PoMinitSlut 4Minute makes a long-awaited comeback with Volume Up, and yes, it is a positively fapulous cumback.
When I first heard that 4Minute was making a comeback with a "vampire" concept, I was filled with immediate revulsion, especially when I saw this teaser picture.
I was fearing an extremely cheesy MV with 4Minute dressed as either Count Chocula or worse, Twilight-esque sparklefags. Thankfully, the MV was nothing like that at all.
Volume Up's MV is your standard dance in a box with fancy closeups but being who they are, 4Minute keeps things enjoyable by throwing eye candy in your face like a fistful of Pixistix sugardust. As such, the MV is mostly sexysex closeups and writhing with a sprinkling of the actual choreography to let your poor sexual organs take a quick breather from fapping so much. Here's some of the more fapulous moments of the MV for your viewing pleasure:
There is plenty more girl on girl groping where this came from.
Dugeun dugeun fapdance.
Sexy vampiress coven on da prowl.
Bump and grind, seems legit.
Everyone looks good, but I'm not digging Hyuna's red hair very much. Nor Jiyoon's hair when it's all down and coconut-helmet on her head. Their costumes do look like they were trying to rock a lesbian gypsy look, but theirs is far better than SHINee's gay gypsy look. Apart from the ominious cold open, some red eyes, a coven teleporting in/out, and gothic architecture, the vampire concept doesn't really play much of a part here. Unless it's the excuse for 4Minute to be seductive and grind on males and females alike. There is more than a fair bit of familiar imagery though, not that I'm trying to incite a fanwar between YG stans and 4Nias or anything.
Sup Park Bom.
Sup TOP.
The song itself is very good. Prominent throughout the song are saxophone riffs that remind me of George Michael's Careless Whisper. It may not feel like much, but the combination sexy sax with electronic beats really makes this song stand out and feel a lot more exciting than it would have been without it. My favorite parts other than the saxophone bits are the bridges leading into the chorus. Hyuna's rapping on top of Gayoon's high notes and crescendoing backtrack gives me life, y'all.
Stay fabulous, bitches.
TL;DR: Sexy sex "vampire" MV for an excellent saxy sex song.
