SPEED debuts with Lovey Dovey+. Full review after the jump. (No lure this time. D: )
CCM's new boy band is a subunit comprised of the irrelevant male members of Co-Ed. CCM's grand plan to compete with the likes of BAP, EXO, and NU'EST (Holy shit these names are stupid), is to have them debut with someone else's song. The official word calls it an "hommage" but we all know CCM probably couldn't be fucked to come up with a new song for them, having spent far too much on hush money.
The MV itself is a seizure-inducing, rapid fire sequence of cutaways of the dance and random close ups. Just like T-ara's I Go Crazy Because of You... Hmmmmmmmm. Being totally in black and white doesn't help the viewers' attempts not to burn out their retinas either. Oh and apparently Hyomin was partly responsible for the MV's terribadding, having dedicated a sleepless night to helping edit the damn thing.
Lovey Dovey+ is not just an over-glorified cover of someone else's song, oh no. It's not nearly as simple as that. Because SPEED apparently lacks vocalists, they cut out all the "vocally demanding" parts (and I say this with tongue firmly in cheek, cause everyone knows the original Lovey Dovey was not hard to sing at all), and stuck pretty shitty raps in instead. In addition to cutting up Lovey Dovey's body, SPEED decided to shit all over it too by splicing in Michael Jackson moves into the choreography(on record as the Billie Jean era, read: every iconic MJ move).
I will give them a bit of credit for modifying the original Lovey Dovey dance to be slightly more technical than "Every Day We Shufflin" though.
Thankfully, CCM decided to throw in the Ryu Twins to save this horrible travesty of a song. However, even in outside of T-ara and being one of the main focal points in someone else's MV, Hwayoung still manages to get the shaft from life. The majority of screen time is given to Hyoyoung, from being in the dance shots to getting solo closeups. Hyoyoung even gets her own solo closeup version of Lovey Dovey+, and as of now, Hwayoung doesn't seem to be getting one herself.
The funniest thing about the whole deal is the crazy fangirl response to the MV(s).
Key lulz I want to point out:
CCM's new boy band is a subunit comprised of the irrelevant male members of Co-Ed. CCM's grand plan to compete with the likes of BAP, EXO, and NU'EST (Holy shit these names are stupid), is to have them debut with someone else's song. The official word calls it an "hommage" but we all know CCM probably couldn't be fucked to come up with a new song for them, having spent far too much on hush money.
The MV itself is a seizure-inducing, rapid fire sequence of cutaways of the dance and random close ups. Just like T-ara's I Go Crazy Because of You... Hmmmmmmmm. Being totally in black and white doesn't help the viewers' attempts not to burn out their retinas either. Oh and apparently Hyomin was partly responsible for the MV's terribadding, having dedicated a sleepless night to helping edit the damn thing.
Lovey Dovey+ is not just an over-glorified cover of someone else's song, oh no. It's not nearly as simple as that. Because SPEED apparently lacks vocalists, they cut out all the "vocally demanding" parts (and I say this with tongue firmly in cheek, cause everyone knows the original Lovey Dovey was not hard to sing at all), and stuck pretty shitty raps in instead. In addition to cutting up Lovey Dovey's body, SPEED decided to shit all over it too by splicing in Michael Jackson moves into the choreography(on record as the Billie Jean era, read: every iconic MJ move).
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| The King of Pop is rolling in his grave. |
Thankfully, CCM decided to throw in the Ryu Twins to save this horrible travesty of a song. However, even in outside of T-ara and being one of the main focal points in someone else's MV, Hwayoung still manages to get the shaft from life. The majority of screen time is given to Hyoyoung, from being in the dance shots to getting solo closeups. Hyoyoung even gets her own solo closeup version of Lovey Dovey+, and as of now, Hwayoung doesn't seem to be getting one herself.
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| Righteous. |
Key lulz I want to point out:
- People are criticizing the bad lipsyncing. Yes, it's a bad job, but the way they're going about it makes it seem as if they don't realize that ALL music videos are lipsyncing.
- They don't seem to realize that Hwayoung and Hyoyoung are just lipsyncing and don't actually sound like that.
- They don't seem to realize that the Ryu Twins are separate people.
- They think that the Ryu Twins are part of SPEED.
TL;DR:
Same shit, no nipslip.
I give it a 2.5/5.
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