Brown Eyed Girls get cleaning
Posted under: Lately I get my K-pop kicks from whenever a Korean music video shows up on the front page of YouTube. It’s hard to resist. It’s right in my face. It’s popular. Is it good?
Today it was Brown Eyed Girls “Cleansing Cream.” I actually didn’t even see what the song was called, to be honest. I just watched the video.
I found it to be really captivating and the song seems pretty good. I didn’t care for “Sixth Sense” so I didn’t even bother to talk about it. It was a mediocre song with a lot of Narsha rolling around in sand. Not impressed. LOL! This song has a really beautiful sound to it. It seems earnest and a little heartbreaking. It also showcases everyone’s voices nicely.
“Cleansing Cream” really seems to be a song worth listening to again. I also liked the video because the story was kind of abstract but powerful in visuals. I immediately saw the following comment on YouTube so this informed my interpretation:
The little sister is blind representing pure/innocence. She admires her older sister and wants to connect with her. The older sister is unhappily married. The blind sister accidently touches her sister’s husband’s face. She’s fasincated (temptation). Her older sister sees this and doesn’t want her sister to make the same mistakes she made. Seeing her sister in makeup reminds her of when she was naive and innocent. Angered she tries to wash it off to prevent her from being hurt like she was. (User: rizhung)
To that I would like to add that it seems that the little sister is not just blind. She seems like she might be deaf as well. She also may be completely symbolic, representing a part of the older girl’s former self that she’d like to go back and change. It’s easy to fall for someone, and usually you become like a completely different person when you’re like that. Ignoring faults is a basic symptom of infatuation; it’s almost like you’re cut off from all your normal senses.
I just thought it was a well-made video because it really got me thinking. It complimented the song nicely.
However, I totally went, “WHAAAAAAAAAT?!” at the end because for a second I thought it was a commercial! HAHA! I thought BEG was releasing a cleansing cream and they made this entire song and video up just to advertise it. Despite thinking that, I still forgave it because I liked it all so much. However, reason soon took over and I am now pretty sure it’s just the title of the song and that’s it. Is that right? Lol, just checking.
What are your thoughts on this song and video? How does it compare to other BEG releases?
I love how they came back with their original sound. Despite the title really looking like a commercial, the song drops hard.
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Someone put up another interesting interpretation :
“this story is a about a GIRL who changed herself. So remember the INNOCENT LOOKING girl was her also , it was the days when she was really innocent & pure. The MAKE-UP women is her also that is days when she turned around and change her life & this is the time when she puts make-up, have a lover & changes her life. Her relationship doesn’t comes smoothly & she regrets everything that she change her life just for that MAN. SO THE INNOCENT GIRL = MAKE UP GIRL (R THE SAME) ”
It really suits the MV in my opinion.
Loving the song. For a moment there I thought it was an elaborate commercial too, because of the name.
I’m a new reader of your blog, but I have come across your videos on YT before (zerohundred something right?). I used to have the Taeyang+TOP Friend video on repeat, now I get a ‘this video is not available anymore’ message. ‘Pretty Boy’ and ‘Fan’ were pretty awesome too. I tried searching for the Fan video, because that one suited the song so well and some of those fanvids were pretty creepy–perfect for the song. I couldn’t find it.
Does this mean you lost them all?
My YouTube account unfortunately got suspended. They just can’t appreciate fan videos! I was thinking about uploading them to the YT account “fangirltainment” at some point (when I have some time and a better internet connection than I do now). I’m glad you were liking the videos. I still can’t believe they aren’t there anymore
I still have all of the files so not to worry!
Aww, so that’s what happened. Well, luckily you still have the files. It would have been a real waste of hard work if you had lost them! Thanks for answering.