Super Junior A Cha – Kpop Music Mondays

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FOCACCIA! FOCACCIA! IT’S SO DELICOUS!

That’s what we thought the song was about. Focaccia. Or maybe we thought that because we’re really hankering for some good bread lately. Korea doesn’t really have good bread. Well, they do if you like white bread, but if you’re into Rye bread, or pumpernickel, or focaccia, you’re out of luck, unless you’re willing to travel for the bread. That’s kind of why we did the skit with the croissant: we couldn’t find focaccia, so we used the next best thing: croissants. Anyhow, Super Junior, being Super Junior, and thus immensely wealthy, can easily afford these luxurious breads, and fell in love with Focaccia, and sang their latest song in tribute to the bread. No? Well then, we’ve made a terrible mistake.

Otherwise, we’re a lot happier with this video than we were with Mr. Simple, though by we I mean me, Simon, since Martina likes Mr. Simple as a song better. We’re starting to think that, yes, every Super Junior video from now on will just have well dressed guise dancing in oddly lit rooms with cheesy sound effects. Don’t believe us?

Sorry Sorry:

Bonamana:

Perfection:

And the list goes on. But we’re starting to think that it’s redundant for us to expect any more from a Super Junior video, and we have a theory behind this. Our theory: SM wants you to stop thinking of Super Junior as regular people, and think of them more as gods.

SM is really taking the idea of “idols” very seriously. Super Junior are idols, and to be treated as gods; these music videos, in turn, are meant to show off their godliness. The rooms that they’re in are meant to be as non-distracting from their godliness as possible. Look at their faces up close, look at them dancing meticulously. Don’t focus on anything else, but the awesomeness of Super Junior.

For their music videos, they’re not to be shown in mundane, human situations, because they’re to be thought of as above humans, as idols. So forget a story to their videos. Forget a plot. They’re in situations that no one would ever be in (seriously: if I found myself in a weird room with flickering lights, I’d do my best to GTFO rather than dance and make sexy faces).

Being a Super Junior fan becomes a religion; Super Junior fans spread the word of Suju, and freak out over people who say bad things about their gods. It also might explain why some people ask us how we didn’t break down into a heap of tears and start screaming when we met Super Junior on Star King. I mean, why would we? To us, Super Junior are just good singers and dancers, not idols, not icons, not gods. So we talk to them like we would talk to other people.

To those Super Junior fans who are getting offended by this: we’re just trying to figure out why so many of their videos are so similar. How many more oddly lit rooms are we going to see? Why can’t we have a cool music video, where things happen, where the video can stand on its own as an interesting video? A story, a mini movie, something? SM has the money for it, and SJ certainly has enough members to create a wicked m-ni-movie video, but it seems SM either doesn’t have the desire, or there is some other secret reason we can’t think of. Is it maybe just too time consuming with the boys all off doing different things on different shows and adventures?

Are we off in our reasoning? Is SM doing a good or bad thing with not having any substance to Super Junior videos apart from face closeups and dancing? I mean, we know SJ themselves have substance, they’re one of the few boy bands who will joke about themselves and their height on TV, openly talking about their height creating insoles or about getting eye surgery (Shindong recently had his eyes done), so we’re not saying the MV videos directly relate to SJ as personalities. Hrm. What to do. Let us know what you think, we need some input!!!

Also, let us say that we’re only talking about the videos here. We like Super Junior’s music, which is why we put them as our Kpop Album of the week for two weeks in a row. If you haven’t picked up the new Super Junior album, you can do so by clicking the link here:

Otherwise, we’d like to thank everyone for taking part in our Brown Eyed Girls Sixth Sense album giveaway contest! We picked two winners: one from YouTube, and one from the comments on our site. If you’re the winner, send us an email and we’ll send out your giant sized album ASAP. Woot!

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Grace-Shen/100000888923875 Grace Shen

a-chaaaaaaaaaa :)
Monique Byars

MR. SIMPLE
http://karisumagyaru.blogspot.com Kari Gyaru

hello! i just found your blog! seems interesting but i can’t even see the videos because they are blocked at work, haha… so maybe i am just talking through my hat here, but i wanted to make a comment anyways.

when i was young and stupid, i used to be really in love with the Backstreet Boys… lol. and i (along with a slew of other fans) would get really pissed off whenever they released a “story” video. first of all, there were always girls in those, which sprung intense feelings of jealousy, but mostly, i just wanted to stare at the faces of my adored ones for ages on end, which you couldn’t do very well in a concept video… i think those SM people are banking in on that by making videos where you’re pretty much just seeing them dancing with no other distraction. now that i’m older, i do enjoy videos that have a bit more variety, but i think the production managers are probably spot on with their target audience…

end of my newbie rant.
Liz Chai

first off i have to say that i absolutely LOVE Super Junior, but i didn’t really like Mr. Simple as much as I loved A-CHA. so I’m voting for A-CHA and their love for sandwiches. :)
jericho98

mr.simple
http://twitter.com/CamRoh Camille Rohmer

A- Cha is better…. I think??
http://twitter.com/yesjanenoh Jane Noh

Over the weekend, I went to a cafe in Seoul called Stone Coffee (www.stonecoffee.com) and they had FOCACCIA! I was eating their ham sandwich when I realized, hey this bread is delicious, what is it? And lo and behold! It was focaccia. Then I was reminded of this video and figured I’d share haha
http://twitter.com/Daifuku_Owl Lucie

I personally love Suju’s music, but I really wish they were a bit more creative with their music videos. I’d like to see more video’s such as “It’s you”…. maybe for their next comeback they’ll do something more creative.
http://twitter.com/a_liking Ali King

I know a lot of SJ’s recent videos have been boring, but if you watch some of their older ones/ videos from the subgroups, there’s definitely some variation — No Other is a recent one with at least a bit of a story, and It’s You, Super Girl, and SJ-H’s videos (<3 Pajama Party) do too.
http://twitter.com/MadziaVelMadzik Madzia Vel Madzik

i’ve made a fanart for this mv :D http://twitpic.com/7arlpk ~♥
http://twitter.com/_Cookie_Lover98 Daniela Suttner

Sorry Sorrry(3rd album), Bonamana(4th album) , Mr.Simple(5th album)
This are songs from the “SJ Funky” line . And Mr.Simple is the last on of this line , so I think the next SJ MV will not look like this videos …
http://twitter.com/Sunj_Lee [email protected]

I’m a Super Junior fan myself, and to tell the truth, I wasn’t offended at all when I watched ur video.
Most of the music videos SM have made for SJ are in “boxes”. Only Happiness, It’s you, No other,.. have some meaning in the video. Super Show 4 just started tonight, and we can all see how creative SJ members are. I’m sure that SJ can make much much better MVs, if only they’re allowed to do so.
I just can’t stop myself from thinking that SM doesn’t appreciate SJ enough. They don’t put much money in the boys’ MVs
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000287615427 Ana Maria Lipan

Well, think of it this way too: if there WERE other people in their MVs but them, especially girls, they would probably be slaughtered by the fans – honestly, if they’ve been relentlessly picking on Henry and Zhou Mi ever since they were added to Super Junior M (the number of fans who have done it), then I can only imagine what they’ll be doing to the actresses (specifically) who were to star in the MV. This may be one of the reasons why they only have Super Junior on screen – a small, albeit valid reason.