MV of the Day (6/27) Review

So many new videos out today! It's like 4Minute,  JYJ, Sweet Sorrow, and B.A.P all got together and decided they'd make me lose an entire evening of potentially productive work. Yeah right; I'm never productive. In all seriousness, though, it was impossible to pick a favorite so I had to do it randomly.
And the winner is...

"Is it Poppin" 4Minute

Now I'm sure we all remember that fiasco some weeks back where the song wasn't allowed to air on KBS radio due to the word "ass" in the lyrics. Well 4Minute took that to heart and went back to the drawing board, completely removing the expletive from the song, along with 50% of the reason I liked the song in the first place. The other 50% is pretty apparent in the MV.

What a coincidence- I have the same jersey in my closet!

Highlights:
First scene starts off with a close-up of all the girls with an unanswered phone beeping and female voice repeating "Yeoboseyo?" in the background. Next shot is a club scene with short shorts, wife beaters, and Satan jerseys abound. Even the viewers who don't speak Korean (read: me) can tell what's up: some girl is pissed off at her boyfriend and is working it off at the club. Been there, done that; this video just jumped a couple steps up on the relateable scale.

The rest of the video goes pretty much the same way every other girl group's MV goes: lots of hip action, hair flipping, and sexy moves only shown accompanied by a cutesy movement...you know, the works. Except...oh my! Is that a twerker I see?

Doth this maiden bend at the waist to shake her buttocks hither and thither?

Yes! Yes it is!!! I just love when Kpop integrates some form of Black culture into their music- especially if it's recent. You'd think I'd be used to it by now...hopefully the color will follow the style lol. But I digress. Back to the review.

My favorite part of the video is the last scene where the everyone in the club is so hot, they literally set the place on fire (I blame the twerking).  And the people in the video do what we all do when a fire breaks out: wait for the sprinklers to turn on and get the party started again! Note: Chanting "the roof is on fire" is an optional and fun thing to do while waiting. And the video ends.

Final thoughts: the song is okay; I like the R&B style it has. I think taking out "ass" had a bigger impact than expected. The song lost most of its edge. There was surprisingly less English in it than I'm used to, but the video pretty much told me all I needed to know: it was a sweat your tracks out kinda party. Video was meh- seen better, seen worse. The choreo was okay; nothing new or exciting...until the twerking that is! That one part literally made the video for me.

Overall: I'd give it a 6/10 (minus the twerking: 5.5).

Would I recommend it? If you don't have anything else you're dying to see, watch it. It's a good way to spend 4 minutes.

Would I watch it again? No, probably not. I might come back to it once or twice to see the parts I liked.

xoxo Twisted

Today's Question: What do you think of the video? Did you get as excited about the twerking as I did? Would you like to see reviews of the other videos over the next few days-time permitting?