Video the day: BoA - Only One
Jul. 28th, 2013 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oritsu_luvBoA's finally back, and I'm surprised to find just how much I've missed her!
God, this is is SUCH a good video. It's so well done. Understated and perfect. This is a song that tells a story and this is just the kind of video a song like that should have: a video that matches it so perfectly that BoA is singing exactly what's happening in the video at several points. It's such a deceptive song for me, because it's so beautiful, but once you find out what the lyrics mean, it's heartbreaking too. I love the way the video has the 'mobile' version of BoA (her mind?) walking by the different memories of the two of them as the stationary BoA (her body?) is at the table going through her breakup. (Speaking of which, the part where she grips her chair during the line 'How am I going to get up again?', and then the handshake before she leaves which is presumably the last time she'll ever touch him...man, it just broke my heart. I really got teary eyed.) I love at the end when she talks about how memories of her will disappear from her mind, where her image turns into soap bubbles, along with all the memories of them, because it's such a lovely metaphor. A soap bubble is so beautiful but when it disappears, it leaves no trace behind. I love the end, where the camera disappears into BoA's eye after she walks away from the table and reemerges with her reemerging through the cafe door on their very first date.
The Dance version, which is the version I saw originally, is also really great. I love the dance - BoA has always been one of the best dancers in K-Pop. It's so sophisticated.
BONUS: BoA comeback performance featuring Yuhno from TVXQ. They are so cute together in the commentary I saw! And they are so well matched during their performance! What great dancers. I only which that part had gone on longer...
God, this is is SUCH a good video. It's so well done. Understated and perfect. This is a song that tells a story and this is just the kind of video a song like that should have: a video that matches it so perfectly that BoA is singing exactly what's happening in the video at several points. It's such a deceptive song for me, because it's so beautiful, but once you find out what the lyrics mean, it's heartbreaking too. I love the way the video has the 'mobile' version of BoA (her mind?) walking by the different memories of the two of them as the stationary BoA (her body?) is at the table going through her breakup. (Speaking of which, the part where she grips her chair during the line 'How am I going to get up again?', and then the handshake before she leaves which is presumably the last time she'll ever touch him...man, it just broke my heart. I really got teary eyed.) I love at the end when she talks about how memories of her will disappear from her mind, where her image turns into soap bubbles, along with all the memories of them, because it's such a lovely metaphor. A soap bubble is so beautiful but when it disappears, it leaves no trace behind. I love the end, where the camera disappears into BoA's eye after she walks away from the table and reemerges with her reemerging through the cafe door on their very first date.
The Dance version, which is the version I saw originally, is also really great. I love the dance - BoA has always been one of the best dancers in K-Pop. It's so sophisticated.
BONUS: BoA comeback performance featuring Yuhno from TVXQ. They are so cute together in the commentary I saw! And they are so well matched during their performance! What great dancers. I only which that part had gone on longer...
