fromis_9 -- Like You Better
https://youtu.be/r1QapH1SIAI?si=Qkpvjj-_5oYSx8rA
My final post for #CarsAndTrucks is this wonderful summer song released this year by a group so many of us had given up on as lost to the industry at its merciless worst.
Wouldn't you like to squeeze into the back seat and join in with the "Whoah oh whoah whoah whoah oh whoah"?
fromis_9
I don't pay that much attention to music show wins, but the success of fromis_9 on Music Bank in the face of stiff competition from aespa today pleased me.
Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in Kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen fromis_9 – Like You Better
What a difficult choice it was this week! I was so impressed by the ARTMS Club Icarus in Seoul mixset, and was also delighted by Hearts2Hearts performing “Style” in their pyjamas. Even after settling on “Like You Better”, I was undecided for a while about which version I should choose: one of the stages, a performance video, or the MV itself.
I eventually chose the MV, because I had felt so relieved when I first saw it. When I heard early this year that fromis_9 had lost members and was no longer with Pledis/HYBE, I feared we would longer hear from them. These fears were hardly assuaged when I read that the five remaining members had signed with ASND, an agency hitherto unknown to me. I was dreading one of those low budget videos set in wasteland or a parking garage with a poorly recorded song. So I was delighted to see a well made video shot on location and even more pleased to hear this exuberant summer song. Even though I have liked the stages, I think that the second part of the chorus works better on the MV, and the video as a whole does so well at matching the mood of the song.
As a bonus, I have also learned from the MV that Thailand, like the UK, Japan, Australia, and seventy or so other countries, drives on the left!
https://youtu.be/r1QapH1SIAI?si=K0hTmfDfflRXZ7i9
Jonathan Emmesedi