OMONA ORIGINAL: KPOP MUSIC VIDEO TROPES PT. 2 - Shipping Containers and/or Heavy Machinery & Tools

[shittysoup.livejournal.com]

There is a sister post with the same theme over on ONTD Click here.

Missed Part 1 all about desert locations? Click here.

Below I've compiled a short list of music videos featuring K-pop stars that, for some reason or another, love spending time dancing near shipping containers or hanging around heavy machinery:

Girl's Generation - Catch Me If You Can

The one where the girls are looking for their hearts at some kind of mining operation.



CIX - Tesseract

The guys from CIX looking for Sohshi's hearts at the mine.

9Muses - Hurt Locker

RIP to this iconic girl group that understood the power of the shipping container music video.

SISTAR - Shake It

Sistar going all-in with the tropes here, including the ever-present-in-kpop classroom!

Stray Kids - God's Menu

K-pop artists love an excavator moment. I mean, who doesn't!?

Ten - Paint Me Naked

Ten: on a couch, with a football, on a forklift. Because...because!

Everglow - First

Everglow, putting themselves first on a...shipyard? Oil platform? I have no idea where they are.

John Park - Falling

John Park ships HIMSELF. Brilliant.

Got7 - If You Do

One, singular shipping container - abandoned and covered in graffiti. It represents angst. It is profound.

NU'EST - Good Bye Bye

The shipping containers are there but you probably never noticed them before because they're just used as a wall? Idk, this video is absolutely batshit, man. I also thought this song was simply called "Goodbye" for the last 7 years but it's apparently "Good Bye Bye" for some inexplicable reason. The song still slaps though.

Pentagon - Naughty Boy

Frogs, shipping containers, chicken, high-vis jackets. This music video has everything!



I am missing SO MANY, I just know it. Help me out, omona! I feel bamboozled by the fact that Monsta X don't have a video that fits these tropes.

Sources: SMTOWN / 1theK (원더케이) / GENIE MUSIC / 1theK (원더케이) / JYP Entertainment / SM Station / Stone Music Entertainment / 1theK (원더케이) / JYP Entertainment / 1theK (원더케이) / 1theK (원더케이)

Comments

[pikapika217.livejournal.com]

Bless your work OP!!

[babycheeses1.livejournal.com]

I thoroughly enjoyed part 1, and I thoroughly enjoyed this part too! High five op — keep em coming 😆

[chiives.livejournal.com]

op, does mx's Rush not count? i think those are containers in the background, although they're not that obvious lol. (tbh all i remember about this video is wonho crying into a bag of nachos, forever iconic).



i also need to rep onlyoneof, savanna and time leap.





i'll add more when i remember, lol.

[shittysoup.livejournal.com]

(tbh all i remember about this video is wonho crying into a bag of nachos, forever iconic).

lmfaooo they've come so far!!! I wasn't sure about this one because I couldn't tell if they were containers or if it was just the cladding/type of wall.

[nefertitii.livejournal.com]

omg rush takes me back!!

[gathyou.livejournal.com]

Op your comments made me legit laugh at work, you're on a roll XD

Hurt Locker is still such a jam. And Idc, I love Catch Me If You Can, music video included. I thought the set design was pretty fun for a video who first would have just been released as part of a concert tour!

I'll try to think of other MVs, I'm sure there are :D

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

just came to this post to see if hurt locker was included because that song and mv is the queens of shipping container mvs !!! (snsd's catch me if you can too in my queendom no kings only queens xoxo)

love these posts op!!

edit: oh and i think bts' run or i need u have some containers?? kind of in the background though!

[dantethetaco.livejournal.com]

edit: oh and i think bts' run or i need u have some containers?? kind of in the background though!

I believe that was a train, the kind that transports things not people. Or it may be a train transporting containers lol

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

i have a very specific memory of them sitting on a container?? but yes definitely lots of trains that in my memory transport containers lmao

[em-cavey.livejournal.com]

I could have sworn the same thing but apparently they're in a trainyard. I guess boxcars could still count as containers lol

[broadcities.livejournal.com]

look at us discussing the exact definition of containers thanks to op!

[xoxkenzxox.livejournal.com]

Hurt Locker deserved better. It was an absolute HIT and I loved it.

[kyungwons.livejournal.com]

i admire your visual memory op i forget almost everything about a music video once it stops playing lmao even naughty boy i've seen hundreds of times and i would never have remembered the shipping containers

i remember loving those basic camo outfits on snsd they looked great tbh

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

lmao ok "One, singular shipping container - abandoned and covered in graffiti. It represents angst. It is profound." made me laugh. thank you for this great summary of the if you do era 😂

[nacomi.livejournal.com]

I can only think of this rn



I usually don‘t (re)watch many mvs, so I forgot the scenery of If You Do. I listened to the audio more.

[shittysoup.livejournal.com]

EXCELLENT one!!

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this post OP!

Hurtlocker is the queen of container MVs

[milktov.livejournal.com]

Amazing journalism OP! I love these kpop trope posts~
I remember the settings for Catch Me If You Can and If You Do did distract me from the rest of the video the first few times I watched them. I especially kept wondering why SNSD was trying to find their hearts here of all places.

Hmm, shipping container/heavy machinery videos I remember at the moment:

KARD visits shipping container land in this version of Rumor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ43--ds4eg

GWSN does some classic "posing in front of shipping containers" and also hanging out in the local factory in Bazooka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMj3sLP_azg

Not sure if this one counts, but several settings in Loona's Hi High always gave me that "oil rig" vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=846cjX0ZTrk

Hyori drives Big Rigs around with heavy machinery in the background in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cnZrmpk69s

Not very prominent, but Block B appears to be using heavy machinery to hold their sofas(?) in their squatter's commune in Shall We Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHglTopVlKQ

And if abandoned industrial side lots where the heavy machinery was long since stolen count, then I would also nominate H.O.T's Warrior Descendent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B031nR4GUF4

And in my search, I found a bunch of videos that I would have sworn had heavy machinery but turned out to just be industrial or abandoned settings with a lot of pipes and debris around: Crush (Weki Meki), Brave Girls (Deepened) Bang Bang Bang (Big Bang), Ringa Linga (Taeyang), Left and Right (Seventeen)

And I keep feeling like I missed a bunch of others (why do I have an image of Ga-in wearing a hard hat in my head??) so I'll probably be thinking about this prompt for a while.

[shittysoup.livejournal.com]

That Chitty Chitty Bang Bang example is perfect! I totally forgot about that song/album lol.

[milktov.livejournal.com]

Me too! I felt like I had some memory of a hot lady soloist in the late 2000s/early 2010s doing some kind of machinery-based video, but I couldn't remember who so I looked through a couple of the big solos at the time and found Chitty Chitty Bang Bang again. And now I will forget it exists again for the next ten years probably haha

[lightframes.livejournal.com]

Came here specifically for Hurt Locker, like many others lol

[myungung.livejournal.com]

I loved the previous iteration and part 2 is great as well! It’s oddly weird that we have so varied container MVs like grungey If You Do to bright ish Shake It and Hurt Locker to industrial-ish like CMIYC

Will forever love CMIYC for having great line distribution and the girls going hard on the choreo

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

how about the ULTIMATE tool MV

[reader17.livejournal.com]

When I saw what the post was about the first song/mv that came to mind was Pentagon's Naughty Boy so happy it was included!

Also loved the following

Sister - Shake It - I remember everyone doing that dance when it came out!
Ten - Paint me Naked
Everglow - first
Got7 - if you do
Nu'est - good bye bye (also did not know it was good bye bye)

Loved your comments on all of the videos. Looking forward to another one.