Ok-Pop Group A.C.E. on ‘Favourite Boys’ Music Video Magnificence Moments | Interview

With their new music video for “Favourite Boys,” A.C.E. delves viewers right into a world that melds modernity with antiquity, masculinity with femininity, darkness with gentle, East with West via gorgeous hair and make-up. Certain, the tune is catchy, however the Ok-pop group additionally hopes to grip you thru each second of it with these contrasts and gorgeous magnificence moments. “You will see Jun and Chan sporting hanbok [traditional Korean suits] with very female hair and make-up however with manly voices,” member Kim Byeongkwan explains to Attract. (And that is simply one in every of many examples.) 

After performing “Favourite Boys” on a Korean TV present, A.C.E. sat down of their follow room to speak with Attract through Zoom. By then, they’d taken off the white floral hanboks they layered over rock band T-shirts (Chan in Babymetal, Donghun in Oasis), however all of their lids nonetheless coordinated with the identical shade of rosy-pink eye shadow. It is a delicate reminder of how their imaginary world can exist on this very actual world we had been assembly in. After speaking to A.C.E., I notice this was intentional. “The whole lot for this album — the music video, style, make-up, hair — is a fantasy that we are able to have in on a regular basis life,” says Jun, the chief of the group. 

Since debuting in 2017, the Ok-pop group has been lauded for defying magnificence and fashion-related gender stereotypes, and “Favourite Boys” continues to show that doing so is intrinsic to A.C.E. and never only a section. “We do not suppose there are particular traces between masculine and female kinds,” Byeongkwan admits. “We simply attempt what matches us. That is all.”

Inside a minute of “Favourite Boys,” you’ll be able to see simply that in motion. First, you’ll be able to catch the group’s youngest member, Chan, pairing shiny crimson eye make-up, raspberry-tinted lips, and pearl earrings with a black baseball cap. Make-up, like this, amplifies his facial expressions, he says.