Courtesy of SMTOWN via YouTube
On March 30, 2015, the boys of EXO made a return with their second studio album, EXODUS. The lead track, “Call Me Baby,” is about a man opening his heart to the woman who brightened his life up.
EXO is a unique idol group; there are ten
members split into two sub-groups: EXO-M and EXO-K. EXO-M promotes in
China and EXO-K promotes in Korea with the same track that is sung in
either Korean or Chinese. And sometimes the two sub-units will join
together to release a track.
The two music videos for the track is
essentially the same video, with the four same scenes being used: car
garage, sitting room/stairway, large open brick room and a large open
white room. Although the two videos are identical, there are a couple of
differences. The first difference is the car at the beginning; the
Korean version has a white car and the Chinese version has a red car.
The second is the different positioning of the group members in the
scenes; the Korean members are featured more in the Korean version and
the Chinese members are featured more in the Chinese version. Although,
unless you know which member is which, the viewer would not be able to
tell the difference between the members positioning in the video.
SM Entertainment has gone for a very
simple music video; there is no story line utilized in the video, but
the viewers’ focus has been directed entirely to the dance routine EXO
performs. While filming the video, EXO has gone for a perceived one-shot
camera angle; as though the entire video was shot in one take, EXO have
used this technique for a previous track release with very high
success. The one-shot perception would have been more believable, if it
were not for the scene and outfit changes that occurred throughout the
video.
With the video focused on the
choreography, there are very few options the director can choose to make
the video stand out more. A lot has gone into the group members’
fashion style, so it blends in smoothly with the flow of the video. The
overall fashion choices for the group members is inspired by modern
fashion trends, but in one of last group scenes, the outfit choices have
been inspired by fashion trends from the ’90’s.
The music for the track has a heavy
piano/keyboard beat, with other bass-type instruments mixed together to
create a dance beat that is addictive, making the listeners want to get
up and dance. The heavy dance bass sound goes well with the video, as
the video is a focused dance choreography video.
The translated lyrics are: “You make me
exist as myself, / you’re the only one in my world / You’re the one,
You’re the one / Girl you’re the one I want”, “Baby girl, even among all
the greed / and all the words / You showed that you believe in me.”
These lyrics talk about a man being in love and the woman making the
man’s world better. However, unless you understand or look up the
translated lyrics, the listener would not understand that this track is a
love song.
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