[REVIEW] INFINITE - Destiny

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Cause you're my destiny!!

                                   

Infinite has made another comeback with "Destiny". The song and music video was released a week ago, and has reached over 1.5 million views (almost surpassing 2 million). For a change, they filmed the entire video in USA, Universal Studios. There were some controversies about their teaser video, but I'll delve into that later.

The music video has a lot of computer generated effects, and let me emphasize a lot. Although, I am a huge Inspirit, I do think they went overboard just a teensy bit. Teensy. Although I wouldn't blame Woollim. It's tough competition out there these days, and just having your pretty idol boy's won't work.

Other than the effects, everything was perfect! The filming angle, the choreography of the dance, their solo shots, their exceptional acting, etc. They used the filming area to it's limit and edited the video nicely.

Now, for the music. The intro was nice and soft; not too prominent as it takes away the focus of the song. Then, it leads to the leader, Sunggyu's beautiful strong voice. There was no out-of-place auto-tuning in the song (Infinite doesn't do that psh). In the chorus, the "huuuhuu" part was really captivating. I was strangely attached to that one part... It calms me...

Anyways, the ranging vocals from Sungjong's girly high notes to Hoya's deep and sexy rap fused perfectly within the song. The song in general is perfect, but the lyrics are .... not the best ones you would use for a hallyu star. It seems like Infinite's song writer is using Infinite to sing his feelings for a girl that left him. Similar to Infinite's previous song, The Chaser, the lyrics are about a girl who left them and they want her back (very cliche). It seems as if Infinite are becoming stalkers, begging the girl not to leave them. Who would leave seven perfectly handsome men?

This time around, the company was very considerate of our fan's pleads and allowed almost the same amount of screen time/singing lines to each member! That's right, the ignored member Sungyeol got more than a word/line! /fist pump

Back to the video teaser. There were controversies about Infinite being disrespectful about Asiana's airplane crash (you can google that up). In their teaser, there were scenes of broken airplane bits. Now, that is not possible at all because they finished filming wayyy before the plane crash occurred. Notice that the released music video is titled, Ver. B. Most likely, Ver. A contained scenes of the broken airplane and Woollim decided to respect the victims and their families, so they released a different version. (Super considerate!!)

Go check out Ver. B here:

[Review] EXO - XOXO Full Album Comeback

NOTE: THIS POST IS NOT EDITED. IGNORE ANY SIMPLE GRAMMAR MISTAKES. I'M HUMAN TOO OKAY.
(I typed this post at 3am. Give me some slack.)
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This is just a little mini rant/spazz about EXO's full album comeback. Although I might have said something about their comeback in my earlier posts, this is a more detailed one.

To put it out there, I'm actually an anti-SM person... But I do have my likes in SM (sorry, but I'm a STAND. A intense one too). EXO is the first group that I gave my time and interest to. Spending those hours learning twelves names, and their birth names, is not easy--any kpop fan can relate.

SM took freaking one year--more than one year--to have their comeback... .____. Are you friggun serious. Sure, they promoted SHINee and Taemin mostly, but what about EXO? EXO has by far gained an enormous number of fans since Debut Day 1, which is a record. They even became Red Cross Ambassadors! *o*

Their comeback MV isn't "over the roof" interesting, but it is addictive, I must confess. If you are Korean, or you searched up the "eng sub", you'll see that the Korean version of the song is like a parody. In contrast, the Chinese version's lyrics seem much better, and less "child-like". I felt the same way.

Let me show you some examples of the embarrassing translations: Yeah that's right. Embarrassing. 

"I’ll take you in one mouthful like cheese."

" It’s [the human] only a one-bite meal."

I mean, sure we don't understand it, and we won't care, but the Korean fans do! If this was an English song, it would be even more ridiculous. SM, marketing is one thing, but making sense in your songs is another. I don't care who is the lyricists  fire him/her! Hire me instead! I guarantee, my lyrics would make a whole lot more sense!

Now I may sound a bit arrogant, but it's getting annoying... EXO already looks pretty stupid crawling on the floor and becomes "wolves". I bet Kai is feeling embarrassed too.

Other than that, the entire album is great. I love many of the songs in the album. It has a variety of songs, not just sticking to one genre. Overall, I would give this album a 8/10. I do recommend this album to many, although I'm too poor to buy it myself. LOL But do listen to the full album. It is ear-catching.