Hey, hey! I'm thankfully, back!
I'm back with a mission, a mission to share and spread the love! My favourite people has finally made their comeback on 10th November 2015. They came back with a full album and I'm obviously very-very excited about the album. Their title song for this album is 사슬 (Chained up), Ravi came up with the concept which has been revealed to be Love Slave - Slave of Love.
So, how do I feel about this comeback? How do I feel about this song? Gotta be honest with you, I am in love! I'm loving every single thing about it, the song, concept, music video, promotions, EVERYTHING. But first, let me talk about the song. You know when I first heard the teaser, I was all omg omg omg, that beat! And yes, the beat is in the song. Do you know what I love so much about VIXX? It's because whenever they perform, they each shine at their own parts. Their vocals are so diverse and everyone is so different with each other but once they mesh up together, it just becomes this perfect puzzle. It makes everything so easy to listen to.
We have Hongbin starting the song this time and if you knew me, you would know how much I'm game for Bin's voice tone, it's so perfectly low but perfect, some low tones becomes really hard to listen to but Bin's is a perfect full sounding low tone and I adore this so much. N then continues and pick up the song with his very unique tone that you can't help but go wow, that sounds really good. Leo's voice is a high tone but very stable voice and it doesn't give you the impression that he's suffering and that is what I love about him so much. Ken, well, Ken, he always makes me speechless. He's amazing, his tone, well, he could go high, he could go mid but he always sound so clear and full like it's a perfect sound. We then have Hyuk who has this very unique not so high, not so low, very middle but very unique voice tone. Ravi, oh ravi, he's my favourite rapper. He knows how to work his voice, how to go with the rhythm and I love the fact that he had a short verse, gave the vocals a place to put a lil' transition and then we go back to his rap.
The only way to really understand what I'm talking about is to listen to the song, and to make sure that you appreciate the song as a whole, you should try listening to the instrumental as well. You can hear the beats and how it's actually against their voices but then when they come together, it creates this unique sound and finish off clean. It may not be the most challenging- vocal wise song from VIXX but you know that VIXX's team and staff really did a clever job with this song. I applaud Jellyfish for having a very good arranger. I really do. What I love the most about VIXX is when you listen, you know who is who and no one sounds the same. That's what I call a team, a group. I'm very proud of VIXX if you haven't noticed. Haha, I love them so much and I could talk all night about them.
Anyway, now let's talk about the music video. The third time I watched it, I literally had a pen and paper ready because I needed to jot down my thoughts, there were a lot of things I love about the music video. I love how each and everyone of them worked the rooms they had. Visually it's amazing! Everyone just matched well with their rooms, (Notice that when it's an album, VIXX always get assigns a room? They had rooms in VOODOO DOLL as well!) My favourite room was the white dance room! It looks soft but match perfectly with their choreo. And I have to talk about the chokers! If I had to pick one, I really like the Chained up logo choker. The music video also seem to have this BR-esque / Crows Zero-esque vibe! And you know how much I love those two movies! Haha.
So, take your time, click that play button and try to see what I just typed in. Maybe you'll see more amazing stuff, I always see something new whenever I watch the video. Haha.
till then!
- wai
