멀티매거진 for your fashion fetish…
As a good student of signification and symbology back when I was taking classes in school and first starting to think about design, I was taken pleasantly aback at how obvious the connections were being made between the fetishized foot and heel, the woman's body as a sexualized object, and even near-rape and prostitution in this video.
Here's the full video, which is followed by a link to a Korean television concert version right below (just click on the screen), which has the lyrics on the screen, and about which I'll briefly also talk below. For non-Korean speakers, you might want to read through this entire post before watching the first video.
What you will notice in the video are some pretty fetishy shots that are standard fare on the so-called "fetish" sites. I guess "fetish" is just a matter of how much you admit you're looking.
Don't even get me started on the phallic imagery of the lipstick or her man being impaled by other, more powerful men after she is sexually harassed. There's also the footsie (and the foot) under that table that initiates her sexual laiason with her man, and signals her end after she has basically decided to kill herself by walking in front of the car – the camera lingers on her dead foot and red high heel that had been knocked off in the impact.
This video's use of the foot and shoe – along with the lyrics and concept itself – is the very definition of "fetish" as a metonymic symbol of sexuality and desire. If you say this isn't about "fetish," then I guess you'll just have to change the definition of the word. Sorry – I work in the fashion and design field; this is the way we think, is what I do. It's also what effective video directors and songwriters do, too, so don't make too short shrift of my insights, OK, girlfriends?
Here's one of their television performances, where the content of the lyrics is almost as surprisingly entertaining as their complete inability to sing – intonation, anyone? Wow.
You get the gist of it as the group's rising, swelling lyrics talk about trying to seduce a man by "putting on my makeup thickly, wearing high heels" in the hopes to make the man notice/come to her, followed up by "putting on my makeup even thicker" and "wearing even higher heels" to hold his attentions. The high wail on which the song ends is of one of the singers yelling, "Wearing even higher heels…!"
Maybe they should spend more effort of singing instruction and practice than worrying about the heels and makeup.
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