[MV Review] Chocolat - Black Tinkerbell

It would have been a travesty to have Tia or Julianne's sweet ass (one of da best in da biz) leave the KPop scene. Thankfully, they've made a cumback with Black Tinkerbell.

The MV seems to be a hot mess of a dance in box + close ups + shitty storyline type of MV, one we've seen time and time again. The storyline of Black Tinkerbell is your typical "Girl(s) like boy, boy is already dating someone, girl attempts to steal boy" kinda deal, an overarching theme that seems increasingly common among KPop MVs these days. Fuck empowering women through inspiring song and powerful example, Korea wants girls to grow up as tough bitches who take what they want or otherwise chase that D.

Anyway, the MV ends up doing it very ham-handedly because none of Chocolat can act worth a damn, except maybe Tia. But that's more of a "D'awww, she so precious" kinda feel than actual emotive prowess. Melanie especially is guilty of confusing constipation for brooding/contemplative/anguish (or you might argue that constipation IS anguish), every scene with her in it makes me crack up. The other girl whose name escapes me (the only pure-blooded Korean left in the group) comes off as extremely creepy.

In the end, the MV showcases how best to steal another woman's man through various techniques such as hanging up on the man when the man calls the woman's phone while she bathes while telling her it was just insurance people, cockblocking/clamjamming, or lazing around like a whiny bitch.

The dance portions of the MV are decent at least with a couple moves I found kinda interesting. Especially when the MV opens with a soaking wet Chocolat writhing around.

Sadly for Sulli_fag and the rest of Chocolat's stans, the MV suffers from a distinct lack of ass. Because of the dim lighting combined with random T-ara-esque seizure lights, most of the good angles were obscured or otherwise unsalvageable. A damn shame. 

The outfits are nothing special, but in this day and age, unremarkable/simple = jjangbak as fuck. No one wants to see any more Korean kids dressed in wannabe ghetto hoodrat shit to compete for Korea's Top Fashionista. The girls look good, but Julianne looks kinda dumpy in certain angles. Tia is fab as always.

I'm actually kinda surprised at how relatively evenly the camera time was distributed. Everyone had a decent amount of screen time, and although Tia still (understandably) got a majority of it, it wasn't overwhelmingly a "Tia and her backup dancers" production. More like 40/20/20/20 instead of 70/10/10/10 like other groups.

The song itself is nothing special either. No fancy vocal runs, no frills, no nonsense. Super basic, but again, in this day and age, that in and of itself is rather remarkable. Thank god they didn't try to go for a dubstep dance break, or a mid-song tempo/style/everything change, or some other garbage like that. I will say the the English can get grinding on the ears with repeated listens, but this isn't the kind of song most people will be replaying over and over again. It's probably going to be one of those songs you listen to a couple times, download, but never played until it comes up randomly on shuffle. One More Day shits all over this song, even with that shitty rapper guy in it.

I don't get why this song is called Black Tinkerbell anyway. The only thing that has to do with "Tinkerbell" is some line about "you're my Peter Pan" or some shit like that. IDEK man. 

TL;DR:

Basic song, basic MV, basic dance, but that just means going back to fundamentals.

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