It's a hot mess. Tacky, cheap, poorly CGed, messily shot & edited, poorly choreographed, and what's with the clip of the sun?

If they really plan on going ahead and using this video in the US, there's not much else to do but sit and wait for this whole American debut thing to be over like a bad dream. They have an amazing song, but a video that is an embarrassment. It in no capacity shows that BoA is who the introduction video says she is. It instead shows an amateur--which would be fine if she was an amateur.

The message board on her official US website now is loaded with messages from fans (in both Korean and English) pleading with her to not use the US version. They say it's tacky, crappy, poorly made, over CG-ed, and untrue to BoA's true potential.

SM must know that the video is as bad as it is--otherwise they probably wouldn't have produced an alternate version which is exponentially better. The Cha Eun Taek version was filmed months after the Diane Martell version, which leads me to believe they wanted to scrap DM's video, but didn't want to burn a bridge so early in BoA's US career, so they kept it and just made a B version. Hopefully they will at least use both versions in the US, which seems plausible as her official US website advertises both. (If one really was to be used only in Asia, and the other in the US, the respective videos would appear only on their respective websites). The terms "US version" and "Asian version" are fan-coined, aren't they? Officially, they have simply been referred to as "A" and "B".