Taiwan’s large recall movement has now entered its third phase, with the launch of the first powerful video in the “Taiwan Action Citizen Recall Video” project on the 24th by a hundred Taiwanese film and television workers. Directed by Chen Shijie, the music video “Get Out of My Barber Shop” made a grand debut, accusing the controversial behaviors of pro-China Kuomintang legislators through the song, generating a passionate response.
The music video for “Get Out of My Barber Shop” features leading actors Ami, Gong Wei, and Wu Shuo’en, with the lead vocals by the “Heartbreak Sisters.” In the approximately 4-and-a-half-minute video, the song uses puns such as “White Canvas Shoes (Taiwanese for BAD BOY),” “Get out of the barber shop (Legislative Yuan),” “Appendectomy (Blue Camp legislator)” and “How much money did you take in total (Chinese Communist Party),” along with a lively melody and double entendres, filled with sarcasm, to inform the Taiwanese public not to be fooled by the sweet words of unfit legislators, and to mark July 26 as a day to cast their “agree to recall” votes.
In the video, the MV was actually filmed at a real “Happymore Barber Shop,” with many posters on the walls that read “Cut off the troubles that need to be cut,” “No hair, no heaven,” and “Cut Fu freely, show your anger,” filled with rich details.
Chen Shijie wrote the lyrics as early as March, with music by Yu Sun. Ami, spokesperson for the “Mountain Clears Poison” recall group, and Gong Wei, the female lead of Zhang Zuojun’s “Elegant Encounter,” co-starred as a beautiful hair salon duo, performing a cheerleading dance to chase the lying and embezzling scum out of the barber shop (Legislative Yuan).
Regarding the enthusiastic response generated by the music video and the unstoppable wave of the large-scale recall movement, director Chen Shijie admitted, “Compared to those on the front lines, we who create and film are truly insignificant, and we truly thank all the hard work of recall volunteer workers throughout Taiwan.”