely lacking :P
@Mirella, Except for when Hiddles RTs MVs? xD and you must’ve seen/heard about one of the Kpop MVs… at least on your FB wall talk haha.
@amy, Yeah, I’ve only watch Nicki Minaj’s Starship MV complete because he mentioned it XD Even if his taste of music goes more to Sigur Rós and Mumford & Sons… except when it doesn’t.
I haven’t seen those particular Kpop MVs… I have only seen complete MVs of 2ne1 and Girls’ Generation. None of the boybands hold my attention enough to complete a video XD
@Mirella, you’re gonna love Crayon, if u give it the time of day. Even IF G-Dragon is the girliest of them all. And Fantastic Baby has enough colorful grunge to interest you.
I just saw “Crayon” earlier today and you have to like a video that starts with G-Dragon plopped asleep in a Wonder Woman robe.
Awesome how you broke down the videos into all these patterns. However, I think you missed Noomi Rapace in the Rolling Stones’ latest video? she’s great in that. I had to have the gifs right away of her shooting up zombies with a shotgun.
@Mirella, if you liked Psy and love nonsensical, like it seems you do from your column, you will fancy yourself some WTF from G-Dragon. For sure.
@amy, best video of the year for you?
@chrryblssmninja, I did miss it! I hadn’t seen it, to be honest. And it does follow the Actor + MV PLUS the NSFW trend with violence and nipple-showing. Though I would argue Noomi wouldn’t be rising the Rolling Stones’ relevance. It’s an oldschool collab. =P
@ghost, pop-wise? I liked Salyu’s Camera and the latest Crowd Lu MV (O La La Hu Hu). I also liked G-Dragon’s Crayon. I didn’t have a clear favorite this year.
don’t hate me: HERE
better than the actual song
*siiigh* Crayon… I basically decided I need GDragon as my puppy after that video… HaHa.
I personally don’t really think I’m a fan of the lyric videos. I think it’s more to do with the fact there’s so many of them. I’ve never been a fan of oversaturation of decent idea. And that’s what happened with lyric vids… HaHa.