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How to thrist trap 101.

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THE GREAT HALLOWEEN KPOP VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA

Day 3: (Very happy) Zombies in 4Minute’s What’s your name?

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THE GREAT HALLOWEEN KPOP VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA

Day 2: Vampirism in Boyfriend’s Witch 

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THE GREAT HALLOWEEN KPOP VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA

Day 1:  Body horror in Shinee’s Married to the Music

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So manly, so rugged, so... French Coffee?

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In another perfect example of teenage girls informing and deciding marketing trends: Girls have decided you shouldn’t skip leg day ever, Kpop has upped the ante with really short shorts. 

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Rubber, part II - “The tire vengeance” 

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One’s Heyahe - A metaphor matryoshka

One’s breakout single Heyahe is, with a shiny gloss of subtlety, a song about sex. Heyahe, in fact, can be translated to “have to do it”, with the “it” in question not being much of a mystery. 

The effort to transpose this tongue in cheek song to an acceptable video vision for Korean TV therefore has lead us into a rabbit hole (sic) of metaphors. 

A long pink velvety corridor, dark and inviting. 10 points for who guesses what that’s supposed to be.

The touch between man and woman in that long velvety corridor leads to the man falling into a massive body of water, out of which he can spy the giant embodiment of the feminine mystique. 

The man is falling through a hole in the floor that is conveniently covered by a carpet. More touching leads to inanimate objects trembling away on a table. Finally, the cosmic comes together with terrestrial, bringing us back to a very wet One wiggling around on the floor. 

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EXO The Power - A 90s kid daydream

On-point styling that finds itself smack dab in a love affair between Barbarella and Starship Troopers.

Cartoon & Anime throwbacks

To including the storyline in the EXO legend of element bending, that is a clear referrence to the Avatar world, now with some brief nods to Power Rangers.