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Chapter 69 Hot Post "Cupid" MV Analysis

[Detailed analysis of the popular post "Cupid". ]

Poster: I think everyone is tired of praising the princess’ beauty.

After all, as the Peninsula says, "Even passing ants know the princess's beauty," so this time I'm here to praise the princess's talent.

To be honest, I have been following Kpop for a long time.

Currently, idols in the market almost all have a perfect and decent idol image. They are cool and handsome in MVs. But seeing too many identical handsome men and beautiful women will become boring after a long time.

The MV of "Cupid" is very suitable for young people. The silly cartoon characters make people doubt that this is actually the official MV of Red Velvet.

The lyrics, composition, arrangement and concept of this hit song "Cupid" were all done by Princess.

Princess' songs don't have a K-pop flavor, they are completely European and American electronic pop style. The melody and rhythm can be considered novel and special in Europe and the United States, which is eye-catching.

The songs she wrote and the MVs she wrote have a lively and playful feel, which is a fun way to destroy the previous Red Velvet's exquisite and perfect idol image.

Red Velvet's previous comebacks were all beautiful and perfect, but for me, they always lacked some tension. This comeback changed my mind.

I really desperately want Princess to continue writing songs and producing. I love the few songs she has produced so far.

The poster: The plot of the MV of "Cupid" seems nonsensical and weird at first glance. I call it Red Velvet's demonstration of what it means to be single based on one's own strength.

Red Velvet's journey of "seeking love from Cupid" can be summed up in one sentence.

[You said you wanted to fall in love, but you have to go to class in the morning, eat at noon, work in the afternoon, and take tutoring classes at night. You also have to play with your phone and sleep in the early morning. How can you fall in love? Do you rely on the five minutes you practice taking naps?]

The MV is beautifully shot and very cool. The anime images in it were officially made into emoticons in the MV. Now the screenshots are circulating on the Internet. Because they are so funny, everyone is crazy about re-creating them.

Who could have imagined that the first wave of these six beautiful sisters became popular as a group by creating a silly emoticon package!

But the sand sculpture is really interesting, so let me scroll back to the beginning and watch it a billion times [doge].

After reading it hundreds of millions of times, I discovered hundreds of new details and shared them with you.

Poster: SM always has his own insistence on every concept planning, song production and MV production, and the MVs he shoots are very textured.

Anyone who has studied photography and editing will know how well SM’s MVs are shot. Each of its shots is interesting and has visual logic.

Since Red Hair debuted, there has been no ineffective shots in his MVs. As long as a shot appears in a MV, it has a purpose.

I originally thought that this MV was just a joke, but I was wrong.

There is nothing simple about Red Velvet’s MV.

What follows is my understanding of the analysis.

Poster: The MV opens with a princess in beautiful face, and then the scene switches to a restaurant.

In the dining scene, Liu Beibei holds a different spoon, and the tableware used by several people for dining is obviously different.

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The princess used a gold-rimmed porcelain plate and gold spoon, while the captain's sister used a silver-rimmed porcelain plate and silver spoon;

Joy, Wendy, Yeri, and Seulgi are wooden spoons and wooden plates. The color of the wooden spoon can be seen as an "earth spoon."

[In 2015, the popular words on the peninsula were "gold and silver, earth spoon", which is "Silver Spoons" in English.

It can be understood as China’s “golden spoon”.

The differences between the three are obvious, which means that a person's future is basically determined at birth, and children from poor families have no hope in life from birth. 】

Poster: Let me analyze the theme of this song based on the details of the MV.

Just looking at the lyrics of the song, it is undoubtedly about a girl's yearning for love. But what actually happens in the MV?

1. Yeri was in class, and the eraser of a boy behind her jumped to her feet. The boy wanted to say hello to her with a red face. She picked up the eraser, threw it back without looking back, and continued to write the test paper.

The design effect here is very pantomime-like. The eraser is thrown on the boy's head, and there is an anime special effect of a broken heart on his head.

[Picture] Pay attention to the key point. In this MV, Yeri and the princess are best friends who often walk together arm in arm. The test paper Yeri is writing is signed by Somin.

At this time, Somin was still putting on makeup in front of the mirror.

[As we all know, the study competition in the peninsula is extremely competitive. Many people want a good diploma and a good job, but cannot afford a car or a house.

Park lost contact during the golden rescue period when the Sewol ferry sank. After he reappeared, he was said to have gone for cosmetic surgery.

At the beginning of this year, another incident called "Girlfriend Gate" broke out. JTBC revealed that Choi's favorite thing to do was to modify Park's speech manuscripts.

The MV is about a close friend helping to write a test paper. 】

2. Joy works in an office and ignores men who confess their love to her.

The computer crashed and the word [Hell] appeared on the black screen. Joy moved the mouse crazily and impatiently.

3. Wendy passed by the teenager and the two bumped into each other and moved away from each other. Wendy smiled awkwardly, bowed and apologized, then ran away quickly.

The boy is also heartbroken here, because he regrets that he didn't have the chance to talk to Wendy. He missed out on "love" again.

4. Seulgi practiced dancing in the practice room covered with music symbols (I suspect it was the Tik Tok logo) at night.

Seqi fell asleep tiredly, and in her dream she was holding hands with someone, which scared her awake.

Coincidentally, when the images of these four people flashed, the lyrics were all "Cupid is so dumb."

In the song “du——mb”, the middle syllable is deliberately lengthened.

It is normal to stretch the sound when singing, but the stretching here can correspond to the recent buzzword of Peninsula, and dumb obviously echoes "dumb dumb" from the previous album.

[This year, the phrase "Nu-li" is also popular in the Peninsula, which is a way of elongating the pronunciation of the word "Nu" to satirize a society where no matter how hard you try, nothing changes.]

Poster: The only one who is different is Irene. The phone screen asked if she could go out and play. Irene looked very happy. The wallpaper on the phone screen was [Wellbeing].

[“Hell+Peninsula (Hell-like Peninsula)”, “Three Throws Era”, “Golden Spoon, Earth Spoon”, “Effort”. ]

When did these words, which are full of negative energy and became popular among young people in 2015, begin to become popular?

It started when Park and Lee came to power.

Everything the two men did while in office was to serve the chaebols without considering the people. The people who suffered the most during this period were the young people of the peninsula today.

In the MV, the princess and the little sister eat vegetables marked as organic food, and their activities include yoga, meditation, reading and traveling.

The young lady drives herself when she goes out, while the princess has a car to pick her up and drop her off.

Coincidentally, this is exactly the kind of life that the public advocated and pursued during Lu's reign - people lived a prosperous life, so they began to pursue health and harmony of body and mind.

What about the other people from Copper Spoon?

Yeri is in class; Wendy is socially phobic; Joy is working; Seulgi is practicing which is also working.

The four of them were basically walking on the road.

It can be seen that the princess and the little sister are almost all happy in the MV scenes and lyrics.

The princess' plot is more subtle, and the young lady is the one who confesses her love.

【The happiness in the lyrics = “Wellbeing”.

This word is the most obvious and was a popular word among the people during Lu's reign. At that time, many people were already relatively wealthy in terms of material wealth, society was developing rapidly, and the people were very happy. 】

--Red Beibei is still the same Red Beibei, who is always against everything and everyone.

--It turns out there are so many meanings, I was just looking at a few young ladies...

-- "Cupid" is a more subtle condemnation; the analysis of "July 7th" has also been released, which is an allusion to the Sewol ferry.

--I said that the main theme of Red Velvet is definitely not just love.

--SM is playing a big game.

--It cost a lot, and both MVs were shot so well. After knowing the meaning, I watched them again and felt that the "real singleness" of "Cupid" was all irony.

--This comeback is great. Apart from the hidden meaning, the quality of the songs is very impressive.

The number one MV in the world on YouTube.

The title song was a huge hit, so popular that even ants passing by have heard it.

--As soon as Red Velvet returned, the traffic of major data bloggers increased.

--No one should not know that Red Velvet is the first AK girl group this year, right? No way.

--What does ak mean?

--ak=all kill, No. 1 on all music charts of Peninsula.

--sbs news report.

[Red Velvet's new song "Cupid" becomes a hot topic on the peninsula].

You're awesome, Hong Beibei. I'm shocked by how popular you are.

--This song has gone viral on Douyin and TikTok. Clicking on any video will show you all the dog food and funny single stories, with the background music always being "Cupid".

--The songs ranked among the top in the domestic QQ Music Rising Chart, and the main song and the songs written by Princess each entered the top five of the island country's B chart daily chart, and remain so until now.

--In addition to the main song, the princess also wrote three other non-main songs, all of which are fairy songs.

The entire album is in the top 30 of the Guadi chart. I have nothing to say about Princess except admiration.

--Ice is back at No. 25 on the GuaBan chart, and Come on Summer is in the top ten...Princess's other three songs are also in the top ten.

Five of the top ten are from the Peninsula. I tell you not to love them too much.

--The album has been pre-sold for 46, and the sales of previous albums are also increasing.

--The fan base is mostly female, the audio source is foggy, and the sales are much higher than those of boy bands. Woohoo, 60 cents is the best!

--The main reason for high sales is probably good publicity and promotion.

The promotion for Red Velvet's comeback this time is very strong. There are splash screen ads and push notifications on Douyin, Chinese Douyin, QQ Music, Melon, and Kakao. SM has spent a lot of money.

--Damn, the princess mom in China bought it for 35, it's really crazy. Isn't there a digital album? Why are you still buying the real album?

--There are Jingdong and Taobao flagship stores in China, which make it much easier to buy albums than before.

--The official sales poster marked the amount of loss, which was really a big honor for Panda Girl. Red Beibei is the first group to sincerely thank the fans. TUT

--Panda girl bought so many mid-losses, can you give her some special treatment? I am in tears.

--The Chinese version of the title song is included, but it was added to the album before it was released. The princess also specially expressed her gratitude to fans in Chinese on various platforms.

--The clear and melodious words "Thank you our Lafu" on Princess Bubble made many panda girls cry.

--It was the princess who suggested that Cupid be released in Chinese. It was also the princess who suggested that the Chinese version be included as a bonus in the album at no extra cost.

--I think Princess is the only one who has Chinese, Korean, English and Japanese versions of Bubble Reply, which saves a lot of translation work.

--The Princess gave Xia Yuhe a really good experience. Our princess is worthy of being a half-green card holder. She is a very sincere baby. She deserves to have so many fans in China.

--The princess’ biggest pink spot is that she doesn’t steal culture. Every time she brings something for planting flowers, she will mark it as being for planting flowers.

During the Chinese New Year this year, she posted photos of herself wearing the step-shaking hairpin and Hanfu given to her by her mother. She looked so beautiful in them, and Hanfu became a big hit.

--That post on Instagram has received over a million likes, and many people are praising the beautiful clothing.

--The red plum Hanfu in the snow and the furry cape with piping are obviously our flower-growing clothes. The princess charmed me so much that I could easily fall in love with her.

--Taobao has imitated Hanfu, which is very beautiful.

--I am confused as to why the sales volume is so high and the princess cards are still so expensive.

--In unknown corners, card collectors have collectively gone dark and crazy.

--Please, give me a princess card.

--If I can't get the princess pink-haired lop-eared rabbit and the idol princess card, all my good qualities will disappear.

--You'd better take a nap. You'll dream faster.

--Watching the princess’s photo cards becoming more and more expensive.

I feel like I can sell my current small card and buy a house.

--Sell it to me and I will take it.

--Just kidding, only a fool would sell it.

--The few songs released this time have secured Princess’ status as a producer.

Princess is definitely the top four female lead and the top female lead in Kpop.