[Music Video Review] Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Invader Invader

Okay so first let me express my unabashed love of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. I adore her and her wackiness and and bizzarity that appears in her videos, even if at times it becomes much too strange even for me. I enjoy it. And so I was naturally incredibly excited for the sensory overload that is "Invader Invader".

The video opens up in space, with this being the Title Card. We see a picture of who we can assume is Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, followed by the japanese title of the song which is made up of gears and staem and a strange worm creature and even a lightning bolt. Then, the word ATCG is on the right side of the screen. Or is it ACTG. What does that even mean?

Our video then gives us a quick shot of Kyary, and then THIS staring us in the face. There are four creatures like this with various Kanji attached to their faces, and I'm pretty sure they're men. In funkly alien drag -- bravo Kyary, you've turned your video into RuPaul's Drag Race.

Ladies, start your engines~

However, we can see that Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is looking as cute as ever! Also, this video appears to have some kind of attempt at a story. 

Of course, I use the term "Story" loosely. The story throughout this video seems to be that our adorable little 20 year old Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is an alien of some kind, and as she fills out this awkward looking graph with sushi and dolphins and other bizzarities, the graph glows and a DJ with a TV for a head descends from the sky and they party hard with people in weird costumes. So yeah. 

This is a man, I swear, LOOK AT THAT CHIN.

I don't even know what this is supposed to be.

Got laser eye beams

And super ear missiles.

I'll send my Telepathy

Right into your heart!

AND THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED
......

I Think.

I'm not even sure what this means.

But it makes this happen somehow. okaaaaay.

So, long story short, Invader Invader is just the kind of video I like. It's wacky and crazy and cute and doesn't make much sense at all, and the song is just kickin!

[Music Video Review] Bulletproof Boyscouts - No More Dream

Whoop Whoop, Squirrel is back with a brand new Music Video Review, and what are we reviewing today?
NO~MORE~DREAM! By Bangta Boys aka Bulletproof Boyscouts aka BTS aka that band with a leader who calls himself RAP MONSTER.

Bulletproof Boyscouts are Big Hit entertainment's new boy band who was supposed to debut 2 whole years ago.

Yes, it took 2 years. Oh well.

The video, thankfully, introduces us to the 6 members of BTS, the video freezing on each member and displaying their name before moving onto the next one. We start off with....

RAP MONSTER.

His name is so...well...it's interesting to say the least. Then we move onto Jin

Who looks nothing like Jin Kazama from Tekken so I was a tad disappointed

After that, the next member is introduced. His name is Jimin.

Jimin, to me, looks a little confused as to what he is even doing. His face doesn't display gangster so much as it does "What am I doing here?"

J-Hope

Then we have J-Hope, and I'm not too sure how I feel about him. He looks like a cool guy and real gangsta style, but he also looks like he's trying to wear a Bukhara and he is doing a horrible job at it.

Then there's V.

V is...Well V is the psycho of the group. Prior to actually freezing on him, the camera shows him violently beating a wall with a lead pipe...cause you know, that wall owes him some money.

This is Suga. Pronounced like Sugar but without the R. So like a Rhode Islander would say it.

God, Suga. Why are you called Suga.

This Jung Kook, the one with the most boring name.

OKAY so now that introductions are done, we start the real song, and we're greeted with this.

Hey what's your dream
Hey what's your dream

More like Hey what's with those Sunglasses? I'm not even too sure what's going on here, and as entertaining a music video as this is, I cannot forgive these weird daft punk looking glasses on a guy who is supposed to be a tough guy gangsta rapper. Just my opinion -- I don't think they wear those in the hood.

Needless to say though, as I watched this video I found myself actually impressed at how well most of these guys pulled off the tough guy rapper image, J-Hope in particularly. However, my  favorite member is the most boring name guy, who I will now affectionately name JK rather than Jong Kook. He is the best rapper out of the group and definitely pulls off his image nicely here. 

Needless to say, the video is a pretty good one. If I had to voice any complaints, it would be about many of the portions of the dance. To simply put it, BTS's dance portions of this video are lackluster in many sections. Parts of it don't exactly portray the fierce, tough, breaking boundaries attitude I feel like they want to portray. Their music and voices and appearance do, but the video itself does not, and as such I feel like the video doesn't entirely give them justice. I mean, you can slide forward and puff your chest out --- but the fact remains that you're delicately sliding forward and puffing your chest out -- it does not do the song justice, and if there was any song this year I would rewrite the choreography to, it would be this one, because I feel like it just doesn't do the song and the boys justice.

My final score on this would be a 3 out 5 acorns, because I feel like with the message of the song and the fierceness in it's delivery that the video could have been much more intricate and maybe included a better dance, or perhaps none at all.
3/5 Acorns.