FT Island – Hello Hello: Kpop Music Mondays

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Well this is something we’re totally not used to: this is Kpop, sure, but not the regular kind of Kpop we usually do. This involves people playing instruments, real instruments, and not fakely mashing them in an attempt to look as if they know what they’re doing, Bilasa style. FT Island’s “Hello Hello” is a rock song, played by a rock band, and almost has a trot-like feel to it. TVXQ’s “Keep Your Head Down” is probably the closest song we reviewed to a rock song, because of the guitar, but it was still a pop song through and through. This song, though, israther unorthodox for a Kpop song, and it’s a really welcome change from what we’re used to hearing.

We like the song. Yes, we like the song. But we did poke fun at the video. Doesn’t it always work out that way, anyways? We only review songs if we like them. Videos, though, don’t go through the same rigorous filtration process. This video wasn’t terrible, mind you. Just confusing. We even tried Googling people’s responses to the video in hopes of finding an answer that might be a decent explanation of what happened, and found nada. The best we could find was that it was filmed in Paju. Cool! There you’ll read the story behind the foreigners cast for the video.

And so, since we couldn’t find any decent answers to explain the video, we had to come up with our own: our guess is that he foresees the fire happening, and foresees himself running into the building as well and saving everybody. But that’s just an explanation for the overarching video plot. An explanation for whatever the hell is happening in that building is beyond us:

FT Island Hello Hello Macro

Not at all weird...

    - Where’s the fire? And don’t say it’s in the building. We saw all smoke, no fire.
    - Why does he take a nap?
    - What’s with the Max Time holes?
    - Why are they flashing spotlights on him when he’s walking in the hallway? Since when do fires turn into spotlights?
    - Why is a freaking band playing inside of a freaking burning building?
    - How did the building hollow out and become so freaking massive that it could host such a large stage for a band?
    - Why wouldn’t the guy immediately drag these loonies out of the burning building?
    - Why was that guy sitting on the firetruck at the beginning of the video so nonchalantly? Does that mean that he started the fire, or is he being playful, or what?

There are too many questions to ask here. Really guys…wtf? If you have answers to these questions, any one of them, please do share. We tried guessing and just gave up.

Anyhow, if you’re a fan of F.T. Island as Martina clearly is, we’d recommend getting their new album, which ships internationally. Huzzah!

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  • http://twitter.com/trapior Theresa Rapior

    Like a boss

  • http://www.twitter.com/izzleberry Izzleberry

    I love F.T. Island, but I’ve got to vote CNBLUE just because I find the Love Girl video so funny xDDD

  • http://www.facebook.com/Kissmykimchi KissmyKimchi Korea

    Ha! I’ll give the firefighters a pass since there was um like only some red colored flashing lights and not a flame in sight.

  • Anonymous

    I read that a small fire broke out in FT Island’s dorm recently…dunno if it was before or after this video was filmed so maybe it’s a coincidence, but I would say it’s probably not. Here’s a link to the article about it on allkpop:
    http://www.allkpop.com/2011/05/f-t-island-escapes-dorm-fire-uninjured

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002169737213 Meltem Karaman

    CN Blue <3 fighting ^^

  • http://twitter.com/_yingjae10 huiying

    i say FT ISLAND :D hongki is just too awesome in the video^^

  • Rachel Lau

    WELL. As they probably aren’t cold after coming out of a fire, there are things called fire blankets that are made specially so that less oxygen is provided to fires, thus smothering them. Or as you said, it could have been a cold fire. :D

    And I love them both pretty equally, but I’m going with CNBlue cause any fan would probably love it if their favorite idols jumped out of their wall poster. I know I would.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001314348026 Kasia Karczewska

    Well, I think that… it was one of your best Music Mondays, really!! ;D
    I’d love to have the same point of view as you guys, you just describe it so well… GREAT!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ID6YHZDK74JBU3JXPXGP24XRWM Trish

     Okay, here’s what happened…
    Hongki is passing by the building because he hears the fire trucks and stuff.  He realises that that’s the place where his band practises and he rushes in there to see if his bandmates are in there.  He’s in there without the proper safety gear and passes out.  He wakes up and he’s drawn toward his band still playing.  He sings a few songs with them and takes them back out.  Everyone rushes to the bandmates while Hongki is awkwardly outside of the crowd with his guitar and in regular clothes.  This means… when he passed out, he died and when he found his bandmates, he was a ghost showing them the way out- the playing with the band wasn’t real, he just thought it was real and was playing with the band for the last time.  When they’re outside, he’s dead so he’s not part of the celebration they’re alive.  At the very end of the video, when Hongki is passing by the building, he’s leaving band practise and has a vision of the fire but shakes it off.  Hope this helped, this was just my idea on it!  =)

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicole-Rose-Tupper-Brown/638045509 Nicole Rose Tupper-Brown

      I’m way late here but I wanted to say this explanation makes a lot of sense. :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ID6YHZDK74JBU3JXPXGP24XRWM Trish

    And to answer your questions as best I can…
    Where’s the fire? And don’t say it’s in the building. We saw all smoke, no fire.
    The fire is another part of the building =D

    Why does he take a nap?
    He passed out and died

    What’s with the Max Time holes?
    A drumstick accident ;D  No, it was probably the fire, did you see the state of the band room?

    Why are they flashing spotlights on him when he’s walking in the hallway? Since when do fires turn into spotlights?
    Because he’s dead and to move on he had to finish up what he started- find the band

    Why is a freaking band playing inside of a freaking burning building?
    Because it’s not real.  It’s all in Hongki’s head

    How did the building hollow out and become so freaking massive that it could host such a large stage for a band?
    It didn’t hollow out… the building is pretty big to begin with…?

    Why wouldn’t the guy immediately drag these loonies out of the burning building?
    Because it was the last time he could play with the band since he died… and it wasn’t even real… Poor Hongki =’(

    Why was that guy sitting on the firetruck at the beginning of the video so nonchalantly? Does that mean that he started the fire, or is he being playful, or what?
    He was the reason Hongki decided to go in there- since Hongki is pychic enough to know the building was going to burn, he saw his friend on the firetruck indicating that his friends were in there. 

     

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