AOA Black - Moya & EXO - Growl (Latest K-Pop Videos)

As promised, this addition to the latest K-Pop videos includes a male band (EXO) and female group (the band not the idol group) AOA Black, which stands for Ace of Angels. The girl band is made up of members Choa, Jimin, Yuna, Youkyoung and Mina and their song Moya is a type of power pop mixed with a break-up song. 

The video itself centres around getting back at an ex and showing him that you are better and stronger now (hence the impromptu band performance) and the guy in the crowd who looks very embarrassed at the end of their on-stage performance. The song is upbeat and features keyboard accompaniment throughout providing a solid beat to jam to along with the addition of guitar and drums. The rapping in the piece is particular impressive and comes courtesy of Jimin. 

The music video is full of bold and bright colours (standard in a K-Pop video) and all the outfits (especially Choa's) are cute and fresh. There is the traditional K-Pop dancing and hand gestures, but the facial expressions in this video really make it. At the end of the video, the 'sleazy' guy's (who's hitting on everyone) eyes literally pop out of his head, when he sees that the girl on stage is the one he hurt (which looks to be Choa).

It pretty much ends with the equivalent of a 'fuck you' with all the women making powerful hand gestures at the guy as he looks very embarrassed. It's pretty hilarious. Although the video isn't an epic film like some of the other K-Pop videos we've seen, it's still pretty funky and interesting in it's own right. If this sounds like your type of track or you just want to check out the video, watch above. 

Next up is EXO's Growl and I was definitely not ready for this type of pelvic thrusting and choreographed dance moves. The video emulates some sort of underground dance-off. Except there's just a bunch of EXO's members (I couldn't name all of them for you if I tried) dipping and diving in matching suits like this is some sort of cross-over ad for clothing and haircare products. 

Don't get me wrong, the video is by far the best part of everything about this song. It's enticing to say the least. Watch the video below and then we'll go through it in all it's glory. From what I gather, EXO seems like a Korean version of the Backstreet Boys, yes? 

All I can say from the video is that these boys take themselves very seriously. Lots of firm staring and wild hand gestures whilst getting very close to the camera (in turn of course).   The track itself is rather smooth but with an almost sexy hook (although I can't take their strong facial expressions seriously) but the video is a whole montage of dance moves and that's what makes this so entertaining. 

It's got everything, thrusting, dipping and bunny hops?! No I'm serious, they literally look like rabbits hopping around their grey box-esque underground lair. I have literally no words. It's all very well-timed though, and it'll keep you entertained for hours. I'm not kidding. What do you think of the video? Personally, I found it hard to focus with everything going on but maybe that's just me. 

Music videos and tracks reviewed by Mel.