[MV Review] Nine Muses - Gun
Based Sweettune, hats off to you UCAADs to producing one of my favorite songs of the year.
Coming off from their Wild promotions, which should have been a good song but in the end wasn't, Nine Muses comes back much stronger. I had known about 9M for a while because Ahjussi is a fan of them, but I never found a compelling reason to give two fucks about the group. Sure, they're hot, but so are most girl groups not named 2NE1. Now, with the release of Gun, I am on board.
Sweettune had been given 9M Kara B-sides for the past couple of years. While Kara's B-sides are still better than 70% of the material released in Korea, they aren't strong enough on their own to make a group stand out from the hyper-competitive market. Sweettune gave 9M a very good song this time. I love the instrumental to the song, and I love how despite Sera being a good singer, there really aren't any moments in the song that are wasted for Sera to belt off for all of the vocalfags. The major improvement Gun has over Wild is that Erin is the only one that raps, and the rap is fairly short. If idol rapping has to be a necessary evil, make the accompanying instrumental to it sound good and keep the rap section brief.
On to the MV, which is equally as awesome as the song. First, some gifs from comekpop.
While not as is-in-your-face-with-Lee-Sam's-tits Wild music video, the music video for Gun is very good, showcasing all of the members. Personally, I find all of them but Eunji hot in this music video. She looked like a 50-year-old ahjumma in this music video.
Gun's music video breaks the dancing-in-a-box convention, opting to dance at a gas station. Maybe this is subtle advertising to get people to look forward to going to the gas stations again. I remember back when I was in high school and were we bitching about gas going over $2/gallon. I remember my senior year in high school, I rarely had to spend more than $10 to fill up my car. Nowadays, we're ecstatic when gas gets close to $3/gallon and celebrate when it goes under $3/gallon. So sorry, unless I see Nine Muses at a gas station, I'm still going to be unhappy about going there paying $20-$25 to fill up my car every week. (Yeah, I know some of you are probably thinking: "Shut the fuck up AKF, I would lick Hyoyeon's butthole to only have to pay $20 to fill up my car since I have to spend $50+ to do it." Well, when I was accustomed to filling up my car for $10 a week, $25 a week sucks ass.)
