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PREMIERE: JIIN's New Video Is Scary, Beautiful, and All Sorts of "Fucked Up"

JIIN's new video is a reminder that life is equal parts weird and creepy.

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There's nothing more disturbing than watching a music video that looks like a VHS-era home recording. The way those black bars sit on the sides of the picture instead of on top feels sinister, claustrophobic, even evil. But this effect is used to brilliant effect for JIIN’s new video “Fucked Up.” Directed by Oui Kim, who is responsible for videos by popular Korean acts like Hyukoh, he uses the song's eerie lo-fi sonics and R&B artist Daniel Caesar’s droning calls for lust as soundtrack to a bizarre journey of indistinct karaoke singing and navel gazing in the middle of the street. It’s all beautiful really.

"Me and Oui [Kim] met in Seoul, and went to Japan to shoot this video using drones, iPhones, VHS was used, in addition to cinema 4D rendering for Danny [Caesar]'s cameo," says JIIN. "It's inspired by the disorientation that comes with being intoxicated. The way the scenes flow into each other blend moments of partying smoothly, but disjointed, similar to the way some might remember parts of their night against an Asian backdrop."

Jabbari Weekes is a Noisey Canada Staff Writer. Follow him on Twitter.