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Hello and welcome if you’re new, welcome back if you aren’t to another video. Well, actually, welcome to everyone cause I got something new for you. This video will be looking at Ling Chao’s Rebellious. Let’s get right into it.
First impressions: A story! Yes! I don’t know why I love a good story in a music video. Like, it’s fucking 3 mins long at best and, if it’s longer, I’ll never watch the video again cause I hate long videos. In my defence, I would rather the song be 5 mins with visuals than have a 5 min music video cause the creative team decided to have a cut scene. Anyway, the visual was great and, though I’m not sure of the lyrics just yet, I can still get a surface understanding of what I’ve seen. Now on to the information.
ONER, formerly known as BC221, [insert group image here] is a three-member Chinese boy group under Qin’s Entertainment, consisting of Pinkray, Kwin, and Didi. They debuted on August 31st, 2018. Those who don’t know might be wondering, how do these people have anything with this video. I was wondering the same thing when I was trying to find out about this song and the artist — who I thought was either new or just new to me. Not only was he part of the competition show Idol Producer, but he is also part of the aforementioned group and his stage name, DIDI (insert graphic with 弟弟), means “little brother”, which is fitting since he is the youngest in the group.
Arite, we know who dem be, let’s get into my likes for this video. First off, acting is superb, DiDi!! Secondly, I am a fan of the clothing and makeup in this video. [insert outfits and makeup looks] Some of my favourite things, in fact. There is an outfit that you get the smallest fraction of a second to see and I feel like it is something I like, but I can’t even see it well enough to know. [insert clip/image of outfit] Worse him a spin in the clip so I get even less of a look of it. Anyway, this is one of the few times a credit scene doe mad me. [insert end credits] The music is too good for me to care about the uselessness of end credits in a video.
Is not until I finished watching this for the second time that I realised I hadn’t found anything I dislike; that means it’s time to watch this again… (insert mv sped up to 15x). Okay, the part where he comes across these other youths and flips the table — only to find out that they are friends?! Why we have to flip the table doe [insert clip of flipped table]?? On that note, this trope of the rebellious youth also being a troubled youth — always getting into fights and getting drunk — is a little played no?? Furthermore, whoever own that shop [insert clip of shop scene] did jus waah get rob! How you door can kick in suh easy??
Now on to the video; I think I get the video — he’s either getting rid of his old self or there are multiple versions (clones, doppelgangers) [insert clip of interrogation scene] of him going around. Let’s see how that holds up after reading the lyrics. So, my first thought was right, it is all in English, but the way it’s sung isn’t open to decent enunciation. [insert audio of chorus with lyrics] That reminds me that I don’t like when people sing in another language and it feels like they aren’t all the way there with pronouncing words — singing in a way that requires words to be distorted makes that a little more irritating for me. Doesn’t make this song less enjoyable — just putting that pet peeve out there. Knowing the lyrics does little in changing my understanding of the possible storyline. I feel like what I thought was going on is pretty close to what I get now with the lyrics. It’s either a cycle of rebelliousness or he’s making memories through this other version of himself.
Speaking of the lyrics, the lyrics gi me a vibe, but I don’t want to speculate in that direction since it will forever be a touchy topic. On the other hand, moving away from that though, it’s a mix of the almost nonsense lyrics you hear from vocal features on producers’ songs and a well thought out idea. Going along the lines of that well-thought-out idea, the lyrics are a dare to someone to live their fullest life. I think the whole ‘Youth just want to rebel’ narrative can be easily misinterpreted from the narrative, but there’s a lot more to it. There’s something DiDi believes is missing from his life and he wants to go for it, urging his peers to do the same in the process.
I think he managed to get most of that message across with the visuals.
And here is an extra thought: I keep seeing people skateboarding (in and out of the video) and it reminds me of how much I just want to learn how to skateboard, too.
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