Red Velvet is back! Gracing us with their winter comeback, "Peek-A-Boo!, title track on their second full-length album, Perfect Velvet, after their highly received summer drop, Red Flavor.
For those of you don't know or even those who do, Red Velvet is a South Korean girl group under SM entertainment, consisting of 5 beautiful and talented members: Irene, Joy, Seulgi, Wendy and Yeri. Red Velvet never fails to produce fantastic content, wowing us with different concepts each release.
They typically have two main sounds with which they play around, Red" and "Velvet" . Their "RED" side shows off their playful and youthful side. Songs are very upbeat, with super quirky and colorful MV's, and fun, bright instrumentals. For example, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb and Russian Roulette. The other side is the "Velvet" side. These songs tend to be R&B, or ballad like, sexy, very soft and subdued. We don't miss out on complex cinematography, and eye catching sets either but emphasizes their relaxed and smooth side, For example, One of These Nights and Automatic (which is my favorite Red Velvet song overall!)
Playing with the duality of their red and velvet sides, the MV delivers a bit of darkness and mystery from preying on delivery boys with crossbows and performing what seems to be some occult practices but it gives us brightness and vibrancy because they are doing so decked out glittering rainbows and dressed in eye-catching blood red ensembles, making them equally gorgeous and creepy. Like always with Red Velvet, we get some twisting and interactive cinematography and cool special effects. But, unlike some of their other MVs this one appears to have a plot. Loosely inspired by films like The Initiation and The Beguiled, the girls appear to live in a sorority style house, where they trick a delivery boy into playing with them, running around displays of their previous male conquests, unbeknownst to him before letting him escape, only to hunt him down again. Then seemingly sacrificing him to some otherworldly forces; all the while aiming to hurt each other and looking fantastic while doing it. If I'm going to hunt some cute boys, I'd want to look as good as Red Velvet does.
The Song
Peek-A- Boo while still an upbeat dance track, it's less bubbly than this years previous singles from the ladies. Offering a variety of diverse and colorful sounds under a main melody as the women sing and rap about a new love that's like a teasing game. It features a more mature and sophisticated sound from them with twinkling xylophone instrumentals, tinny metallic beats, woozy synth, playful vocals, deep bass drum line and a little bit of brass never hurt anyone all underneath an overarching quirky pop vibe. The haunting, chromatic melody and capturing hook pairs well with a murderously themed MV reminiscent of 80's B movies. It definitely succeeded in showing off the girl group at their most mature side.
The Choreo
Done in striking all red outfits and dazzling rainbow hues, the choreography showcases Red Velvet's charms with some classic hip/booty shaking and the peeping hand movements showcasing the main point of the song, keeping their eye on the object of their affection. It makes you wanna dance along, despite the fact it might look no where as stunning as theirs. ALSO, lets just address how great Joy looked crawling on that table towards that pizza house. Were you all shook? Because I was.
yasssssssssss joy yasssss girl
I hope you guys enjoyed this post! Please comment something you liked in the MV or something you like about Red Velvet or just something in general, I'd love to know your thoughts :) Also, please share with your fellow k-pop/ music lovers! Until next time!
Jen :)
