BIGBANG: K-pop princes of gender-fuckery and family dysfunction

Seungri, alone, can cover it for comedy value during one of their concert interludes.

It can happen!

live stage upping the mad max vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itc1IWddUxo

Both songs sound 10x better live but that's almost entirely down to BB clearly having too much fun onstage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ1nX7tt3H4

OMG that cowboy hat hahahahahaha

Iunno I think Bang Bang Bang is still boring and lazy live.

We Like 2 Party is improved though, nice n relaxed, good enough for an album closer or extra.

If they're gonna be uninspired, they might as well go for this kind of drunk-shouty-lazy-relaxed beach vibe, and not force it.

Going for One Direction exactly in the MV (the hotel room scenes are kinda weird with no extras though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFmfi1vM7co

i dunno, i thought there was something nice about the fact that they left the models behind for once.

sort of the reverse of SHINee's summer fantasy in View.

I don't believe Big Bang hangs out together in hotel rooms :p

Apparently they filmed those scenes in the studio tho, must have been super cheap

the inflatable pool animals remind me of fetish vids haha u_u

Bang3x has totally grown on me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d7Oj3PZIco

Also I prob should have checked the lyrics earlier lol but there's actually a line about Valhalla in there, so yeah definitely right about the Mad Max refs haha. makes me wonder how late this song was recorded in order to fit that line in. (of course, they could have known about the concept of Valhalla before MM, but it's too much of a coincidence.)

I get the good part of the song stuck in my head all the time lol

Still hasn't grown on me, I cringe every time the chorus comes on LOL

Of course, there's still time between now and September for them to tweak the instrumental a little bit

This is cute tho:

https://instagram.com/p/3qeu-Nh5TY/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=video

the lead up to the chorus best part of both bbb and party

The reverse of that KARA mashup video is just as entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVcfmp7h8Vo

There are some girlgroup-looking moves in there LMAO

And 2PM sounding like a mix of themselves and TVXQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2pFB1dCSo4

Whoops, wrong thread.

ahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95JFW2eHtM

this makes me sad I'm not going to their KL gig, but the tickets cost 1/8th of my paycheck. u_u

lol

Was going to the NJ leg with a friend, but we got Sunday (a school night) by mistake so I might have to sit it out :/

both of the new songs are bad

i like 'sober' as much as any of the others excepting 'bae bae'

it seems weird that they're simultaneously trying to go for this wild heterogeneity of style and sticking with one producer, and i don't know how i feel about it

This is in the other thread, but here's Sober with subtitles so we can think about how any other idol group would be pilloried for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0eT9omRQS0

Damn youtube's autoplay, the ballad is criminally underwritten... Here's Sober (also underwritten but hey, I still like those MGMT synths):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJ40aW0-zM

And I think I'm over my embed allowance but Daesung's drumming is really quite good, on par with Sunmi's guitar skills:

https://youtu.be/qoies3-r1HM

if that WG teaser is a straight take (and it very well might not be) then sunmi's better at bass than daesung is at drumming, but this is a pleasant surprise. he sounds very likely better than Yubin, though i guess he's doing a much slower/simpler solo here than the one she tries in her teaser

It sounded more complicated to me, or at least flashier, but I only know Rockband drumming.

At least it explains the hair - dude clearly taking a page from the Muppets

Well not only is Zutter a certified jam, the live version of "Let's Not Fall In Love" sounds like it could have been on one of their earlier albums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nNoS2TstqVk

I liked "Lonely" and "Bae Bae" but this release is a very close second... throw the middle ones away, or better yet recruit the live band to re-record them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNoS2TstqVk

still regretting not going to see them in KL last month :/

really not sure why YG blocks their own stuff in Korea. what's wrong with Koreans seeing "let's not fall in love" live in Shenzhen?

I agree it's better live, but still, I'd say two keepers from this lot (so far?) and really only "bae bae" is more or less otm for where I think they should be at this point

Supposedly the album will just be the 8 singles they've already released repackaged together... but that doesn't make much sense so hopefully at least one more track.

https://twitter.com/theseoulstory/status/633527715140730880

yesssss.

though three weeks really isn't much time for producing new stuff - and they're still performing during those three weeks IIRC, just boycotting the music shows - but probably they have some songs kicking around to work on or can buy them, and and I believe Seungri's *entire* last EP was produced in three weeks LMAO.

what this really shows is that Inkigayo needs Big Bang more than Big Bang needs Inkigayo

GD tried harder to write an OTT dance hit for Infinity Challenge than he did for Big Bang, y/y:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=k5ey4mRP4G0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ey4mRP4G0

I should say "produce" actually, since no actual writing was in evidence LMAO

You can even hear where TOP's part would go (Kwanghee is taking Seungri's part, of course).

Another one for the lives folder:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=zuW08zyYcAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=48&v=zuW08zyYcAM

Grr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=zuW08zyYcAM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuW08zyYcAM

success!