Their Style is Very Good

This week we’re trying something a little bit new. (And we’re not just talking about one of the weirdest video kpop has seen in a long while).... After our 6th month anniversary review (O.O) we decided to reformat the blog a bit (=.=) It’s all new and shine(e)y and totally still under construction. We hope you enjoy the changes! But back to that video we mentioned earlier… yeah.. the very weird one…

This week’s review is: Very Good by Block B (And really guys if you haven’t seen it, go watch it now, do it, like seriously.)

Overview

Em: So Block B made a rather...interesting video this week. We might expect something a little offbeat from them but this...this was above and beyond. And we appreciate that. There were velvet suits and dapper suits and furry muppet jackets and tights….and something else interesting: there were a LOOOT of references to a certain BIG band. They referenced key pieces of clothing, dance moves and even sets to create a full-blown parody of….(hint: watch the video and guess). And BANG, it’ll hit you.

Fun with Boxing Helmets

Velvet suits and Princess Leia hair...okay

Ruby: Yeah you know, this video really says a lot about Block B’s creativity and their interest in following their competitors. Imitation is the highest form of flattery? But we shouldn’t judge a video by its teasers. Lets talk fashion, like for realisies. I actually genuinely enjoyed this video without needing to see all the connections. The concept is classic: gangsters and bad boys do terrible things and look sexy. But rather than be super serious, Block B made a really funny and inventive farcical video that I thoroughly enjoyed.

Now he's a dapper bad boy. He even has a whip.

RS1: Kpop Copy Cat

Blue Hair: Top in the music video for Fantastic Baby featured stunning, slicked up blue locks that remind us of something in this video…

Oh look blue hair and a velvet suit how did that happen

Well then.

Body Tattoos: Also in Fantastic Baby, Taeyang sported some full body tatts, and wait… wasn’t GD tatted for That XX too? Interesting….

Taeyang with tattoos in Fantastic Baby--he even has the neck one

Velvet Suits: Nothing like an English School boy costume to unite this video with GD’s recent Coup D’Etat

GD in Coup d'Etat

Look he even has a lollipop

Red Furry Jackets: This one is a little harder. Live stage for Block B should be exchanged for a live stage, like BigBang’s stage at the 2012 MAMAs.

G Dragon at the MAMAs wearing a large red muppet

Zico on the Mnet comeback stage...also wearing a red muppet

RS2: Sally Suzi Soo the Stylist

Oh my goodness! I was SOOOOO EXCITED to get to work with Block B! I mean did you see Nilili Mambo? Come on, sexy pirate rap, IT WAS GENIUS. So when they asked me to do them up for this video, I was like LET’S DO IT. I was like, what is not one else doing… And then it hit me, all boy band wear eyeliner and BB Cream (a boys best friend) but lets think outside the men’s makeup box and put them in LIPSTICK. NO NO NO WAIT, MANSTICK!!!!!! And I immediately buzzed over the girl’s beauty station and grabbed black and red and even silver! We went to town! And don’t they look amazing with those cherry red lips! YUMMY. I’m not crazy, I just like a man with good taste in lipgloss.

He had a little smudge

A stylist's best friend <3

SO another thing in the video that got my in a tizzy was this ONE suit. Oh my. Oh my. I did not sleep for a very very long time while trying to design this coco-nutty bananabrained (pardon my language) suit, but it. is. GORGEOUS. There’s off-the-wall contrast with crazy patterns in black and white, since I THINK OF EVERYTHING. Let me remind you of my manstick brilliance? Yeah. MHM. And the glasses were just the perfect touch of mysterious weirdo, you know? I always appreciate a mysterious weirdo with sunglasses. Some people don’t like matchy matchy but here he just looked different and snazzy... He even matched the room!

GENIUS I TELL YOU

Now Trending

# CanIBorrowYourPencil

# PostApocolypticBadBoy

# MyOtherGunIsBigger

#Can I borrow your pencil? School uniforms are very very in right now, I mean, who wouldn’t want to look like they walked out of boarding school in the english country side… I guess. But they are different, at least, and definitely fit in to the unique suits category we see so much of.

Girl's Day Twinkle Twinkle school uniforms

# Post Apocalyptic bad boys happen a lot in mvs that involve being badass. Leather and spikes and chains galore! They break stuff, set things on fire, wear gas masks, and look awesome while they’re at it. BAP painted their faces to look like rebels, TARA rides motorbikes (wearing leather!). It’s about being unique and being powerful.

Block B wearing a gas mask and generally being a post-apocalyptic rebel. Woohoo!

TARA in Day by Day. They'd look good in the same MV.

#My other gun is bigger… We’re talking about accessories of course! We’ve seen a lot of videos featuring weapons and heavy jewelry, like hand pieces that could be bronze knuckles, chainsaws, molotov cocktails and guns, you name it, we’re seen it. Even things like grills have been making the rounds.

Appropriately rebellious-looking glove with Molotov Cocktail

Final Call

Em: From the scary clowns to the excessive use of lipstick, this video was fun. Weird and fun. Even the clowns...interesting fashion statement in itself, I suppose. Block B went all out and I like that. Sure, it wasn’t exactly street-friendly, but that wasn’t the point. The extreme amount of Big Bang parody was entertaining, and it’s not something I’ve seen a lot of (done right, anyway). I hope they keep trying to outdo themselves. Good job guys.

Remind you of anyone? You thought I had put up a picture of GD didn't you.

SCARY CLOWNS

Ruby: Was the video a bit ridiculous? Yes. Was it an odd set of clothing and an odd scenario? Yes. But these are things we have come to expect from Block B. It’s nice to see a band that’s not always thinking about their image in terms of ‘today should I be a sexy bad boy or an aegyo cutie boy’. Its clean and funny and somewhat offensive, and these things combine in the best way possible. The video is off-its-rocker and coo-coo clock crazy, but it’s fun. And as much as I appreciate the dramatic storytelling and sexy dancing that kpop seems to be featuring more and more these days, it is nice to laugh a little at ourselves. It’s also great to see Block B back performing as a group!

Doing it right.

DAEBAK!!!!!!!

Even the columns are fashionable with their fishnets.

What do you do when a hot girl takes off her shirt in front of you? Spit on her. Right. (You deserved the punch, sweetie pie <3)

So what did you think? Did you like the new format? Confused beyond belief? Entertained by Sally Suzi Soo and the hashtags? Let us know! Especially if you have feedback about something you’d like changed about the format, now is the time!