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Holy fucking shit!

I think it's possible that Mat or someone once linked this for me before and I didn't have time to look. Anyway, I'm embedding it:

Since when are HyunA and crew upset if they get their live performances banned? She already ran into trouble with "Mirror Mirror" and "Bubble Pop!" without any detriment to her career. But again, this is another instance where I don't understand Korea. I mean, are the fans in Korea so utterly clueless as to believe that (a) if the performance is effective that it must mean that HyunA and Hyunseung are dating, or (for that matter), (b) if HyunA is dating someone, they the fans can no longer fantasize being her boyfriend (or her boyfriend's girlfriend), unable even to postulate that the pair could break up (if the fans insist that the fantasies be grounded realistically, which is absurd anyway)? If HyunA/Hyunseung had been ordered to further tone down the choreography, they could have compensated by having Hyunseung actually generate some warmth.

My guess is that it's automatically assumed that Sungyeol and Sungjong are not actually a couple, though I don't see why this assumption needs to be so. I surmise that performing in drag makes the performance more "not real." Imagine if Sungyeol hadn't been in drag! Was this performance a one-off, or did they repeat it?

(For readers who don't follow K-pop, Infinite are a successful idol band — not up to the popularity of Super Junior or Big Bang, but one that's scored several top 10 hits, including the excellent "Be Mine."*)

This reinforces what I said about LMFAO, GG, etc., that in some circumstances guys (well, people, but especially guys) have to signal "JOKE" in order to effectively let loose their passion — unless I'm misreading this performance and it's not at all clear that this is a joke. I'm not one hundred percent certain. I'd like to think that the delighted audience is also uncertain.

*Be the way, the video for "Infinite" inserts a brief clip of Peggy Cummins firing a gun in Gun Crazy, a powerful, poignant noir from 1950, a precursor to Bonnie & Clyde.