Fans everywhere tried to figure out what SM was trying to get at when they put rope around Leeteuk‘s middle and made Ryeowook wear Big Bird’s carcass. When the concept photos for Super Junior’s comeback were released, people were confused.
While the release of their teaser photos evoked similar responses from K-pop fans all over (most of them being along the lines of “Who’s been dealing LSD to the SM stylists?”), the album itself has received mixed reviews. Super Junior recently returned to the K-pop scene with their fifth full-length album, Mr. (I mean EXO got more budget in the prequel to the actual vid, and those kids, however talented, didn’t make much of a dent its first time out, despite all the won spent to generate buzz on the first SM debut artist since SHINee.) I don’t know how to feel about that, but the gut feel tells me we’re in trouble.Never have I felt so conflicted about a K-pop promotional single, ever. However, SM Entertainment is clearly revealing its biases in continuing to give the “super juniors,” the original “rejects given a second chance,” less and less share in the SM budgeting pie. SuJu will do well in Japan because it’s SuJu. So why is Siwon all over the place? Japan loves a good hunk, methinks. And while we certainly can’t stop them from choosing who gets the pimp spots or most camera features, the fact that Shindong gets his first camera glimpse a quarter of a second into 1:40 on the video, is appalling talented vocalists Ryeowook and Yesung also receive sorely less camera time. The track itself is not carrier-single quality, and the video does not add any excitement or justice to Opera.
They think – wrongly! – the placing of shoddy special effects will mask the sore lack of plotline and what are essentially just two CGI sets. The masquerade theme is certainly fierce, but I am one with many ELFs (Ever-Lasting Friends, as Super Junior fans are known), who think that SM Entertainment, the boys’ management, have been stiffing them since Sorry Sorry. Opera was a track on their latest studio album, Mr Simple, and it comes into its own in Japan, where a video was made for it featuring nine members of Super Junior (sans Heechul, who is in the thick of the two-year mandatory military service required by South Korea of its able-bodied male citizens Kangin, who just got out of military service Hangeng, who left the group to pursue a career in his native China, and Kibum, who is trying to jump-start his acting career). Hallyu group Super Junior has released the music video of Opera, its second Japanese single.
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