DAY 3: Pick a song that projects the same mood as your day or week & explain.
"High High" - G-Dragon & T.O.P
I only can dream of wishing that this song reflected my day/week (crazy extravagant parties in Seoul, yes please?) but no, unfortunately the only reasons I chose this were that a) I repeated this nonstop in the library while studying for finals & b) there are just no legitimate songs about studying, plus that would make for a really lame entry.
I know this has nothing to do with my 'mood', but I am nothing short of obsessed with this music video, in both good & bad ways. I haven't replayed a MV that much in a while, especially when there's no catchy choreography to accompany it. It isn't just because GD & T.O.P are ridiculously good looking, or the fact that I've been cooped up in an underground library the entire week wanting out. The thing that really gets me about this video (& hence song too, in a sense) is how cool Korea has gotten - or rather, how that "cool" is portrayed.
I'm not sure if it's this built-in ethnic stereotype that I have being born & bred as an American, or the fact that Korea has a conservative image that it usually upholds (because it is conservative, compared to other Westernized countries) but this song is just so BAMF & shoves all the swag of YG Entertainment up in our faces. I don't really see Korea having a problem with this song or video (I'm amused at the number of Youtube comments fighting over whether "high high" means smoking weed: even if it were, those who knew the reference wouldn't care, & the rest would be too blind to see it) but the problem I see in it (& maybe just me) is the blatant Westernization of it all.
Come on. It would've already been enough Westernization to go around just filming a club, any club in Korea, but they picked foreigner-central Itaewon for a reason. It looks like GD, T.O.P & a handful of his friends crashed a NYC club, since evidently they're the only Koreans/Asians getting screentime. And not only are the foreigners not Korean or Asian, they're all white. Yeah, more of the same "you need to be white to be cool." I'm being so indignant about this because I can't stand that after the 20th or so time I rewatched this, I felt like maybe I needed to be white to even try to hang out with the likes of Big Bang. And that's just ridiculous.
Listen, Korea is cool enough as it is. Koreans know how to party & hold their liquor &...oh please. I am just disappointed that I have to rail against fellow Koreans for perpetuating a "I want to be white" mentality. As catchy as I think this song is (& as much as I adore everything else about this video), I can't help but feel let down.
(And yes, I realize this has nothing to do with what the meme asked but I need to keep moving on to finish before 2011. Goals goals goals.)
video | "high high" mv ; youtube
