City adds special ‘K’ to pop video
South Korean hit music video filmed entirely at Metro Vancouver locations
With locations including the Stanley Park seawall, a retro garage and an eerily empty White Rock pier, South Korea’s newest K-Pop hit just happens to feature a music video filmed entirely in Metro Vancouver.
Likey, by the nine-member girl group Twice, features a who’s who of Vancouver’s most Instagram-worthy locations.
There’s a gelato shop, the Gastown steam clock, a street of expensive McMansions, a SkyTrain car, Angel clothing store and Steveston’s Marine Garage, which still features a pair of vintage gas pumps out front.
To the keen viewer, there is a banner advertising an upcoming Terry Fox Run, a company vehicle for Vancouver’s Red Truck Beer and the fact that the group appears to have obtained the permits to seal off Gastown’s normally traffic-heavy Maple Tree Square.
The White Rock pier makes a notable appearance, with a shot perfectly timed to show a passing freight train. A Gastown alley, which can normally give off a pretty strong urine stench, briefly makes an appearance as an appropriately gritty dance backdrop.
The song is already set to tear up K-Pop charts. Within hours of its posting to YouTube on Monday, the song had racked up one-Vancouver’s worth of viewers. As of press time, the song has 7.5 million views, with tens of thousands more being added every second.
Carrying the anglicized chorus “Me Likey Likey Likey,” the song is all about attempting to woo a socialmedia “like” from a paramour.
“Pose for the camera, aren’t I pretty. When you see this, make a smile, and press hard on that cute red heart down there,” read the English subtitles on the song’s official video.
According to eagle-eyed Twice fans who spotted the group in Vancouver, the video appears to have been filmed in early September.