Kim Hyun Joong’s is winning over his fans again… Lucky Guy!!!

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“If life is a gamble, just humor it “

My initial take on Kim Hyun Joong’s second mini album Lucky is he has done it in a playful mood. The concept of which I have no doubt he had a huge part,tailler la part du Lion, as the French would say it. Now with its execution and what he has released so far is that – it looks like it is a caricature of what gambling is all about.

Gambling has been resorted to by humankind from the earliest time. The trial and error employed to get on with life is gambling. Everything taken with a risk ,big and small is gambling. And the stakes are what we put up for grabs. The best gambler they say, sizes up the situation , wary of opponents’ moves , know when to stop ,know when to walk away or even when to run. Wish we can do our lives using that formula?

But gambling lost its natural character the way culture has bestowed on it when it was institutionalized, made into an industry and rules were imposed on it. Gambling was either legalized or made illegal. Then it was even turned into a social disease and its avid practitioners declared psychologically unfit.

Now here comes Kim Hyun Joong . How does he look at the whole thing? Mon pied! It is a brilliant concept! And he played.

You can see how he depicted it in his facial expressions -he is such a tease . He turns his face and swings his body,only Hyun Joong can do oh so sexily. He was throwing away playing cards , paper bills, coins all with Uzoosin in them. Yes,stereotypical but with a twist. Uzoosin in currency? Who would think he could be there?

His mug shot’s the best, I died laughing when I saw it. The police would have turned in their badges if they ever encountered one like him. Come to think of it,why do they make people having their mug shots look miserable? They could be posing nonchalance and disarming like Hyun Joong. He is the epitome of cool.

If his makeup looked heavy on the eyes,it is a caricature of a gambler’s steely eyes forever wary of opponents’ moves. If he looked sleek with his velvet suits and pomaded hair, it is only a hyperbole of how gamblers are supposed to dress.

And after all the wealth and fame vanished, he goes back to where it all begun-with nothing.Is there lesson learned here? Maybe.

He has humored gambling in a good way. In a fun way with a tinge of realism. Of course, it wasn’t meant for us to be distracted away from his song and dance. We can’t be !No way! The tune is catchy,the lyrics’ awesome,the dance moves steeped in rhythmic movement.

Kim Hyun Joong has transformed himself in Lucky.

Yes, Kim Hyun Joong has done it masterfully again !