[MV Review] T-ara - Day By Day

Anti Kpop-Fangirl here. This is AKF's first review done by three authors. The review is mainly done by sulli_fag (in black) with some of my commentary thrown in (in red) with some Zaku gifs and commentary (in blue). Color coded for your convenience, bitches.

Prepare yourself for a massive article of text and plenty of pics/gifs. Grab some popcorn while you wait for it to load.


The story takes places in Seoul, 2014 when T-ara's contract with CCM expires. The members had all cheered that they were no longer under Kim Kwang Soo. When Kim Kwang Soo unveiled his secret team of lawyers to keep the seven members under contract for life, Seoul was never the same. Jiyeon harnessed the powers of her father, Scott Summers, and Seoul was destroyed. Jiyeon's laser beams ravaged the city, making the city look as pitiful as Kim Kwang Soo's bank account after he had filed for bankruptcy.

Good night, sweet princess.

Jiyeon then rallies the remaining mutants, subhumans, and the other misfits of society, banding them together and crowning herself Queen. As ruler of the new world, she reigns with an iron fist, ordering her niggas to slice shit up at the slightest provocation. Pretty grimdark for a KPop MV (let alone Korea in general) if you ask me.

As I sat watching this on my computer screen, I was utterly perplexed by what was occurring--for you dumbshits out there perplexed means confused. Yup, I had no idea what the hell was going on. For one, I don't read Hangul, so I couldn't read the intro (inb4 Korea is best language---fuck off) and also I was confused by Dani's inability to act well. For example, she's suppose to be blind yet frequently manages to look directly in the camera and objects more than once throughout the MV.

Example 1:

Stop looking directly at the camera, you're supposed to be blind.

The post apocalyptic setting and the blind main protagonist is kind of a rip off of The Book of Eli, but Dani is no shotgun-wielding Scripture-quoting badass Denzel Washington. It's kind of a shame, but I guess it'd be kinda hard to have a 12 year old do anything but frolic and be a helpless little baby.

Also, let's be perfectly honest here.  It didn't look like she had a hard time finding Hyomin's PRIVATE AREA in the back seat of a car either. (Despite her supposed to be being blind as a bat, I might add.) mmmmm you go Dani, show her what you got, gurl!!!! 

12 years will get you 20, Hyomin... FYI!!

Oh! Please refrain from calling Dani a great actor, I'll never believe you so don't waste your time. All she did was look in various directions to ensure the "audience" knew she was blind and maybe shed a few fake tears (more like they threw jizz water in her face...amirite!?). Bitch, er YOUNG BITCH, failed hard at that. Also she has legs like a giraffe and no body whatsoever! I like my 12 year olds with HUGE DD's and a plump booty...don't you :( um. ANOTHER FAIL!

DEM GIRAFFE LEGS!

Giraffe x Horse. Kim Kwang Soo has some fucking weird fetishes. Not everyone can be a Tia.


Also, Am I the only one who thinks Dani looks like Saaya Irie. Yes, I still think it's Seungri in a wig. This could be the reason KKS picked her up from the street. He's gonna send her with T-ara to Japan and get all the pervy uncles to look at her shake her shitmaker for the crowd. Yup, I think she looks like Saaya a lot...and we all know how JAPANESE MEN adore her.

Saaya CLONE....Japan WINS!

ANIME DANI!?! DANI DREAM SEQUENCE PROVES PERVERSION---KKS PEDO THOUGHTS CUM TO LIFE!
JAPAN PATIENTLY WAITS FOR EEL SCENE!
You can settle for a good-ol' fashioned tentacle rape in the meantime.

Let's get to the MV before this goes on for too long. Simply put: It has to deal with some girl in the future that has some sort of Super Powers to break things and have her eyes glow. Yeah, I guess eyes glowing means SUPER POWERS according to the director and writer. EDGY SHIT RIGHT THERE! Cyclops needs a nemesis. Dani = Blind Loli Jesus FROM THE FUTURE. Everyone is looking for her probably to use her as a weapon or a sex slave....whatever comes first! I'd choose WEAPON! LOL!

Jiyeon chooses sex slave.

Anyways Jiyeon and her gangbang find Dani, kill Hyomin (But not really cause Hyomin has top tier Plot Armor), and start to use Dani as a weapon of destruction---I think. There are some male leads in this  but seriously who gives a flying shit about them--they are useless.

PREPARE TO GET YOUR ASS KICKED BY A CYCLOPS AND A GIRL ON AN AIRBOAT! 
SHE'S ACTUALLY ON A BONDAGE WHEEL. But with an astronaut helmet, wtf.

DAT PLOT
GRAMMY/OSCAR/ACADEMY AWARDS/BLUE DRAGON SHIT RIGHT THERE

Let's talk acting and I'll wrap this shit up. Jiyeon is mad sexy in this video. I don't know what's going on with me but recently I have been finding Jiyeon hot and I am (inb4 she needs sunglasses to cover her eye) loving her ass! So pretty much her acting is awful and she does not look tough at all but it's kind of ok because at least she's nice to look at and the camera gives us a few shots of those delicious legs/booty. I wonder if she dyed her pubes blonde too...don't you!?

niggaz

Hyomin wasn't bad but she wasn't good either. She was horrible with the sword katana (And the crossbow.) and did not feel intimidating at all. At least Jiyeon's bubblegum chewing in cry cry look a tad more menacing. What more do you want me to say other than, "Hyomin is a hot horse but her acting is shit and she deserves to commit seppuku with her sword for failing to make me care about her character!" Overall the song failed (inb4 rip off of Smooth Criminal) and the MV was mind numbingly atrocious. I watched it 3 times and each time I was bored and felt TROLLED. NEVER AGAIN!

Do you know why Hyomin is bad with a sword? Take a look at her body.

Hyomin can't shoot for shit either.

Well that's it but before I go enjoy some HYOMIN ORGASM PICS/GIFS from the MV

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Onto the songs themselves. Day By Day is alright. Yes, it's sampled from some Britney song. Anyway, Day By Day fits with the MV. The flute gives off an RPG vibe (though personally I think it's more of a medieval kind of feel), and the video reminds me of Star Ocean 3. It's supposed to be all high tech and shit, but it's spent in a backwater planet where they're using swords and crossbows. Jiyeon's eye lasers must have destroyed modern weaponry.


On the other hand, Don't Leave, the other song in the MV, outshines Day By Day. It reminds me of some of their older songs from 2009 and 2010. Hwayoung's rap is surprisingly good, and the buildup to and during her bits are actually quite unf.


Oh, I don't know if it's just me, but I didn't notice Areum singing at all. Maybe because Jiyeon used some hypnotic spell with her eye lasers or some shit, but I was more focused on her legs and ass than listening to the songs. 


Anyway, I give the MV a 4/5 not because it's good, but because it reminded me of one of those low budget Sci Fi movies that I watch to laugh at it. It entertained me, but for the wrong reasons. 


I give the MV itself a 3 out of 5. The concept is solid, but the plot makes hardly any sense at all. If T-ara could actually get a coherent plot going with their MVs, people wouldn't bitch so much about the 15+ minute MVs. But since this is broke-as-fuck CCM we're talking about, they're stuck hiring "artistic" directors (read: art school dropouts) to make their shit. The whole thing just feels really cheesy. Maybe it's the costumes or the hair colors, but everything feels rather garish instead of gritty and grimdark like a true post-apocalyptic setting would suggest.


DBD the song gets a 3/5 from me and Don't Leave gets a 4/5. 

I give Day by Day a 3 out of 5, and Don't Leave a 4.25 out of 5. I really enjoyed Don't Leave.