What’s up everybody? We’re back with Editor’s Choice Weekend and this weekend we’re taking a more technical look at our favorite K-Pop videos! Let’s get started.
Of course there are a lot of music videos where we’re just in it to fangirl over our favorite idols, but there are those rare gems where you look at that music video and are like, ‘Damn. Why isn’t this a movie/drama?’
For me, it was a tie between two Seotaiji music videos from the same album, “Quiet Night.” It was between “Sogyeokdong” and “Christmalo.win.”
Of course, with my biased-ness to Halloween and most certainly the uncanny resemblance to one of my favorite Tim Burton films of all time, “Nightmare Before Christmas,” how could I NOT choose “Christmalo.win?”
Not to mention that amazing synth rift. Oh Lord, be still my heart.
The plot goes something like this:
A mother is teaching her child and other children in the town some magic. One day, her daughter comes home to find the house in shambles, and her mother gone.
She goes to the citizens of her town, begging for help, but no one saw what happened so she leaves and goes to, what we’ll call, Christmas Town, and for the sake of argument, her hometown is now Halloween Town.
Anyway, she goes to Christmas Town, and finds her mother chained to a boiler behind a liquor store. Determined to rescue her, she seeks out the big man himself; Santa Clause.
However, Santa Clause is being controlled by some greedy man behind the scenes, and uses child labor to make the toys. Guess where our dear heroin ends up?
That’s right, in the factory. However, one little elf decides that she (let’s call her Annie) will not be changed into a mindless child laborer, and helps her out.
However, once they and the other children kidnapped from Halloween Town escape, they see Santa Clause has Annie’s mom held prisoner. Before things really go bad, she quickly uses her magic to send the children home, before she is murdered.
Once home, Annie finds a key now in her possession. The key opens a chest in her living room, which holds her mother’s things from her childhood, including her broom and hat.
The last thing we see are angry citizens and a determined little Annie marching forward to what I assume is Christmas Town, bent on vengeance.
And that’s it. Seotaiji left us with quite a cliffhanger. Will Annie get vengeance, or will Santa Clause continue his reign of terror and child labor? I have no idea, honestly. I hope he releases a companion music video this year.
Watch the cinematic version here:
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