K Pop's resident Light skin finally releases his second full album.

As I said in another post, I have a special relationship with Taeyang. I firmly believe he has an appreciation for black culture, however do to looking on the outside his views may seem a little skewed, and can veer toward problematic at times. So I stay at arms lengths with his ugly ass hairdo, and his clothes that need to be returned to Asap Rocky.

I tend to affectionately call him Korean Light Skinned. He GIVES vibes that he wants his ultimate form to be a better Chris Brown (not with the whole incident, just musically and such). And you know what...I want him to get there. Just from his interviews he has done, he tends to view music with a more critical eye. However he has limitations, oddly set by the company hyped to be about the artist (Which I saw through when  I got into K pop real quick). However I firmly believed that if anyone was going to give me R&B in Korean Pop, it would be Taeyang. It had to be. 

I will say that I personally am not getting R&B at a very extensive level. There is shades of it, but overall, no to R&B. Especially the R&B he was talking about (talking about Frank Ocean, and Miguel, and shit...)

I honestly thought we were going to get some The Weekend type shit. Or at least The Future..but alas...

However I don't even want to pretend that the album did not give me all I could ask for.

Taeyang releases a new video...and giving you light-skinned emotions.

Now I have a special relationship with Taeyang. He is...special. Musically I will concede that he is one of the few artist to actually do R&B in the realm of K Pop. We throw that term around a lot...and we shouldn't. K Pop's interpretation of R&B is limited. Very outdated, very contrite. The most modern we will get is more so in line with a mature version of R&B that you see with older acts. Taeyang I could see as one of the few who geniunely has an interest in the genre, and tries to keep up with it. 

So my expectations for Taeyang were...special. I won't get into the album...that's for another post, but I will talk about this video.

Taeyang: Eyes, Nose Lips

The video is very...bland. It is essentially him walking and singing shirtless in a parking lot...

I mean there is not really much to give. The end with the billboard of his ex burning up was kind of extra giving the lack of anything in the video. 

And his dancing was very extra...once again do to the lack of anything in the video.

He should have just gave a straight up attempt at De'Angelo's iconic video Untitled (How Does It Feel). I mean I was pretty sure the video was going that way, but who wants to really go for that comparison.

The song is nice though,