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koganbot"Today my body is acting strange, as if it doesn't belong to me." Returning to the locked ward, we present IU's new video, "The Story Only I Didn't Know":
The major aesthetic question is can even a singer as sensitive as IU get me to like ballads, the answer here being, "Well, she did this time, but she doesn't always."
The lyrics are basically, You were leaving for good, you never actually felt love, but I was the last to know. Or as the Zombies might have said, Well, no one told me about him, the way he lied. The video, however, surrounds the track in a whole psych-ward story, bathed in numbed-out, walking-dead white. So the shattering of what was probably a brief affair is a mental shattering as well, love leading to pathology, or love itself a form of insanity - 'cept just because they're in an asylum doesn't mean the video is presenting this extreme breakdown as anything but the way things are, a hyperbolic expression of how it feels, and no sense that love shouldn't be this devastating thing, or that maybe such devastation isn't love.
Dialogue at the end:
"Your father passed away, right?" "He will come back. Everyone thinks he is my dad. But that person... is not my dad," leading some YouTube commenters to think the video's adding an incest and abuse theme, or a stepdad theme, or both. But a simpler interpretation would just be that the doctor is trying to link up the young woman's trauma with the recent loss of her dad, whereas the woman's got a different man on her mind, loss piling upon loss.
Conveniently, today in America this vid is introduced by an ad for Source Code, a flick about a military man whose mind crosses over into another man's body.
Beautiful song.
To put this in context, here's John Conlee's "I Don't Remember Loving You":
As usual, I'm cross-posting this over on Poptimists.
[UPDATE:As Mat informs me over on the "Plastic Face" thread, many LOEN Entertainment and Nega Network videos, including this one, are directed by Hwang Su-a (황수아; which also gets transliterated Hwang Soo Ah); she also did "Good Day" and "You And I" and Infinite's "Before The Dawn" and "Be Mine" and Brown Eyed Girls' "Abracadabra" and Ga-In's "Irreversible," among others. An impressive track record.]
The major aesthetic question is can even a singer as sensitive as IU get me to like ballads, the answer here being, "Well, she did this time, but she doesn't always."
The lyrics are basically, You were leaving for good, you never actually felt love, but I was the last to know. Or as the Zombies might have said, Well, no one told me about him, the way he lied. The video, however, surrounds the track in a whole psych-ward story, bathed in numbed-out, walking-dead white. So the shattering of what was probably a brief affair is a mental shattering as well, love leading to pathology, or love itself a form of insanity - 'cept just because they're in an asylum doesn't mean the video is presenting this extreme breakdown as anything but the way things are, a hyperbolic expression of how it feels, and no sense that love shouldn't be this devastating thing, or that maybe such devastation isn't love.
Dialogue at the end:
"Your father passed away, right?" "He will come back. Everyone thinks he is my dad. But that person... is not my dad," leading some YouTube commenters to think the video's adding an incest and abuse theme, or a stepdad theme, or both. But a simpler interpretation would just be that the doctor is trying to link up the young woman's trauma with the recent loss of her dad, whereas the woman's got a different man on her mind, loss piling upon loss.
Conveniently, today in America this vid is introduced by an ad for Source Code, a flick about a military man whose mind crosses over into another man's body.
Beautiful song.
To put this in context, here's John Conlee's "I Don't Remember Loving You":
As usual, I'm cross-posting this over on Poptimists.
[UPDATE:As Mat informs me over on the "Plastic Face" thread, many LOEN Entertainment and Nega Network videos, including this one, are directed by Hwang Su-a (황수아; which also gets transliterated Hwang Soo Ah); she also did "Good Day" and "You And I" and Infinite's "Before The Dawn" and "Be Mine" and Brown Eyed Girls' "Abracadabra" and Ga-In's "Irreversible," among others. An impressive track record.]
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Date: 2011-02-18 06:25 pm (UTC)http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/799136.html
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A suitably dramatic performance of 'Cruel Fairy Tale'
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The other day, on stage with Corinne Bailey Rae
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:41 am (UTC)According to the chart, IU’s song, “Good Day” was the number one song of the first quarter. Not only this, but the song “Someday” from KBS’s “Dream High” OST and her ballad “The Story Only I Didn’t Know” placed 4th and 7th, respectively – showing that IU is the trend of the first quarter.'
By the way, this 'Someday' is the first released song she's written and composed
herself. (For this Glee-like drama series. Don't know how much that put a damper on her own personality coming through.)
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Date: 2011-04-01 10:51 am (UTC)[Error: unknown template video]
- which I like a lot more!
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Date: 2011-07-29 08:31 pm (UTC)[Error: unknown template video]
And a cover of a song many youtube users like, but I've never heard before:
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Date: 2011-07-29 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-29 11:03 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_S_TbD1XFM&ob=av2n
She (Alison Sudol) has a fine voice, much stronger than IU's, but by the end of the song she feels like a generic alt-singer-songwriter, Starbucks division, the voice plaintive and mildly burnt. Song did fairly well in Central Europe, and made a dent on the American adult contemporary chart.
IU's version doesn't start off as expressive, but it keeps going steadily, the drama maybe being whether her breath control will outlast the song, but she lets the song build its own drama, without trying to force the issue with her singing. So her not going for so much obvious emotion actually serves the song better.
Have the same feeling about IU that I have towards Dia Frampton and Xenia, the two best singers this year on The Voice: their voices are interesting enough to surmount their ingrained "tastefulness." Xenia could probably do a good version of "Almost Lover," if she decided to fight the song's quietness.
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Date: 2011-07-30 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-30 09:19 pm (UTC)*Half year stats - click '다운로드' for downloads http://www.gaonchart.co.kr/main/section/total/other.list.gaon
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Date: 2011-07-30 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-01 08:35 am (UTC)