Chanyeol and Sehun’s rap portion is my favorite part. I never actually watched the full version, but man this is trippy. You looked like you were in a trance for few minutes lol.
I just noticed that the long version is very different to the youtube mv version hhaha those glitches and effects hurt my eyes and concentration. Oh it hurt your eyes and concentration too 😂 I really suggest watching the short version MV on RU-vid it's without those glitches and effects
Can I just point out that Sehun just came back from filming his kdrama right before they did electric kiss dance practice and while everyone already knew the choreo, Kai taught Sehun the choreo really quickly before they filmed the dance practice and look at him slaying this. Only main dancer things 😁
BEST EXO DANCE PRACTICE!! And no, nobody can fight me with this one! Thank you for your reaction, loved it! I just love the song, the energy and the dance 😂❤️🔥
As far as story goes, I'm pretty sure this is X-EXO we're seeing here. At one point we see Suho waving an all-black flag. In the Obsession album, X-EXO is represented by an all-black flag, while EXO have a black flag with a white diagonal stripe (like the one we saw Chanyeol waving in his teaser for DFTF today!)
Although I don't really understand most of what is happening in EXO's "Electric Kiss" MV, I think what it is showing us is EXO traveling between space and time and across dimensions. When you pair the MV with each of the member's individual pre-release teaser clips, it is thought that "Electric Kiss" is showing EXO -- or maybe now that we know about X-EXO, maybe it's X-EXO -- as they have fully realized their full power potential. That's why you see Chanyeol create the explosion -- he no longer has the gentle little flame that we see in "Mama" or the spark that we see in "Ko Ko Bop," for instance -- his power is now fueled by anger or a need to eliminate someone or something, etc. It is thought that Chanyeol's wings could possibly be dragon wings. One theory has been since Kris, Luhan and Tao left, that the other members have absorbed their powers. Kris and Chanyeol were power counterparts. Kris had the power of flight and his sprit animal was a dragon and Chanyeol has the power of fire and his spirt animal is a phoenix, so they were connected because they both had elements of flight and fire in their powers. So it is thought that maybe Chanyeol took on Kris' powers of the dragon. You also see D.O. in that room full of film reels. If you remember in "Monster" and "Lotto", D.O. is the one who is filming everything that is happening and it is through that it's his videotape that Chanyeol gives to the girl at the end of "Lotto." So in "Electric Kiss" it's almost as if the films are the collection of videos that D.O. has been accumulating. However, I am not really sure if they are intended as evidence to be used against the Red Force or if the videos are supposed to be used for blackmail or if they are part of the Red Forces' plan for control, etc. It's not clear whether D.O. is the good and pure EXO member or if he is an X-EXO member under the control of the Red Force, etc. In "Tempo" we see the members in the movie theater and Suho is trying to prevent the members from seeing whatever is on the movie screen, and we see what is thought to be the Red Force using video images of the forest to try and trick Suho into forgetting that he is trapped in the maze in "For Life," etc. However, in "Electric Kiss" Xiumin is the one that is filming with the video camera this time, and it is almost as if he is using it as he plays the lookout for the other members. You see Xiumin use the video camera to see Sehun who is in the building across from him and you see him watching Baekhyun who is in the parking lot area between the buildings, etc. Some theories even say that "Electric Kiss" is showing us the members teaming up. For instance, you see Baekhyun with his power of light seem to combine his power with Sehun's wind power which you see depicted with the tornado and Chen's power of thunder and lighting with the lighting storm ragging in the background. For a long time a lot of theories have thought that Suho is the one character who is unable to choose sides and that is why we see him always trying to save or rescue the members regardless of whether they are being controlled by the Red Force or not. And this is thought to also be shown to be the case in "Electric Kiss." Suho cannot choose a side, in fact he refuses to. He doesn't believe that any of the members could truly be evil and he thinks in the end things can eventually be made right once again. And as the leader and guardian of EXO, he doesn't want to do anything that would cause a rift between the members in the future. As you see in the MV, he feels trapped in a literal box, which is why that's where he is for the majority of the MV. Suho feels like he can't do much to fix things at this point, so he uses his power of water as a mirror to force the other members to see themselves and to get them to reflect on the destruction they've caused or to really pay attention to what is happening all around them. By forcing them to each look at themselves, they then realize that they can break free from the Red Forces' control. With Suho's help, they all realize what they really want to do is what's best for the group, and in the end, they discover all that they can accomplish with the full potential of their powers unlocked. There is tons more going on in this MV and there are a lot more theories, but these are just a few that come to mind at the moment. Absolutely, everything EXO does is connected and SM never loses sight of that, even when they release a Japanese album or single. Nothing in this MV was random or done without a specific purpose and it's all meant to connect to everything they have done so far and anything to come in the future, across all languages and countries. "Electric Kiss" is one of EXO's Japanese tracks, so that explains why the MV is short. Japanese MVs are traditionally shorter abridged versions of the song. My theory is that it's a marketing tactic. Japanese producers want to make sure that fans are purchasing the song and album, so they make the MV short so you hear just enough of the song that you want to hear more which forces you to have to buy the song if you want to hear the full version. Japanese songs and albums from Kpop artists are produced and marketed by Japanese companies, so that is why they have different/more strict copyrights. Often, the only way you can hear the full version of the song for free is if you watch a dance practice video, or you see a performance from one of their Japanese concerts. Plus, most of the time Japanese songs are not promoted outside of Japan, so the promotions for those songs are way different. The choreography for "Electric Kiss" is one of the most complex dances in the industry. There are more than 30 unique transitions in this dance and they are constantly moving.
Fluffy Sehun!!! In the first line up where you stopped it was: Kai, Kyungsoo, Chanyeol, Xiumin, Sehun, Chen, Baekhyun and Suho. I love EXO song lyrics XD it's kind of unpredictable but spicy a lot of the times XD Music for grown ups XD This is the most trippy MV and I can never understand how it connects to the story line, but that;'s not really something new for me XD plus, I think they make it like this on purpose XD
No, Xiumin was in the middle the first time, in front of Sehun. The second time he was also in front of Sehun but further up the line. This choreo has over 30 transitions!
I've only ever seen the short version of this MV (not sure why but it never occurred to me to check for longer versions of the Japanese stuff). Then again, I always thought that was bad enough with the fast and furious changes between scenes. Adding all those glitches to it only makes it worse. The Japanese MVs really seem to take things to a whole new level with bright colours and jarring images. Presumably, that's what sells over there? I really do love the dance practice, though, especially that move that they all do with their arms while standing in rows. The whole thing is pretty genius though.
I think the wings in the back of chanyeol is actually a dragon wings which is kris power. Since kris is not a member of exo anymore maybe his power is absorb by chanyeol's power that's why he got a wings. P. S. Sorry for my grammar😅
Not sure if you noticed, but all of the Japanese releases sound a bit different from their normal stuff. J-pop has a different kind of vibe. The Japanese apparently prefer more rock-based/influenced songs (as evidenced by their anime OSTs...), so EXO's Japanese releases are much more edgy and gritty than their normal stuff. Typically faster paced too. That's also probably why the drop didn't hit like you thought it would, since you are more used to K-pop beat drops.
Actually there’s a “cleaner” version of the full music video (? I don’t know wtf is going on with that glitchy version hahahahaha I’ve never seen the one you reacted to. My eyes! 😂 Do you want it? At least to watch it one more time without hurting your eyes so much hahaha 🥺
SO weird hahaha 😂 I mean yeah I'd love to see it but I also feel like I definitely blocked out a LOT of this video from my memory just because it was so much flashing 😂
