A Dog's Life
Mar. 30th, 2012 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
koganbotWhen last I embedded Brown Eyed Girls' "Abracadabra" I asked for theories regarding the dog in the video, but got no response. I would like to ask again, not just regarding this video, but dogs in general in Korean music vids.
My own commentary in full, regarding the dog in "Abracadabra," was: "The dog? Someone walks a dog down the hallway." What I might have added, had a conversation developed, is, "Cool people who have adventurous sex (or whatever) walk haughty dogs down hallways." But I'd overlooked a crucial piece of the video, the dog playing an actual role in the plot. Right after Jea* and dog traverse hallway for the second time, [SPOILER] there's a very short insert, shrouded in darkness, of the dog lying dead, little heart-shaped love candies scattered nearby. Intrepid YouTube citizens have surmised, correctly I think (because it makes sense), that our sleek and attractive canine was used as an experimental test subject! Narsha — or perhaps Jea acting as Narsha's accomplice — having inserted poison in the love mints, tries them first on the dog, prior to her (Narsha) placing one on her own tongue and engaging an unknowing Ga-In in a mutual kiss of death.
My knowledge of K-pop history is quite limited: did "Abracadabra" mark a shift in and/or an addition to K-pop, adding electronic aggression to the basic dance-pop/r&b? I assume it marked a shift in image for Brown Eyed Girls. Not that I have a strong sense of what their image had been earlier. It wasn't so much safe as indistinct, from what I've seen, but what I've seen isn't inclusive (none of this is meant as a criticism of the music, or of the images, really, since lack of a definitive image can give one plenty of options):
Miryo does always sound like Miryo, no matter what.
(In the lj-cut I wrote "Dottie West Image Shift Award for 2009," referring to country singer Dottie West, who'd always been restless musically, starting off in the early '60s putting pop and r&b stylings in her country, but whose visuals and social image were relatively staid. Then in the mid '70s she underwent plastic surgery, added assertive dance beats, and became starkly sexual.)
*I suspect it's not really Jea but rather a professional dog walker, since we only view the walker from the neck down.
My own commentary in full, regarding the dog in "Abracadabra," was: "The dog? Someone walks a dog down the hallway." What I might have added, had a conversation developed, is, "Cool people who have adventurous sex (or whatever) walk haughty dogs down hallways." But I'd overlooked a crucial piece of the video, the dog playing an actual role in the plot. Right after Jea* and dog traverse hallway for the second time, [SPOILER] there's a very short insert, shrouded in darkness, of the dog lying dead, little heart-shaped love candies scattered nearby. Intrepid YouTube citizens have surmised, correctly I think (because it makes sense), that our sleek and attractive canine was used as an experimental test subject! Narsha — or perhaps Jea acting as Narsha's accomplice — having inserted poison in the love mints, tries them first on the dog, prior to her (Narsha) placing one on her own tongue and engaging an unknowing Ga-In in a mutual kiss of death.
My knowledge of K-pop history is quite limited: did "Abracadabra" mark a shift in and/or an addition to K-pop, adding electronic aggression to the basic dance-pop/r&b? I assume it marked a shift in image for Brown Eyed Girls. Not that I have a strong sense of what their image had been earlier. It wasn't so much safe as indistinct, from what I've seen, but what I've seen isn't inclusive (none of this is meant as a criticism of the music, or of the images, really, since lack of a definitive image can give one plenty of options):
Miryo does always sound like Miryo, no matter what.
(In the lj-cut I wrote "Dottie West Image Shift Award for 2009," referring to country singer Dottie West, who'd always been restless musically, starting off in the early '60s putting pop and r&b stylings in her country, but whose visuals and social image were relatively staid. Then in the mid '70s she underwent plastic surgery, added assertive dance beats, and became starkly sexual.)
*I suspect it's not really Jea but rather a professional dog walker, since we only view the walker from the neck down.
Jack Russell Terrier (Clue + Note)
Date: 2012-04-01 08:14 pm (UTC)0:07 0:41 1:13 2:27 2:51 2:59 3:18 3:31 4:02
(I don't know dog breeds, so don't know if this is an actual Jack Russell; that was my guess.)