Why KMVs are some of the Coolest things ever:

Otherwise known as "Internet rants Should count as Healthy Anger Management" . . .

It pisses me off unbelievably when someone uses a kpop song or mv to say that the industry is sending ‘bad messages’ to their audiences, especially when they're explaining said song or mv with blatant disregard for what the media's actual message is....

        It’s really quite sad how people read the wrong things into kpop mv’s. They might not be the most fight-tastic feminist protest videos in the world, but they’re certainly not misogynistic propaganda!

        Reading this (HERE) has actually offended me in no small way. More than half the videos mentioned in the article are horribly misrepresented! Almost nothing the author says is legitimate! Kpop shows facets of life and relationships that are dramatic, varied, intricate, and amazingly intense in ways that no other music industry could even dream of!

        SJ-M’s SuperGirl caught my attention immediately (See HERE) . Because out of anything they could have chosen, this song is the single most HORRIBLE to prove the point that beauty is everything. First off, the premiss that the song is based on is that the girl isn’t the typically pretty thing, seeing as the guy she likes doesn’t see her beauty (and I quote, in paraphrased translation, from the chorus: you’re my super girl, you’re my baby girl, he can’t see you’re beauty, your ordinary charm). <- That SCREAMS that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that she’s only pretty because the narrator is in love with her. And he is captivated by her, hence the geeky guy semi-stalker character of Hangeng

Also, the MV isn’t about looks at all, it’s about daring. Hangeng doesn’t become the uber-popular guy because he changes his look, he becomes the popular guy because he puts the stupid camera down and actually ENGAGES with the people around him instead of simply looking on in wonder. The reason that he turns around and flashes through the looks of every one of Suju's members is that it's a statement about how it doesn't matter how you look, the active participation in the goings on of Life is the important thing. Oi Vey! This is actually a very GOOD example of kpop's simple sweetness, and yet the Seoulbeats author used it as a degrading thing.

Aish, it seriously pisses me off when people say something is bad when it’s clearly not. I can tolerate people saying something’s different than I see it, everything has multiple interpretations, but there are limits people, there are actual facts to work with here …

And for songs like Genie, is it seriously wrong to want to make things easy for your partner? Is it so bad to want to make their lives easier? Besides, if you’d care to notice, Genies are notoriously tricky, they only grant you three wishes to begin with and all of those wishes are warped in some way to benefit the genies themselves! Being a Genie rather than a servant is the best way possible to want to grant a partner’s wishes and desires!!

Also, mysterious writer of Seoulbeats, in regards to 2NE1’s confidence being based off their looks: HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR LOOKS IN THAT MV? They look ridiculous. Their confidence comes from within and it makes them look awesome even when they should theoretically feel that they look like idiots.

You then move on to 2PM’s10 out of 10. It’s a song that undeniably about ranking pretty girls based on their looks. Um, hello, it’s a gag-mv. Besides, the ranking thing is an irl-game that both guys and girls participate in on a regular basis just for the hell of it.

And Y’s MV clearly explains the reasons for the violence, and to take it a step further it’s highly probable that the violence is even metaphorical! Just the act of a desperate psyche as it finally breaks down. The man is halucinating through most of the video for heaven's sake. The MV is an explicit depiction of an unhealthy relationship and relates that concept through the idea of hyper-dependency.

And Mirotic? You prove my point yourself! The song asks “Is this Love?" and clearly it is not. However, it’s not just the girl that’s bound. Sure, in the lyrics it’s the girl that’s obsessed, tied inexorably to the narrator, but in the MV it’s the boys that are chasing after her and physically bound in someway by her. Besides, obsession is a thing that happens in the real world, it’s dramatic and thematic and TVXQ has a history of working with it. Wrong Number also addresses the same, obsessive quality that the idea of love can often make people fall victim to. None of these MVs are in any way trying to say this sort of thing is in the making of a healthy relationship.

And that you dare to say that GOING CRAZY is somehow awful… Have you even watched that MV? Aish! The whole burning in the car thing is a symbolic trope, it’s a removal of the pain from ones self in a symbol of freedom, flames of passion and light and warmth that cause more pain and destruction than you could imagine. By being in the locked in the trunk, it’s a notion of the past being put behind you. The violence is entirely metaphorical, dramatic, a well respected filmography technique and, I must say, very well done. None of it actually happened, her real self, the depressed ghost of her self with a blue-hair beacon of sadness about her, is fantasizing, half wanting to kill him and half wanting to save herself from becoming so awful.

Neither Y nor Going Crazy are about true love, they’re about the individual misjudgements of it that people make on a daily basis, simply exacerbated by dramatic metaphor. To not see the drama and the metaphoric finesse of it is quite sad, actually, because that means you are set in your ways of being angry and offended and that you cannot appreciate the art of exaggeration and metaphoric expressions of warped reality.

I TAKE DRAMATIC AND PERSONAL OFFENSE the fact you say Bang YougGuk’s I Remember creates a triviality out of domestic violence. It honesty offends me to the core. You have some horrible nerve and some tremendous temerity to so degrade such a beautiful song and music video. That story is one of the most well crafted stories of self-sacrifice, drama, and psychological conflict I’ve ever seen. It goes into the mind of guilt, of fear, or anger, and of love despite it with such accuracy of psychology that it STILL gives me shivers to see. (watch HERE)

Now for those of you that don’t get it: She’s involved with bad people, that’s why they fight at first. He doesn’t want her in that crowd anymore, but she has some reason keeping her in it. They’re in love and despite their anger with each other, they still have a passionate regard and tenderness for one another. She gets caught up in a hold up somehow, and he’s pissed because he’s scared for her, hence his scene of ripping up the apartment. He goes in guns blazing to save her, and succeeds, but dies in the process. Her grief drives her to rip up the apartment herself, and to project him into being with her while she sits on the floor (yeah, in all those cuts of him and her sitting like a cute couple on the floor? HE'S DEAD and she’s inside a hallucination brought on psychological trauma that’s projecting him around her, PTSD people). It is a BEAUTIFUL story, and it’s SPECTACULARLY done.

I simply can’t just stand by and let someone be so antagonistic to things the things I adore beyond all else, especially when they're things that clearly don’t deserve it! That’s why I might have to take up the crusade of going through misinterpreted MVs of all sorts and write essays about why they don’t deserve the flak they get.