3 posts from May 2008

Oh noes its another Ch!pz vid.  This is more of a saturday monring cartoon saving the day type thing only in PRESENT DAY! that's right, no time traveling in this video. However, there are poorly CGed aliens baffing about so I guess its at the same level as their previous videos.

Its a beautiful summer day in some dry climate while the Ch!pz crew is in a bus on the way to some summer camp.  C!lla and Rach-L randomly have some bonding moment by sharing bracelets while the guys seem to be playing games on their cell phones.  When they get out of the bus, an UFO appears out of nowhere and vaporizes all the people and the bus.  But conveniently they neglected to target the Ch!pz crew.

They go to their strategic and secret hideout, find the alien base that happens to be nearby, and read up on the alien race.  Inbetween filming all of this, there are random cameos of Rach-L singing and the crew dancing in a tunnel- most likely one leading to their secret hideout or whatever. Also, in the process, they have a sudden wardrobe change into complete black outfits to keep in spirit of the lyrics of the song.

Anyway, the crew approaches the alien gate with the poorly animated aliens guarding it.  C!lla flashes mirrors of them and appearantly that is their weakness to they both faint.  They untie the captive people though the bus is still nowhere to be found.  Just when everything seemed to go according to the rescue plan, a whole bunch of those aliens appear to stop Ch!pz.

The two groups settle this with a dance off.  Ch!pz when, the aliens combust or something.  Anyway, everything is shown being solved while the UFO retreats.  End of video.  See? just a short little adventure.  It still bothers me that everything in these videos is solved by dancing, well actually its just in the later two videos that I just watched; but it's still bothersome.

Song isn't that bad; its a little reminiscent of the pop that I listened to when I was a second grader or so.  Though the video is obviously targeting a younger audience (the video I used was appearantly broadcasting this on Fox Kids in a somewhat related note), the lyrics aren't necessarily as limited as an audience.  Actually Cowboy's lyrics weren't that bad either.  It was a subject
that could get the attention of a somewhat larger audience. 

However, the song is rather mediocre to listen to in terms of the fact that the song doesn't sound entirely original, but most songs don't.  It's not perfect, but hey- nothing is.  It's not something I would listen to over and over again but you can introduce this kind of stuff to children and stuff and they might enjoy it.

This really isn't much of a review.  I have uploaded this song for download on MegaUpload for a friend and I decided to have it available for everyone while it lasts up on there. You can find the song here .

Here are the lyrics:

Sabishigariya no
Kubi wo sasurou
Anjite nemure
Haha wo omotte

Zawameku na no hana
Amakumoru sora
Are hodo ai shi
Omae made mo ga
Atashi wo oite yuku no ka

Hashigeta ni motare
Amadare ni utare
Dakishimeru hodo
Kuchiru naki gara

Kikoete iru ka
Kanjite iru ka
Naitemo ii ka
Hazusareta akai kubiwa wo kizuna wo nigitte

Yume wo minasai


And here is the English translation:

You're lonely
I'll massage your neck
Sleep peacefully
Thinking of your mother

The lively green flowers
The sky full of rain clouds
Will even you
Leave me
When I love you so much?

Leaning on the railing of the bridge
Lashed by the rain
A corpse
That rots the more you hold it

Can you hear me?
Can you feel it?
Is it okay to cry?
Clutch the red necklace you took off, and this bond

And dream.

I don't really know Japanese but that's what I found when I searched online. I'm a HUGE Aya fan actually.  I have all albums and all singles as things stand right now.  It's a shame she isn't known well enough on English websites because I would really like to know more about her, see interviews, and watch millions of live performances on youtube but that isn't available for me. This song was placed in the time frame between Aya's grungy-hardcore phase and her more refined hard rock that she had lately produced with the exception of that pop rock song she did for the ending of some anime show that I can't recall the name of... so it's kinda this inbetween hard rock thing.  I rather like it... well anyway, enjoy.

So as I have mentioned, this was the first Ch!pz song ever that I've heard.  I was going through a series of dance songs on someone's playlist and came across this.  I found the song rather catchy despite the cheesy lyrics and decided to look into the band.

The video opens with the Ch!pz crew captured in a pirate ship and the captain claiming to be Captain Hook makes threatening statements to them though he doesn't look much like the Captain Hook we all are familiar with.  Then, of course, I suppose they were trying to avoid copyright infringements.  As the song starts, there are cameos of all four members singing the chorus.

Ch!pz fights the crew and fails.  So the captain and crew force the in-demand hottie, Rach-L, to wear a sexy dress while the other three members are tied up.  And at one point, they all escape and out of nowhere, there is a random dance number.  The battle on the ship because a dance-off.  Cheesy, I know, but it was interesting to watch since you can't go wrong with dancing unless the people are really bad dancers.

The dancing skills of Ch!pz are obviously superior so Captain Hook gets all frustrated and pissed.  He and the crew try to fight the normal way and they still fail because the good guys always win in this sort of thing.  In the last few moments, Kevin takes a picture of frustrated and humiliated Captain Hook on his cell phone and the group returns to their normal time.  Then, Rach-L is seen looking at that same picture and comparing it to some guy who is sitting in the same position.

The video wasn't anything special per-say.  It was another Ch!pz adventure.  I liked this one a bit better than the Cowboy video because of the costuming and the dance number.  I would only recommend this video to watch if you're a child or if you have nothing better to do than to watch it.  Remember, Ch!pz is full of cheese, so deal with it!