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Danson_ I'm Back feat. f(x) Amber_ Music Video

What I like about this music video (besides the 3 languages spoken fluently - Mandarin, English, and Korean - and it's obsession with milk) is that it implies a romantic relationship between Amber and Danson without trying to fit Amber into a feminine image that she has never presented before. This is the first time I've seen Amber in a music video with a romantic story as a backdrop - and I was excited to see that her image didn't change from the same boyish-clothes boy-ish hair ambiguous gender that she usually presents.

There's some argument about this - some people are claiming to be "happy to see Amber looking more feminine" - but I don't really know where they're coming from. Sure, she's wearing lip gloss and the director put in excessive close-ups of her shiny lips - but frankly, most Korean male singers wear lip gloss too. Her hair style hasn't changed. Maybe the "more feminine" presentation of Amber in this video is just heteronormative wishful thinking.

But then again, it really makes me happy to see a romantic relationship in a mainstream music video that involves gender presentations that are not traditionally masculine/feminine. Maybe I'm too excited about seeing a love relationship that could be understood as queer by people who don't know who Amber is. Maybe Amber is portraying a more feminine image in the video, and my refusal to see it is just wishful thinking.

TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.

an exam day, the western coast

first I grilled the (raw) trumpet shell, then I pulled the spiral-ed flesh out from it, then I cut it into bits and ate it.

I'm actually laughing hysterically, not throwing up in my mouth.

EAT THE CLAM

EAT IT

We were supposed to go to a mountain that day, but we got lost, drove to the western coast of Korea instead, and had a clam bake-out. Then Park Mi-Ran, Young-Gyung, Im Kyung-Hwa, and Shin-Jung ate ice cream while I bought men's swimming trunks and swam in the Yellow Sea (and for the record, the sandstorms are the reason it's called the Yellow Sea).

It was my first time swimming in salty water. I am, apparently, what Park Mi-Ran would call "a brave swimmer."