Red Velvet - Russian Roulette (2016)

  • Members: Seulgi (0:14, yellow/orange), Joy (0:22. green), Yeri (0:30, purple), Irene (0:37, pink), Wendy (0:51, blue)

  • The animated cat and mouse scenes in the music video are seemingly inspired from the The Simpsons (1989) running gag The Itchy & Scratchy Show, a show in a show depicting violent parodies of Tom and Jerry and Herman and Katnip.

  • Individual colors are denoted by the earrings the members wear in some shots. Irene’s colored earrings are never shown in the music video but can be inferred from Yeri’s “cereal” at 1:58, which include the colors of her targets (yellow, green, pink, and blue) and not herself (purple).

  • The final gunshot (3:11) is likely set up by Seulgi, who uses orange string throughout the video to build traps and distract her targets. Her orange pigtails also end in a very thin braid, resembling the string she uses.

  • Seulgi really likes Pringles.1 After a Pringles PR representative found out about this, @Pringles_UK regularly (re)tweets about her.2^,3

  • Irene made her acting debut in July 2016 by starring in the web drama Game Development Girls, a story about a small team of developers who try to create a mobile game.4

  • Listen to Russian Roulette on [Apple Music][apple], [Google Play Music][google], and [Spotify][spotify].

  1. http://www.koreaboo.com/news/netizens-discover-red-velvet-seulgis-undying-love-for-pringles/ ↩︎

  2. https://twitter.com/Pringles_UK/status/711832423814860800 ↩︎

  3. https://twitter.com/picsrv/status/766759237468975105 ↩︎

  4. http://tvcast.naver.com/gamedevgirls [apple]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/id1151001050 [google]: https://play.google.com/music/m/Bcegsbmw7h4yedwoe347cuz4lme [spotify]: https://open.spotify.com/album/2pBrB5hW9CjLWWZGqrET2g ↩︎