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Thank the Force for EXO and their Star Wars-themed banger "Lightsaber"

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Get ready for The Force Awakens to drop with this K-pop banger

 

 

The Force Awakens is coming next week, and as a man honestly too invested in Star Wars, I couldn't be more excited. In preparation, I've been reading Star Wars novels, playing Star Wars video games, buying Star Wars comics, and — seriously — wearing Star Wars two-way fleece capes. New owner Disney has done a predictably good job in carpet bombing branded merchandise into stores, but there's one area it's fallen short — Star Wars music. There's only so many times you can listen to 

before you lose your mind, and unsurprisingly, Disney is reluctant to put out a "Greatest Jizz Hits" compilation.

 

Thank the Force, then, for South Korean boy band Exo, whose song "Lightsaber" — created in partnership with Disney — is a stone-cold, Star Wars-themed banger. The track takes the kind of tropical sadboy beats Justin Bieber deploys in his latest tracks, adds plaintive K-pop vocals, a staccato chorus, and fuses the whole thing with drop-obsessed dubstep straight out of 2009. When those drops do come, they're accompanied by lightsaber swooshes and a particularly well-timed jump to hyperspace, giving the listener an aural high that'll make them feel like they can

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The video, of course, contains a few factual errors, including one section where band member Sehun hands over his lightsaber to the bouncer on his way into a "Jedi Only" bar. A real Jedi, of course — if they had to enter such a hive of scum and villainy — would try to use a mind trick to smuggle his saber past security, or refuse to be separated from his weapon. But I'll let that slide as long as Sehun and co. stop singing about love and junk, and keep singing primarily about Star Wars.

 

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Lmao, in commments on site everyone like,what the boring shit is this x)) *I shouldn't have put my hopes up*

Well, but I kinda agree that the song doesn't suit Star wars feel at all, I don't understand why they pick/produced a song like this and mv is basically meaningless too.

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Lmao, in commments on site everyone like,what the boring shit is this x)) *I shouldn't have put my hopes up*

Well, but I kinda agree that the song doesn't suit Star wars feel at all, I don't understand why they pick/produced a song like this and mv is basically meaningless too.

 

Yeah. Too robotic sci-fi sounding imo and missing the fantasy-ish aspect of Star Wars. 

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Lmao, in commments on site everyone like,what the boring shit is this x)) *I shouldn't have put my hopes up*

Well, but I kinda agree that the song doesn't suit Star wars feel at all, I don't understand why they pick/produced a song like this and mv is basically meaningless too.

 

Because..... *drum rolls* it's meant to attract new fans, not to pleased the old fanboys. For a franchise to survive, it constantly needs new fans, otherwise it will die with its fanbase. Disney sure as hell didn't buy that expensive space fleet for it to sink once its current old fanbase become more and more laden with life and responsibility. Young fans are the one who will splurge and buy your merchandises for years to come. Business 101  :lol:

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Because..... *drum rolls* it's meant to attract new fans, not to pleased the old fanboys. For a franchise to survive, it constantly needs new fans, otherwise it will die with its fanbase. Disney sure as hell didn't buy that expensive space fleet for it to sink once its current old fanbase become more and more laden with life and responsibility. Young fans are the one who will splurge and buy your merchandises for years to come. Business 101 :lol:

don't worry about star wars. They have young fans who has never seen any of the movies and are wearing the gears. My six year old nephew wanted to be a storm trooper for halloween but has no idea about what happened in the movies.

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Because..... *drum rolls* it's meant to attract new fans, not to pleased the old fanboys. For a franchise to survive, it constantly needs new fans, otherwise it will die with its fanbase. Disney sure as hell didn't buy that expensive space fleet for it to sink once its current old fanbase become more and more laden with life and responsibility. Young fans are the one who will splurge and buy your merchandises for years to come. Business 101 :lol:

but it's still doesn't have anything in common with Star wars (except for lightsaber), and MV could be with plot or fight scenes, not with random scenes and dance break.

Even El dorado (maybe with different lyrics) could work better

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