Girl's Day's "Hug Me Once" MV

Shut the fuck up, and watch it right now. Go on, I can wait.

First off, I would like to point out the uncanny similarity between 'Hug Me Once' and their previous hit, 'Twinkle Twinkle'. It reminisces of the similarities between 'Haru Haru' & 'Lies', or 'Magic' & 'Madonna', so it's not exactly unusual for a group to be doing this sort of thing, but I find it annoying nonetheless (as catchy as this song is).

Anyways. I've never made any attempt to hide my displeasure with Sojin's face as a whole, and I won't make one now: She looks like a 35-year old, Thai version of Han Seungyeon. The only time she looked good was as the camera panned over her body (mmmm). Jihae gives off that creepy, plastic vibe throughout, and almost looks like G.na at times (same surgeon?), which is certainly not a good thing. Minah will be Minah: insanely energetic (almost to a fault), average-looking, and exuding enough aegyo to make Sica shed tears.

Had this been all, we would be talking about a desolate, utterly fapless MV. Luckily, that's not the case. Yura essentially gets two times as much screen-time as the others and looks fucking marvelous. She is also left to the "hold-the-cameraman's-hand-as-if-giving-viewers-a-firsthand-porn-experience" technique (pioneered by SNSD in their 'Genie' MV). I was expecting Hyeri to look absolutely fabulous, and I wasn't disappointed. It's like she's finally reached the height of her potential (physically anyways).

It may seem strange that the 2 new members are the only relevant ones, but then again, it really isn't. I mean, just look over at KARA, they'd be nothing without Hara & Jiyoung.

Oh yeah. The MV was released in unique fashion, with a ticket redirecting you to a possibility of 4 different videos (including a strangely entertaining game). Check it out here.