aespa's MUA and Hair Designer Talk About the "Next Level" MV

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

Source: Allure Korea

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[nudrive.livejournal.com]

"reggae style" 🙄

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

i KNOW like please have some effing awareness

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

It's why I have 0 expectations from SM groups because none of the idols nor staff give a flying fuck. In fact they'll even proudly state it. It's so fucked up

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Mess and also I don't even know what he meant in this context, like?

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

Just confirming that 'yes, they were going for locs and yes, they are appropriating' ¬_¬

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

That's not even what locs look like 😭 Can't even appropriate culture correctly

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

See I figured they did these 'gel locs' for like plausible deniability and then HE JUST COMES OUT AND SAYS IT. like they truly dgaf.

So tiring. I'm so tired of this BS. and SM is really one of the worst offenders imo. Half their idols appropriate stuff on the regular and the other half or same half are racist AF.

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

SME has to have a CA quota, it's truly nonsense

[nudrive.livejournal.com]

Truly... wonder what else we'll get this year - we're only half way through after all! ¬_¬

Random but kinda related; I just found out that there's this Korean choreographer or dance team (?) called BornBlack.. like reallly??????????? And no one else seems to have an issue with this name? Like it's just obvous they're named that way bc they wish they were black or smth.. So fucking weird.

[timetobegin.livejournal.com]

That was interesting. I loved Winter's short hair in the music video, the shots where the hair piece was at a longer length I hated though. Not entirely a fan of the visuals for this comeback though, parts of it are really cool but others........ today's trendy Kpop styling is not always for me. I wish all the girlgroups going for a 90s futuristic vibe would go full on into it :(

The song seems to be doing quite well in South Korea! I wonder of that means another comeback will be coming soon?