Standing EGG - A Perfect Day MV (with Windy)

Okay.  I kind of have mixed feelings about this Music Video.  Let’s get that out there at the very beginning.  But I love Standing Egg, and I’m ecstatic they came out with a new song!!!

I adore the song.  It’s so relaxing and so chill.  I read some of the comments on Youtube, and they are right: this song is a great one for the morning, you can get ready and relax and be happy while listening to this awesome song.  I love how pure and clear and wonderful Windy’s voice is and how the guitar is neither drowned out by her voice, nor does it overwhelm her.  Wonderfulness in sound form.

Okay, on to the music video.  Is it just me, or is the music video a little bit wistful and a little bit sad despite the chill sound of the song?  You take away the music—the cheerful, mellow music—talking about a perfect day—and you have a lady, all by herself; surrounded by either an empty forest, an empty coffee shop, or behind the glass watching people have fun in an amusement park.  Sure she smiles occasionally, but who made her smile?  Usually when you’re smiling by yourself, you’re smiling at memories, or anticipating something you get to tell someone or do something to make someone you love laugh.

Face it.  A perfect day isn’t really perfect unless you’re sharing it with someone.  Yeah, a day can be restful and peaceful, and even happy, but to tip it over into the joy sphere of happiness, you need people that you love.  Just sayin’.

Otherwise, the music video is totally great.  I love all the shots.  It’s fantastically put together.  And yes, some of the elements of a perfect day are totally there.  Comfy sweater in a neutral color that you wouldn’t wear to fashion week?  Check.  Nails that match the color of the tree in your photograph?  Check.  Hair down and all over the place?  Check.  Warm drink on a cold day?  Check.

Funny bits:  I already mentioned the nails matching the trees.  That made me giggle.  Another thing?  Totally love how the photos of the cityscape and traffic light have the word “Forest” printed across the middle top.  What the confusing?  Yeah, no idea why anyone would do that except for advertising purposes, but whatever.  Another thing?  Totally love the old school clock in the wood-printed plastic that tells us that it’s 11:06 AM?  Yeah, that one made me happy.

So, I guess what I get from this music video is that sometimes you don’t have anyone to share your perfect day with.  But you can still be happy when you’re alone.  She smiles at the end, even though she looks a bit wistful throughout.  So, you can be happy and embrace life, even when you’re alone.  I like that, because sometimes you don’t have people to share things with.

Hope you like the music video!  And happy chill listening until next week :D

긱스(Geeks) - Hold It Down MV

I like the Geeks. 

Okay, that's too mild.  More... I FREAKING LOVE THIS SONG!  And this band.

And I don’t usually like the style they’ve got going on, but for some reason they got to me.  For me I suppose it could be their name.  Geeks.  Seriously.  So super awesome and adorable!  And I geek out (forgive the horrible pun) over the fact that they spell it out in Korean.  Makes me happy.

Loving the song.  I liked Officially Missing you, too, but this one tugs at my heartstrings.

Yes.  My heart has strings.  Get over it.

Somehow the more I listen to it, the more I want to cry.  I know, silly right?  But the lyrics combined with a sort of melancholy feel to the music just… Sigh.  It’s like he’s upset but amused at his own feelings, and doesn’t know what to do with it, and so he moves on.  Or I could be totally off.  Meh.

There’s one shot of the path one of the guys is standing on, and it’s got things poking up.  I don’t know about you, but if I stepped on one of those things, I would completely skewer my foot! Seriously.

And the first thought I had about the couple-ey ness?  Their very first scene with him behind her, holding her?  Yeah, totally awkward looking.  He just looks uncomfortable there.  You can totally tell when people are not necessarily comfortable being close to each other, and he did not look super comfortable there.  Funny.

And, my last silly thing about the MV.  The guy singing and rapping at the beginning?  He’s kind of wearing sunglasses in the city. That wouldn’t be weird, except… It’s kind of night time.  And it’s not just the lens or any special effects.  The lights of the city are on around him.  Ha ha, I actually really love that, though.  Yet another thing that makes me happy.

I loved the different scenes they shot in.  The city at night (especially with the sunglasses), a park/field with grass, walking along the street, the sea.  Wonderful, shakes it up, and makes the music video interesting and fantastic to watch.

I loved the raindrops.  Rain is always symbolizing sadness, I think.  For me (I love the rain, but I live in a desert) in videos like this, it almost feels like the heart, crying.  Especially when whoever it is can’t.  Whoops, there goes my poetic side.  I really liked the rain, is what I’m saying.

These guys are so awesome.  I’m sure they’d prefer awesome to “adorable,” but at the same time I want to call them adorable too.  Not because they’re not amazing artists, but because they make us adore them.  It’s not just like, it’s adore… And I’m okay with that.  They sneak into your heart with their music and awesomeness and stay there.  The Geeks are definitely wonderful.

I hope this mv makes you as happy as it does me.  Especially listening to the song, though, because I could chill to it all day long.

Happy listening!

Neon Bunny, or: 야광토끼-나와둘이

Neon Bunny is really great to chill to.  Especially this song.

I guess first of all I want to say that Neon Bunny is a great singer.  I love her voice.  She almost sounds a little like the crooners that would drape themselves across pianos.  You know the ones I’m talking about?  No?  Dang.  Real old-style, slow and soft and sweet but a little sultry too.  She has this ethereal voice, breathy, very pure with none of the extras thrown in.  Not that the extras aren’t nice.  They totally are.  But sometimes you long for something simpler, you know?

Oooooh!  And fireworks?!  Nobody told me there was going to be fireworks!  Seriously, people, where were you when I was being informed about this mv?  Huh?  Just kidding.  In all reality, the fireworks are so neat, especially with the focusing the way it is, so they’re blurry and they fade out really fast behind her face.  You get the feeling like she’s being filmed outside at a party, but not actually part of the party.  It’s like a memory sequence, and with all the overlaying of the different shots, it’s really neat.

I love how you get almost-glimpses of her face, you can even tell what she’s wearing, but you are never… Quite… There…  She’s playing with our minds, that’s for sure.

I love the light play in this music video!  I really can’t get enough of it.  At first you get her silhouette with lights behind, then you get fireworks, and then you get the feeling of, almost being inside a vehicle and lights flashing past on the window.  But she’s still there outside it.  And then you get her and some guy in glasses dancing in front of the fireworks!  (Were they at a party?  Were they in love?  What?)

Definitely artsy, definitely fun to watch, goes so well with the song.  It reminds me of something I would listen to in the car on the ride home late at night from my grandmother’s house or something.

It takes real talent to convey something to people who don’t even understand your language.  This music video leaves me wondering about it, and knowing I haven’t guessed all the answers, and that is also amazing, because if your audience is left questioning, they always come back for more. 

Was she remembering when she was with this guy in the glasses?  Or is she singing now about their happy relationship?  It doesn’t really feel that way with the way the song sounds, but it is possible.  For those of us who don’t understand Korean, it’s kind of like a guessing game.  Where you sometimes don’t get the answer to the riddle!

The song is really amazing.  And it grows and grows on you.  Not like fungus.  More like a happy tree, or some kind of nice grass… Anyway *cough*.  The slow movement, the snapping at the beginning, the chimes, the very deliberate beat all make for a great song to just chill to.  Her voice mixed with the romantic/melancholic sound of the song just combine to make the perfect piece to chill to… Cry your eyes out to… You know, whichever you’re in the mood for at the time.

If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is:

If you’d like a specific song, or artist for next week, go ahead and drop me a comment.  I promise, I can’t bite through the computer screen.  Hard as I may try…  J/K, I really am nice!

 I’d love to hear what you have to say about Neon Bunny or any other “chill music” artist.

Have a great week, darlings!

J-Min 제이민_아름다운 그대에게 OST_일어나(Stand Up) _Music

Here’s another one I love. 

Yeah, yeah, it’s not technically Indie.  And I suppose it's not really "chill".  But I don’t recall saying that I would only do Indie music on the CMS, and I really love this song.  It’s definitely great to chill to... In a very, rock/metal sort of way.

First thing I noticed was her RED PLAID PANTS.  Well, tights/leggings really.  And may I say, they are quite wonderful?  Yes I may?  Oh good.

I enjoyed that they kept that whole red and black theme running through most of the video.  Well, except for that weird inside shot in the white room where she’s wearing those weird star pants?  The best thing about that shot is that the bassist is wearing an outfit with a skeleton all the way down.  Yes, that’s right.  A life-size skeleton.  Pretty much awesome.

The video was wonderful how they shot it in the forest and there were dreamy crystal chandeliers for lighting around them (but on the forest floor, not above them—how does that work? SM probably couldn’t figure out how to hang them in the trees…) and the lighting and the view were all a little blurry so that it seemed like a punk-rock fairy-tale dream.  Then they move it to this white room, and I don’t even want to comment on that, because it was cool, but the forest was cooler.  Ha ha, and the second guitarist was totally posing in the white room (another thing beside the skeleton outfit that was awesome)!  Anyone else find that hilarious?

The song:

First, I suppose, is that I love that this is an actual band playing actual instruments.  Yes, I do love the boy and girl bands out there, but the addition of instruments to a band makes them an actual “band” and I love that.  I also love that it’s a female vocalist with an otherwise all-male band.  Those tend to go fairly well, at least in the States.  Flyleaf.  Paramore.  Halestorm.  I suppose I just like that sound.

It’s a wonderful song, even though I can’t understand the lyrics.  It’s got a great sound, mixing the electronic elements with the actual instruments and the vocals to make a sort of rock sort of wonderful song.  Okay, maybe it’s not chill (I'm so done apologizing for that), and my inner rocker is just crying out to write about it.  I could listen to this song on repeat for hours.  It really never gets old.

Last I suppose: I love the outfits!  Well, mostly.  I love her leggings, love the bassist’s skeleton outfit, love the guitarist’s whole wardrobe, and definitely love the drummer’s gray top hat.  And really, that is the most noticeable thing about a drummer: his head, at least until he gets out from behind the drum set.

If you haven’t seen the video yet, you should check it out here:

And I'm going to work on getting a poll up for the next Chill Music Stash so you darlings can vote!

Have a fantastic week!

Ondahl - 닮은 아이 Official Music Video

Yes, I have Simon and Martina to thank for bringing me to Ondahl and Gosu.  I pretty much love these guys (Ondahl and Gosu).  Really.

On to the video!

I adore the video.  It really fits the sound of the song so well.  The editing is well done so that you get the changing of the shot with the beat of the music, which is almost like a marching-band type beat at the beginning.  I like that with the change of the music, less of a beat and more drawn out, you get longer shots, and then back to the beat. 

  I love the golden sunlight wash over everything making the day seem laid back and chill.  I love how at the beginning of the music video the shots are very close and you don’t get a lot of scenery with everything, so they could be anywhere with a road and stone walls and concrete houses and trees.  I love his shoes.

I love that you don’t get full body shots of them playing their instruments.  You mostly get their heads and feet cut off with their instruments in the middle, or shots of their torsos as they are walking, or shots of their feet as they are stepping.  The stepping thing is way fun.  Too often you see just shots of the artist or band playing their instruments interspersed with random scenes of what they are singing about.  I loved that shot of the guitar strings vibrating.  So creative.

The song:

I freaking love this song!!!

  It has such a great sound, with the instruments having their own voices but being put together into a song that is chill and wonderful.  I love that it doesn’t try too hard, and that it both makes you want to nod your head and just relax at the same time.  Perfect song to chill to, really.  I have no idea what they are saying, because I can’t speak Korean (yet!).  Sorry darlings.

Overall, I just love this song and this video.  It’s one of those videos that I could just watch over and over.  Right up my alley.  If you have any suggestions for the next Chill Music Stash addition (whether it’s a music video or just a song), please add your comments.  I may even get a poll up.  We'll see.

And also, if you have more info on the band, that would be great.  I am not sure, but Ondahl is the guy with the glasses, and the band is called Gosu?  Really, I can’t read Korean, and Indie bands don’t get marketed in English like mainstream Kpop groups do.  So any info you would like to give would be greatly appreciated!

Here’s the link for the music video if you haven’t seen it yet:

Next wee I am thinking about doing J-Min, "Stand Up".  We'll see how that goes.

Have a great week!!!