TURN IT UP: EVERYBODY - SHINEE
Song: Everybody
Album: Everybody
Year: 2013
Artist: SHINee (Hangul: 샤이니)
Label: SM Entertainment
To reel us back into doing reviews, I thought it would be appropriate to review a song that EVERYBODY would know, EVERYBODY would like, and EVERY, EVERY BODY could dance to (Hehehe, see what I did there? Funny? Yes?...no? Okay…). I’m super stoked to review this song and video, and I know Jei was not surprised when I picked this song for Turn it Up Tuesday since I’ve been singing it non-stop for about five days now.
Oh goodness. At first, I thought the song was just hilarious; I didn’t take it seriously. The chorus made me laugh so hard, and I thought, oh SHINee, I’m sorry. I can’t say this is your best song and I can’t say that I like it. But then, perhaps, the little child in this video with the spark plug crawled into my ear in the night and plugged SHINee’s song in my head, because for the next several days all I could think of was ‘EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY, EVERY, EVERY BODY…WUB WUB WUB” That’s it! It was stuck in my head!
Jei can attest that during her visit with me at university I would sing that song every ten minutes as I made stupid, cheesy jokes with it. Not to mention I would laugh even harder as I would add the dance in. (JEI: It’s true. I would be on the cusp of falling asleep and then I would hear “hehe… everybooodehh everyybooodehh…. every every boodehh…” She even sleep-talked the song. No joke.)
What am I trying to say here? Well, this song is undoubtedly and inescapably catchy. I didn’t want to like this song, but I couldn’t help it. I sing it. Constantly. I even have it as my alarm to wake up in the morning! I mean, it says “everybody wake up, wake up,” don’t you think that’s applicable?! I’m just weird now? Yeah? Sorry.
SHINee sang beautifully in this long, Jonghyun and Taemin rocked all the long notes, and well, the others were just amazing. Wait—wait a minute, did…did Minho SING!? Oh yes, yes he did, and it sounded AWESOME! SM, you better make Minho sing more in the future! It was cute, and I thought he did a pretty fantastic job! (JEI: … but then I think of this video.)
The music video wasn’t anything particularly exciting—I mean, it’s a typical SM video—good looking people dancing in strangely lit rooms with strange objects. Um…Minho, I’m sorry, but Kevin from U-Kiss called, he wants his chess pieces back…oh, and so does every other KPOP group who’s used gigantic chess pieces in their MV. Ooh, and lets not skip Jonghyun who skillfully destroyed everything on a statue, except for the statues butt. That takes immense skill right there. (JEI: Not sure if that's skill or his extreme derp for missing the opportunity to smack dat ass... you can ever be too sure with Jonghyun...)
Or how could I forget the little sneaky-poo we get at Taemin. For a long time I was confused with Taemin since his stylist seems to have this thing for dressing him up very femininely (long hair, girly clothes), but we now see the man come out of him as he spins pretty much shirtless. Your manhood has been restored Taemin, your manhood has been restored.
One thing though, that I didn’t particularly like about this MV (or the whole concept for the album in general) is the amount of makeup they put on these poor young men. I noticed that with this MV (and in the album if you bought the physical CD’s and looked at the pictures…like me…) the amount of makeup these young men are wearing is too damn high! They don’t need all that makeup! Stylists, we need to have a chat, I don’t care if you’re trying to be artistic! They look ridiculous, especially when you start putting little sparkles and gems in the corner of their eyes…like, seriously Jonghyun? I feel sorry for you bro.
Goodness gracious. Oh man, guys. I freaking LOVE this dance. Do I think it’s as complex as some of their other dances, no—but that’s why I love it! I CAN DANCE ALONG WITH IT! I love their little wiggly fingers under their chins, and then the WUB WUB WUB arm thing. The amount of times I’ve done that dance in public now with Jei is too damn high, but I don’t care, because I think it’s hilarious.
I’ve noticed though, with the past few routines, that their choreographer likes to make these boys spin out in a line a lot. That was a common theme in Sherlock, and I’m also seeing it here. I hope they start to change that up…because as much as it is cool, it’s starting to get a little repetitive. I dunno, that’s just my opinion. Besides, they’re probably starting to get dizzy :P (JEI: I saw it as Taemin’s revenge for having to be the last person to spin out so many times during Sherlock XD)
I enjoyed the little interlude part as well, where everything goes classic grey scale and Minho ‘wakes up’ each of the members like toy soldiers. I absolutely loved that. Super creative and fun! Oh, and their little bouncy slide, that was super adorable too.
Now, last but least…HOW COULD I NOT MENTION THE CROTCH TUNNEL!? Oh glory, Jei and I nearly died…no, we did die for a short while when that happened. Could you imagine filming that? The cameraman, “Um…excuse me guys…yeah…um…stay still…yup…okay…yeah…” So good. I heard Minho ripped his pants doing that move. That’s just glorious.
Everybody. Everybody. Every. Everybody. (wub wub wub). The guys did a great job for the little English in this song. It SOUNDS like they’re pronouncing the ‘v’ in everybody correctly; however, do they actually? Every time the music video does a close up on the boy’s faces when they say ‘everybody’ watch their lips.
Some of the members actually make a ‘b’ shaping with their lips instead of the ‘v’ (you can’t argue with me, I’m a linguist major :P). The perfect example is Minho at 0:47 seconds. You can’t tell me his lips would make a V sound! Ha!
I love this song. I didn’t want to, but I do, and I sing it constantly, and dance to it constantly. Although it’s not really…different from every other SM video, It was still fun! This is definitely a song that everybody, everybody, every, everybody can sing and dance to, and enjoy. Hehehe.
This post was made available to EVERY-EVERYBODY thanks to
If you enjoyed this review, be sure to check out our tumblr for more!
Note: This post is best viewed on our main tumblr page.
About Us | Reviews | Ask Us